The Track that TRANSFORMED Techno - How Was It Made?

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  • @jimmywheelo
    @jimmywheelo Год назад +188

    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.

    • @andrewverran3498
      @andrewverran3498 Год назад +4

      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.
      ✌️

    • @alexjohnson1612
      @alexjohnson1612 Год назад +4

      I have Energy Flash on vinyl

    • @andrewverran3498
      @andrewverran3498 Год назад +3

      @alexjohnson1612 sold my copy on Transmat , spewing now, but still have my R&S ..

    • @alexjohnson1612
      @alexjohnson1612 Год назад +2

      @@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

    • @andrewverran3498
      @andrewverran3498 Год назад +1

      @@alexjohnson1612 ouch 😢

  • @bez23
    @bez23 Год назад +40

    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!

    • @bez23
      @bez23 11 месяцев назад

      @@UROKRK good point! 🤣

  • @27arches
    @27arches Год назад +25

    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.

  • @MrFlyingguy
    @MrFlyingguy Год назад +51

    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

    • @supersmileyclub544
      @supersmileyclub544 Год назад +1

      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.

    • @cheliozlatchkeykid7886
      @cheliozlatchkeykid7886 Год назад +2

      CJ Bolland - Carmague was insane as well

    • @bitspacemusic
      @bitspacemusic 11 месяцев назад +1

      M500 (Juan Atkins) - Sonic Sunset was my highlight from them. It sounds so Kraftwerk-inspired, but is its own thing at the same time.

    • @pupster6848
      @pupster6848 11 месяцев назад +1

      Program II The Omen CJ Bolland Horsepower and Mantra

  • @MickMacklerack
    @MickMacklerack Год назад +19

    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

    • @Kung_Fu_Jesus
      @Kung_Fu_Jesus Год назад +2

      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

  • @gardenboydon
    @gardenboydon 8 месяцев назад +3

    I like what you are doing with this RUclips channel! I feel like you are a historian archiving the beauty of electronic/dance music

  • @DavidMorley
    @DavidMorley Год назад +31

    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!

    • @SoundOfVinyl
      @SoundOfVinyl Год назад +7

      R&S records, you guys together with Renaat were such a big influence.... In order to dance.... Played them so much... Still great

    • @DavidMorley
      @DavidMorley Год назад +5

      Appreciate it!@@SoundOfVinyl

    • @SoundOfVinyl
      @SoundOfVinyl Год назад +6

      @@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

    • @DavidMorley
      @DavidMorley Год назад +1

      @@SoundOfVinyl 🎶🎵😻

    • @johnhesketh7100
      @johnhesketh7100 9 месяцев назад +2

      Just been listening to your tracks on your website - wonderful stuff!

  • @klinkske
    @klinkske Год назад +17

    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

    • @FayezButts
      @FayezButts Год назад +1

      Your neighbors? What about your parents? hahahaha

  • @gerasimosstamoulis9252
    @gerasimosstamoulis9252 3 месяца назад +1

    Πραγματικά μιλάμε για το beat του θανάτου!!👍
    Κομματάρα - Mega track ❤
    Το άκουσα πρώτη φορά το 1990 και όντως είχε κάτι το διαφορετικό,ήταν σαν μια ανεξήγητη δύναμη με μια ροή, ένα flow απίστευτο!!
    Ακόμα και σήμερα που το ακούω ξυπνάει μέσα μου τα ίδια ακριβώς συναισθήματα με αυτά από πριν 34 ολόκληρα χρόνια!!
    Απίστευτο έτσι??
    Bravo Joey👍❤👍❤

  • @VuotoPneumaNN
    @VuotoPneumaNN 11 месяцев назад +29

    Made by Joey Beltram when he was just a 19 year old with 10K worth of equipment

    • @IgorGuerrero
      @IgorGuerrero 7 месяцев назад +2

      Yep these things were extremely expensive even back then, and we don't talk about what he used to record it... other times...

