The Track that TRANSFORMED Techno - How Was It Made?
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From a guy that interviewed JB
I went into my archives. These are the actual transcripts. He used the rack version of the Casio FZ-1, the FZ-10m as I recall. He sequenced it with the Akai MPC.
About Energy Flash:
JOEY BELTRAM I sampled just a normal bass, just a plain boring bass from my "Roland JX-3" and played it back and messed with the filters in the "Casio" (sampler). Added a little attack on the resonance, so it would sound a little different depending on how you’d press the key on the velocity. I got that "Energy Flash" bass tone thing, and it just sounded great. It’s the same thing for the bassline, the lower bassline. It’s the same sound, just played two octaves lower. So it all was just coming out of the "Casio", that was it, I’d made my little "Energy Flash" bass. I’m surprised, that people still today are interested in the record. It’s been like 20 years or so and it still seems to get played, and I still hear it out a lot which is pretty cool.
I love seeing videos about this tune. There is an excellent recreation by another guy on here. He really nails it. I’ll try and find the link later.
Makes sense for sure.come to think about it he did tell me it was a Roland JX3P years ago ..my mistake saying an SH2...mybad.
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I have Energy Flash on vinyl
@alexjohnson1612 sold my copy on Transmat , spewing now, but still have my R&S ..
@@andrewverran3498 I felt like spewing the next day, an associate got me drunk in the 80s & manged to buy half my collection for £7.50p
@@alexjohnson1612 ouch 😢
Excellent stuff man! Got this on 12", we ran to the dance floor when the opening lines where dropped back in the day, one of golden tune's in my collection that I'll always treasure.
R&S was on fire back then with their "Euro" sound.... 2nd phase mentasm and outlander the Vamp, dominator etc.... was selling this out of Red Records in Elephant and castle at the age of 17 in 91. Halcyon Days. great video btw
I didn't know Red had a shop in elephant, used to go to the one in Brixton, used to get loads of electro in there, never really went there again when house kicked off, would be up in soho record shopping instead.
CJ Bolland - Carmague was insane as well
M500 (Juan Atkins) - Sonic Sunset was my highlight from them. It sounds so Kraftwerk-inspired, but is its own thing at the same time.
Program II The Omen CJ Bolland Horsepower and Mantra
@@supersmileyclub544 There was one on rye lane as well I remember
Energy Flash is the first tune that prompted me to pester the dj for a track ID, followed by going to buy the 12" the next day. Warehouse party in Manchester, 1991 run by Caz & Jenks. Blew my tiny teenage gourd!
@@UROKRK good point! 🤣
That bit you said at the end was the key. So many classic tracks were made in a couple of hours by looping all the elements through a mixer, bringing things in/out on the mixer, tweaking the pots on the synth and recording it live.
Can't link here but there are many interviews with classic producers about this method. e.g. Misha and Tim - Access
It was really the only way to do it, you’d be lucky if you could afford the DAT tapes to record it on too
Your channel just gets better and better and I already loved it! Thanks for this one mate
I was on the same label as joey when this was released. The moment I heard it, it became my favourite Techno tune. Still is!
R&S records, you guys together with Renaat were such a big influence.... In order to dance.... Played them so much... Still great
Appreciate it!@@SoundOfVinyl
@@DavidMorley Spectrum - Brazil I played that grey, and still such an amazing track... When Bocca exploded those were the years... We dont see that back that kind of freshness and spirit
@@SoundOfVinyl 🎶🎵😻
Just been listening to your tracks on your website - wonderful stuff!
Opened up for @JoeyBeltram at the Limelite in NYC for the Logic Records Party CMJ in 1995 was so bizarre and yet awesome. This track changed the Scene and was essential.
Bass lead “riff” is an alpha Juno sampled into a Casio fz1 using its filters. Heard from the man himself.
Joey told me the same thing about Mentasm.
'Mentasm' was definitely made with an Alpha Juno because it famously uses the "What The" preset that became famous as the "Hoover sound" of Belgian techno, so I wouldn't be too surprised if Beltram used the Alpha on "Energy Flash" as well, either alongside or as a replacement for the old Jupiter.
How impressive does that make the Alpha Juno...can't believe no one has cloned it yet ...an Alpha Juno with a programmer is fairly expensive...programmer is worth more than the synth...
ARE YOU LISTENING ULI ??
On Mentasm, it's the preset of the Juno sampled in the FZ1 as revealed by Mundo Muzique in an interview.
And you can tell it's not the Juno that is directly recorded because of the filter sweep at some point in the track. It doesn't sound at all like the Juno filter.@@AutPen38
Makes sense. Sounds like Alpha to me.
