“Battles apply their medium of choice: intricate arpeggios sequenced on an Elektron Octatrack, mind-altering pitch-shifted chord progressions, sixteen-measure time signatures and twisted clues to do the talking.”
Btw, they still are amazing live, even as a two piece.
it’s insane that they’re a two piece now. I can see why they’d want to use the OT, just as much as I can see why they’d want to use Ableton. funny part is when they were a four piece they did no sequencing/looping in computers. they ran Logic on the laptops as a sample/audio unit source only, and looped with the Gibson Echoplex/Line Six DL4. but Ian has been looping guitar since the mid-90’s (saw his last show with Don Caballero actually, running two Akai Headrushes) so it’s rad to see him move on to more advanced hardware, and still running with the idea.
they (errr, Ian) definitely have a RYTM as well. and a Shared System.
Don Cab was great live back then, and on the What Burns Never Returns tour. I didn’t like the later re-incarnation. I’m very much a non-fan of Damon Che’s personality, however. both how he behaved at this and other shows of theirs and because after I opened for Don Cab at a later show (2007ish), as I was coming off-stage, he muttered some comments at me and literally kicked my drums aside to get his kit onto the stage. good drummer. total a-hole.
(sorry for the aside, but that sorta stuff does kinda ruin Don Cab for me. so kinda related, I guess!)