September 20, 2017

RLH begins with an eerie, spacey atmosphere from the entire band. Magner’s plucky synths dance around, echoing off Allen’s toms. This jam is pretty interesting, and definitely unique in the pantheon of RLH intro jams. Additionally, this results in a much slower RLH composed section. The first RLH jam lasts forever, and frankly goes nowhere. Skip. The second jam has some really neat stuff, on the other hand. Magner here has a lot of great effects that he’s playing around with, and Allen feels determined to make his drumwork here stand out. He throws in an array of e-drums and mixes up his drumwork in a pleasing way. The Lunar jam has the usual dub jam, and most of this is pretty mundane. Shem-Rah has a decent jam, but not nearly long enough. I love Widow in the Rain. Pilin jam is the same short DNB jam you’ve heard fifty million times.

Basis intro is a solid 9+ minutes, and most of this is decent. Nothing too novel here, but decent and well-played. Second jam is mostly forgettable, and jam out of PBR is the same. First Spaga jam is usual forgettable DNB. Second jam has some really wonderful phrasing from Magner at a few different points, and they launch into a really nice Blissco theme. This is the highlight of this show for me. The segue from SRB to DTTB is a drop segue, and the jam in DTTB is a type 1 jam that never really leaves the DTTB ending chord progression. The jam out of Wet turns into a joyous segue into RLH that hits a lot of Kamaole-esque notes. I enjoy this, even if it’s fairly predictable.

Highlights: RLH (Intro, 2), Spaga (2*), Wet