Mathew Dear caught using an Octatrack

Not sure if this is better in the Octatrack or General discussion forum, Mods do what you will.

I saw Mathew Dear doing his DJ set in Boston and snapped these close ups. He had a laptop, some DJ controller I cannot identify, and an Octatrack.

I didn’t see him actively on the OT very much but he very well could have been controlling it from the controller he had. I wish he was touring with his band but he played a good selection on his DJ set anyway.




There is a traktor x1 in there
and looks like some sort of allen and heath xone mixer.

He also used one on some radio show when it first came out. Probably the same one…

Him and Evian Christ are two of the rare big names I’ve seen with the Octatrack. Any others you can think of using it live?

So Far I’ve seen Speedy J along Lucy using it live while on their zeitgeber project (dj/live) , another two I know of are Headless horseman and Terrence Fixmer this last 2 do play live and you can watch their sets on youtube just do a boiler room terrence fixmer or headless horseman set , They are really fun to watch they also use afew other machines olike the MD UW and the Monomachine, have fun!!

I’m not a huge fan of The Field but some great videos of him/them using an OT live at some festival.

Alessandro Cortini in nine inch nails use an octatrack live.

It looks like there’s no audio plugged in or out of the OT in that pic so he must just be using the midi sequencer for some things?

The Haxan Cloak is also using the Octatrack for his live shows, it seems.