quoted 1 line I don't what's stopping him doing a live show... surely he could just
> I don't what's stopping him doing a live show... surely he could just
bounce a
quoted 1 line bunch of tracks to loops, load them up in something like Abelton Live
> bunch of tracks to loops, load them up in something like Abelton Live
and mess
quoted 2 lines around with them?
> around with them?
> Just because it's live doesn't mean it has to sound exactly like it
did on the
quoted 1 line CD....
> CD....
Well Amon has always said he doesn't play live - what he does is collage
and completely studio-based and he doesn't think doing it live would
work, so he DJ's.
The concept mentioned above, sticking a bunch of loops into Ableton
Live, has unfortunately been ruined for me by seeing Funkstorung a few
weeks ago, off their nuts (or at least very pissed) playing a "live set"
which was the most tedious set of hip-hop beats and 'storung-loops,
which practically didn't change at all, with fuck-all live effects or
fucking around...
I mean, I think they could've done something pretty exciting, and I'm a
fan of their stuff, but this was sloppy and boring as fuck. A few times
they even dropped the beat for the next song half-way through the bar,
which was pretty off-putting.
I think it was just a bad gig (the Sydney gig of their Australian tour
if you're interested) but even a good gig with this setup would've been
pretty boring and disappointing. I saw them @ the Knitting Factory in NY
in 1999, before I was much of a fan, and they kicked ass, mad fucking
around with live effects. Somehow the switch to what I presume was
Ableton Live or something similar just made them tedious dickheads.
My AUD$0.02 worth.
:) Peter
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