El-B Producer Masterclass - Computer Music magazine 2007 

to everyone watching this in 2017...we have to preserve the legacy of this period of UK music. if you got pirate radio tapes post them! deja 92.3, rinse 100.3, it dont matter...if you got dubplates, acetates, refixes, even cassette tapes, rip to mp3 and post them! if this stuff isn't preserved, the livest, most organic time in UK music will be lost forever. i watch this interview and el-b just personifies a whole era of the best, most soulful music that ever came out the UK. i really mean this from my heart, this is a PSA. record everything you have from this era, and put it on the internet where everyone can see it, or it'll be gone....forever. and the world will have lost something truly great.

"I use volumes, panning and EQ and that's it" What a boss, a lot of producers these days should take note of these words and pay attention to the basics.

"It all starts in the Club" my favourite El-B track. Legend!

El B has such a swagger to him, they don’t make em like that no more.

i want a pint with this guy

Burial's main inspiration right there.

what a geezer

When he chats about Plastician using a laptop when it was completely new - El-B blown away by Serato!

such a simple yet concise explanation of compression

Legendary producer, legendary camera work

This guys fucking mint. Especially that bit about don't hold back and don't be scared. Music needs more EL-B's.

absolute legend... different class as a producer..

"Just to butter it up...we got a gun shot in there". Something out of People Just Do Nothing.

I keep coming back to this interview, so inspiring and somehow fills me with energy

that's mad that he's describing seeing serato for the first time at the end there - I saw mark ronson playing live on serato around the same time (2007) and I didn't know what I was looking at, blew my mind. definitely changed things - the portability and flexibility is unreal, although it took away from the crate digging aspect which I loved.

Watched this again in 2020. Love it!

I come back to this video periodically, once a year minimum, just for the fucking entertaiment value of watching and listening to El-P. I'd like to think 12 years later, I'm beyond the lessons in these videos, but I can listen to this dude for days.

I remember buying the mag and watching this years ago -Still fresh

fucking legend

forgot about sweatbands until now!

stone cold fucking legend

This dude is just as cool as I thought he would be. Vibez match his music.

That spliff!

Best CM mag interview ever

That was the best master class

This the best tutorial vid out there. Nothing long. This is inspiration. No complication. You can do it next

"make it loud and make it crazy and turn the club inside out"

Right, if anyone is still looking for the name of the track used in the beginning of the video, it's "Ghost - The Spooks."

Top man I love the way he makes such good music with simple techniques. Talks a lot of sense too

this video is the bomb. in case anyone is wondering, the tune he's working on there is 'endorse & set it' by el-b and roxy.

For anyone interested el-b is playing at the cellar in Oxford on Wed 11th December (2013)

i can definetly see how this man influenced burial, its quite clear to see

Love this guy! Such a pleasure seeing how one of my favorite records was made.

predicted a lot at the end ngl. spot on.

His voice is fucking mesmerising... amazing.

Really good tutorial, real mcoy down to earth, study, study the sounds, the arrangements, thanks man

This is a fountain of knowledge. What a great guy, awesome perspective on production.

EL-B - one of the early pioneers of dubstep before it was even called dubstep.

this is great. he's mad thorough explaining shit.

"When you've been digital for a while, I don't think you want crackles" ...haha classic comment. but 8 years later and vinyl is still here - not like it was but its alive and well excellent upload btw - loved it - cheers

Roxy & EL-B - Endorse & Set It is the track

Legend! Great lesson in simplicity.

wicked insight into a masters dojo,respect!!!

sfx bass and beat three main elements, if your groove is on point you shouldn't need anything but that. beautiful qoute

what a valuable video, I'm for sure downloading this and chucking it in a folder somewhere

Oh my god how I would like to see Burial doing one of these videos...

compreshah

Man I love these old ”In the studio with…” videos

At 14:40 when he says “it’s about what you do with it than what you got” seems obvious but damn people to forget that. And also “experiment like how you did when you first started” listen to that if you took nothing else from this tutorial

aint the gear its the ideas, el b is a true master

EL B has smashed hard garage dub scene

"It's not what you got, it's how you use what you got." 8:04

Pretty cool to see this although i gotta say i was surprised to see it was 2007, seems much earlier, but then again, the basics never age.

Da man EL b. Got all this guys beats on vynl.

legend!

My fav YT vid

i like this guy right to the point no bullshit, makes good music because he wants to.

"a good song's got no date stamp"

Give me vinyl any day but what he says about carrying all your tunes in your pocket must be the way to the floor.....classic interview!!!

I do agree with you really. I don't tend to do any EQing except for rolling off the lows where required, I prefer to choose sounds which sit well with each other in the first place. That's something I've definitely learnt.

love hearing him describe when he first saw serato

What a fucking legend! 'Everybody on the dancefloor', 'study'.

So simple but so amazing.. damn.

Learnt a lot from this

man, I need to butter up my mixes a whole lot

Most entertaining and informative Masterclass ever !!

Listening to the audio it sounds like Terry Tibbs in the studio.

i like this guy

That was fucking great. What a G

can of ting, good man!

2020 here!

this video is like the Dead Sea Scrolls of UK dance music. ancient knowledge passed down through generations

He's the best at garage

Very primitive production sparks creativity. El-B proves that here.

absolute master

Yeah, I think working in audio is probably the way to go in general anyway! I mainly make progressive house and trance (although I also make breaks and dubstep type stuff for my production music) so the big sounds are only really exposed during the big breakdowns. The good/bad thing about producing music is that you can never stop learning and never know it all.

life changer

🐐

proper hard track

Great tutorial :)

bang on foresight on the UK rap culture issues

The Xbox controller is the perfect set piece for this video

Loving your wkd vibe brother man. I was there at the beginning of Garage. I am Glad your keeping the Garage alive well done brother man. 👋👋

El B is a mad genius

What a legend!

I can smell the cheese only by looking at this video

This is a battle for the soul of music (c)

lol at the xbox controller

This is awesome. Shame you can't really hear the bass on the tracks he's talking about. Needed a better mic...

Butter it up EL-b

man is a fucking legend

history

yesyes

Nice guy.

this is fucking gold

sympathetic dude!

he explains it as if its sorcery or something lol. hes awesome.

Big up to how long of a way vsts have come

Knows what he's talkin bout 👍

making it funky