MECHANICAL TECHNO DEMONSTRATION
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- Mechanical Techno Demonstration by Graham Dunning - info/links below
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MECHANICAL TECHNO DEMONSTRATION
Made at Lime Wharf Machines Room as part of
Rhythm & Drone // Research & Development
residency, September 2015.
rhythmanddrone...
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
That poor record player is like
"Oh god get this fucking shit off me, PLEASE"
Communist Ralph naaah, it's all good. These Technics 1200 come with super strong bearings and plenty of torque, they stand up to much worse abuse than that.
direct drive, isn't it? belt drive most likely would not work.
first paragraph in the sl1200 wiki "Originally released as a high fidelity consumer record player, it quickly became adopted among radio and club disc jockeys, thanks to the direct drive, high torque motor design, making it initially suitable for pushbutton cueing and starting of tracks on radio"
Yes, for the longest time only Technics made this particular kind of motor. It's not the typical arrangement where the motor is coupled to the platter, instead, the only moving part inside the body is the massive spindle bearing, and the platter itself is the magnetic rotor of the drive. There are no wimpy mild steel mounts there that could bend.
Indeed it is...Sega 32x episode probably
This is the most enjoyably convoluted things I've seen all week.
+Lazy Game Reviews of course I see LGR on such a video :)
i love your stuff - maybe you should make a video about music things :)
+Lazy Game Reviews Never seen you outside of your videos. Cool stuff though and thanks for making them.
+Lazy Game Reviews
Ohhai LGR.
Was not expecting you here.
LGR :) Nice to see you here man! Love your channel! seen oscilloscope music?
+ Random person: What software do you use?
- Graham Dunning: What?
Hahahahahaha
@@Quim1441 Hahahahahahaha
Yesss!
A rubber belt drive
*hardware
This is what Ableton looks like on the inside.
Best comment evah :-D
Worst statement i have ever witnessed.
lolooll
Same
lol
Everything MUST be touched with the pencil to works properly.
*rubber
Shit so that's why mine doesnt work
Yes if not it wont work.
This cracked me up.
Yeah what sorcery is that??
I feel like i learned something but i have no idea what.
Prince Luci True😂😂😂😂😂
You will understand someday. So keep watching
I have learned that i will think in that when i'm doing techno in ableton
😂😂😂
Its fake
I kinda picture people making techno this way in a post apocalyptic scenario. This is amazingly creative!
give it a few weeks
Holy shit I was thinking the same omfg ok I'm not alone in this universe after all 😅😅👏👏👏
Covid19
This is probably how aliens would try to figure out how we used vinyl.
cool thought
This reminds me of the golden discs inside the Voyager spacecrafts
😂 I ol
This is how Beethoven made his techno, so cool to learn omg
Brenton Kludt beethoven was never alive for this technology.
Of course he was. Bach was also the best EDM producer at his time.
CerealKillerOats You get an award...For being redundant
i thought he was into mushrooms...
i thought exactly the same XD
Him: Hey buddy wanna hear my latest track?
Bud: Sure
Him: Wait a few hours i get my stuff
Bud: don’t forget the pencil
😂😂😂
:DDDDDD
imagine a whole set
This is what real sound engineering is. So beautiful I could weep.
...when you buy a DAW online from Wish and 2 weeks later a huge crate arrives on your doorstep.:-/
hahah
Unableton
disableton
Formidableton
when you want to make techno but it's 1947
DJ ToKyO lol true. Is your name a Soul Oddity reference by chance?
no its a reference to something else that shall remain classified
and not to the actual city of tokyo
Oh ok just asking cause dj tokyo by soul oddity is a dope track
alright
Me at 3:30AM: "time for bed"
TH-cam: "wanna watch MECHANICAL TECHNO DEMONSTRATION on vinyls?"
Me: "ahh shit, here we go again..."
haha, sorry; not sorry
You know my pain!
Precisely, except it's 6:18 in the morning here rn.
@@marco1941 yeah same shit with me , i go to work like a train wreck :D:D:D:D
It's actually 3:13 rn
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"
Really sorry if it put you off at first! Hope you have kept going
Watching Wallace and Gromit discouraged me from eating breakfast for years
@@robertbrook439 🤣
Hahaha you what? Bruh
sorry a year late BUT you are not a total idiot. If allowed, I would recommend exercising your ambition and choosing to seek other solutions before giving up so easily!
