WHY WE BLEEP PODCAST 017: ADRIAN UTLEY

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  • @christopher_ecclestone
    @christopher_ecclestone Рік тому +4

    Surely it's time for that sequal!
    I could listen to these two talk synths and music all night.

  • @LFOVCF
    @LFOVCF 2 роки тому +6

    I needed to hear the nest building bit.
    I often feel guilty for not often making music. But I unwind building etc
    It now feels OK to just fiddle around with it all

  • @BeauSkowron
    @BeauSkowron 3 роки тому +8

    I could listen to this man talk for 6 hours and it would never be enough. Such a legend... one of the coolest nerds ever I always feel smarter by osmosis.

  • @iantroup
    @iantroup 3 роки тому +7

    I remember Adrian's first day at Gordonstoun - 40 something years ago, well done mate - you did alright! Cocoa Navy style - just like your Dad. God bless - regards Ian

  • @H4NDCRAFTED
    @H4NDCRAFTED 4 роки тому +9

    Adrian is such a chill and respectful man in every interview I see him in. What a great ambassador for music. Such an interesting head on those shoulders. I still watch Portishead Live in NYC since 1995.

  • @joseph_deane_
    @joseph_deane_ 4 роки тому +9

    i listen to this, every few months. Just great

  • @Crucial_Realm
    @Crucial_Realm 4 роки тому +16

    Gawd damn, after the day I’ve had this is exactly what i needed.

  • @Unifono2012
    @Unifono2012 4 роки тому +6

    Thanks for that interview. Adrian is a hero

  • @MakingSoundMachines
    @MakingSoundMachines 4 роки тому +4

    Loved the Squarepusher discussion at the beginning, I fell down that rabbit hole in 2001 / 2002 after stumbling upon the Red Hot Car vinyl and then massively getting into Do You Know Squarepusher. Also, Burningn'n Tree. Definitely opened my mind to the different rhythms in musssssssss-sic.

  • @vinylarchaeologist
    @vinylarchaeologist 4 роки тому +4

    So many interesting topics: 808s, Billie Eilish, Apocalypse Now, J.S. Bach, Wendy Carlos, Eurorack, archiving, the Keystep, lots and lots of synths... and knowing where to tap. Brilliant, gents.

  • @chickenlickin3820
    @chickenlickin3820 2 роки тому +2

    More portishead albums please Adrian.

  • @brentsmith9411
    @brentsmith9411 4 роки тому +3

    An Adrian Utley drum sample pack of the sounds he uses on his Roland pad would absolutely blow my mind.

  • @GrootsieTheDog
    @GrootsieTheDog Рік тому +1

    The Bach/synthesis works both ways I find: Not only do synthesizers sound great playing Bach but when using a synthesizer, I tend to naturally make music that sounds very much like Bach. But perhaps it’s more about the step sequencer and the extreme linear quality of melodies they are so good at making :)

  • @UpandDownRacing
    @UpandDownRacing 4 роки тому +1

    "i dream of wires was about 3 days to short, i can take any amount of synths you can throw at me" love this guy :)

  • @SynthAddict
    @SynthAddict 4 роки тому +8

    another great episode, and he's one of your best guests ever
    I could watch him talk about gear all day
    the MiniBrute vid you did with him and the Echoplex was a classic
    on a strange note, your closing statements being at the end of 2019 are wild to hear now (June 2020) in these weird times times of viral pandemic spread, police brutality and racial issue protests all over, and other stuff - if you only knew at the time that what you said was prescient in a way
    I'm trying to remember what I was pondering on at the time, but no one could have predicted how crazy 2020 would become
    anyway, keep up the great shows :-)

    • @citizenbxtr883
      @citizenbxtr883 2 роки тому

      Add pending thermonuclear Apocalypse to your list above and it's almost like he was goading the effing universe for a rise. Ho hum.. synths for global peace and harmony.

  • @magicspiral3323
    @magicspiral3323 4 роки тому +1

    This is great stuff. As a one-man-and-a-tape-machine guy myself, it’s great to listen to the different approaches and philosophies others have to the process.

