** im surprised how many people think this was pre planned haha, especially coming from musicians, it is a simple song even if you have heard it a couple of times your brain can retain most of the lyrics and the simple riff, if you are a musician and cant figure out the notes to that riff in your head, id recommend practicing more!!!. it would take wayy more effort for me to plan it, plant some people in the crowd and then orchestrate it lol. **a bit of reference. at every show i ask for songs to play from the audience. half the time its too complicated to figure out straight away, but after a handful of suggestions there is a song i remember ish and we try to tackle playing it. it doesnt always work! but thats the whole thing. just giving it a go. Song order in the video :- Blur song 2 Desperado Vespa Waiting For The World To End Night Or Day
I'd keep that fantastic Blur riff and then go into your world like you do, that is so good. In my imagination, I hear a line going AA GGGG EDEE (woohoo). I also imagine a kids choir in the style of Jet Set Radio on the Sega Dreamcast. You've got something there, definitely. It's Song 2 revisited by Look Mum No Computer.
now i imagine a stern captain giving orders to their crew about weapons, evasive movement, engine full ahead etc. Then the camera cuts to this dude in the engine room jamming tf out.
I love how he somehow goes from "omg I'm so sorry I messed everything up" to engineering a completely new sick track that melts your face off in less than 5 seconds
Check BeardyMan . He makes live covers of requests from audience. One person gives title, second genre third style etc. He is genius. LMNC is also awesome!
This was Berlin show. He did quite a few covers live on the stage, from suggestions of the public. If you have the chance, go to his concerts, they are really great and fun!
the jumpsuit and headset paired with frantic muttering and flipping through the papers makes for a really cool and themed looking stage presence LMAO this fucking rocks dude
@@KhreamedKhorneEither be acquainted with the music or get a feeling for where the bridge chorus and energy is supposed to lie based off crowd interaction.
I watched Howard Jones on stage in the early-1980s "construct" each of his songs. He'd crawl underneath his bank of synths and plug something in with a grrrrr-thump which would trigger a drum pattern, and then a bassline, and then he'd stand and play the rest while he sang. It was mind-blowing to me - a tech-influenced teenager - at the time. This is so very similar. I especially love the Ghost Busters jump suit. Absolutely suits the vibe.
I got to see Howard Jones play a few years back at a festival, and while it was great, I would have really loved to see him back in that era. His modern show is a pretty straight forward pop concert. Still a pleasure to hear live, but I don't think there was much improv or "creation" going on.
@@lightfantastik It was a treat then and the memory is a treat now. It was a simpler time but also very complex to make all your kit work in some sort of unison. Apart from our man here in this video, there are a couple of other videos on UA-cam which hint at the challenges - one from New Order (Perfect Kiss) where Hooky seems to be using a prototype Simmons multipad which was falling apart as he was using it, and the other is one where The Who's Pete Townsend explains how he created the keyboard part to Won't Get Fooled Again, and the challenges he had recreating it for live performances. Since then, the music industry got all computerised, and it hasn't all been as bad as people like to think. I've been in bands since the late 1980s - I play drums and have gone through acoustic and electronic kits. I remember when MIDI became affordable to us late teens. We rushed out to buy newer synths but we kept the Juno60 and the Maplin mono synth (great for bass), and I continued to play acoustic drums with a Roland Octapad and a few Simmons pads to supplement the kit. We were able to link most of it up to trigger sounds with a pad on one half of the stage from a box located on the other half of the stage, and playing along to sequenced percussion sounds made me a more honest drummer. Today I have a small collection of keyboards, sound modules, acoustic and e-drums, all hooked-up to a laptop. I could do amazing things if only I had half the inventive mind I had when I was younger.
I think he could absolutely kick ass at Coachella on one of the side stages. I'm not normally into electronic music, but this is being done live and is absolutely filthy.
@@triptheroad you ever been on a stage with big subs? I've had pints of beer migrate 3 feet across a table from the bass rattle. Also some PAs nearly fall over from people moshing too hard but that's a little different.
Kind of a funny pov because it’s like you’re just in a room by yourself having the best jam session ever with all the lights, screaming the lyrics, sick lol
Watch the older or first few seasons of NOVA:science now (the most intellectually stimulating shit you could watch)... then the later seasons are trife with "They made a shocking discovery" - the information you just heard rehashed from a different source boring and confusing your brain.. that wasn't shocking at all...
Wow you about to go down one hell of a rabbit hole this guy is a synth god the furby and gameboy are some of my personal favs glad so many people are finding this guy
This man is giving us the future. When people imagined what the future would look like in the mid 1900s, it was this. A single man using a machine he built and designed to sound like an entire band playing electronic music.
1 midi controllers can easily produce the sound of any popular instrument, AI can create a whole song for the lyrics. But he's skills are not scalable - genius.
the industrial technician aesthetic of the performance (not just the jumpsuit, but the way that goes perfectly with the managing of the synth rack) is so cool, and really contextualizes music production in an really interesting way.
We are in 2024 and Sam is still so UNDERRATED. I don’t understand this world era. This guy should have been already a huge monster worldwide superstar SINCE YEARS… So talented fuck
Underrated means that he's better than people think he is. That doesn't apply to him, because nearly everyone who sees him recognizes his talent. He's not well known outside of his niche, but that's true of almost every musician. To break into the mainstream, you need mass appeal and a big marketing budget, and he has neither.
