Liveset:

Listen to this Sound: Here is a new one, it was recorded at norberg festival this summer. It was a great party. Thanx again to ...you know it...:) ...here is the *download*.

Here is another one , it was recorded at a nice Party in Berlin, spring 2007, download is in 320 Kbps Quality :*link*

If you enjoy it and listen a lot, please donate for the freedom in Burma *avaaz.org*

The Berlin set was recorded using a centrino 1500 PC, Ableton live, Emu xboard 25, Roland midi keyboard and evolution UC 33 plus Echo Indigo for Pcmcia Soundcard and an Allen & Heath X-one 92. No Remastering necessary, recorded on Minidisc. The first set was recorded by the unbelievably friendly and competent danish sound guy with 3 microphones plus master signal. Thanx for being so competent and friendly !

Sound & Equipment talk:

Some of my favorite stuff: Centrino 1500 laptop, echo indigo PCMCIA soundcard, asio4all driver, original novation bass station , ableton live;

My Livesetup: I play my liveset sometimes with two laptops, ableton, contollers, mackie mixer and some external gear e.g. drumaschines or synths. At other times its fair with one machine plus controlers, depending on the occasion i might even come with some friends like singers, guitars, percussions, celli...whatever it takes !

Sounddesign: The most important thing about music is the knowledge how to do things, instead of having all the gear and not knowing what to do with all those investments. The other very important story is a good monitoring for your production, I therefore like my Genelecs, they are reliable and it doesnt take much more finetuning for a soundcheck.

Workshops: The last one I did was for the *netlabel* conference, advanced members, showing how to remix fat, cheap and funky in two hours.

Another workshop on musicproduction with lowtech gear was held on the Phillipines/ Manila in the end of September 2006. In Stockholm I did some interesting things about creating modular synths and working on a sound in ableton and reason in oct 2006. Read the *outline*.

Tests:
The Groovequeen - New Akai MPC 2500, I admit that this one is not cheap but its worth it and its very funky:

I tested the Akai MPC 2500 recently for the german Keys Magazine and after doing so, I would like to provide you with this idea: just take a normal setup plus the MPC, sample some loops, tools and hooks which you are going to play that night and start working creative with your new set. A classic could be using a loop and MPCs chopshop which will chop(!) the loops into groovy parts and asign them to the pads. It can easyly be done and if you use e.g. the effects of the mixer ( echo or delay is cool) then you can create funky sounds and grooves by playing the original plus the pieces forward backward in time and out of grid, just like your hand feels the funk. Trust me, your hand in compination with the MPC is much funkier than any midi tool.
And for the advanced users a last one: dont forget the MPC comes with single outs, so be creative with the different channels.