Sandra - Lovelight In Your Eyes (actually Michael Cretu used Lately Bass patch in almost every song on her album 'Painting in Yellow') Madonna - Vogue Madonna - Deeper And Deeper Madonna - Express Yourself Babyface - Illusions Whitney Houston - I'm Every Woman Al B. Sure! - Night and Day DC Mark - Close My Eyes Ice MC - Easy Ice MC - OK Coral Ice MC - Take Away The Colour Whigfield - Saturday Night Whigfield - Sexy Eyes Whigfield - Another Day Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You Ace Of Base - All That She Wants Ace Of Base - Dancer In A Daydream Ace Of Base - Voulez-Vous Danser 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor - Dreams 2 Brothers on the 4th floor - Turn da music up Scatman John - The Scatman Scatman John - Everybody Jam! Corona - The Rythm of the Night Alexia - Summer Is Crazy Culture Beat - I Like You Culture Beat - Mr Vain Masterboy - I Got To Give It Up Odyssey - Everybody Move DJ Tonka - She Knows You Dominica - Gotta Let You Go (DJ Tonka Mix) Perseus - Seychelles Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Dream On Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble Deee-Lite - Pussycat Meow Inner City - Big Fun Inner City - Good life Inner City - Do you love what you feel Doug Lazy - Let It Roll Doug Lazy - Can't Hold Back Steve Hurley - Work it out Adeva - Warning Jomanda - Make my body rock Jomanda - Don't You Want My Love Bobby Konders - Let There Be House Homeboys Only - Turn it out Jazzy - Lonely The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Theme Song Kool Moe Dee - Go see the doctor Queen Latifah - Come Into My House (Orbital Dub Mix) Gat Decor - Passion Art Of Trance - Gloria (Transparent Mix) Art of Trance - Octopus (Man With No Name Remix) Orbital - Chime Orbital - Halcyon On and On Genetic - Trancemission E-Zee Possee & Kinky - Everything Starts With An E Deep Freeze Productions - Total Experience Deep in Rhythm - Keep the crowd movin' Letreece Brown - Let's Move
@@AlexBallMusic You're welcome. Actually this is short (edited) version of my list. I have removed some songs which sounds like Lately Bass but I'm not completely convinced (like SNAP! - Rhythm Is a Dancer and more).
@@kenzo9900 Initially I thought "No, you're wrong" because at the beginning the bass is mixed with some sub-bass coming from other synth and mixed sound combined don't have this typical 'click' from Lately Bass. But later there is the part without sub-bass and it sounds very much like Lately Bass.
@@JayKaufman IKR It's catchy af. I would even play the bandcamp version as it is at a sunny outdoor set while playing the tambourine live after the break :)
If you're serious about it you should treat it with a bit of further mastering and give it a proper name. Other than that, i don't see why this shouldn't be the official Ibiza banger of 2021 :)
I notice people always try to make fun of people having a good time, acting a fool or just generally let it all hang out in footage from the 80s and 90s, I can tell you from someone who lived it, it was infinitely better than the past 20 years where everyone is so self conscious and afraid to express themselves so people just stand around now barely nodding their heads or giving any indication that they’re enjoying the music at all or holding up a phone. There is no amount of video footage that can convey how fun and pure that era was.
@@GavinMorris1 in the 1990s when I was in a record pool, I'd get sent MUCH worse that I ultimately had to pay a subscription fee for. Lots of really bad eurodance and Italian house records that ripped off bigger hits. The Germans were also quite guilty of this as well.
That finishing track is so much better, much more authentically produced, and realised with so much more heart and reverence than most house music these days. Wonderful.
he is not ate it but spit it out if you look carefully enough, however that was also my first thought at first glance Anyway, the rave scene looks great and I want to jump in
Just to clarify some details - this is from discussion on Gearspace: Some FM synths (DX11/21/27/100) have the patch named 'Solid Bass' which sounds quite close to the 'Lately Bass' but it's not exactly the same. DX11 (and others) have sine-only waveforms but TX81z have sine and other additional waveforms. And beside that LatelyBass and SolidBass have significant differences in their patch parameters. The Lately Bass preset was an attempt by Yamaha's sound designers to approximate the bass sound in Janet Jackson's "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" which was a tweaked version of -- you guessed it - Solid Bass on the DX7!
