always knew the prodigy were fantastic...

almighty_gir

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5Dn-WaElI[/ame]

but this is just epic... a fan "remade" the track "smack my bitch up", showing how he thinks the prodigy probably did it back in the day (although that software wasn't available then).

back when they did it, they would have had to use actual synths, and effects boards rather than software to make it... it's not just that either, it's having the vision to look at some of those original samples and say "yeah man... that would fit RIGHT there..."

man... i love stuff like this!

Saman

Cool stuff. Although I'm not really sure about not using software to do this. The software has been available for some time, years before this song was released.
I loved how they changed "change my pitch up" into "smack my bitch up".
Thanks for the link.

EmAr

So much goes into good music whatever the tools are. Great video, I had watched it some time ago but it was as much fun as the first time

leslievdb

yeah saw this a while back

i have yet to hear something that isn't awesome from the prodigy.

also pretty cool to see how these tracks are put together, i've always wanted to try it myself but never really looked into it

almighty_gir

well, Liam Howlett has said many times he "intensely dislikes" software, and would rather just use a hardware setup, because software has a higher tendancy to fail when he doesn't need/want it to.

for example, he started using a laptop at live shows, and it crashed... he asked the audience if anyone wanted to buy a cheap computer, and hasn't used them since at live gigs.

@ravenslayer
it's damned fun man... just have a crack at it.

firestarter

Not wanting to knock Prodigy, or this guys curiosity, but you've been able to do all this stuff for a long time, we were doing this on Amiga 500's just with lower fidelity, and probably before that.

Dan!

man, I love Ableton Live. I need to unpack all my audio stuff one of these days.

metalliandy

Yea cool stuff

@gir,
Liam recorded Fat of the land with Reason and used Cubase VST before that, iirc

Noors

Fuck, i now bulls on parade by heart, and never ever realized it was the sample used. Makes both of those songs even more epic !

leilei

firestarter wrote: »

Not wanting to knock Prodigy, or this guys curiosity, but you've been able to do all this stuff for a long time, we were doing this on Amiga 500's just with lower fidelity, and probably before that.

I don't think i've ever heard a released single in the old .mod format but yeah song transcribing to that format is nothing new either. Theres lots of them (ABACAB.MOD is impressive)

Dylan Brady

Man, did anyone see that other video that showed all the classic funk song that daft punk sampled to do most of the hooks in their tracks?
It just makes me wonder how these guys could get away with using a guitar part from a contemporary artist.
lol my friend told me about this so I looked it up, an example of it happening /w new artists.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh2giDlkc_w[/ame]

almighty_gir

Noors wrote: »

Fuck, i now bulls on parade by heart, and never ever realized it was the sample used. Makes both of those songs even more epic !

that's sort of my point... i know the prodigy aren't the first/only group to do this, but the creative vision involved in taking something everyone has head and knows, and turning it into something essentially new and unknown, AND making it fit with the rest of the track, is just awesome.