Crumax Compressed
August 24th, 2006Back in November 2003, I saw Plaid, Luke Vibert and Chis Clark at the Paradise in Boston. It was an absolutely amazing show – you can see the pics here.
In scanning some old files, I came across this recording I made of Plaid doing their track, Crumax Rins, with my crappy cameraphone. It’s an AVI but I can’t get it to play the video. Regardless, the audio is what I was taken by. The levels are completely clipped and the song is compressed to hell – dominated by the bass. The recording is so bad, in fact, that it seems to have taken on a life of its own and has become wonderful again.
All of the highs and audience are compressed out when the bass hits, then let back in with a gasp as it releases – creating this amazing syncopation. The stuff between the times 00:17 to 00:34 is just brilliant.
Download the recording here. Listen with headphones.
Update: If you have trouble playing the file, I converted it to mp3 here.
[...] Another entry in my “severely-compressed, yet still amazing-sounding live cell phone recordings” series. This is from the same show as the last post, but the recording is of Luke Vibert, who also had a phenominal set with some seriously hard beats at times. [...]