I wonder if anyone will say Kraftwerk aren't playing "live" - Techno has always been about using technology to move the floor, people should stop watch the DJ and get the fcuk down :)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Phonopsia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Bleep43" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Thorin Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:14 AM Subject: Re: (313) final scratch (fwd) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Bleep43" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Thorin Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 10:55 PM > Subject: Re: (313) final scratch (fwd) > > > > Ableton on the other hand has made non-DJs like Brenden Gillan into really > > enjoyable DJs and really good DJs like Surgeon into friggin megamix > > deities. > > Yarr! > > > however- i've not seen surgeon actually play with ableton. is it just him > > and a laptop? o ris he still playing records along with the ableton loops? > > I've seen him four times in the past year now. At ATP he played a Final > Scratch set, and it was fantastically varied. I think also because it was > sort of his UK Final Scratch coming out party (or was it the 2nd time???), > it was all that more mind-blowing for the unexpectedness of it. I saw him > twice this Autumn, once @Werk @ Plastic People playing (I think) a > combination of Final Scratch and Ableton. He had two laptops at any rate, so > it's hard to say if he was using the 2nd laptop for effects or what. That > was probably the most eclectic set he's played of these four. It was also > fantastic. A couple of months later he played Split, and that was an > all-Ableton set. It was probably the most straight-ahead of all of these > sets, but it was also his first time playing an HDJ set at a larger party in > London to a younger audience (well, younger than Plastic People anyway), and > I think he may have played it a bit safer with the track selection, in terms > of not pulling out the madness quite as much as in these other sets. I'm not > sure if his set Saturday was just Ableton or not. I think it probably was > b/c a friend of mine made the snide comment 'you know he's not DJing, > right'? It really didn't matter if he wasn't. It was seriously mind-blowing, > probably the equal of his ATP set. I think the Autechre track count was at > around 4? And you really wouldn't have known it to look at the dancefloor. I > was most surprised by the fact that he worked things in the mix for what > seemed like 4 or 5 minutes at a time, with Autechre on top, and the whole > dancefloor seemed to love it! In fact, I'd say one of the songs that got the > worst reception was Badger Bite! That really threw me for a loop. ;) > > I'm not convinced it's the solution to tired DJing just yet, but I think > that in the right hands it can be magical, and in the almost-right hands it > can enable an escape from genre constraints. I've always loved to play as > many different styles as I can work into a beat matched format, so if > Ableton helps DJs feel like they can do that better, then I'm perfectly > happy with it! > > If Surgeon hasn't been the best techno DJ on the planet for the last year, > then his equal hasn't visited London recently. > > Tristan > ======= > http://www.phonopsia.co.uk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >
