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Theres some parts where he has upto 8 songs layered at once and it sounds amazing. I am pretty familiar with alot of the songs he uses in this mix, but they are so stripped down, re-arranged and layered, its hard to really tell where they begin/end, and he'll stretch out parts of 1 song, over 5 or 6 songs.
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If my memory does not fail me, the first major artist to do that live was Sasha Live @ Maida Vale in May of 2005. He was mixing and re-editing tracks live with Ableton Live in front of a live studio audience of 300 people or so. However, I think Hawtin pushes it much farther than Sasha in this regard. I've seen screenshots of his Ableton setups where you can see he has 20-30 samples, loops, and cuts all lined up, ready to overlapped and re-edited as he likes. The difference though is that Hawtin's musical style (minimal, techno) lends itself much better to that kind of layering than Sasha's kind of music.
Then again, I'm biased, not much of a minimal fan - it bores me.