It's pretty silly dividing dj's into European and American. There's good and
bad in both. Granted, my favourite dj moments have been provided by
Americans, but I've seen some excellent European performers: I just saw
Herbert lay down a very solid set Saturday night.
I've seen Beyer twice and thought he was pretty good. He does what he does:
hard techno. I'm sure if you asked he'd tell you he's been inspired by the
usual Detroit suspects. It's really stupid to throw him in with the
Eurotrance cheesemeisters.
And talking about Herbert, he put on a great live show before he dj'd. Hard
to tell what he was doing exactly. He had Dani Siciliano on vocals, and
someone (whose name I can't remember) on keyboards, and he was running back
and forward between a whole lot of equipment, throwing live samples into one
of three microphones then running back to his sampler and doing silly stuff
with it. He was doing the same sought of thing with Dani's vocals. She would
sing fairly straight into one of the microphones, get her voice sampled in
another and then in the third I think Herbert was running her voice through
a bunch of effects. It looked a little chaotic, but everything played
smoothly. I think the backing drums were running off a DAT, because all the
tracks were discrete, rock and roll style, with room for applause before the
next kicked off.
Anyway, there's a European doing some innovative stuff.
Cheers
Rol
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