"What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion." - Pablo Picasso
This is a Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77 concert review that has been long overdue. The concert was a HARD event (again, nice job Destructo) hosted at the Hollywood Palladium on April 25th. My roomie won the tickets through the Dim Mak raffle and I was the lucky betch who got to go with her.
We had both seen Bloody Beetroots at Coachella '09. Hands down they were the best Saturday act in the Sahara (aka rave) tent, and there were many other "candidates"(i.e., MSTRKRFT, Crookers, TRV$DJ-AM (RIP my brotha), Drop the Lime, Steve Aoki). The "live" aspect of the more recent show with the addition of a drummer and the boys running around to handle the mic, guitar, piano, and production gear definitely enhanced the Bloody experience which back in the day only consisted of production gear. This time I was able to tell they were really musically talented dudes in venom masks. (With DJs you sometimes can't tell if they're all pre-produced or "live".)
There's something truly maniacal about Beetroots' sound that other producers can't top. Back in '09 they had epic drops that were truly mind-blowing. This time they were about epic drops and totally creepy sounds. My favorite moment at the Palladium by far was when they laced Cornelius into the theme song from 28 Days Later. Pure, filthy beauty.
Emotions were evoked for sure: fear and joy.
Here are a few tracks for the newbs in the order of recent to older releases (you can tell their music wasn't always as goth).
Talkin' In My Sleep
Warp 1.9
Dimmakmmunication
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