Back in the early 2000s, like 04-07 I was completely entrenched in the electronic music scene. Traveling all over North America for events from small basement sets to multi day festivals. Back then I thought that this would be the future of electronic music. Someone creating the music live on stage as they went; not just pressing play on a laptop and doing some fading here and there. I'm glad to see there are people doing this.
That's insane amounts of multitasking, especially concentrating on the singing in pitch while you work out the rest in real time! Beardyman would be proud.
Well yeah analogue synth stuff isn’t usually made for dancing tbh, it’s usually super weird and experimental noise music. The artist Caribou used to do shows where he made analogue synth sounds and layered them and shit… def more on the weird end of the spectrum.
@@krusher181 well I guess that's why. LOL. To me it's always just sounds mixed together to make music. But I think it sounds good regardless. Maybe I'm weird but I always loved this kind of stuff.
Yes there were. Went to one of the last huge raves in St.Louis. It was in two huge hangers. One was called red pill and the other was called blue pill. Ended up being know as the Matrix rave. I am 40 years old. I graduated in 2002 and that rave was in 2004. So don't tell me something I know. I even went to candy rave 2000 and it got shut down after 5 hours. So yes their was raves in early 2000s. After 2004 people tried to get raves going in all different city's. They would get shut down before they even got set up or got shut down as it got started. After that they turned into drug party's at closed down bowling alleys, skating rinks, etc. Then they tried legal "raves" that I would not consider raves. Happen during day time at huge Venus. They did good drug searches, Had police as security. I know what I'm talking about.
You have grown in confidence and facility as a performer remarkably over the years. You're getting more expressive, particularly, as a vocalist, which seems to have everything to do with confidence. Your keyboard playing has also improved, just from playing over time. Plus, you have developed so much as an electronics producer. Youth is a wonderful thing. Watching you mature is a great pleasure. Our boy is so grown up, it's lovely!
Now he needs some good songs. Got the sound and arrangements nailed. Lyrics and tunes not there yet, a few good bass lines, but there is a reason he hasn't blown up despite being around for a decade or more. Also, live performance is nothing like the records, which just sound flat. But I agree, he is finally sounding professional Will get lots of support gigs now.
@@madrx2 I did that in a moment of inspiration, not to get any love, when I happened to have the money. The mechanism he uses for this is Patreon, but, as I said, it was an impulse purchase. The love goes outward. What comes back is not assumed - or you lose your mind always looking for responses, reassurances, and confirmations. Sam's a good kid, gets a lot of comments, and was touring and otherwise working. No biggie if he doesn't leave a heart or some such thing.
The fact he built this entire synth from scratch, and also the fact he basically invented the Kosmo modular format and dispersed all the technical data on it for free for the wider world is why Sam will always be one of my favorite musicians and engineers, probably forever.
This is a modular hardware synth. Every single cable makes a patch between two electrical and musical components; the amount of combinations is immense and is what virtual or software instruments emulate thru software code. A DJ on the other hand cannot create music on the fly, but can create unique mashups by isolating drums, instrumentals, and vocals from a song and creatively remixing these 3 elements along with other transactions. Source: 12 years in audio engineering 3 years DJ’ing! Thinking of making a course at this point lol
Song 2 is like the Seven Nation Army of its time. No matter where you go, who you meet, or how much musical talent anyone might have - some riffs are so intuitive, it’s as though humans are just born knowing how to chant along to them. So simple, they’re actually genius.
Not really. Seven Nation has become folk music, used around the world in football stadiums going way beyond it's origin. Song 2 doesn't even have a riff, just chords and Woo Hoo. Never heard that on the terrace.
@@RJ1J a riff can consist of chords, single notes, or both. Song 2 was in every arena & stadium on the planet before Seven Nation Army was released - which is why I said “of its time”.
I have never seen this man perform live before and I'm absolutely blown away. Phenomenal work. Ill definitely be making an effort to catch a show some day.
Absolutely worth it! I was at a show in Prague two weeks ago and it was one of the best concerts I've ever visited. It's exactly like the videos, with all the mistakes, which add his music the character. He's a great performer!
I absolutely love all the interaction, the mistakes (I feel bad saying they’re mistakes as that’s an element that I think is so incredibly engaging) He’s one of our people, if I was a musician I’d like to be like Sam, what a talent!!
This is what I expect when I think about what a DJ is doing live, but instead it's all on a computer and turn tables. This is a real show. Much more entertaining and engaging for the audience. Not to mention the awesome sound.
Amen. His voice has a great rattle to it that suits a punk and alt style so well. Sounds like Joe Talbot. Song 2 absolutely needs a recover. So fucking sweet.
You Mr. basic person are forgiven. Reject the false media and you may continue to partake with your betters. I mean human peers. We say stupid things just like humans say many times. we're all regular human person here acting exactly like perfectly regular human persons do after all you are free to spread your interests around. You could be a drum and bass person, techno, trance, jungle, dubstep, even happy hardcore ( in moderation), trip hop, or dance. But that's it. Everything else is blemish on your mother's soul and completely unacceptable in a civilized society. But it's whatever bro. If you want to risk your eternal soul that's on you.
If you put a cover like that on spotify I think I would destroy my sound system playing it. It took you about a minute to throw together an absolutely fierce track.
I love how the camera is near some speaker picking up the bass and shaking to it. As a modular enthusiast, this is hard as hell to pull off live. Top notch.
