Comments floating around about this at the moment go something along the lines of..
“YEAH PLAY BUTTON YEAH”
I like Flume, he’s a great producer, but this was a ‘live’ performance, I guess people just expect more.
This is a free gig held each year by Triple J, so the fact people are actually making noise about it is concerning, in a sense Flume is a frontier of next generation australian electronic music and he isn’t exactly impressing the audiophiles.
What I’ve taken from this…
when in doubt, HUMANIMALS to the rescue.
I guess the underlying question is, would you pay money to see this, and when have you paid and received something similar?
i quite like the track, but kinda agree here. our buddy performs his own tracks with ableton LIVE, not just automated, freeing him up for 4 minutes of air clapping and peter hookery like this chap.
If a DJ with a big ego does a CDJ or controller set and decides to let the tracks play a little longer than average you get exactly the same result. It’s not just ableton.
I think people where expecting something like a keyboard on stage, as it was a Live set, not a DJ set. I’m sure he could’ve performed one of the sections live. A lot of electronic artists and even their followers use the excuse of, ‘you don’t know how much work has gone into the song in the studio’, when I’m in a crowd and they’re on stage, I couldn’t give 2 flying shits, if you are there to perform a show and entertain, do that, don’t just think you have a free pass because of your hard work in the studio. Rock musicians do a crap load of hard work in studios and they don’t just get on stage and play there songs through a CD player.
Artists also have to realise, they aren’t just playing to the so and so amount of people infront of them anymore, you can bet that 90% of gig’s are getting recorded via video somehow and a greater majority of people will actually see what you are doing, and if you are being lazy, you are going to get slammed.
