MECHANICAL TECHNO DEMONSTRATION 

Everything MUST be touched with the pencil to works properly.

This is probably how aliens would try to figure out how we used vinyl.

This is what Ableton looks like on the inside.

...when you buy a DAW online from Wish and 2 weeks later a huge crate arrives on your doorstep.:-/

+ Random person: What software do you use? - Graham Dunning: What?

This is what real sound engineering is. So beautiful I could weep.

I’m thinking what it must have been like for this guy to dream this all up and picture it in his head. This demonstrates perfectly how electronic music uses a layered approach to song building.

I remember watching this video 5 years ago, without any knowledge of music in general and thinking "wow, THATS how you make electronic music? Im really in interested in making them, but I guess that's not for me anymore" them i expanded my knowledge watching other videos and went "ahh, I see, I'm a total idiot"

when you want to make techno but it's 1947

I feel like i learned something but i have no idea what.

This is that kind of things I would like to see in a modern museum

Me at 3:30AM: "time for bed" RU-vid: "wanna watch MECHANICAL TECHNO DEMONSTRATION on vinyls?" Me: "ahh shit, here we go again..."

This is the most enjoyably convoluted things I've seen all week.

Him: Hey buddy wanna hear my latest track? Bud: Sure Him: Wait a few hours i get my stuff

this has an adequate amount of cowbell.

I have learned to produce no software techno without hearing a single word.... the world needs people like you in all the fields

I kinda picture people making techno this way in a post apocalyptic scenario. This is amazingly creative!

This is how Beethoven made his techno, so cool to learn omg

And it loops forever without changing. Just like real house music.

It is the most technical techno I have seen! No computer hack work, just natural sound and mechnical regularity.

I find it hard to enjoy this video knowing that techno was possible as early as the 1930s. A whole world war could have been avoided...

That poor record player is like "Oh god get this fucking shit off me, PLEASE"

5:30 -> When the old teachers turn on their microphones in online meetings

That fucking sick man!!! hahah I found myself waiting with antisipation to see how this was going to sound. Its actually a brilliant visual display of how sounds are layered to make music. Love it, keep them coming.

My car broke down the other day. Touched it with my pencil, now it works.

This looks actually easier than using Reason.

I keep coming back to this video periodically because the concept is fascinating, but also this groove pops into my head

As an old Chicago 80"s House Music Fan and DJ, I got to say This Lesson was tight Graham! I always wondered how those sounds where generated. Took me back thanks!

So much ASMR vibes with the pencil.

walking into the club with that.

35 years in radio broadcasting and being a sound tech. This is a mind blower.

*_This was some of the craziest music production content i've seen in ages_*

Man, life was hard before frootloops.

I feel like this song is playing in the background of every Russian dash cam video

And this was pre covid.

Person1: ableton! Person2: fl studio! Graham Dunning: ok guys, hold my pencil

This is a good way to visualize digital music layering

the process was more exciting than a final result

The need of human to build something by using his hands. Finally, the techno sounds became a natural environment which humans want to imitate. A kind of reinterpretation of the world. Congrat!

Would love to see a 1hour live set of this guy.

Still better than 99% of the other DJs pushing play on the MP3 player.

This reminds me of a DJ mate, back in the early 90’s, who used to take a roll of Gaffa tape and put it on the middle of the turntable like the guy did in the vid, then take a 12” and put it on the tape roll and centre it. Then he’d reverse the cartridge so that the stylus was pointing up, then pull the weight on the back of the tone arm as far back as it would go, thus making the stylus fly upwards, and all so that he could play the underside of his records BACKWARDS and mix it in, on tempo, with the other deck! He had this performance so down that he could do it whilst the other deck was playing and hit the right tempo and everything! It was great to watch and I never saw him fuck it up!

"My car isn't broken man, it's a mechanical techno generator. "

I want to imagine someone coming into a club 40-50 years ago with this setup and blowing their minds with this new revolution in music.

After seeing the height of this installation I suddenly understand the story of the tower of Babel why the people needed such a big banging tower and that Capital G got fussy about being out DJ'd in his own boilerroom.

Flat Eric would love this.

"What kind of music do you listen to?" Me: *thinking about this video* "It's complicated...."

So cool. Id be even more impressed if you made a whole set

I use FL studio Graham dunning: Hold my beer

The most ASMR non-ASMR video I've seen

You have me completely lost until the 4-minute mark, then it all amazingly came together and had me bumping

"Your music sounds like a broken record skipping."

this is some animusic shit right here... so dope.

For those curious, the tempo is 133.32 BPM.

This is one of the most satisfying videos on youtube

Sublime. Mechanics is the universe.

The amount of Cowbell was entirely sufficient

good thing there was that pencil otherwise I would of been so lost.

I still have to watch this every 6 months or so... and it's still freakin awesome

The argument was not to follow.. Brilliant work

I saw this before it had a thousand views. *sips from bio-coffee*

This song is played at 133⅓ BPM. Cuz the vinyl player is 33⅓. RPM. If it would be 45 RPM, it would be played at 180 BPM

I can just imagine this being dropped in a club at 3am. Sounds great.

this just came up in my feed, crazy, i didnt even know they did stuff like this, amazing.

I can see FLAT ERIC rocking out to this, smoking a hot dog like a cigar.

Kraftwerk would be proud

Love the retort stands and clamps

"Yeah i'm a DJ" *proceeds to set up this*

If I had this at my house it would be going 24/7

His record bag must weigh a ton.

Don´t understand the people who dislike such great work. Nice job.

The return of the mechanic sequencer. :)

That's why I love Electronic Music. You can do so much with it!

More cow bell. We need more cowbell...

i m djing and making techno tunes around 24 years already and it´s first time i see something like this!!!! just amazing !!!!

it reminds me Flat beat by Mr.Oizo

love the ending...great work.

As cool as it is, the result sounds like that one dj who just never quite could get the hang of beatmatching.

Wow! Nicely done.

Music can come in all shapes and forms! music like this video bring people all over the world together. This guy is so amazingly inventive. So much love and respect to him

This is like behind the scenes of Kraftwerk music

Speechless. Bloody well done

Awesome! I loved it.

Love the "Look Around You" style video :D

When he points that pencil at stuff it makes me understand him instantly

This like Tomorrow's World, Art Attack, The Open University and the Old Grey Whistle Test all rolled in to one.

Amazing work! Thank you.

This is great for visualizing all the parts that go into making a track.

Look son, this is what poor people that can't afford ProTools have to go through.

Very nice sound effects......brilliant 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

This is the most amazing thing I have seen on youtube

Now I see how Mr. Oizo created his Flat Beat song.

I can't even think how amazing this is and how someone, one day, "create" it

Hello RU-vid recommendation, nice to see you again 4 years later!

Omg I have been looking for this video for forever

The Rube Goldberg machine of techno demonstrations.

Very strong motor

Too cool for words!

That was awesome.

Sounds like Mr Oizo. Must be his way of producing beats.