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 didn't dream it all up and picture it in my head, that's not how I work. I tested lots of things out and played around with materials and equipment - kept what worked and put it together to make this.
Glad that it gets across how the layering of music works! It's definitely informed by how I learnt to record music with a 4-track tape recorder, and also using Fruity Loops.
@@grahamdunning : Ha! I just watched your Mechanical Techno Boiler Room set. Most excellent to get a reply from you.
When I said “Dreaming it up in your head”, I must admit I pictured myself, in my head, building up piece by piece what you created. At times I create something out of found objects or known objects / materials and felt in tune with what you were doing even though I have never attempted anything like this. I think it’s safe to say I feel very inspired by your creation. Please keep it up. I can’t wait to see where it takes you next :-)
I have learned to produce no software techno without hearing a single word.... the world needs people like you in all the fields
My car broke down the other day. Touched it with my pencil, now it works.
Is Kalyam a female name?
@@todtodster2133 not yet. But if you still want, I have magic pencil to sell.😁
@@Kalyam_Malyanoff Thanks for the offer, but I am fine, I can imagine what your 'magic pencil' looks like..... 🤣
@@todtodster2133 10x for smile, buddy. Greetings from Israel!🇮🇱😃
@@Kalyam_Malyanoff Shalom from Scotland 👍😉
This looks actually easier than using Reason.
+Filly dilly same thought with my non-pirate Ableton live.
+An A King reason and ableton are very easy - watch some tuts on u tube...
+Filly dilly
Amen.
+Filly dilly
"non-pirate" suuuuure ;)
Try going from Ableton then to After Effects.
This is that kind of things I would like to see in a modern museum
So much ASMR vibes with the pencil.
+Mister F ikr i totally got triggered
+Mister F i watched this four times or so just for the pencil parts and and the building...
but the music is awesome too^^
+BananaBlub17 Faith's running sound triggers me.
Abebil3 do you mean the sound of her steps or the breathing?^^ or is it all combined?
BananaBlub17 shoe steps.
Still better than 99% of the other DJs pushing play on the MP3 player.
That's stupid
I don't think so, this guy is pretty clever, far from stupid.
You misunderstood. Your exclamation was stupid, not the guy
Nope, he has mad skills. You just have to watch the video to see that.
As I said.... he indeed has skills... but your exclamation was stupid. today's djs don't "just hit play" .....
And it loops forever without changing. Just like real house music.
progression my dude, you have to have patience to be a dj lol
damn looks like you dont get what house music is
@@spitgorge2021 when i first started listening to deadmau5 id just skip through all the songs and go “EwWW itS AlL tHE SaME” but now i’d happily listen to lack of a better name 1 hour mix all the way through lol
@@kenopsia9013 deadmau5 is house? Would have put him under dubstep/electronic. But tbf I dont really listen to either deadmau5 or house.
Have some oldschool acid house for reference:
th-cam.com/video/ZrLPz4QGRJ8/w-d-xo.html
I dont really think deadmau5 or this fits into that genre.
@@LucIndustries i’m a dj and ive listened to every deadmau5 song, deadmau5 is hundreds of sub genres including deep house, bass house, electronica, techno, trance, progressive trance, etc etc etc and many more but mainly he is progressive house and house, the songs i’d use for reference are 1981, Mr G, Dr funkenstein, not exactly and arguru
also never call deadmau5 “dubstep” you’ll make a lot of people angry lol
this has an adequate amount of cowbell.
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...
Ryan V B Your comment is so funny. Would have techno music stopped the world war?
@@Sporeboy87 fuck yes it would!
Damn straight Ryan! Wish Chris Liebing was born back then
Ryan VB as the Germans invented it whilst hyper on Nazi crank i hardly think so!
This is probably the closest they got back then th-cam.com/video/yIR3pCgqb5o/w-d-xo.html
I feel like this song is playing in the background of every Russian dash cam video
Dave Lindgren would love that
Dave Lindgren Honestly!