    • @notsure1135
      @notsure1135 7 месяцев назад

      Not back then…

    • @MoeFarms
      @MoeFarms 4 месяца назад +2

      I’ve heard back in the day people would buy studio time, so you’d pay to play around in a studio for a few hours with synths and all the effects you’d need. Home studios were rare, people used to have to touch grass to make music 😂

    • @VuotoPneumaNN
      @VuotoPneumaNN 3 месяца назад +3

      ​@@beatsbyjiro8291Moby said he bought Joey Beltran's Jupiter 6. On the other hand, Moby also said he'd been the lead singer of Flipper and dated Natalie Portman, which was confirmed to be absolute horseshit

    • @beatsbyjiro8291
      @beatsbyjiro8291 3 месяца назад

      @@VuotoPneumaNN hahaha moby havent heard that name in a while..Joey is on IG and prertty active posting his OG subway graff we sould just ask him 😂

  • @mrhazeltine
    @mrhazeltine Год назад +39

    Bass lead “riff” is an alpha Juno sampled into a Casio fz1 using its filters. Heard from the man himself.

    • @Krimewave186
      @Krimewave186 Год назад +5

      Joey told me the same thing about Mentasm.

    • @AutPen38
      @AutPen38 Год назад +5

      '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.

    • @gixerags750
      @gixerags750 Год назад +4

      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 ??

    • @mmrva
      @mmrva Год назад +1

      Makes sense. Sounds like Alpha to me.

    • @jonpegnato
      @jonpegnato Год назад +3

      I can also confirm this. I did a remake of energy flash with Joey in 2015 under the name cobra effect. However, this guys remake is very impressive!

  • @RollrightKnights
    @RollrightKnights Год назад +12

    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. ✊

    • @minigrande1939
      @minigrande1939 Год назад +4

      And the Eclipse

    • @jasonmfalconer
      @jasonmfalconer Год назад +1

      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' 😊

    • @RollrightKnights
      @RollrightKnights Год назад

      @@jasonmfalconer I always considered Energy Flash Rave personally, not Techno 🤔

  • @housemastersradio6841
    @housemastersradio6841 Год назад +3

    Pure Hardcore. I remember this being a full on head back, eyes closed beast of a track. Only for the headstrong!!!

  • @marcochaiwallah811
    @marcochaiwallah811 Год назад +6

    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 ?

    • @GyuBeats
      @GyuBeats  Год назад +2

      Yeah that's a good shout!

    • @AutPen38
      @AutPen38 Год назад +2

      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.

  • @leozebiosthor6242
    @leozebiosthor6242 Год назад +2

    Dammm... I could swear that the classic bow bow sound was from a distorted 303. Great stuff. Tks for sharing sir

  • @kosherwinespiritreview7772
    @kosherwinespiritreview7772 11 месяцев назад +2

    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.

  • @dumpnchase
    @dumpnchase Год назад +2

    I don’t know one person who has heard this tune and their mind wasn’t blown. Great video.

    • @MolloyPolloy
      @MolloyPolloy 3 месяца назад +1

      Still blows my mind after 34 years 😂

  • @Jolar70
    @Jolar70 9 месяцев назад

    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!

    • @DavidTaylor-wx1qt
      @DavidTaylor-wx1qt 5 месяцев назад

      Joey Beltram says in the video he was making a house record, and as you were going out then you will remember nights were far more diverse in what was played. Energy Flash would have been called hardcore if anything. A fact which somewhat conveniently has been wiped from history is that in early 1992, stuff like Acen Trip to the Moon was being called Jungle Techno, again we'd been calling it hardcore before that, or rave even (Shades of Rhythm - Ecstacy - breakbeats, stabs and a hardcore breakdown - what is it, house, techno, hardcore, dunno, point being it's all of them). Grooverider and Fabio played loads of stuff on Plus 8, the label of a certain R. Hawtin,. So if you were into them before 1993, then you were into techno, hair splitting but true. "House and jungle", if you had to pick two styles least likely to be heard in the same clubnight would be those two. I heard Some Justice - Mickey Finn and Aphrodite of course - first in The Orbit, very much a techno club. Chances of Graeme Park playing it at The Hacienda, let's say, pretty low.

