beans - exclaim party 2004
this is one of the few pictures that turned out.
it seems that my camera lens was obscured for most of the night thanks to a public celebration of Toronto's adoption of the smoking by-law (come this summer, you will not be able to smoke inside any commercial or public building in the city).
the several hundred people in attendence celebrated by smoking a half a forest of pot, filling the Phoenix to the rafters with a stinky haze and causing my images of both Four Tet and Tortoise useless for anything except abstraction. not that i'm complaining, as I myself added fairly substantively to the mix.
Beans was interestingly solo, beatboxing and MDing the place to a decent amount of gyration. not quite as strong as his Antipop days, but still pretty decent.
as for Four Tet, i'm not sure that KH has convinced me with his live show. CD yes, live no. Tortoise were their usual self, bang the fuck on the money. their songs might be diluting somewhat with time, but for sheer technical brilliance, it's tough to find a better live set in indie rock these days.
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