Deconstructing Fatboy Slim

Deconstructing Fatboy Slim - Praise You

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@mixtapesfrommylatepartner 10 ай бұрын

"Anybody like it? Be nice to know." is what I heard when I first heard this record. Which I always thought was quite tongue in cheek.

@davidriley1702 2 күн бұрын

21:23 i remember watching the fat Albert cartoon on CBS, NBC, and as syndicated by Group W Productions, after Westinghouse Electric acquired Filmation

@mattyo71 Жыл бұрын

Geez! What mind a) hears, much less knows of, these obscure song parts, and b) has the vision to put the together into an amazing song. That’s pure brilliance. Groove is in the Heart has amazed me in much the same way. Great vid.

@martygallen 4 сағат бұрын

This is great Karl!

@nowshowjj Жыл бұрын

I always heard the talking in the beginning and like you, I thought it was an artifact from the video but even after listening to the album I never connected that it was artifact from the sample. Great work here on the breakdown of the song. Thanks!

@KarlBoltzmann Жыл бұрын

From a sample perspective, with the exception of the vocals, it's such an unlikely hit. The talking in the piano sample, the overall sound of the drum sample. It's amazing how well sorted Praise You ended up sounding.

@mollydaniels1018 3 ай бұрын

This was FASCINATING!!!! Thank you so much for making 🎶🎶

@KarlBoltzmann 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@BMJ1999 Жыл бұрын

one of the best music vids of all time imo. great breakdown!

@gisellegazda3884 Жыл бұрын

“Praise You” has been a favorite song of mine ever since 1998 and so I loved your video. I always did hear the faint talking in the song during the main piano riff, and such a fun backstory that the sample came from a JBL demonstration LP. The “Fat Albert” sample is so cool and I always loved how it added like a gospel choir feel to the song, keeping with the “praise” theme. Anyway, amazing work as always! Thank you!

@KarlBoltzmann Жыл бұрын

Very well put. The way those vocals fit so perfectly in the bridge is magic!

@ManicMonkey1987 Жыл бұрын

I love your take on the piano riff. Sampling has introduced me to so many great songs - that honestly were probably missing something. Btw absolutely loving that I found your videos, they're fantastic

@KarlBoltzmann Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. One of my favourite parts of making these is listening to the original tracks. It's wild to hear the variation in creative decision making between the originals and the tracks using the samples.

@S0L3N01D 4 ай бұрын

19:08 The Beatbox sample comes from a Spectrasonic/Sounds Good sample CD, i know this because the ACiD 3 Demo Disc

@KarlBoltzmann 4 ай бұрын

Like Sonic Foundry Acid? Was it included as one of the Acid loops?

@S0L3N01D 4 ай бұрын

@@KarlBoltzmann Yeah

@Alixdkari Жыл бұрын

YESSSS I always very clearly heard the talking in the intro and I always wondered who were they and what were they talking about! Thank you so much for that.

@KarlBoltzmann Жыл бұрын

Those voices are great! It's honestly a small miracle that the piano sample was usable at all. One stray hit of a drum, guitar strum or vocalist chiming in and that sample is ruined and "Praise You" wouldn't exist! I love the random chance of it all.

@fernwood Жыл бұрын

Nope. Never made the connection with The Housemartins. Holy moly.

@blueswingdown 7 ай бұрын

you have inspired me to deconstruct other tracks. thank you for fueling my start of recreating "you're not from brighton". very well done btw!

@KarlBoltzmann 7 ай бұрын

Cheers, thanks!

@WasKammer 11 ай бұрын

What a *G E N I O U S* Fatboy Slim was!!! Good job Karl 🫡

@KarlBoltzmann 11 ай бұрын

100% he's got an incredible ear for putting together rhythms, finding hooks and making massive hits out of otherwise discarded musical history.

@blakeradcliffe6110 Жыл бұрын

Hi, awesome deconstruction, I would just like to let you know that there were 2 samples you missed in the video. Number 1 is the conga sample which comes from Joe Bell by Isaac Hayes (1974) and Number 2 is an drum uplifter effect which comes from You Should Be High Love by Billy Squier (1980). And in the future I would really like you to do deconstructions of You’re Not from Brighton and Everybody Needs a 303. Keep up the good work!