  • @breakalime
    @breakalime 4 роки тому +2

    I picked up some cheap shelving from Lidl recently to kit out my shed. Game changer.

  • @els1f
    @els1f 4 роки тому +5

    No waaaaayyyy! Thumbs up before it even started 😄👍 I think I'd be very Chris Farley trying to interview him. "Do you remember when you were playing with portishead?"
    "Yeah..."
    "That was cool"... "I listened to Dummy a lot. Like every day."
    "Alright. Soooo, it's been nice" 😆
    1:18:00 I think that was deadmau5 and Toronto
    Okay, one more edit... There isn't a single person watching this for one and a half hours that considers a firmware update boring 😄 This was awesome man! I had it playing while trying to finish setting up the studio space and making sound absorption panels. It was better motivation than coffee ✌️👍

    • @HotStrange
      @HotStrange 4 роки тому +1

      Glad I’m not the only one! Definitely one of the synth legends! Listened to this while cleaning up around the studio and having morning coffee.

  • @gay_milhouse1160
    @gay_milhouse1160 4 роки тому +1

    "Shat on the patchboard" - i had to pause to stop laughing. Great interview!

  • @dustyrhodes1655
    @dustyrhodes1655 2 роки тому

    How am I just now seeing this? Amazing conversation!

  • @jbowmanmusic
    @jbowmanmusic 4 роки тому +2

    Another great episode! 'Evening in the Palace of Reason' by James R Gaines is a great book about the encounter between J S Bach and Frederick the Great (and is one of my favorite books about Bach full stop).

  • @GregoryKane11
    @GregoryKane11 4 роки тому +2

    Thank you so much for this ... spent 4hrs & 2 Btls of Red watching this ... Every ref u guys made I wandered round the net searching for it ... so much info. Thank you.

    • @mylarmelodies
      @mylarmelodies  4 роки тому +1

      Doin' it right!

    • @dopesensi
      @dopesensi 4 роки тому +1

      If used correctly the Internet is an amazing place!

  • @dimensionalineage
    @dimensionalineage 5 місяців тому

    I witness an Adrian Utley chat hit my feed, I click it. That is an unspoken contractual obligation I feel for few other artists. This leisurely ample chat provides 100% of my dietary value of vitamin AU for... the month? My one gripe - minor, mind you - is that the camera was not pivoted to capture the other gear discussed absent from its fixed view.

  • @clivemathieu9386
    @clivemathieu9386 4 роки тому +27

    I wish he was my dad

  • @InkyDaCaT
    @InkyDaCaT 4 роки тому +1

    Brilliant interview great with morning coffee! Ahh you have to show Adrian your keystep vid😂😂😂🙌

  • @buildingblocks8287
    @buildingblocks8287 4 роки тому +1

    adrian!... there are only a few records that are made to last.. portishead with all their albums will forever be the number one deeply emotional impact reference in sound for me.

  • @MarktModularSynth
    @MarktModularSynth 4 роки тому +2

    Quote of the day - "I think a dog shat in it" Genius! :D.....Great Podcast!

  • @thehowlingterror
    @thehowlingterror 4 роки тому +1

    Nice when the penny drops regarding it difficult to form a regular working relationship when forever changing around a eurorack system. Then again many a good piece has been made during a metamorphosis.

  • @Audiorial
    @Audiorial 3 роки тому

    that was a very cool listening. Thanks

  • @dillipphunbar7924
    @dillipphunbar7924 4 роки тому +1

    Very interesting discussion. Loved Portishead in the 90's...still love listening to them. Sensible approach...use what you have and try focussing on one instrument at a time...I have a very simple budget setup but can still make lots of interesting sounds with it. Liked and shared.

    • @HotStrange
      @HotStrange 4 роки тому +2

      Yep same here. 2 mono synths, 2 poly synths, a drum machine, and a sampler. I’ve always been most inspired when having a smaller/simpler setup.

    • @MisAnnThorpe
      @MisAnnThorpe 2 роки тому

      @@HotStrange What mono synths do you have? I'm not embarrassed to say that the Korg MS10 is a particular favourite of mine, along with the ARP Axxe.

