NYNOISE.TV | SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO- Its The Beat (LIVE -KEXP)

[guitarchim]

theyre all pretending like their actually doing something

[Mick10010]

@guitarchim you pretending like you have any clue

[tombfan]

loved the dancing girl hahaha

[davisk8117]

Thumbs up for the only SMD fan!!

[justsaynotohotwater]

what the fuck is she dancing to

[OfftheDeck]

I'd dance the fucking lacy

[edward3179]

2 People are retarded.... Which isn't bad, considering the average population...

[MadCheesecake]

i've just noticed.. all of the top rated comments r about the dancing chick in the background. lol?

[MatthewMcRazz]

I'm not worried about how simple or complex this is to perform live because this just fuckin blew me away and tripped me out man. SICK MUSIC!!!!

[rhoggard76]

ACIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID !!!!

[rhoggard76]

ooooh i want the modular synth!

[westcoasthaze]

@rhoggard76

get a Buchla 200

:)

[rhoggard76]

@westcoasthaze buy it for me? or i'll just DIY something better.

[rhoggard76]

the NYNOISE dot TV link goes to wikipedia...

[phantascy]

UMF13!!!!!!

[sackmajik]

haha, why is no one else dancing?! mentalists.

[holaquetal413]

19th of september at Space, Ibiza. I Love It!!!!

[adolfspittler]

Booohoooooooooo… Who is the danicng lady? 

[jimmyPain2121]

thats got to be the coolist set up ive seen for a live act

[enormal]

FRIIISCH!

[Chazyorkshire]

That tit messing about with wires!!! seriously

[DonBello]

@Chazyorkshire init, such bullshit

[marakana888]

I want to date that girl!!!!

[eastcstsrfr]

they consider themselves more of an electronic group than a dj duo so...

[djshuniya]

what is that black circle thingy?

[djinyCB]

yeah go girl ^_^ those others got a stick up in their ass!!

[poundarr]

whats is that thing that looks like a circuit board with the multi colored plugs ?

[HiTechSoul]

its not a "thing" but a modular eurorack of various eurorack modules that you buy separately, its pretty much a synth that you patch together yourself.....you can find where to buy stuff like this from analogue haven

[xxxcashinxxx]

say your one was scagging in the morning ha

[zexja]

that girl rules!

[molkitonite]

look at the girl behind dancing alone killing for some attention of one of the guys!hahahaha

[DeltJuan]

id be dancin my arse off to if i was that close to a SMD performance

[drweth89]

it's so much better seeing someone active up on stage then just seeing a dj set of this- there equipment looks cool. that's what rates them as a fantastic live act.

[randall642]

yea but it never sounds as good as a dj set

[adisck]

dj set 1001 or 1002 ? ;)

[tbone303]

Not very far from a DJ set- just a bunch of hardware effects- Ableton outputting on LOTS of seperate channels, ie. they've got all the samples/loops for that song. Twiddle the knob on the effects for the bassline, twiddle the knob on the effects for the drums, etc. The synth rack is the interesting part- but it looks like they dont stray too far from the selected progs, couple filters and delay.

Stand over it nodding and looking like youre doing something. Rinse repeat.

[WorfSonofMoog]

tbone I'm so glad you are here. you sound like such a fun person to be around.

The only appropriate way to react to people having fun is to nitpick the way in which they are doing so.

[nxe18]

Where are your songs that have been spread across the EDM charts?

[likefluorescentlight]

its ninja from the go team

[TheHollow1988]

is it Uffie vocal?

[dw070]

please uffies voice is fucked from smoking heroin

[mistarcraw]

she never had one

[MOBRIEN1234567]

nay NAY!

[johnnyjeans2]

i can beat that lady at a dance show down

[c345w]

sweet

[ImIntoDocking]

aahahahahahaa

[assitch6]

best live band i've ever experienced.

[aussssi3]

soo good saw these boys live at bdo fukin wicked

[michaelgingerjones]

check out the lady in the background hahaha

[BlackNoir]

I'd fuck the dancing lady.

[dyork2006]

@BlackNoir in the butt?

[premiafeedermusic]

Ahh faire enough not as insane as it looks then does the job

[Dagit66]

More like simian mobile studio!

[premiafeedermusic]

Is one guy just patching rackmount feeds from abelton and the other putting them through the mixer?

[discotechwreck]

the 'rackmount feed patches' is actually a modular analogue synthesizer which creates most of the bleeps and lead lines

I think it's made mostly of Doepfer modules

the Macbook is running Ableton which holds samples, percussion and MIDI clock info although they never touch it, only trigger it with a Korg keyboard controller

the Mackie mixer just controls levels and EQ so they can bring things in and out on the fly

that sends ONE stereo signal out to the sound desk at the venue

[jimbobmcfred]

I think the modular mostly consists of Analogue Systems modules, with a few Doepfer modules thrown in for good measure.

In "its the beat" that squeeky single note that bounces along throughout is the Korg ms-20, which is well known for its over driving filter (which mr. ozio put to good use in analog worms)

They also use a lot of external FX, like at the start 0:25 , the pitch change effect is a Electro Harmonix Memory Man.

[cacophony1]

yup, you can see a few non doepfer in there, cant really picture what though.

i love there live setup, its pretty much as close as you can get to live / improvised electronic dance music these days. The thing is with this, unlike alot of other peoples rigs, theres is very well set out.

Drum machine

MS20

Ableton + controller.

Drumtrax

pedals (you can go nuts here)

mixer (and with that comes compressors + reverb). its a simpler version of what everyone is using in software.

[kurups]

not much.

that controller their using there that looks like a keyboard basically makes the "djing" part even easier

[patakspickles]

fukin unreal

DOESNT LOOK TOO 'MOBILE'

[dontavone]

Yeah imagine walking down the road with one of those bad boys on your shoulder, everyone would think your so cool and hopefully give you a hand carrying it.... :P

[purplevanclub]

Unreal:)

[alan86ok]

so hot

[catsgymnast]

ok your a man right and you said so hot you are gay freak jeese wrong taste.

[1himalaya1]

Respeekkk!

[jetkid]

dayumm that Woman can dance to the beat!

[MyDiamondStarCar]

what i especially love about them, don't get me wrong i love justice, ed bangers institubes, etc. but simian mobile disco uses so much improv, that just makes them so much better, they are unpredictable

[Mushywaffles]

They sure have A LOT of knobs and dials to turn there.

[2nelson]

LOL at the random dancing girl

[dakan1979]

who's the girl dancing?

[puppydogbreath]

right? the first time I saw this on tv I was like 'who's this girl? she's an awesome dancer.'

[thebrettster]

I was hoping they would perform out of an ice cream truck or something... you know, a MOBILE DISCO!!!!