Gig at Babushka Sept 21 - How it went

Another gig at Babushka last night, with the new support of electro experimentalists Juxtpose and The Primary Colour bookending our set (and the debut of newly formed Electric Universe Collective). The techno made for a really awesome complement to our own hiphop styled tunes, and people were diggin it.

I felt good and in the zone on most tunes, although being the end of term for me I felt probably least prepared of any performance I've done in a while. In the end it's not so much forgetting words that can creep in (there may have been a couple of words dropped), but loosing the rhythmic focus and conviction in the rappin. I need to discover a way to keep raps sounding fresh..

Also feeling slightly under prepared makes me more nervous than usual and trying to play it safe in my performance. James did some interesting things which shows how far we've, or really he has come with the live Ableton format. One tune, Visions Aplenty http://soundcloud.com/deep-crossing/visions-aplenty-live, James dropped the track out almost completely at the start of the second verse, leaving just a bass drum and maybe half a snare, the entry is so rhythmically complex, I kinda had to hang for dear life.. it's stuff like that that makes our set interesting, walking a tightrope, head in the mouth of a lion kinda stuff.. it forces you as a rapper to have conviction cause if you don't, then you stuff it up.

My focus on the performance was just to really try and have my internal time feel and groove going strong, and to focus on that. With the focus on time feel rhymes tend to all sound right, and the magic and imagery and stuff then starts to come to the surface.. really looking forward now to jamming with James over the holidays and hopefully coming up with new stuff, and recording/consolidating our established tunes.

Stay tuned.