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Re: Live Techno

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1994-01-11 09:11Clive Neil Re: Live Techno
1994-11-10 09:45lw94ben Live techno
1994-12-30 15:35David Dodd Live techno
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1994-01-11 09:11Clive Neil> > > > With techno acts `playing' conventional > > > venues and selling US$20 tickets, au
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Clive Neil
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Tue, 11 Jan 94 09:11:15 GMT
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quoted 9 lines With techno acts `playing' conventional> > > > With techno acts `playing' conventional > > > venues and selling US$20 tickets, audiences are demanding something more > > > than DAT. But techno is a studio-born beast, and probably the best we can > > > hope for is some originqal live mixing. > > Not sure if this was made clear, but the above text is taken from an > article in the january issue of WIRED magazine (Wired 2.01) >
Yes, I'm sorry I didn't make that clear. Thanks for the clarification. - Clive
1994-11-10 09:45lw94benWell I would much rather see a band play live than use DATS, and why? Because a live band
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Well I would much rather see a band play live than use DATS, and why? Because a live band has scope for improvisation, and reinterpretation of their tracks. A live band could even be creating new material live on stage. Also, a band playing live can change course/direction at any time to suit their mood or the audiences' mood (I remember doing a PA when I was planning to play my experimental techno stuff but found a whole room full of teeny ravers/clubbers so took the intelligent stuff as far as I could before throwing some breakbeats and manic bass in their face and sent them home with an education :). Playing with DAT is quite inflexible. Playing live may give the performer a headache but imho its worth it. Brendan Nelson "There's one thing that separates You from me And that is called Originality"
1994-12-30 15:35David Dodd19 wrote: >I've passed up the comp with the Orbital live CD -- saw it for US$25. I >apprec
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Fri, 30 Dec 94 9:35:13 CST
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19 wrote:
quoted 7 lines I've passed up the comp with the Orbital live CD -- saw it for US$25. I>I've passed up the comp with the Orbital live CD -- saw it for US$25. I >appreciate techno acts who take it on the road, but I just don't understand >the need for live releases. I mean, the Orb's _Live '93_ is OK, but the >studio stuff blows it to bits. Still, to actually see LX and crew, the >Hartnolls, Mixmaster Morris, Plastikman, et al., I'd personally pay for all >accommodations to bring these folks to Nashville. Anyone care to go in on it >with me?
It seems to me that who the act was would make a pretty big difference as to whether I would want to hear a live recording of them. I haven't heard the live Orb album, but I've heard a tape of some live Eat Static, and I really liked it. The main problem is of course the low fidelity and the extraneous noise, but if the performers are the kind of people who get more creative in front of a crowd (like Eat Static) it's really worth hearing. From some of the descriptions that people have given on this list of some live performances (Black Dog, Locust) I'd love to have good live recordings of these shows. I suppose it always comes down to the issue of whether recordings are more interesting if they're the perfect, edited product of a musician's ideas or the accurate record of what an improviser played in a good performance. Which is always a matter of taste. David