Sound Tribe brings trance to a rock crowd
Last Friday night at The Pageant, a buzz was about the crowd at the Sound Tribe Sector 9 show. Is this a rave, or is this a rock concert, they wondered? Should we be twirling glow sticks or pumping our fists? Unfortunately, because the band has no vocalist, no one was there to tell them. However, by the feel of the movement in the crowd, they surely got the message.
Sound Tribe makes trance/electronic/dance music, but they aren’t DJs, and they aren’t computers (although they sometimes sound that way). Instead they’re musicians: a quintet of guitar, bass, keyboards, drums and percussion. Instead of being confined to simulated, sampled and edited sounds, Sound Tribe makes music live and builds it with drum crescendos, swooping keyboard loops, infectious guitar phrases and their always-pumping bass lines. Their songs belong in both dance clubs and on “Chill Out, Vol. 2″ albums.
As you might expect, it’s the perfect dancing vibe, more about the ambience, the swirling trippy lights, the futuristic noises and the flow of the beat than about watching the musicians move. It’s the chance to see a band do something different. Rather than singing a melody and playing guitars, Sound Tribe is more interested in the groove of the dance club.
If one thing was wrong with Friday night’s show at The Pageant, it was Sound Tribe’s musical impotence, roughly speaking. They could get a thousand bodies writhing and sweating but somehow couldn’t climax. They elevated volumes and upped the intensity but never did they send the crowd into a wild frenzy.
Despite this, Sound Tribe should only gain followers from Friday’s performance in St. Louis. After all, dance music is the soundtrack of the future.
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