04/15: The Secret Night of Science @ LOVE | KJ SAWKA, DARA, REID SPEED, +++

Secret Science Crew · #2 15.3.2007, 1:18 pm

that should be APRIL 13... MY BAD!!!

cybergroove · #3 27.3.2007, 10:11 am

Here is a review from a Toronto Message board about KJ Sawka's performance --- he rammed it in Toronto....so NYC come out early and check out this amazing talent

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t-boy
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Goddamn... sick is not the word. It was disgusting.

This man is probably one of the most inspiring figures, at least to
myself, throughout, and even outside the genre.

His skills as a drummer are of high calibre, putting him up there at the
top of the drummer food chain. The complexities of his patterns aren't
just impressive in themselves but also in the fact that he can execute
them precisely every single time, with all the dynamics and intricacies
that he wishes to lay upon them. His technical skill as a drummer
suggest that he's a seasoned one - you can tell that he has spent (and
continues to do so) countless hours, days, months practicing and working
his ass off.

Now, his performance probably wouldn't be anywhere near where it is
right now had he not had the gift of percussive composition - I don't
know if that term exists or not, but honestly I can't think of anything
better to describe it - the natural ability to keep beat, layering
quarters, sixteens, thirty-seconds and sixty-fours, and emerging with a
beat structure that in itself resembles little of its constituents, but
sounds just on spot... and you can totally tell that this shit is
running through his head non-stop, even when he's not playing drums - I
bet he can probably hear the whole thing as if it was being performed
right there and then.

Having the technical skill and the natural composition & improvisation
abilities makes him more than just a performer or a producer - a
prodigy, a beat revolutionary, a drumkit renegade. He has truly mastered
the interfaces of expression, taking what's in his head/mind/body and
laying it out with his hands via his in-fucking-sane drum kit.

But he's not just a drumming hooligan - he is, to borrow a label from
someone elese's review of his shows, a fucking cyborg. He's got MIDI
triggers on most of the acoustic drums in his kit, he's got a sampler,
effects processor, a multi-trigger pad, a iBook with Ableton and Traktor
and God only knows what else... and he's got a grasp on everything at
the same time. That isn't human. But he is. Sick, sick fuck.

Respect to one of the most inspiring people, in my mind, on the musical
sphere.
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