Dirty Bass - Many Faces live PA - Montreal 2005

[dirty_bass]

Dirty Bass Live in Montreal (http://www.iterativemusic.com/~dirtybass/Dirty%20Bass%20-%20Many%20Faces%20Live%20PA%20-%20%20Embryon%203%20Montreal%2028-10-05.mp3)

A big mix of styles in this PA, as I was playing to a very mixed crowd, so expect a bit of a journey.

[xfive]

This sounded mighty nice on 19K :twisted:

[dirty_bass]

Yikes, swamped by a flood.

[dan the acid man]

cool, i forgot to tune into the stream, but i hear that didnt happen anyway.

will check this out tomorrow, downloading now :cool:

edit : managed to listen to this tonight, great stuff, i was expecting really varied material after your write up, going from dance floor funky to your really dark broken beat stuff, but this was all just great dancefloor 4 to the floor goodness.
alot of tracks in here that i've never heard before too, really good set, the only thing i would say is a few too many edits early on

[The Overfiend]

Steve never ceases to amaze me.

[rhythmtech]

this rocks... where you play in montreal? was there for a few weeks last summer... its an amazing city! and the women....

[rhythmtech]

just wondering steve, what does your live set-up consist of? i recognise a lot of tracks clearly but theres a lot of edits in there and it doesn't sound like ableton.

[dirty_bass]

My live PA consists of a High Spec Laptop, Behringer BCF 2000 controller, and A M-Audio Firewire Audiophile soundcard.
The majority of the PA is live Bar 3 tunes, which are full audio files that I mix in to give myself a break, so I can actually look up from the PC to see what`s going on on the floor.
The edits and stuff are done with various VST`s I have sitting over the master outs in ableton.

The party was Embyon 3 halloween party this year, and montreal ****in rules.
Here`s some photo`s of the party, some of which are me.


In my halloween costume (Dr Benway)
http://www.rave.ca/view.php?photos=46727
Wishing I had more hands
http://www.rave.ca/view.php?photos=47257

http://www.rave.ca/view.php?photos=47259

X5 on the dancefloor, Seeing his next target, terminator style!!!
http://www.rave.ca/view.php?photos=47261

Phew, finished me set, and no one killed me
http://www.rave.ca/view.php?photos=46748

[xfive]

Heh.. that pic is thankfully much better than the _other_ one on that site. hahaha

[FuK-NuT]

MOODY AS FUK steve, luving it !!

:)

[Ladius]

downloading now :)

[holotropik]

Had a quick squize....nice work. I will have another listen when I have more time.

Cheers for the set.

[rhythmtech]

whats vst are you using for that choppy effect?

[dirty_bass]

whats vst are you using for that choppy effect?

Trade secrets mate :twisted: I can`t give everything away.

[rhythmtech]

feck ye!!! i know how to do it production wise but i wanna be able to do it on the fly when mixing. go on you know you wanna!

[The Divide]

Heh nice one Steve, love the costume!

[dan the acid man]

Heh nice one Steve, love the costume!

that aint no costume, i reckon steve was doing a bit of decorating work whilst he was over there, they love red walls in canada :lol:

[xfive]

Heh nice one Steve, love the costume!
that aint no costume, i reckon steve was doing a bit of decorating work whilst he was over there, they love red walls in canada :lol:

They apparently also love huge mirrors, lighted floors, and dancing poles.

[dirty_bass]

Heh nice one Steve, love the costume!
that aint no costume, i reckon steve was doing a bit of decorating work whilst he was over there, they love red walls in canada :lol:

They apparently also love huge mirrors, lighted floors, and dancing poles.

HAHAHAHA
Yeah, that love hotel I was in was great, and there was a murder in there too to spice up my stay.
Can`t ask for more than that, meet some mates, do a good gig, stay in a hotel with mirrored ceilings, and experience CSI up close. Walking back to the hotel room to phone you up chris, in my blood covered coat, while the hotel was crawling with cops, was a pretty surreal experience.

[BloodStar]

never fail to impress :clap: . this really rocks.lot of new tracks in there, i ve never heard. great blending of tracks + some tricks here and there. great show. i'm sure crowds were nutz for this.. absolutly love the track which starts at around 80minute. it's dope..

[anx]

nice! i was there to hear this set, very good, minus the crappy sound system! cant wait to hear it again!

[dirty_bass]

Cheers folks, I never really know the response I`ll get from this stuff, as it`s so mixed, I thought people would prefer more single style stuff, so this is very encouraging.
I`m gonna be spending a lot of time focusing on the Voidloss live PA soon, and I`ll probably put the first test of it online here.

[holotropik]

**** stickin to one style....boring. Let it float and surprize as part of a master plan ;)

[holotropik]

Had another listen, properly.....

This is f_ucken great :)
I am in love with it on the first few listens. It is fresh as and superb sound quality. I will prolly rate it as the best Live set I have heard this year....easy. Keep up the work, I cant wait to hear where you go next. I'll stay tuned, I'm hooked on this stuff. Brilliant.

[holotropik]

You've got to be farken kidding!!

I just sat here and typed out a whole commentary to this set...it moved us so much that I had to give feedback throughout due to the immensity of this work.

Guess what!!

I got logged out during the process so the whole farken thing I wrote was erased!!?? Fark!!

Anyway, throughout the whole journey I met Peter Gunn who walked into my house and asked if I'd seen his goldfish, went through countless emotional crisis' and even met alien creatures proposing that they knew you and that you are the product of some bizarre experiment in human-alien genetics....which i believe them.

