December 30, 2001
Electric Factory · Philadelphia, PA
17 songs10 segues3 sets
Set 1Pilin' It High, Magellan★* > Floes★* > Sound One★* > Floes* > Shem-Rah Boo★ > Magellan
Set 2Svenghali★*, Triumph★* > King of the World★* > Pygmy Twylyte★ > Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies > Pygmy Twylyte* > And the Ladies Were the Rest of the Night*, Home Again
Encore 1Spy, Mulberry's Dream
Footnotes
Magellan - A spectacular combination, the jam sort of circles around the mellow rock vibe shared by Floes and Magellan, building to a crescendo and settling down into a Floes intro.
Floes - Gorgeous mid-tempo trance. Magner crafts the foundational theme and carries the band to a Sound 1 intro that, for the first time, doesn’t lose steam in the segue.
Sound One - Absolutely on par with 12/28, the Sound 1 jam is foreboding and sinister and builds up to a spectacular Floes ending.
Svenghali - Though it faces stiff competition, this is absolutely a contender for best Svenghali of the year. Brownstein’s distorted bass work takes this one above and beyond.
Triumph - The legendary “Pirate Funk” is actually a dub jam, and it is probably the strongest dub exploration of the year. The band fully explores this space before picking up the tempo for a fiery segue into King of the World.
King of the World - The first King of the World ever jammed into or out of. The outro settles into a blissful theme, slows down slightly and picks up rapidly to an uncomposed peak before dropping into Pygmy.
Setlist data from the Biscuits Internet Project (discobiscuits.net).