  • @stevecc64
    @stevecc64 4 роки тому +2

    I love these interviews - amazing depth of knowledge (Alex and the interviewees) but honestly would love to hear more from the interviewees. I absolutely love your content and have spent a lot of money as a result of your vids but when it comes to these interviews I really want to hear more from the guests. I’m in no position to give advice but you (and many others like Mr N Batt) are in such a great position to give some airtime to the greats of synth history and I want to hear more from them... Fireside chats are fine but I want to know more about the legends. But one of my favorite channels, so feels like I’m biting the feeding hand.

    • @mylarmelodies
      @mylarmelodies  4 роки тому

      Thanks - “Want to know more” how? As in make the conversations longer, speak to different people or ask different questions?

    • @stevecc64
      @stevecc64 4 роки тому

      mylarmelodies it was a bit ranty of me - was suggesting more interview less 2 way conversation - but that’s really just a personal style pref. Keep up the fab work...

    • @pontiuspilates
      @pontiuspilates 4 роки тому +1

      @@mylarmelodies Just let the guest speak, don't meddle in. It's just plain rude and annoying. I like your podcast but this really gets on my nerves. You get to talk to some really heavyweight people, don't mess that up.

  • @WiredSpaceWizard
    @WiredSpaceWizard 4 роки тому

    A Clockwork Orange, I believe was the first film to have a score featuring music composed on a modular synthesizer. A most enjoyable interview!

  • @vinylarchaeologist
    @vinylarchaeologist 4 роки тому +1

    34:26 You guys are probably talking about Béla Bartók's _Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta_ composed in 1936 and used extensively in The Shining.

  • @Audhentik
    @Audhentik 2 роки тому

    thanks for sharing this one! i just love to listen to him...and his music of course 🖤

  • @chromosundrift
    @chromosundrift 2 роки тому

    Love this! The only reason I realised this was a video podcast, despite previously checking it out briefly, was because I fell asleep watching another video late at night, then this came on automatically afterwards and I woke up during the video interview! I wonder if other would-be watchers don't realise it's video content! I rewound and started from the beginning again and although
    I do enjoy your articulate passion and the extended intro, perhaps if you could stretch your production to shoot the intro as a piece to camera or pad it out a bit with some B roll you may reach more video visitors who, like me, don't realise this is a video show. At least consider if a partly video intro may make better represent the effective effort you've put in to getting the interview shot in the first place.

  • @chickenlickin3820
    @chickenlickin3820 2 роки тому

    awesome guys!

  • @dfmn8650
    @dfmn8650 4 роки тому +1

    Not sure why they picked the Eurorack format to discuss the downside of not having a uniform long-standing personal instrument due to things being switched around. Isn’t that the essence of modulars in general? Serge, Buchla, 5U, Eurorack... it’s all interchangeable and it’s up to each person to decide whether to keep it the way it is or to change it up. Nothing to do with Eurorack and everything to do with what “modular” synthesizers are. Anyways I enjoyed hearing what Adrian Utley had to say. Awesome guy.

  • @HotStrange
    @HotStrange 4 роки тому

    Speaking of Abbey Road, the Moog on Maxwells Silver Hammer changed my life as a kid. I had never heard anything like it and Ive been in love with synths ever since.
    Also Apocalypse Now - one of the best films and soundtracks ever.

  • @danpreston564
    @danpreston564 4 роки тому

    The 660 was my first ever piece of electronic music gear in 91 ish. I still have it.

  • @Mrpsblobsoflowendmung
    @Mrpsblobsoflowendmung 4 роки тому

    Great episode Alex, Love Adrian and Geoff . Such great musicians and Adrian working with the radiophonic workshop was so inspiring
    Like a kid a sweatshop .

  • @dagoblinn2350
    @dagoblinn2350 2 роки тому

    So glad I watched this.

  • @chemicalBR0
    @chemicalBR0 4 роки тому +1

    brilliant episode.
    Adrian is a legend

  • @pdm67
    @pdm67 4 роки тому

    Really good episode this. Can't believe I've only just got to it!

  • @midierror
    @midierror 4 роки тому

    Great chat, lovely guy.... Adrians not bad either!