I know know why you go by the name of Dirty bass and I am humbled by this work and amazed that it came from one persons head. It is timely and so necessary for this point in time that I am scared by its presense.

I just wish that I could drop around and have a beer with you and talk about its conception.....

Cheers.

...../clicks 'save target as'....."Freak-show"

[dirty_bass]

Anyway, throughout the whole journey I met Peter Gunn who walked into my house and asked if I'd seen his goldfish, .

Haha, just choked on my nut bar ,reading that.
thank you man, nice words :oops:

[xfive]

nice! i was there to hear this set, very good, minus the crappy sound system! cant wait to hear it again!

It was definetly a bit too bassy in the wrong places... had to walk to the back to even it out.
But I'd rather have too much bass than not enough bass :lol:

[curly]

I wasn't expecting salt n pepa, but i loved it, sometimes the unexpected is the best.

[gauczo]

It`s one of the best sets i ever heard!! thank you dirty bass for exploring & experiments :)

[audioinjection]

man, this is dope, i love all that funkyness in there

very nice set steve

[holotropik]

My fav LivePA of the year ;)

[dirty_bass]

Thank you.

[holotropik]

One question I am needing to ask of you Mr. DB...

The vocal at the start and at about 66mins.....did you do the vocals? or did you lift them?

The reason I ask is that I think they are farken awesome and really sound fully sick mate ;)

Yes, I am listening to this set again for about the 100th time since I downloaded it.....maybe I'm sick???

[dirty_bass]

The vocals at the start are from a reading by Charles Bukowski (the late and great) of one of his greatest poems. Dinosauria We.
I twisted it up a bit to make it more evil.
The vocals that start at 66 mins are written by me, and spoken by Chris X5, and then twisted further, and are from a track, Blue Eyes Under A Dark Sky, that I keep menaing to send out to some labels.
For the PA I cut them into sentences and triggered them throughout the track as it progressed. All a bit too complicated really.
Here is the link to the finished track on it`s own.
http://www.blackoutaudio.co.uk/portal/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=37774&hig hlight=blue+eyes

[dirty_bass]

Ah feck it, the I took the track off of the server.
It`s really good, buy it when you see it.
HAHAHAHA

[neilried]

Ah feck it, the I took the track off of the server.
It`s really good, buy it when you see it.
HAHAHAHA

Its fat as fluck that one is it on wax now?

Looking forward to checking out the new PA, still have the extinguisher crush face PA from last summer and loving that too......

[Mindful]

Nice one Stevie lad , will have a listen when I get home

[holotropik]

Thanks Steve.

Bugger about the track not being online, I got excited then....hehehe. That is my fav from this set, give me the goosebumps.

I'll def be buyin this one when its released....let me know when and where.

[grain]

Downloading that now Dirty Bass.. looking forwards to it.. .

Rythmntech - Hmmm, Choppy effects? Havn't heard the set yet, but maybe Supatrigga? (cuts audio into slices/mashes it up on the fly) ..Free plugin for download from Smartelectronix.com (theres loads of quality free plugins there in fact)
this is the link to supatrigga -

http://bram.smartelectronix.com/plugins.php?id=6

Hope i'm not giving away any trade secrets there! :lol: well I gots ta look out for a fellow Dub!

[dirty_bass]

It wasn`t supatrigga, I find it way too un-user friendly for a live environment.
I used the DBX buffer Override

[grain]

Ha! - I tricked you into revealing your trade secret!! now EVERYONE can make the same music as YOU!!! :lol:

I'm listening to the mix now... quality stuff man... nice and lively....

the only thing i could criticise is the slow fading of one track to another in some places where a quick rough cut would be more effective (like from the salt and peppa track to the next) ... and someone mentioned too many edits early on, which they must have meant the use of the choppy effects so frequently early in the mix... I'd have to agree... understandable though, in a live situation where you feel like you should be doing something while the track is playing... hard to restrain the itchy fingers... chopping in beats from another track might be more appealing early on...

I'm nit picking here but thats just my opinion....

anyway,

:clap: :clap: :clap:

[dirty_bass]

It`s hard to jump from one track to another very quickly in my pa, as each part is separate, there fore I have to fade parts rather than trakcs into each other, which is difficult, as I only have two hands, although I am getting better at using my hand sideways to move lots of faders at once.
The edits early on is just down to the fact that the very first track is a whole track mixed in, rather than totally live, I did this to break myself into the set easy, but I got bored and messed about a bit.
There you go, it`s not a studio mix, it`s a live mix, so it`s not perfect and not meant to be and generally I`m a nervous wreck doing these PA`s as I have probably given myself too much to do.

there is no voidloss stuff in this PA Dan as at the party I was at it would have totally killed the floor.

I will be posting up the first recording of the new voidloss live that I will be playing out soon at a secret party in the uk, so you can get some nasty darkness then.

[rhythmtech]

your secrets are revealed!!!!! now to gain your identity through immoral means and spend all your money on porn.

[dirty_bass]

your secrets are revealed!!!!! now to gain your identity through immoral means and spend all your money on porn.

HEHE
I`ve already done that myself.

[dan the acid man]

cool, look forward to hearing a new dark set.

as soon as i posted that comment about there being too many edits, i wish i hadn't, i realised in a live setting, its totally different, and people love hearing those kind of things, and like you say, its gets you warmed up and into it quicker

[Mindful]

Very enjoyable pa mate.
Loved the Salt n Peppa thang.
Looking forward to the Viodless one mucho

[Ladius]

i realy like this live pa set. ive been listening to it in my jeep for a few weeks now. its enjoyable from start to finish. nice job on it :) and thanks for posting it.



peace!