Dave Lindgren lol
блять
э бля, мы так то Михаил Круга слушаем
Flat Eric would love this.
+CasterTown WAB WAB WAB WEB WAB. Oizo is the best
+JoseLobo75 Thats MR Oizo :P
+CasterTown my instant association as well :D
+CasterTown awesome comment
EXACTLY!
It is the most technical techno I have seen! No computer hack work, just natural sound and mechnical regularity.
Look son, this is what poor people that can't afford ProTools have to go through.
shit man you could probably sell all these toys and pick up a pro tools and a decent rack mount interface to boot
0prahTV that Yamaha CS5 synth is prob $400-600.
you guys are dream killers...
buying protools to produce techno lmao
buying protools. lmao
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
Gaaay
Playing For Change!! Your channel has great content, thanks!!
Playing For Change!! Your channel has great content, thanks!!
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!
Yes mate! I originally used rolls of tape for that very reason. It's a great way to play records backwards, much more consistent than just winding back manually. Never seen anyone beat-match doing it though - that's really impressive!
@@grahamdunning I had a reverse switch installed on my turntable back in the nineties. So that worked well also. lol
@@EricBishard Excellent!
terrypussypower that’s so sick!
Isn't that a Frankie Bones trick?
And this was pre covid.
Wonder what he is doing while covid
The most ASMR non-ASMR video I've seen
Nurpus unintentional asmr haha. I thought the same
Nurpus that’s what I was thinking too, I had to break out the headphones for this video
walking into the club with that.
DARK MAZZtv This comment is way too underrated
This is a good way to visualize digital music layering
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.
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it. Check out the "studio experiments" playlist on the channel for some other stuff with this project.
the process was more exciting than a final result
The amount of Cowbell was entirely sufficient
But your make up isnt. Bitch look like she stuck her face inside a bowl of plastic an acrylic paint. Fugly as hell
@@brianthomason5022 someone needs more cowbell
@@brianthomason5022 holy fuckinf crybaby, Batman!
@@brianthomason5022 sounds like u need more cowbell in your life
BOOM! he shots he scores! :-)
good thing there was that pencil otherwise I would of been so lost.
HAVE
HAVE NOT OF
This is the most irritating grammar mistake.
Also "that pencil was there" Jesus grammar is not your strong point lol
cXdot "good thing there was that pencil" is fine, you dolt.
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!
I saw this before it had a thousand views. *sips from bio-coffee*
+Michael Farbridge The fuck is bio-coffee?
+kevman5 probably people
+kevman5 it's made with activated almonds
+Michael Farbridge That's the most hipsterest shit I've ever read.
+TheMusketITuckedIt THAT'S THE JOKE
For those curious, the tempo is 133.32 BPM.
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.
35 years in radio broadcasting and being a sound tech. This is a mind blower.
it reminds me Flat beat by Mr.Oizo
DUDE (or Dudette)!!!! You have saved me from years of torture! I recall Mr. Oizo from WAY back when. Relatively recently, I was trying to look up the song. Could never come up with the right search to get it to hit. Here I am now, just cruising around randomly on a video I typically wouldn't watch and zoom down to the comments and read yours. MAN! I can't wait to get over to that video. Thank you!
Flat Beat was what I used extensively while testing a home made sub - I imagine my neighbours hated me. Anyone listening to it on laptop/phone speakers would be completely missing that track.
I know exactly what kind of torture you're talking about :) Never ever listen to Internet radio without detailed playlist published. ;)
So you're welcome, man.
Lol Kennymiester dontcha love it when life throws us a little bone like that once in a while. :)
It's more closer to *Flat 55* from *Analog Worms Attack* than Flat Beat, but yeah it still Mr.Oizo :D
I use FL studio
Graham dunning: Hold my beer
You meant record player?👍😁
LMMS for lyfe
That's why I love Electronic Music. You can do so much with it!
But this is not electric music.
Lapát Jani Sure it is! Partly.
Yeah it is.
Johannes MagEs until the electricity goes out.
It certainly samples from a synth. So in part it is electronic music.
Person1: ableton!
Person2: fl studio!
Graham Dunning: ok guys, hold my pencil
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
Correct! You did the maths.
