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LONDON - A SOFTER SIDE OF MI AMI

Mi Ami are one of the best live bands I've seen this year. They managed to move a whole room of fat people who'd grown beards so that people at gigs will call them "beardy" rather than "fat," muso blog bastards, and other various kids who normally act like the soles of their Keds are glued to the carpet to dance violently. It looked like shit, but it was still an achievement. You could totally tell that two of them used to be in legendary chaotic punk band Black Eyes, especially when right at the start of the gig frontman Daniel ran straight into the crowd spilling lots of other people's beer, knocking people over.

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Anyway, they just released a new 12-inch as the first volume of

Hoss Records

's "Techno" series, which, incidentally, is nothing like what they played in the vignette I just described above, nor anything like what we told you they sounded like

on this here blog

a little while ago. Oops! Thankfully it's just as great, adventurous, and experimental. Less dub-punk and more dub-electronica, with them ditching their guitars for synths and generally getting a bit minimal.

Mi Ami - "Towers Fall"

JOEL WRIGHT