Mr. Scruff on his favourite gear, polyrhythms and field recording | CDR

An electronic music legend, Manchester based producer, DJ and artist Mr. Scruff gives us the intel to the production behind his dancefloor classics.
Cutting his teeth at DJing in the early 90s, Mr. Scruff’s eclectic music taste accompanied by his own visuals and animations earned him a loyal following over the years.
In 1995 he released his first release, “Hocus Pocus” on Manchester based label Robs Records before a few years later making his debut on Ninja Tune with his first full length album release. Since then, he’s had a steady flow of releases, dipping in and out from electro, trip-hop, electronica, nu jazz with elements of soul. More recently, his collaboration with OneDa, Warriors Daughter is an old school breaks flex.
We’re grateful to have welcomed him to Manchester’s Soup Kitchen to share his decades long knowledge with us and for a deep dive into his creative process.
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[@stephenmawson9749]

Mr scruff is my favourite dj go see him play a 5 or 6 hour set and you’ll understand 👍

[@richardgill6417]

Andy,s pause button hip hop mix tapes are legendary in mcr. ❤

[@danieltowns8010]

New album on its way? ❤

[@RWL2012]

seems like it 😊 I wondered why he was suddenly doing an interview lol

[@eyesintheskies]

Karl pilkington really knows his music huh?!

[@Super1275gt]

Huge injustice that you only have one like on this minted comment.

[@eyesintheskies]

@@Super1275gt 😂 thanks 🙏 Only posted a few hours ago so perhaps justice will prevail!

[@Pod-e4m]

The new MPC is really good.... imagine what Scruff would do with 8GB of RAM?

[@opticalman6417]

i bet he got a mpc live 2 or X

[@Pod-e4m]

@@opticalman6417 a couple at least :)

[@housebrigade]

It's good for hip hop but from what I've heard, I don't think it's that great for house and techno or even most of electronic music

[@romulus_]

limitations are often what make things magical.

[@ClaudeYoung]

This is so awesome!!! Cheers!!

[@domeniquexander_]

Cheers Claude 🍻

[@laurentkaufmann1486]

It's cool to introduce the artist like that !

[@LocaliLLocano]

Thanks for making this. I am watching this through multiple times

[@arvindbeeharry8214]

he just doesn't age! What a legend!

[@Francisco12G]

40:56 Yep, Absolutely True! Ahaha

[@AmbientShores]

WOW!

[@domeniquexander_]

Oh yeah. Great 🔥🔥🔥

[@opticalman6417]

he said on the old 12 bit machines you lose a lot of definition the correct term is generations you lose generations

[@donnydarko7624]

Generation loss from bouncing down tracks on tape, on the SP 1200 you lose bit depth, and recording samples at 45rpm's and pitching them back down to their natural pitch, the ringing you often hear on beats made on that machine in the higher frequency spectrum is aliasing. Two other examples of aliasing are if you look at the wheels of car while you are both going 60mph/95kph and the wheels look like they are spinning backwards, thats another example of aliasing that we experience through the loss of information from what is happening and how fast our brain can process that information. Then a digital visual form of aliasing is like in early 3D video games when the number of pixels that a machine could display to show a scene was low enough yet close to the number of DPi of the screen you would see edges of objects "run" when the object is being rotated on screen. Anyways that sound is aliasing, but you also can purposely create that via ring modulation.

[@opticalman6417]

@@donnydarko7624 thank you for your kind insight

[@romeisfallingagain]

@@donnydarko7624 cool comment