System Agnosticism

Yesterday I was sitting here thinking about my live set. It is obviously Ableton based, as you’ve read here before. And it occurred to me that there’s really no reason why you couldn’t do it on the MPC, replacing the generative stuff with probability and a few different chords and tricks because the chord sets and all that are so good on the MPC, and arranging is so easy. I thought to myself, in a very YouTube sort of way, “Can the MPC dub techno?” Does it? The answer is yes. So I will remove the suspense right off the bat. I tried it. It works. The interesting part is that this could have taken, I don’t know, in the early days maybe a month to do. It took me about a couple hours to get this up and running in an acceptable way and bring in the Grandmother, and I brought in my Sony Sports Walkman with an old… I had an incredible haul at Goodwill years ago of self-help tapes. It is like an endless supply of brilliance. And even an old Sony handheld radio that basically only gives you…