Energy flash! Such an amazing tune. Thank you for this video!! 👍🎹
Remember the first time I heard it at an outdoor rave near Coventry in 1990. Everyone was communicating the lead synth to each other across the space, eyes and teeth and hands in the air, sympatico 💊. The B side Psycho Bass is excellent too. ✊
And the Eclipse
Oh yeah. Even more memories walking out of the Loft in Shoreditch after an all nighter, all of us mimicking the baseline line 'waa waa wa wa' 😊
@@jasonmfalconer I always considered Energy Flash Rave personally, not Techno 🤔
OMG well done! Great work and hats off to you Joey B. Absolute timeless classic. Had some experiences to this
Bro, I really enjoyed listening to/watching your vid,
Great work 💯 on showing & explaining how the work is done making electronic/house music 🎶
Stunning work ❤ takes me back to being 20 and mouthing that baaah baa baah absolutely off my nut with that realisation everyone else is doing the same , amazing tune amazing times, your videos always hit that sweet spot.
Nice work man. Excellent detective work you're done there on that classic and iconic techno track. Regards from Krusty/Tom in Denmark
Thank you, I been dreaming about this for a long time!!!! this is one of my favorite tracks of all the time
Nothing went hand in hand like "A dove and energy flash"
Until doves became the standard for low grade eastern European aspirin, nothing hit like the snowballs, made doves look like THE PIGEONS THEY ARE
Purple specks all day everyday
2 doves and energy flash might top it 😂
Mitsubishi's.
@@spngled8654 Snowballs were legendary, so strong, made Doves etc look like sweets
Thank you for the video! One thing to mention though. Jupiter 6 does not have velocity. As of suspects what Beltram used I would bet on MKS-50 as it has a velocity. Since we can hear MKS-50 (Alpha Juno) in another musical piece of mr Beltram we can be certain that he had it (or borrowed it) back in the day. Regarding the Jupiter 8 vs Jupiter 6, they are two synths that have not much in common aside the same filter chip. Cheers!
MKS-80 would be another option
The Don !! .great Mc909 sample set BTW!
@@gixerags750 Thank you! OMG it was almost 10 yrs ago.
@@DonSolaris no one knew the difference 30 + years ago. Genre’s weren’t really a thing until about 92 IMHO, we had house & techno up to that time and then sounds such as rave, jungle, trance etc started to branch out into their own sound
@@gregthompson7961 I'm not sure I understand what you're talking about?
Amazing! So glad I found this. Thanks, Gyu!
Dammm... I could swear that the classic bow bow sound was from a distorted 303. Great stuff. Tks for sharing sir
fabulous stuff, great video ! Danced my ass off to this at the time it came out, ah the memories......
What a great video this is. I’ll have to watch all your others now.
Awesome, incredible re-created !!!
Energy flash is my all time favourite techno track.
@the early 90, this song and some years later dominator bigger & bolder ... they were a bomb on the dance floor.
Can I suggest a next challenge for Gyu Beats : re-create the intro of 'D-Shake - Techno Trance (Paradise Is Now)'
I tried but i'm getting nowhere near it
Word man ! Just made a mix of tracks from that era recently this is a seminal techno track : powerful !
Fantastic work. There was an interview in one of the dance mags of the 90’s wher he talked about making this at the R&S studios, if I remember correctly
He met Renaat ( also with C J Bolland )and gave him Energy Flash, that was his original ticket into RandS ...was made at his " OnOne "studio in Broooklyn.
This is AWESOME! Period reconstructions are such a detailed endeavour! This song was HUGE enough that I remembered it, but I was a house and jungle kid, and just not that into techno, at that time. However, your building it back is like a crime scene!
when i was 17, i used to wake up in the weekend with this song. I just reached out to the power switch, had the needle on the record the night before just on the right spot, turned power off the mixer and amps, so everything powered up and it just played loud. I even had a light organ (and jbl disco 100's with vitavox horns and jbl bullets) - yeah the neighbours loved me. WOW WOW WOW WOW WOOOOOOOW WOOOOOOOWW WOOOOOOOWWW... I still have the record naturally
Your neighbors? What about your parents? hahahaha
Nailed that one there, what a track!
Always liked Green Velvet's Flash as well.
Thanks for yet another great video 🙂
There was a Q&A many years ago online where Joey answered questions for a few hours on a forum. Apparently, it was several synths that made that womp sound and he admitted he's doesn't clearly remember which ones. or he didn't wanna reveal. He did say that it's not a 303.
energy flash still totally kicks ass. amazing track, oh the fun we had :)))) and you recreated it so well!! the orbital connection is awesome too
Well happy to find this. Jaw clenched hard, for whole video 😆👍
Very good recreation, nearly spot on! I read somewhere Joey saying he used a Juno 106 for the bass sound and mostly in all his early classics.
