The Warp Rave Thread

strawdonkey · Post by **strawdonkey** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 7:33 pm 0

Sounds like you all had fun then!

I envy you immensely, but one day my time will come to view VLM-3...

If it's anywhere near as good as everyone's saying, I'd best prepare myself.

Post by **Jedburgh** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 8:02 pm 0

Sickboy wrote:And to the guy with the very, very smooth head who kept us going with water and smiles and who absolutely did not stop dancing like a loon ALL FUCKING NIGHT.

Goat, yeah. He was an absolute fucking star. He came up early on in an "Are you doing that?" kind of way, and I offered him a quick play, but I was on one of the more subtle controls and he decided he wasn't any good at it. But then throughout the night he'd suddenly bounce up out of nowhere and offer up a slug of his water. Whoever he is, in his bouncy smiley watery way he made the night just that extra bit special.

Yak wrote:Well, I'm baack and just enjoying the nice spliff and cup of tea I promised myself when I set out from Baath this morning as a reward for getting home still conscious.

Glad to see you baack safely and loving the new avatar, mate

I've got this still-buzzing head full of memories of The Best Night Ever, all coloured by your lovely digital narcotics. Yep, we were on fire last night, and I'm certain there's more fire to come. But it's you who lit the match.

Awesome.

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 8:06 pm 0

Glad to hear you all enjoyed yourselves.

I just thought I'd post the first image (so I think, anyway) from the night:

I love PSP 7.0

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 8:18 pm 0

Nice work, PVB. But I'm just about to post a couple of real pix over on the Lightsynths forum...

Post by **RiK** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 9:04 pm 0

Ahh, that's better. 8pm, just woken up and I'm feeling somewhat more human again now....

Got to echo everything the other guys have said. It was a fucking blinding night. A million thanks to the lads from Warp Records for inviting us and to the 700 other happy smiley peeps who loved every minute of it just a much a we did...

Summary of most peoples reaction....

[Happy Little Raver]

"What are you doing with that thing then.....?"

[ RiK ]

"well, err - (pointing at the wall), THAT, actually...."

[Happy Little Raver]

"Holy Fuck...."

[ RiK ]

Yeaaaahhhhhhhhh .........

Post by **RiK** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 9:19 pm 0

Mega thanks got to go out to the two Tom's (Tom Panton from Warp Records and his flatmate, also called Tom...).

True to form I was in top blag mode after the event, and cheekily asked Tom where the party was after the event then?

"Err, yeah, ahhh..." was his reply.... so I cheekily suggested that we all pile back to theirs to chill out for a bit before driving home.

So, off we trotted back to Toms flat with a few of the DJ's who were over from America and generally sat around for a while drinking tea and listening to some very chilled tunage. Nice..

Suffice to say, after getting my head down for an hour I was suitable refreshed (read as 'less fluffy') and by about 9 we hit the road back. Nice easy drive home, all I could think about was poor Yak who still had another 2-3 hours drive home from Bath - complete with Internal and external fog.

Finally back at Jims, we were greeted with more (very welcome) tea by a happy smily Phillipa, and we finally started to come to terms with just how bloody fantastic the night had been.

Awesome, fucking awesome....

Jeff, Jim, Andy, what can I say...... thanks for sharing guys, it was indeed the most wonderful evening I've had in a very long time....

Right, so then, neext weekend - lets do it again!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **RiK** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 9:28 pm 0

Oh yeah, more bits are starting to filter through......

To the delightful young lady who epitomised everything that is good about the whole rave scene.... Big love.

What a sweetie, I have absolutely no idea who she was, but suffice to say a very cute little blond girl came up to me in the middle of the night and threw her arms around me like a long lost friend. I gave her the VLM controller to play with, but it seemed a bit too much for her to handle at them time

so she gave it back and was content to stay there and hug me some more while I jammed away with my most excellent fluffy friends. She was fucking LOVING it....

So, whoever she was, I'd like to thank her for fond memories of the good old days, just like everyone else there, they were LOVING IT!!! There wasn't an ounce of ill-feeling anywhere in that club, close on seven hundred peeps and everyone I met was instantly became a new 'old friend'.

Excellent, most excellent.....

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 10:10 pm 0

Jedburgh wrote:
Sickboy wrote:And to the guy with the very, very smooth head who kept us going with water and smiles and who absolutely did not stop dancing like a loon ALL FUCKING NIGHT.
Goat, yeah. He was an absolute fucking star. He came up early on in an "Are you doing that?" kind of way, and I offered him a quick play, but I was on one of the more subtle controls and he decided he wasn't any good at it. But then throughout the night he'd suddenly bounce up out of nowhere and offer up a slug of his water. Whoever he is, in his bouncy smiley watery way he made the night just that extra bit special.