  • @minigrande1939
    @minigrande1939 Год назад +13

    Nothing went hand in hand like "A dove and energy flash"

    • @spngled8654
      @spngled8654 Год назад

      Until doves became the standard for low grade eastern European aspirin, nothing hit like the snowballs, made doves look like THE PIGEONS THEY ARE

    • @jakerubino3233
      @jakerubino3233 Год назад

      Purple specks all day everyday

    • @palaHD
      @palaHD Год назад +1

      2 doves and energy flash might top it 😂

    • @daz.6112
      @daz.6112 11 месяцев назад

      Mitsubishi's.

    • @ant2312
      @ant2312 9 месяцев назад

      @@spngled8654 Snowballs were legendary, so strong, made Doves etc look like sweets

  • @707jette
    @707jette Год назад +1

    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

  • @warrencrawfordart
    @warrencrawfordart Год назад +1

    What a great video this is. I’ll have to watch all your others now.

  • @johnhesketh7100
    @johnhesketh7100 9 месяцев назад

    Really enjoyed this video. Made me get out my old R&S 12" records and play them (volume muted a bit because of neighbours...)

  • @michaelbeckerman7532
    @michaelbeckerman7532 10 месяцев назад

    This is brilliant! Deconstruction of one of the most important and powerful tracks of ALL TIME!

  • @DonSolaris
    @DonSolaris Год назад +22

    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!

    • @lineoneL1
      @lineoneL1 Год назад +2

      MKS-80 would be another option

    • @gixerags750
      @gixerags750 Год назад

      The Don !! .great Mc909 sample set BTW!

    • @DonSolaris
      @DonSolaris Год назад +1

      @@gixerags750 Thank you! OMG it was almost 10 yrs ago.

    • @gregthompson7961
      @gregthompson7961 Год назад

      @@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

    • @DonSolaris
      @DonSolaris Год назад

      @@gregthompson7961 I'm not sure I understand what you're talking about?

  • @djrhythmik9929
    @djrhythmik9929 Год назад +6

    Probably one of the most defining Dance Tracks of Club Kaos, Galway in 1990.Blew everyone away.

    • @AlienPsyTing1
      @AlienPsyTing1 Год назад +1

      the best

    • @eyeq7730
      @eyeq7730 Год назад

      I remember going from Dublin to Galway mid nineties, there was a spot I think called 'The Castle' is that right? Good club that!

    • @djrhythmik9929
      @djrhythmik9929 11 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah. I started the Castle in Salthill in 1990. Some great Club Nights.

    • @eyeq7730
      @eyeq7730 11 месяцев назад

      @@djrhythmik9929 that's mad, in asking verification of a club's name from the guy who created it 😄

  • @shortattentionspa.....
    @shortattentionspa..... Год назад +2

    Your channel just gets better and better and I already loved it! Thanks for this one mate

  • @T.M.Warren-qp2gq
    @T.M.Warren-qp2gq 11 месяцев назад +1

    Still gives me *goosebumps* just like 30 years ago! 💯🔊🔊🔊

  • @ChrisLodyMusic
    @ChrisLodyMusic Год назад +1

    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 😁

  • @joeyesposito4894
    @joeyesposito4894 Год назад +2

    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.

  • @RandomButBeautiful
    @RandomButBeautiful Год назад

    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

  • @mingwingming1971
    @mingwingming1971 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @devmiles
    @devmiles Год назад +2

    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.

    • @goonfish
      @goonfish Год назад +1

      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!).

  • @APO65687
    @APO65687 Год назад +1

    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!

  • @richjmb5522
    @richjmb5522 Год назад

    When Gyu gets into it it's the icing on the cake!

  • @letskillmusic1
    @letskillmusic1 6 месяцев назад

    Yes mate keep doing what youre doing !! And would love you to tackle any underworld stuff!

