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BT uses his MAC G4 Powerbook these days to play a "Laptop Symphony" set. He uses a program called Ableton Live 2.0. It's a very cool program and he showed a select few people how he performs using this program @ Remix Hotel Miami during the WMC this year. You have to see it to understand it basically. Essentially, he plays songs that he recorded from vinyl or whatever medium he recieved it on... then as he plays it through the laptop on Live, he can add to the song, such as loops, efx... etc. The possibilites are endless. He can perform 2wice playing the same set, but with the effects and "remixing" that he can do on the fly, they could be 2 totally different sets. He was saying that he played at a poolside party and this one song he played went off. Someone came up to him to ask him what remix it was and he said that unless he was recording the set, he'll never hear it again because it was done on the fly and would almost be impossible to recreate in a sense. BT says he's not only striving to be different with these performances but embracing technology. I admire his thinking and would like to try this myself although I still love vinyl. Here's a pic of him performing @ New Years here in Chicago with Ferry Corsten. Notice he's also using a M-Audio Oxygen 8 to control different things in the Live program:
Here is a link to the rest of the pictures from that night:
http://cawtech.com/~caw/PhotoGaller...vel/2002-12-31/
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Does BT DJ?
