A lot of what you were hearing at the show was exclusive mixes and tracks
created exclusively for the show. It was all loaded up into Final Scratch
for presentation to the crowds. Although not a "live" show, it was much more
then just someone playing records. Amon spent a lot of time making that
stuff for the tour and a lot of it will only ever be used for shows. It's
not "laziness" that prevents a "live" show, it's the sheer impossibility to
pull it off. And plus fuck it, why get a bunch of people to play live
versions of tracks that were never created in that way. It defeats the
purpose.
Jeff
quoted 44 lines From: EggyToast <eggy@eggytoast.com>> From: EggyToast <eggy@eggytoast.com>
> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 09:06:51 -0500
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [idm] Amon Tobin
>
>> Yes, I probably should've informed myself before I went to see his show. I
>> like a lot of the stuff on his albums, and so had some expectations. Without
>> expectations, there can be no dissapointments, right? However, it would be
>> far from impossible for him to do a live show. I guess he's just to lazy and
>> ambivalent to bother spending the time and effort to set one up. In any
>> case, I would have felt completely cheated out of my money if Prefuse73 had
>> not been there to tear it up.
>
> Well part of the reason I don't enjoy going to a lot of IDM shows is
> that I don't know what to expect from the performers.
>
> Anyway, with mr Tobin, he's never performed live (as has been
> discussed on this list many, many times in the past years), and
> always DJ'd. Why? Well, listen to his music. it's all very
> intricate and hard sequenced. If he were to play it live, he would
> do just that -- hit play. By DJ'ing, he can do a lot more with it
> than he would be able to otherwise, so, for him, the lazy part would
> be to simply reproduce his tracks online, as there's no "live"
> element to those. He figures he should at least do something, and
> for him, that's DJ'ing.
>
> It's a valid approach to a live show, and, as is apparently already
> happening on the list, people are going to argue over what
> constitutes a good live show vs. a boring laptop show :)
>
> I mean, you have to ask yourself whether you think someone clicking a
> mouse a few times to trigger pre-built sounds and sequences is more
> or less live than someone physically spinning pressed tracks.
>
> derek
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