Ela Minus/ Fee Lion

  The bass coming from both of them was powerful.  I could feel the bass vibrating my organs and the fucking soft tissue around, different frequencies of vibration all over. Bands at Beat Kitchen tend to sound better, cleaner than in some other venues. Of the times that I've seen Ringo Deathstarr, its at Beat Kitchen where they sounded the best. That aside, this night I went to see Ela Minus and the local  Fee Lion . This local band's name I would see often on a screen but until now, I had not heard of her music.  As many times as I have seen that name on a screen, I never bothered to check up. That was on me. So, anyway, bass...soft tissue vibrating...Fee Lion made me a fan right there, and actually I always was and only realized it then, and she is local!
  I actually was not intending to be so on time to see Fee Lion.  And so I bought from her a 6 track CD. Its supposed to be 5 but there is an extra track and it is fucking great. They are all great dark, smooth and powerful with the bass. Fee Lion makes you move and its how she creates and combines sound textures that I am struck by, they turn these corners that I don't see coming.  It never felt like something so familiar that it feels.... formulaic. No, not at all. There is this way that Vision starts that...projects a certain set of beats forward. I anticipate and trust this is how its going to sound and all. I'm already sold on the track and that intro, and then it trips you forward, faster than anticipate.  So I get into her music for the little surprises within those tracks. She also covered In The City from The Chromatics.  I fucking loved it! As a still active goth this is something I would find welcome at a goth club night somewhere. There is this interview where she is asked what animal would she be, and she answered "a cat" without hesitation. Favorite color? Black.....ain't she ours already?
 
  Ela Minus, I've been looking at her Youtube videos ever since seeing her, and its hitting me. I fucking saw Ela Minus!!! Seeing her live this one time was just the beginning. With both of them, I could not begin to identify the instruments they used. Seeing them use it did have its own expressions. Adjusting shit here, start a beat just right there. Some of this flashes across their face. Having these two artists play the same place was fucking genius, they are very different from each other, and were parallel fucking shows.
  Ela has this disarming otherworldly solitary voice, and she lays it around the robotic, vaguely familiar minimal electronic sounds and beats that are also her creation. To be at this show meant you felt that penetrating bass.....Shut up. Seeing the videos only and I would not know that. Part of it is seeing how she plays, her enthusiasm. She looks like a DJ assembling her sounds and when ready its just her and the mic dancing and warbling away.
  She is from Colombia and lives now in New York City. Beat Kitchen was 18 and over that night and I can see that audience a younger crowd. What I also noticed, or was it just me. I felt completely new and the crowd seemed all owned already, familiar with her. These were her fans. And she took pictures with them after the show, I saw that and it was nice. "Come play with me" she says in Ahead. I think no matter what she says, its gonna have this otherworldly authority from a faerie land that has long mastered our music. A fusion of wisdom and innocence. Fee Lion is like a smooth and darker Golden Filter. Ela Minus is closer and darker than Telepathe, Grimes and Fielded, at least for me.  And there is an organic sweetness to her that is not overpowering and plastic. Distance comes with the mysterious and so it is with Ela Minus.  So, that's me, on the outer edges of the fog, with a siren calling me in.
Zig