Live Transmissions by System 7
System 7 are one of the very few techno-based dance music acts who can make a truly credible live performance. And in techno music this is about as live as it gets!
System 7’s live style powerfully shows their special position on the dance music genre map, occupying a space where progressive house, techno and psy-trance meet. Having perfected their live techno technique over a number of years System 7’s Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy use a sophisticated blend of programmed beats, Miquette’s live keyboards and Steve’s live psychedelic guitar to send audiences into dance delirium. They can be consistently relied upon to rock the house at regular live events in the UK, Europe, Japan, Australia, Mexico and elsewhere around the globe.
Lovingly recorded by the late and much lamented Japanese sound engineering legend Shiro Ono in a totally rammed Tokyo Liquid Room in August 2002, the Live Transmissions CD captures the magic of a unique live techno event. From the beguiling dreamy opening of ‘Fay Deau Deau’, System 7 take us on a journey with repeated peaks of intensity, culminating in their classic tracks ‘Alpha Wave’ and ‘Hangar 84’.
As one System 7 fan put it:- “...Wait for ‘High Plains Drifter (Voyager)! - Seems one of those sets where you think it's finished and peaked as much as it possibly could halfway through only to do it all again - the best! ...”
As planetgong.co.uk puts it:- "Featuring radically different live versions of tracks from nearly every one of System 7's previous albums as well as a performance of 'Teotehuican (Pyramid of the Sun)', only previously available on a Japanese compilation.
You can sense and hear the waves of enjoyment bouncing back and forth between Steve and Miquette and the crowd as the tunes, themes and beats flow and unfold in the live setting - perhaps the 'risks' you take in that enviroment pushes everything to the edge and beyond. Steve and Miquette certainly skim around the curve of the outer limits and back home again in big beating elliptical orbits of joy. Wonderful stuff! I'd guess that all those present simply floated home after it was all over."
Tracklist
| 1. | Fay Deau Deau | 2:11 |
| 2. | Teotehuican (Pyramid Of The Sun) | 7:06 |
| 3. | Manik Shamanik | 10:19 |
| 4. | High Plains Drifter | 6:46 |
| 5. | High Plans Drifter (Voyager) | 7:25 |
| 6. | Gased And Diffused | 6:57 |
| 7. | Ring Of Fire | 6:51 |
| 8. | Varkala | 4:49 |
| 9. | Alpha Wave | 8:47 |
| 10. | Hangar 84 | 6:18 |
Videos
Credits
Recorded live at Tokiodrome, The Liquid Room, Tokyo on August 17th 2002
Recorded by Shiro Ono
Mastered at A-Wave, Notting Hill, London in July 2003
All tracks written by Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy apart from track 3 Manik Shamanik written by Steve Hillage, Miquette Giraudy and Bruno Catala
All tracks published by Chrysalis Music, apart from track 3 published by Chrysalis Music / copyright control and track 6 published by Stage Three Music
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SYSTEM 7’s Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy have had a strong influence on the birth of psychedelic dance music and it’s journey up to the present, forging a unique and bang up-to-date identity on the genre map, in a space where techno, progressive and trance meet - and with the added element of Steve's highly specialised techno guitar.