HOW WAS IT MADE? Fatboy Slim - Right Here, Right Now

[@FatboySlim]

very interesting tutorial, my friend. i wish i'd had Ableton when i did it! . DM me you email address and i'll fill you in the bits you couldn't work out....

[@GyuBeats]

OMG!!!!!!!

[@mrdrgonzo]

Haha ace, Norman Cook been a true legend! 🙇

[@mrdrgonzo]

I remember been 14 and at school when this came out. I started making mixtapes of tracks from a few of your albums as I always wanted to be a dj, so I crudely mixed and two portable CD players, one been a Goodmans but with anti skipping mind! The mixer was a cheap microphone mixer I bought for £6 from maplins 😂 Always loved looking at the inlay seeing the samplers with floppy discs strawn around the studio and the Aciiid slipmats which I always wanted 🙂

[@debeshyouveheard1987]

[e-mail] I look forward to it!

[@bletila]

OMG

[@hinkhall5291]

_My favorite artist right now is Fatboy Slim. That guy kicks ass!_

[@DJFKProductions]

Hey man! The sample you’re struggling with around 17:18 is from Timber by Coldcut&Hexstatic, which is itself a sample of September by Jean-Michel Jarre. I’d never noticed it was the Timber sample until I heard you isolate it but now I’ve heard it it’s totally unmistakable! Part of the fun! Keep it up pal, I love it.

[@DJFKProductions]

Oh and this is total speculation but I wouldn’t be surprised if the noise around 22:20 is him reusing the beginning of Love Loves To Love Love by Lulu - he used that sample a couple of times and built Santa Cruz around it.

[@chrismanleyirl]

Great shout bro,.good ear

[@wellurban]

Ah yes, that JMJ sample is very distinctive, and keeps popping up all over the place! It’s also on Telefone 529 by Musicology aka B12, which isn’t a well known track but was on Warp’s first Artificial Intelligence compilation, so it’s seared into my brain. I recognised it in Timber, but didn’t notice it here.

[@thenullco]

You've got to be kidding me! I listen to that song so often and never connected the dots. Hats off, mate.

[@DJFKProductions]

Same! He uses it pretty heavily in Kalifornia, too.

[@FatboySlim]

actually i found your email. check your inbox....

[@kenbolger1137]

Your a gentleman and a legend Norman . 20 years and I still trying hunt down so many of the layers of samples used in your tracks . It’s amazing the tapestry and layering of bits n pieces used in all your work .. Thanks for a life time of funky music and smiley faces . From Rockaway Three - Its Your Thing To Eat sleep rave repeat ✌🏻😃😃

[@djteddyrux]

Any idea what the second vocal is? 'waking up to find, your loves not real" Also a video on MARRS - pump up the volume would be epic!

[@Antonio_Ortiz]

Bro, I'm starting to think we just had the exact same CD's growing up. You just keep covering some of my all-time favorite electronic songs. And the fact that Norman even contacted you is beyond stellar!

[@Fenlander456]

Another great track, everything you have covered so far has basically been my musical journey of the 90's.

[@GyuBeats]

Yeah it's so cool to connect through this music :)

[@Ben_______x]

Same here!

[@fiercelaststand]

So impressive - your ability to work through the layers of tracks is amazing! Loving this series.

[@GyuBeats]

Ah cheers!

[@alexandermccarthy]

What I love so much about your videos is that you obviously LOVE the music you're recreating. Another awesome video on another epic masterpiece.

[@GyuBeats]

Thank you so much!

[@DoomnDust]

The 'stank-face' is universal, regardless of genre, culture or age.

[@bcool9355]

I'm 41,& its the best music ive listen 👏👏👏👏

[@elistafford]

I really enjoy what you’re doing on your channel! About 10 years ago I too got into collecting the original sampled records and recreating songs that I loved. It’s a excellent learning experience.

[@jpholecka-ps]

You’ve got me hooked on your breakdown videos. All my 20s favourites from the 90s!

[@dalek604]

I think the drums you couldn't find are from the As One's remix of Timber by Coldcut, which in turn is a sample from Jean Michel Jarre's track September from the album Revolution.

[@AndreiZhilin]

Yes!

[@AKAtAGG]

See I've said for years to my music snob mates that creating a track like this using samples is as skillful as writing your own string piece, and now i can show them this and they can't deny it as truth. Lovely work as usual.

[@BaertXavier]

Gye B , you make me smile everytime making it seem all soO eazy !

