Favorite show?

I came to see Squarepusher and Orbital - Squarepusher kinda soiled my experience of his performance when he picked up the bass. My Orbital experience was tarnished by a confrontation in the VIP section.

I thoroughly enjoyed Divine Fits and Miike Snow.

I was non-plussed by Pantha du Prince (who's work I am somewhat familiar with due to it getting played on XM Chill Satellite Radio). Shplongle also did not impress me.

I would have liked to see Trust, but the schedule conflicted (plus after seeing Ana Sia, the gf didn't want to go to a venue without seats).

After listening to the NPR offererings (including the Buke & Gase and Death Grips sets 2 weeks previously at CMJ in NYC) - I'm realizing just how heavily loaded the 2012 offering was with DJs and knob twiddlers - and less of actual artists. Sure, even my beloved Tangerine Dream had parts of their performances coming from hard drives - but at least they recorded the music originally - whereas Disclosure, Richie Hawtin, Ana Sia, etc are just adding to someone else's original material. Maybe it is just the boredom from staring at a single performer vs a group with 3, 4, 5 performers. Maybe I should have skipped the 1 man acts (even Stott's NPR recording had me wondering if I really missed all that much by attending a different show). My girlfriend bailed on me a couple of times to pop her head in on Primus and Santigold. She didn't know either's material - but she reported back in both cases that they were just killin' it over there.

So - did I miss anything? The entire Hip-Hop track held no interest what-so-ever. El-P was a minor interest - but he came through my area (Dallas TX) at least 3 times this year, so I know I can catch him locally at a low dough show. Nas, GZA, Killer Mike - no interest.

It does sound like I would have had no chance to bounce over to the Orange Peel to catch Black Moth Super Rainbow based on capacity that did not move between Death Grips and GZA.

The only thing I know I did miss was several acts at the Emerald Lounge that had music online that caught my attention and I would have liked to catch - Aligning Minds, Futexture, and Sonmi.

I've attended 2 Moogfests now -- 2011, the experience was great (but the weather sucked). 2012, the weather was great (but the experience will make me heavily examine whether I will return for 2013).

We sat on the stools at AMH - but we got bumped and jostled so much in that one show that was enough for us.

Initially, I was saying Squarepusher... but the more I think about it (and especially since having the NPR recording and review to go by), I'm leaning toward Morton Subotnick.

I guess it breaks down like:

1. Squarepusher/Morton Subotnick
2. Pantha Du Prince
3. Richie Hawtin
4. Blondes

Everything was excellent.

1. exit music
2. orbital
3. andy stott
4. trust
5. blondes

honorable mention: ana sia