Nuw Idol ... wow!

[LiquidEyes]

Usually the words "hard" and "trance" do not get me very excited. Although I do like trance, and I do like hard music, the prospect of going to a hard trance night generally conjures an image of nancy fluffy melodic nonsense over a mindlessly fast beat.

 

At least, that's what I thought until I went to "Time Machine" at The Fridge in Brixton, last night.

 

The music was superb - right across the spectrum of psytrance, hard techno and dark intense trance. And I had the pleasure of witnessing an outstanding live act: Nuw Idol.

 

The prospect of "live" dance music doesn't usually get me excited either. Indeed, one of the earlier live acts was very much "hard trance by numbers", with little interesting track development, and very predictable "live tweaks".

 

However Nuw Idol blew me away. His music was viciously intense, without resorting to a needlessly quick BPM; nearly every track sounded completely professional and, frankly, not like every other amateurish pseudo-live act I've seen before. The matter of whether the music was "truly live" aside, the guy rocked the place.

 

Nuw Idol:

style and variety of music 8/10

technical ability 9/10

stage presence 10/10 (he was bouncing around like a mad bastard!)

comedy outfit 12/10

 

(he dresses up as what I would describe as a rubber-fetish version of the Terminator, complete with robot-like helmet and flashing lights!!)

[Chris Hutchinson]

the guy is a [censored] nutter lol!!

 

Incredible pa and producer of great music though - 'Bag Of Trix' (Nuw Idol + Oberon) is one of my alltime favourite tracks!!!

 

'Sin' is worth checking out as well!!

[Tony P]

Nuw Idol.

 

[Lisa]

Nuw Idol (michelle, dont laugh at his name!!) is not only fantastic at what he does, but he is also one of the nicest DJ's/live pa in the buisness!!!!

 

 

[CreamyC]

Anyone heard his cheesy brother Pop Idol ?