Well, it's easy to do something in seconds if you already now how it's supposed to be ;-) I'm sure he spend a lot more time tweaking to get it right when he was first making it :-)
@Demonwhisper and the award for wiseass of the month goes to... you could also mention that he sped up the video to be complete 😜 We all know that. I was just talking about how he went from a seemingly unrelated sound to pretty damn close to the original
It's an old technique ... using a synth to mimic distorted guitars. Since there's nothing left from the original signal anyway, it really doesn't matter what the source is and with a synth you have full control over things like pitch bends and all. It takes a lot of time to do it right though and that's what Demonwhisper was trying to tell you before you called him a wiseass.
Fucking asshole. I loved that man. We all did, it put a hole in my heart. I cried, I'm deeply upset over it. This guy was an absolute fucking genius that helped shape the electronica scene. It breaks my heart. My all time favorite group is possibly no more and I am shattered over our loss.
I have seen Paul Oakenfold, Moby, The Crystal Method, Dj Tiesto, Rabbit in The Moon but I never got to see The Prodigy and it breaks my heart. Hopefully Orbital will be around long enough so I can see a show.
@@ReaperCheGuevara I've been to more than 50 concerts, and i saw them three times, and i got to say a prodigy concert is the most extreme experience i happened to witness.
@@ReaperCheGuevara he wasn't the genius, Liam is, he threw down some lyrics but he was never really responsibly for the tracks themselves, it was genius how he stayed in the group without getting dropped out, after all it happened to leeroy thornhill, who was the poster boy before keith, never the less, an apsolute legend and an all round nut case and he will be sadly missed but please don't paint him out to be what he wasn't, lets face it, because he isn't really known, liam isn't going to get the send off keith did and he is the genius
@Proxy Effect Look up 'Henry Rollins on electronic music ', it's pretty much this (incorrect) sentiment that gets spread around. Bit ironic given that a Black Flag is as harmonically complex as a nursery rhyme. I play guitar and there's definitely a snobbery biased towards instruments.
Well professionally they would tweak sounds for weeks to get the mix right. a song basically a certain amount of headroom (space sonically) and you have to make everything fit. Producers spend weeks tweaking kick drums to make things fit. Its very labour intensive.
Yes, and remember, he had a template to work with, the actual song. Liam Howlett had no such thing, just a bunch of sounds rolling around in his head. Brilliant, really.
When I listened to Acid House on LSD - it sounded like it was made by an advanced civilization that required the use of LSD to hear. I could hear melodies and harmonies that made sense but they were not there if I listened without using LSD
@@billmarsh1971 classic band mate broke soany barriers when I was a kid listening thinking why is no-one else doing this, who's afraid of rhe art of noise was a personal avourite of mine, on 7 inch vinyl single .... jesus I'm old 😩 still love electronic music, since I first listened to war of the world's as a kid and it blew my tiny little mind... pretty scary too with the picture book to accompany the album. Not sure if my dad even realises he started me down that Road as I'm pretty sure he was focused on the rock opera thang but fir me it was all the other sounds 🤔🤷
Bravo. 10/10. This video has got everything. I learnt, I laughed, I nearly cried. Brilliant recreation of an awesome track. I was worried you weren't going to get the infamous kickdrum, on the main drop boomy enough. But you nailed it. And then the video editing with Dave Clark's Five, syncing up with the music. Genius, and hilarious. And it doesnt end there. You mix in your own little remix of Smack my bitch up. I can tell you had alot of fun producing this. Absolute Genius, very well done.
Oh no I did shout hey hey hey Toes tapping and head bopping That's what the prodigy does Also Art of noise are/were a class act, the seduction of Claude debussey is just awesome .... 👌
What I like most about this video is how it visually breaks down the process that was building in front of Liam as he was hearing before it was heard. Namely finding the right samples to squeeze from your memory banks or your "exploration box" of things recently on the melon. I mean you can try to break it down to formula or some more basic elements to get you started yourself but it doesn't quite make a song the same way. What sacred grounds can you explore and what magic can you find expressed? And then, even more, what tricks can you perform having this magic? Howlett is a wizard and I love what Pavloff has done with the remix and video as well. A nice treat with a lesson
Wow! Brilliant! I used to mix music in the 90's on the old SSL desks and edit with razor blades! This has completely blown me away! You're inspirational, hugely talented!