@KarlBoltzmann Жыл бұрын

Yes! Good call. I will almost certainly be doing those tracks in the future. As for those two samples I missed, they were actually discovered after I put out the video! Things are moving very quickly these days in the sample hunting world which is great to see.

@Vancouver_1986 Жыл бұрын

I noticed the talking in the intro! As a young teen, I thought that small detail was incredible. I liked this and the other little details about the song. It goes well with the music video: the people are kinda schmoozing before they start their group choreography.

@KarlBoltzmann Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I love the people just chatting away in the sample. I wonder if Spike went with that style of video partly because of that detail.

@valentingomezcuello6491 7 ай бұрын

11:29 The bongo sample is from the song Joe Bell by Isaac Hayes. Maybe they've already told you, but I'll tell you just in case. I liked the video! 😁👍

@KarlBoltzmann 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip! I haven't looked at the most recent found samples so this is new to me. I appreciate it.

@valentingomezcuello6491 7 ай бұрын

@@KarlBoltzmann you're welcome. 🙂👍

@gps1300 Ай бұрын

doom-dam da-doom-doom-do-dam

@reneelyons6836 Жыл бұрын

I love this video. You ROCK!!!!! nah nah nah, nah nah want to have a good time???? So Cool!!♥🎼🎵🎶

@KarlBoltzmann Жыл бұрын

Thanks Renee! That track is a great, eh? It has been stuck in my head for days.

@michelebernabei 4 ай бұрын

YOU ARE MY HERO respect

@KarlBoltzmann 4 ай бұрын

@toba303 Жыл бұрын

I would assume that the stutter effect on the vocal and the litte reversed bit at the end of the piano loop were achieved through the loop modes of the sampler. My guess is, that the loop features, that todays software sampler like Abletons Live Sampler have, were inspired by those hardware originals. So that would have made it a bit easier for Norman to just have the piano loop back a tiny bit in reverse mode and have that last vocal part loop around that area you spliced so neatly while midi signal is active. Something like that. Anyway, nice content, I enjoyed your live stream ;)

@KarlBoltzmann Жыл бұрын

Thanks Thomas. You are most certainly correct! If I get to chat with Norman again, I'll ask him about that.

@DJBathtub 8 ай бұрын

Another awesome video! I always thought it was a bloke singing so the vocal part was quite a shock. When you played it though, I was like how did I ever think that was a man?!? Quick question: Have you ever spilt your drink and flooded the studio? That mug looks huge!😂

@KarlBoltzmann 8 ай бұрын

Only once! Luckily no one drowned, but it was a proper mess. For real though, I just bought a bigger studio mug because that one was a little too small for my liking. If it spills, I will be very sad.

@DJBathtub 8 ай бұрын

@@KarlBoltzmann Asking for trouble!😂

@willielast Жыл бұрын

What I really want to know is did Norman give up that mysterious vocal sample on Rockafeller?

@KarlBoltzmann Жыл бұрын

Yeah, after the stream he told me what it was, but I would never publicly reveal that information without his permission.

@willielast Жыл бұрын

@@KarlBoltzmann Of course, i just hope you didnt kick yourself too much when he told you lol 😉

@KarlBoltzmann Жыл бұрын

I did try my best to figure it out when I made that deconstruction but in the end, I was never going to guess it.

@Dr_JackHammer Жыл бұрын

@@KarlBoltzmann Was it something obscure or just unexpected?

@KarlBoltzmann Жыл бұрын

Both to some degree

@user-rs1990 8 ай бұрын

Which version of Ableton Live are you using? (I currently have Live 8.0)

@KarlBoltzmann 8 ай бұрын

I'm using 11.2.11. They released an update with 11.3.3 that made everything incredibly laggy and made recording a chore. I'm sure they've fixed that since then, but I'm still on this older version as of now.