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Frans de Waard, Rape Ape, TL0741, and Tone Ghosting at El Possible (20070909)

First, let me take one more opportunity to trash the DC music journalists. Your writing is terrible. Your opinions uninformed. Your tastes reprehensible. Your coverage racist. For good measure, let me throw in a specific critique of your coverage of Sonic Circuits is pathetic, as it consists almost entirely of regurgitating garbage PR releases rather than actually look into the festivities. You (continue to) make me sick!

Moving on to the show…I walked in midway through Tone Ghosting’s set (sites: 1 and 2), and I wish I arrived earlier. His use of a metal bowl on a bass was 100 percent awesome. The rest of the musicians rocked it, with TL0741 doing the knob-twiddling thang, Rape Ape doing some interesting things with feedback and mic work, and Frans de Waard (sites: 1 and 2) building a beautiful sonic landscape with sounds recorded in some now-closed ship yard. Awesome stuff.

S PRCSS, Sentai, and DJ People’s Champion at The Hosiery (20070908)

When Sentai started, I was worried I was in for a (bad) session of noise drowning out cheeky electro-twinged synth lines. In the end, though, it was quite good–albeit with some rough edges–and could be (underwhelmingly) described as glitzed punk rock (the good kind).

S PRCSS was, as expected, excellent. The two excellent guitars created some interesting, and very subtle, sounds that kept me focused, probably at the cost of their bass and drums. Oh well.