I had the pleasure of seeing Jamie Lidell earlier this week. His records are great, but his live show just towers over that of his laptop-toting contemporaries. Lidell's voice is his main instrument and he uses it to good effect. He'll start a song with nothing but a two bar soul child wail and a moment later, he's layered five Jamie-replicant harmonies over it while beatboxing the dancefloor into motion. Its amazing how seamlessly and effortlessly he's able to pull this off.

If you ever have the chance to see him live, do it. Until then, check out this live video of Lidell from last year and pray he's back in town again soon.

yeah, sorry I missed it... it's good to see artists like this putting as much effort into performance as they do tweaking their max patches (or whatever else he's using)

Feels like what experimentation with slap tape and spring echo chambers would look like.

what is slap tape?

Text from http://gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php3?t=39467

"Monitoring off the playback and record heads simultaniously while recording will give a very short slap delay (distance from the rec head to the pb head). Using 2 machines with the tape running between them (old skool version) will let you vary the delay by spreading the machines further or nearer each other. We used to do this with Revox's all the time, and would have massive loops running down the halls, around door knobs, anything we could rig up.. ."