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Old 06-21-2019, 12:16 AM
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Re: Soniamode (Aditya Game Version)
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Originally Posted by khouri View Post
If this functionality is available it doesn’t explain the largely studio-faithful versions of songs we’ve been hearing live for the last ten years. If it’s the case that Rick just likes them to sound like that, he doesn’t really need more than a laptop and a consumer grade Ableton controller. I think.
Well that's the big mystery of Underworld live from the past 10 years or so indeed. Rick definitely can mix everything up a lot more than he does but somehow at some point they decided everything needs to sound like it did on the album (mostly) again.
They were also better at actually seemlessly mixing tracks into eachother back in the 90's before they started using Ableton surprisingly. Then they decided to stop in between each song.
The most free-form sounding I've heard them in recent years were the somewhat ambient warmup sets Rick did before the Utrecht Tivoli shows, those were great and totally different on each of the three nights.
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