dialectics Posted June 3 Report Share Posted June 3 who is your favorite live PA act? for me its:1) Lab4 - those crazy motherfuckers have an intensity and energy that is otherworldly. Stick two gorillas in a cage of gear and this is what you get.2) infusion - if not for the crazy guy in the middle that's just a little too happy to be operating a mixer, you'd think it was coming from vinyl. total mastery of their gear - including live vocoder effects. they've gotten tighter over the past 2 years, grown musically since i first saw them @ centro.3) Way Out West - hot hot prog with a hot as hell vocalist.... though i'm still kicking myself for missing their live performance of intensify at GKGG last summer.4) the advent - after his fucking awful set on the tronic boat (i don't think hitting "play" on cubase and standing around for 45 minutes counts as a live performance) i had just resigned to listening to his records and ignoring that he was a phony. but at the brooklyn loft he just fucking tore it up... nobody came out of that one standing, hehe and now i open to the floor... what is your favorite live pa act? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codica3 Posted June 3 Report Share Posted June 3 I haven't seen many but all of them that I have seen have been spectacular:HybridUberzoneMara Soundsystem :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotcheme Posted June 3 Report Share Posted June 3 i havent seen too many, but underworld was great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bbbooom Posted June 3 Report Share Posted June 3 i dont know, because i dont know who and who isnt from PA.. ya know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gqraver Posted June 3 Report Share Posted June 3 Underworld, and they'll be at the Field Day Festival this Saturday, woohoo!peace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeeker Posted June 3 Report Share Posted June 3 I'm not 100% sure what exactly live PA referrs to, but I assume it encludes a lot of the live psy-trance acts out there. Astral Projection would be the only one I've seen, and they were rediculous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codica3 Posted June 3 Report Share Posted June 3 Originally posted by bbbooom i dont know, because i dont know who and who isnt from PA.. ya know Bwaaaaaahahahahahaha.. :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dialectics Posted June 3 Author Report Share Posted June 3 live pa has come to mean that instead of taking other people's records and playing them, you create the music from scratch on stage. This could be as impressive as starting off some sequencers with a blank slate and improvising the music as you go along (e.g. dubtribe) or come out and perform pre-planned songs on synthesizers and samplers (including softsynths and softsamplers, e.g. its all in your laptop). Some acts (e.g. safri duo, jojo meyer, roni size) will actually perform dance music with acoustic instruments, which is hot as hell.The main idea is that your music does not depend on anyone else creating a song and burning it onto vinyl or cd so that you can buy or download it and play it in front of a crowd. You can sample other people's stuff, but the compositions you make with those samples are your own.There are always rumors (e.g. spacegirl) about artists who "mime", or pretend to be playing the music live when they really just hit play on a DAT recorder... some of them are probably true and some of them aren't.so a lot of psytrance acts are live PA.... just because its a very structureless style of music, it lends itself very nicely to improv based on step sequencers.A lot of acts can switch well between doing dj sets and PA: chemical brothers, hybrid, way out west, infected mushroom, etc.but again - being a live act is probably the most musically challanging endeavor in dance. A DJ can always rely on playing a 10 minute record while he has to go to the bathroom. A recording artist has the luxury of time and overdubbing. When you're out there live and you're in control of every kick drum, every synthesized warble the crowd hears... now that takes talent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highmay Posted June 3 Report Share Posted June 3 sorry...i cant agree with any of y'all...from all the Live PA's that I've seen, nothing can match THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeeker Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 thanks for the definition dialectics...thats what I assumed. AP definitely gets my vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quoth Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 ok lol in all seriousness and im not just saying this cause he is family..but definitely:Function rips shit the fuck up!!Years ago like 98-99 he actually played this rave at The Tunnel and tore up that stage like no ones business....too bad he doesn't do live PA as often now.and if anyone says SPACEGIRL i will slap u silly cause the bitch does is fuckin loop a DAT player and rent equipment to lyp-synch the keystrokes on the drum machines and synths. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellomyname-is Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 Hands down the best live PA performance I have ever seen and maybe the most fun I have ever had at a club is The Avalanches. They are an Australian duo and if anyone wants to pick up a great album (even though live was better) pick up theirs.As of right now though in new york the best live pa show anyone is going to see is Prohibited Beatz with JoJo mayer, Lisa Shaw, Tanaka..........they are amazing.Anyone who says they go to clubs for the music should check them out this thursday @Centro-Fly in the Pinky Room.For more info go to www.centro-fly.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocksteadyct Posted June 4 Report Share Posted June 4 I havent seen many, but here goesMy favoritesOrbital - no explanation neccesary, lolapolloza 97Awake Soundsystem - Live DnB with Scratching and a MC..sickLab 4 - never seen live but heard sets, only heard awesome reviewsUberzone - Live drums & scratching on CDJ-1000's SICK!decent - skylab2000 - productions are nothing special, but has lots of energy and got me movingElectric Skychurch - good if you like that sort of stuffSUCK -SPACEDAT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie3 Posted June 5 Report Share Posted June 5 i saw neil landstrumm twice........... he ripped it, and all he had was a laptop.... it was sick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fame Posted June 5 Report Share Posted June 5 Uberzone, Nostrum, Rabit in the Moon (its just such a dope show ya know??), DUB TRIBE!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppanils Posted June 5 Report Share Posted June 5 Originally posted by dialectics 3) Way Out West - hot hot prog with a hot as hell vocalist.... though i'm still kicking myself for missing their live performance of intensify at GKGG last summer. well.....you just had to see oakenfold... :tongue: Way Out West is also my fav PA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dialectics Posted June 5 Author Report Share Posted June 5 oh yeah how could i have forgotten RITM? i guess the whole performance aspect sort of transcends mere PA show and becomes a specatacle all of its own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dialectics Posted June 5 Author Report Share Posted June 5 Originally posted by bigpoppanils well.....you just had to see oakenfold... shut up. um, ok, yeah, what was i thinking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fame Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 Originally posted by bigpoppanils well.....you just had to see oakenfold... :tongue: Way Out West is also my fav PA Yeah, they are in a class of their own Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinstar Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 Rabbit in the MoonUltra 2003 - MiamiStole the frekin' show hands-down..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dialectics Posted June 10 Author Report Share Posted June 10 when SoE brought RITM here for one nation they were out of control. After bunny's third costume i'm like "yo, maybe he's going to set himself on fire." After he keeps on changing i'm starting to get impatient, like "come on, when is he going to set himself on fire!" and finally when i couldn't take it anymore we went up to the skyroom for like 5 minutes and come back and their set was over. i asked my friend if bunny set himself on fire and she was like "well he was wearing a protective suit......"shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codica3 Posted June 10 Report Share Posted June 10 Originally posted by fame Uberzone :clap: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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