Interview: King Britt & Rucyl (Saturn Never Sleeps) @ Dubspot + Ableton Live Workshop Recap

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On Friday, July 29 legendary Philadelphia-based producer, DJ, and remixer King Britt stopped by Dubspot with singer and collaborator Rucyl Mills for a music production and performance workshop with Ableton Live. The duo performs live and release music under the name Saturn Never Sleeps, and this video, they share insights into the recording process for their debut album Yesterday's Machine, which is out now on their own SNS imprint. The bulk of the record was constructed in a live, improvised, one-take fashion, combining the duo's intuitional musical sense. The two point to the work of avant-garde jazz revolutionary Sun-Ra as a major source of inspiration, drawing from his value in art's of-the-moment process. Read more about King Britt's history, as well as what Rucyl calls, "the Chakakhantroller," a MIDI controller that she wears on her body, over on the Saturn Never Sleeps website.

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[Funkmastabuzz]

Great video!!This is the sort of thing im looking to do.Playing live with controllers where no 2 performances are the same.Just hope I can get to a level good enough to do it before everyone catchs on that this is the future of DJ's and electronic musicians.

[Funkmastabuzz]

@wmayhem Sorry mate I got my videos and comments mixed up.......it may be the NI soundcard but I doubt it for a Live band

[Funkmastabuzz]

@wmayhem Probaly the NI interface.Its about £270 in the UK last I looked.

[wmayhem]

What audio interface are they using in live situations that has such low latency? Anyone know? Great vid.

[funkmonkey06]

respect

[fimpson]

Awesome choons btw.. Will definitely follow this band up. They would really be a good edition to Brainfeeder because Brainfeeder is a little bit short on artists that perform vocals.

[fimpson]

@dannynedyalkov

Yeah, that argument is total bullshit. Digital production is just a new medium for musical creation. Same thing happened when christianity was invented and all the people who followed judaism couldn't tolerate it, I guess. (Not trying to go into a religious argument, just using it as an example - I'm atheist). But yeah, you get what I mean. Eventually everyone conforms to the diffrences of everyone else though. Just a matter of time.

[whinchacha]

mm the sound is too slow and boring for me.

[dannynedyalkov]

Great video! You are so right about where DJing is going to!

With all the powerful tools we have nowadays we start to create music on the fly, rather than just mixing tow track together.

Hope more and more people start to accept us Djs as artists and also the digital music production, and stop the controversy "digital production vs. live instruments performance".

[DJTmaq]

I like it when an artist produces their own interest. This is where we will break boundries.