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BT's Laptop Symphony (Review)
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| fabio_trevez |
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!
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| Luke Terry |
great to see software such as abelton being used to its full potential!
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| thoughtlessjex |
| 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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| DJ 00 Tommy |
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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| fabio_trevez |
| quote: | 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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| dEEkAy |
| quote: | 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 :D
Anyway, I wish the quality was better. Sounds like it was recorded in mono :( |
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