The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds - hardware only cover/recreation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2023
- Yes, another version of 'Little Fluffy Clouds', but this time #DAWless with a vintage #Akai sampler and a box of floppy disks because that's what they had back then
Lots has been said about the samples and structure of this one, most of it covered over on @GyuBeats beats excellent Ableton breakdown.
Some interesting reading for the curious:
Sound on Sound interview from 1993
➡ www.muzines.co.uk/articles/the...
Kris 'Thrash' Weston's retrospective take on the whole process
➡ web.archive.org/web/201607061...
Electronic Sound interview with Alex
➡ www.electronicsound.co.uk/lan...
More from Kris -
➡ web.archive.org/web/201407231...
Whosampled:
➡ www.whosampled.com/The-Orb/Li...
Kris doesn't seem to be active at the moment; there was a Kickstarter a few years ago but nothing since. Buy him a pint if you ever meet him.
Sequenced on a #Roland MC50, synths from a #Nord Lead 2X, Samples on the Akai S3000XL, mixed on a Neve 8816 and recorded directly to a Zoom H4N. Filmed on a Pansonic Lumix GX80 and editing on the most crash-happy software on earth Premiere Pro.
Ending video created by AI 🤖 using #discodiffusion v5.7
Thanks for watching!
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Thanks everyone who's watched these videos over the past few months - I had no idea anyone would find poking around on some obsolete kit so interesting.. Hope this inspires in some way!
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These are excellent and imo the best of their kind in here. Very good work
hell yes thankyou
Sorry I didn't watch this earlier this month. Was busy with other stuff. Incredibly glad you make these videos.
good stuff. a welcome addition to the fandom of songs like this. you should have a chat/become buds with "Gyu Beats". You two should compare notes on how to present this stuff free from youtube awkwardness, and otherwise consider some colabs. th-cam.com/video/KxzeoBzoGME/w-d-xo.html
Amazing job. Sounds great. I know this tune intimately having tripped to it loads of times. Your cover is not jarring in the slightest.
Very well done.
Luv and Peace.
I racked my brain in the 90's trying to understand how they came up with this song. I didn't realize all of the disparate samples they used. Nice job on this. Now help me understand the Pomme Fritz album.
No-one understands Pomme Fritz unless you're (according to rumour) an Island Records exec on acid... ☮☮
when you got the first synth right i audibly gasped lmao
this is incredible
Thank you! 🎹✌️
It's like hearing it with new ears... imagine a whole re-recorded Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld in this vein :)
😁 Thanks! Maybe one day...
This brings back memories of when I first heard this tune! I sat bolt upright as soon as I heard the Reich/Metheny sample, since I’d bought the Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint album a couple of years before that and listened to it a lot, and I couldn’t believe someone was sampling a minimalist composer rather than the usual James Brown grooves. This track is such a wonderful combination of unexpected samples and burbling synths, and it’s great to see a breakdown like this.
It's a brilliant combination! I was in two minds to play the Reich/Metheny piece from scratch rather than sampling it (I did EC 1 ages ago over on my other channel - th-cam.com/video/TCads3NoEho/w-d-xo.html) but figured that would be a step too far for people expecting bleeps and boops!... 😂
You're so good at doing these faithful reconstructions. Great classic tracks and results every time 👍
Thanks so much!
This channel is by far and away the most interesting I have come across in a long time and aligns perfectly with my own music interests. Thank you so much for this beautiful content!
Thank you for watching!
This is a really good cover. I can’t understand a thing you talked about, but I still get it.
😂😂 Thank you!
Amazing work - I heard they used a sample of jump into the fire by Harry Nilsson - probably the extended drum solo at the end of the track.
Thanks! Yep, Harry's in there - my guess is they used a noise gate to get rid of the reverby sound on the original record, so it was less obvious which track was sampled?
just WOW, I love it so much!!!!!
Thanks!
