Saying no to computers is a hard thing. Not only are they everywhere, but they see everything, the lidless eye on your laptop perhaps even now watching you and know everything. Almost every facet of your person is known by at least one machine on the planet somewhere. With the rise of DNA quantifying equipment and the human genome project, it’ll be soon that they know you on a molecular level. Not worried? Neither are we.
Neither are the people of London three piece Noi Kabat. Producing sequential minimal-wave live without computers, they’ve shown that in a world where even creative output is digitised as a matter of course, perfect and complete compositional work can come back to its roots.
And back to it’s roots is right. The live work from Noi Kabat ends up in a place where the earliest industrial, new wave and EBM took shoot.
Not being prolific release-wise. They put out A a, now long sold out cassette middle of 2012 and their debut 7″ was released April this year on DE labelA Aufnahme+Wiedergabe.
Playing here in Berlin at the lovely Urban Spree, Noi Kabat are joined by tour-mates Soft Riot, a solo act comprised of oneA Jack
Duckworth, also based out of the UK.
Soft Riot, coming from a more punk rock pedigree, often places more focus than the norm on his lyrical content, bringing in detailed pictures and sometimes even linear narrative storylines to subjects such as modern living, technology, surveillance, environment, overpopulation, enlightenment, life elsewhere, forewarning about catastrophic events, vain people in gyms, and not having enough time. The influences come less from other musical artists but more so from written fiction and film aeEUR”a future predicted by fiction.
DJs on the night come in the guise ofA Philipp Strobel & Ian P. Christ (Death # Disco), Blix (Brave Exhibitions) and more to be added when the mood strikes.
This computer wants you to know that it’s your friend. Really.
