Lotus at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 9/8/12

Britt Chester

Emancipator opened the main stage, and with Ilya Goldberg on the violin, the show began. Starting things off mellow, Douglas Appling, the brains behind the trip-hop operation, never dropped any sort of massive banger. Emancipator isn't about the bangers; it's about grooving along with uplifting beats and occasoonal melodic vocal samples.

Britt Chester

Goldberg provided an eerie violin on certain tracks, either strumming or plucking his violin along a down-tempo beat. The duo maintains a perfect combination of organic and electronic implementation -- a great pre-cursor to both Eoto and Lotus -- and the crowd ate it up. The filling venue swayed to-and-fro and more or less just enjoyed the backing art of a beautiful Colorado sunset.

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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

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Personal Bias: Eoto at City Hall Events Venue for New Year's Eve in 2010 was one of the coolest shows I've seen to date.

Random Detail: The projector gave out a few times during the Eoto set, but the music was so good most people probably didn't notice.

By the Way: Zebbler is a force of light. His vision for a visual production exceeds that of anyone else in the game.

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SETLIST

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Lotus
Red Rocks Amphitheatre - Morrison, CO
9/8/12

01. Harps
02. Hammerstrike
03. Bubonic Tonic
04. Shimmer and Out
05. Cannon in the Heavens
06. We Are Now Connected
07. Greet The Mind
08. Ashcon
09. In an Outline
10. Age of Inexperience
11. Arupa
12. Jump Off

Encore:
13. Kodiak
14. Colorado
15. Spiritualize

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