What can you really say about gigs at Sub Club? It’s dark, its dingey, the lighting isn’t great but damn does the sound hit you. Tonight’s sees Brooklyn based Daniel Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never, bring his synthy drone to blast the eardrums at the Optimo ran Hung Up! and there is no better setting for this type of music.
As soon as Lopatin starts playing you are hit by a pure wall of sound, there’s a reason why Sub Club is world famous, you’d struggle to find a sound system so perfect for the size of room anyway. It has to be said that OPN is not the most dazzling visually, he spends the set bobbing behind a desk but to his credit he doesn’t need to be, the sound blows you away.
Mentioning the last time he played in Glasgow at the Art School he sites mike troubles but we can’t really fault anything tonight. The sheer power of the noise takes what was already brilliant on latest album Returnal and takes it to the next level explosively.
As Lopatin thanks Jonnie (JG Wilkes) for booking him you are left in a captivated daze. Still, that’s nothing that Wilkes can’t drag you out of as one of half of Optimo gets everyone dancing ecstatically in what is nowhere near the last time.
Hung Up! may not yet have gained the same popularity of Optimo but there is no doubting the talent here. OPN is just one perfect example of the wide array of live talent they attract but the sound in Sub Club accompanied by the never doubted talents of both Wilkes and Twitch will always be up there with the best clubs to go to in Glasgow, the UK and even the world.
Monday 11 April 2011
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