The next time someone tries to tell you that electronic/dance music requires no skill to compose, tell them to go look up M4SONIC. This Adelaide-based, classically-trained virtuoso shreds a Novation Launchpad in a way that needs to be seen to be believed.
An Novation Launchpad, for those playing at home, is a square box with soft keys on it that can be pushed to trigger samples in Ableton, an awesome music editing and production platform.
There are a whole bunch of live Launchpad mashups on YouTube, but M4SONIC is one of the best.
This latest vid is by no means his first. He stormed onto the scene a while ago with this amazing piece called Virus…
…and Weapon (which has over 6 million views right now)…