Honestly Alex, you are incredibly underrated in the synth scene. I always turn to your videos whenever possible to listen to good synth demo's, explanations, tips, tricks and just general inspirations. You're honestly incredible. And hey, if it means something to you your Korg MonoPoly FourPlay vid is the reason I'm going to pick up a Behringer clone the moment it drops!
You are million times better than modern day popular music people. You played instruments, you sung, you did your video and you became your own studio engineer.
@devontodetroit Very much so! All parameters of tx81z can be controlled with sysex. Only problem is data buffer overload. If you turn the knobs too fast, the midi buffer will overload and it stops responding.
Oh my god, you absolutely caught the essence of the 90’s (at least this genre). It brought up nice memories back from the time when I was 20-22. Great job!
Absolute gem of a synth! I love my DX11 a lot. Such phat tones! (Basically a 81Z with a keyboard with some extra features) And of course, great video as always. Can't go wrong with the 81Z - 909 combo :)
I'm aware there is a whole world of Yamaha FM. I've only played a couple of them, but not the DX11. Sounds like it's very similar then? There's an outside chance I can feature a DX5 at some point. That would be fun if I can.
Oh my goodness, this is exactly the type of sound in my dad's "Rave Til' Dawn" CD from 1993. Your gear and production and video editing is so spot on. That's the sound i wanna make too!! Gear galore dude holy... So goooood. Your description is also super helpful as well, tysm for making this quality video haha. subbed!
Thanks. God, I feel old hearing the description of "my dad's rave CD". I remember my school friends getting cassette box sets of rave and happy hardcore.
Oh yes the Lately Bass !!! Well used in The System, Kerri Chandler - You Are in my system, a groovy deep house classic ! Awesome video, thank you, made me want to jam with my TX too !
@@AlexBallMusic :-) Everything looks so simple and easy as well - when it's not at all! (You have to master your business REALLY well to make it look simple and easy!)
Its funny how a bunch of synths and a drum machine from the 80's paved the way for new genre's of music in the 90's. For me it was the Korg M1 that started it and the 909 that completed it. Those 2 are a match made in heaven. I thank them both for giving us all of the classic's.
I wouldn't be at all embarrassed by the rap sections. The vocal processing reminds me of The KLF. And the overall performance and choice of lyrics: "T.U.R.T.L.E. Power." You're in good company.
Alex You've took me straight back to the 90's as a kidwhen House, Dance and Trance music ruled the charts. There's too many songs to list and i loved them all. Fun times back then listening to them on the radio and tv. Where have all those years gone?
Damn man! This is great! I had a good chuckle when the rap came in, but you know what? It totally fits and sounds legit! Love the arrangement and the vibe, it definitely sounds authentic. I wish I could make tracks like this tbh. Keep up the great work!
In the late 80's I bought two of these for my rack and became quite adept at programming them. They were quite thin 4 op sounds that benefitted greatly from the internal effects like the chorus you added. Also stacking the same sound and detuning them one up the other down helped a lot. I was able to get very decent analog synth sounds this way.
@@AlexBallMusic or if you grew up in North America in the 1980s like I did, a segment on a local TV news station's lunch hour news or afternoon talk show with the lead in of, 'This new craze that's sweeping the nation! Up next, we have hip house producer and rapper Alex 'On The' Ball performing!'.
Very fun video, and as so many have already said, the vocals are very good after all, but... If you're an American, "Texan 81 zee"? Uh, no. Zee, yes, but Texan? Really?
I've got a tx81z synth too. It's fantastic! Edit: Listened to the song now. It's an exact replica of that late 80's/early 90's house vibes, but with silly references to synthesizers in the lyrics 😁. Fantastic! ❤️
I gave a pair of these away along with an 8-bit Yamaha SPX50 at Halloween last year to my neighbor who loves old keyboards he was looking for a DX7 but couldn’t find one in good enough condition or at a reasonable price so when I cleaned out an old gear closet at the studio I found a pair of these rack TX81Z’s. I forgot I had them. They had been in the storage closet since around 1999 or 2000. I plugged them up and they worked perfectly. For a 1U rack unit they are heavy but everything Yamaha made back then was. When you look at it you think it is going to weigh the same as an SPX90 reverb but they are WAY heavier than the effect units of the same era from Yamaha. Great video and 90s throwback tune!
Hi Alex, I didn’t know you owned the AMS delay. Would you consider doing a video on it? I am a huge fan of Peter Gabriel and I know he used it extensively. I’ve always been curious about it’s full functionality. There has been a lot of interest, and rightfully so, in the reverb, but there isn’t a ton of info on the delay out there.
Just showing the later 15-80S and fully expanded RMX16 as that's what I'll have to physically demonstrate, but I'll mention a bit if the story. It will be more of a demo than a documentary.
i've actually been surprised that there is no virtual version like an UAD or something. The RMX kinda vibe is available from UAD, it's now in 500 series, and it's non-linear algo (or derivatives) are to be found in various other hardware verbs like the Bricasti and TC M6000. But nobody seems to do some kind of DMX15...
santibanks I’m similarly perplexed that no one has emulated it as a plugin. They were very prevalent in the 80s and it’s hard to find a plugin that does exactly what they were said to do (per the manual and online accounts of the sounds you can get out of it).
Always. Fun story, 10+ years ago I was out running and almost ran into Fatboy Slim. I gave him a very awkward smile as I couldn't think of anything interesting to say.
@@AlexBallMusic I actually shaked his hand when was teen and met him after concert in Moscow like about 20 years ago. Damn, he needs to return, where is he anyway?
Ah man you may not have been taking it too seriously but that turned out quality! Maybe it helps to not take these things too seriously 😉 I love that era’s sound, good chorus lyrics too, even got a little emotional☺️Thanks man!
Here's some more songs that use the Lately Bass. Mary J Blige "You Remind Me" Jodeci "Forever My Lady" Al B Sure! "Night And Day" Hi Five "She's Playing Hard To Get"
The chorus and reverbs sound inauthentic for the era. A little less reverb on the vocals would have been nicer too. Has a great dirty sound of it's own though. Just a couple tweeks in the mix, but especially on the effects, and it would be a A+ track.
Banger for sure. 😎 I’ve got the DX11, which is essentially the keyboard version of the TX81Z. I mostly use it as a master controller, but this video urges me to utilize those sounds. Stay smooth!
That's actually a really banging track. The piano and vocal lines and lush. Shit with a few changes I'd be playing this in DJ sets. I keep coming back to listen.
This was part of my teenage diet and now, seeing Alex showing us how to get back there, I realize that I was unconsciously gravitating in that direction when noodling on my MPC at home... Oh well - let's embrace it, consciously now !
Sandra - Lovelight In Your Eyes (actually Michael Cretu used Lately Bass patch in almost every song on her album 'Painting in Yellow')
Madonna - Vogue
Madonna - Deeper And Deeper
Madonna - Express Yourself
Babyface - Illusions
Whitney Houston - I'm Every Woman
Al B. Sure! - Night and Day
DC Mark - Close My Eyes
Ice MC - Easy
Ice MC - OK Coral
Ice MC - Take Away The Colour
Whigfield - Saturday Night
Whigfield - Sexy Eyes
Whigfield - Another Day
Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You
Ace Of Base - All That She Wants
Ace Of Base - Dancer In A Daydream
Ace Of Base - Voulez-Vous Danser
2 Brothers On The 4th Floor - Dreams
2 Brothers on the 4th floor - Turn da music up
Scatman John - The Scatman
Scatman John - Everybody Jam!
Corona - The Rythm of the Night
Alexia - Summer Is Crazy
Culture Beat - I Like You
Culture Beat - Mr Vain
Masterboy - I Got To Give It Up
Odyssey - Everybody Move
DJ Tonka - She Knows You
Dominica - Gotta Let You Go (DJ Tonka Mix)
Perseus - Seychelles
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Dream On
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble
Deee-Lite - Pussycat Meow
Inner City - Big Fun
Inner City - Good life
Inner City - Do you love what you feel
Doug Lazy - Let It Roll
Doug Lazy - Can't Hold Back
Steve Hurley - Work it out
Adeva - Warning
Jomanda - Make my body rock
Jomanda - Don't You Want My Love
Bobby Konders - Let There Be House
Homeboys Only - Turn it out
Jazzy - Lonely
The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Theme Song
Kool Moe Dee - Go see the doctor
Queen Latifah - Come Into My House (Orbital Dub Mix)
Gat Decor - Passion
Art Of Trance - Gloria (Transparent Mix)
Art of Trance - Octopus (Man With No Name Remix)
Orbital - Chime
Orbital - Halcyon On and On
Genetic - Trancemission
E-Zee Possee & Kinky - Everything Starts With An E
Deep Freeze Productions - Total Experience
Deep in Rhythm - Keep the crowd movin'
Letreece Brown - Let's Move
Legend - thanks!
@@AlexBallMusic You're welcome. Actually this is short (edited) version of my list. I have removed some songs which sounds like Lately Bass but I'm not completely convinced (like SNAP! - Rhythm Is a Dancer and more).
Mariah Carey - Someday
@@kenzo9900 Initially I thought "No, you're wrong" because at the beginning the bass is mixed with some sub-bass coming from other synth and mixed sound combined don't have this typical 'click' from Lately Bass. But later there is the part without sub-bass and it sounds very much like Lately Bass.
Haddaway: What is love;
Lil Louis: French Kiss
Heavy D and the boyz: We got our own thang.
The thing is that I was a dj late 80's, early 90's. And I would have bought that record.
Maybe not the verses, but that chorus slays!
@@JayKaufman IKR It's catchy af. I would even play the bandcamp version as it is at a sunny outdoor set while playing the tambourine live after the break :)
Thank you for your service :)
@@JayKaufman Who has ever listened to the stupid rap sections back in the day? So it's absolutely perfect. :-)
Exactly 🙌
Dude apologizes for his vocals then makes a studio quality acapella
Bruh. Vox so smooth
After requests I've stuck this on Bandcamp: alexball.bandcamp.com/track/90s-banger-with-the-yamaha-tx81z
Hopefully I'll be big in Ibiza in 2021.
You and Dr. Alban :) 🐸
Try to convince a big name to make a house version of it.
This tune on loop could be a humane & effective way to speed up the waterboarding process💡
...I do mean this as a compliment!
If you're serious about it you should treat it with a bit of further mastering and give it a proper name. Other than that, i don't see why this shouldn't be the official Ibiza banger of 2021 :)
I love 24 beats!
The vocals are absolutely banging! Nothing to be ashamed off!
Thanks
The 90s rave footage was hysterical.
I know, right? I wish we had this athmospere somewhere still
@@KnightMirkoYo illegal parties bro
I notice people always try to make fun of people having a good time, acting a fool or just generally let it all hang out in footage from the 80s and 90s, I can tell you from someone who lived it, it was infinitely better than the past 20 years where everyone is so self conscious and afraid to express themselves so people just stand around now barely nodding their heads or giving any indication that they’re enjoying the music at all or holding up a phone. There is no amount of video footage that can convey how fun and pure that era was.
@@Abruzzo333 yup its so douchey and slutty, at least in the US. these people look like they’re having a great time
A guy eats a whistle off the string at 8:50
idk what youre talking about you're killin' it with the vocals!
Thanks
@@AlexBallMusicwhen you said you'd be sorry in advance I prepared for the worst, but it actually sounds good
Do not second guess yourself ! It is good!
I've paid for worse.
@@GavinMorris1 in the 1990s when I was in a record pool, I'd get sent MUCH worse that I ultimately had to pay a subscription fee for. Lots of really bad eurodance and Italian house records that ripped off bigger hits. The Germans were also quite guilty of this as well.
That finishing track is so much better, much more authentically produced, and realised with so much more heart and reverence than most house music these days. Wonderful.
Dude at 8:50 ATE his WHISTLE!!! I want to see more of this rave footage.
hilarious... you had me for a second
never heard that particular euphemism bef...
wait he ATE his WHISTLE!!!
You could do anything on those early 90’s e’s
he is not ate it but spit it out if you look carefully enough, however that was also my first thought at first glance
Anyway, the rave scene looks great and I want to jump in
@@YakHongYung certainly a better mindset back in those days than what is going on in the world these days...
Killing it ❤️
Thanks Mr Cuckoo. :)
I always knew Smooth Operator was a reference to FM synths!
Just to clarify some details - this is from discussion on Gearspace:
Some FM synths (DX11/21/27/100) have the patch named 'Solid Bass' which sounds quite close to the 'Lately Bass' but it's not exactly the same. DX11 (and others) have sine-only waveforms but TX81z have sine and other additional waveforms. And beside that LatelyBass and SolidBass have significant differences in their patch parameters.
The Lately Bass preset was an attempt by Yamaha's sound designers to approximate the bass sound in Janet Jackson's "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" which was a tweaked version of -- you guessed it - Solid Bass on the DX7!
Those vocals were amazing
Thanks.
“Slicker than CC information” is my new favourite lyric of anything ever.
;)
As a Texan, I approve of the Texan81Z. Killer unit!
Approve because of "Killer Open carrier Synth"? (Inside FM-joke, carrier-modulator). :)
Texas - you poor soul.
@@HipixOFFICIAL How so?
Similarly, as a Virginian, I'm glad so many voice talents choose to be "a VA"
The vocals sound like a Scissor Sisters B-side :D
That's a lot higher praise than I was expecting. ;)
lol best comment :))))) :D
B sides are like gold... more often than not the B SIDE is where it's at!
The Jake Sheers comparison is accurate.
It’s also very Ace of Base-meets-TLC.
Came back to listen to the song again
:)
Honestly Alex, you are incredibly underrated in the synth scene. I always turn to your videos whenever possible to listen to good synth demo's, explanations, tips, tricks and just general inspirations. You're honestly incredible. And hey, if it means something to you your Korg MonoPoly FourPlay vid is the reason I'm going to pick up a Behringer clone the moment it drops!
I'll be honest. This is my fifth time coming back just to listen to the banger and I know it won't be the last time.
Thanks very much. 😉
Came for the TX now heading out the door for the day and whistling the damn tune! Earworm. 👍
You are million times better than modern day popular music people. You played instruments, you sung, you did your video and you became your own studio engineer.
I watch this at least once every couple of months!
And just like that, the price of the TX jumped 200% lol
Haha, want to buy my beat up tx81z with customized bcr2000? Only 500 eu! I included the same latelybass patch 4 times 😄
@ hahaha
So who wants to buy my one then ? 😀
@devontodetroit Very much so! All parameters of tx81z can be controlled with sysex. Only problem is data buffer overload. If you turn the knobs too fast, the midi buffer will overload and it stops responding.
@ yeah even my old but later XV-5050 module has problems with live parameter tweaking
This outro song is amazing dude. Big love and respect for your work
This transported me back to being in my late teens/early 20s. Good job.
This “jam” would have blown KLF off the charts in 91. #banger 👊
bro you smashed that 90s banger. everything was spot on mate. everything i envisioned in the 90s banger was fulfilled.
Takes 4 years to find one of the funniest serious (TX81Z) videos on youtube - well done mate!
😎
Oh my god, you absolutely caught the essence of the 90’s (at least this genre). It brought up nice memories back from the time when I was 20-22.
Great job!
i really liked this song and the rapping especially actually
Spoiler alert...🤭
Thanks
Absolute gem of a synth!
I love my DX11 a lot. Such phat tones! (Basically a 81Z with a keyboard with some extra features)
And of course, great video as always. Can't go wrong with the 81Z - 909 combo :)
I'm aware there is a whole world of Yamaha FM. I've only played a couple of them, but not the DX11. Sounds like it's very similar then?
There's an outside chance I can feature a DX5 at some point. That would be fun if I can.
@@AlexBallMusic Yep, same synth as the 81z. You can even load presets from the 81Z into the DX11.
Ooh, a DX5 would nice to see on the channel!
Sus4 chords - one man's cliche is another man's favorite chord transfornation haha. Awesome vid and awesome channel!
Yes indeed. I'm quite partial to a sus 4 myself. :)
Oh my goodness, this is exactly the type of sound in my dad's "Rave Til' Dawn" CD from 1993. Your gear and production and video editing is so spot on. That's the sound i wanna make too!! Gear galore dude holy... So goooood. Your description is also super helpful as well, tysm for making this quality video haha. subbed!
Thanks. God, I feel old hearing the description of "my dad's rave CD". I remember my school friends getting cassette box sets of rave and happy hardcore.
Oh yes the Lately Bass !!! Well used in The System, Kerri Chandler - You Are in my system, a groovy deep house classic ! Awesome video, thank you, made me want to jam with my TX too !
Actually I can genuinely imagine this on my father's late hi-fi system he had playing loudly and him dancing the shit out of himself to it
Coming home from a tough day at work, watching the first two minutes, and already got a big smile on my face. This is awesome. AGAIN. :-)
If this silliness can cheer up a tough day then I'm super chuffed. 🙂
@@AlexBallMusic :-) Everything looks so simple and easy as well - when it's not at all! (You have to master your business REALLY well to make it look simple and easy!)
"I'm showing there is nothing I should prove to you" you have a strong contradicton there
elneutrino90 lyric logics at its finest!
Its funny how a bunch of synths and a drum machine from the 80's paved the way for new genre's of music in the 90's. For me it was the Korg M1 that started it and the 909 that completed it. Those 2 are a match made in heaven. I thank them both for giving us all of the classic's.
I wouldn't be at all embarrassed by the rap sections. The vocal processing reminds me of The KLF. And the overall performance and choice of lyrics: "T.U.R.T.L.E. Power." You're in good company.
I'll take it ;)
take me back to the early 90's, when music was great and dancefloors were packed all the time with dancing people
Alex You've took me straight back to the 90's as a kidwhen House, Dance and Trance music ruled the charts. There's too many songs to list and i loved them all. Fun times back then listening to them on the radio and tv. Where have all those years gone?
Oh yes, a memorable time. :)
Alex that takes me right back to when I worked in London in the 90s. They were great times.
Damn man! This is great! I had a good chuckle when the rap came in, but you know what? It totally fits and sounds legit! Love the arrangement and the vibe, it definitely sounds authentic. I wish I could make tracks like this tbh. Keep up the great work!
I lovely 80's arrange. Making FM sound and humming voice are super excellent.
"with Stereoping, avoid menu diving"
😂
You don't get lyrics like that in the charts. 😉
Top vocals! Loved this so much that I just bought myself a TX-81Z.
Lately Bass was used in Tevin Campbell's "Alone With You"
Also, Heavy D's "Love me for Me"
Al. B Sure used it a lot!
Thanks for the suggestions.
I have one, it hasn't been fired up in 15 years. I just look at it. wow thanks for reminding me of how great this deck is.
In the late 80's I bought two of these for my rack and became quite adept at programming them. They were quite thin 4 op sounds that benefitted greatly from the internal effects like the chorus you added. Also stacking the same sound and detuning them one up the other down helped a lot. I was able to get very decent analog synth sounds this way.
Loving this… breath of 90’s air…
❤️ Lately bass! Lately example: Dario G - Sunchyme
Rap bit was as serious as cancer, mad skills Alex
I was 16 in 1990 and totally relate to this. Absolutely brilliant!
I definitely remember this the first time around. Good times.
Whoa, that rap part was genuine.
Pure Dad rapping.
@@AlexBallMusic or if you grew up in North America in the 1980s like I did, a segment on a local TV news station's lunch hour news or afternoon talk show with the lead in of, 'This new craze that's sweeping the nation! Up next, we have hip house producer and rapper Alex 'On The' Ball performing!'.
Very fun video, and as so many have already said, the vocals are very good after all, but... If you're an American, "Texan 81 zee"? Uh, no. Zee, yes, but Texan? Really?
Man...I used to own a dx27 and this whole video brought a big smile on my face..
I've got a tx81z synth too. It's fantastic!
Edit:
Listened to the song now. It's an exact replica of that late 80's/early 90's house vibes, but with silly references to synthesizers in the lyrics 😁. Fantastic! ❤️
I assume yours is glued to "Lately Bass"?
I literally bought a TX81Z after watching this 🔥
Haha. Excellent.
comments: "i wish i was in this rave"
me: "this rave looks smelly"
Maybe that's why they invented foam parties?
crashmannn lol
Wonderful, definitely better than the 00-years and followings.
Hilarious....but with a bangin’ groove! And you managed to rap without hurting anyone! Great job as always, Alex! 🤘🏼😎🤘🏼
My dad has one of these. Been wanting to play with it recently. This is indeed a so 90s it hurts jam.
craaazy! you should do a 90's deep house style video tutorial
Yes! Deep house is one of my favourite genres
The magic are the sunglasses and the hat of course (those should be in the list of gear used)! 🤣 Great as always maestro! thanks for sharing!
Ok, here goes my horrid voice! (Installs Freddie Mercury voice kit)🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I started watching this as I was finishing lunch, and I got in my car (which happens to have a 1000W subwoofer) and turns out it actually is a banger.
😎
The moment I realized my new modern songs are late 80s bangers...
Really surprised, but it turned out pretty good! Nostalgia hitting.
You're the best ! Good ideas and very professional result, with a touch of humour. Perfect. Thanks for sharing !
You're my favorite musician. Excellent once again 😊👍🏻
Thanks. 🙂
You nailed it. I've got stacks of early and mid 90's house mix CDs where your song would fit right in. ;-)
Wow. Memories. I owned that. I loved it. Had it for years!
Alex, your singing is not offensive at all. Stop being so British. That sounded great. What is your DAW of choice?
looked like he was using cubase
He's a Cubase user.
I think he can make music without daw, and cubase is not bad.
@@JayKaufman there he is! Hi dude!!
Still am a Cubase lover for life.
Great track! I never realised that the TX81Z was on so many songs. Nice one!
"...I'm not taking this very seriously..."
Which is exactly the right attitude when it comes to rap...
Dude that was seriously incredible hahaha the video, the chords, the rapping, the singing....everything
Hold on to those Yamahas, the prices are going to skyrocket.
these are very very common FM sounds found on countless Yamaha product.
They made so many of them that the price of FM synths seems to remain affordable.
If only that were true of Jupiter-8s...
Watching the Element433 FM tutorials, I can see why
@bookmarkthis Yeah, the TX81Z didn't go up that much though, you can find them for well under $150, even as low as $100 with some luck.
I gave a pair of these away along with an 8-bit Yamaha SPX50 at Halloween last year to my neighbor who loves old keyboards he was looking for a DX7 but couldn’t find one in good enough condition or at a reasonable price so when I cleaned out an old gear closet at the studio I found a pair of these rack TX81Z’s. I forgot I had them. They had been in the storage closet since around 1999 or 2000. I plugged them up and they worked perfectly. For a 1U rack unit they are heavy but everything Yamaha made back then was. When you look at it you think it is going to weigh the same as an SPX90 reverb but they are WAY heavier than the effect units of the same era from Yamaha. Great video and 90s throwback tune!
Hi Alex, I didn’t know you owned the AMS delay. Would you consider doing a video on it? I am a huge fan of Peter Gabriel and I know he used it extensively. I’ve always been curious about it’s full functionality. There has been a lot of interest, and rightfully so, in the reverb, but there isn’t a ton of info on the delay out there.
It's borrowed specifically for a video that I'm part way through making. It will also feature the RMX16. Watch this space.
@@AlexBallMusic Will there be the various incarnations of DMX as well as the chorus controller and other rarer items of early AMS history?
Just showing the later 15-80S and fully expanded RMX16 as that's what I'll have to physically demonstrate, but I'll mention a bit if the story. It will be more of a demo than a documentary.
i've actually been surprised that there is no virtual version like an UAD or something. The RMX kinda vibe is available from UAD, it's now in 500 series, and it's non-linear algo (or derivatives) are to be found in various other hardware verbs like the Bricasti and TC M6000. But nobody seems to do some kind of DMX15...
santibanks I’m similarly perplexed that no one has emulated it as a plugin. They were very prevalent in the 80s and it’s hard to find a plugin that does exactly what they were said to do (per the manual and online accounts of the sounds you can get out of it).
Oh man, I just love the amount of fun in this ❤
4:34 I love the subtle hint to Fatboy Slim! Haha!
Great banger, my friend! :D
Always.
Fun story, 10+ years ago I was out running and almost ran into Fatboy Slim. I gave him a very awkward smile as I couldn't think of anything interesting to say.
@@AlexBallMusic I actually shaked his hand when was teen and met him after concert in Moscow like about 20 years ago. Damn, he needs to return, where is he anyway?
He is teaching his daughter how to DJ! :-) ua-cam.com/video/h5kFZ2UZ4uI/v-deo.html
@@AlexBallMusic Although not everybody needs a 303: my yellow Behringer TD-3 does a pretty good job at it as well! :-)
9:50 The banging/simplicity ratio of octaved tonic root staccato quarter note strings is _off the charts._
Cajmere: "chit-chat" (and a lot of Chicago house).
I still get one since 1990.
For House.
Listen to "Chit-chat", alex, please.
Classic!!!
Ah man you may not have been taking it too seriously but that turned out quality! Maybe it helps to not take these things too seriously 😉 I love that era’s sound, good chorus lyrics too, even got a little emotional☺️Thanks man!
He did a great job with that "1990 American Hip Hop" sound... but then he said "Chunes" instead of "tunes," and gave himself away.
Get busy with the facts
it’s choon
Alex: continuously apologizing for his vocals and raps
Also Alex: makes a fucking earworm rap song that repeatedly gets stuck in my head for weeks
It should be illegal for a meme song to unironically slap this much
Not really a meme song
Dude! You fucking nailed it. It's C&C Factory and Black Box all over again. Very impressive.
Difference between every other UA-cam knob/gaming doodler
And a studio engineer/mixing pro
Making this video must have taken ages.. clearly shows how painstakingly this has been done.. way to go.. keep it up...
Here's some more songs that use the Lately Bass.
Mary J Blige "You Remind Me"
Jodeci "Forever My Lady"
Al B Sure! "Night And Day"
Hi Five "She's Playing Hard To Get"
All that Guy stuff used it as well..
Thanks!
@@joshuasailor2974 sad that I would forget that. I'm surprised that Teddy didn't use it for Michael Jackson
Whigfield.
The aesthetic is SPOT on. Would have stood akwardly in the corner of the teen club eyeing the dancing girls to the sound of such a track.
The chorus and reverbs sound inauthentic for the era. A little less reverb on the vocals would have been nicer too.
Has a great dirty sound of it's own though. Just a couple tweeks in the mix, but especially on the effects, and it would be a A+ track.
Always the best and a source of endless inspiration
Great video. Lots of cool information, humor and a worthy end-result.
Banger for sure. 😎 I’ve got the DX11, which is essentially the keyboard version of the TX81Z. I mostly use it as a master controller, but this video urges me to utilize those sounds. Stay smooth!
So typical and catchy & wonderful at the same time!
That's a nice description of the 90s. :)
YOOOOOO THIS MAN MADE A FYE ASS HOUSE TRACK , I NEED THIS , I HOPE ITS ALREADY A SONG
That's actually a really banging track. The piano and vocal lines and lush. Shit with a few changes I'd be playing this in DJ sets. I keep coming back to listen.
Top notch as usual, Alex. I actually loved the belting soul singer hook!
This was part of my teenage diet and now, seeing Alex showing us how to get back there, I realize that I was unconsciously gravitating in that direction when noodling on my MPC at home... Oh well - let's embrace it, consciously now !
dude this is sooooo inspiring for newcomers in the world of analog and old school style composition, thanks for making it look so easy haha