“Live” EDM/Dance Music

[LaurasOtherHalf]

How many do we reckon actually play anything live?

I watched Fatboy Slim at IOW festival the other week, having DJ’d professionally for a long time I can say with certainty, he was “playing” absolutely nothing.

Which meant people were cheering on a 50 year old balding bloke pretend to play music and dad dance. Tragic.

Just caught up on The Chemical Brothers and I really don’t think they did much at Glastonbury either.

Is it all a charade?

Obviously, proper bands like Jungle do actually play, and do it amazingly well but are all the superstars simply, taking the piss?

[LaurasOtherHalf]

FurtiveFreddy said:

Pete Tong

I can't speak for any of the others but Pete Tong was into this behaviour 20+ years ago. He routinely had other "junior" DJs playing for him at big events while he pulled a record out the box and handed it to someone else to mix while he hammed it up for the crowd.

Not to do him down, dance music will forever be indebted to him for his work but he did the whole fake DJing thing years before I saw anyone else do it, what surprised me was how he didn't seem to try and hide it. It wasn't a case of pretending to mix, he simply had lackys doing the hard work for him!

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Public Service Broadcasting at The Proms...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00071mr/bbc...

Amazing.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Nerdherder said:

The question with electronic is always what ‘live’ means.

Let’s get this out of the way first: It does NOT mean DJ’ing. DJ’ing itself means mixing different music sources into one whole in front of an audience.

I'd have issue with that (well I would, as an ex-DJ!). Watch this and tell me this isn't performing music live;

https://youtu.be/ZnGoAwpYugE