ОПА ХАРДБАС ЧАС
Holy crap
@@grahamdunning can you make some mechanical dnb at 180bpm please
@@maxpvisuals *switches turntable to 45rpm*
Kraftwerk would be proud
A lot of work to get some noise.
music is just noise
Danillo Rodrigues you speak so because you are not a musician
without humans to perceive as music there is only noise
i mean... this has rithm, clearly has a beat, is this music or noise? the concept of music is clear, but if we like it or not isnt, it is relative
It is suprising how you Immanuel can singlehandedly classify this as "noise". Or you think it is noise but understand that it´s music for others? if that is the case you would understand why someone would do the work done. Or so you believe the person who did this thougth it was just noice? If that would be the case i agree, but thats a very strange and unprobable assumtion. - I really dont understand your comment.
I keep coming back to this video periodically because the concept is fascinating, but also this groove pops into my head
Subbed now that I see you have more music to explore
@@73caddydaddy93 Thanks, yes there's more on the channel including some live sets with the Mechanical Techno setup, and live streams of me using it to write new track with.
@@grahamdunning already started checking out some of your other work and I really enjoy it!
His record bag must weigh a ton.
It's about 30kg without the record player
If I had this at my house it would be going 24/7
come round
Graham Dunning on the way
I'd want it as an alarm clock
sleep over
rule of the house: whoever stops the system gets kicked out and has to pay 100, which would be used to add to the system
Man, life was hard before frootloops.
So cool. Id be even more impressed if you made a whole set
thanks! here's a full live set: th-cam.com/video/jUa64X8bjSA/w-d-xo.html
@@grahamdunning holy crap!!! Thats awesome!!!!!!
Look around you! Look...around you. The word we are looking for today is... ...Techno
Thants!
Take out your copybooks now.
You may have come across techno in your grandparents' LP collection, and wondered what all the fuss was about.
Techno is in fact one of the oldest known forms of music, known to the ancient Greeks as _tekton_, or "carpentry".
The principles of techno have many useful applications, from parliamentary debate to the humble kitchen Tannoy.
haha
HaloInverse Fight me
I can see FLAT ERIC rocking out to this, smoking a hot dog like a cigar.
Flat beat
Oh yeah. For some reason it sounds very similar to flat beat.
Someone tell this guy WWII is over.
lol. Great one bro.
Smith Road Publishing nah this guy needs some hardcore trance or some acid techno
Smith Road Publishing probably got some when he played London Boilerhouse.
Stupid...
😆blitzkrieg🔈🔉🔊
5:30 -> When the old teachers turn on their microphones in online meetings
LMFAO
Sounds like Mr Oizo. Must be his way of producing beats.
+Koijo Tito It's actually close. All his albums after 2005 are just him making nonsense with Albeton (but he still good). For Flat Beat, it was a Roland Tr-606 Drumatix and some samples. [Sorry for my bad english.]
This is like behind the scenes of Kraftwerk music
so much easier than using a computer
*_This was some of the craziest music production content i've seen in ages_*
I can't even think how amazing this is and how someone, one day, "create" it
this is some animusic shit right here... so dope.
"What kind of music do you listen to?"
Me: *thinking about this video* "It's complicated...."
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!
Now I see how Mr. Oizo created his Flat Beat song.
had the same thought
Beat me to that comment by 11 months, haha, was thinking the same thing. th-cam.com/video/hY6WTuvyF7Y/w-d-xo.html
i found this satisfying for some reason..
kingdomatthi it's called listening to music
i listen alot to ASMR already yes. But i think this is different
please elaborate, Tor Jakobsen. I need to know why you said this, for some reason. For some reason, i'm imagining a person who never knows the reason they think or feel things, and shares that sentiment with the world each time they express themselves. This intrigues me, for some reason.
Seriously Graham, you are an effen genius!!!! Not only with your engineering skills, but the track itself is wicked! Cheers mate.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Would love to see a 1hour live set of this guy.
Here's a half-hour one: th-cam.com/video/gxBaNWYPVIA/w-d-xo.html
Here's a 1hr set with this setup together with live coding: th-cam.com/video/IatfZAIMU_M/w-d-xo.html
Incredible! This guy is nut :)
I too think he is nut
Lazers we were all nut in the beginning
feena bus a nut
Kris Grym he is :)
this dude semen
How would it sound when played at 45 rpm?
