DnB 1996 (LolaDaMusica) part2: Photek
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- čas přidán 24. 01. 2008
- Rare Drum & Bass 1996 documentary by Dutch TV program. There are a few Dutch passages, but the interviews are in English.
part1: SquarePusher
• DnB 1996 (LolaDaMusica...
part2: Photek
• DnB 1996 (LolaDaMusica...
part3: Source Direct
• DnB 1996 (LolaDaMusica...
Rare footage here of Photek in the studio during Modus Operandi period. - Hudba
The absolute peak of DnB is Photek driving around in a black Ferrari.
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
Now this dude right here is the reason why I got into DnB.
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
I wish we could just freeze that era and loop it. That's when the best shit was made.
"Here you can see I'm a keen gardener as well" cracked me up, what a joker.
I love all those 90s setups. If you listen to Modus Operandi or other mid-late 90s electronic albums you can't help but feel impressed of how they pushed those primitive computers and synths to the limit. Those guys worked hard to produce quality music, because the software/hardware back then seemed like a pain in the ass to work with. Makes you realize that all you need is creativity, no matter how primitive your equipment is.
This man will always be a king of this style. He inspired so many producers including Amon Tobin. His style is original and he treats drums and harmonies with the love they deserve. Thanks for all the inspiration Photek.
Sigh. Those were the days.
sommersound yes the days when an underground artist could sign for a Virgin sub label and could the afford a Ferrari
"and then I usually put some sounds over the drums. "
And just like that you can make beats like Photek
And I’m over here making shit choons on the newest gear...
Limitations force new ways
RhythmDroid agreed haha
SyntheticLTD saaaaaame 😂
I made my first tune aged 22, on my cousin computer ,using stone roses, beat and evil dead 3 samples, called
"GROOVY" I was only 22 years old, in 1999,before leaving ashford to go to Kiad maidstone art college to study hnd graphic design and illustration. I liked drum n bass when I listened ,when drawing.
Now I starting to produce, got my own house and make my own beats.
This interview inspires me even still.
Ni Ten Ichi Ryu.
To this day, an absolute masterpiece. Used on the end credits of the Blade movie and probably the reason he could afford that motor haha.
That's why I love that Blade movie also Source Direct sounds too
KLAbe Wow! That song is priceless
all i have to say is photek is an absolute genius.
Photek made some great tracks. He was so ahead of it all.
for anyone wondering, the song at 4:30 is Lonely fire from miles davis' album Big fun
Thanks!
this loop has also been taken by finsta bundy - feel the high (hip HOP)
Thanks
Boys a legend.
Put so many brilliant tunes out.
Thank you very much for posting this one man!
I'm a big photek fan, and I missed this interview back then, I only saw source direct.
Very nice to see, thans a lot!
Cheers,
Tyn
great video. thanks for posting this. photek is a legend in this scene.
Amazing doc, thanks for the upload
I love Photek. He’s a genius! Always loved his obscure sound. Great clip!
@PICLex First he would make a break manually (using up to 20 mixer channels). Then he would resample it (=print it to a single sample). Then he would chop the sample up starting at different starting points, for example every 16th note and spread them across the keyboard (=> 16 samples for a 1 bar break). Google "recycle" for a program that chops up breaks. You can also do this manually in a sampler. Photek's innovation at the time was that he made his own breaks instead of using existing ones.
...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.
This 3 part interview about drum n bass producers change my life.
Dnb today sounds like trance emo from Ibiza
It's mad how much his accent/voice has changed in more recent interviews post-LA!
'96 was a good year for like every genre of music, well at least electronic, rock/metal and hip hop...the IMO alot of good music came from the 80's and 90's...
+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
I'd bet money he got that car as an homage to Miles Davis haha. Just watched the 60 Minutes interview with Miles and saw he had practically the same car back in '89 or so.
What a great moment in music 96 was.
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....
This took me all the way back to my first exposure to Drum n Bass playing Forsaken on the N64 as a kid... god that games soundtrack was and still is phenomenal.
That DAW looks pretty practical. I underestimated DAWs from that time.
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.
Rupert just comes across as an immensely likeable guy, never mind the music, it brought so much to the table when he started putting out his tunes, never mind the scope of the albums
Still a legend is our Mr Parkes, sadly living in LA now which is bad for the UK scene , but his career has rocketed , I admire this guy a huge amount, he’s clearly very talented , and has expanded his production to film and dubstep
love that first tune. Still such a rare sound.
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
In order to be a producer, you had to devote your entire life to it. man.
You still do, at least in third world countries with little to no scene... Like México
I still have Form and Function on CD. Classic.
thanks so much for uploading this. One of the all time greats of EDM.
