Captains of industry

Here's a back-dated post from two-thirds of the way through July. It's from House of Targ, one of their regular Switched On Synths nights. It was billed as the "Industrial Edition," and the lineup featured Odonis Odonis, New York's Compactor and a standoff between locals Transmit and Intangerines. The latter kicked things off; they've recorded in the "versus" format and seem to regularly play live together. Here they are!



The other side of Transmit vs. Intangerines!



Glitchy action!



Compactor modeled the industrial look for his set.



Grainy action!



Odonis Odonis played at House of Targ last year, and I remarked then they seemed to be on a musical journey from The Jesus & Mary Chain toward Nine Inch Nails. They're still enroute. Here's Denholm, embracing the age of synthesis.



Dean sings!



Jarod hits!



Illuminated action!



The whole lot!



Even more Jarod!



Grippping action!



Jarod sings a bit!



Solid stuff.

Transformers

Odonis Odonis are one of those bands unafraid to change their sound from album to album: They started off somewhere around the Jesus & Mary Chain and seem to be headed into Nine Inch Nails territory. It's been a radical enough change that their House of Targ set was drawn entirely from their latest release, Post Plague. I would have expected someone like Casa Lagarto to be opening for them in 2011; five years later Ruth Grader gets the nod instead. Here's some synthetic action!



And so on!



On to Odonis Odonis for a short but good set. Here's Dean and Jarod!



Jarod sings!



Bass action with Denholm!



Denholm sings!



Extra Jarod!



More Dean!



A cool show.