I'm trying to get some space to play a set at a techno festival of some
sort here in New Zealand, and was wondering about any other people's
experience with playing live (well, off sequencer, but you know what I
mean ;) to a crowd that just wants to dance.
The scene here is definitely into hardcore and trance, but I've been
writing stuff similar to Autechre and so forth. Do people have any
suggestions for how to make stuff interesting while maintaining enough of
a pulse to allow the lamest raver to keep bobbing?
I'd thought of (so far) writing stuff in 3 4, with kick drums on
regular dotted quavers. Effectively, you get your 4 kick drum pulse, but
with a really slow triplet effect on top. Most unnerving, but still
easily danceable, which is kinda the effect I'm after.
I'd also thought of dividing the bar structure up in weird ways, so the
kick is always present on each beat, a riff is going from 3 4 to 5 4 to
7 4 to 9 4. After 24 kicks you'd be back to the start again, and
incorporated with some more obvious rhythms it might be comparitively tame.
Anyway, further suggestions would be welcome. I'm working with a couple
of Akai samplers and Juno-106's if that's any help.
Michael
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scrot@sans.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Upton)
"the desert stares back with a thousand eyes" - Coil
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