techno concerts.
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Get along somewhere (almost all in europe now) and watch Cisco Ferriera as 'The Advent'..all over his kit like a rash. Runs some looped midi sequences from a laptop powering like 3 synths, a drum machine, and some fx boxes, creating quite the most unholy filthy seemingly limitless racket..
There are as many ways to put on a 'live' performance of electronic music as there are performers, but remember you've only got 2 hands and one brain, so whatever particular combination of pre-sequenced/pre-recorded parts you combine with content that you can control and/or create live that gives the best performance, then do..
Sure there are people that just press play on a dat, or whatever, and stand there looking earnestly at the screen, but dance music never was about everybody stood there watching 1 or more people 'perform', that was really the whole point - that the event or performance was happening on the dance floor.
Back in the day, some of the more credible underground clubs had the dj poked away behind a booth, or up high where noone could see them.
Then with the return to celebrity culture and total cunts like Paul Oakenfold standing on a brightly lit stage and throwing his arms up like he's fucking jesus, and 5000 halfwitted fucksticks all staring at him and cheering instead of listening to his piss-awful mixing of 3rd rate derivative electro-pop-trance, the whole thing went to rat shit.
Sure, back in the day there might be a PA or 2 thrown into a night just to mix it up a bit, and it was all grist for the mill, especially if they did well (eg prodigy before 93), but the whole point of the events was the atmosphere on the dancefloor when everyone was facing each other, which is an utterly different experience to everybody sharing the space by proxy, ie looking at one other person whether they're creating the sound or not. Flashy crowd-surfing DJs and glammed up PAs shouting 'come on!' through the microphone just suck donkey balls.