[Dynagroove] Coachella Heaven.

[Audri Nakamura]

So I finally am getting around to writing a review on Coachella - a little 
bit late but oh well!  Anyhoot, I will honestly say that I never had SO much 
fun before.... it was insanely off the hook~

Saturday--
Pharcyde- this is prolly the only act that I was disappointed in. Since they 
took forever to come on (you kno how hip hop always lags), they only 
performed 2 songs and left us wanting more... it wasn't worth waiting an 
hour and merging thru the crowd to get a better view for....

Miguel Migs- whew! I love Migs, and it was a wonderful surprise to see/hear 
Lisa Shaw as well... I've been wanting to see Lisa Shaw for awhile but never 
got the chance to and so I was completely stoked. Such an amazing voice!

Kosheen- ran over to the other tent to go catch Kosheen, who just blew me 
away.  The vocalist has such a powerful, soulful voice and I totally dug the 
live act. Not only did they play drum n' bass (almost forgot how much I used 
to love d&b), but some other stuff- don't really know what it was- ghetto 
rock? Whatever, I'm not a music expert either so pardon me if I'm wrong.

Queens of the Stone Age- had NO idea who they were, but we went to go grab 
something to eat and heard them playing on the 2nd stage and they were going 
off! The guitarist was just going at it, and it was pretty dope so we stayed 
a little to check them out.

Groove Armada- MUCH better than I last heard them, but only heard them for 
about 30 minutes, got me grooving so it's all bueno!

Bjork- I never really was a big fan of Bjork, just not my style but I wanted 
to see her just for the sake of it and was I glad I did.... she has the 
cutest accent ever *zank you, zank you very much!* and when she sang the 
ballads when there was technical diffuculties, that completely blew me 
away... it's always nice to hear & experience something new, and keep an 
open mind naw mean?

Went over to the main tent b/c we were freezing our asses off & caught a bit 
of Digweed. He was okay, trainwrecking .. but I expected more b/c the one 
time I saw Sasha & Digweed a couple of years ago, they blew me away but it 
just wasn't happenin'....

And my favorite act of both days... CHEMICAL BROTHERS. I thought they were 
doing a dj set so we were just gonna stop by, but then realized they were 
performing live and holy s@#t, that was the most insane performance I've 
ever seen. Caught them right at "It Began in Afrika" and just the whole 
setup w/the lights, visuals... I was going nuts b/c I've never seen anything 
like that before... two guys who can just put any beats together and the 
CONTROL they had over the crowd (when they played that one track that goes 
"Hey boy... hey girl.. superstar dj.. HERE WE GO!!") and the whole crowd was 
just rockin' it, I was having so much fun!! I loved it when they played 
"Star Guitar"-- such a beautiful track... so friken awesome.

Sunday--
Mos Def- what can I say?! Nothing beats live hip hop. Played some 'ghetto 
rock' (whatever that means) and a sick ass remix of MIss Phat Booty, played 
some old stuff... definitely awesome for such an early act.

The Strokes- yup, I dug them too. Wasn't disappointed at all.

Foo Fighters- whoo hoo! Caught about 1/2 of their performance, totally 
rockin' it.

Prodigy- mmm. My 2nd favorite act, but I didn't like how they played all 
their bangin shit first, then after the hits, people started leaving, and 
they got into some weird stuff I didn't like.. but I stayed and it got 
better. Definitely was worth seeing though.

Triple Threat- wanted to catch a bit of them... only caught Shortkut & 
Apollo for a few minutes. I would've rather seen them battle, but they were 
just switching off.. Not bad, not bad at all, wish there was more people in 
the room to enjoy the art of turntablism.

BT- I'm a big fan of BT, even though his style of music is not my #1 choice, 
and I wanted to see how he did as a dj rather than performing live like he 
usually does since he was doing a dj set. Not bad at all... I thought he was 
going to play cheesy trance, but he was playing some sick ass bangin 
breaks.. unfortunately I couldn't take it anymore and we left early b/c of 
dire exhaustion....

Ok this was longer than I expected it to be, but there's a detailed review 
for all u folks. I definitely had an insanely dope time b/c it was a change 
of pace, the weather was nice-- hot, but I'm glad it wasn't a blazing 107 
degrees... and I got to catch almost all the acts I wanted to see. 
Unfortunately I missed Zero 7 b/c Prodigy was on at the same time and I 
really wanted to see KRS-One, but oh well! :)

--Dri


>From: VBallR927 at aol.com
>To: dynagroove at reelhouse.net
>Subject: Re: [Dynagroove] Coachella Heaven.
>Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 06:29:08 EDT
>
>alrighty peoples i never really reply on here but it seems like im the only
>one that saw/heard herbert i not a musical expert so dont kill me on how i
>describe the guy but it was sure interesting
>
>the beginning of his set was very experimental...alot of electro and 
>sampling
>of sounds he created using bottles, cd cases hitting the microphone then 
>the
>cd cases beaking, even using a cereal box full of cereal hittin the mic. 
>very
>experimental not to danceable so i bounced to hear tiesto for a bit but 
>that
>got boring real quick and when i headed back to hear herbert he was playing
>more danceable upbeat tempo. he was doing his thing on his keyboards and he
>had another guy on another keyboard playing some good electro i left cause 
>i
>wanted to see prodigy but from what i heard from my friends who stayed he 
>had
>a female vocalist as well later on in his set.
>
>as for bjork she had a band as well as Matmos on stage with her she was so
>eloquent even when the computers were having problems she said " i think 
>the
>computers are ill so i will sing you more ballads" a song or two later she
>said "i think the computers are cured now" in her islandic accent which is 
>so
>darn cute
>
>there ya go
>~patrick
>
>
>
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