draconian - 1-21-2004 at 06:04 PM
Just came out this afternoon--sums up the experience rather well (though the "that was fucking awesome" quote could have been taken from any
show):
from The LA Weekly
IMA ROBOT, SELF, SEKSU ROBA, DANCE DISASTER MOVEMENT
at the Henry Fonda Theater, January 16
Spaceland Productions gave electroclash fans a special treat last Friday — a quartet of technology-linked bands whose performances segued from one to
the next like the tracks of a giant concept album exploring the integration of man and machine.
Dance Disaster Movement electro-evangelist Kevin Disco immediately embraced the power of the automaton by looping strangulated guitar chords and
shock-therapy synthesizers over drummer Matt Howze’s infectious beats, so he was free to breakdance through the audience and perform his own epileptic
version of the Robot. Seksu Roba offered a titillating in-flight movie that perfectly complemented the futuristic duo’s trippy blend of sequenced
“Pleasure Vibrations” and sci-fi theremin, a tricky instrument manipulated with stunning human sensitivity by Roba mastermind Sukho Lee. Musical
anomalies Self strayed from the formula with almost completely live performances, but made the evening’s themes explicit, lamenting society’s
“subliminal plastic motives” in “Superstar,” then celebrating its modern conveniences in their techno-plosive finale “Joy, the Mechanical Boy,” an
ideal prologue to the headliners.
But the crowd — already whipped into a frenzy by a tripartite conspiracy of KXLU, KCRW and KROQ — needed no introduction to Ima Robot, whose
combination of punk soul and new-wave machine seemed to achieve critical mass the very instant the quintet hit the stage. When the supremely catchy
“Dynomite” lived up to its name — with mosh pits exploding into boxing rings and one young fan blasting through the Fonda’s tight security in a
death-defying stage dive — it looked like the man-machine might actually destroy us. But after Ima Robot’s own “Ziggy Rotten,” Alex Ebert, exhorted
the audience to “love one another,” all was forgiven, and the only thing electroclash fans could say as they walked away to their black Jettas was
“That was fucking awesome.” (Liam Gowing)
TurtleEnterprises - 1-21-2004 at 07:15 PM
And yes it was... FUCKING AWESOME ! 
Phobiac - 1-21-2004 at 07:55 PM
amen