well, i may be ostracized by many of the (remaining) members of this list, but i have to say that orbital may well have been knocked down to #2 on Brandon's Top 10 Best Live Electronic Acts That He's Actually Seen list. On friday i had the pleasure of going to the chicago stop of the Warp USA Mini-Tour, featuring the likes of richard devine, jamie lidell, mark bell, dj ease, chris clark, prefuse 73, and luke vibert, amongst others. and while most of them were all entertaining in their own right, jamie lidell completely blew me away. as far as sheer talent, stage presence, and overall live show, mr. lidell was, in my humble opinion, way beyond any other act i've ever seen. he started out with your standard wierd IDM random noise business, but it quickly escalated into him beatboxing (IDM beats!), singing (his voice resembles jamiroquoi's), and rapping, while still doing music. he would sing something, sample it, and then loop it, only to sing something else on top of that and sample it, creating wierd harmonies for himself to sing over. then he'd go in and manipulate the samples of himself singing or beatboxing, IDM-ing the hell out of them. all the while he had a continuous stream of lunatic expressions on his face, or wierd smiles signalling that he was pleased with himself. it's really hard for me to put into words how his show went, but i guess i could just say that i was in constant awe for the whole hour. unbelievable. if you get a chance to see him perform, i highly recommend it. *Brandon's Top 10 Best Live Electronic Acts That He's Actually Seen * 1) Jamie Lidell 2) Orbital 3) Gusgus 4) Richard Devine 5) Otto Von Schirach 6) Kraftwerk 7) Ming & FS (ok, they're djs, but they put on a damn good show, and they play guitar and bass during their set) 8) Plaid 9) Autechre 10) Slicker Honorable mentions: the crystal method, lofidelity allstars, phonecia, russle haswell, chris clark, prefuse 73, gosub, ultradyne love, brandon invergo ===== brandon invergo barrel o'monkeys http://www.barrelomonkeys.com02.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com