Signal eats noise.

and speaking of last night, it was great to see hip-hop at the turf last night. or, as tom servo from doomtree pointed out, hip-hop with people at the turf. missing numbers opened, who are not hip-hop, obviously, but are great. they need to do the soundtrack for the next david lynch movie and three cheers for rock bands with horns. they play some kickass mood music. which sounds like a contradiction, but that's pretty much what it is.

twisted linguistics was up next and noah was heroically battling off a cold to deliver some reggae-inflected hip-hop, although the sound at the turf didn't do any favors for the live band, which sounded a little thin, at least from the back of the room. you probably shouldn't mix the dj who's scratching louder than the drums. the last tune they did was with a backing track, and waas considerably more impactful than the band stuff.

live hip-hop can be a tricky proposition, but man, heiruspecs has it down. i have to beg off too much prosletyzing, since it's my brother's band, but even if he weren't in the band, i'd have to be impressed by the ease with which they deliver a crowd-moving set. clearly, a lot of time on the road has given them an effortless grace when it comes to transitions between songs. suffice it to say, i think they deliver one of the best live shows in the twin cities, and i think you could probably get a lot of people who aren't related to any of the band members to say the same thing.