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DJ STEEVROCK
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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: NOVA

LIVE EDM ACTS and PAs

I've been to a couple live acts (ie.BT, Infected mushroom, NuNrg)but I have yet to grasp the concept on "what are they are actually doing". Yeah Yeah I know what youre thinking "hes a dj and doesnt know what theyre doing?" I never really paid attention to it because it never really interested me enough to do my homework and get info.

But yesterday I was able to catch Infected mushroom at Nations in DC. As I was watching I noticed that it looked like they really werent doing anything at all. The bald guy was barely tweeking knobs, just looking at computer screen and dancing like crazy and the other one was looking into space playing keys but never nsync with music. So Im thinking to myself are they faking and letting the computer do all the work?? But its probably because I dont understand what theyre doing.

SO, What are they doing up there????????????????

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Jan-15-2005 15:54 Dominican Republic

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SYSTEM-J
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester

I don't know about those acts, but most EDM live acts do actually play live. I guess you could tell by how different the music sounds to the recorded version.

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webbie
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Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Sweden

Maybe Infected wasnt really up to it that day and felt for a little bit of playback?

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Jan-15-2005 16:53 Sweden

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DJ STEEVROCK
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Registered: Jan 2005
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Damn one knows the answer to this question???

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Jan-16-2005 01:44 Dominican Republic

Oli
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Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Nottingham, UK

Layering loops, adding in synth lines, re-editing and re-mixing tracks on the fly, most probably.

Some acts will just stick a layout of a few tracks on logic and do fook all, though.

Jan-16-2005 02:44 United Kingdom

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DarkFall01
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Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Zürich

quote:
Originally posted by Oli
Layering loops, adding in synth lines, re-editing and re-mixing tracks on the fly, most probably.

Yeah, I think that's what most of them do. I saw Nu-NRG and one guy was working the mixer, changing the drum patterns (preprogrammed, he just had to press a button and it changed and adding effects), while the other guy was "playing" the synth. These were just preprogrammed arpeggios, melodies, etc, he just changed the key.

There was a really good article posted here mid 2003 about this, if someone could find it would be sweet

Jan-16-2005 05:12 Spain

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Zombie0729
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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: .

go see Hybrid w/ their 19 piece show and tell me that they really aren't doing anything.

Jan-16-2005 06:16 United States

ricky
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Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Texas / TXTA180

quote:
Originally posted by webbie
Maybe Infected wasnt really up to it that day and felt for a little bit of playback?

haha- i donno, i hold infected mushroom with high esteem. so i doubt they would do something like that. speakin' of which-- they are moving over to the U.S. now. so hopefully, we'll see more i.m.

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Jan-16-2005 07:17