DJ Prashanth Pallemoni’s performance at the “VH1 presents 0101
Electronic at CounterCulture presents Fling – Electro Swing, Trip Hop,
Drum and Bass and more…” event on June 24th, 2012 was to me one of the most
incredibly exciting, liberating, courageous, and genre-defining live electronic music
shows I have ever seen.
Prashanth delighted me most with the possibilities of creating music
in the here and now, “like dripping wet paint in a sonic museum” to
quote from another context.
Here is my stream of consciousness experience and interpretation of DJ Prashanth’s seminal performance:
————-Start, Let’s Start——————
Then… let’s start with the Down Town tempo, let’s get lush folks… shoot some ambience into the air, treat solitary to some seating, so permit me ladies, to be anachronistic, to screen this set for some 50s-60s pride… evolve beat lounge, tripping insects into a hush… and swing rap out to introduce the revolving turntable… the Master.
The lone hip hop star, the man in a hat, the scratched beat on control… from turntablism to the New Needlism, from smoky New Orleans to the bylanes of Byculla.
Sri Sri wafts in… cutting Down a System to… you guessed it?
Soul, man, Soul…
Shimmer in track on track, pause-pick-spin, chill-in, chill-out… barefoot Brass, and oh, yes of course, Jazz!, never forgotten, but fetched, Sound on Noise, the Storm, the blizzard from without. Served Soundscape, glittering House, Deep. Spoken, Words throng out – the tin tinkling, touching syllablism…
Genre-bending Atmospherics, offbeat Big Band, Dream in some Pop, so here we go…. so Flute, Arching Temple Tubular Bells, Defiant Glitch, Submarine Trance, Arctic Found Audio,
File Flaring Nadaswaram, some of the Unknowns, Invert Solipsism, the End of Time & the Return to Synth, to seal my fate… with the Growing Glowing Tribal Big Beat…
——– End, The Slow Peaceful End ——-
For more -
A wonderful do by TimeOut on DJ Prashant:
The DJ Prashant public page on FB:
And about the VH1 events at CounterCulture, Bangalore:
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