Simon Stokes & Mr Copy - Live techno!

**UPDATE: A fully produced version of this track is available at Beatport in MP3 format or all good vinyl stores! Search for Simon Stokes & Mr Copy - Snaffle!***

http://www.beatport.com/artist/simon&stokes

Hi everyone, thanks for watching..

It's been a while since the last video of live tunage - a lot has been happening on the music front and so I haven't had time to upload. Thanks again to everyone who bought Auditory - it topped out at number 23 in the minimal charts, which I'm really happy with! There are another few EPs coming on various labels over the coming months, I'll keep you up to date! :)

Today, the phenomenal Mr Copy (Soma Records) joined me for a 3 hour session of making some live beats, and this is what came out...

The MPC is providing all of the beats and percussion, the laptop is running Ableton which is the master clock and sends the MIDI data to the Virus which is making all of the other noises. All noises generated are from hardware synths - Ableton is just for sync purposes! I know it kinda spoils the whole hardware thing having a laptop there, but we have to use it to get the beats sounding tight. :)

This was the first take, we hadn't even really thought about the arrangement much before we pressed record! Hope you like it...either way, leave us a comment!

Cheers,

Simon

Category:

Music

Tags:

• MC909
• 909
• live
• techno
• minimal
• house
• Lapse
• Snaffle
• Access
• Virus
• MPC
• 2500
• Simon
• Stokes
• Mr
• Copy
• Soma
• Minibus
• richie
• hawtin
• madga
• minus
• there
• ain't
• no
• party
• like
• an
• club

[timpovsqb]

Hey simon!!! :P im on mandyrecords!!! thanks for pushing me to a label ;-)

[siedgey]

Hi there man! Good to hear from you - that's incredible news! I'm really pleased for you man, I knew you could do it...looking forward to hearing the track. Keep it up man! :)

[Blayros]

even it takes ages for the song to really start..... I love this!!! good job boys! and music is individual art so don't mind me wanting the song to start earlier ;)

[siedgey]

Hi there...thanks a lot for the comment and the constructive criticism! I understand what you mean about it taking ages to come in - it's amazing how fast time goes when you are playing live! You do a recording, think 'right, that's about time to bring the hi hats in'...10 minutes have actually passed and the video is over! Glad you liked it though, thanks again.

[emacna12]

Lovin that Italian Techno vibe!

Big fan as usual, Simon. :)

5*

[BXT2k7]

Seriously dudes, this sounds soo good!

[AcidPinguino]

This is so cool. And I usually don't listen a lot of techno!

[Vitabrevis2010]

Again, superB music. Time to sit back and enjoy the musical journey :D

[almuhit]

This one reminds me of a mixture of gui boratto ("matryoshka") and minilogue (tracks like "urubamba" or "elephant parade" as well). Great!

[lgs00schos]

man you guys are just brilliant. i'm going to look for a myspace now. i'd love to see you live.

[expertknobtwiddler]

look at the video tags. it should be a mpc 2500

[Loser85]

What MPC is that because I'm looking to get a 1000 with the jj os

[siedgey]

Thanks a lot! Really glad you like the track.. :)

[dilara131]

Great Work!

Continue Continue Continue ;)

[milosid]

GOOD MATES REAL GOOD