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Originally Posted by potatobroth
Festival shows are always a lot more start and stop.
1) less time to play = shorter tracks, less improv
2) smaller setup
3) need to get all the heavy hitter tracks out there and some wont magically run together
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i don't really think it's a festival/club thing per se. When I saw them last time at their own gig in Amsterdam it was start/stop as well (mostly) and it was like a greatest hits show as well, while the gig at werchter seemed to flow a bit more, or at least have more improvisation.
I really wish they would make a conscious decision to start mixing stuff together again because right now it seems they, or at least Rick is happy with the way it's going even though in the early days they made a point about their liveset being more like a dj set and about the continuity. It might also have technical reasons, since now they run everything as audio from laptops while before they ran everything via midi off the samplers, and using midi is a bit more flexible tempo and mixing wise than straight audio. Just a guess though.