On Friday night the Jackpot in Lawrence had a fantastic lineup for anybody who loves electronic music and wanted to bask themselves in glitchy glory.

I came to see Dosh and El Ten Eleven, but was blown away by the opener, Baths. I really shouldn’t have missed this. I came just in time to catch the last song, and I am regretting that I didn’t get there earlier. Here was this man, standing on stage, giving us powerful bursts of emotion from his voice over all sorts of glitchy goodness.

This was possibly the best final two minutes of a set I’ve ever seen. I whipped out the camera just in time:

After I was done kicking myself for missing the opening act, Dosh took the stage to experiment with beats, rhythms and loops. Just when you’d get used to something and start to groove, the one-man-band would switch it up on ya. It was fantastic fun.

He even took requests that members of the audience yelled out. “I could try that, it wouldn’t be that horrible,” and off he’d go playing random songs, pleasing his die-hard fans. To the average person it may have sounded like a series of random noises, but his fans would yelp and holler during their favorite loops.

He played a song from each record, and at one point whispered an enthusiastic “Jayhawks!” into the mic, only to met with booing (heh). Ah, hipsters.

Dosh used several bits and pieces of noise to layer the song just right. When he neared the end of his set, he leaned into the mic and said “I’m just going to make something up. You guys are really awesome, this is really fun.” Well, maybe it’s not as calculated as we thought. 🙂

I also loved some of the art that was for sale at the show. The guy running the merch table (Dennis Conrad) had some of his work out. I loved it. If you want to check out his art and photos, go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennis_conrad.

El Ten Eleven closed out the night with a dancier atmosphere. I’m always impressed with bands that do so much with very little. Here, you have just two guys, but surrounded by many of their pedals and fancy equipment they can bring you into a full on dance party. It was a really pleasant feeling. Plus, you got to see them rock out in front of some fog, which is pretty neat. Sometimes I forget that such dancy music can come out of a man and his bass.

This was the kind of show that can’t help but leave you feeling upbeat. If there was ever a way to escape the drama, this was it. Here was a show where you could disappear into a wall of noise, the kind of music you could sit around and watch the leaves fall to and set everything in slow motion. It’s been a while since I’ve seen three bands lined up in a show that compliment each other so well. Hopefully next time around I can get it together and not miss the first band. You never know what kind of Easter egg you’ll find.