[@junkyard6522]

@GyuBeats Could you please do "Hey boy, hey girl" next? Or at least the lead/synth.

[@cosf918]

great video. Thanks for makeing it and explaining how much went in to the orignal track . Hard yo belive how old the orignal is and still sound s great

[@TheValueOfN]

Sometimes, it's worth making the effort to separate the wheat from the chaff. It's tempting to avoid the channels with a relatively small amount of subscribers. I'm glad that I've discovered you, Guy, because you cover some of the most significant tunes in my former self's journey towards musical enlightenment in a way that I can relate to. The search for that perfect sample that could be manipulated and looped in ways that I was yet to discover was what kept me intrigued with creating music. Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge and a calculator were two of my most necessary tools way back then. I'm loving this series so far and it's almost guaranteed that each time that I learn that you've posted a new vid, I'll appreciate it from start to finish. You skip through many steps in this series and I'm left wanting to see a closer approximation of your process in long-form. Your thought processes as you negate certain ideas and pounce on others would provide a level of education that is lacking in this weird music production KZbin bubble. I'm relatively new to Live 11 Suite so I'm craving a vid that documents the process with each click and swipe of the mouse explained. Reason is my main DAW but I'm using it more as a VST in Live. I'm looking forward to your next breakdown of a top tune from back in the day.

[@Pauliemelt]

This has given me renewed love for this track. Great vid!

[@GyuBeats]

Thanks mate!

[@servicestuffs2549]

I love these old break downs of classic songs! I Look forward for more

[@djneils100]

just a wicked video from you - thanks so much for doing it

[@TheGazzadj]

I replicated this a while back I was so pleased when I got the drumbeat nailed. Great job loved the video.

[@kenbolger1137]

Can you share your replicated version!!?

[@TheGazzadj]

@@kenbolger1137 I would if I could find it, I checked my ssd and I can't find, I will keep looking though.

[@timr3691]

These breakdowns are so helpful if you want to get into the world of sampling. Please keep on doing them!

[@clauscombat418]

I remember my surprise when i sampled the original string riff with my ESI-32, apllied the built-in filter and got exactly the intro of the song 😮

[@Holonomics]

I just can’t get enough of these breakdowns. Absolutely brilliant. I’d love you to look at Angel by Massive Attack if possible.

[@GyuBeats]

Oooh I do love that one... Thanks for the support :)

[@awkwardtom]

For a track I know so well you have shown me new depths that I hadn’t noticed before, and I consider myself an active listener. Always presumed it was just one main hook sample but yeah a masterpiece of sample puzzling has been done to make them sound so seamlessly as one piece and not a montage. Really enjoyed this thanks mate. #bestonyoutube 👍

[@ChrisJamesthebeast]

Love this series ❤. Would love to see one on dig your own hole era chemical brothers!

[@UR_HR]

So many layers in this track that I had no idea are there. Your ear for this stuff is mind boggling

[@GyuBeats]

Ah thanks, it's just practice really :)

[@mareikemacinnes7764]

Great video as always Gyu! What many don't understand is that Fatboy Slim cut and edited the samples with an Akai S950 and sequenced this and other of his classic tracks with an Atari St. So no waveform display on the sampler, just cut the samples by numbers and by ear! Anyone who says sampling isn't an art form has absolutely no idea about music production techniques. If you're going to be reconstructing music by people known to have used Akai Sampler like Fatboy Slim I would recommend using a VST to emulate Akai S Sampler's cycle timestretch mode. I think that way you would often be closer to the original track in terms of sound. Greetings from Germany

[@GyuBeats]

Thanks! Yes, that's a great point that I forgot to mention - it's so much easier to do it in Ableton than to do it on the equipment he used. yeah I'm looking at maybe getting TAL Sampler to get that hardware sampler sound :)

[@mareikemacinnes7764]

@@GyuBeats I would recommend AKAIZER vst. It's a very good emulation of the Akai S cycle mode.

[@mickharrison90]

So happy to find this video. I'm a huge Fatboy Slim fan, especially when my college teacher introduced me to Who Sampled. Would love to know what Norman said about the bits you couldn't work out

[@GyuBeats]

He just let me hear them and I still don't know what they are ;)

[@XBeatAndMore]

​@@GyuBeatshe might wanted to keep this as a secret or did he ?... 🤔

[@GyuBeats]

@@XBeatAndMore Yes he definitely did!

