Midlife at Vacation Vinyl on Wednesday July 20th, 2011
Once you have created a monster, what do you do with it? Ask Dr. Frankenstein, he learnt the hard way about it! With just a bass and some electronic equipment, Midlife showed a little bit of their alien creation, which sounded at times terribly menacing and made of bleak and tenebrous industrial beats and noises.
The duo is rather a collaboration between Gary Beauvais (bass) from Mammal and Lindsay Karty (electronics) from Viki, two electronics bands relocated in the Pacific North West, and their performance at Vacation Vinyl on Wednesday night brought its full load of enigmatic weirdness and fascinating sounds at the same time.
With a drum machine doing these hammer-strike-on-concrete sounds and extreme electronic distortions coupled with a drowning bass, they seemed to repeatedly kill a violent beast in circular movements, or being unable to escape some unavoidable disaster.
The soundscape of broken electronics and heavy throbbing beats they progressively built, could fit in the soundtrack of any horror movie, bringing the noise volume to some metal proportion at times, making some people in the audience slowly doing some head banging and knee bending; but don’t get me wrong, their music was pretty much unclassifiable, a non genre that left me clueless and curious for more.
