miguel23

I am not sure about you and your experience with ‘real techno’, but Galoppierende Zuversicht will definitely teach you the basics and the higher echelons of beat complexity. The swiss techno duo visited San Francisco last week for an underground show at a great little spot deep in Bayview. The party was thrown by the Kontrol crew in San Francisco. We already know they throw the best parties in San Francisco outside of the Sunset Crew, but they really stepped up their game by giving us Galoppierende Zuversicht live in a full surround sound theater in the round format. We must also give props to Brian Gibbs of ReCombinant media labs for making the sound part come together, he actually managed the board all night. At times he would get on and pan frequencies around the room making people look behind them in confusion.

Here is Brian in front of Galoppierende Zuversich, manning the sound board.

Galoppierende Zuversicht translates roughly to ‘Galloping Confidently’ in English. At times I would look around the room and see people loose their shit dancing. I was one of them of course. During the show their name became apparent. These guys can keep this techno train rolling once they press ’start’ with out failiure, very confident indeed. Their system is set up so that it is actually hard to fail. They can drop beats from any of their synths and keep their rhythm rocking the room with no problem at all! Effortlessly.

How can I describe this in words: the music as a whole sounded like the natural cosmic flux falling in love with itself and creating strings and baselines that defined the meaning of love with every beat and measure. On top of some nasty sick ass beats of course. I don’t really know where these guys came from, they say Switzerland, but I think it is more like another planet from far far away.

No laptops, just good ole’ analog sound gear…..1,2,3 blast off into space with Galoppierende Zuversicht.

Here is my with one half of the group, Styro2000. Meeting this man made me believe in extraterrestrial life by the way.

I would also like to mention that eventhough I gathered no pictures of anything else but the group doing their thang, this party by far had the most attractive women I have ever seen at a techno party, but I have no pictures to prove it. I guess good looking women do like real techno. It is like finding a diamond in the rough.

Of course, this was taken after the group was done and walked away from their gear: