Feature: Daniel Miller (Electronic Beats TV)

[@gulagwithahumanface4471]

Absolutely impossible to overstate the impact this man has had on electronic music. If you are into electronic music today, it is almost certainly as a direct or indirect result of Daniel Miller and Mute records. What a legend.

[@606808909]

Indeed even tho I admit I'm not as much into the mute side without it one of my favourite lables ever (novamute) would never exist without it

[@modeanodb]

Brilliant .....fad gadget was fantastic......

[@ThinkBritishEnglish]

i could listen to Daniel all day. great talent

[@raymondleggs5508]

this man brought us so many great artists to the limelight.

[@HH-Thorsten]

All i see is the Oberheim Xpander in the backround. Damn. Daniel Miller is a living legend. Instant Like!

[@thephoenix3155]

I love Mute Records, my favourite record label!

[@paulallen8777]

Great interview. The piece of equipment at the back 3:31 is an SND ACME-4. Took a while to id it.

[@niptybipty4719]

I like his Pro One pillow, what an interesting man.

[@АнтонПтицын-я1и]

Biggest thanks. Good.

[@ElectronicBeatsTV]

Daniel Miller has earned his place among the most influential figures in the music business from the last three or four decades. Throughout his career, Miller has often showed great vision and an excellent taste in music; he founded the legendary Mute Label, discovered and produced Depeche Mode, signed classic acts like Throbbing Gristle, Fad Gadget, Erasure, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds as well as contemporary greats such as Moby, Goldfrapp, The Knife. For this Slices feature on Electronic Beats TV we had the honor of joining him in his Berlin home. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jqHKhJxmZZaoopo

[@stephanep.6163]

Please, don't forget to mention Nitzer Ebb ! Belief is so an amazing ep.

[@studentsmusic]

Just heard him live at superbooth berlin 2019. Incredible artist. Did not know he got an ems synthi 100, a miracle machine i also love and try to understand. Thanks a lot for giving him a voice and feature here. A gentle giant we all could learn from

[@gaoeykreg]

Great interview! Always like to come back to this every so often. The real deal and evidently a very nice man.

[@rdubb77]

Just think, if it weren't for him we most likely wouldn't have had Depeche Mode and Eurasure. That alone cements his place as a legend on the level of Rick Rubin, Arthur Baker, and ultimately Kraftwerk.

[@rbrtck]

@@rdubb77 And Vince Clarke, who founded Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure.

[@seattlebeard]

I cherish my copy of Silicone Teens Album with all the autographs by Darryl, Jacki, Paul and Diane. :o) Seriously DM is such an inspiration.

[@regplasma7906]

What a legend.I saw Daniel and Grace Jones at the Tate Kraftwerk gig.A great evening

[@feliperaurich]

¡ fantástico reportaje y relato del gran Daniell Miller !! Thanks

[@ViRtUaLmOnKeY023]

Great interview, love the analogue gear.

[@dep1001]

LEGEND!

[@fxxckallstars]

Great watch !!

[@normapadro9704]

I like this video. It's refreshing how things turned out. When I began to produce music I just decided to experiment with different sounds. I learned a lot. The best thing is to experiment, because you learn a lot and eventually you develop your own style.

[@Kornhaus]

Not only keen sense of good music/artists Mr Miller has.. nice interior decoration! :-)

[@airbornegrl08]

Enjoyed this interview, thanks!

[@ScottWozniak]

Great stuff. Love the Pro One pillow :)

[@bobbell3989]

I've been there many a time listening to other people's stuff and thinking like that! Great feature :)

[@rbrtck]

"Making electronic music is making the sound." So what he's saying is that it's essentially a *composition of sound* . Interesting. 😉

[@bioanu]

Daniel Miller - an advanced human being!

[@jaykay6427]

awsome interview.

[@derayu]

Legend!

[@antunivanovic]

My absolute kudos to Mr. Miller. Period. Now, regarding the use of sound libraries/loops/presets - it's all in the spontaneity of re-imagining and re-interpretation, in order to create a piece of music/noise/a song we'd call "our own"... There is a timeless quality to some of the existing sounds that can fit in everywhere and at any time - but the most important part of the creative process is our spontaneity when using found or "our own" sounds. There is nothing wrong in re-using a sample from an existing source (the 1st generation-era post-punks were doing it, relying on the same principle of re-imagining and re-interpreting bits of found sound)... We can always create our very own sound libraries - or dismiss them in order to always get something "new"... there are no rules. But in the end, we still get caught up in a loop... All methods are creatively legitimate, and personally I don't consider digital sampling or using a preset/loop less potent.