Bro is actually a technician on the Death Star, just operating a console, but dropping enough LSD that he can press the button to obliterate Alderaan when Darth V gives him the nod.
I just listened to all the other versions of Desperado Vespa, and this one is by far the best. The vocal performance is great, perfectly blown out, and sits perfectly in the mix. And the boily synth embellishments pop in this version the most. I love that you tricked me into discorvering the song by playing a Blur cover first. I just eish this exact version was on Spotify so I could add it to my playlist.
Not too sure how I found myself here, but that was freakin' awesome! As a bit of a metal head, you've made me question why there's not more modular synth in metal... There's so much potential there ^^
Agree with you on the fact we need more synth in metal. I love Master Boot Record tracks where they combine synths and guitar (especially in their live recordings), and Mick Gordon did so many great tracks for DOOM OST with synths and downtuned guitar. Huge potential there.
@Kwacker_ you need to check out the UA-cam video IGORRR PARPAING and make sure you watch the whole video. Heavy thrash with an insane full modular synth solo toward the end!🤘🎹☠️ ua-cam.com/video/urU5JS4Eb-k/v-deo.htmlsi=w_rz_mCO2M9LftbS
The UA-cam rabbit hole brought me here from things completely unrelated. I'm not disappointed. I've never seen anything like this before, but it made me crank up the volume and every time I think I'm done watching it I find it very difficult to click away. Nice job, looks like fun if you know what you are doing.
Been a long time fan of the channel but this is the first time I've caught a segment from a live show. Now I know my ass needs to grab a ticket back to England to catch a show. Some phenomenal shit.
God damn, this is badass. I love the fact that everything you're doing has a purpose but I can't follow 90% of it. Also you have a weirdly perfect voice for Blur songs.
I just came from the Techmoan channel for the answerphone machine… and now I discovered the pure fusion of Kraftwerk machinery with a Depeche Mode on ecstasy ! Love it ! Yeah, clearly love it !!! ❤
I know it would be a nightmare shipping your synths overseas but God I hope you make it to the US some day. Been watching you for years and you deserve wayyyy more recognition. So much talent and skill on display here.
I'm convinced this is just you having fun. I do not think you go up on stage with any particular plan of doing anything other than having fun. This is probably the best and most free spirited live performance I have ever seen. Listening to the audio without watching the video, it is easy to forget this is a live performance you are coming up with off the cuff.
This reminded me of a modular synth version of Wintergatan, lol. It's such a tall and massive setup. I love how everything's sounding, it must be super invigorating to jam with this!
Martin is too much of a perfectionist to achieve this level of performance. This is live, loud, out of balance, dirty, and imperfect. But that's its beauty. It's like watching a forest burn majestically.
Hell, this sounds awesome. Great job, mate! I like your stage presence. You're like a train conductor telling everybody that the boiler might explode anytime, but we'll try to make it work regardless. Humility and bonkers bass really goes well together in book.
@lookmumnocomputer. In my humble opinion, I think you and your magically analog machines have a very special sound that I cannot seem to find anywhere else! Please upload more of your live performances. There is something special about your raw unengineered style and entertaining stage presence that I find to be very engaging. Even listening through headphones at the gym I can feel the energy that you put into your art! Keep up the good work!
Not only is your technique and control of the instrument amazing, but also you carelessly add incredibly curated and accurate vocals. Seriously, I feel like I'm watching a historical art moment happen real time. True talent ♥ Congrats and kudos from Argentina.
Generally speaking I feel as if nowadays there's too much madness in the world, but looking at this clip I have to admit that we could use more of *this* kind of madness. This was great :).
Look Mum No Computer is the most talented and creative UA-camr. The guy is a scientist. Hoping he will bring his stuff down to the south coast for some shows.
2:50 the way the image is shaking on those LOW sub bass tones made the hair on my arm stand up! I can only imagine how DOPE that must sound IRL... all that AIR moving, beating up against your chest cavity with every strike of the bass note!
Man... live requests and improv on that machine man... that's a beautiful thing. Unreal. You don't see anyone doing that with synthesizers - it's a shame.
** im surprised how many people think this was pre planned haha, especially coming from musicians, it is a simple song even if you have heard it a couple of times your brain can retain most of the lyrics and the simple riff, if you are a musician and cant figure out the notes to that riff in your head, id recommend practicing more!!!. it would take wayy more effort for me to plan it, plant some people in the crowd and then orchestrate it lol.
**a bit of reference. at every show i ask for songs to play from the audience. half the time its too complicated to figure out straight away, but after a handful of suggestions there is a song i remember ish and we try to tackle playing it. it doesnt always work! but thats the whole thing. just giving it a go. Song order in the video :-
Blur song 2
Desperado Vespa
Waiting For The World To End
Night Or Day
you rule mate
How many people request gorillas😅
I'd keep that fantastic Blur riff and then go into your world like you do, that is so good. In my imagination, I hear a line going AA GGGG EDEE (woohoo). I also imagine a kids choir in the style of Jet Set Radio on the Sega Dreamcast. You've got something there, definitely. It's Song 2 revisited by Look Mum No Computer.
Where do I see you live?
love that you took the risk, mad respect!
I like how he looks like he is some technician working on an industrial machine
Haha he is
the jumpsuit is too good
Just regular day at work
Watch a movie called "Young Einstein", it reminds of his style.
He is! 😀
"bro, feel the bass?"
"🫨 dude! I can SEE the bass!"
