Thu:03-10-05
Live: Pixeltan
Rothko, New York City: 25 February 2005
Story by Nick Sylvestor | Photo by Tod Seelie

Less a print magazine, more a way of life, Repellant somehow convinced legendary supergroup Pixeltan to play their first show in several years. A billion dudes were present.

Are the 'Tan riding their DFA 12" "Get Up/Say What" a little too hard? Of course, but the song was total rep rehab, and they know it. Cred debtors arrived at Rothko to see whether these guys could explode without the production team's sub-bass and handclaps-- y'know, before they add Pixeltan to their favorite music section on Facebook. Funny then that concert booker Ben Repellant likes pre-DFA Troubleman EP Pixeltan more than DFA Pixeltan: "'House of Jealous Lovers', I don't know, I've heard it, it's OK, I don't own it. But the Pixeltan EP, I've heard it, I listen to it, I actually own the Pixeltan EP".

Incidentally: Pixeltan's "Get Up/Say What" could have been "House Of Jealous Lovers". DFA worked on both tracks in 2001, but in the end Pixeltan wanted something grittier, so they abandoned the song until last year. Anyway.

"We only had two weeks to put this together!"

Those two weeks were apparently spent figuring out what sort of chain link lead singer Mika Yoneta was going to drape over her shoulder, what sort of crazy diamond-studded pants bass player Devin Flynn was going to paint onto his legs, and at what point during the show drummer Hisham Bharoocha should take off his shirt, if he should at all.

Why the band put "Get Up/Say What" in the setlist two-spot confuses the hell out of me. Too slow out the segue, and with extra time between the hi-hat slaps people quickly realized how much the DFA had made that song. Live everything was just flat.

As for the rest: lots of samey riffs, lots of duh duh BAH duh BAH duh-duh BAH on the drums, lots of "pow!" and "boo!" and other crazy "Japanese" sounds that, I guess, Yoneta was making to parody what her audience thought she was supposed to do. Well, you really got us didn't you.

Plenty of low-level starfucking, too. Me? I spotted (aka "eyefucked") a dude from the "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House" video, Jake Decker from hit TV show Hey Dude!, and several fake Sondre Lerches.










































































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