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Originally posted by Ishkur As opposed to, you know, DJs who don't play live.

Some don't play live........that simple....

Also, some are horrid Live DJs, but can put together great CD Compilations or Pre recorded Radio Shows...


To stay on topic, he is definitely Progressive Trance

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Originally posted by alefort Some don't play live........that simple....

What do they do when they don't play live? What does it look like?

I'm fascinated by what your answer's going to be.

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Originally posted by Ishkur What do they do when they don't play live? What does it look like? I'm fascinated by what your answer's going to be.

Preprogram a set in either Ableton, Mixmeister, or some other random program that can be used to do the vast majority of work for you after you've set your "markers" in a timeline.

Technically that wouldn't be playing live, and people don't seem to have a problem calling people who use PC's "DJ's."

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unless he was referring to dj's who do live PA acts i am also interested in what is sure to be a hilarious answer.

Floorfiller is so right about Schultz...he is so cookie cutter, why else do you think Armin is so high on him.

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Originally posted by DJ RJT Preprogram a set in either Ableton, Mixmeister, or some other random program that can be used to do the vast majority of work for you after you've set your "markers" in a timeline. Technically that wouldn't be playing live, and people don't seem to have a problem calling people who use PC's "DJ's."

In other words, you consider this the electronic music equivalent of lip synching. heh.

I won't argue that (although I could), but it bemuses me to think that you people can actually tell what the hell he's doing up there behind the decks anyway. Like you would know if he's mixing the music "live" or not. Unless you're standing behind him and can see everything, he could push 'samba' on a casio keyboard and fake the rest and no one in the club could tell the difference.

And even so, if the music is pre-mixed and pre-recorded already and all he has to do is push "play", so to speak, then it stands to reason that it BETTER be far superior to anything he can do do live ("on-the-fly") since he has all that time to prepare and craft the perfect set at home.

And if that's the case, then that sparks another quandary: WHICH DJs are actually better live than they are if they play their own pre-recorded performances? Who is so inept at pre-programming his own flawless sets that doing things manually in person--flaws and all--is actually better?

Well, according to some arguments in this thread, that man is Markus Schulz. He's just a cyclone when he DJs live. Someone better not let him near vinyl next, he'll mop up the DMCs.

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Originally posted by Ishkur In other words, you consider this the electronic music equivalent of lip synching. heh. I won't argue that (although I could), but it bemuses me to think that you people can actually tell what the hell he's doing up there behind the decks anyway. Like you would know if he's mixing the music "live" or not. Unless you're standing behind him and can see everything, he could push 'samba' on a casio keyboard and fake the rest and no one in the club could tell the difference. And even so, if the music is pre-mixed and pre-recorded already and all he has to do is push "play", so to speak, then it stands to reason that it BETTER be far superior to anything he can do do live ("on-the-fly") since he has all that time to prepare and craft the perfect set at home. And if that's the case, then that sparks another quandary: WHICH DJs are actually better live than they are if they play their own pre-recorded performances? Who is so inept at pre-programming his own flawless sets that doing things manually in person--flaws and all--is actually better? Well, according to some arguments in this thread, that man is Markus Schulz. He's just a cyclone when he DJs live. Someone better not let him near vinyl next, he'll mop up the DMCs.

As long as I can see the mixer, I can tell if its live or not.

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Originally posted by ******** Seplling don't demonstrate intelligence and educatoin - knowing does.

no DJ plays live... they are simply DJ'ing..
a liveshow is when they play on synths for example... like many psy acts do

live is such an overrated word

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Originally posted by benni no DJ plays live... they are simply DJ'ing.. a liveshow is when they play on synths for example... like many psy acts do live is such an overrated word

Psy music isn't "live". Almost all of it is still automatic. Live music is getting a band on stage and playing all the notes and instruments- not having a computer loop most of it for you.

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Originally posted by Ishkur In other words, you consider this the electronic music equivalent of lip synching. heh. I won't argue that (although I could), but it bemuses me to think that you people can actually tell what the hell he's doing up there behind the decks anyway. Like you would know if he's mixing the music "live" or not. Unless you're standing behind him and can see everything, he could push 'samba' on a casio keyboard and fake the rest and no one in the club could tell the difference. And even so, if the music is pre-mixed and pre-recorded already and all he has to do is push "play", so to speak, then it stands to reason that it BETTER be far superior to anything he can do do live ("on-the-fly") since he has all that time to prepare and craft the perfect set at home. And if that's the case, then that sparks another quandary: WHICH DJs are actually better live than they are if they play their own pre-recorded performances? Who is so inept at pre-programming his own flawless sets that doing things manually in person--flaws and all--is actually better? Well, according to some arguments in this thread, that man is Markus Schulz. He's just a cyclone when he DJs live. Someone better not let him near vinyl next, he'll mop up the DMCs.

I was talking abotu DJ's who put out "sets" that were just made using sequencer programs, don't have "real" decks, and don't actually play out live.

There's plenty of them.

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(a BIG name, not some bedroom kid trying to DJ Mystik himself to infamy)