😂. Yeah🫨 for sho🫨
my first thought seeing the vision getting BLURry ;)
:D sry, I'll see myself out
Thick and heavy. As it should be.
I've never heard of this guy but this goes so f****** hard. God damn
You literally can
This is the guy in every spaceship movie that makes miracles happen in the engine room.
now i imagine a stern captain giving orders to their crew about weapons, evasive movement, engine full ahead etc.
Then the camera cuts to this dude in the engine room jamming tf out.
Scotty: "The warp drive is totally busted. The repairs will take at least ten hours."
Kirk: "You've got 10 minutes."
Scotty: "I'll do it in 5."
My fave is the one in Firefly / Serenity :-)
YES! 😂😂😂
even down to his crumpled up piece of sacred paper with notes on it
*When the sound technician is left alone to test the sound system:*
😂
ahahahah
I think you meant "To make the sound system"
😂😂😂😂
This is what I Imagine when someone says "Industrial Synthwave"
Depeche Mode
Straight up electro
EBM?
The onesie helps too
No no no
Industrial no
Synth wave hell no
This is dirt
Pure filth
Dirty dirty electro
I love how he somehow goes from "omg I'm so sorry I messed everything up" to engineering a completely new sick track that melts your face off in less than 5 seconds
"ok guys, i'm done sound balance seems good, the artist can come and play now"
lmao
Would be a great skit for an opening band 😂
Oh dang I commented basically the same thing 😅
Band comes in, sound sounds absolutely perfect. It's a country band.
Dude just spontaneously did a cover live on stage. What a legend.
Check BeardyMan . He makes live covers of requests from audience. One person gives title, second genre third style etc. He is genius. LMNC is also awesome!
Need to check the dictionary for definition of legend
This was Berlin show. He did quite a few covers live on the stage, from suggestions of the public.
If you have the chance, go to his concerts, they are really great and fun!
You saw how it easy it was, as well, yeah?
cause that's what musician [guitar/synth heroes] do. *points*
the jumpsuit and headset paired with frantic muttering and flipping through the papers makes for a really cool and themed looking stage presence LMAO this fucking rocks dude
Helps that for the uninformed sound-and-music enjoyers (me) it literally looks like you're piloting a spaceship. I dig this so much
I'm a light guy, I do stage lighting. The guy who's working this has a really good feel for it. Well done mr light guy.
Every time I go to a deathcore concert I am genuinely confused as to how the hell you guys manage to keep up lol
@@KhreamedKhorneEither be acquainted with the music or get a feeling for where the bridge chorus and energy is supposed to lie based off crowd interaction.
mvp
Yeah same. It’s a small but mighty rig. My favorite
I was thinking the same. Busking as a house LD is an art of its own, but live improv really cranks the difficulty up.
this guy wouldve been an amazing telephone operator back in the switchboard days
funnily enough i sort of am ua-cam.com/video/tK1lH8pjXTo/v-deo.html
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER thats actually pretty fucking amazing mate
telephone switchboard hooked up to a modular synth system. "Operator - get me the police, and make it Gnarly"
@@alexrichards3987*SAUCY!*
I watched Howard Jones on stage in the early-1980s "construct" each of his songs. He'd crawl underneath his bank of synths and plug something in with a grrrrr-thump which would trigger a drum pattern, and then a bassline, and then he'd stand and play the rest while he sang. It was mind-blowing to me - a tech-influenced teenager - at the time.
This is so very similar. I especially love the Ghost Busters jump suit. Absolutely suits the vibe.
such under estimated artist
Howard Jones was the GOAT in my opinion. Have all his shit on vinyl
I got to see Howard Jones play a few years back at a festival, and while it was great, I would have really loved to see him back in that era. His modern show is a pretty straight forward pop concert. Still a pleasure to hear live, but I don't think there was much improv or "creation" going on.
@@lightfantastik It was a treat then and the memory is a treat now. It was a simpler time but also very complex to make all your kit work in some sort of unison. Apart from our man here in this video, there are a couple of other videos on UA-cam which hint at the challenges - one from New Order (Perfect Kiss) where Hooky seems to be using a prototype Simmons multipad which was falling apart as he was using it, and the other is one where The Who's Pete Townsend explains how he created the keyboard part to Won't Get Fooled Again, and the challenges he had recreating it for live performances.
Since then, the music industry got all computerised, and it hasn't all been as bad as people like to think. I've been in bands since the late 1980s - I play drums and have gone through acoustic and electronic kits. I remember when MIDI became affordable to us late teens. We rushed out to buy newer synths but we kept the Juno60 and the Maplin mono synth (great for bass), and I continued to play acoustic drums with a Roland Octapad and a few Simmons pads to supplement the kit. We were able to link most of it up to trigger sounds with a pad on one half of the stage from a box located on the other half of the stage, and playing along to sequenced percussion sounds made me a more honest drummer.
Today I have a small collection of keyboards, sound modules, acoustic and e-drums, all hooked-up to a laptop. I could do amazing things if only I had half the inventive mind I had when I was younger.
Better crowd than Blur had at Coachella. Nice job Sam!
😅😂😂😅
Right? Still feel sorry for the folks stuck seeing Grimes instead of this.
I think he could absolutely kick ass at Coachella on one of the side stages. I'm not normally into electronic music, but this is being done live and is absolutely filthy.
@@lexp6099Nah. People got what they deserved at the Grimes set.