His lifestyle these days seems to have superseeded that car though :)
However, I'd rather he still be making dark gritty D&B in that house than shitty dubstep in Los Angeles
Cool to see his equipment
He was at the top, totally on his own. But still in the pocket
This is brilliant.
Photek is a legend.
A beautiful black 348, very underrated.
My favorite is the late nineties techstep period
It was very original back then-something new. He was just being himself. It really shows that it doesn't matter what you use. Yes, you have tighter MIDI with those older computers-something Ableton could never do. Many folks are returning to older gear for that grime and hardware timing; I'm not surprised. The first time I heard of Photek was on the Astralwerks website back in the late '90s. I listened to a sample and then ordered the CD-back when you had to wait for music in the mail. His tracks were totally original. At the time, I didn't know how much he capitalized on it or how much he earned by doing it. When I first heard DnB, I thought it was a bit silly speeding up drum rhythms over ambient atmospheres, but somehow it just stuck.
Great throwback 👌
Photek's music stands up all these years later because the guy knew what he was doing and his points of reference a lot like Bukem
@PICLex Also, in an interview of the period, Photek mentions chopping breaks into "tri-sets". Not sure what this means exactly, but I'd guess something like, 1st chop on the kick (beat1), 2nd on the snare (beat2) - that's what we see in the video - 3rd on the "2and" (to catch the chikachika grace snare action). In any case, fewer chops than 16.
Then you play these chopped samples on the keyboard, it's a very musical way of coming up with interesting drum patterns.
This video is gold
Thanks, loved the hip hop track! and ofcourse the original gunna buy it on vinyl soon!
i love it!!
Love that he's the composer for How to Get Away With Murder :)
Cars worth more than the house
The break he cuts at 2:24 is dope
That bit late in the interview is the most important, I think: "I could just sample it, but I'd far rather make it myself."
Mr. Photek just scored big points.
Awesome vid.
Thanks.Always wonder how they make the music I grew up with.
Photek had the knack of sampling the best musicians in the world.
photek is my spirit animal
I always liked his breaks, he pretty much changed the style of breaks used in jungle, besides AT, and SP, obviously
Very inspiring... 😁👍
Master guide od the master ,love photek trax ❤
it's gr8!
your sick'n! so, i like Photek's DNB!
big up!
Gold!
Legend. Made some brilliant dnb.
If you're asking, the music at 1:30 is "Ni Ten Ichi Ryu"
Forever young
Incase you're still wondering;
Photek - KJZ
from the Modus Operandi album.
@prestonloyola
Thankyou ! Very generous of you, that really helps me man.
great musician, seems incredible to me how the amen could assume infinite forms
Photo, Rupert Parkes is a king in his own right. Drum n bass. I had the fortune of meeting him once in bar rumba.
Photek .... always been one of my favorite....OFFBEAT FTW!
I'm sorry. I know this is three years old, but it really cracked me up. I was thinking the same thing.
The best drum and bass producer.
a true genious
just living the dnb dream...
Fricking sick
Legend
KJZ which is one of the greatest tracks in dnb history.
Always thought Photek's music was like some sort of post-jazz and now I can really see why
Advance from Virgin for making Modus Operandi, every major signed a d'n'b act in the mid nineties.
Genius
The lost art of crate digging.
HisXLNC ... yyyyyep
Anthony White as a 16 yo “little shit” I’m well aware what crate digging is
GOAT
So when he's cutting the breaks, has he got two loops, 1 full, and one cut to the first snare? Can someone explain what he's doing there? Cheers
Hell yes
ARGH, where's the rest of the interview?!
Roots right here 💯
@nexusdb Was flipped on Finsta Bundy's - "Feel The High" Dope track!
This how I want to live.
Like. Top mark.
Big.
Ladies and Gentlemen....... The Don!
@prestonloyola in my opinion one of the reason why the music of that time had so much vibes is because of the old skool recording / production techniques: they were forced to learn to play keyboards or work with machines. Nowadays you download a samplepack, a simple DAW and a mouse and you can pretty much make "music". (not saying that music of today doesn't have vibes though!)
2020 .. Photek & Source Direct at the start. Hardware 1995 & Dispatch 2020
Min. 4:30 "Lonely Fire" By Miles Davis, "Big Fun" Album !!!! Masterpiece !!!!
czcams.com/video/YhCNg5o7uQQ/video.html sample used in here
Lonely Fire on Big Fun
Now that is the coolest ginger in the world.
2020 wow
what is the photek track playing while he is driving? its so 007 dope spy style.
That that OG Reason right there.
Cubase
Got me into the music.
How many drugs did you take?
Here in 2024
Anyone know where I can get The Hidden Camera poster we can see at 1.03 ? ty
what record is he using at 4:28? i know its by miles davis but it just sounds amazing.