Going on ten years now, but Theorem sticks in the mind as one of the most satisfying and sonically involving live techno acts I've witnessed, partly due to the warmth of personality/sound he generated. No flash, all the fireworks were in the music.
As mentioned by others, Octave One/RNG can be incredible live from my experience, due to their understanding of the dynamics of the genre. Pacing like a good dj set, but jacked up to a truly moving level both emotionally and physically. Cheers, Wes -- http://www.myspace.com/westonprince On 8/7/09 2:24 AM, "Matt Chester" <chesterm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Lets talk about live sets for a change - who are your favourite Detroit > live artists & why? > I saw Rob Hood live recently and was pretty disappointed - he was doing > the whole 'play one track, stop, reprogram, play another track' thing. > A lot of detroit artists seem to do that, performing more like a band, > i've never really understood why. Does anyone here prefer that kind of > show to a continuously evolving set? > Carl Craig last year at the festival was phenomenal I thought - he gets > plenty of criticism these days for various reasons but that totally blew > me away... Scan 7 & Octave One both do very tight shows too. > > NB -No chat about hardware vs laptop btw, this is strictly about > talent! And first person to mention Jeff or Richie gets a severe > beating... :p > > > > kent williams wrote: >> Sometimes when people went all quiet I posted something just to get a >> discussion going, but I've decided that as list admin it's kind of a >> cheesy thing to do, so I've stopped. >> >> Sometimes I think that pretty much every possible thing to be said >> about Detroit Techno has been said already on this list, multiple >> times, well and poorly, so we await new developments, which can be >> thin on the ground, especially in summer. >> >> It's like the contemporary authors whose books I read. There are 15 or >> 20 authors whose books I will read as soon as they're published. Most >> of the time I'm caught up, and I just want them to write faster. >> >> >
