With djing and live acts becomming ever closer and closer, i personally think the lines between a live act and a dj act are starting to get a little blurry - that said to some people the line is as clear as daylight, so i am interested in hear the opinions of different people here.
What is your definition of a live act?
Theres nothing stopping anyone from using both dj techniques and live music techniques at the same time as we started talking a little bit about the advantages of this approach in this thread here: http://www.djtechtools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4362 among other places.
Also theres alot of artists out there playing who dont have enough of their own material to rock a club all night and thus are also mixing other people material into their own sets and this is promoted as being a live act. When does one stop becomming a live act and starts to become a dj act and vice versa ?
Currently for instance i have 2 channels in Traktor playing other peoples tracks then i have another 3 channels in Ableton which contain a mixture of my own material and some small loops i have cut out of tracks. Also I have been working on adding a softsynth to this setup, so given all this parts of my mixes are what could be considered very much live. While other parts are leaning more towards the dj paradime just with alot more fancy tricks. So what would you define this act as ? Live or not ?
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