  • @midierror
    @midierror 4 роки тому +1

    I've spent years downsizing my coillection, and it honestly feels better and better each time. I think one day I'll end up with just a PO KO, a DX7 and a PSS270 - to make the best music I've ever made!

    • @HotStrange
      @HotStrange 4 роки тому

      midierror I used to have a setup with 13-15 synths and constantly got bogged down by overchoice. Now I have a total of 4 with a sampler and 1 drum machine. 2 mono synths, 1 analog poly and 1 digital poly. Never been more inspired. I will have 6 soon because I finally broke down and decided to broke my “no more than 4” rule for a couple of new synths coming out.

  • @rye_on_toast
    @rye_on_toast 4 роки тому +1

    Like warm butter toffee for my ears.

  • @theoliviaarchives4794
    @theoliviaarchives4794 2 роки тому

    It's hard to watch this from work. I just want to go home and play with my synths.

  • @lazarwolfethebutcher
    @lazarwolfethebutcher 4 роки тому

    Thank you for this. So good!

  • @SynthesizerBook
    @SynthesizerBook 4 роки тому

    So lovely. Thank you.

  • @stumeek6825
    @stumeek6825 4 роки тому

    Another top draw interview, great stuff!!

  • @chperrone
    @chperrone 2 роки тому

    such a great conversation

  • @magneticB
    @magneticB 4 роки тому

    Wow stepping up with the big boys - nice interview!

  • @mauriciomandara5946
    @mauriciomandara5946 4 роки тому +1

    Amazing musician 🙏🏼

  • @Watts660
    @Watts660 3 роки тому +1

    One of my favourite musicians. Such a cool guy.

  • @rozz3r
    @rozz3r 4 роки тому +1

    Great discussion. Thank you. Would have liked to know the exact trick for using the voltage processors to get a high-pass out of the 2600. Google is not forthcoming. Anyone know?

  • @acefstripe
    @acefstripe 2 роки тому

    excellent interview!

  • @nathturn3869
    @nathturn3869 4 роки тому

    What a lovely bloke

  • @paradiddle16
    @paradiddle16 4 роки тому

    U guys were talking about the staying alive drum track. It’s actually a 2 bar tape loop taken from ‘night fever’.look it up on wikipi. (Some overdubs also i guess)Anyways, awesome interview thank u.

  • @mikegividen3236
    @mikegividen3236 4 роки тому

    Thanks! Made my day.

  • @bengineer_the
    @bengineer_the 3 роки тому

    Would so love to see the other side of the room! x

    • @NineHellHeaven
      @NineHellHeaven 3 роки тому

      Just do a search on here. There are a few really good ones.

  • @ianbcnp
    @ianbcnp 4 роки тому

    In bed recovering from flu - this was just what the doctor ordered - thank you!

  • @muse4ik
    @muse4ik 4 роки тому

    The Penderecki piece is called "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima" and the Bach piece is called "A Musical Offering"

  • @sketchdashaman
    @sketchdashaman 2 роки тому

    I loved the DX-7, I Had A SY-77 for years.
    hated selling it, only because of its size.

  • @adamgilreath8583
    @adamgilreath8583 4 роки тому

    love this!

  • @MRTM-kl5dd
    @MRTM-kl5dd 2 роки тому

    Am I the only one noticing how stylish those chairs are...?

  • @peteypete1984
    @peteypete1984 2 роки тому

    I remember that arturia video 💪♒️❄️🌙⚡️👾🔮🧙‍♂️🌳🌲😎✌️

    • @mylarmelodies
      @mylarmelodies  2 роки тому

      Remember the day!! It was a great hang, Adrian is just the loveliest person

  • @antoniog2854
    @antoniog2854 2 роки тому

    amazing interview, thank you! I was wondering who makes your Juno 60 mod mentioned @ 50:00

    • @mylarmelodies
      @mylarmelodies  2 роки тому

      Thanks - Tubbutec! tubbutec.de/juno-66/

  • @korywesterhold
    @korywesterhold 4 роки тому +3

    AU!!!

