Great news! Next one in line? Dixon?

August 16th is so far away

What a great idea! If only this had the tracks from their 'Mudhutma!' single...

Subba Pille

i heard it does

Complex mix guys, great house, great technic, big house waves, exactly what you need on the beach :-D

This is an interesting point. Would you also consider any scratch DJ's or turntablists to be in the same boat, considering that they are using pre-recorded material in their sets? How about sample based music in a club setting, is this also not considered to be live? At a basic level, all that is happening can be described as cueing pre-recorded loops and twisting knobs, just like all a guitarist does is pluck strings and all a drummer does is hit things.

What makes a live performance is not what an artist uses to produce audio, but how he/she manipulates and augments audio on the fly to create a suitable atmosphere and unique experience in relation to his/her audience. This can be done using things as diverse as inventive use of rubbish such as empty bottles, to traditional instruments to modern techniques using software/hardware.

I've often asked this same question myself, so I'm not having a go. I've been to see some rock bands play and they play their album from start to finish with all the same exact notes and structures and with fuck all interaction with their audience, yet this is considered more live than a 'knob twiddler' (yes I know) who goes out of his/her way to create a unique sonic landscape out of the same source material on different nights.
A seasoned guitarist will hit notes as robotically and without any thought as someone can hit a cue on a sample. Traditional songs already have their structures in place with defined roles for each musician. Songs are rarely being composed on the fly in front of the audience.

' while the illuminated Apple logo has come to symbolise some kind of clubland Stradivarius'

i love this quote

Personally I am loving this mix and I'd be surprised if I heard a better deep house mix this year. I guess I'm just a sucker for those ebullient chords...

great mix! took me a few listens to get into it but it has grown into quite the beauty

Loving the bassline on N 'No R' G.

i fucking dig this and their set up sounds amazing. i love the simplicity of it. it really does have that 'live' edge, somewhat more like a band than a standard ableton set,

bennyb, you are right about the thought and the effort and the sentiment being important.

However, cueing pre recorded loops cannot be seen as the same thing as plucking strings or hitting things.

The guitar, and the drums are sound sources, no sound exists until they are stimulated. This is not the same with a sound file. All you can do with said sound file is play it as is or manipulate it. Im not saying this is not live music, bu they are different things.

Also you must consider quantization of events in regards electronic music. mostly electronic musicians are working to 16th Quantization maybe even 32nd, but beyond that its often the machine that does the handy work and porvides the rythmic variations at such a minute scale, even at its most minutewe are 128? or 256 and very often these rythmic events are automated. Drumers can syncopate rythms to such super fine detail that no computer can come close (if they are good enough) they can provide such minute variation using purely motor functions and their own internal metronomic clock. Electronic musicians use the clock of their host software or hardware and they provide variation according to the subdivision available. These skills are different.

Greatest love remix is awesome