Demo's wanted...

[rhythmtech]

yeah. its too much of a minefield these days.

its all just a bit of bang bang anyway :)

[JamieBall]

its all just a bit of bang bang anyway :)

Just like a minefield, then ;-)

[fatcollective]

i think an ableton live set should be all your own tracks...if you play other peoples tracks it should be called an ableton dj set!!

personally i would never play other peoples tracks in my own ableton set, thats what records are for!!

[A.P.]

i think an ableton live set should be all your own tracks...if you play other peoples tracks it should be called an ableton dj set!!

personally i would never play other peoples tracks in my own ableton set, thats what records are for!!

i agree

[RDR]

+1

But the boundaries ARE blurred... using a sampled loop in your set.. despite everything else being yours is not really 100% your stuff is it.

But then what about those early house DJs who edited disco tracks to extend them? Its still being done today. But that's called a remix.

If you can use other peoples stuff and make it your own via on the fly editing i think that's perfectly acceptable provided you bring something new to the party.

LIVE PA should be original stuff.

MASH-UP would be a better description, it doesn't give rise to a lie, yet it sounds good.

[FuK-NuT]

am with jamie on this one....

[clubsynthetic]

+1

But the boundaries ARE blurred... using a sampled loop in your set.. despite everything else being yours is not really 100% your stuff is it.

But then what about those early house DJs who edited disco tracks to extend them? Its still being done today. But that's called a remix.

If you can use other peoples stuff and make it your own via on the fly editing i think that's perfectly acceptable provided you bring something new to the party.

LIVE PA should be original stuff.

MASH-UP would be a better description, it doesn't give rise to a lie, yet it sounds good.

Thats all very well, but if some people deem that no new or fresh sound has came from using other people's stuff and some deem it has, then is it live?

Personally i would like to think that proper live is the way an artist interacts physically with his equipment. More physical input = more live. As RDR said you can take other people's music and make it into your own (maybe a computer could do that and make it sound good) but watching an organism physically effect the dynamic of there sound seems most live to me.