[@XBeatAndMore]

@@GyuBeats After all it's just some audio files like the others nothing really important

[@GyuBeats]

@@XBeatAndMore Well he could get into legal trouble

[@MattPerrin]

Oh YES!!!!! Watching this as soon as I get home!!!! 😁

[@Duranmussic]

amazing analysis of a great song by one of my favorite artists, also when he was bassist for the Housemartins... 👏👏🤘

[@M1ster77]

THIS IS SO COOL! 🤩 I can not imagine how hard it must have been to put this song together on a sequencer software and midi-triggered hardware samplers probably tweaking all the filters live by hand...?! 🐿 But hey - back then when there was no internet we had plenty of time to do some cool shit! 😎😂 Actually SOME people do some awesome shit on the internet now... thank you man for this cool breakdown!

[@GyuBeats]

Yeah it was so much easier for me with Ableton than it was for Norm when he did it. Respect to him!

[@michaelrees9443]

Another amazing video. You are so good at this! I can’t believe fat boy slim did this without ableton.

[@GyuBeats]

Ah thank you! yeah tbh I didn't even think about that - I should have mentioned it - it makes it even more amazing!

[@jamesvozar1]

Love this break down man, dope.

[@briandavidgregory]

I love the whole wood paneling + blinking light motif you have going on. My knotty pine paneled basement doesn't even compare.

[@ilumijaxxi]

Dude thanks for covering this one, always wanted to know how it was made !

[@chrislonghurst]

Around 22:27, the “drum” sound sounds a lot like a really compressed version of the Art Of Noise sample of a car not starting (first few seconds of Close To The Edit)

[@jayfeser5259]

this is my favourite thing on youtube. i cant get enough. thanks very much!

[@GyuBeats]

Ah so glad you're enjoying them!

[@simple-human-being]

For the repeating 'here' section towards the end, seems there's a bit of delay with a low cutoff panned to the right on the original - which is probably why the timing seems a bit delayed - compared to yours. Love your content btw! Can't wait to see more on other classics.

[@GyuBeats]

Great ears!

[@simple-human-being]

@@GyuBeats thanks!

[@Lala-dr3vf]

That was such fun to watch ❤

[@SimonMorton555]

discovered when going down a rabbit hole, really enjoying all the how its mades.

[@GyuBeats]

Cheers :)

[@damo5791]

I am so glad I found you a couple of months ago. You have very quickly become my favorite KZbinr and when a new "How Was It Made' pops up in my I have to admit I get a tad excited. The recreations are spot on, the breakdown of each track and the way you explain each part in detail, clearly showing your enjoyment too is brilliant. You also just get on with the detail of the track without any flashy or silly gimmicks, like so many other KZbinr producers. Something for us 90's 20 somethings to engage in, rather than today's 20 somethings. Thank you! While I look forward to many more tracks from the 90's, I'd love see some tracks from BT's Ima album or anything from Bonobo's Blacksands album.

[@jabelsjabels]

Just found your channel from youtube recommendations. Really cool to see you work through the layers! So much stuff in the tune that I'd never really noticed or paid attention to before.

[@KeithWilsonUK]

Another killer video... thanks again... I really look forward to these now! Thanks for sharing.

[@ravecrab]

Great video. I too had always assumed Norman Cook was a bit of a lazy sampler, or at least merely good at slapping together catchy little fragments from his record collection. This video definitely shows that a huge amount of craft went into making this tune.

[@chinnyreckon775]

You can't just 'slap together' samples and expect them to work as well as this does.

[@ravecrab]

@@chinnyreckon775 That's obvious if you're familiar with the original sample, but I wasn't and assumed it was a fairly straightforward lift. You only have to look at ATFC - In And Out Of My Life, which re-sampled the entire arrangement from Right Here Right Now without tweaking it at all, whacked an accapella vocal over the top and some house beats underneath and was a Top 10 hit.

[@chinnyreckon775]

@@ravecrab I wasn't really referring to sampling technique, more the choice of samples. You can obtain 'catchy little fragments' from your record collection, but it doesn't mean they are all going to work together. Seems an obvious point to make, but I think some people think this sampling lark is as easy as grabbing a vocal here, a riff there, a bassline there, mashing them together and it's as easy as that, when of course chances are they won't be in compatible keys.

[@ravecrab]

@@chinnyreckon775 Jesus mate, I gave him enough credit to assume a professional musician would be able to hear when things are in key.