Yeah, wasn't he a top bloke! Kept me nicely watered too so I could stay a-raving and a-VLMing throughout the long set despite the heat

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Yak wrote:Well, I'm baack and just enjoying the nice spliff and cup of tea I promised myself when I set out from Baath this morning as a reward for getting home still conscious.
Glad to see you baack safely and loving the new avatar, mate

I've got this still-buzzing head full of memories of The Best Night Ever, all coloured by your lovely digital narcotics. Yep, we were on fire last night, and I'm certain there's more fire to come. But it's you who lit the match.

Awesome.

That's as maybe, but I think one of the things that makes this so special in performance is the fact that there's *all* of us on it at the same time - all that conscious direction of graphics generation in realtime, and unlike sound-to-light algorithms we're human, engaged with the music, and we know when the choice bits are going to drop...

Fantastic fun to perform, and amazing to look at!

The really nice thing is that it just gets better from here

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(:-) - Yak
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Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 10:17 pm 0

RiK wrote:Suffice to say, after getting my head down for an hour I was suitable refreshed (read as 'less fluffy') and by about 9 we hit the road back. Nice easy drive home, all I could think about was poor Yak who still had another 2-3 hours drive home from Bath - complete with Internal and external fog.

It actually wasn't that bad - it was foggy outside but not dangerously so, and I was able to proceed at usual speeds down the M4, and the tea and bulljuice kept the internal fog at bay for the duration. I was glad to get home though, and the first noise I heard upon getting out of the car was my Floss baa-ing at me

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Jeff, Jim, Andy, what can I say...... thanks for sharing guys, it was indeed the most wonderful evening I've had in a very long time....

Aye, same as that. In all the times I've been out doing gigs with the various lightsynths I have *never* experienced a response like we had last night. It makes me feel that great things are indeed ahead

.

Right, so then, neext weekend - lets do it again!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes aye! Bring it on!!

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(:-) - Yak
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moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 10:58 pm 0

Well played all. Once again - hearing your superlatives from the event just make me feel more distant and isolated from the LlamaScene

I will make it one day, I swear!

Once again, well done all - glad it was a success. Pics and video wouldn't be amiss...

dtj · Post by **dtj** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 11:22 pm 0

p-saurus wrote:Yak, when does your new VLM tour hit Arizona again?

Again?

If I missed Yak's last AZ visit, I'd likely just drop dead out of regret.

Of course, I've been having a VLM-1/2 "rave" in my apartment every night for the last six or seven years...

dtj · Post by **dtj** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 11:25 pm 0

Yak wrote:That's as maybe, but I think one of the things that makes this so special in performance is the fact that there's *all* of us on it at the same time - all that conscious direction of graphics generation in realtime, and unlike sound-to-light algorithms we're human, engaged with the music, and we know when the choice bits are going to drop...

/me feels as if he is going to die... once again, I was born in the wrong country.

fflip · Post by **fflip** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 11:47 pm 0

I had an excellent time.

I was privately sceptical about whether VLM-3 would be as good as the test pilots were saying, or better than my other favourite vis-type thing, WinAmp's 'AVS', having also been slightly underwhelmed with seeing VLM-2 at the last Retrovision. Well, I tried to analyse it while sober and I tried to dance under it while less sober - and from whatever angle, I was really, damn, impressed. The thing is a marvel. Looking at it moved me frequently toward enthusiasm & uninhibition on the same level as the sudden blast of a great piece of music does. Then there's the whole aspect of it as a visual performance instrument. That's more than icing, that's a whole other cake.

The adjacent screen said "Warp vs Jeff Minter". I was trying to decide who won but it's a toughie - I'd have to be fair and call it a draw. That's a comment on how good the music was

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I was shocked and disappointed whenever I checked the time, it really flew.

Finally said a word to Yak after sighting him many times. Congrats Yak. It's gratifying to see you leading in something you've done much pioneering in again. Hi Fuseball, hi Aureole, hi Sickboy, and the other performers. Thanks to all for being so friendly.

Yeah, I was still skulking around at the end. I didn't notice Louis Theroux, but heh, fancy that

A wonderful night.

p-saurus · Post by **p-saurus** » Sun Dec 22, 2002 12:02 am 0

dtj wrote:
p-saurus wrote:Yak, when does your new VLM tour hit Arizona again?
Again?

If I missed Yak's last AZ visit, I'd likely just drop dead out of regret.

Of course, I've been having a VLM-1/2 "rave" in my apartment every night for the last six or seven years...

Just in case he had mentioned it before and I missed it.

moobaa · Post by **moobaa** » Sun Dec 22, 2002 2:57 am 0

dtj wrote:/me feels as if he is going to die... once again, I was born in the wrong country.

I know *exactly* what you mean. We should start a Non-UK-Llamasofties Anonymous group or something.