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My first live set

Practiced, and most importantly, prepared the gear.
I'm ready. (Yes, I'll be recording it, and hopefully my classmate will take some pics as well)
Pic of gear prepared.

REPRESENT

At 4/16/10 11:59 AM, Mich wrote: My first live set

Practiced, and most importantly, prepared the gear.
I'm ready. (Yes, I'll be recording it, and hopefully my classmate will take some pics as well)
Pic of gear prepared.

REPRESENT

What kind of gear is that? lol ;)

At 4/16/10 12:13 PM, Sealander wrote: What kind of gear is that? lol ;)

My laptop, silly. My controller was already packed at that point.

At 4/16/10 02:40 PM, LaForge wrote: I still don't understand how electronica artists do live sets. Hit the space bar and sit back?

Concept of live djing/mixing is that the songs basically cut the intro/outro and you manage constant chorus. This is no hard rule, just this is what people usually do.

You can do neat things to like mix one songs percussion/bass with another songs pads/lead, creating sort of 'new' pieces. Toss in some cross fade at various songs buildups and your set to be a hit DJ.

Most Dj's are effectively profesional hit 'play' button artists. Some though pley keys and use samplers while doing other things. Next time someones doing a liveset from NG on stickam or something you should hop in.

At 4/16/10 02:40 PM, LaForge wrote: I still don't understand how electronica artists do live sets. Hit the space bar and sit back?

No of course not... You hit the space bar then make it look like your doing something important/complicated while it play.

Duuuuh.

controllerism ftw

also, djs

At 4/16/10 02:40 PM, LaForge wrote: I still don't understand how electronica artists do live sets. Hit the space bar and sit back?

Thats exactly what the guys I know who like rock would say. ( But in a way thats more, yes, all they do is push play ). As a fact.

It drives me nuts.

At 4/16/10 10:51 PM, LaForge wrote: Not sure what you mean. In "Rock", there are guitarists and drummers and singers. You don't just hit "play" and let the song do it's thing, you've got to actively participate.

He means that it would be typical for someone who "actively participates" in making music to scoff at people who (to the untrained eye) simply play premade tunes from a computer and call it live music.

At 4/16/10 10:16 PM, Sealander wrote:

At 4/16/10 02:40 PM, LaForge wrote: I still don't understand how electronica artists do live sets. Hit the space bar and sit back?

Thats exactly what the guys I know who like rock would say. ( But in a way thats more, yes, all they do is push play ). As a fact.

It drives me nuts.

Inverse is applicable too though. Them rock guys often just play covers.

The real problem is the pushplay DJ's playing other peoples music.

Scorn them.

At 4/16/10 11:37 PM, LaForge wrote:

At 4/16/10 11:08 PM, Stupor wrote:
He means that it would be typical for someone who "actively participates" in making music to scoff at people who (to the untrained eye) simply play premade tunes from a computer and call it live music.

Well if that's the case, my eye is untrained, because when I see electronic music played live, I just see the dj holding one earphone monitor up to his head and headbanging.

Your just at a bad angle from the DJ, thats all.

He's holding that earphone up there so he can pre-listen to the track he's mixing in. You have to match tempo's and sync the beats by hand, which is pretty hard if you're new to it all, since 2 seperate beats can mash up your head. Hence why some Drum & Bass Dj's are legends, like Teebee and Andy C.

ugh I scoff at it all.

Let's move on.

I am currently writing this out of toronto - stayed over at someone's house after going to the bar.. don' t bother asking what transpired - if you can think it up it probably happened.

At 4/17/10 12:27 PM, Chronamut wrote: if you can think it up it probably happened.

You played Final fantasy all night with this person?

At 4/17/10 12:27 PM, Chronamut wrote: if you can think it up it probably happened.

Helped him with income taxes?

If you honestly think a DJ is just pushing play and doing nothing then your very ignorant. ( though I realize some crappy DJ's do this, the majority don't) Go on youtube and watch a video of a DJ close up.

Then you will realize it's not so easy..

At 4/17/10 03:11 PM, InvisibleObserver wrote:

At 4/17/10 12:27 PM, Chronamut wrote: if you can think it up it probably happened.

read him a bedtime story?

London

Going to London tomorrow! :D
I'll be leaving at 05:45 AM tomorrow and I'll be in Holland again around 9 PM on Friday.

