Burial Hex, Eklin, Môgô - Vechtclub, Utrecht, 06-05-2009

Hey, hey, hey! Something new in Utrecht! De Vechtclub!
De Vechtclub is a new cultural center housed in a derelict old warehouse near the Overvecht Shopping Center. It is part of a huge building that used to be a distribution center with ports for lorries to drive up to the building.
The surroundings are well littered with used cars and campers... the perfect surroundings for tonight's program!
The hall is great, with nice acoustics and a friendly bar.
Do have a look at their website!

And i think some 50 people turned up to enjoy this good night of rebellion!


First up tonight was Môgô. Môgô is a one man act and the style was listed as 'Loops 'n Drones'.
It was a great, noisy sound collage. Base track from cassette and then lots and lots of effect processors, a nice little Casio SK-1, bass guitar used for drones.
It was all well executed, with nice changes throughout; maybe a bit crammed together. Very nice introduction to this artist!


Môgô


Next was a threesome in Eklin; listed as 'Electronoise'. One was using voice and effects, second was on drum and effects, third was on synth and effects. It was a bit of an unfocused show. It was like the members were surprised all the time by the effects they produced. And maybe there was a bit too much feedback from the room amplification. The speakers were in an awkward position behind the artists.
Both voice and synth made ample use of loops and distorts for a nice gritty sound. The drum was used in a long looped delay to get repetitive percussion effect.
In all i think the single parts were very nice, but it could have done with some more co-ordination.


Eklin


Absolute topper and the last act tonight was Burial Hex from the US. Listed as Horror Electronics.
Single man; lots of effects, voice, reverb coil as a noise source.. and piano.
The act started with some simple noise drones and then it moved to song and piano.. which was a little long, but it was a nice mellow move towards the searing end!
Ranting, hurrying over a great collection of boxes, Burial Hex exploded in fantastic anguished noise! Great act!


Burial hex

Tonight was in fact a nice prologue to a festival 'Lentegruis' which will take place 8, 9 and 10th of May in Utrecht, on several locations. Please have a look at lentegruis.eatthismedia.org for more information!

And of course.. the Utrecht gang was here again! Hi Bauke, Tiny, Jan Erik!

Thanks for reading!
Bas.