Don't know if that would work cause the increased pull on the spinning platters, plus they are being stacked.
King Schultz thx :)
Change your youtube settings to 1.5x speed, that's close enough.
George will try, thx :)
Put it on .5 speed and get ready for the Acid trip.
"Your music sounds like a broken record skipping."
hahah
"Oh, thank you! That's so nice of you to say!"
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.
This is how vegans make house music
Aaron Gelera brilliant!!!!! XD
What does that even have to do with it?
What?
naming himself whispering vegan and even mentioning that you are vegan... but you dont get this joke. holy fuck, you just need some proteins. the joke is like vegans like their shit as raw/natural as possible, and in the video techno is made the rawest way possible i guess.
lol triggered vegans
This is definitely the quickest and most efficient way to make music.
Robin Harvey i cant tell you, this is in fact true.
It's an absolute piece of piss.
no u dumb no brainer living under the rock. Just Sing or Beatbox..
@@Anudorini-Talah Thank you I had not thought of that
I would have said beat boxing was but OK.
"My car isn't broken man, it's a mechanical techno generator. "
As cool as it is, the result sounds like that one dj who just never quite could get the hang of beatmatching.
it me
That's probably just how techno is
It adds a slightly more human element imo.
Ehh for what it was .. It was cool. I would have fixed the cymbal/snap/claps and made the track line up a bit better. But that's more of a production thing, no?
And there were those that said Techno was just made with computers.
I think you've missed something in the video, watch it again.
@@baladar1353 How about this one :D th-cam.com/video/YbsvFMEvPo4/w-d-xo.html
With push of a button :)
isnt most techno not made with computers though
The point I was making is that Techno doesn't have to be digital. It's a common misconception that it is.
When he points that pencil at stuff it makes me understand him instantly
I´m now infected with the eletronic virus for nearly 30 years and I surel< thought, I´ve seen it all - but Thank you ! Now I know, : There is allways space for new ideas and totally crazy stuff......Great to see that the inspiration never dies.!! Keep gpin...you (lovely) freaks ( as I am too)
Super, thanks!
This is the video everyone needs in order to survive a post-apocalyptic world.
love the ending...great work.
comesect69 Thanks. it comes naturally to me, so I don't really feel right accepting positive affirmations for something so effortless.
wow, too much pride and ego on your end...thuuuumbs dowwwn...
comesect69 You don't even know what you're talking about. Your thumbs tell your whole story, bro. Not impressed.
bro!
comesect69 Dude!
The Rube Goldberg machine of techno demonstrations.
That was incredibly satisfying to watch an listen to. Full respect to artists who did/do it this way.
"Yeah i'm a DJ"
*proceeds to set up this*
lol at everyone hating on this. this may be primitive but damn i would be lying if i told you turntable music wasn't rad.
I saw Graham perform this at Cafe Oto and it was great seeing/hearing it live!
This is future of music : back to basics and roots
This is great for visualizing all the parts that go into making a track.
Thanks!
Tru
You have me completely lost until the 4-minute mark, then it all amazingly came together and had me bumping
Hell is where they use a pencil even more gingerly, and never get to the song.
Ok I wandered into youtube twilight zone again, always happens late at night. lol
but you learned some thing from it
I can see why it’s called “techno”
because it is minimal
oh god, this is either pretty clever or I interpreted it wrong... I'll call it technono from now on.
I can just imagine this being dropped in a club at 3am. Sounds great.
Very strong motor
Gabriel Vieira it's a "technics" player, they are made to last forever! The player weights about 18 kilograms! And they have also the strongest motor I ever seen
stefanomaria taurino Cool!!!
It used a very strong magnetic field to rotate the platter, it’s known as a ‘Direct drive’ as there is no belt used, like cheaper turntables. It was Industry standard for DJs and Nightclubs for decades.
Steven McGuinness ...”was”?
It's more to do with Panasonics standards to building quality and quartz technology
The rude comments need to shut up this is so cool and takes so much effort that a software doesn’t
Lmao the end, too many drugs.
Or not enough.
Many records were harmed in the making of this film