  • @axonandon
    @axonandon 2 роки тому

    I fell asleep with youtube on and this episode came round again, and I wound up having having a dream about cleaning dog shite out of a patchboard. :(

  • @dgp1498
    @dgp1498 4 роки тому

    synths heads :) lovely

  • @gooneybird808
    @gooneybird808 4 роки тому +3

    Billie rules dude...just wanted to say. Cool interview as well.

    • @gooneybird808
      @gooneybird808 4 роки тому

      Seriously love these talks about where all this shit really came from ya know..cool stuff man

    • @gooneybird808
      @gooneybird808 4 роки тому

      Fm trombone! Hahaha

  • @sam.synths
    @sam.synths 2 роки тому

    wow, aphex twin got his ps-3300's from coldcut! hell of a piece o' trivia right there

  • @piotr803
    @piotr803 4 роки тому

    6:00 Mylar, could you make a playlist of these interviews with Tom? :) cheers

  • @phobophob
    @phobophob 4 роки тому

    very enjoyable.

  • @Noname7401
    @Noname7401 4 роки тому

    Lovely.

  • @alphanumeric1529
    @alphanumeric1529 4 роки тому

    Can I get rid of my unused kit? Nothing is unused. It's just a matter of time though. Maybe I have 4 instruments together for a project. A "project" is a dumb term, a project is the setup for me. I might do 3 or 4 tracks with that setup. And if an instrument/seq is working well in that project, and I'm still into it, feel like I haven't figured it all out, or it is transparent, or whatever, I'll use it in the next project, but then I'll swap out instruments that resisted me, or are broken in a certain way, they're out. And in the middle of a project, if I need something, I fly it in. I like little things for this type of thing. Little Volcas, sp404, tenori, kp3+. They just fly in for a particular job, they contribute what they do, and that pattern or sound is in the project. Sometimes, they perform so well, they take center stage, and the nature of the project changes. You were talking to Adrian about having a purpose, a destination in mind, and it is all about getting there, realizing that. Not my thing at all. I am truly experimental, and not so much that I produce unlistenable noise (at least none of it escapes), I'm heavy into hooks and pop, but I never know how I'm going to achieve that. I start with an ensemble of instruments, and just start working. That can mean I lead off with a melody, a harmonic progression, a beat, and all of that can be played or sampled, and it just goes from there. It usually takes a session to get to something that is interesting, and that thing usually has nothing to do with what I started with, its just a matter of getting it going. A huge advancement for me was letting that initial sketch stuff go, I used to look at it like I'd invested that time, I need return on that investment. But the actually good idea IS the return on investment, and those sketches need to go away or they will turn into a millstone around your neck. Very hard for me to let go of that, but I'm on it now.
    And in your outro, you said basically this, making this comment essentially redundant. Yeah.

  • @kelvynification
    @kelvynification 4 роки тому

    I'm glad he didn't go all dogma on the timing thing. There's a time for loose timing and a time for a grid. It's all in the concept and personal taste.
    It's the same with the idea of less is more... less is less and more is more, why not both?

  • @blakeerinbe84
    @blakeerinbe84 3 роки тому

    "...heading into the next decade, the twenties! What will it bring? Hopefully not death and destruction!"
    "I'll take well-wishes that age like fine wine, Alex."
    Here's to 2021

  • @matiasmoulin2126
    @matiasmoulin2126 4 роки тому +14

    Adrian doesn't get enough room to talk. No offense, but I'm watching this because of the legend.

    • @NineHellHeaven
      @NineHellHeaven 3 роки тому +3

      True. There are places where he's struggling to get a word in. I still enjoyed it though so I don't want to be too critical.

    • @deaftone
      @deaftone 3 роки тому +6

      I felt the same. Mylar talk to much for the interviewer 🙃

    • @glitch314
      @glitch314 2 роки тому +2

      @@deaftone my feelings exactly

    • @crowwing
      @crowwing 2 роки тому +2

      agree

    • @LockStoppageSandwich
      @LockStoppageSandwich 2 роки тому +6

      100% agree………….interviewer LOVES the sound of his own voice

  • @fincorrigan7139
    @fincorrigan7139 4 роки тому

    For anyone wondering what's on the other side of Adrian's studio here's another interview with him where's he's seated next to some rather nice toys... ua-cam.com/video/NNZ5ONauK5Y/v-deo.html

  • @MrSharps02
    @MrSharps02 4 роки тому +3

    arp 2600 and a synthi vcs in the background, casually drops that he has a korg ps-3200, im not jealous. im not.

