Ogamiltto70's suggestion is great along with this excellent video. I've come here to also request a track to reconstruct, if you think it's worthy that is.. 3V - Heart Of The Beat.. still makes me do Wondersaults. Dan Hartman, Jellybean Benitez and Michael Hutchinson = Boom I guess it may be a stretch to emulate the vocals :D Great work, Claudio
Nice. May I make a suggestion? I think that one day soon you should make a "reconstruction" video on Jan Hammer's _Crockett's Theme._ It was kept alive on dance floors and covered by synth artists through the Nineties, Two Thousands, Twenty-Tens up to today in the Twenty-Twenties and I believe that it has been important in driving the renewed interest in the instrumentation and sounds of the Eighties that we're hearing so much of these days. It has certainly stood the test of time. So why not give it the "reconstructed" treatment: the chord progression, the melody, the rhythms, what instruments were used, the whole nine yards due a classic of electronic music? That's my request. Please consider it.
I wasn't aware it had been covered throughout the ages. There is no doubt in my mind that Jan Hammer is one of the biggest driving influences in the emergence of synthwave/retrowave, although this is an educated guess.
this video not only shows and explains how drum machines work but also teaches things too! I mean, I'm experimenting and messing around with music making and such videos are huge help. gotta learn to make 80s stuff somehow
The kicks are also in the wrong place, and the hi-hat pattern isn’t correct. Other than that it’s nice to hear my first record I ever bought! I must have played it easily over a thousand times, programmed it into 3 different drum machines, and performed it live almost 30 times! Great track which always sounds current.
Ah "Da Da Da" from Trio - so iconic. One song from our so called NDW era (Neue Deutsche Welle - in english: the new german wave). What only few people know: Trio was produced by Klaus Voormann (a good old friend of the beatles, designed the "Revolver" cover, played in Lennons Ono Band and so on) But apart from that fact: The 80s are the best music era IMO!
Awesome. I remember when we got a new TR-505 in our music department in 1986 - I hogged it every week. The Rolands were so easy and intuitive to programme. It had the same Snare sample as in the 707, but the kick on the 707 was much more solid and cut through every mix. Stock / Aitken / Waterman used it all the time and so did Clannad for the "Robin of Sherwood" soundtrack .
For me the Human League's song Human is the greatest sequenced drum track ever. Released in 1986 it was produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, a true masterpiece.
In reality the drumloop in 'I Need You Tonight' is TR-707 and live drums combined! They mixed the live acoustic drums with drum machine pattern to add liveness to this loop.
My first record! The sleeve was intentionally designed like that by Peter Saville when he saw them being used in the studio with New Order. It’s also what got me into music. I bought a TR-707 to programme the whole track which I then traded in for a Yamaha RX-5 and purchased a DX-21 synth. Those were the days!
Yes 😂 I always wondered why the cover had those strange holes. Then suddenly, after i bought my first computer, i found out. This made the record even more cooler to me.
SUPER, my favorite Heart of glass. What impresses me Claudio is that you do all your takes in one take without mistakes, grrrrrr for me. I'm jealous, (I love your NEEEEXT....... ) LOV
WOW, this video took me back to when I first started playing as a kid. I had the tr-505 and 909. Jazzie B is a cool guy, I knew one of the string players from Soul II Soul way back when. GREAT VID!!!!!
UPDATE: I got that UVI BeatBoxAnt.2 - and it's great! nice to have it! Soo greatful to see and hear how you are in the scene of NDW("Neue Deutsche Welle" -> in english: new german wave of sounds/songs) of the music movement in germany. great to see that explain how "Trio - Da Da Da" was created. Very Happy thanks for that ;-) ..Doctor Mix you are such an great magician of music and it's Great to see how you showing it to us ..always best regards to you for it, Frank Liebe
Lovely work and this takes me back to the 80's & 90's buying albums and looking at what instrumentation was used on each album & many times you never knew, but what creative times they were and super video!
My goodness. It's too technical for me. I don't know if I'll be able to do all these rhythms so powerful, so deep, so inspiring. I cry in front of all this rhythmic richness. Great, great music.
The speech option in the toys suite. The original hardware version was made famous briefly for being the talking lyrics provider in OMD's Genetic Engineering. Song. Hit.
i was going to say... you're going back in time. I want Safety Dance, Der Kommisar, Shock the Monkey, In a Big Country, 20th Century Love Song, I'll Stop the World (and melt with you), and the Jets Crush on You. ah hell. do Rob Base's "It Takes Two".
Man I always think of my 1st drum machine TR 727, I took that sh!#* back to the store after Christmas I sucked so much...😜😂😜 Now I have every drum machine made at the tip of my fingers in Plugin form, using my MPC Software they sampled every drum machine invented... Step Sequencing had me all messed up...🥰😘🥰 Ha hahahahaaaaaaaa... UVI still may get my sale though ...#GreatVidBro....🎥🎬🎥
Of course in the 80's when it came to the drum machine, Prince is numero uno with his usage of the Lynn LM-1. From 1999 to Under A Cherry Moon the LM-1 was used heavily not only for just drum machine beats, but hooking up triggers to it so it could be played as a live drum kit.