You are mistaking the 106 for the Alpha Juno (MKS), but as far as I've read it was neither a Juno variant nor as simple as only one synth (JX-3P sampled into a Casio for its filter seems to be more on track, and verified by Joe himself & others trying out the combo - but we also have to keep in mind the producers protective nature & decades of time affecting memory!).
Probably one of the most defining Dance Tracks of Club Kaos, Galway in 1990.Blew everyone away.
the best
I remember going from Dublin to Galway mid nineties, there was a spot I think called 'The Castle' is that right? Good club that!
Yeah. I started the Castle in Salthill in 1990. Some great Club Nights.
@@djrhythmik9929 that's mad, in asking verification of a club's name from the guy who created it 😄
Really enjoyed this video. Made me get out my old R&S 12" records and play them (volume muted a bit because of neighbours...)
The extacy vocal definitely stood out to me at the time, especially on xtc in a dark room was something else 👌👌
this is very much some breakthrough information for some things im trying to achieve! thank you very much :)
Damn you're a mind reader. I stuck a BBC Rave Forever playlist on earlier that had this in it and wondered how it was made. Thank you 😁
There’s a nice interview with Joey in which he said he used the Casio SZ-1 for the Energy Flash lead. “DJs and Beers” around 36min
Good job! About the bass: the original Jupiter 8 (or Juno, Jupiter 6, ..) has no velocity sensitivity (but most plug-in recreations added that feature).
How the F did I know exactly what track you were going be!! That's the beauty of techno!! ❤ Such a classic!!
Just discovered this channel. Grew up on the south coast in this music era. Great stuff…..thanks 😊
fairplay for spotting that downturn on the second Ecstasy
Holy crap, Dude! You completely NAILED it.
Pure Hardcore. I remember this being a full on head back, eyes closed beast of a track. Only for the headstrong!!!
Also back in 1990 , knowing the Jupiter 6 and 8 did not have velocity he could have quite easily sampled (in real time )the wah wah womp womp , as it doesnt change that much ,, whether it be SH2 , Alpha Juno or Jupiter, SAMPLING the riff with his CASIO FZ1 sampler, like he did with MENTASM. The Casios filters worked a TREAT on the HOOVER for MENTASM.
Peace ✌️
my FZ10m has trademark nasal resonance (Aphex SAW) and definitely does not have that liquid bubbly sound like earlier, classic rolands. my guess is possibly jup6 or sh2. tho i think it somehow sounds the most like jup8. with inverted vcf env yes. definitely not alpha juno. it doesn't have that filter anymore.
sounds plausible that he just sampled a few bass note from a synth, with different filter env positions. and played them from FZ (which can of course be used transparently, with its own filter set on full open). this would solve the filter "velocity" mystery.
at the time, sampling bass notes, sweeps or stab chords from a synth, and truncating them in the sampler to perfection, was way more common than actually driving that synth via midi.
That was simply brilliant you created it so well your a brilliant producer I so would of liked to make some hardcore techno with you 👍
Fantastic job. Probably my favorite so far!
Still - alongside Substance Abuse by F.U.S.E (Hawtin, obviously) - one of my go-to techno tracks. Phenomenal piece of work. edit: yet another fantastic recreation G. Your level of knowledge is mind blowing.
Fantastic remake. I havent heard Energy Flash for years but have some good memories of hearing back in the early nineties. Damn, I feel old now 😄
Been waiting for this. I knew it was inevitable. And strangely, I was watching that same documentary earlier today (Pump Up The Volume). Synchronicity. Wump wump!
You Nailed it!!! amazing recreation :)
Amazing. So many little details. Thanks.
the "extacy" sample pitching is a hint at that it was recorded from vinyl, s
hitting stop and letting the deck slew to finish when recording it. maybe by accident, and he liked how it sounded ?
Yeah that's a good shout!
When sampling the vocal from the 101 record into his Casio FZ-1, he probably used his finger on the vinyl to stop the chords that start almost instantly after it from getting recorded. I think it was quite common for samplists back then to have one hand on the sampler's record/play button and another on the record deck. The stop button on the Technics might have worked quickly enough though.
Lovely work on this Gyu !