Pretentious little art school goblin
What's tempo and math?
the bass-induced camera shake is just perfect
analog effect, of course
@@KundoKun easy to do in post, seen it on other content before. You can map adobe premiere/after effects effects to sound
I was going to say he should get a better stabilized camera setup, but after reading your comment, I agree it’s just perfect as is!
@@triptheroad Looking at the 7-segment LED display on the top left of the machine, it looks to me like the shaking is in-camera.
@@triptheroad you ever been on a stage with big subs? I've had pints of beer migrate 3 feet across a table from the bass rattle. Also some PAs nearly fall over from people moshing too hard but that's a little different.
Kind of a funny pov because it’s like you’re just in a room by yourself having the best jam session ever with all the lights, screaming the lyrics, sick lol
sometimes i forget that he's also just a really good musician
Too many skills to keep track of😂
... and a good singer, wtf!
He is an artist, a musician. I was blown away by the amount of skills he has.
Not to forgot he actually built his beast 9f a synth 😅
@@elecsoul8309 invented the entire Kosmo modular format even, then shared it to the masses at that!
i love how the camera is vibing with the song and it's al blurrrrrry
same 😆
Exacly 🥰
normal people would try to decouple it....but fu i like it too!!!
Saw Dune pt2 in 70mm IMAX and the bass was doing the same to the screen/projector. It was wild.
I got goosebumps and a whirl down my back, with the following drop! What a giga chad !
You just click the video and instantly get what the title promises. No "you won't believe what happens at the end"
What a brilliant novel idea!
ironic, because out of habit I first went to the most viewed place
@@MatteuBall Same I instinctually skipped to the end to find what I was looking for. Still not disappointed though
Watch the older or first few seasons of NOVA:science now (the most intellectually stimulating shit you could watch)... then the later seasons are trife with "They made a shocking discovery" - the information you just heard rehashed from a different source boring and confusing your brain.. that wasn't shocking at all...
I came here for Song 2 but stayed for the absurd quality of the music this guy produces, how i never knew about this channel before???
Look up youth8500...its my fav from him
Funny, I've been following him for years and watching his stuff but first time actually hearing his music XD I love it
Holy balls this just blew my mind
Wow you about to go down one hell of a rabbit hole this guy is a synth god the furby and gameboy are some of my personal favs glad so many people are finding this guy
❤
This man is giving us the future. When people imagined what the future would look like in the mid 1900s, it was this. A single man using a machine he built and designed to sound like an entire band playing electronic music.
That's what James from the Doors said..
1 midi controllers can easily produce the sound of any popular instrument, AI can create a whole song for the lyrics.
But he's skills are not scalable - genius.
The future happened, it was called the 1980's. I was there, in the future.
@@ukman9797I suppose you could say we're going back to the future. 👀
@@ukman9797 And now its the past
This guy came straight from Planet Synthos from Regular Show
"The photocopier is working better than ever boss"
" The photocopier is working better than exepected boss "
The photocopier expected is better boss working than.""
"the photocopier is boss working better than ever"
"The boss is working better than ever photocopier"
It’s like I’m watching an 80s phone technician discovering he can be the mad scientist of music, instant sub
Exactly! Hahah 😅
Did you really write that not yet knowing he has an old phone exchange somewhat wired into all sorts of magic in his museum?
OMG 😆
Being familiar with his UA-cam channel and projects, mad scientist is a pretty accurate description.
Dude this is crunchy as HELL! Please consider uploading the songs from this set as separate videos; they'd go straight into my playlists
heavy synths, blown out vocals
*chefs kiss*
Succinct. Beautiful. :D
😘👌
the industrial technician aesthetic of the performance (not just the jumpsuit, but the way that goes perfectly with the managing of the synth rack) is so cool, and really contextualizes music production in an really interesting way.
kinda what I thought :D
Also makes a headset mic cool in context. The visual of an auto or aircraft engineer or mechanic combined with an audio engineer.
I always feel like he's operating a submarine or something
A very good explanation for why it mesmerizes me so much.
So visually infra-familiar and still sensory ultra-wild at the same time.
Devo vibes
The fact that he can sing too means he’s not just a DJ pushing buttons! This guy has talent beyond recognition
We are in 2024 and Sam is still so UNDERRATED.
I don’t understand this world era.
This guy should have been already a huge monster worldwide superstar SINCE YEARS…
So talented fuck
Underrated means that he's better than people think he is. That doesn't apply to him, because nearly everyone who sees him recognizes his talent. He's not well known outside of his niche, but that's true of almost every musician. To break into the mainstream, you need mass appeal and a big marketing budget, and he has neither.
everything that is loved by the masses goes to the dumpster quickly
@@rlm4471shut up. He means that his channel is underrated not his skill 🤡
@@rlm4471 …yes I think you’re right.
@@sublimexs I agree…
It’s still really hard to swallow for me what our world has become when you grew up in the 80s-90s
Anyway
Thanks guys.
This is literally how Albarn started the Gorillaz. Ghost Train was the first song he made under that name and it vibes hard.
"Ghost Train" sounds like a song I'd like to Suplex.
@@IronCurtaiNYCI see what you did there
“I can kind of envision, maybe, uh
One person with a lot of machines
Singing or speaking
and using machines”
Jim Morrison, 1969
You know the music is good when the camera is bobbing along to it.
bobbing? my dude....the bass would knock the camera down if someone wasnt anchoring it....
@@justingoldstein1577😂😂😂
Or when the rear view mirror is. Sometimes it's dangerously distracting watching the rear view mirror at night while blasting music in the car.
