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hahahahaha if only

Awesome. I once saw a video of Maru busking a while ago and I fell in love with the idea. What's going on with that mixer? It looks like you guys are just turning down the volume with the fader for a sidechain-like effect...but audio is still going? There's also no gameboy syncing either so, HOW DO

I'm gonna repost my thoughts from the other thread:

but UNRELATED:

HEY, I love Al. I've heard he's totally a diva though like your story, too. Shame.

And got damn at that side boob

Aphex Twin literally did this with a sofa on stage

I see this as a discussion of overall stage presence: how do you like to approach this yourself? Are you calm and reserved or go all out? Are there things you like/dislike in seeing how other people take the stage?

can't agree with this enough

I'm all for public performance (or "busking"), but I realize that my stage persona feeds off the audience in a symbiotic relationship. I will hype up a crowd and go crazy to maintain hype and good times, but public busking is certainly much different from the stage. At the stage, people are expecting music regardless of the style and are more prone to get involved. Busking is going out on the front lines to a population not expecting to run into a performer and thus have to be approached way differently, IMO. If the environment is not interested (or not present), I think going "balls to the wall" might even push people away or make it seem like a mockery. Though when people ARE excited and both audience and performer go wild in a public busking setting, it really is magical. But that being said, I'm not going to do Kris Keyser dolphin kicks at the local playground (unless he's with me and theres no music being played, where we just want to practice sweet stage parkour moves)

I hear At The Drive In used to do their wacky stage antics even to a crowd of three people. But still, that was at the stage. I think a healthy level of selfawareness needs to be practiced when you're taking this stuff to the public. I think within chip (or actually, electronic music overall) it's harder to justify this approach because of the fact that most of the audience doesn't know what you're doing. So all they really interpret is 'someone flailing around while a track plays,' which is unfortunate because then they might go home with that impression, taking away from the music. Where in a different setting of the busking performer being a bit more reserved they might ask themselves, "what's really going on there?"

I don't know, it certainly is an interesting topic to discuss IMO.

I've heard horrible reviews of Poly-cut, people saying it's a scam and still backed up on orders from years ago-something to consider before checking that one out. There's other options, though. You also have to make sure your stuff is mastered for vinyl too like stated above, but you could always do that yourself too!

also supporting microcube. I told Space Boyfriend the right way to use it at MAGfest