Last friday i went to BT's concert named "Laptop Symphony" at Mexico City. I was totally thrilled because he is one of my favorite artists, and as a producer i was curious about the gear he will be using. To my surprise the equipment was very limited: a powerbook and the m-audio keyboard-controller. By the images from the live camera i can tell that he was running ableton-live. It was a really nice 2 hours gig, most of it was live-improvise.

Tracklist of known songs:
-Goodspeed
-Dreaming (the crowd sang along this one)
-Flaming June (most up-lifting)
-Sonambulist/Simply Being Loved
-The Force Of Gravity
-Love Comes Again (one of the 2 most danced)
-Mercury And Solace (one of the 2 most danced)

I did recognize samples from Never Gonna Come Back Down and Paris in the improvised part. What i never expected was hear live-remixes, which really surprised the audience, to name a few: Deep Dish's "Flashdance", Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (this one made the crowd go crazy) and Coldplay's "Let's Talk". After BT played a guy from his crew started to play, no one mentioned the name of the guy, but he did a nice session of progressive and breakbeat plus another live remix: Michael Jackson's "Bad".

i'm impressed about all that he did just with the laptop.

i totally recomend it!

Last edited by fabio_trevez on May-02-2006 at 20:09

great to see software such as abelton being used to its full potential!

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I expect nothing less from BT. He's just an amazing performer. I wish he'd come around NC once in a while. I have the Live at Two Tribes, Melbourne set, and it's incredible. He does a mash-up of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Sunblind" in there, and throws in some drops right where they are in the original Nirvana track.

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The only problem with live mashups or any live performances is that you hear a song you realy want but its not released and may never be

BT must have close ties with Ableton, i saw him doing a promo for it on the m-audio website or something. I think it was at one of the namm shows.

Anyone have the set or samples for download by anychance?

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Originally posted by dj_palm was it transa remix? if it was i would die, its so good.

no, it was similar to the album version. Most of the tracks were played with new elements or different bass line and beats (it was a non-stop live mix), or different structure, keeping the main melody. In case of "Dreaming" BT played the Tiesto remix.

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Originally posted by thoughtlessjex I have the Live at Two Tribes, Melbourne set, and it's incredible. He does a mash-up of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Sunblind" in there, and throws in some drops right where they are in the original Nirvana track.

Haha yeah, that set is classy man. Funny part is the power-dropout

Anyway, I wish the quality was better. Sounds like it was recorded in mono