  • @colingram8785
    @colingram8785 Год назад +1

    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

  • @Andy-se4sl
    @Andy-se4sl Год назад

    How the F did I know exactly what track you were going be!! That's the beauty of techno!! ❤ Such a classic!!

  • @speakertreatz
    @speakertreatz Год назад +1

    fairplay for spotting that downturn on the second Ecstasy

  • @chrisprobert6
    @chrisprobert6 10 месяцев назад

    Well happy to find this. Jaw clenched hard, for whole video 😆👍

  • @75Krusty
    @75Krusty Год назад

    Nice work man. Excellent detective work you're done there on that classic and iconic techno track. Regards from Krusty/Tom in Denmark

  • @terryfincham7252
    @terryfincham7252 Год назад

    The extacy vocal definitely stood out to me at the time, especially on xtc in a dark room was something else 👌👌

  • @djranx5519
    @djranx5519 Год назад

    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! 👍👍✌

  • @louisakeen9316
    @louisakeen9316 10 месяцев назад

    Amazing! So glad I found this. Thanks, Gyu!

  • @juggyfreak622
    @juggyfreak622 Год назад +2

    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

  • @davidyates748
    @davidyates748 Год назад +9

    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.

    • @skum73
      @skum73 Год назад +2

      Thanks for reminding me of that tune.

    • @DjViceroy
      @DjViceroy Год назад

      The magic is still there.

    • @AutPen38
      @AutPen38 Год назад +2

      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.

  • @allehooop
    @allehooop Год назад

    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. ❤

  • @frankjuno_kafvka
    @frankjuno_kafvka 10 месяцев назад

    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).

  • @gixerags750
    @gixerags750 Год назад +7

    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 ✌️

    • @clusterchord1
      @clusterchord1 Год назад +1

      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.

  • @Subwerk
    @Subwerk Год назад

    Very cool Video, thanks 🙏 The track was and still is - mind blowing, a masterpiece and milestone ❤

  • @nickyboy74
    @nickyboy74 Год назад

    Just discovered this channel. Grew up on the south coast in this music era. Great stuff…..thanks 😊

  • @lovesavesthedaylovesavesth5498
    @lovesavesthedaylovesavesth5498 11 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @theotang681
    @theotang681 7 месяцев назад

    the clap is what did it for me with all these detroit techno sounds. the hi hats and the clap.

  • @sjfarrell2.0
    @sjfarrell2.0 Год назад

    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 😄

  • @marshgatelaneposse
    @marshgatelaneposse 11 месяцев назад

    30 odd years later still hits hard if you were there back in the day you know

  • @haro82
    @haro82 Год назад +15

    The 90s was an amazing and exciting time for all genres of electronic music. Miss those days.

    • @classicallpvault
      @classicallpvault Год назад +1

      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.

    • @haro82
      @haro82 Год назад +2

      @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.

    • @mrkeeny
      @mrkeeny 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@classicallpvault I think not!

    • @ant2312
      @ant2312 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@classicallpvault no way not at all, deffo the 90's

    • @tonygabashvili8357
      @tonygabashvili8357 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@classicallpvault DuMonde - never look back sounds like generic cheesy trance from the early 2000s and I like the early 2000s too.. Tell me you've never explored electronic music without telling me you've never explored electronic music.

  • @AirArtStudiosOfficial
    @AirArtStudiosOfficial Год назад +1

    Amazing job, for some reason I always thought the ba ba ba bah was a 303😂😂 good pills back then😂😂

  • @danielpearne2379
    @danielpearne2379 Год назад +1

    Energy flash! Such an amazing tune. Thank you for this video!! 👍🎹

  • @PabloRodriguezwhyCharlieWhy
    @PabloRodriguezwhyCharlieWhy Год назад

    Thank you, I been dreaming about this for a long time!!!! this is one of my favorite tracks of all the time

  • @futurebleeps
    @futurebleeps 11 месяцев назад

    Remember buying this on the Transmat pressing and then got it on R&S
    Stunning track

  • @djtomt
    @djtomt Год назад

    Holy crap, Dude! You completely NAILED it.