Nice work Guy, that's a really good recreation of a seminal track. Every time I hear this I expect it to be mixed into Mentasm by Second Phase, as that's what Stu Allan did in what is probably his best work, the Best of 1991 mix he did for Key 103. If you want to relive what the dance scene was like in the early 90s was like just before the magic died, I'd highly suggest you check it out - there's a decent copy right here on RUclips.
Thanks for reminding me of that tune.
The magic is still there.
As you probably know, Joey Beltram was half of Second Phase. After defining the new sound of techno in 1990 with 'Energy Flash', he followed it up by popularising the "Hoover Sound" on 'Mentasm' and his remix of ''Dominator'. That hoover sound (the "What The" preset designed by Eric Persing for the Juno Alpha 2) is arguably more influential and/or famous than the sounds on 'Energy Flash', since as well as being THE sound of Belgian techno in the early '90s, it's appeared on everything from the Streets of Rage games to pop records by Rihanna and Lady Gaga.
This is brilliant! Deconstruction of one of the most important and powerful tracks of ALL TIME!
I was wondering whether you were gonna reference how he always considered it a house track (though slightly darker than the house around at that time). I always thought of it as a dark house track too. great video mate and you absolutely nailed the re-creation!
Me too. Before the sub genre's
Every subgenre or spinoff was made by people making the original genre, its when people like the sound so much that they all copy it and expand on it that it becomes a subgenre
one of my alltime favs up there with sourmash pilgrimage too paradise and turkish bazar never forget these tracks
Now do "Orbital - Out There Somewhere? (Parts 1 & 2)" ... Should only take you about 5 years 😂😂😂
cool video. made me sub. really shows that you do your homework and spend time chasing down the facts and the clips.
i can never forget the first time i heard Energy Flash it was in Quadrant Park. i had come out the club and gone into the all nighter and it was playing i always remember the sound of those claps in the warehouse.
I d love to listen to your interpretation of this track. Love your vids mate!
i always thought a 303 was used for the acid line.
i first got introduced to Energy Flash in the school as we discussed modern music there, JBs track was there to introduce the way how elements are introduced and tension is build up.
after years later i remembered the Title name and then searched for it and since then its in all playlist i made.
nothing else JB has done, i really liked, its just that one perfect track, which is filled with perfect new ideas ...
thanks for the video, actual quite respective recreation.
I don’t know one person who has heard this tune and their mind wasn’t blown. Great video.
I used to use to two copies of “Energy Flash”, one mixed a quarter beat behind the other, and then cross fade between them really quickly! It used to drive the place mad!
Remember buying this on the Transmat pressing and then got it on R&S
Stunning track
I remember the first time i heard that track on a club. Criminal track!!
Next week i went to the DJ and asked him, please can you play this track that was like, and i was making the sound with my mouth, thinking like the DJ would say - i don’t know man, i don’t recognize this, but instead the DJ said Oh yeah, of course, and some minutes after it was on the speakers. ❤
Absolute class. Thank you for this. :D
Massive 90's tech house banger! I've noticed its the only house track I have (out of over 1000 tracks) in key 4B (serato analysed). I could be wrong! Big track! 👍👍✌
Fantastic insight. Imagine coming up with this in 1990 with the likes of Betty Boo and whatnot in the charts - when music didn't sound like this really, it was futuristic Techno synth madness! For him (Joey) it was just "harder edged House", but it really pushed an evolving Techno sound to its forefront. So much rides with the percussion the claps and beats that feels more industrial, and musically feels less melodically warm like a lot of synth based pop had just a few years prior (Duran Duran etc) and I love the different filtering techniques and oscillations, attacks etc, creates that really cool spacey, alien like vibe as though it's music from another planet or dimension. Hasn't even really aged either.....just amazing
You are amazing! Thank you kindly 🙏🏼
Always loved it & one of my favorite tracks of all time ,it still sounds brilliant its stood the test of time 😜
Yo Gyu! What a great and inspiring video.
Great content! Interesting. Energy!!! 💕
This track was also the opening theme to "The New Dance Show Detroit" in the early '90's. Stunning piece of music.
When Gyu gets into it it's the icing on the cake!
It would be nice if you did "How Was It Made" from any (or all) songs from Robert Leiners Organized Noise album. That album could probably be the best techno album ever made.
More forensic detective work. Just gold. Thanks.
The 90s was an amazing and exciting time for all genres of electronic music. Miss those days.
The true heyday of electronic music was the early 2000s. Producers like DuMonde, Ace da Brain, Alphazone, Cosmic Gate (before they started producing shitty prog/EDM bollocks), JK Walker and Scot Project. Most tunes from the 1990s sound dated but DuMonde - Never Look Back (from 2001) is still of the same standard as the best uplifting trance produced today.
