DJ Task

Task has decided to move away from traditional DJing playing records one after another and is now investigating a more performance based method that will bring his live sound more inline with the tight produced sound you heard in the CDs.

Task explains “The aim is to bridge the gap between a performance and a production, I want to be able to DJ live exactly how i do when im making mixes in the studio, and to do this i need to stop playing records, or pre-rendered music and i need to have all of the component tracks available to me on a mixing desk in real time.

Like, if i decide i wanna drop the drums out of a mix, but keep the bass and vocal, then this is what i want to be able to do. At the moment this isnt possible. Theres only two sound sources (i.e.) deck a and b, but i want 2, or 4 , or 20 if i feel like it. Maybe i just wanna run a break and be able to drop out the snares, or even dub the snares, or remove the kick, or just eq the kick, then put a different vocal and bassline over the top. Then i need the channels all available to me as i mix them out.

I can see a path where this can happen, where i can play a combination of straight unaltered rendered pieces of music, but also incorporate full multitracks in the mix all dropped seamlessly without you being able to tell what im doing. This would be awesome, especiially if i can start to juggle 2 copies of it, heh.

I can also see me incoroporating an MPC type midi element where i will perform live drum beats, or basslines and record them like beatboxers do (Dub FX, Mr Woodnote) etc and make music on the fly on one deck. This is where i want to be, this is where i am heading, I am transitioning from a pure DJ into an artist, or performer and i hope to take the audience with me. Im pretty sure ill still be dropping some cheesy bangers to get the crowd moving amongst all this technical chaos.

The main aim of this is to be able to perform a whole album on the fly, to studio quality, where i capture the excitement that only happens in front of an audience and release this as is.
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It seems like exciting times are ahead.