Emerson V Price

[Dunwho]

The best example we have of the most recent stuff is San Francisco right? So have a listen to that and see what you think... are the songs more integrated? They have also been using Maschine for some of their mixing of tunes... this should make it easier for them, especially since they can switch between the controller for Abelton and the actual Maschine sounds...

Also i think with OWB's influence the 2005-2008 period there are more ambient elements to the show, with short ambient tunes btween more well known tunes like what mike was saying. I cant see how they would be unable to mould two songs together especially considering they have had at time four computers with abelton loaded on each at one time.. and a desk that size to load the tracks onto! We would also often hear the drums from .nuxx grow gradually out of the drums from pearl's Girl... in the more recent shows....

Also I think it is important to point out that a lot of the "seemless" mixing between tunes in the Emmerson days is facilitated by the simple use of a 909 drum machine... nearly all of the drum tracks for their earlier music was generated from the 909 and this made it very easy in their shows to go between songs... listen to the European Club gig... the drum pattern is reused and reused over and over throughout the gig... merci monsieur 909!!!

Nowadays i believe they are using Drumazon for their 909 sounds which is probably controlled by Maschine ...

So what i am trying to say is that the stop start element of the more recent shows with the ambient interludes are most likely more of a creative choice rather than a technological issue... id say they could easily mix tunes if they wanted too... and sometimes we hear them doing it... but they are probably not interested in it at the moment!

Oh and on the Darren issue.... Emmerson helped make the underworld of the 90's ... his influence is immence! Pricey has been involved with the group for a long time as a friend and a remixer... I would say he had an influence on AHDO and even more on OWB ... I would also think that he does a lot more in the creative/production stage than we think... On stage there is only so much to be done... and somebody has to do the dirty work so that Smith can mix it out..