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Thu 8th Sep, 2011 in Local News If trance is your tipple, you�re going to have a very busy Stereosonic in 2011. With the sound�s #1 ambassador Armin van Buuren in the headline slot and a fleet of leading names like Ferry Corsten, Arty and Dash Berlin also on the line-up, you won�t be short of hands-in-the-air moments. One of the outliers of that contingent is BT, a producer who�s closely linked with progressive trance but has never fit neatly within genre lines. If you keep up with BT�s Laptop Symphony radio show, you�ll know his current tastes run from M83 to SBTRKT to Shockone to Porter Robinson to Pryda. At Stereosonic, his sets are going to have it all. Always an impassioned guy, BT got on the phone to inthemix to talk about why he�s more inspired than ever. The bottom line being: don�t come expecting a 90-minute trance set. �There�s been an explosion of this new music and it�s really divided along age lines,� BT mused to inthemix. �I�ve noticed that your 30, 35 year olds want to get a babysitter and go to a club with bottle service and the girlfriend wants to put on pretty shoes. They want to listen to trance all night. Then your 18 to 25s, they want you to rip their fucking faces off. They don�t care how you do it. They don�t care if it�s 108-BPM Moombahton or 184-BPM drumstep; they just want pure energy. They want to absolutely cut loose. �This reminds me of the early days of rave culture when there were no limitations other than self-imposed ones,� he continued. �Music ranged from 90 beats per minute all the way up to 170. In the same night you�d hear [L.A. Style�s 1992 anthem] James Brown is Dead, early jungle tracks, Chicago house and acid jazz. People expected different tempos throughout a night. �Honestly it bores me playing for a crowd that wants to hear the same thing all night long. There really is a line in the sand now between audiences that want to hear raw, pure energy and just go off and then your bottle service, middle-of-the-road crowd that wants to hear, like, proggy stuff.� And according to BT, Australia gets what he�s all about. �What�s so awesome about Australia is that for years it has been ahead of the curve. You guys have understood breaks culture probably better than any other country in the world. �I did a Trance Energy tour there, and quite frankly it was making me crazy. Stylistically, most of the guys on that tour were playing things unrelated to anything I would listen to or play. Then I would come on and play dubstep for half an hour as a palette cleanser. And even though people were at an event called Trance Energy, they went for it. �At Stereosonic, I�ll play 132-BPM proggy tracks like Armin�s mix of Every Other Way and take it up to 170 and play Aliens by Figure. It really ranges all over the place tonally and in terms of energy.� http://www.inthemix.com.au/news/aus..._trance_purists

Thoughts?

Look at that shit-eating grin.

Wheres the wisdom part?

BT has a show?

what a ******

He's a rebel, out to shake things up with radical tempo changes.

totally. rad.

Shown off his justin beiber hairstyle ..



FAIL ...SERIOUS FAIL !!

Sounds a tiny bit pompous, but I prefer someone like this who takes chances and is daring rather than the thousands of others that toe the oh-so-predictable beat-mixed party line. Having grown increasingly tired of the recent trends that many Ableton DJs use of only changing +/- 2 BPM all night long, this sort of thinking sounds really refreshing, as long as he can pull off the challenge of making all those bits sound fresh and entertaining when played together.

Like Laurent Garnier, and quite a few others who seem to understand the kiss of death of linearity for hours on end, a trend of dull and unimaginative DJing which inevitably will soon enough be replaced by software programs. (freeing the DJ to better strike their own brand of Jesus Pose�)

At least BT seems to be trying, rather than the 'business-as-usual' approach so many of the other one-trick-ponies who call themselves DJs seem to favor lately.

Let's not forget he has always been like this.

He has always played and made all sorts of stuff.

Most of it, I'll admit is crap. But there are two or three tracks per album that simply own.

emo's

*shifty-eyes + grin

/masturbates

he's got the pull to set up a festival. if he sets up a festival instead of conducting interviews, then i'll be impressed. i'll be really impressed if the line-up of 90-170bpm doesn't mean "from Rusko to Black Sun Empire". perhaps that's what he was implying, but you can't be sure these days. one second talking about shitty music, the next releasing an album of remixes by marcus schossow & similar comrades.

He played dubstep at TE, my bad i must of been watching another BT then

Re: BT's words of wisdom

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Originally posted by Light The Fuse Thoughts?

Hah, he mentioned my friend, cool to see him supporting a new artist.

Otherwise, typical BT stuff.

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Originally posted by narcism He played dubstep at TE, my bad i must of been watching another BT then

Says "TE tour", not TE itself. With Skrillex doing stadium rave gigs, I'm pretty sure you can get away with playing mid-range-abusing dubstep pretty much anywhere these days.

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Originally posted by Sand Leaper Says "TE tour", not TE itself. With Skrillex doing stadium rave gigs, I'm pretty sure you can get away with playing mid-range-abusing dubstep pretty much anywhere these days.

Yes & i'm fairly certain he would of played the same set x4 gigs over that weekend

Meh

I'm starting to think that BT has serious mind issues since 2000. He should go on treatment instead of playing music to people.

Why do people think BT is a crazy person or stuck up his own ass for saying he wants to play music with a bit of variety and doesn't want to stick to a particular tempo?

lol FUCK HIM FOR HAVING AN OPINION

jesus

This just in: People like different things sometimes

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Originally posted by meriter This just in: People like different things sometimes

gtfo

we don't accept that kind of thinking here

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Originally posted by david.michael Why do people think BT is a crazy person or stuck up his own ass for saying he wants to play music with a bit of variety and doesn't want to stick to a particular tempo? lol FUCK HIM FOR HAVING AN OPINION jesus

I don't think it was the fact that he had an opinion as much as it was how the opinion is both presented and perceived. The opinion isn't really that nuanced or groundbreaking. The "article" discusses, in a very superficial way, how he likes to play out and reads more like BT had an advertisement than an opinion.






EDIT: Clause poorly subjected.

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Originally posted by EddieZilker I don't think it was the fact that he had an opinion as much as it was how the opinion is both presented and perceived. The opinion isn't really that nuanced or groundbreaking. The "article" discusses, in a very superficial way, how he likes to play out and reads more like BT had an advertisement than an opinion.

I guess I just don't understand why his opinion has to be groundbreaking or nuanced. It's something he said and they printed it.

At least with the JOOF stuff I understand people getting annoyed by it, but that's a little different situation.

I was thinking, who did have a look at Youtube to check LA Style?

Anyone liked it except oldiest like me who danced on these?

Think it would be cool to play some really old classics in a todays set.
So would you mind hearing this nowadays in a set?:

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