Fun little thing we do where i'm from is a little winter culture festival around town. Lots of concerts and performances and strange things are put up by various people. It's all over town. Things become venues that normally aren't venues.

Like this one garbage room, right. I wanted to see Nitefish or rather "N I T E F I S H" - the program called them a gabber act. I went over to the address.

This looks like it should be it, right.

No no no! That was something else. The band was to play in some kinda trash room on the side of the building?

This little distraction meant i was late and didn't make it inside lol. Not the biggest room! Fortunately, they kept the doors open. I could still hear pretty well outside.

This is where they actually played

Cool backstory bro what about NITEFISH???

So! What about Nitefish.

It's wonky! It's glitchy! It's slappy! Sometimes gabberesque yeah, but often with the drums at like half the speed (like, i estimate 184 bpm for the song, but the drums then at 92). Strange pads too, and sounds in fun counter rhythms.

The soundscape is quite wonderful. One person is on the computers, and one on mics: this is also a hip hop act. Mics, plural: they are holding two in the same hand.

The vocals are drenched in reverb and such, and the tails are heavily sidechained. It should be claustrophobic maybe but it isn't? Rather, it lifts the weird tesselation-space to the foreground. Same with the pads or ambience going on. It contrasts nice with the more agressive sounds punctuating it. Puncturing it. Pretty cool!

The sounds themselves are often very aggressive, but with lush backdrops, and with the vocals, and weird samples. All in all i am reminded of jpegmafia, death grips, such acts.

Left one on mics, right one on devices

The inside audience

Sweet good great evil.

It's pretty produced. Don't expect a "raw" performance, this is polished! Lot's of things going on, lots of different sounds and effects, it keeps going, doesn't repeat itself, breaks new ground always.

Which can be great! But it makes it less concrete, if that makes sense? It's almost too hi-fi for me. At this point in my life i think i'd prefer like five six hardware synths/drum machines.

Or i'm just salty that i didn't get to mosh with the others x)

Fave song: the one about plug in hybrid cars. Motorola ice? But it had sweeter pads in the live act?