[@kastilruiz]

the music does matter, not the method!

[@sergiojimenez2179]

Master.

[@ergunharputi5777]

Daniel Miller: make good music is easy these days, but make special music is diffucult...

[@markg0410]

Daniel Miller wears cool glasses.

[@ricardopereira1795]

They are really coo,glasse wonder what brand they are

[@dep1001]

@@ricardopereira1795 Did you ever find out? :)

[@vladmaxim]

Legend

[@vjrei]

He has very good points about things I have been throwing at the face of many people, specially millennials. They are not writing music, they are just putting loops together. They have so much equipment and they never get enough because they do not know how to use them. There is more technology in an iPhone 5 than all the technology used until 1998 at least. Even Depeche Mode used Emax with 512K of ram and 40MB of hard drive. The best way is to start with nothing, other than that you will sound like everything else. And you need to know about music, Deadmou5 is jazz progressions, that is why he sound different. Alan Wilder and Martin Gore are Blues.

[@jeshkam]

This man co-produced first five Depeche Mode albums. Can you imagine? Black Celebration is mostly this man here and Gareth Jones.

[@temporoboto]

💙

[@Aurum1977]

He's the Sam Phillips of Electronic Music!!!

[@danielpayne500]

Daniel Miller Made a Cult Classic where I DJ Warm Leatherette still fills the floor He was playing with Minimal before it was label as music genre he was a head of his time.. I Wish there Was there more bands Like Fad Gadget and Yazzo Throbbing Gristle Boyd Rice .. and more And that is the stuff I grew up on From that Era He left some things that Cult Audience With Cult Classics

[@saldada6928]

Daniel Miller was an Audio innovator of Synth Sounds with The Normal!!

[@liamobrien5738]

GOOD POINTS DANIEL...BUT MY THEORY IS THE MIND/SONG AND VISION ON MIXING ANY SOUNDS TOGETHER TO MAKE GOOD USABLE SOUNDS...WHICH IS THE STRONGEST THINGS IN MUSIC...ANALOGUE IS STRONG ON SOUND BUT DIGITAL HAS FAR MORE SOUND SCOPES ...SO BOTH WORLDS CAN EXIST...

[@iamyourfuture808]

Class gaf !

[@mutedisease21]

Gosh he looks quite older and scrawnier than in the last interview I saw of him. And cool house btw.

[@teodelilla]

gr8 interview.....what's the brand of the glasses he's wearing? :=

[@danleuca1780]

I want that LATRONIC NOTRON sequencer... although my Genoqs Octopus is way more better...

[@platypus8135]

Imagine someone give you a Synthi 100 for free... must be a really wicked moment!

[@MrDaigoRiki]

anyone know what's the black box next to the Moog?

[@paulallen8777]

Yes, I wanted to know too. Took a while but a reverse image search revealed it to be an SND ACME-4 Sequencer.

[@marcinporebski1363]

Enjoy the Silence

[@cheaphair]

So hard to find a vid w/ the pro's using the SAM 16 :_(

[@ruslantagirov]

Yeah, Daniel, that's right. Too many libraries, loops and presets. F#ck presets, do your own stuff, people.

[@cyber-detection-syst82]

that's what I'm doing in my studio with analog stuff :) but this is time-consuming, especially on modular...

[@MrRadiooff]

да, сидеть крутить синты - это дело стариков или гиков. молодым быстро и дёшево подавай ))

[@cyber-detection-syst82]

Евгений Горбунов она занимает много времени на модульных синтезаторов, но это действительно награждение!

[@rbrtck]

@@cyber-detection-syst82 It was and is for Daniel, too. For instance, he spent hours and hours at a time tweaking his ARP 2600 for the early Depeche Mode albums he produced, and his dedication to soundcrafting inspired the same in the artists he worked with.

[@FuellingObsession]

He lives in Berlin?

[@maxmatson1578]

Don't forget "nitzer ebb"&"NoN"!¡¿?¡!🎹🎧

[@jimyblanc993]

Ricardo Villalobos is the other hand of that story

[@Jaeilelectronics]

Thats why I hate mainstream techno - it may be good music, but its boring and nothing new.

[@ElectronicBeatsTV]

And what does that have to do with the Daniel Miller portrait?

[@davidgeppert5763]

Mann, ist der alt geworden..!