The confluence of musician, artist, and engineer. Love it.
He is *The Martgineer*
I fell asleep with UA-cam on the other day, and when I woke up I had this on, and now I am obsessed. WE NEED A FULL COVER OF SONG 2!
yea bro I play an instrument that has over 1000 buttons and dials and I know exactly what they all do. Freaking amazing. Been watching for years.
"Home made btw"
Back in the early 2000s, like 04-07 I was completely entrenched in the electronic music scene. Traveling all over North America for events from small basement sets to multi day festivals. Back then I thought that this would be the future of electronic music. Someone creating the music live on stage as they went; not just pressing play on a laptop and doing some fading here and there. I'm glad to see there are people doing this.
That's insane amounts of multitasking, especially concentrating on the singing in pitch while you work out the rest in real time! Beardyman would be proud.
Yeah, and man, beside his awesome ability to use his equipment to make this awesome music, he is just a great vocalist. I`m truly blown away.
Not to mention it’s all in the dark!! Have to have every socket slider and dial memorized 😵💫
@@MrSlaughtematic Not entirely dark, just stage lighting.
As many raves I have been to throughout the 90s and early 2000s I have never seen a set up like that. Amazing.
Well yeah analogue synth stuff isn’t usually made for dancing tbh, it’s usually super weird and experimental noise music. The artist Caribou used to do shows where he made analogue synth sounds and layered them and shit… def more on the weird end of the spectrum.
@@krusher181 well I guess that's why. LOL. To me it's always just sounds mixed together to make music. But I think it sounds good regardless. Maybe I'm weird but I always loved this kind of stuff.
You can see some smaller versions in techno; can't remember if it was blawan or ansome who was doing modsynth sets.
There were no raves in the 2000s. Once they left the illegal warehousees of the night and ventured into stadiums and the daylight, raving died.
Yes there were. Went to one of the last huge raves in St.Louis. It was in two huge hangers. One was called red pill and the other was called blue pill. Ended up being know as the Matrix rave. I am 40 years old. I graduated in 2002 and that rave was in 2004. So don't tell me something I know. I even went to candy rave 2000 and it got shut down after 5 hours. So yes their was raves in early 2000s. After 2004 people tried to get raves going in all different city's. They would get shut down before they even got set up or got shut down as it got started. After that they turned into drug party's at closed down bowling alleys, skating rinks, etc. Then they tried legal "raves" that I would not consider raves. Happen during day time at huge Venus. They did good drug searches, Had police as security. I know what I'm talking about.
the jumpsuit fit mixed with tinkering on the GIZMO is such a vibe. Fucking awesome vibes my guy.
You have grown in confidence and facility as a performer remarkably over the years. You're getting more expressive, particularly, as a vocalist, which seems to have everything to do with confidence. Your keyboard playing has also improved, just from playing over time. Plus, you have developed so much as an electronics producer. Youth is a wonderful thing. Watching you mature is a great pleasure.
Our boy is so grown up, it's lovely!
Aww thanks dad
Now he needs some good songs. Got the sound and arrangements nailed. Lyrics and tunes not there yet, a few good bass lines, but there is a reason he hasn't blown up despite being around for a decade or more. Also, live performance is nothing like the records, which just sound flat.
But I agree, he is finally sounding professional Will get lots of support gigs now.
No love for a $20 tip. Rough
@@madrx2 I did that in a moment of inspiration, not to get any love, when I happened to have the money. The mechanism he uses for this is Patreon, but, as I said, it was an impulse purchase.
The love goes outward. What comes back is not assumed - or you lose your mind always looking for responses, reassurances, and confirmations. Sam's a good kid, gets a lot of comments, and was touring and otherwise working. No biggie if he doesn't leave a heart or some such thing.
Definition of Electropunk... You Sir, are a Legend!
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Look up synthpunk legend N8Noface
@@AmandaRaeGAmate, this guy's as electropunk as it gets, he built all his own kit and runs his own museum dedicated to obscure, obsolete shit.
I defnetly need more of your sound.
Great version of Song 2! That definately needs a revisit.
Would love to hear a studio cover of it.
Fully agreed
Bet!
15:17 is the closest I heard to daft punk being resurrected yet, incredible performance, you really do know your machine on heart
lighting hits synth abomination with mohawk furby on top
"ITS ALIVE!"
I was thinking this as well, this has some serious Daft Punk ALIVE vibes
The fact he built this entire synth from scratch, and also the fact he basically invented the Kosmo modular format and dispersed all the technical data on it for free for the wider world is why Sam will always be one of my favorite musicians and engineers, probably forever.
Was thinking the same !
holy shit I literally thought "it fucking is daft punk" the moment it went off
THIS is party music. I really hope you get more recognition. Your sounds is SO unique.
Wow the knobs he turns actually do something. Never new that, I tought DJ's touch them for good luck.
This is a modular hardware synth. Every single cable makes a patch between two electrical and musical components; the amount of combinations is immense and
is what virtual or software instruments emulate thru software code.
A DJ on the other hand cannot create music on the fly, but can create unique mashups by isolating drums, instrumentals, and vocals from a song and creatively remixing these 3 elements along with other transactions.
Source: 12 years in audio engineering 3 years DJ’ing! Thinking of making a course at this point lol
@@Nahhh868 I was being sarcastic. It is amazing the stuff audio engineers and real DJ's do.
