Rob Dougan - Clubbed to Death Deconstruction in Ableton Live (Live at Meltdown Festival)

[@lenap4956]

21:45 I can't process this. How did he know manipulating that sample would end up creating the one we hear in the original soundtrack Guesswork? Skill? Experience? Freaking wild, man

[@gS0yeUE0udz7d]

Rob Dougan found his place!

[@ErtywekPL]

​@n9999Can you give me name of that sample cd?

[@Ikhthus777]

that's the legit question

[@radzillov]

These reconstructions are the most useful Ableton tutorials. Thank you, Ski !

[@mikewest5057]

This is very good work on a great track. I'm a musician and mixer and I've got a keen ear so I just had to point a couple of things out because it was bugging me! lol. The loop 'Arrest the president' needs to be faded in until the first snare so you can't hear the first kick because it has a harmonic that clashes with the first note of the song. Secondly, the high legato string sustains for 2 bars and doesn't have the two short notes until the end of the second bar. Sorry I couldn't help it, I mean no disrespect I just couldn't let it lie! ;)

[@mikewest5057]

sorry I mean the loop has a harmonic that clashes with the song, not just first note.

[@aydengrahammusic]

Thanks for the good notes, very keen ear- cheers from a fellow musician!

[@orangiat3619]

youre a literal egomaniac

[@stephenmorrish]

Would you ever look at something like this with the software tools and equipment available at the time of the original composition.

[@Justrhythm8]

Gotta be said AGAIN, and most of us can be guilty of repeating ourselves, SKI you da F*ckin man x

[@pointblankmusicschool]

It hasn't gone to his head, yet ;-)

[@MMWXIV]

Nobody can imagine how i enjoy these music works. Sampling is an incredible art.

[@Swatmat]

i love rewatching this every now and then, its so clever, as a person with no musical talent at all im amazed at how this is done

[@treesmaofficial3873]

I'm a tad bit late, but what's the source of that U.F.O. audio file? Nine Inch Nails also used that one in a cover of Gary Numan's song 'Metal'.

[@treesmaofficial3873]

Update: nevermind, I just found it. For anyone who's curious, here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmrMnJSqpNKZbMk

[@Tramaineguitar]

Anybody discover where the Sax sample was taken from yet? It’s bugging me 😅

[@Tramaineguitar]

By the way, although it’s very nit-picky, I think the sax in this could be EQ’d similarly to the way the drums were EQ’d. The sax in the original soundtrack sounded a lot ‘sweeter’ in my opinion, and compressed a bit more. Nonetheless, a valuable video for people like me. This is such an interesting track, with an even more interesting choice of samples that in my opinion reveals the genius and creativity in the world of electronic music. For a track which is basically a constant loop, I could listen to this for eternity 🙏🏼

[@arnabchakrabortyofficial]

Amazing work by Ski- the master craftsman who makes everything look so easy.

[@pointblankmusicschool]

***** Ski! Ski! Ski!

[@LorisSolic]

I am without words. Pure awesome

[@FernandoQuevedo]

Always a treat to watch your deconstructions and I always learn something new. Thanks!

[@Thugggzer]

Just discovered this song is full sample 😭😭

[@this.is.lapc506]

Even more brilliant when a complex song is fully made of samples: you must have a very wide knowledge across multiple musical genres to get awareness of the most suitable samples to base your ideas from.

[@ErtywekPL]

You can make really unique tracks using samples. Thats the plus.

[@emulus4000]

Absolutely love that Skull Snaps beat

[@ianfanning5524]

What was the sheet music that was used for the piano starting 26:57 from? I've been looking for the whole piece to learn but can't seem to find it. Any help is appreciated! Cheers

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

This was amazing! One of my favourite tracks broken down.. Such a beautiful piano part at the breakdown...

[@Holonomics]

I am someone who just noodles around at home on Garage band for fun. This is a really excellent video for understanding how professional tunes are put together. Really interesting. Cheers.

[@jetklaatu9831]

I've got to admit, when I clicked on this video I didn't think I'd watch it to the end but I did! I found that fascinating and I'm a guitarist so this was outside of my wheelhouse! Great job and thanks for sharing that!

[@enbariz]

i'm falling and falling in love with music again. i found this too late but thank y'all!

[@komicsreviewer8505]

I'm pretty sure Euthanasia is legal in Canada.

