Electronic Music 411 - relcad: Live @ Home - live performanc, demo, relcad, ableton

02/24/07 + pierlu001

hi relcad
i just listened to the whole set. i enjoyed pretty much, and even tho i was cooking dinner, i just had to go back to the living room to dance to it, cos it's really groovy.

about the two ways of assembling a liveset, i always prefer the second option, even tho it's a method that is slower in laying out things and in the end may result a little boring to the listener, even tho more fun for yourself. said that, i think that the way you assembled your set is ok, cos it has lots of variations and different tunes... i think that with method 1 you could not achieve such organicity.

if i can move a critic to the set (but i only speak with fresh emotions, it's not something i rationally thought about)... it seems like there are two distinct souls to that set. the first one is the tecno feeling, the second one is the experimental one. they are both good, and it's nice that you end the set with the experimental sounds... but i think i heard some experimental interleaves in the middle of it, and i dunno whether they fits well... i imagined myself dancing (well i actually danced lol) and then standing on the dancefloor listening to the experimental parts of it and i think that i would be "disappointed" by it, cos i would be feeling the former beats and wanting to dance more and more, instead of listening. that happens like 25 minutes after the beginning (sorry i cannot provide exact timing).

then i think that it would be fine to have little parts in it that have completely no rhythm underneat... like voices or pads or whatever. really short sections that can grab the attention of the dancer and give the chance to him/her to pause, look around, take a breath before going back to dancing right away when the next track kicks in... you don't need many of them, probably just two in the whole set... i think they can be a better replacement for those "experimental" tracks i told you about (now that i think of it, there's probably only one of them in there, just around the minutage i told you)... i know your intention is to give a break to the whole pumping attitude of the set, but i dunno whether this is a good idea: it's strange to stand on the same dancefloor you were just dancing your ass off minutes before, listening to a semi-experimental track that is difficult to dance to. i think it's better to put some short short sections (10 secs, or so) that needs no dancing more than interleaving longer experimental tracks that cannot really be danced to.

hope what i wrote it's not a bunch of rants to you and that you can understand what i mean.

cheers and thanks for the set.

p.

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