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I love Orbital, but I never could get what the hell they are doing when they play live. I mean they don't to any mixing, they just play one song after the other. It's the same with the chemical brothers sets. Looks like they just nod their heads and fiddle with the gains. Unless they're just queuing samples, which is pointless.
Matt Smith is indeed pretty good. I've not been much into the Doctor Who reboot until this season. He somehow makes the nonsense watchable (that and Amy Pond's short skirts).
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Good stuff, loved the new series and i'm looking forward to even more River Sung [sp?] action next year, but even that could not contain my rage at gakkers that take giant flags to festivals.
I have stopped going cos of stuff like that.
There always seems to be at least one with a Welsh flag and another with a rainbow flag between me and any band/lead singer!
Its no wonder people throw bottles of piss at them.
How do you promote your Hobby? - Legoburner "I run some crappy wargaming website "
What do any of these sort of acts do live? Isn't their music pretty much all orchestrated in studio via equipment/computer? What is a live show, but them hitting "play?"
Not to say they don't make music or that it's not a valid form of music, just that it's not like playing a guitar or banging on drums, it's like writing software or something.
It doesn't really help that that particular type of music isn't really intended to be 'performed' in a live concert setting, in the way that a rock band would perform. There may be some live elements that the musicians trigger in real-time, but really that has the visual appeal of watching someone play Warcraft.
What do any of these sort of acts do live? Isn't their music pretty much all orchestrated in studio via equipment/computer? What is a live show, but them hitting "play?"
Not to say they don't make music or that it's not a valid form of music, just that it's not like playing a guitar or banging on drums, it's like writing software or something.
As an electronic musician who performs live, I can provide a bit of an answer. We are a lot like DJs. Sure you can "hit play" and then stand there waving your fingers in the air, maybe reach over and twiddle a knob or two (no, not that kind of knob...pervert ) but it makes for a pretty boring performance imho. The best performers are doing everything live that they can physically do. That can be playing parts live on a keyboard or other instrument, knob-twiddling, running sequences, mixing, firing samples, etc. At times I feel like the a version of this guy...
...only with keyboards, sequencers, samplers, distortion pedals, and mixing boards
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++ Heed my words for I am the Herald and we are the footsteps of doom. Interlopers, do we name you. Defilers of our
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11,100 pts, 7,000 pts
++ Heed my words for I am the Herald and we are the footsteps of doom. Interlopers, do we name you. Defilers of our
sacred earth. We have awoken to your primative species and will not tolerate your presence. Ours is the way of logic,
of cold hard reason: your irrationality, your human disease has no place in the necrontyr. Flesh is weak.
Surrender to the machine incarnate. Surrender and die. ++
Tuagh wrote: If you won't use a wrench, it isn't the bolt's fault that your hammer is useless.
This is, unfortunately, a problem for electronic music... I like it just fine, but when you're dealing with a non-traditional "instrument" especially one as inscrutible and idiosyncratic as the one an electronic musician uses, it's hard to appreciate anything.
It might be amazing talent, it might be a dude hitting play.
With a guitar, or drums or similar, familliar instrument, you can pretty easily see what the person is doing, or not doing.
Yeah, unless you have an understanding of how it all works, it's very difficult to have a true appreciation of what some of these guys are accomplishing on stage....or proper contempt for thier lack of effort as the case may be.
11,100 pts, 7,000 pts
++ Heed my words for I am the Herald and we are the footsteps of doom. Interlopers, do we name you. Defilers of our
sacred earth. We have awoken to your primative species and will not tolerate your presence. Ours is the way of logic,
of cold hard reason: your irrationality, your human disease has no place in the necrontyr. Flesh is weak.
Surrender to the machine incarnate. Surrender and die. ++
Tuagh wrote: If you won't use a wrench, it isn't the bolt's fault that your hammer is useless.
I understand electronic music just fine - I still find it boring to WATCH. To reiterate what I said earlier, it's not meant to be a visual spectacle in the same way that going to watch a rock band is.
You weren't the one asking what was happening on stage, so it wasn't really addressed to you.
11,100 pts, 7,000 pts
++ Heed my words for I am the Herald and we are the footsteps of doom. Interlopers, do we name you. Defilers of our
sacred earth. We have awoken to your primative species and will not tolerate your presence. Ours is the way of logic,
of cold hard reason: your irrationality, your human disease has no place in the necrontyr. Flesh is weak.
Surrender to the machine incarnate. Surrender and die. ++
Tuagh wrote: If you won't use a wrench, it isn't the bolt's fault that your hammer is useless.
) but it makes for a pretty boring performance 