There is something exquisite about look of horror, revulsions and disgust you will see on a persons face who encounters a noise or power electronics act for the first time when they were seeking out. It's a mix of stepping in dogshit and unexpectedly seeing a corpse at the same time. As they say it's not for everyone. James Plotkin (aka Atomsmasher on this night) is an American musician and engineer and is probably best know for his involvement in O.L.D. and Khanate. He also has some new more ambient electronics releases. Atomsmasher was a mix of those worlds. I was looking up the credits for the one CD that I knew about and saw on Discogs that Dave Witte of now Municipal Waste fame played live drums that James Plotkin sampled for 2001 CD. Dave has been in a ton of bands so not a total surprise. At this show Atomsmasher was opening for Fantomas. A good fit I thought but not for everyone. Mr. Plotkin sat at a table with a laptop for his set. You can't really hear it on this recording but this asshole up front keep hollering "ctrl alt del" during the set. Code for rebooting a computer. Haha. He also would occasionally flick coins towards James and his laptop. What a fucker. James didn't react during his set at all. At the very end though he pushed his table out of the way and jumped off of the stage and punched the guy in the face. Totally had it coming. Atomsmasher Bluebird Theatre Denver CO (USA) 2001-09-13 Recorded and Presented: SxPxDxCx Source: Coresound CSB's - Sharp 722 minidisc Transfer: Sony MDS-JE330 (Analog) - Audition - CDWave - FLAC Time: (28:34.69) Very beginning of set missing starts about 5 minutes in 01 Phantom Smasher 02 Gilgamesh 03 Skull Shot 04 unknown title 05 unknown title **LINK TO MP3 DOWNLOAD** ** ** **LINK TO FLAC DOWNLOAD** **LINK TO YOUTUBE STREAM**

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