Songs that got us through World War Three...

[dan aktivix]

Greetings,

I've just recently played my first ever Ableton set; made it for a 1920s themed party in an underground cellar. It was fantastic fun playing live and went down a storm, much to my own surprise!

Its pretty different stuff, I think: Mr Scruff being the obvious other person who's used bits of 1920s, but this is much more riff-based.

Have a look on this page for all the sets tracks:

http://www.ww3.me.uk/songs/

My favourites:

http://www.ww3.me.uk/songs/bb_beebah.mp3
http://www.ww3.me.uk/songs/hh_limbo.mp3
(Limbo has a bit of Amon Tobin in there too at the end, using a fader to change between em...)

then a faster one:
http://www.ww3.me.uk/songs/jj_green.mp3

then the set strays into more dancy (taking the trumpet riff from the previous track and effecting / clip enveloping it):
http://www.ww3.me.uk/songs/kk_meddled.mp3

This one was really fun - taking Gershwins's fantastic rhapsody in Blue's first bars, slowly whipping it up into a trancy track. (Great quote from Waking Life in there too...)

http://www.ww3.me.uk/songs/ll_dreamer.mp3

This is just the sort of thing I always dreamed of doing - taking loops and transforming them into other things, blending between them. Ableton's so, so good at doing this. I still can't quite believe I can do it all on one laptop!

Thoughts / criticisms would be appreciated... Enjoy.

Cheers me deerz

Dan

[dan aktivix]

Oh, forgot to mention - I use the fantastic Fxpansion Guru software drum machine. Take a look if you haven't come across it...