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olafmol wrote:i only listen to BT's music if the track didn't use MIDI, because that's too old and slow, and the track needs at least 3232323239449 audio edits every minute.....otherwise i don't care about it

he can be really full of it at times. whatever happened to his huge book of timestretching?

thanks for the link. After all the BT bashing that was going on here I started listening to Emotional Technology again and have since found it to be one of the most incredible albums i have ever heard. All that i thought was cheesy before is now intense positive emotion! That album ties together nearly every form of western music i can think of... dance, rock, metal, pop, country, classical, jazz, gospel, blues, rap, psychedelic, avant garde...and its incredibly deep. In fact, its made it hard to listen to anything else. Funny that an album i could hardly stand to listen to at first has, after a year, become one of my all-time favorites

BT is definetly someone who is ahead of his time . . .so it would make sense that it would take a year for people like you and myself to only now start to make sense of the emotional technology. if we aspire to be like BT I suppose we gotta learn to block out the trends that are gimmicky and are short-lived only to hone and focus on what remains. because of your recommendation, i think i'll actually buy the album. BT rocks! (knowledge of self w/ guru & break on through BT vs. the doors are amazing tracks)

i'll be seeing the man play in a few hours...

saw the dude play

looked like a preprogrammed playlist with scene up and down, some wooshes mapped to the keys and his stutter effect here and there.

sweetjesus wrote:saw the dude play

looked like a preprogrammed playlist with scene up and down, some wooshes mapped to the keys and his stutter effect here and there.

how did it sound like?

sounded like a guy playing preprogrammed set.
the set didnt peak, the crowd wasnt screaming out for more... and he didn't impress a fellow live user...

although he looked like he was way into it..

i expected to hear more of his stuff too at least.. that's the stuff i liked.

he apparently used to jump around like a monkey - is that still the case?

i wasn't super-impressed with his use of Live when i saw him, but i've never seen someone have so much fun playing a show. Consequently, i had a tremendously good time. After he played, he hooked himself into this suspension harness the dancers at the club were using and swung out over the crowd trying to spin around and dance in midair. He wasn't very good at it, which made it all the better - very non-rockstar-ego thing to do. The crowd was flipping out over his set, though, and it actually was a good set. I don't think its because he's not capable or creative enough to maximize Live, seems like he's just more interested in having tons of fun rather than staring at computer screen, managing 12 tracks of loops, and trying to impress me.

one thing i noticed was his tracks had HEAPS of warp markers in them. I'm talking each track had 20-60 ...

darclex wrote:

BT rocks! (knowledge of self w/ guru & break on through BT vs. the doors are amazing tracks)

hmm..... got me interested. he did a track with Guru?

Guru rocks.

Edit:

I just downloaded it to have a listen. I wasn't really feeling it. Trashed it.

Guess it's not my style or whatever. Thanks for the tip though.

Never heard of the kid.

He's a genius!

BT and Guru? *ears perk up...* *Makes note to pop into record store asap to get the scoop on that....* Thanks for the heads-up. I personally have a great deal of respect for anyone in the community with the drive/ability/whatever to make it as far as he has