简介：
John Digweed's crowning achievement, especially when taken in together with the sequel, John Digweed Live in Montreal Finale. Nine CDs may sound like overkill, but in many respects, there is no better way to showcase and demonstrate not only a world-class DJ's attention to minute details and finer touches to the craft of operating a pair of Pioneer CDJs and a mix board in real time performance, but the over-arching, macro-aesthetics of an old-school long-set, open-to-close DJ in this age of 90 minute DJ gigs. While musicians, composers and producers might all find satisfaction in creating songs in a studio for distribution on 80 minute CDs, when it comes to the craft of DJing as a performance art, studio CD mixes were never sufficient to capture the essence of live DJ performance With apologies to all.. as much as I love the many brilliant DJ mix CDs released in the last 24 years, they always feel a bit too pre-planned, too well-organized, too contrived when compared to a solid night in a club on a dance floor listening to a DJ perform in real time. The beauty of the DJ craft is in the real-time, improvisational, spontaneous craft - the beat-matching, the key-matching, the start- and end-points of sample loops from tracks, the control of the EQ knobs, the selection and control of audio effects, and the overall aesthetic teleology and trajectory the DJ seeks to follow over the course of performance - these are all fine details that can only be appreciated in listening to a DJ work in real time. For the careful listener, familiar with the a reasonably large sampling of tracks in the loosely overlapping genres of techno, tech house, deep house and prog house, this live performance by John Digweed captures it all. here you have a DJ who has been at the top of the game for decades - literally - captured while performing live over the course of 12 hours (I still cannot get my mind around how exhausting that must have been for him!!!) in a real club environment. For any given disc in the full 9 disc sequence, the mixing - at a micro level - is absolutely perfect. At any given moment, John Digweed's control of the boards is technically perfect. But more amazingly, by listening to the discs one after another, on a continuous play from beginning to end, one can truly appreciate John Digweed's stamina and the patience in building his story. It is a familiar story, the same story told by long-set DJs over hours in any open-to-close performance: the opening of the dance floor. The slow build, the energetic peak, and the slow ride back down to Earth. It is never rushed with John Digweed. He knows he doesn't have to finish in 90 minutes. So often when a DJ is rushed, it feels like they just play 64 bars of a track, then flip to the next track for 64 bars, saving their most intense work for the last 10 minutes. The result - for an audience dancing - is a sort of frenetic schizophrenia that never satisfies the body, the ears or the soul. But here, Digweed knows he has all night to tell that story. And the meandering "slow narrative" approach he takes to his performance makes the experience all the more epic. The result is far greater than a mere sum of its parts. The energy builds ever so slowly from one track to the next, almost impossible to detect, until those periodic moments every 40 minutes or so when mind and body both suddenly scream out "Wow! How did we get from there to here!?" The ears and mind really have time to contemplate the aesthetic beauty of each track, the body has time to feel and respond to the the sound, and the transitions are slow - incredibly slow - giving both mind and body plenty of time to anticipate what is coming next and prepare for it. The result is nothing short of a DJ performance masterpiece, captured brilliantly - and appropriately - over 9 discs. I frankly cannot imagine how this could have been any shorter than 9 discs. So much would have been lost. Will these tracks stand the test of time? Who knows. Tastes and preferences change. Genres evolve. But what is truly timeless about this - and what keeps me coming back for more - is the technical perfection captured here. In 40 years, when my grandchildren ask me "What was it like, going out dancing in a club in the early 21st century?" I will reach for my dusty "Live in Montreal" CDs from the top shelf and reply "Well kids... Are you busy for the next 10 hours?"
曲目：
01 - 1A1. Come Save Me - The Pachanga Boys' Jagwar Pawar Version
02 - 1B1. Indigo
03 - 1B2. Arosis - Sebo Remix
04 - 2A1. Set Her Free - Martin Buttrich Remix
05 - 2A2. Don't Stop The Beat - Tiefschwarz Remix
06 - 2B1. Fuck Jack
07 - 2B2. Disco Diva - Uto Karem Remix
08 - 3A1. To Disappear - Ripperton Remix
09 - 3A2. Fibre - Phil Kieran Remix
10 - 3B1. Mon Toy - Gregor Tresher Remix
11 - 3B2. Kempai - Jon Rundell Remix
12 - 4A1. Sofa
13 - 4B1. The Messenger - Ian O'Donovan Remix
14 - 4B2. Please Don't Go
15 - 5A1. Out of Nowhere - The Japanese Popstars Remix
16 - 5A2. Lie To Me
17 - 5B1. Cosmic Theater - Pete Herbert Remix
18 - 5B2. No Doubt - Lopazz Remix 试听：
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发表于 2020-2-5 09:16:37
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