Beautiful work! I had no idea there was all of that going on in the original. It makes me wonder how The Orb pulled off DJ-ing this stuff live on a stage. Well Done. I dig these insightful recreations.
Thanks!! I think there were a lot of DAT tapes of the fully mixed tracks plus a sampler they could trigger live, and then they'd swap between them?? Be interesting to see it all in context!
Perfect
Thanks!
much excitement for a very favorite song! getting in now before copyright takedown
Thanks! I *think* this one's okay for copyright - Universal take most of the ad revenue from this, so it's seen the same as someone covering an Ed Sheeran song or something.
@@bleepsandboops i really wish it would fix the system to not punish people tryin to have a good time. it really prevents you and gyu from like, showing us all a good time.
So dam n good!!!
Thanks!
Superb as usual. Love it. Bravo mate.
Thank you!
Fn incredible. Loving your videos. This one takes the cake. Bravo!!
Glad you like them!
Dude this was so so awesome! Great job!
Thanks!
so rad, great work! loving these dawless reworks
Thanks!
I love watching your vids! I remember friends with that sampler at the time and being in awe, now in awe of watching you using these machines to bring to life the process of the time! Great job man! Hat’s off to you!! And keep them coming 😎
Thank you! Part nostalgia and part archaeology is what I'm aiming for!!!
Brilliant! Excellent work, amigo. Truly fascinating watching you recreate a classic. Keep 'em coming! III
Thanks!
Brilliant.loved watching this and with the hardware.. subscribed
Thank you and welcome aboard!!
This is beyond wonderful!
Thank you!
i just bought an s3000xl because of you, you sonuvabich 😭
Welcome to the club!!
Very inspiring work, thank you!
Thanks for watching!
I could give you such a big smooch for doing this!
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Yes.
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Great recreation! And thanks for those Kris Weston links, they are very interesting reading. If I ever meet him I will definitely buy him a pint.
Thanks! And please do!!
1:20 just a photo of The Wizard is all you need for the TR 909 😂
Man, I could watch Exhibitionist for hours...!
1st track of their 1st album and the classic most people remember them for. I've followed all their releases until now. Their latest album last year is a collaboration with David Gilmour of Pink Floyd and I love it. Floyd is my favourite band. I'm seeing the Orb in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK on the 9th March and can't wait 🇬🇧👌😎
Enjoy!!
Superb work! Thanks for deconstructing this whopper of a song
Thanks for watching!
brilliant!
Thank you!
i'm so glad i got algorithm'd this channel in time for this video omg
👍👍 Welcome aboard!
Another awesome video! Thank you!
Thanks!
This one was truly wonderful. Thank you so much for this.
And when that Quadra verb hit the synth line... Magical.
I would like to suggest In Yer Face by 808 State (because Pacifica is too obvious!) or perhaps Ska Train by the Beatmasters for some acid Ska vibes!
Thank you! Will check out the 808 State track - I thought about doing Pacific but they had a live sax player on that didn't they?
@@bleepsandboops yeah that might be a bit difficult!!!
F'ing brilliant.
Splendid job
Thank you!
So insane man! Keep it up!
Thank you!
Outstanding.
Thank you!
This was on another level! Incredible. How are these visuals done? They perfectly fitted the music. Thank you very much for making these videos. So relaxing and soothing.
they seem to be AI genarated
Thank you! And yep, the visuals at the end were done in Disco Diffusion, an AI image/video generator, using prompts related to the lyrics (purple, red, clouds, Arizona desert etc) which took *ages* but works well I think!
@@bleepsandboops yeah it works very nicely. Thanks for taking the time and for showing me The Orb. Interesting album for sure.
Great stuff - keep em coming 🤘😤
Thanks! Will do!
So good!
Thank you!
Ah, nice work!! I'd love to hear Orbital Lush 3-2.
Great track! That's a lot of 303 tweaking!!
Truly epic!!
Thank you!
Fantastic!!! Bravo!