  • @josephdelgado977
    @josephdelgado977 Год назад

    Bro, I really enjoyed listening to/watching your vid,
    Great work 💯 on showing & explaining how the work is done making electronic/house music 🎶

  • @mattster303
    @mattster303 Год назад

    OMG well done! Great work and hats off to you Joey B. Absolute timeless classic. Had some experiences to this

  • @DaGabbaGangsta
    @DaGabbaGangsta Год назад +3

    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

    • @gixerags750
      @gixerags750 Год назад +1

      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.
      ✌️

    • @DaGabbaGangsta
      @DaGabbaGangsta Год назад +1

      @gixerags750 casino FZ 1 thank you, I knew it wasn't an mpc or s1000 he used

    • @gixerags750
      @gixerags750 Год назад

      @DaGabbaGangsta I sold my FZ1 in the mid 1990s, very hard to find these days.

    • @DaGabbaGangsta
      @DaGabbaGangsta Год назад +1

      @gixerags750 how good is the timestretch on the FZ 1 ?

    • @gixerags750
      @gixerags750 Год назад +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

  • @mvinyl3484
    @mvinyl3484 Год назад +1

    I mix this track with Sirburban knights art of stalking ...sounds amazing.

    • @jamesadley925
      @jamesadley925 11 месяцев назад

      Oh hell yes!!!! Those 2 tracks mix in rather well!!!!!

  • @robertsmithshair4199
    @robertsmithshair4199 Год назад +1

    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

    • @gixerags750
      @gixerags750 Год назад +1

      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.

  • @cheater00
    @cheater00 Год назад

    cool video. made me sub. really shows that you do your homework and spend time chasing down the facts and the clips.

  • @Schallkoma_Rockenberg
    @Schallkoma_Rockenberg Год назад

    wow, super cool tutorial. time to check out the roland cloud i guess

  • @DomGoy1
    @DomGoy1 11 месяцев назад

    Great work bud, love it.

  • @agenticdevices
    @agenticdevices Год назад

    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.

    • @CrawfordMethod
      @CrawfordMethod Год назад +1

      We’re they also losing their shit?
      Loose shit is not fun…

  • @flyoverfredusa
    @flyoverfredusa Год назад

    fabulous stuff, great video ! Danced my ass off to this at the time it came out, ah the memories......

  • @declanmcnamara880
    @declanmcnamara880 Год назад

    this is very much some breakthrough information for some things im trying to achieve! thank you very much :)

  • @erolbrown
    @erolbrown Год назад

    More forensic detective work. Just gold. Thanks.

  • @dhollsynthmusic
    @dhollsynthmusic 10 месяцев назад +1

    Energy Flash can sneak into modern techno sets and still fit in.
    Quite amazing for a track well over 30 years old.

  • @Hajeepee
    @Hajeepee Год назад

    Yo Gyu! What a great and inspiring video.

  • @jamesfaircloth5469
    @jamesfaircloth5469 Год назад +1

    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 👍

  • @AmeyahOfficialTV
    @AmeyahOfficialTV 10 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @aikighost
    @aikighost Год назад +7

    Now do "Orbital - Out There Somewhere? (Parts 1 & 2)" ... Should only take you about 5 years 😂😂😂

  • @garaughty
    @garaughty 11 месяцев назад

    Lovely work on this Gyu !

  • @gixerags750
    @gixerags750 Год назад +2

    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 ?
    ✌️

    • @opsin8
      @opsin8 Год назад +1

      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.

    • @gixerags750
      @gixerags750 Год назад +2

      @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

    • @opsin8
      @opsin8 Год назад

      @@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.

  • @MrMikomi
    @MrMikomi Год назад

    Amazing. So many little details. Thanks.

  • @oldraver9644
    @oldraver9644 Год назад

    You are amazing! Thank you kindly 🙏🏼

  • @Robert_Babicz
    @Robert_Babicz Год назад +1

    great video

  • @YershJRSZ
    @YershJRSZ Месяц назад +1

    Fun fact, the Chemical Brothers titular track from the "Dig Your Own Hole" album pays a little tribute to Energy Flash, which was directly addmited by the Chems themselves!

    • @djcie1018
      @djcie1018 16 дней назад

      titular track ?

    • @YershJRSZ
      @YershJRSZ 16 дней назад +1

      @djcie1018 title track* Dig Your Own Hole from the Dig Your Own Hole album

    • @djcie1018
      @djcie1018 15 дней назад

      @@YershJRSZ Ha, I never knew that, playing it now and yes, I can hear it. Cheers

  • @stephensutcliffe1555
    @stephensutcliffe1555 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you very much for this upload it is very much appreciated.

  • @bigissue9179
    @bigissue9179 Год назад +3

    AT 6.35 THE SOUND IS A PRESET ON THE JUNO 106

  • @Kobymaru0678
    @Kobymaru0678 9 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @AKAtAGG
    @AKAtAGG Год назад +3

    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.

  • @jellycoding
    @jellycoding Год назад +2

    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.

  • @jeremybiggs8413
    @jeremybiggs8413 Год назад

    Fantastic job. Probably my favorite so far!

  • @doberchic
    @doberchic 6 месяцев назад

    @5:14 Rock to the Beat!!! haha Still love that one , new beat classic.

  • @SacSynths_Jack_Z
    @SacSynths_Jack_Z Год назад +2

    Great breakdown! - The Jupiter 6 and Jupiter 8 did not have velocity though - the feature was introduced with the MKS-80 Super Jupiter.

    • @Conenion
      @Conenion Год назад

      > The Jupiter 6 and Jupiter 8 did not have velocity though
      Maybe the software version has?

    • @baronpavalla
      @baronpavalla Год назад +1

      ​@@ConenionBeltram surely didnt have a software version 😊 Maybe a master keyboard with velocity though...

    • @maup01
      @maup01 10 месяцев назад +1

      I’ve asked him last year by WhatsApp. He has used the Roland JX-3P.

  • @funkyjeff77
    @funkyjeff77 Год назад

    Word man ! Just made a mix of tracks from that era recently this is a seminal techno track : powerful !

  • @MrMWhitham
    @MrMWhitham Год назад

    Nailed that one there, what a track!
    Always liked Green Velvet's Flash as well.
    Thanks for yet another great video 🙂

  • @edwardfletcher7790
    @edwardfletcher7790 Год назад

    Impressive work man 👍😲

  • @leolovetoparty
    @leolovetoparty Год назад

    Love your videos. I reckon Joey tweaked those knobs live on his JP6.

  • @kineticstringwell844
    @kineticstringwell844 Год назад

    one of my alltime favs up there with sourmash pilgrimage too paradise and turkish bazar never forget these tracks

  • @Pauliemelt
    @Pauliemelt Год назад +4

    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!

    • @StuSiney
      @StuSiney Год назад +1

      Me too. Before the sub genre's

    • @UpFunkDNB
      @UpFunkDNB 10 месяцев назад

      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

    • @BDF30
      @BDF30 8 месяцев назад

      Dark house, hard house, chicago acid house.... = Techno

  • @Michel-r6m
    @Michel-r6m 10 месяцев назад

    Roland gear in general cuts nicely through the mix. Had a JX-3p, D20 and now having a TR8s and Jupiter 50.

  • @boranbkk4270
    @boranbkk4270 11 месяцев назад

    Great vids…new to the channel. Love the knowledge in the comments to 👊

  • @paulblake1164
    @paulblake1164 10 месяцев назад

    1:13 Personally, He's right. It was a house record because the Euro sound had no baseline. Listen to most Techno music over 130 bpm, and there's hardly ever a baseline. Energy Flash is a song by Joey Beltram with a tempo of 123 BPM. It was parked into Techno because that's all there was, but if you had skills, you could play it in any set if the crowd were up for it. Today, it fits more as the blueprint for Tech House. All in all, it is a classic.