martin, when you play records do you have a definite 'set' that you do
when you play out too? just wondered.
It depends, sometimes we'll build a set to use, but we always "carry"
loads more than we need and we always take the externals so we can
change everything on the fly, this lets us jump around a lot more and
move with or against the crowd. But we have used the methods below live
but it's a lot of pressure. We also have loads of loops that we play
over each others tracks. If it's a "hard" crowd we can experiment more
as we find they are more open to it, we have had 20+ tracks going on
each machine! We double up the controllers, so on one button press you
are dealing with volume/tops/middle/bottom, press again and you have
echo/filter/gate/distort - meaning you have 40 knobs not 20 :)
Hope that helps
Martin
(ie. you effectively do the same as with files below)
robin...
Martin Dust wrote:
We have 500 gigs of tracks sat on external disks, we pull tracks like
you pull records, building sets as we go. We also play a game of
"impossible", where you pick a track that you think will be
impossible to mix into/out off - we just shout instruction at each
other, drop the bass, lose the tops etc. Great fun and we've built
some interesting stuff that way. The last set tonight at
Supercondutor was built this way, the only rule was it had to be made
of tracks we've always wanted to play but never had a chance. So we
have UR going into Beloved into FSOL into Black Dog into TDE Think
Twice etc.
Martin
