Lusine

The stage is pitch black, lit only by blue light. There is a glowing blue screen behind Jeff Mcllawain, the man who makes up the band, and above him two blue strobe lights flash. More blue lights, long thin, and cylindrical, are lined up on the back wall. The curving wave of blue pulses in time to the beat. Jeff Mcllawain stands to the left on the stage behind his keyboard and synthesizer, playing his single “Another Tomorrow”. The ambient/IDM musician sends out pulsing beats over the audience, who whistle, yell out encouragement, and cheer. Ambient music is often said to invoke a visual quality, and Jeff Mcllawain uses his all blue stage to set the tone of his experimental techno/electronic music. Jeff Mcllawain is a Texas native now living in Seattle. He studied sound design and electronic music at the California Institute of the Arts, and released his first album, L'Usine, in 1999. He followed that with A Pseudo Steady State in 2000 and Coalition 2000 in 2001. Between 2002 and 2013, he released nine other albums. He has also released fourteen singles/EPs and a compilation, Refurbished Robots: KVRX Local Live Vol.4. This musician puts on a great show every time, and is a must see for techno/electronic fans.

It was fine. It started pretty late; there was a ~45 minute delay after the opening act ended. But the sound quality was good, the space wasn't too crowded, people weren't too drunk. Not sure about the mix: the percussion seemed much louder than Jeff McIlwain's sounds. But over, fine.