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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Trans Am
Title......: Futureworld Live At Sonar, Baltimore, 10-6-11
Rip Date...: Oct-2011 Cat.No.....: n/a
Style......: Indie Label......: n/a
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Bootleg
Size.......: 61,5 MB Source.....: Concert
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
Note: smokin' hot in-the-red concert recording. You have been
warned.
Trans Am, the post-rock trio founded in Bethesda, Maryland in the
mid-90s that has since spread its members across the country,
recently reissued its 1999 album Futureworld. Currently the band
is on tour, jumping on the ever-more-crowded bandwagon of acts
playing one of their best known albums in its entirety in concert.
But then, it's easy to be cynical about the prospect of a
Futureworld show for someone whoÆs always considered 1997's
Surrender To The Night to be the band's true masterpiece. Trans Am
is always a great live band regardless of what material it's
playing, however, and the band's show in Baltimore on Thursday
night was no exception.
Futureworld represents the apex of Trans Am's obsessions with
cheesy old-fashioned futurism, vocoders, and Kraftwerk-style
emotionally detached machine music. So the band appeared onstage
in goofy sleeveless shirts, headbands, and dookie rope gold
chains, which would have been just embarrassing if they didn't
rock so hard. Trans Am has a rep for campy, ironic affectations,
but the fact is that these are three seriously creative, talented
musicians who happen not to take themselves too seriously.
Futureworld's retrofuturistic soundscapes, vocoded hooks and
occasional saxophone solos translated to the stage surprisingly
well, with drummer Sebastian Thomson pumping up the power of every
groove. But the album was always front-loaded with its most
uptempo tunes, and perhaps the band sensed that the closing track,
Sad And Young, while the record's loveliest melodic moment,
doesn't make for a great ending to a set. So Trans Am stayed
onstage for a couple of rocking songs from the same era: I Want It
All and Play In The Summer from Futureworld's 2000 follow-up The
Red Line.
--Al Shipley
p l a y l i s t
01 futureworld live at sonar, baltimore, 10-6-11 71:10
71:10 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl