DnB 1996 (LolaDaMusica) part2: Photek 

Lucky to get enough money to buy a multipack of crisps with the money you get from a dnb release now

@@Barney-ii1no 100% there’s no money in it now. However I think goldie had the right idea with metalheadz I bet he still does really well. I think that’s probably more the tours and merchandise though.

silly

He's not defined by his car......

Hardest interview opening of all time XD

oh yes. and 20 years later theres still hardly any track, not to speak of any dnb artist, around better than photeks stuff from that era

Same here he was on a Metalheadz compilation

@@atomaalatonal so right, drum and bass we all grew up with doenst really exist anymore. Now its all dubstep like crap.

@@atomaalatonal Lemon d man

sommersound yes the days when an underground artist could sign for a Virgin sub label and could the afford a Ferrari

And just like that you can make beats like Photek

Thanks!

this loop has also been taken by finsta bundy - feel the high (hip HOP)

Thanks

That's why I love that Blade movie also Source Direct sounds too

KLAbe Wow! That song is priceless

Limitations force new ways

RhythmDroid agreed haha

SyntheticLTD saaaaaame 😂

+iLL OgicK yeah yeah 96 to 98 was the shit. DJ Spooky Riddim Warfare is still on loop in my house

96 was the last good year in hip hop

@@MrSTAYUP33 new york fell off in 96, hip hop in other areas was still dope after that

@@MrSTAYUP33 agreed!!

@@lee_drifting true, houston def had a run after 96, but the game overall just went full pop, most of the late 90s 'hip hop' hip hop went into mainly the same golden era style that i love, just became to cliche imo

It brings me back to the school days in the 90’s, x-files old 90’s b-movies/sci fi and other media from the day.... i would give anything to re-live that era....

Atari ST running Cubase.

@@blacklamps nope. Look at the Keyboard. It's not an atari but a pc with a very old version of cubase.

@@blacklamps it's crazy how the sequencer still pretty much looks the same in Cubase.

Lol you are deffo over estimating, the comp only has midi notes recorded, the midi then signals the sampler/keyboard notes. I used one of the first versions of cubase, i had an akai 1000 sampler, that could record 60 seconds of audio before it was full, you could split audio but there was no visual representation of what you were doing (except for numbers) so it was all by ear. So you would often lay down one track at a time on to tape, then layer the next track. Something younger people probably don’t realise is presets would often have to be saved to removable disks, if you turned your equipment off, they would disappear and the desk faders would have to be manually changed each time, flying faders were only on desks costing 100k+ old money. When daws started accepting audio, earlier versions of cubase, sonar, protools or fruityloops etc it was massive, although my first pc had 8megs of ram, now i wouldn’t dare go below 16gig. The pcs that were powerful enough to handle basic audio and not get laggy/choppy were really expensive (like a car). Cubase allowed you to “freeze” channels so it would render down that channel (with fxs etc) so it would allow you to play just the layered audio as a single plugins could use maybe 50-70% of cpu and nearly all your ram just being loaded to a channel let alone trying to play.

All MIDI.

...I am still learning. I think a more efficient way might be to not destructively chop wavs (which I've always done with Awave, a program like Recycle), but to do some maths and use sample offset to set the start points with a tiny release period. Looking at the video, I think this is what Photek (might have) done as most of the notes he draws are longer than 16ths. I am writing a rough little project in Excel to semi-automatically batch create 'virtually' chopped regions within an sfz file for a folder of wavs (with known bpms). Might actually get to write some tunes one day lol

@@brightonbackgammon7802 Sounds proper interesting that. Love to see/hear your results.

deathtrips yup yup shouts out to TECHNOLOGY!

All he did was chop a break into 3 sections ...One starting on the kick,one one the snare and one on the high hat ...That's why the break plays out while he draws it in.That's how I do it in the Emu,Simple process.

Staalstraal KJZ, big tune, i always loved the breakdown at 2.02 of the track

jea, truky great shit! whats the name of the tune?

Photek - K.J.Z. Killer track! Check out the hidden camera static mix too

You still do, at least in third world countries with little to no scene... Like México

HisXLNC ... yyyyyep

Anthony White as a 16 yo “little shit” I’m well aware what crate digging is

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YhCNg5o7uQQ.html sample used in here

Cubase

legend

The difference is in the sounds though. That hardware sounds completely different to todays DAWs, the two aren’t comparable. DAWs sound ‘plastic’ and flat compared to the hardware equipment. It’s all a matter of taste at the end of the day and how you use a workflow to get what you want. Also a lot of the editing was done through a tiny two inch screen back then. It forces you to learn the process doing stuff by hand that you can do with the click of a mouse these days. It’s a much more ‘fun’ creative process than just sitting in front of a computer screen.

Daws are the same audio quality, its the VSTs that you use with them I think you mostly mean. I do have to agree with you though. Some VST's are very very similar (rompers) but you'll never get that authentic sound that you'd have gotten from hardware.@@youcantno3963

That's okay. Go ahead and recall that thing all you want.