At 4/18/10 06:43 AM, Rucklo wrote:

At 4/18/10 06:38 AM, Mussirus wrote: London

Going to London tomorrow! :D
I'll be leaving at 05:45 AM tomorrow and I'll be in Holland again around 9 PM on Friday.

by boat?

Yep.
It's a school trip and there are people who were going to Ireland by plane.. but i don't think they will go. I wanted to go to Ireland at first too and London was my second choice, but i was too late so now i'm going to London.

At 4/17/10 03:11 PM, InvisibleObserver wrote:

At 4/17/10 12:27 PM, Chronamut wrote: if you can think it up it probably happened.

Helped him with income taxes?

hahaha you guys are hilarious - I love you guys :3

no I FUCKED HIM silly people :P

Epic thread

so I made an epic thread in general that I thought you would all love to contribute to - as I know how much you all love bears...

half the mods have agreed not to lock it.. cuz they love bears too :P

At 4/18/10 12:55 PM, Chronamut wrote: half the mods have agreed not to lock it.. cuz they love bears too :P

bear

At 4/18/10 08:33 PM, Prodigal wrote: bear

Holy shit, Prodigal posted

DJ Set

My opinion is that some DJs can manage interesting mixes but at the end of the day all a good DJ is doing is beat matching and cross fading. It's a minimum wage job with benefits. My main problem with DJs is that I have yet to meet one decent fucking person among em. There are so many shitty DJs out there that the entire fucking scene is a fat fucking joke. I guess that's what I get for not living near a city but if I meet one more youngster who thinks they can get away with calling themselves DJs after another set of standing behind expensive equipment while doing nothing I'll fucking vomit.

I've been working on a DJ set recently straight out of Reason. Works pretty well actually. I can solo tracks, set loops, cross fade, change bpm for beat matching and if I get really bored, plug in a keyboard and jam along side tracks. Does this make me awesome? Hell no. But at least I can say I'm doing something :/

DJin stuff.

I s'pose I could add a lot to the subject lol. I definitely do a lot more behind the decks than your average Ipod-wielding, crossfader-slammin club rat... but it's constantly a work in progress.

First off, I don't do this whole... beatmatch a song, stick it to the end of the previous song, ok we're good... thing.

Gotta mash. Next big thing I want is to expand my setup to run 4 decks simultaneously so I can not only keep a solid mashup going (as in... mix a third track in when I've got two already blended in an end-to-end mix)... but also to be more able to pull live samples from things.

Add into that a bit of creative looping, picking melodies out of songs and bringing em in and out, jumping cue poings, bending pitches, using a good bit of effects... hell.. just can't let anything limit you! One of the things I get complimented on most when I spin for places is how I don't let genres or bpm differences keep me from mixing crazy things together.

Anyway though... yeah... I s'pose I should start doing internet shows a bit more often for yous guys. ;D

On that note though, I'll probably be playing for a weekly online radio bit in St. Louis when I'm up there Thursday... I'll make sure to link you guys up before it happens.

Aghh, these damn lights are so annoying.

Gay stuff

go find out

Hey guys look I have cool stats 'round my audio.
To get these too (and on flash too for that matter), do this.

Get this, this, and then this.

Hey! I live in St. Louis! What station!

Here's the site I'll be on. Just an internet radio broadcast, not FM or anything lol. However, that also means that everyone can listen in. I'll be on Nocturnal Transmissions this Thursday... show starts at 8PM Central time (9PM NG/EST), but I have no idea specifically when I'll be on.

http://www.electrolouis.com/

But hey! You live relatively close then. You should try to make it out for a show sometime. We throw some crazy sick parties down in Springfield. This Saturday we're bringin in DJ Ready and B Massive for an all-night foam party here in town.

At 4/19/10 07:44 PM, Mich wrote: Hey guys look I have cool stats 'round my audio.
To get these too (and on flash too for that matter), do this.

Get this, this, and then this.

just want to say to everyone, since there seems to be a small missprint with his code, when you get everything set up, you may realize the addon isnt working, follow these steps

1.bottom right corner, rightclick the monkey, manage user scripts

2.click on either flash or audio, then edit

3. add a slash ( / ) to the END of the url, then it should all work a-okay