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Making Time
Pure
11/3/06

There's so much that I could say about this Making Time. I could talk for length about how Dave P blew the roof off the motherfucker with Sebastien Leger's "Klaxon", how terribly pedestrian Hot Chip continued to be, and how Justice needed to realize that it's not 1995. I could write a seperate piece about Digitalism being the world's biggest assholes, first backing out of their live set, because apparently their manager thought the venue wasn't big enough, then spinning two of their own songs during their DJ set (that's right, but it was a big enough stage for them to DJ), which I equate to the spitting in the face of the entire audience. But this night was totally defined by The Rapture.

The Rapture's Set:

1. Heaven
2. Get Myself Into It
3. Sister Savior
4. The Devil
5. Out Of The Races And Onto The Tracks
6. W.A.Y.U.H.
7. I Need Your Love
8. The Killing
9. HOJL
10. The Coming Of Spring
11. Echoes
12. Pieces Of The People We Love
13. Olio
14. The Sound

Fucking epic, one nonstop highlight. All meticulously segued, all perfectly executed. Some songs were cut down, others jammed out. The sound was nailed too, each instrument totally in sync with the others. But what put the set over the top was the occasion-- The Rapture and Making Time were simply made for each other.

As I said before The Rapture's music, if confronted defenselessly, honestly, unleashes our innermost geek. It was nice to be surrounded by about 200 fellow nerds that didn't give a shit on Pure's main floor. 200 fellow people that shouted every lyric as loud as possible. Luke: 1... Crowd: 2,3,4,5,6,7, I'm floating in a constant heaven. Honest, it happened instantly, all it took was that "1" word from Luke, and it exploded. The room came alive, yelling, throbbing, beating. Everyone was dancing real hard. Guards were let down, individuals were lost in a whole, frustrations were released.

The Rapture sustained this atmosphere for nearly an hour and a half, and I have to think, despite this being the worst possible cliche, that the Making Time crowd impelled them to do so. I have to think had euphoria not seized Pure, the set would have went in a more subdued direction, like "Love Is All" or "Live In Sunshine". And while they are two of my favorite Rapture songs, they had no chance to be included in this set. There was too much energy in the room. It would've been an injustice. Props to The Rapture for realizing this and more so for being able to satiate the crowd. I don't know if any other band, LCD SS included, could've done it.

This crowd, this night could be summed up by "Echoes", by "The city breathing / the people churning... Life makes echoes / if you see them." The Rapture created an echo at Making Time and a bunch of strangers "came together" and saw it. This was the best show of the year, the best time of the year. I have to say it, if you weren't at this one, you really fucked up.