oh well what do I know. I do know that I've done four 3 hour long PAs on radio in detroit and ann arbor and that its gotta be boring to hear the same style for that long. although I played different styles for each hour
Im cool like that I guess if you cant throw a good 1 hour PA together in a week, you should be cast into a pit :P :D ----- Original Message ----- From: "Klaas-Jan Jongsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 6:50 PM Subject: Re: (313) Re: [idm] The truth about laptop shows... At 18:38 -0400 06-10-2002, ::\) wrote: >this is the reason that DJs play for several hours and live PAs are >typically 1 hour or less. The reason most liveset are just one hour is because preparing a one hour liveset takes a lot of time and not about catching 'a vibe'. DJ's basically can extend there sets by just bringing more records. >and remember guys, the person making the music is just making the music. >the emphasis should be on the party, not the person making the music >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Maarten Baute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Tosh Cooey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; >"Mxyzptlk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 9:37 AM >Subject: Re: (313) Re: [idm] The truth about laptop shows... > > >> yowsah yowsah yowsah , >> >> > I have read many posts from people who say they enjoy laptop >> > music AND performances; in fact, many more of them than ones of this >> > nature, therefore it's not boring and everyone knows the truth. It >doesn't >> > matter how "extra intelligent" the complainer thinks he/she is by >> rejecting >> > the norm at these shows. >> >> I think the reason a lot of people dislike laptop live shows is because it >> is too much of the same style. One artists is mostly doing one typical >> style, and listening to almost the same thing for more than 1 hour could >be >> not enjoyful for some. I remind listening to a live act (laptop) from >> "Hermann und Kleine", wich I enjoyed very much, because I like their >style. >> But I also remind hearing (on the radio) a live act from bandulu, wich was >> loop-techno live.... boring as hell... >> >> If you let maurizio or scion do a live act, I would be very happy to hear >> it.. but I can imagine very easely, that most people , who are not into >this >> kind of dubby techno would leave after less than 10 minutes. >> >> A DJ is mostly playing different records and styles, and can maybee more >> easily catch the vibe from the croud.... >> But then again, there are enough dj´s who are very boring (I think of >> tomazz - stu bru, Belgium). >> >> They can´t be all like moodymann, now can they?! >> >> CAN THEY!!??? ;) >> >> Cheers, >> Maarten >> >> ----------------------------------- >> Do you know these tracks? >> http://www.morthenkiang.com/samples > > (taken from various mix tapes) > > ----------------------------------- > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
