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PROGRAM
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Perfect 1 a concert of drone and trance music First Avenue December 9 1996 | |
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Colfax Abbey | 
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It's all got to start somewhere and for us this was it. Originally it was put together simply because First Avenue had a Thursday night to kill and they wanted to fill space and do something with up and coming swirl rock band Colfax Abbey. Around this same period of time I had been working with them t for a show with legendary Can Bass player Holger Czukay. And since I also was Colfax's A&R guy they called me to put something together. | |
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I had an idea for an event like this for a long time, but it just never came together any organic fashion. So I just let it sit until the right opportunity presented itself. The pitch was simple, an ambient music event (remember this was a time when ambient was not overused or a catchall phrase that covered anything that wasn't danceable) that featured DJ's on equal billing with bands, and that did it all without pauses, breaks, patter. or general acknowledgment of the audience of any kind. An environmental approach. | |
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Sure it sounds obvious now but at the time it raised more than a few eyebrows, a DJ even that you couldn't dance too. bands not being able to stare in dumbfounded silence between songs, good gawd! it anarchy ! The original idea was lets try it see if it works, there was no grand destiny to become a "sound system" (that happened with number two once we knew people other than us actually liked this sort of music) really we just wanted to hear the music we all listened to at home in a big environment. | |