[@harrycallaghan22]

Brilliant insight and analysis of this classic. Love this series. Nice one ☝🏼

[@SHRWM]

This is one of my favorite tracks of all time

[@MrBENESKI]

Another brilliant one, great fun, really enjoyed that, thank you 😀

[@XyloRecords]

Really enjoyed this, looking forward to more!

[@djdren]

amazing job in recreating this classic .... respect to norman cook ...

[@garry2124]

Love it. Great work figuring this one out.

[@Zen_Mox]

excellent work... Fascinating

[@UnknownMelodies95]

Another great video i love these they are so well done, thank you. ❤️

[@GyuBeats]

Ah thank you!

[@tedchoss7922]

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!!!!

[@a.d.h.s.]

LOVE IT! Thanks

[@suffist]

Another great breakdown, really looking forward to the next one, as much as I looked forward to this one.

[@paullawson6749]

Akai samplers and Atari ST computers and Mackie mixing desks was the tools of most 90s dance music enjoyed your version

[@GyuBeats]

Yep! Cheers :)

[@Dougie-]

Yep. Although Fatboy Slim used a Soundcraft mixer.

[@branstonpickle9055]

Arsenal coming out to this at Highbury! Used to give me goosebumps!

[@TheInterGalacticFederation]

amazing depth of knowledge - great to see your channel expanding

[@badfoot]

Great videos, love to see breakdowns of chicane, daft punk, sabres of paradise....

[@johnjohnson1361]

Brilliant mate thanks, I have learned so much 👍🏼

[@GyuBeats]

Great to hear!

[@vdub4216]

Dude! Nice job! Not an easy track by any means... you making me wanna get sampling now! Would love to see you look at Chemical Brothers - Leave Home and Leftfield Lydon - Open Up someday! Those warbling basslines 😻

[@chriskingston1981]

Sampling is an art! When I was young I was so passioned about making music, because of the art of sampling I loved so much. But people around me told me, you must make your own stuff you are always sampling. Becoming a big dj became more important, so I started to listen to those others. Killed my whole passion and inspiration. I have an ear for sampling, I always instantly hear something to sample in tracks, but for 25 years I told myself this is not professional… When I let go of this idea, and letting go of a music genre to create music in, all inspiration starts to flow. I just try to listen now, why do I get inspired by this sample, and what kind of genre/style does this sample asks from me. Also presets was not done for 25 years for me. Now I am accepting, presets will get me into flow, to quickly create the idea with the sample. Now with KZbin I see all great songs are made this way, within hours sometimes minutes. Thank you for your video, it’s really inspiring me into sampling is art ❤️❤️❤️

[@GyuBeats]

YES! You know I'm so passionate about sampling at the moment, I'm finding it so inspiring!

[@SearchingForSounds]

Great videos, digging deep with humble passion.

[@petsonas]

Great video! Another few funky ideas for How Was It Made if you're ever feeling Big Beatsy: Propellerheads - Take California Smoove - I'm A Man

[@Juniar101]

The beats are great!!

[@79Daver]

Great stuff. You go really deep into it

[@alexstorch1827]

These are amazing!!! Love your making of videos. Would love a BT or UNKLE track.

[@kenbolger1137]

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[@mrotaveria]

loving these breakdowns man, keep it up!

[@amirshik]

Great vid! Liked it a lot. Something from Underworld's classics next, please :)

[@peterlewis3621]

Love your stuff, well done

[@Paul_Y_T]

Brilliant video - thanks!

[@railster]

Crazy to think he did it with old gear as akai s950. Incredible visionare

[@diond1333]

Totally agree. It's definitely the 'less is more' addage. I remember I was the most prolific when I only had one synth (Yamaha YS100), a Boss Dr550 drum machine and an Atari 520 STFM. Now I have Ableton and 100s of VST instruments at my disposal and I can put out a single tune.

[@rorz999]

Plenty of classic tracks made on nothing but an S950 and a sequencer!

[@annekarice1587]

You sir are a legend

[@silocybe83]

impressive work as always , nice one

[@cop6307]

brilliant! thanks for doing this classic

[@GyuBeats]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@euzah]

Loving your setup brother 👊

[@jeremybiggs8413]

The original uses drums from Jean Michel Jarre’s revolution too.

