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| quote: | Originally posted by djthunderbird
It does however make the reverse engineering recreation efforts a bit funny. It's like trying to reverse engineer Doc Brown's time machine, which was the result of a inspirational moment of madness. |
That's what's so impressive about these "recreating classics" videos for me. Especially some of the ones where the original track uses samples twisted beyond all recognition. A guy called Jim Pavloff recreated Smack My Bitch Up in Ableton years and years ago on YouTube and it absolutely blew my mind at the time. In particular, things like the little slice of guitar noise from Bulls On Parade being chopped and filtered into a completely different sound. In the studio it was probably just Liam Howlett playing around until he got something that sounded good. To figure it out in reverse is very clever, though. These videos also make you realise just how much attention to detail goes into creating these classic records.
By the way, here is the Sound On Sound article on Papua New Guinea which Gyu references in the video. The FSOL were notoriously reticent in interviews, with Brian Dougans barely saying a word and Gaz Cobain tending to spout stoned mysticism at great, obtuse length, but this interview is one of the only times I've heard them both talk quite openly about how they work in the studio:
https://www.soundonsound.com/techni...apua-new-guinea
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