Quote Originally Posted by djshiva
i'm pretty sure this is the right section of the forum, this isn't so much a production question as it is a question regarding what many techno djs/producers are doing these days.... forgive me if this is the wrong section...

so i'm wondering what is the concensus amongst the techno community regarding dj sets or "live remix" sets performed with Ableton Live?

Surgeon is doing it, Ho is doing it, i've heard Hawtin might be using Ableton for the next DE9 CD.
on a personal level, I know Adam Jay was using Ableton for live sets, and Final Scratch for DJ sets... started running them simultaneously, and now he's doing it all in Ableton, sort of like a "live remix" set. bits and pieces from his live pa cleverly mixed in with edits of other folk's tracks he made for final scratch. Being able to go from Monoid style stuff down all the way to 110bpm Dexter and Funkstorung, and back up to Speedy J smoothly, all tracks being specificly edited by him and mixed with his own live material - it seems to work for him.

What do you folks think? On the Ableton forum its quite a debate, you have folks that say DJing means beatmatching, folks that say DJing means making people dance, and folks that say so long as you are doing more with ableton as you could with turntables - its all good, in other words do it to its fullest no matter what you use.

whatcha think?
I really don't care too much what people use as long as they put on a show that's not just someone standing there because when I think of a laptop, I think of school/office work, you know. The need to physically engage the crowd as well, a la showmanship is very integral.

On the other hand, I think that if you're going to use laptops and software, you would first have to learn to or be known to spin on tables first, hands down. For guys like Surgeon, Oliver Ho, and Richie Hawtin, it is known that they can spin on tables so moving on to laptops would be seen as a step up or a progression for them artistically and the audience will accept that more than someone just starting off with a laptop.

My 2 cents.