[@dfusion6204]

Ski, Master and Commander !!, Thanks for sharing !!

[@ashfaq1999]

Thanks, Great To See This Excellent Review Of Rob D’s Classic In The Making.

[@Got2Bespoke]

This is so satisfying to watch...

[@richmouland]

Love this. Being a convert from garageband I'm loving Abelton. I'm thinking my light version may not be enough for this but I'm giving it a go. Superb lesson.

[@TheDJEDS]

this is breaking it down to the bones man..!

[@Blackfera]

I love this song. Heard it first on the Matrix movie, then I got the entire movietrack album, which is awesome btw. Congrats, Ski Oakenfull! Hope to be your student one day.

[@pointblankmusicschool]

We hope to have you! :-)

[@nathanschreffler1415]

Then listen to furious angels by Rob Dougan. His whole album is fantastic

[@nSx2TV]

damm, well done ! This is one of my favourite track, especially the breakdown, you can feel a lot of emotion. really happy you deconstructed it ! Thx

[@stuartcrofts8860]

Nice work Mr Oakenfull :)

[@skioakenfull]

No, you the man!

[@diogoalmeida10]

Ski makes everything looks so easy! Master! Cheers from Portugal :)

[@dazza42UK]

Excellent as always.

[@DaveS-Ace]

So good man,great work

[@Submersed24]

This might be a dumb question, but on a compressor, raising the gain raises audio from the floor and up, while the threshhold lowers the ceiling and brings it down?

[@techthirteen]

Ski is too good. Amazing producer! I have to press pause and watch ten times, he is so quick in Ableton. Lol!

[@RockstahRolln]

Absolutely Brilliant!!

[@GiorgosLysigakis]

Amazing!!!!! Thanks for the knowledge Ski!!!!

[@brettlewis575]

wow.. great insight.. love the track more knowing whats in it

[@juuliq6]

Incredible!!!

[@_crys_]

Amazing job there!

[@0404ion]

Probably dumb question: How did you get that midi-keyboard (3:00) into the arrangement view? Is it a special plug-in?

[@skioakenfull]

This is a free multi-platform app called vmpk

[@erolbrown]

Such a good video.

[@Nicpetelogan]

This is Excellent - Thank you !

[@sram993]

Bloody brilliant

[@senoramaestrah9833]

Okay, so obviously this guy is the mother Mary of deconstruction. I have newbie questions. 1. What program is he using? 2. How did he know what songs the sounds were sampled from?

[@senoramaestrah9833]

+ski oakenfull

[@Mastermism]

1) Ableton Live (+ Kontakt VST etc.) 2) The easiest way is probably just to search the internet - there are sites for that like www.whosampled.com

[@MelloState]

I'm more impressed by Rob Dougan for somehow thinking very different genres and sampling them into a masterpiece

[@this.is.lapc506]

@@MelloState That's what makes this song even more brilliant

[@bojantanasic221]

This is what we are missing these days. Experimental music and compositing. Anyway love your channel. Could I ask for one favor? If you guys can please deconstruct/recreate the song Right here, right now from Fatboy Slim :) that was also a good tune back in 1998 I was 10 :)

[@eangelos89]

I want to se the DJ Shadow clip. Is there a recording? Already searched on youtube.

[@Jvssvl]

Great video. Which Kontakt library are the strings from?

[@MrSlartybartfast42]

great breakdown

[@theowlfla]

Superb you make it look so easy man , learning some good stuff here , some of the early nineties samplers had a real spark of genius , Love to see Little fluffy clouds done :)

[@this.is.lapc506]

24:18 I'm intrigued by how the Jupyter sample sounds very similar to the Genshin Impact OST made by their own orchestra ensemble. I can imagine how recent tracks can become remixed at any time.

[@hexostatus4658]

Gallant Challenge from the Liyue OST is the closest i can get from that famous string.

[@bedroommusicPL]

excellent :) Maybe next video deconstruction of Orbital - Halcyon on and on ??

[@xaero212]

They also did Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes which is pretty mind blowing!

[@bedroommusicPL]

bgn must watch :)

[@EliahHoliday]

Would love to see a deconstruction of Cabaret Voltair's Sensoria.

[@Xolin11]

I love seeing how its put back together. Though I'm curious to know what is supposed to be learned from deconstructing other than that?

