just saw Sasha use Ableton!!

bigdog · Post by **bigdog** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:24 am

who the hell is sasha???

edit...oh i see a DJ I thought you meant a musician or a composer....but just a disc jockey....hehehe

Kage · Post by **Kage** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 5:39 am

I got an email from sasha a few months back while he was touring the states.. He wanted a samplepack of an EP I put out on the french label, Lumina. I'm curious to hear some of his recent ableton sets to see if he's using any of my songs or samples.

epilacs · Post by **epilacs** » Sat Nov 13, 2004 6:24 am

hmmm
checking out the pictures i cant help but wonder
what type of hair gel he is using?
anyone?

and on a less technical note,
are those some vintage 1994 super wide leg pants?
rave stylee?

tribalogical · Post by **tribalogical** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:32 am

16 BIT wrote:Cool. Great to see Sasha using Live. Im not a sasha fan but surely this will help get rid of the stigma and stupid snobbyness attitude against djs who use computers.
I wonder if digweed woudl ever use live?. I doubt it. Hes always played it safe and of the two of them i much prefer sasha. he genuinely loves music.

more famous djs using live the better for all of us

Well, digweed is playing the Dimension K event in Tokyo this Saturday....... The agency I work for manages the DK events, so I'm there... I'll try to get a peek at his rig, see what he's using....

peace,
tribalogical

Petteri Karjalainen · Post by **Petteri Karjalainen** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:01 am

OMG !!!! sasha is using live !!! just like billion other people .. I think I pee'd myself.

epilacs · Post by **epilacs** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:32 am

OMG WTF LOL
T R A N C E !
ROTFL
SABDUMA
WARP

Nub · Post by **Nub** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:03 am

So Digweed doesn't love music?

This is just a stupid thing to say.

tim

[quote="16 BIT"]Cool. Great to see Sasha using Live. Im not a sasha fan but surely this will help get rid of the stigma and stupid snobbyness attitude against djs who use computers.
I wonder if digweed woudl ever use live?. I doubt it. Hes always played it safe and of the two of them i much prefer sasha. he genuinely loves music.

more famous djs using live the better for all of us

[/quote]

jack rock · Post by **jack rock** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 3:52 pm

Kage wrote:I got an email from sasha a few months back while he was touring the states.. He wanted a samplepack of an EP I put out on the french label, Lumina. I'm curious to hear some of his recent ableton sets to see if he's using any of my songs or samples.

Cool to see some famous people on the board. I still love your album on Thinner. Just thought i'd let you know...

Jack

djdrue · Post by **djdrue** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 11:19 pm

there are links to interviews with sasha about how he uses live on the ableton site

here:
http://www.ableton.com/pages/user-area/ ... times.html

and here:
http://www.ableton.com/pages/user-area/ ... azine.html

mpc2323 · Post by **mpc2323** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 12:55 am

How do you use ableton to dj? I mean do you just use live and no turntables>? If so do you just load whole songs into each clip???? If you do this then you really arent a dj. You just click the clip to play the next element without even mixing. I mean Is this really djing? If so then call every 13 years old who ever owned a computer DJS!!!!!

drush · Post by **drush** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 1:19 am

are you planning on doing any live PAs with Live? seriously? and you don't have an MPC? that is SO not a real live PA. i know because it says so right here in the dictionary.

robert_philp · Post by **robert_philp** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 2:58 am

mpc2323 wrote:How do you use ableton to dj? I mean do you just use live and no turntables>? If so do you just load whole songs into each clip???? If you do this then you really arent a dj. You just click the clip to play the next element without even mixing. I mean Is this really djing? If so then call every 13 years old who ever owned a computer DJS!!!!!

The thing is, with live you aren't going to just play 2 tracks faded into each other and so on, are you?

You're going to fuck about with them, loop parts, filtering, all sorts of other creative FX uses, re-sample things with FX on them and loop that if you want.

Drop accapelas from totaly different Genre records onto your mix, add your own pre-fabricated drum loops/hits and other elements like synths and basslines, warp them and mess with them on the fly.

Anyway the possibilities are almost infinite.

You get the idea i think!

Point is that anyone could learn to beatmix a couple of vinyl together, it isn't really that difficult with practise and it wouldn't make them a decent DJ. Same with live, its how you use the tools you have,.

supster · Post by **supster** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 7:39 am

I think its interesting to see peoples reactions:

1 - Because someone is famous, they are not 'underground' enough anymore, so its ok to make fun of them as being superficial ... or somehow not cool enough to be bothered with

2 - If anyone isnt playing hardcore minimal or esoteric enough, they are "trance" and therefore into musical fluff.

3 - That anyone that uses Live exclusively to DJ is "doing everything automatically" and any kid could do what they do.

All of those things are ridiculous

Just thought I'd point that out

Moonburnt · Post by **Moonburnt** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 12:25 pm

^ what he said ^

drush · Post by **drush** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 7:01 pm

supster wrote:I think its interesting to see peoples reactions:

1 - Because someone is famous, they are not 'underground' enough anymore, so its ok to make fun of them as being superficial ... or somehow not cool enough to be bothered with

2 - If anyone isnt playing hardcore minimal or esoteric enough, they are "trance" and therefore into musical fluff.

3 - That anyone that uses Live exclusively to DJ is "doing everything automatically" and any kid could do what they do.

All of those things are ridiculous

Just thought I'd point that out

1 & 2 - famous or not, he does play crap music. has for many years.
3 - there's nothing wrong with using Live. i hope it greatly improves what he does.

"People seem so bothered about technicalities these days that they don't hear the music anymore."