Benn Glazier said:
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 01:56:51 -0500, "James Bucknell"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> francois k played sydney last night using a titatium powerbook and two
>> turntables. looks like final scratch has been ported for mac osx!
>>
>> so, anybody want to buy a few thousand classic chicago/detroit/new
>> york house and techno records?
>
> Unless he was running Linux off it.

I don't think he was running final scratch at all. The only times I really
noticed him touching the tiBook was when he was playing vocal snippets
over the top of the music (like the piece of Voodoo Ray over the top of
Signals).

> I was less than impressed with the night to be honest. Mixing quite
> ropey at times, however I found from about 3 to 4.30 was the best - left
> shortly afterwards.
>
> Nice to hear tunes like Maurizio's M4.5, Baby Wants to Ride by Frankie
> Knuckles,

Jamie Principle actually ;-)

> Miura by Metro Area and Signals by Microworld. He played very
> differently to what was heard in Melbourne. Blackwater (vocal mix) by

Actually, it was an instrumental mix...

> Octave One seems to go down a treat, especially since it's been placed
> on several Ministry Of Sound compilations (not that it didn't before).
>
> Certainly not the best technical skills, and overworked the EQs and
> echo/delay effects. Further to that, I was dissapointed with his

Actually I didn't think it was too bad. I've got a small movie of him
delaying the crap out of one song into another (some nice sounding funk
track)... maybe he did it a little too much though...

> programming as this is what he is reknowned for, but instead of going in
> one direction, he flailed all over the place, probably in an effort to
> hold the floor which had many types of punter... and there was that song
> that was on a TV commercial for Intel...

That'd be Basement Jaxx...

Toot!!

-- 
dave.


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