Many thanks!!
ha! 🎉 Nice work, put a smile on my face. (I was originally searching for the Roland R8 in use, and stumbled upon your channel)
Thanks! *big* R8 tune coming up next 🤖🥁
@@bleepsandboops Look forward to it! ❤️
Another win!
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Love it ❤
Thanks!
Nice one, great to see the track growing from scratch too, and great video work 😃 I tried Outlands on an Electribe but you nailed this!
p.s. I just read your description - I was in contact with Kris a few years ago and I only then realised that the time I stopped listening to the Orb was the time he left (just after Pomme Fritz). Last thing I heard he was living up here in Scotland being treated badly by the NHS. Andy Falconer also has some interesting info about his memories with the Orb and Alex/Kris but I've never trusted Alex's take on *anything*, being an ex A&R man an all heh
Thanks! And yeah, it sounds like the whole thing was a bit of a sh1t show between Kris and Alex - Alex obviously had the contacts, got the interviews and now gets to write the story, but I wonder how much he'd have accomplished without Kris' involvement early doors. Hope Kris found the support he needed
Awesome!
Thanks!
So good ✊
Thank you!
Brilliant
Thank you!
love it
Thanks!
Amazing work! I’ve always wondered where the “layering different sounds on top of each other” sample came from. I always thought it sounded like it had come from one of those old BBC Radiophonic Workshop documentaries but read somewhere it was Alex sampling himself…
I believe that's the case - still yet to find the original BBC archive version, but I like the idea that you'd sample yourself off the radio 😂
this is so good. what you guys did back in the days with an (akai) sampler, floppy discs and a synth sequenced by a thingy i never knew existed until now, some cannot do today in a daw.
Maximum Respect! I am inspired in many ways. Thank you. P.S: I would like to suggest the prodigy, fatboyslim or chemical brothers stuff - you choose. iam fine with any :-)
Thanks so much! Prodigy is definitely one that gets recommended a lot, will see what I can do!!
@@bleepsandboops would be so awesome
Oh damn posted hours ago! This is amazing and I doubt I could do it justice even with a DAW etc. I thought it was confirmed not Levar Burton in the booklet from the re-release of The Orb's Adventures? (maybe I'm not recalling that well, I only borrowed it from a friend) Alex even said it was him, but to me it's never sounded like him, growing up with Reading Rainbow and TNG later. But then again in those shows he's sort of acting/presenting and then completely acting. It's hard to imagine his voice raising in that way and sounding so thin and missing this kind of passion he always has in his voice. I remember this huge argument over it on a mailing list in the 90s! I guess it doesn't matter and probably Alex knows especially because of the legal stuff. I just can't believe it's him! I'd love it to be him though.
As a big TNG fan, I'd really wish it to be Levar Burton, especially with Michael Dorn popping up on the Orbital albums too... It's one of those things where if you read enough corners of the internet, you can probably convince yourself one way or the other... especially if the same interviews are recycled and republished over the years 😂 I wonder if anyone has ever reached out to him (Levar) or his agent to confirm?
Nice! Good stuff.
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One of the best tracks ever made ..
Right?
i dare you to try and do: Squarepusher - Vic Acid!
Tom's 100% on my list of things to work on! Tough call on which track, it all depends how long it'll take to work out how the breaks were programmed!!
@@bleepsandboops I’ll just jump in here to dare you to also do My Red Hot Car by the same genius!
What a f*ckin gem. Awesome channel.
Thanks!
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OMG THANKS
You're welcome! 😎
I'd love to see you try some classic big beat. Prodigy maybe. Charly would be fantastic
Need to borrow/buy/steal a Roland Alpha Juno first! I was planning to do some early Prodigy, depends if I can get it past the copyright gods 😀
Impressive!!, And sequenced with an mc50!!
Thanks! At some point I'll swap to a QY700 or Atari (maybe??), but for now the MC50 is fun fun fun!
