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Karlstorbahnhof gig review and liveset recording

Posted by Benedikt on December 2nd, 2008

As i announced in this blog some posts ago i played a gig at Karlstorbahnhof Heidelberg last Friday. Even though it was announced as a gig together with Wesen i played alone, as Wesen wasn´t very inspired and short on time. Anyhow he still gave me some nice loops from his recent productions, which i combined with many unfinished tracks i started over the time but didn´t finish. I completed the Set at Thursday which was also the day i setup my laptop with Ableton-live again. As i didn´t wanted to reinstall everything on a clean Windows XP due to the limited time, i choosed to use vista which was already on my box. It costed me many hours to figure out why this shitty OS was always under full load even when i was doing nothing at all. On Friday some hours before the Gig i wasn´t sure if my setup would work at all because some exported alps from my mac were missing samples and i had not tested/configured the sound-card on the laptop. I did the first real test of the live-set already sitting in the S-bahn to Heidelberg and was super super nervous when i arrived at Karlstorbahnhof. Luckily everything worked well at the sound-check and after it i had some time to practice. The gig started with some djing by felice who was playing a wild mixture of funk, indy, hiphop, grime and electro stuff. I started right after he played some really dancy tracks and many people already dancing. I didn’t look much at the dance-floor as i was busy playing the dead-act *g*, but after some time many people were really dancing which made me kinda happy . During the set i also thought im going too loud as everything was vibrating and i felt uncomfortable thinking people will kill me if i wouldn’t turn down the volume a bit. Shortly after i made this thought the guy who booked me for the gig came and told me to turn the volume up even more *hrhr*. After me CutOff! CutOff! played as the second live act and did a nice ableton-live electro/house glitch set which totally burned the crowd. At this point i want to thank everybody who was there, you kicked ass!
As i didn’t trusted my equipment, i made no recording of my set that night but played it in again today to let all of you, who weren’t there, know what you missed. The Set contains some small mistakes and features two pre sequenced tracks at the end i couldn’t play live cause i lost the sequenced tracks