hamarplazt said:I actually always thought that the free teknivals was playing the straightforward "hardtek"-stuff rather than the weirdness. Don't know how big the catacomb parties actually were... maybe that was music nerds too... Some activity definitely still going on though, it seems Stella Michelson and La Peste are playing some joint gigs now and then.
last i heard about the teknival stuff was they threw a couple of big profile parties that really didn't end up as planned and it soured a lot of peeps. that could all be nonsense for what i know, but it seems likely as anything - esp. with reports i'd heard about their parties getting busted, or at least uncovered, like that one at the mental asylum south of paris. anybody else have a better clue on that track?
FWIW, there was a pretty packed ...house, for lack of a better phrase ( it was in an old meat locker! so nice!) for doormouse's last l.a. show and it wasn't advertised much; a few posts on slsk, some email notes a few days before and word of mouth mostly. but the kids seemed into it. like the days of yore, there were cholos and punks bumping into each other and not minding, and i saw some very drunk, very circular (his measurements were almost limited to r,d and pi you know?) and very mohawked guy waving two dollars at the water table going "I HAVE TWO DOLLARS CAN I GET SOME BREAKCORE?!??!" and getting a loud 'HELL YEAH" response from everyone in ear shot.
maybe it was dumb but man, that made my night.
omg also thanks for dropping names y'all my curiosity is almost as chronic as my verbosity. *scurries off in search of more beatage*