@@bleepsandboops QY700!! Great idea!! A classic sequencer from the mid 90's.!!. Just before the RM1x.👍🏻
'Shake it' by Bomb the Bass next because nobody knows where Tim got the 'Shake it' sample from!
Insane! What about to recreate 808 state - Pacific? or any of their creations
I think that one's already been covered in great depth by Capt Pikant!! Might have a look anyway... 🤓🎹
A cover of Sleep Dealer by Oneohtrix Point Never would be awesome!
It's weird, Oneohtrix does seem to have gone really old school production recently? Definitely one to look at assuming the copyright gods permit it
One of the synths was probably an ARP 2600. I think that was mentioned in an interview once.
Highly likely - there are some good interviews with them that have been OCR scanned over on mu:zines, well worth a read!
This was near perfect for me. This sound was spot on, maybe even better than the original. The visuals were good but I would have preferred morphs similar to the chemical brothers Star Guitar where the visuals and sound are in sync. I'm just being picky. - That was great!
Thanks! Ha, yeah, the visuals are an interesting amount of written cues, waiting for the Disco Diffusion to do its thing without crashing, and then seeing if any of it is even useable! I'd love to try it with AI overlay of an actual video someday, but time/cost etc... 😂😂
This is great. How long does it take to make one of these videos?
Thanks! The sequencing I can usually do in a day, assuming I have everything prepared (which samples are used, I've written down where they need editing etc) but putting the film together takes a lot longer especially with Premiere Pro crashing all the time! This one took longer still because I spent a few days experimenting with the AI video thing for the track at the end...
How do you like that 2x? I have an original Nord Lead 1 rack from early/mid 90s. Love it to pieces.
Great bit of kit! Makes you appreciate how much you can do with something that isn't all bells and whistles... Always wanted one back in the day so it's great to (finally) be using one!
awesome.. I have a request.. rez by underworld
Awesome track! Will see if I can get some decent 909 samples... watch this space!
@@bleepsandboops cool looking forward to it 👌
@@bleepsandboops In an interview about the mad 'melody' in Rez, I believe Mr Smith did it jamming on an ARP 2600 so good luck with that one heh... saying that I just found this: th-cam.com/video/0zHJXHkjBRU/w-d-xo.html
>VIRTUAL ANALO
It's just not the same...
Amazing cover yet again, and a video too!
Thanks! 😀😀 Needed a break for this one but I'm sure that framing will be back...
Underworld Dubnobasswithmyheadman/ your own music in the style of french house
Are people into French house still? I have a well loved copy of Etienne De Crecy's Super Discount which is amazing, but hardly anyone seems to be aware of it?!
that's a quick subscribe
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For some reason I thought the bass on this was played by Youth on an electric bass then sampled and sequenced?
Entirely possible - I read something about how the sessions turned into a bit of a mess so there's a good chance someone jammed something that later got sampled
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@@bleepsandboops 😂🤣
What about “Don’t you want me” by Felix?
Will have a listen!
@@bleepsandboops if you’d prefer a more sample-based challenge, what about “Paid in Full” by Eric B and Rakim?
@@energylab227 tbf that felix track (I knew the track but not the artist!) is a total anthem!
@@bleepsandboops totallly. It’s one of my all time favourite dance tracks. I still have the original on 12” vinyl stored away.
Do windowlicker
🤯 I think Rdj was totally ITB by then! Have you heard the demo version though? The lyrics are something like "don't drink and take antibiotics" 😂😂
please make my red hot car by squarepusher
😂😂 I think my little MC50 would explode...!!
The fingernails were bout to make me throw up the whole time, but awesome other than that!
😂 I had a few comments on the other videos.. they're for my guitar playing! 💅🎸
@@bleepsandboops I knew you would say guitar. I finger pick too, but there is no level of guitarist where that should be a thing.
😂 Believe it or not, I've seen longer! I guess it's just whatever you get used to...
love it
Thank you!