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The rebirth of true live electronic music.

Yesterday night I had the privilege to see Nils Frahm's performance of his All Melody concert. It was amazing to see how a contemporary composer and performer could create live music that resembles in nature that of one made with a classical orchestra. I believe the ultimate way to experience classical music is by being there, at a live concert. The feeling of how each of the instrument's sound interacts in the concert hall and is felt through all of your body is so unique. I feel a lot of this has been lost in today's electronic music scene. Most of the music is already mixed in one or two stereo tracks and then is replayed through giant speakers at the concert. The experience would be the same if you had crazy big speakers in your room, went to youtube and pressed play. The only difference most of the time is that you have the producer that created those tracks pressing the play button. But with Nils, this is completely different. Everything is being created on stage, right there. And not just that, but all of his sounds are created with real instruments and real synthesizers on the spot. There was a point when he had many of his instruments playing at once when I had a similar sensation as when a whole orchestra is playing at once. You can feel your whole body and soul tremble. I really recommend everyone to attend to one of his shows. You will know then what I mean.