fair enough.
but every single live set i've ever seen from dance music producer/dj/group etc has always felt like a pointless, bloated exercise in doing something different for the sake of it..
you say a line-up of just DJs would be too similar... but that's like going to a series of beethoven concertos and moaning that every single one used a conductor.
dance music, in a rave, definitely works best when mixed well by a creative dj.
that's what i think anyway.
you can't call king midas sound dance music at all, as in functional material aimed at the dancefloor, it's all pretty slow, very atmospheric, vocals are the priority, similar with k9 and spaceape even though it's functional in some way, in that alot of it is rhythmic and at danceable speeds, there is a human presence and dense lyrical content, so there is a push and pull between the process of listening and dancing, also spaceapes lyrics are uncomfortable at times haha.
You can dance to them both but they're not strictly dance music as in functional tracks aimed to electrify bodies into absorbed dancing.
Both acts have human performers on them, which can't be reproduced by a dj.
Furthermore the night was set up so that if you didn't want the live acts there were djs in the other room, contestable it was a rave, punters knew they were getting live acts as well as dance music.
sorry benji and michael, your arguments miss the point completely here and sound more like oasis fans arguing about real music, but instead about 'authentic' dance music, and as for live acts as 'people dancing behind their laptops', can you explain how this was the case here? Michael wasn't even there.