@classicallpvault8251 I agree that early 90s stuff is dated, but I'm talking more about the excitement of how many styles we're emerging. I remember taking in everything from orbital to chemical brothers to psytrance. The newness of everything is unparalleled. I never really buy into the word dated much. Something either sounds good or it doesn't. As far as trance though, I 100% agree with you. Early 2000s blows away anything today.
@@classicallpvault8251 I think not!
@@classicallpvault8251 no way not at all, deffo the 90's
You did it again, man! Excellent.
Can we do requests? If so, I'd like to see you recreate Phantasia - Inner Light.
Great work bud, love it.
Great video. Thanks!
For the record dude, i think it was a juno alpha joey beltram was fucking with back then, or a sh 101, i think theres a video of him talking about what gear he used on energy flash on here, trying to remember the sampler he used as well programming that bassline
He used a Casio FZ1 sampler ,and Alpha Juno on Mentasm , probably the Fz1 on Energy Flash, I must have a play around on the Alpha Juno to see if it can get that wah wah womp womp, I dont think it is fat enough after hearing GYU, Jupiter effort.
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@gixerags750 casino FZ 1 thank you, I knew it wasn't an mpc or s1000 he used
@DaGabbaGangsta I sold my FZ1 in the mid 1990s, very hard to find these days.
@gixerags750 how good is the timestretch on the FZ 1 ?
@DaGabbaGangsta unfortunately I didn't have it very long and had to sell it as a Kurzweil K2500RS popped up...miss them both bigtime
what a tune it was indeed 1990 was a winderful year to be 19, so glad youre covering this banger... here we goooo! :o)
Great vids…new to the channel. Love the knowledge in the comments to 👊
Would LOVE to see you try Frontier Psychiatrist for the lols, may take some doing though!
AT 6.35 THE SOUND IS A PRESET ON THE JUNO 106
Interesting , when Beltram came into our local record shop in the early 90s i was pretty sure he told me it was an SH2 , as i bought a Roland SH5 a couple of weeks later. He would sample a lot because he loved the Casio FZ1 Filters.
He also used the Korg M1 heaps with Lenny Dee .
Have you a link to the Moby interview please ?
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He was DJ'ing at a friends club in the early 90's and I asked him. I think he said it was a Juno 2 sampled into an FZ1. I could be wrong. It was one of those nights.
@opsin8 might download that Alpha Juno trial and have a play ..
That's exactly what he did for Mentasm. Apparently the power went out on the final mix of Mentasm and they had to start over.
Cheers bud
@@gixerags750 there was a free VST by Phuturetone called Phutura that's an Alpha Juno synth. That's not on their website anymone. Version 2 is still free but an NI Reactor plug in.
Great breakdown! - The Jupiter 6 and Jupiter 8 did not have velocity though - the feature was introduced with the MKS-80 Super Jupiter.
> The Jupiter 6 and Jupiter 8 did not have velocity though
Maybe the software version has?
@@ConenionBeltram surely didnt have a software version 😊 Maybe a master keyboard with velocity though...
I’ve asked him last year by WhatsApp. He has used the Roland JX-3P.
For future reference in the event you do another track recreation that used a Jupiter 6 in the original production, check out Cherry Audio's Mercury 6. It's a painstakingly accurate software emulation of the Jupiter 6. And it's cheap too. All of their software sounds great and doesn't kill your bank account.
Great stuff fella, so informative
Energy Flash can sneak into modern techno sets and still fit in.
Quite amazing for a track well over 30 years old.
Love your videos. I reckon Joey tweaked those knobs live on his JP6.
One of my favorite techno/house tracks. Something very raw, primal, simple and unpretentious about it. The DJ at one of the last warehouse raves I went to in Philly played it and I am happy to report people are still loosing their shit to it.
We’re they also losing their shit?
Loose shit is not fun…
Thank you very much for this upload it is very much appreciated.
Brilliant video! How long did it take you to figure out?
Absolutely superb recreation ❤
Going back to the time i had first listen to this track back in 1990, the real intriguing part of the entire track to me is not that lead but damn, that BASS sort of subwoofing underneath that provides the entire body of the track. - It`s like listening under water and remember to that point was still unheard of, when everybody were still twiddling on TB 303 oscillators.
I remember buying this remix, still listen to it today. Cracking track, beats much of the sh!t out today
Great work. The synth still doesnt sound bang on although it's really close. I've tried multiple times to try and get it exactly the same but it's really hard. Something about the resonance and tone just is so hard to get..it's really easy to get a very close sound but 100% is tough!