The party was going great. A friend found a way to discreetly squaff a bottle of rum, albeit miniature. Some others confessed they were bong-happy

Who: Medusa
Where: Blue Frog
When: August 3
Verdict: Trippy

The party was going great. A friend found a way to discreetly squaff a bottle of rum, albeit miniature. Some others confessed they were bong-happy. The audience was stoked for Medusa.

The band has been actively gigging at most of the metros since last year and it shows. The four-member electronica act has never sounded this steady. Some of the credit also goes to the band's year old line-up changes -- drummer Harsh Kalange is definitely in better sync with the band than their previous drummer Vinayak Pol ever was. This isn't about Pol's technique though -- it's more to do with musicians connecting.

If you'd watched Medusa a year or two ago, you wouldn't be wrong in believing that their gigs could be moody and centred around the axis that lead vocalist Raxit Tiwari's performance is. Rahul Nadkarni, undeniably a skilled guitarist is definitely more self-assured now, although Siddarth Shah needs some new bass lines. Few Indian bands boast of bassists who add to the performance, and audiences are quite used to watching the man in the corner plucking away curiously at his thick-stringed guitar without producing as much as a peep.

Medusa did a mix of some new material and some covers of their all-time favourite bands including Joy Division and LCD Soundsystem. March, a newish (was written just a year ago) uptempo original set to a stomping beat along with old hits such as I Become I, Hilltop and Anti-Coke Ganapathi were all belted out with new mojo. The covers too were as charged -- almost as if Medusa owned them. Joy Division's Ceremony and LCD Soundsystem's Someone Great were both numbers that Medusa audiences have tripped out to in the past.

The frisky electro rock sound that Medusa has cultivated will go a long way in expanding their fan base.u00a0u00a0