Live versions of electronic songs that are better than the orginal?

Any suggestions?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2084nQbmvk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh7JZUpaVPg

Every song by Underworld.

Last track in this move d set (which also became the ra podcast)

version of sisters and brothers (last track) much better than the released version on the 12

https://soundcloud.com/move-d/move-d-live-tape-2008-06-14

Every song by Underworld.

This was my thought, ditto for Daft Punk. Difference is that the studio versions of UW songs are great as well

pick your favorite Binkbeats video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkmf3lrjT40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcNj2m04BMQ

Orbital - Impact (The Earth Is Burning)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuSQJNCN1lw

fond '90s memories of the live Portishead album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixymB-KkSkY

Moloko - Sing It Back

Booka Shade - Body Language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAjj9UNAPMU

"impact" otm

Live versions of electronic music are almost as bad as live versions of rap. I guess if you're doing droney ambient or electroacoustic stuff or some pop crossover thing with vocals, you might be able do some cool shit with it live, but techno and house and other beat-oriented genres just shouldn't be played live, that's not why God made them.

Idk if Nico meant specifically "real" instruments versions of electronic/synthetic tracks but that might be more interesting - countless examples of electronic tracks sounding better live esp. by acts like Underworld and Orbital.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQaePQj_ll0

Or maybe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doNLR8n0F_8

Animal Collective circa 2007/2008 were an interesting (counter)example of a lot of material sounding much more electronic in a live context than it had originally. The show I saw in Paris in September 2007 still one of the best shows I've seen, and this live version of "Chocolate Girl" from the following year captures the vibe pretty well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW8mxeqg3cA

Every song by Underworld.

except, weirdly, the Everything, Everything versions of "Jumbo" and "Pearl's Girl"

Studio version of "Jumbo" is absolutely perfect IMO so I get that. The EE version of "Pearl's" is great though!

^^^^^ correct

EE "Pearl's Girl" is weirdly muffled IMO when compared to the studio version

Remember some buzz about this before but definitely that live version of 'Believe' by GusGus on YT.

EE "Pearl's Girl" is weirdly muffled IMO when compared to the studio version

I heard the EE version before the original so my perspective is likely skewed. By the way for further proof of UW's live greatness get the 3-disc 2005 Tokyo set with "JAL to Tokyo", "Back in the Fears", "You Do Scribble", some awesome Darren Price tracks, an amazing "Kittens", "Spikee" (!!), and of course all the classics...obviously not as tight as EE but still absolutely essential

Yeah, that live in Japan set is amazing.

Remember some buzz about this before but definitely that live version of 'Believe' by GusGus on YT.

this a billion times over

And to pick just one Kraftwerk track - 'Radioactivity'

Heldon - Distribution Deterritorialisation from the record "Live Elektronik Guerrila".

always get mad and want to take Tuomas to shows on these threads

I've been to electronic music shows, and I've really liked a few of them (Mouse on Mars, Pan Sonic, Roisin Murphy, Lumukanda, Murcof). If you're actually there in the audience, of course you can enjoy the immediacy and the collective experience. But listening to live recordings of techno/house/dance/etc is almost always disappointing, because those genres are all about sound and organization of sounds, and those aspects usually suffer in live music. For example, the recent live album by Reagenz sounds like those guys had hella fun spontaneously triggering various loops and effects, and it would've been cool to see that gig, but no way does the album have the depth of arrangement their previous album had, you can't get that by randomly triggering loops.

I'll take that "almost" as a victory!

Lots of Throbbing Gristle.

Of course...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5A47vzdR9M