Registered: Feb 2012
Location: Mountain View, Santa Clara, California
If you are a smart pop star, you want Mayer to remix your songs. He will put that exquisite Moroder touch to it.
See most djs and producers don't crossover easily. There is just much more effort and merit in composing, performing live and writing lyrics/verse.
Electronic music is way too tied in to drug subculture where it is copied pasted and spewed as avant agarde but it's just another Legowelt or Tensnake Record.
Techno and EDM needs to evolve to deliver more than an Aural experience. It should be accompanied with awesome visuals and the artists need recognition for this. So, Michael Mayer found out about this early by discovering gay club nights where he spun Pop records and delivered milk bottles & newspapers in the mornings.
Registered: Feb 2012
Location: Mountain View, Santa Clara, California
Maybe we should etch/fabricate a manifold of unumpentium NanoParticles inside a pill to harness neural spiking networks to cue sensory freqs and cause in Vitro immersive VR.
my favorite. discovered it after a thread about ampoule-like suggestions and someone just recommended kompakt. the baseline, the piano and the strings at 3:03... dope stuff
Nov-21-2016 22:12
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Registered: Oct 2006
Location: Vancouver
He was my favourite artist of the 00's
Nov-22-2016 20:44
SYSTEM-J
IDKFA.
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
I saw him in Manchester a couple of weeks ago, and he played a totally uncharacteristic but mind-shreddingly brilliant techno set. One of the top ten DJ sets I've ever heard, without question.
I've seen him twice before and it was always good and well-constructed, but a bit fluffy and lacking in balls. This couldn't have been further removed. The man has unexpected versatility behind the decks. Respect!
EDIT: Just read back through the thread and realised I commented two years ago just before I saw him for the first time. Heh.
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I saw him in Manchester a couple of weeks ago, and he played a totally uncharacteristic but mind-shreddingly brilliant techno set. One of the top ten DJ sets I've ever heard, without question.
Do you happen to know if this has been uploaded anywhere by anyone? Searches have only turned up the event (this was with Derrick Carter) but no recordings.
I know the set is definitely worth listening to if for no other reason than someone on RA (in an overall positive review) describing the first hour as 'a bit tedious.'
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Nov-23-2016 12:48
SYSTEM-J
IDKFA.
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
quote:
Originally posted by Paradox Lost
Do you happen to know if this has been uploaded anywhere by anyone? Searches have only turned up the event (this was with Derrick Carter) but no recordings.
I know the set is definitely worth listening to if for no other reason than someone on RA (in an overall positive review) describing the first hour as 'a bit tedious.'
Haven't heard anything about the sets being recorded.
The thing is, the soundsystem was awful. The bass was distorting badly, and the mid-range and treble were just a layer of harsh noise. So most of the first hour was spent trying to find a part of the room with tolerable sound. Eventually I had to get a free pair of basic foam ear-plugs from the bar, because the only place you could hear the music properly was right in front of the speaker stack.
I think this, in part, made him choose more bassy, harsh records. His usual romantic Teutonic techno would have been lost in the din. But I also think the harshness of the soundsystem made the tracks sound more head-shredding. For example, he played Superpitcher - Rabbits In A Hurry, which played at home sounds like an inoffensive and groovy piece of nu-disco. But on that soundsystem the bassline was seriously rasping. Most records sound different in a club, but this was something else entirely.
With that in mind, I doubt a recording would sound anything like what actually came out of the speakers on the night. Maybe it would have sounded a normal Mayer set after all.
