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sorry hector,

i don't remember it being stated that the live acts
had to be 'underground' artists? i thought we were
talking about live dance acts in general... i didn't
think we were sub-dividing dance artists into
financial genres as well?

[for the record when underworld started they would
take white labels of their tracks to record shops in
the back of a car... that's pretty 'underground' isn't
it? ;) they played live around this time too...]

but 'what constitutes live dance music' is a hazy area
isn't it? there is no 100% live in the conventional
sense of the word with dance music... (unless you have
ten people playing instruments) but i would classify
the mixing desk/fx/riding the faders/improvising on
the arrangement as 'the instruments' with this sort of
music. anyone who has tried to arrange a track
on-the-fly in this way (rather than automating it all
on the sequencer) will know how much practice it
takes...

no, i don't think pob were 'as live' as this... but
they had two personnel on stage, who were both 'doing
something live' the whole time (whether it was
tweaking/percussion/synth lines or whatever). how much
can two people do? (the image of those old
one-man-band guys with bass drums on their backs
springs to mind here, it just wouldn't look right on
stage would it? ;)



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