I’ve been watching Dataline and LEM videos on youtube where they create really long sets just using Elektron gear and I’m wondering what the best way to go about that is.
I assume they’re programming the entire sets and then have a long song set up which they can then tweak live. Is there anything else to it?
Dataline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFF3cXrIHCw
LEM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRpH5Ij6CfM
The alternative is to not program a linear live set, but to improvise around and over a simple pattern, live recording and live tweaking the parts. Some people use a single pattern to run an entire set.
Gotcha. I guess that would require me to be a bit more music-theory inclined, haha.
Or I could do all the melodic patterns prior and then do live beats and fx.
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That’s what I figured. I guess it just means making a ton of patterns and then remembering how they flow together.
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Yeah. I’m all about being organized. I’ve had the MnM for about 2 months and the MD since yesterday. Still learning them and such, but I already try to keep shit well organized so that I can find stuff easily.
Playing long sets with elektron (or any) gear is not a technical issue. For me, it’s like planning a travel between different land (or sound) scapes: you just have to think about the travel itself, and not the destination (who cares where to go, the important is the way you go somewhere). Technically, I prepare my patterns in advance in order to be able to improvise with this “stock” of patterns, and I never use song mode. I got every pattern of two or three banks occupied, and some of them correspond to breaks, some are for the fills, some are bridges, etc.
If you want a short extract of my set, it’s here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J6YBrxW5ak
Usually, when I play in free parties contexts, I can play during 1 ou 2 hours, sometimes 3 or 4 depending on the chemistry and the audience 