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...Warp) 4.5/5 It may seem ironic that pioneers in electronic music still tote around their tape recorders, but Boards of Canada’s Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin are hardly exemplars of the high-tech urban culture. While many of Warp Records’ other IDM (so-called “intelligent dance music,” although it is seldom danceable) groups use the trendiest technology to produce cold, hyper-digitized beats, BoC has rejected “laptop music” and, instead, embraced the wavering grittiness of analog equipment and out-dated sound samplers...
...running production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is still showing weekly down the street at Loews Harvard Square, yet “The Rocky Horror Show” opened this weekend at the Loeb Ex. Thus, some may ask, why do the Time Warp again...
This presentation may not quite authentically capture the magic for someone who has watched and participated in the movie event several times and is accustomed to audience renditions of Time Warp in the aisles and shouts of obscenities. In that case, this production is much like a cover version of a familiar song. To be more than a tired mimic of a classic, the campus production could have incorporated more unique elements. One distinctive element that was successfully integrated was a live (and of course, cross-dressed) band, which gave the songs a great punch...
Opening the evening with middle school favorite “Semi-Charmed Life” by Third Eye Blind, Susan Putnins and the Sinister Turns performed with an infectious enthusiasm, galvanizing a nostalgic time warp back to the days of awkward dances and acne. Although the strumming guitars and booming drums drowned out lead singer Susan I. Putnins ’08, the crowd did not seem to mind or notice. Frankly, real-life Third Eye Bind lead singer Stephen Jenkins is habitually so sloshed in concerts that this band’s cover may have done more justice...
...answer may not be as titillating as a time warp, but it begs a further question: why hasn’t it been fixed...