[@duncansmith6318]

Fantastic recreation! Please do an underworld track. :)

[@GyuBeats]

Working on one now 😉

[@KeirMurphy]

Really interesting & I share your interest in the sampling process from a thought/approach perspective and not just technology and tools angle. The end result is pretty good! I wonder if it would have helped to pitch the reference version track up to your own root note... You did a stellar job considering the pitch differences though - that'd really throw you off mentally!

[@archiemcdonald6418]

Please never stop making these vids! I’d love you see you remake chemical beats by the chemical brothers. Proper 90s acid ☮️☮️

[@TonyOldskool]

This is fkn awesome

[@Cubo1d]

Great work!

[@TorqueDeeJ]

Awesome video, subscribing now 🎉😊

[@BogusNoise]

Cool reconstruction! Your pitch problem you can sort by tweaking the clip settings - you have 3 in your pitch semitones box, at the right side of the area. Also figured he might've timestretched the "now" to make it flow better, which is another part you were stuck (though he may have told you this in the email already)

[@KSPOiolosse]

Isnt the drum in 17:10 the one from Timber by Coldcut?

[@Dochouse12113]

Still loving these videos. What happened to Ep 7? If you're doing requests.... Water From a Vine Leaf is an absolute banger. Saw William Orbit interviewed on TV the other week and he was every bit as odd as I'd expected.

[@RichardStevens81]

I believe it got flagged for copyright. Future Sound of London - Papa New Guinea

[@loconnol473]

7:25seconds is where the “vocal fair light” sound is. It’s a very short loop over the top

[@loconnol473]

Sorry, 7:26

[@GreaseLightning02]

The pitch difference was an interesting one. I had a track that I was sampling which seemed to be pitched in a way that even when my instrumentation around the sample was accurate, it still sounded wrong. Has anyone come across this challenge and found a way to overcome it?

[@Dimi.Petrov]

What you said at the beginning about sampling being an art of its own - I could not agree more, especially with artists like Fatboy Slim, Orbital or Prodigy. Some of these guys are taking the art of sampling to a whole new level where they take small bits and pieces from different tracks that come from completely different styles of music to create something completely new that has nothing to do with any of the samples, but it’s whole new music. So I wouldn’t call that kind of sampling stealing, it’s taking ideas and creating something new. And when you think about it this has been going for ages, but artists in different styles have been just using ideas and drawn inspiration from other songs

[@james4001]

Another very cool video. . . one day these will be as famous as the tracks themselves. Can I ask how old you are ?

[@GyuBeats]

Thanks! I hope so. I'm 44

[@vroge3275]

Any chance some of these sounds came from or were inspired by Brimful of asha by corner shop? I think he did a mix of this. No idea if the timing is right (year). Great video and a lovely looking studio space you have there.

[@gaboquintana3628]

I suppose it's really hard to make an análisis of a copyright song full of copyright samples and not getting a copyright claim.

[@teake.tekkers2253]

damn you covering all the songs of my childhood :D love it

[@earlsfield]

Great work. That whole generation around big beat mastered sampling, and that means not only manipulating samples with the available tools, but choosing the samples to begin with. Yeah, it is a few samples, then a cheap drum machine over it, FM/rompler synth on top or an acid line - but that is so easy to simplify. There is an extra step (s) in bringing this technique to the masterpiece tracks that still shake the earth in clubs. Also to add to your point on the art of sampling - yes you have guys who would totally change the sample by mangling it, but also, the art is in taking a sample, not change much - but change an actual context of the musical piece you are sampling. I still think the limitations and the slow process of samplers at the time influenced artists to pay attention to every detail. Fatboy, Liam from Prodigy, Tricky/Massive Attack, FSOL, Two lone Swordsmen... and then on to guys like Boards, Autechre etc. that are smothing different alltogether.

[@GyuBeats]

Yeah I totally agree, and yes, the context is a massive thing

[@mlwise]

Love it!

[@RosettaDesigns]

you missed the acoustic guitar staccato percussion that's present in the beginning of the original

[@fantasticplastic5336]

Drums - Coldcut and Hexstatic Timber (As One Mix)

[@GyuBeats]

yes, but actually I think they sampled them from Jean Michel Jarre - someone else in these comments told me

[@fantasticplastic5336]

@@GyuBeats Ahh right. I didn't know that.

[@Rockafella578]

@@GyuBeats The beats are a bar loop of a rare Freestylers remix around 97/98, I have it in the loft somewhere on vinyl, I've never seen anyone guess right whenever it's been discussed on the net in various places...