Electronic music, producers and DJs often cop quite a hard wrap from music fans, especially when it comes to performing live, many accusing these artists of the “press play” crime and that they’re not actually live musicians on stage.
This of course is a notion we don’t support, and to educate those who knock these artists down, Jack Daniels as a part of their Future Legends campaign have enlisted Pilerats to producee a mini-doco entitled A Day In The Live which focuses on Aussie acts within the scene and what it’s like to be a live electronic performer.
The doco is brilliant, chatting with solo artists as well as bands themselves who each provide an interesting definition of what they believe warrants a “live performance” as well as providing a visual demonstration of how and why what they are doing is equally a live performance as say a straight-laced rock show like AC/DC.
What’s perhaps the most interesting snippet from the doco is when the most harshly judged group, DJs, are placed under the microscope. Indian Summer explain how they have the ability to manipulate their live show different to band as they’ve such a vast pool of music to select and perform from, whilst Frames discusses how he begun as a DJ and is now prepped to move into incorporating more live instrumentation into his show.
A Day In The Live features a killer list of up-and-coming and established acts including Crooked Colours, Ribongia, Indian Summer, Kilter, Cosmo’s Midnight, Young Franco, Benson, Luke Million, Frames and Roleo.
Check out the great documentary below:
