Kraftwerk "The Robots" | Deep Reconstruction
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
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Зачем вы изображаете мозговую деятельность людей?)
You aced it yet again. Ofc. Always interesting to see new tech do old tricks.
With innovators like Kraftwerk is there any source on what kind of synths they used on each track? Or do they hold their cards tight to the chest? Would not surprise me, as Kling Klang Studios was like a fortress. I doubt there are many photos of their equipment inside there.... Would not surprise me if they made some of their own synths as well or at least modded existing ones that were available at the time. I would doubt they were into sampling, just did everything on equipment since they would perform live?
The amount of skill and ear it takes to know how to rebuild these sounds!
I never realized it was so complicated until now.
Я тоже восхищаюсь ими как они это делают и напишу отдельный комментарий.
even more impressive is that Kraftwerk created it when synthesisers were super primitive
@@jaycee1980 - You beat me to it! 😄 And there are so many different things happening already in the intro alone! 🤯😊
not to mention, recreation is harder even with the perfect example
"We are the synth nerds"...
After a very hard day at work , This Guy always puts a smile on my face no matter what....utterly amazing production..Great sound engineer also..
Wow, thank you!
Your Kraftwerk videos are absolutely the best. Man Machine is one of the greatest albums of all times. Space Lab and Neon Lights. And Metropolis. I adore this album!!!!
"How is it so _nnggchhhhjj_?!?!?!" was the most relatable patch-reconstruction moment for me.
The way Yello makes music? They said "F-off" screwing all those screws in synths, and just sing that "nnggjjhh" to tape (or most propably, DAW) and then modify that sample to sound like synth.
This has become my favorite episode. Understanding how you build a sound is very instructive, Bring it on.
Seeing them 'perform' this song on the German TV music show _RockPop_ had been my very first Kraftwerk impression, in '78 - and it had totally freaked out my then 8-year-old self, too! 😅
I have difficulty in finding simple notes and this guy recreates complex sinth sounds ??? What a legend !!!
Great project. It’s 2024 and the genius of KRAFTWERK is still sparkling so bright. This was so much fun to watch. Thank you!
Fourty minutes of pure joy and sound design. Kraftwerk were pioneers not just in creating but also by using sounds in a pretty creative way. What a blast! Great work.
claudio and louie are a yin and yang of energy and the fact they can exist in the same room without creating extreme weather cataclysms is fortunate
Damn, when I saw Kraftwerk and Doctor Mix, I immediately had to click on the video. Zero regret on doing it instantly! ;)
Thanks for the samples, too! :D
The original bass line was made on a Moog modular synthesizer with a sequencer responsible for both: pitch and filter
Really?! Awesome! Thank you
Lol he knows that, but he needs to promote the sponsor's synth, which is great because we dont need a moog to make great songs. Synth are all the same...different, but the same haha
Actually, this was a Minimoog with a custom-built Synthanorma sequencer which they used a lot at the time. As far as we know, they didn't have Moog Modular in their equipboard:)
@@michalpachla2212They may have triggered it, but I'm sure it's modular. In the mini version, it is impossible to trigger the filter so as not to dangle your hand. but the modular version has a whole slot for filter modulation. And the filter sounds like a modular one. Maybe they rented it
We probably should ask Ralf Hütter himself to find it out properly hahaha
One of my all time fave albums, Neon Lights is my favorite track, but the Robots is epic. Very cool reconstruction
It's infectiously exciting watching the relationship you have with your engineer in trying to get the right sound.
How did they kraft such a thing in late 70s, when there was no computers or any other digital stuff invented! They had only recording tape and analog synths with no MIDI, only primitive voltage controllers. They drove filters and oscillators manually, like theremin. Just think about it.
...and CV sequencers.
I am actually sure with daws and digitsl synths it wouldnt be half as good in sound
The computer they used was the human brain with the assistance of 4 pairs of hands.
And to make the snare drum..
was used a synth with noise waveform.
All synced via CV/Gate..on a primitive sequencer.😅
The classics drum machines carne out in the 80s..not in 70s.
The MC-8 was released in 1977..i think they partly used that
I can never have enough of Doctor Mix Kraftwerk content!
I like❤❤ Kraft Werk fantastic music since 1981!
Thanks for dr MIX❤ for amazing musicMIXset🎶🎵👍👍👍👍
I will to wait next DR's work about Kraft Werk!
I remember trying to recreate these sounds on my Amiga 500, and then painstakingly saving them on ST-XX disks for reuse in a primitive tracker software. As well as how synths have evolved, it’s amazing how flexible DAW software has become in mixing midi, synth, samples,.. so it becomes a much more interactive part of the design process of composing. Thanks for the videos, I cannot stress enough how much joy and inspiration you bring. It moves me back to creating music.
This is THE song, from THE band that got me into music production!!!!
Excellent work as always.
The robots is the coolest of the coolest, I think Kraftwerk is the most innovative and interesting band to listen to there is. GOTS of electronic music
Bu kadar güzel ve nitelikli cihazlar ile çıkaramayacağınız ses tonu yok gibi. Bravo sizlere.
This is absolutely amazing! I am speechless!
Я твой слуга,я твой работник. Круто!
I think recreating any synth based track and especially something this complex and legendary is always extremely difficult, more difficult than just making your own because you never know how the original sounds were created.
But, that's why Kraftwerk is a legendary group. They did all of this without all of the editing tools we have today. Incredible. I very much enjoyed this video!
Yes it is insane to think that this was done with analog synths (no presets), analog sequencers and recorded on tape.
@@dm8579 in some ways it was easier! Far less complexity to get in the way. A lot of the arranging, sound design, and processing was done *_before_* hitting the Record button. The benefit of that is mixing can be done waaaay quicker and there's far less second-guessing because the sound and arrangements had been committed-to. I quit using a DAW and I use my MPC in much the same way as I used my Tascam 244 in the 80s.
@@unclemick-synths It's a very different work flow and I wouldn't say it was necessarily easier. Also, the gear they used had a lot of limitations. Just syncing the stuff can be a nightmare.
@@dm8579 yep, syncing took some planning until MIDI came along. I'd sometimes "spin something in" from another tape deck or drum machine and hope it would stay in sync for long enough. I often played "sequences" by hand because I didn't have a step sequencer. To quite a large extent I've returned to my old analogue tape workflow with my MPC (with the added benefit of being able to chop stuff up).
Absolutely mesmerizing cover! The modern twist on Kraftwerk's classic "The Robots" is both nostalgic and fresh. The production quality is top-notch,. A true homage to the pioneers of electronic music!
Doctor Mix and team always put a smile on your face.
Excellent recreation!
I so wish I had more time to play around with my synth stuff.
At 11:28, one begins to see the versatility of the PWM Mantis. It is amazing to see the layers of the song being assembled in real time, again proving the Mantis' practical applications here.
Ultimately, I want one yesterday, but! I could never afford one.
Your ability to recreate sounds is impressive, great job.
A friends dad was heavy into 70s synth music with him being deeply into Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk and I remember the when we were kids in the 80s and the listening sessions we had in the dark with graphic equaliser/spectrum analyser lights dancing as we all did our best robotic dances.
Great work! I bought the album as a cassette for my Walkman on a school trip to London. It was 1990 and I listened to it on the bus ride back to Margate, where we were staying during the trip. I will never forget it.
Nice video, but i'd like to see if claudio can do a "Yello" review on their songs... i think Boris and Dieter are really great !!. They are 40 years in business. Boris still pioneering with soundscapes and sampling doing great work like Kraftwerk...
Back in the day there was a Dutch radioshow that used this track as the opening leader.
The program was called 'Spleen' station: VPRO.
The program was all about new avant garde music. It even had it's own magazine.
Those were happy days!
Yes! I remember that vividly. Loved Kraftwerk since ‘74 … I was 11 and my elder nephew put on Autobahn on his massive stereo and that was that. Die Roboter is imo their best and most influential track ever. And then Spleen started to use it, good times. Btw, love this episode dissecting this track.
WOW!!! OMG! How I've LOVED watching and listening to you re-create all of those sounds! Meghan Traynor may say, "I'm All about that bass", but I say, "I'm all about that resonance!" And that Mantis you've got there is freaking fabulous!!!! I love phat analog sounds!
So glad you made this deep-dive Dr. Mix! Way back in 2000 as a postgrad I had the honour of presenting a paper at Hunanoids 2000 (a wonderful event with lots of robotics folks at MIT). On the way back looking about the shops in the airport before boarding my cattle-class flight, I went into HMV and found The Man Machine album. I had to buy it as a memento of (for me) a once in a lifetime trip. So watching this brings back great memories 😃 Thanks dude🙏👍
Absolutely mesmerizing as always. It made me like the song even better.
charismatic, entertaining, skilled and informative. Love this channel.
Thank goodness for Louie! 🎉
Stop everything. Dr Mix arrived!😎
Love your tutorials
Recently bought the PWM Malevolent.
What a synth, so much character.
I think there are two elements to Kraftwerks success that I haven't seen mentioned before.
Firstly, they came out of a scene in Germany, and there were four of them, helping keep the others in a flow state.
Most electronic musicians work on their own, or in a duo, making it harder to keep artistic forward momentum/remaining in the flow state.
We say now that the limitations Kraftwerk had bred creativity, but for their time they had just about every technological gizmo then available, with tons more options open to them compared to your bog standard pop/rock band of the late 70s!
Hi, me and friends tried to reproduce this track in the ‘80s, using a Moog Prodigy and a Juno 6. That Kraftwerk snare was an inverted click drum on the Moog, as in it went down not up, at a very high freq. We used it to trigger the chords on the Juno. The Moog was then put through a very short echo with a very rapid decay to give it that coarse ‘rattling boing’ sound.
If you can imagine snapping your fingers in a narrow alleyway, that’s kinda what you’re going for, and because it was an old analogue echo machine, it clipped all the higher frequencies incrementally on each repeat, meaning in a fraction of a second the echoes changed from high frequency to mid, which is why it sounds so zappy.
Placed down in the mix behind the chords, it sounded about right to us.
Hope that helps.
The snare sound from The Robots - which I always thought was such an essential vibe in the song - always evoked for me the sound of big old matrix line printers. And your reconstruction of it came out really well! Nicely done!
Florian Schneider, co-founder of Kraftwerk, passed away on April 21, 2020, at the age of 73. He died from cancer, specifically a form of cancer that had not been publicly specified. His death was confirmed by representatives from Kraftwerk and reported by various media outlets.
Florian Schneider's illness had been kept private, and details about his health leading up to his passing were not widely shared. The announcement of his death was a significant moment for fans and the music community, given Schneider's profound influence on electronic music and his pivotal role in shaping Kraftwerk's innovative sound and aesthetic.
I like the way how everyone try to explain the synth sounds such as "zzzzwsghzhhssh"
Great video man I loved it. Kraftwerk still ahead of there time ey! This man knows exactly what he is doing I love the way you know how to get the sound your looking for just by listening and then knowing what waves types filters mods envelopes and lfo types to use. What a genius 😮
Парни , вы просто фанаты КРАФТВЕРК 😊
Профессионалы, как говорится)
Это было лучшее, что я увидел СЕГОДНЯ, Крафтверк 💪
Doctor Mix in the house !!!
I am from Brazil.
I love Kraftwerk.
This reconstruction was amazing !!!
I love deconstruction videos from your studio! In fact, I bought Man Machine vinyl after the Full Album analysis you did. I am impressed how good are you (both!) with the music understanding. This is really awesome. I like to listen electronic music, but more I like - to watch your videos and your passion for what you do! Thank you!
Niiiice!!! 👏👏👏👏 Oh I'm so glad!!
great work guys! loved the video. only one small thing: with the main riff youre going down to the lower D octave one note too quickly. it should be D,D,C,C,D,D,C,C,D,D... F,F.... D,D,C,C,D,D,C,C,D,D,d,d,d,d (small d being the octave lower)
Nailing it, guys! Claudio, I really love your attention to Kraftwerk! You really illustrate the groups intricacies. And they’re so great, right?! ❤Love *you!,* sir!
Du bist echt eine soundmachine. Was du alles raus hörst. Perfekt.
Great Video Dr Mix, Kraftwerk were always way ahead of their time and just like you they are true masters of the craft.
Super, wonderful job! It's singular how the songs that seem simple in reality have under a frightening work and big research of sonorities.
So much fun!! Amazing technique
bought my first Kraftwerk LP when I was 8 Radioactivy and autobahn. A year later transeurope express. today at 57 years still listen to them
Very cool 😊 I was also 8 when I had my very first Kraftwerk experience, which was seeing them perform this song on a TV music show in '78; But instead of being blown away like yourself, they'd totally weirded me out! 😅 Because they looked and sounded so radically different from all the bands I'd seen up to that point, and then that whole creepy 'robot' stuff on top of that! 😄
I'm 54 now 🙂
@@mightyV444 yes i saw them also on TV, the first time, my cousin was at my house, he , said, hey that's kraftwerk, the music was so different. 👍👍🎧🎧🎧🎶🎶🚅🛤️🛣️🚙☣️. The rest is history...
@@kurtpuntacana - The music and also their whole look, with no guitars or drums in sight and mannequins of the band members replacing the latter during several shots 😅
Love this track and really enjoyed watching you recreate it. Great job. As always, great video.
Hahahahaha, all of the fun, all of the time. Bigluvs to you, Claudio and Louis! xx
Excellent, fascinating reconstruction
Great reconstruction of this masterpiece. Thank you🙏
THE very first vinyl record I've purchased in my life _(8th-grade elementary school, 1979)_
Dr Mix still the synth champ!!
Absofkinlutely insanely brilliant! Krafwerk one of my all time fave bands. Thank you Dr Mix 🙏
Genius... Kraftwerk and You also...
Thank You!😎
Absolutely amazing...
🎶🎵Я ТВОЙ СЛУГА!!
Я ТВОЙ РАБОТНИК!!🎵🎶
👍👍👍👍
😊😊😊😊
Ya tvoi sluga!
Ya tvoi rabotnik!
I am your slave!
I am your worker!
😊😊😊
Thanks for the awesome reconstruction!
Yeah: "Düsseldorfer Schule"... Thank you for this great video!
what a classic recreated so well
I`m going to listen and watch those Robots at the Pori Jazz Festival on July 20. Thanks for this very timely analysis.
Hallo Claudio, I am a great Kraftwerk Fan and I come from Germany.You have make it a super Job, just like always .👍👍👍🎹🎶
I get that you're promoting their synth, but you need a Minimoog for al of of those sounds, because there's a certain kind of drive that makes it so that special thing, but damn good work!
Yep - the original has a wonderful organic sound - almost "acoustic instrument" in quality. A true masterpiece.
You slowed it down because you needed to analyse it BUT it was all already slowed down in the latest 3D The Catalogue version of this track. :) Hopefully, now everyone sees how creative it all had to be in the first place on a per sound basis.
The first video ever, that I liked before it starts playing!
Доктор Микс, поздрави от България.
Поздрави
Grandissimo Claudio, hai fatto un lavoro incredibile
Kraftwerk are awesome, the synthesizer is very nice, The Robots is one of my favourite song ever, and your kind of doing these videos presenting all of this is absolutely amazing!
I like when Dr Mix get up and say: “I am the Kraftwerk”
My guy!!! We are tha robots 🤖🦾
that makes me smile again after a few shitty days and situations....so great to see and to listen to this reconstruction. it is so massive and you will realise how long it took back in these years to build tracks like this...amazing skills form Dr. Mix and Lou...chapeau
Well done Dr. Mix!
Grande Claudio. Great choice and great reconstruction of such of an iconic piece.
Amazing outfit too, I must say. ;)
Man, DOCTOR MIX!!! I'm sad I missed the premiere, this is also one of my favourite tracks of all time!! Kraftwerk is tha shiznit
I simply love this song.... ever
I have a first pressing of this album, (1978 ).. Cracking LP! I love Kraftwerk..🤖👾🤖🤖
That is wild! Great job!
This was such a fun ride! Grazie! 🙏🏼
Восхищаюсь проделанной работой и профессиональным слухом: так четко подбирать звуки, мало того, все делается на одном инструменте.
Grande Claudio!
Great also the quotation to Dotti Medici e Sapienti on the Vocoder
Sapevo che avrei trovato un'altro italiano che riconosceva la cit @ 30:33 ❤
Grandeeeee!!!
I’d love to see you collaborate and have a masterclass with Wendy Carlos. 🎉
Excellently done, it put a smile on my face.....Niiiiice :)
Fantastic. Just great!
Das ist schon sehr schön 👍
Fantastico! I was just at the Kraftwerk residency in Los Angeles to see all of the shows (I was hoping to see you there) and this version is wonderful and fun. Bravo.
Definitely one of my favorite bands and YT channel, this is what my childhood sounds like! Awesome as always, thanks!
I'm sadly somewhat of a synth snob, and I didn't expect this guy to pull off some of this stuff. This guy is legit. I like the way you recreated the FM bells with ring mod.
I love reference to this track that James Murphy did on "Get Innocuous!"
ok, i've been waiting forever for claudio to recreate this, and here we are. THANK YOUUUUU (i'll be even more grateful if you can recreate trans-europe express)
Ты мой слуга, ты мой работник! Шикарно получилось подобрать к слову.
❤ Once again an excellent reconstruction of a masterpiece ❤