    • @HotStrange
      @HotStrange 4 роки тому

      The 2600 is cool but that Synthi and 3200 would be amazing to just play, much less own. 2 of my favorite synths.

    • @MisAnnThorpe
      @MisAnnThorpe 2 роки тому

      I've a Yamaha PSS-680.

  • @LAHegarty
    @LAHegarty 2 роки тому

    Stars at 13:45 😆😂😅

  • @night_speed
    @night_speed 4 роки тому +2

    Lol re: Aphex Twin."There's a big long story about that...". Yes and I would love to hear all about it so please tell it.

    • @mylarmelodies
      @mylarmelodies  4 роки тому

      RDJ talks about that on the Syrobonkers interview if you seek out the waybackmachine/archived versions

  • @dezb1
    @dezb1 4 роки тому

    Beatles - Abbey road - synths got to be: Here Comes the Sun have always lived the synths in this one

  • @wackerburg
    @wackerburg 3 роки тому +1

    22:37 808s "They don't swing." Yes, until you sync it to an external clock that is swung. As the E-RM Multiclock does. #justsaying :-)

    • @paulbogle8161
      @paulbogle8161 2 роки тому +2

      Isnt that what he explained 5 secs later?

  • @Psionetics
    @Psionetics Рік тому

    I think you may have jinxed the entire decade

  • @iantanner7579
    @iantanner7579 4 роки тому

    And that's the downside of the ever-evolving eurocrack franken-system... IMHO
    The only genuine way to have that nostalgic, intimate, and lifelong connection with eurocrack is to essentially build each system around just one brand, and stick with that brand, - i've been buying doepfer since around '96,- starting with the 404, which still functions btw, unlike my moog GM, - and i wouldn't sell my systems for anything.. I've pimped the modules aesthetically and internally quite a bit though...
    ~ digital also, imposes too much character within eurocrack AFAIC, - I think the vc-bit-crusher and my kenton converters are the only digital components to my systems ~
    great interview, - i remember reading articles in *Home and Studio Recordings*, or was it *Recording Musician*?, with Adrian being interviewed, - long before the *portishead* days, and as i recall, they were just as insightful then as they are now...
    much appreciated

  • @kirkegodfrey414
    @kirkegodfrey414 4 роки тому +2

    Be really interested to hear your interview subjects tell ya their… House on fire only grab 1 synth ¬ choice

  • @WAROVART
    @WAROVART 4 роки тому

    classic Moog vs Moog pronunciation fight 25:09 KO at 25:48

  • @dgp1498
    @dgp1498 4 роки тому

    1:19:00 Donato Dozzy does this

  • @punkassfunk
    @punkassfunk 4 роки тому

    Who is this Bark you speak of? :)

  • @runarmagnusson
    @runarmagnusson 2 роки тому

    Excellent, but please give the guest space to finish a sentence. 😬

  • @rumblin_cynth_rampo374
    @rumblin_cynth_rampo374 4 роки тому

    I keep thinkg after you have done the advert intro I am going to hear the Pearl and Dean music. Craking podcast.

  • @chrisolley2762
    @chrisolley2762 4 роки тому

    A dog shat on the synth!

  • @nickilling
    @nickilling 4 роки тому

    Think you've "made it"

  • @256k_
    @256k_ 4 роки тому

    when are you going to make a "why we bleep" episode with Aphex twin, Alex? c'mon mate...

  • @bradscott3165
    @bradscott3165 4 роки тому

    What? THIRTEEN MINUTES of intro, then two guys sitting talking with no sound?

  • @ianrobichaud6698
    @ianrobichaud6698 4 роки тому

    you know you guys look related right?

  • @diethylamid
    @diethylamid 2 роки тому

    13:47 > thank me later...

  • @chedhead3278
    @chedhead3278 4 роки тому

    'Your synth sounds like dog crap' 'Funny story there mate' oh dear. :)