В этом ролике гениально абсолютно все. И анализ сэмплов, и гениальность создателя, и наложение черно-белых старых записей и собака в конце... Все это просто сносит крышу! Гениально!
@@Casketkrusher_ Sorry didn't mean to reply here. I mean I was wondering how he knows where the samples come from. Was it just him having listened to all the music before and recognising the various samples? Or are the samples listed on the album or something? Or did the Prodigy release the samples publicly as some kind of remix competition?
Liam Howlett is the producer - Keith was their frontman, the one who got the crowd going, hence the song title. Liam was, and still is the genius behind the music. I somehow don't think we have heard the last of The Prodigy.
So many of The Prodigy's songs were Frankenstein's Monsters. There's similar videos on RU-vid of people reconstructing Smack My B*tch Up, Their Law, Voodoo People and Poison, all with Ableton or FL Studio. Scary thing is Liam did these masterpieces many years before DAW Music Software like this was a thing. What a genius. What a prodigy!
Respect! :) Wonder how Liam made it without Ableton. He and Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) were brilliant back in the day. And The Chemical Brothers, and The Crystal Method and so on..
This definitely makes me think covering some of my fav tracks would be a good way to learn how to compose on my digitakt since I have no real composing structure for my ideas. Nice work!! Love this tune, got me properly introduced to Prodigy in the states as a kid.
Просто гений! Это какой надо слух иметь чтоб услышать все эти сэмплы во всей этой мешанине звуков когда оригинальный трек играет и воссоздать считай один в один.
I have seen this a few times now and it's very inspiring. It's also such a view of how fast pop culture has been changing since the early days of rock'n roll. And I'm super happy to have been growing up in the midst of it with parents who experienced the early years. Damn I even got to see Velvet underground and Ramones, Zeppelin minus John, Prodigy yes of course.. Thanks man!
Andrew Shpakov гениальная работа будет если с новья свой хитяру создаст, как это делает Лиам Хоуллет. а так, хуйта, жалкий подражатель. каждый может купить краски или воспользоваться тысячами симплов, однако пишут шедевральные картины или треки еденицы.
Лаям сам гитару создаст? ты почитай интервью с ним и вообще историю группы Продиджи. Лаям всю жизнь клепал музыку из сэмплов и вырезок из других треков. Гениален он в том, что смог скомпоновать это все + создать десяток "фирменных" синтезированных звуков, которые стали визитной карточкой группы. Вот и вся история группы Продиджи вкратце. Остальных героев проекта не беру, так как они, грубо говоря, делают шоу на сцене, не более.
Это не бред, это факт. Я нисколько не принижаю его таланта и, тем более, опыта на электронной сцене. Я говорил про семплы и пр. Но ты, видимо, в самой электронной музыке мало что понимаешь, поверхностно максимум. Абсолютно неверная аналогия с красками. Художнику нужно создавать свою уникальную технику, чтобы быть индивидуальным, уникальным. Также и в музыке. Кто-то использует семлы и к минимуму сводит работу с синтезом звука. Кто-то же наоборот привык окунаться по уши в создание всех звуков, эффектов и пр. с нуля, создавать новые звучания, эффекты, развивать электронную музыку. Оба музыканты, оба композиторы, но выхлоп разный. Там, где работал музыкальный художник, слышно сразу. Там, где работал компоновщик - тоже. Для обычного обывателя и потребителя это не так заметно - схавает. Скажу даже больше. Для тех, кто знает только Продиджи и дальше своего носа не видит, для них они гуру электронной музыки. Но если смотреть те года и лейблы, которые выпускали брейкбит музыку, то мы увидим десятки проектов, которые превосходили Продиджи по всему, но оставались в тени. Просто команда в тот момент была нужна продюсерам, которые начали ими заниматься, потому что это было шоу, это был бойзбенд ( что набирало моду тогда ). + это не просто бойзбенд, а это целая группа электропанков ( как называли у нас тогда в России ). Это что-то новое. Это вам не сопливый Демеш Мод с древним набором синтезаторов и унылым голосом, печально отзвякивающий индастриал эпохой. Их просто раскрутили и все. Да, были созданы хиты, которые до сих пор приносят бабло. Но боготворить это и писать, что это гениально - не стал бы. Для кого-то - может быть. Но для кого-то и творчество М. Круга гениально.