@@VladimirLadev Don't worry, at least one person got the joke! 😉🤣🤣🤣
achtually 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💩
@@innerludeYeah haha knowledge is totally not cool, learning is lame right? It can go straight to heck for all I care.
Song 2 is like the Seven Nation Army of its time.
No matter where you go, who you meet, or how much musical talent anyone might have - some riffs are so intuitive, it’s as though humans are just born knowing how to chant along to them. So simple, they’re actually genius.
Not really. Seven Nation has become folk music, used around the world in football stadiums going way beyond it's origin. Song 2 doesn't even have a riff, just chords and Woo Hoo. Never heard that on the terrace.
@@RJ1J a riff can consist of chords, single notes, or both. Song 2 was in every arena & stadium on the planet before Seven Nation Army was released - which is why I said “of its time”.
Literally never heard of Song 2 being used in stadiums before today. SNA is definitely more popular as a chant for events
@@yasininn76 skill issue.
@@yasininn76it was used a lot for half time breaks in England
The concept of modular synths already blows my mind but seeing somebody play one live on stage takes it to a whole other level.
I have never seen this man perform live before and I'm absolutely blown away. Phenomenal work. Ill definitely be making an effort to catch a show some day.
Absolutely worth it! I was at a show in Prague two weeks ago and it was one of the best concerts I've ever visited. It's exactly like the videos, with all the mistakes, which add his music the character. He's a great performer!
I feel like such a idiot for missing his shows
I absolutely love all the interaction, the mistakes (I feel bad saying they’re mistakes as that’s an element that I think is so incredibly engaging) He’s one of our people, if I was a musician I’d like to be like Sam, what a talent!!
When the bass started blurring the camera, that's when I felt I was actually there 🥰
have to listen again with a proper woofer, not airpod bed‘ish 🔊
Emergency switch board operator by day.
Cyberpunk synth club runner by night.
This is what I expect when I think about what a DJ is doing live, but instead it's all on a computer and turn tables. This is a real show. Much more entertaining and engaging for the audience. Not to mention the awesome sound.
Not all djs, some djs play live synths, and do it a lot better than this guy! look at Blawan, Surgeon, Karenn.
@@djcheckmate1ok, but did they design and build their own synths?
Doesn't make it less impressive
Go watch some pro turntable battles and then come back and tell everyone dj's aren't artists and have no skills.
Bodzin live @ Piz Gloria. What an experience it must've been
Thank you algorithms of YT for bringing me here. Dude, you fucking rock!
Impressive watching this tech priest awaken the machine spirit in such a way, praise the Omnissiah
After that blur cover I NEED MORE HEAVY AND INTENSE COVERS!!Pure talent right there
Amen. His voice has a great rattle to it that suits a punk and alt style so well. Sounds like Joe Talbot. Song 2 absolutely needs a recover. So fucking sweet.
How is this so clean? I'm as far from an electronic music fan as it gets, but this is amazing. It's raw, it slaps.
Maybe you are and dont know it yet 😮
You Mr. basic person are forgiven. Reject the false media and you may continue to partake with your betters. I mean human peers. We say stupid things just like humans say many times. we're all regular human person here acting exactly like perfectly regular human persons do after all you are free to spread your interests around. You could be a drum and bass person, techno, trance, jungle, dubstep, even happy hardcore ( in moderation), trip hop, or dance. But that's it. Everything else is blemish on your mother's soul and completely unacceptable in a civilized society. But it's whatever bro. If you want to risk your eternal soul that's on you.
If you put a cover like that on spotify I think I would destroy my sound system playing it. It took you about a minute to throw together an absolutely fierce track.
I love how the camera is near some speaker picking up the bass and shaking to it. As a modular enthusiast, this is hard as hell to pull off live. Top notch.
"You are programmers, not musicians... wait, oh shit..." xD One of the best performances live
Def squashed that vibe. We aint got no roads here!
Bro is actually a technician on the Death Star, just operating a console, but dropping enough LSD that he can press the button to obliterate Alderaan when Darth V gives him the nod.
I just listened to all the other versions of Desperado Vespa, and this one is by far the best. The vocal performance is great, perfectly blown out, and sits perfectly in the mix. And the boily synth embellishments pop in this version the most. I love that you tricked me into discorvering the song by playing a Blur cover first. I just eish this exact version was on Spotify so I could add it to my playlist.
The disjointed intro is so cool when it blends into the opening riff. The vocals remind me of Crystal Castles
Honestly if you uploaded all of these songs in the set as live versions to Spotify that would be so tight.
UA-cam2mp3
@@brendan4859 spotify robs its artists, torrent with a direct way to donate/pay whatever you want would work better.
Not too sure how I found myself here, but that was freakin' awesome! As a bit of a metal head, you've made me question why there's not more modular synth in metal... There's so much potential there ^^
Agree with you on the fact we need more synth in metal. I love Master Boot Record tracks where they combine synths and guitar (especially in their live recordings), and Mick Gordon did so many great tracks for DOOM OST with synths and downtuned guitar. Huge potential there.
@Kwacker_ you need to check out the UA-cam video IGORRR PARPAING and make sure you watch the whole video. Heavy thrash with an insane full modular synth solo toward the end!🤘🎹☠️
ua-cam.com/video/urU5JS4Eb-k/v-deo.htmlsi=w_rz_mCO2M9LftbS
Metalhead as well, check out Gunship or Pertubator. There's always classic NIN or Ministry for that realm back in the 90's too.