[@skioakenfull]

Here's a few suggestions: Workflow, Basic music theory, Warping, Using FX, Audio to Midi, Arranging, Tempo changes..

[@skioakenfull]

ps.. glad you enjoyed the video!

[@this.is.lapc506]

Remixing :)

[@matisattila2957]

Hats off

[@iok21a]

awesomeness

[@Arcian]

This is sick.

[@8-BitHeart79]

Blown away.

[@Iongjump]

it's awesome

[@gh4kr]

Is there anywhere to listen to this remake?

[@humanharddrive1]

holy fuck there isn't a single original thing in that track. it really owes everything to the artists sampled originally

[@pyzerchiefs]

Wow this is the best sounding one yet . Amazing how many different samples there are. What happens with writing credit for a song with so many samples in?

[@samr7542]

Question: how does he manage to cut the drum samples so cleanly without getting any clicks (seemingly right on zero crossings without having to zoom in and find them)? Is this a feature of Ableton?

[@skioakenfull]

Hi Sam. In this video I'm 'warping' the loops rather than chopping them up to create individual samples. This is similar to 'FlexTime' in Logic, and generally doesn't create the clicks you referred to. Ableton also has a great 'Slice to Midi' feature which chops up loops, but even this adds a smooth attack to each sample if set to default.

[@nemartin1]

nice video learnt a lot :)

[@llucos100]

How do you recreate the strings sounds?

[@skioakenfull]

The strings are from the factory Kontakt Library

[@johnnnyd]

Brilliant

[@BorisMediaProds]

This is so fucking cool!!

[@Rubenheit]

wich song is u.f.o?

[@prod.sandman8052]

Lmao this is kinda crazy after graduating point blank like a year ago and seeing this now

[@777PROJEKT]

Yep Very good work ! A good way to learn is to do some remakes,

[@xaero212]

This is worth so much $$

[@heactor]

damnnn

[@Mandy-Lane]

omg this is shit crazy!

[@komicsreviewer8505]

I didn't realize this was all sample driven. I thought he did all of this.

[@klandestino22]

Keep Calm And Drop A Phat Beat'!

[@furekmody7749]

I'VE GOT THE POISON

[@McQuads87]

Have to be honest. Little disappointed to find out that this track is literally all samples...

[@skioakenfull]

A beautiful collage though :-)

[@robotcoffin]

A lot of electronic music is done this way. It's one thing to sample, it's another to take sole old disco song and loop a section with a punchier beat under it (see "Barbara Streisand" by Duck Sauce, aka "Gotta Go Home" by Boney M). I'd check out Jim Pavlov's reverse engineering video of The Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" to see how amazing a versatile use of samples can be, here on KZbin. Rob Dougan is, however, an amazing composer and songwriter, and I feel he used his samples very well.

[@Arnazisti]

you're kidding yourself if you think theres no skill to this

[@Got2Bespoke]

Ski Oakenfull Much of dance/electronic music at that time was sampling and there’s nothing wrong with that because it takes skill and imagination to see what could be. But, this is why I have a hard time calling anyone working in electronic music a “DJ” because so many of them are literally producing every part of their music and the term is no longer representative of what they’re doing. It’s been really interesting to watch the progression over the last 20-25 years though.

[@fatboiz1234]

can point blank come to San Diego Ca, and host an event just like this? wishful thinking.

[@EntireShadow]

So this guy definetly knows what he is doing, but why is he explaining even simple things so complicated?

[@jjqasme]

Нафига чужое? Почему со своими навыками нельзя сделать свое? Ну покажи красоту, мастерство, уровень! Иначе мир не увидит новых талантов никогда

[@Vindamato]

This was in a movie soundtrack in the late 90s early 00s...anyone?

[@marcmeup1]

Brilliant as always Ski! Thanks. @ Vincent D'Amato: It's in a 1996 french film starring Beatrice Dalle called "Clubbed to Death (Lola)". It has a great soundtrack that also features Rollin and Scratchin by Daft Punk if I remember correctly. Great flic. Just found it on YT - no subs tho. /watch?v=oescbpgecmU

[@Vindamato]

It's also in the Matrix! haha

[@Deeper_01]

10:55 ты внатуре не собираешся выравнивать скрипку по сетке? дизлайк

[@classic1984]

One too many kick drums.