Disrupt Records put out a 4 track EP last month, containing 2 original tracks by me, and 2 remixes by jungle scene veterans Equinox and Kid Lib. In this video, I showcase how I made the track "Say" using a super minimal setup of just an Akai S1000 and Soundcraft Folio FX8. Sequencing with Reason 10.
Been loving your music on Spotify recently. Reminds me of the chillout d’n’b of the late 90s, early 2000s but with a fresh vibe. What I like is that it doesn’t sound processed and compressed to death. Simple hardware set-ups were great for that as we simply didn’t own many effects. DAWs make it easy to make everything ‘punchy’ all the time-very fatiguing to listen to.
This is so unique yet so familiar, which really makes it awesome. Very hard to balance those 2 things but your chopping and arranging is next level. That fast bass fill into a new section was absolutely insane. Love the tune.
Loved watching this. I wish I’d seen this years ago when I was on my mission of sampling the og breaks with my sampler. I know about splitting the amen channels but I’ve never seen it in tutorials before. Respect for sharing the knowledge, and wicked tracks too
Yes yes! Love the video and so good to see you break your workflow down like this. When I approached you for the tracks way back then, I knew you'd deliver something amazing, and you did not disappoint! Huge thanks for joining our label!
Hey ! My secret I guess lies in 30 years of making music. I have put enormous amount of hours in to that, and made thousands and thousands of tracks :)
@@IJOSoundVideo that's impressive. I am aiming to get my music on vinyl I just need to be more prolific. You're right about losing the vibe if it takes too long. That's a real hurdle!
@@project-95 Yeah, i believe it's all about training yourself to the point where you can do things intuitively. As for the vinyl, it's a difficult affair to be in :)
:D Yeah I know, but the thing is - akaizer is nearly identical to the akai time stretch, and it is so much faster, as doing it all inside Akai is super long for me. I want to get things done as fast as i can, besides, I make and store most of my samples inside a computer anyway, so it’s a bit more convenient for me to preprocess everything inside soundforge and then resample it all in to akai for sequencing and outboard mixing.
I am not really in to genres, I am more in to tracks, very hard to find something i like these days.. I don't know exactly what proto jungle is.. I have done some really weird and crazy experimental fast tracks in the past, but as I age, i lean towards calmer and more melodic stuff. This track was made 2 years ago, and my more recent tracks mellowed out even more.
@@IJOSoundVideo I was referring to UK Rave scene from early 90s, just before it split into drum focused Jungle and melodic Happy Hardcore. First Prodigy album is good example if it.
@@IJOSoundVideo He refers to Kniteforce Records, Acen, Foul Play, early Moving Shadow for example. An interesting yet short period of time where jungle/dnb was not fully developed yet so you get high pitched vocals, pianos, rave stabs with breaks. That led to jungle techno. It starts being naive and happy in 91, 92 brings some new elements and in 93-94 things go darker and you get jungle.
Hey man, thanks for posting your videos explaining your process. It's always interesting for meeting to see how's others work. I always enjoy hardware videos, but I was surprised to learn that you use Akaizer instead of the S1000. I do understand why though, it's much quicker. I purchased an S1100 a while back, I have toyed with it but time is always against me when I am working on something it seems and so often revert back to Ableton. That folder of breaks you have, did you compile that yourself or is it available to download somewhere? I am sure I used to have it, or something similar a few years back, but it can't seem to find it now. Keep the videos and tracks coming man! All the best, Matt.
Hey ! Thanks for the comment. To be honest, music is all about having fun. Using computers is perfectly fine, if the process makes you happy. I started with computers, and I made most of my music with them. After all, s1000 and other such gear is pretty old, times have changed. I am not sure how long I am going to be using it, there are pros to it, but there are cons as well. As for the breaks - I think I found the link on one of the Discord servers, that's been closed now.
I just discovered your channel and music, awesome stuff! Very inspiring. If you ever feel like it, I would love to see how you manage samples and MIDI on the Akai S1000. I'm sure there are other videos on it and I'll search for it, but it would be cool to see how you do it since you're able so acheive such great results with your setup :)
Thanks ! There isn't really much to show. I could make a video on that, but my screen is so dim, the camera won't see anything. I barely see anything on it :D I literally just sample sounds from my PC to a sampler, and create programs on akai s1000. I chop my breaks inside akai and create key groups for individuals chops. I then assign every program to a MIDI channel and to an analog output channel, and the rest is like using a VST (MIDI), except the mixing part is happening on an analog mixing desk instead of a DAW mixer.
