but apart from that was midi keyboards not realy the perfect tool for playing drums. It was good for the breakcore side of it, i could push several notes at the same time creating nice jungle-choruses and noisy drum sounds. And then playing on chopped amens trigged in renoise live from a midi keyboard(with an arpegiator for when i seriously wanted to fuck things up). with no backtrack(except starting up some notes on an external sequenser by turning mute on and off, to start reggea-loops and ragga vocal loops etcetera). I did a live jungle/breakcore set with renoise. ƒU©k!NG ƒU©k ƒU©k ƒU©k!NG ƒU©k ƒU©k ƒU©k > mutual satisfaction of audience & performer If I didn’t type ƒU©k enough, here’s some more, just for the ƒU©k of it. So ƒU©k Peter & his wasted monkey, get the bouncer & place them carefully where they ƒU©k!N belong

But that wasn’t the ratio for that particular evening, so we continued to please ourselves & our paying audience who got off on pleasuring ourselves. We should have been throwing §h!† all over the ƒU©k!N place just to satisfy that ƒU©k. Its obvious that ƒU©ker Peter & wasted monkey didn’t give a hoot about the show. Well that depends on the ratio of satisfaction between whoever is involved at such & such location. Let me tell you, these fancy cake electronic gears do NOT like §h!† on them There was §h!† all over my gear last time that ƒU©ker Peter brought his wasted monkey. You, other performers, engineers, audience, that ƒU©k!NG wasted monkey that Peter always brings to the shows, who always ruins it for everybody because it starts throwing §h!† all over the ƒU©k!N place halfway through each set. I wanna see 5 guys with nanoloops, LSDJs, midiNes abused with velvety vacuum tubesĪbout Live performance, is it really that important ? I think performance is becoming an ever more important part of being an electronic musician - not only for promotion, but as a way to supplement your income with record sales bottoming out - so i think it’s worth going to the effort of doing something interesting and interactive while you’re up there… autechre do a great job of getting their sets packed on to an MPC and a few hardware sequencers/synths… even though a lot of their stuff’s obviously heavily programmed and processed, you can still think about ways to turn it into a very practical, loop-based performance, with only minimal gear It might be you playing and mixing CD’s of your tracks off CDJ’s… it might be setting a track to play off a sequencer and playing certain parts (drums, strings, samples) in live on a keyboard… anything which lets you become a meaningful part of the performance and allows you to bridge the gap between the music and the environmentĪs far as laptops go, it is quite obvious the term “laptop DJ” is becoming pretty much as derogatory as “laptop journalist”… a lot of people don’t want to see someone sat behind a laptop, playing minesweeper for all they know, while itunes churns out a bunch of mp3s Playing a pre-recorded laptop set or playing off DAT are “cheats” which people might never notice, but then again, performing to a crowd under any capacity is really both about reading the room and reacting to feedback, and of course expressing your own intent/artistry as a musician I think you need to find some way to have control over your music on stage

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