Ohh no links allowed i guess 😅 Look up for "Igorr" if you dont know them already. Great use of Synth and some of the best Metal in Europa.
ua-cam.com/video/8A8s9gx9pGM/v-deo.html
I can give you punk with with a semi modular KORG
The UA-cam rabbit hole brought me here from things completely unrelated. I'm not disappointed. I've never seen anything like this before, but it made me crank up the volume and every time I think I'm done watching it I find it very difficult to click away. Nice job, looks like fun if you know what you are doing.
LOL @ the condition of the SACRED piece of PAPER. Oh man that thing has been through the ringer!
Fucker was construction paper, now its just tissue paper with a hope and a dream
‘ I built & designed my own instrument then performed requests live…. woohoo 🥳 it wasn’t easy…but nothing is!
Respect ✊
Been a long time fan of the channel but this is the first time I've caught a segment from a live show. Now I know my ass needs to grab a ticket back to England to catch a show. Some phenomenal shit.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s and was a big fan of Jean Michelle Jarrre at the time so it's great to see something similar take place nowadays.
God damn, this is badass.
I love the fact that everything you're doing has a purpose but I can't follow 90% of it. Also you have a weirdly perfect voice for Blur songs.
I said it elsewhere, but he’s got that punky rasp that really suits grungier stuff so well.
I desperately want a full live cover of Song 2 now, that was fucking incredible
Man, i don't even know what this, i don't know the context, this just got recommended to me and i am NOT disappointed! This is fantastic!
welcome to the channel
Brings me back to when I was first introduced to daft punk (and techno in general) after watching the new tron. Favorite genre ever since.
Yeah, I was def getting "Daft Punk: Alive 1997" and "2007" vibes.
It’s got a lot of the old techno synth stuff going on yeah. Good to hear younger people like the old EDM shit too.
I just came from the Techmoan channel for the answerphone machine… and now I discovered the pure fusion of Kraftwerk machinery with a Depeche Mode on ecstasy !
Love it ! Yeah, clearly love it !!! ❤
I know it would be a nightmare shipping your synths overseas but God I hope you make it to the US some day. Been watching you for years and you deserve wayyyy more recognition. So much talent and skill on display here.
Desperado Vespa is easily one of my favorites. Looks fucking amazing live.
50% mad genius 50% genius musician.
This is such a bold endeavor. I love your "ride it until the wheels come off..... and then come back" live style damn.
This is so good, man!
Thanks dude!!
It is! And so are you!
I'm convinced this is just you having fun. I do not think you go up on stage with any particular plan of doing anything other than having fun. This is probably the best and most free spirited live performance I have ever seen. Listening to the audio without watching the video, it is easy to forget this is a live performance you are coming up with off the cuff.
"I'm horrible at keyboard" then nails it. Liked it alot! Would love to see you live somday!
Blur might be available to open for LMNC on the next tour :)
My first time witnessing this - im blown away!!!!! Love it, love the overalls, and the whole vibe, what a skill.
Respect for the camera that died to bring us this experience
This reminded me of a modular synth version of Wintergatan, lol. It's such a tall and massive setup. I love how everything's sounding, it must be super invigorating to jam with this!
Martin is too much of a perfectionist to achieve this level of performance. This is live, loud, out of balance, dirty, and imperfect. But that's its beauty. It's like watching a forest burn majestically.
Hell, this sounds awesome. Great job, mate!
I like your stage presence. You're like a train conductor telling everybody that the boiler might explode anytime, but we'll try to make it work regardless.
Humility and bonkers bass really goes well together in book.
Running hardware like this as a live performance will always blow my mind.
He is actually restraining the machine a bit from taking over 😮
@lookmumnocomputer. In my humble opinion, I think you and your magically analog machines have a very special sound that I cannot seem to find anywhere else! Please upload more of your live performances. There is something special about your raw unengineered style and entertaining stage presence that I find to be very engaging. Even listening through headphones at the gym I can feel the energy that you put into your art! Keep up the good work!
Everything reminds me so much of Daft Punk, it's absolutely amazing!
i like how camera shakes on bass immersion moments
8:00 don't apologize man haha, i was vibing and you kinda killed it. go in with confidence!
Not only is your technique and control of the instrument amazing, but also you carelessly add incredibly curated and accurate vocals. Seriously, I feel like I'm watching a historical art moment happen real time. True talent ♥ Congrats and kudos from Argentina.
I had no idea you did live shows like this. Absolutely amazing.
This is the kind of music I’ve always wanted to hear, and never knew it.
Hits so friggin hard.
Generally speaking I feel as if nowadays there's too much madness in the world, but looking at this clip I have to admit that we could use more of *this* kind of madness. This was great :).
Bro that Blur when the bass kicks !! !! !! Living Legend !
Look Mum No Computer is the most talented and creative UA-camr. The guy is a scientist. Hoping he will bring his stuff down to the south coast for some shows.
This is one of the best things i have seen in a while.
It really is.
2:50 the way the image is shaking on those LOW sub bass tones made the hair on my arm stand up! I can only imagine how DOPE that must sound IRL... all that AIR moving, beating up against your chest cavity with every strike of the bass note!
Kinda like tinitus
Man... live requests and improv on that machine man... that's a beautiful thing. Unreal. You don't see anyone doing that with synthesizers - it's a shame.
It's insane that people still do these modular synth covers. I'm so glad these wizards still exist.