I was a DJ for a breakdance troupe in the late 80s. The dancers wanted uptempo breaks to dance to. 130 or so bpm. Planet Rock, Al-Naafiysh (and Scorpio - more vocoder). The B Boy was a proto-transformer, morphing into a whirling dervish as Afrika Bambata's vocoded voice prophesied a new future. Speed was critical. There was also a heavy Latino influence which today gets glossed over. And all the best records had Herbie Powers' signature in the dead wax.

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I used to prefer more walking pace beats in break music, about 112bpm

I had no idea people used electronic drums to augment acoustic drums/breaks. Really great tutorial!

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Heavy metal producer's have been doing it since the end of the 90's that is why their snare drums sound like gun shots.

I remember Baduizm by Erykah Badu. Something weirdly fluid about the beat/groove. I have found out since it was J Dilla for a lot of it.

Grandmaster Flash dj’d in Shrewsbury a few years ago and it was great how he performed in a historic context and timeline for hip hop and it’s musical influences and all the Block party scene with the ghetto blasters.

Thanks Christian, fascinating as always. Can't wait to try Demon Drop!

Very informative Christian, thank you 🙏

Thanks once again Crowhill 🤜🤛🏻

V watchable. Always something new to learn. Thanks

Nice work, man. That was great

I think you guys should do a video with Ben Osterhouse. He seems to share a very similar philosophy on sound and music with you guys. Perhaps a collab kontakt instrument? :)

I first learned about that in the early 2000s when I was the audio engineer on a hip hop style jingle for Foot Locker (shoe shop). We had one of Nashville’s best drummers lay down the groove, and I mixed them to be as punchy as they could get. Then a beat maker from Atlanta came and beefed it up with dry electronic sounds. The difference was astonishing.

Great content, thank you!

Thank you Maestro! I love hip hop although I listen to a lot of genres from classical to electro. Bless you and cheers from Romania 🎛️

You're a really good storyteller, Christian. LOL! Instant purchase! Cheers, mate.

I've always felt, at least here in the UK. There was a time before Rap in Hip Hop and it was Electro. Whilst in NY and LA both were happening at the same time due to the Streetsounds Electro Albums we got Electro more than Rap.. Not sure if it's because Rap became the dominant form Electro was almost totally overlooked in the 50 year celebration which is a shame because it really was a massive part of the foundation. Little plug so forgive me.. by pure chance I'm running down the Top 40 Electro songs as picked by the users of the Streetsounds Facebook group through over 450+ posts. FiestaFM 9pm Sunday.. Thank you this channel, inspiration and instrumentation

Really enjoying playing with the plugin already, interesting to hear about the genres mentioned as I thought electro for example was much more specific and narrow. Great video 😎 (also recommend green tea and honey in between the medicine for flu👍, acacia if you can or it tastes ickey😂)

the first beats I worked on were doing exactly this! I'd find a vinyl break, and then play live reason Drums which were recorded from the headphone output of my stereo. Took quite a few takes but when it hit - oh boy

Get well soon Cam!

Who remembers Stakker Humanoid. Great tune

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Me!!

@co.agmusic

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Incredible Track

@MattHill303

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Seemed insanely intense back in the day but rather pedestrian now, still a great track.

What was the instrument you used on Region 11 that was titled "Inst 15"? Love that sound...

Great tutorial, thank you. What about David Holmes? Oceans Eleven Soundtrack makes me think about the sound you got.

Hey Crow Hill. For the ones that got it while was free, it's not showing in my account. How we supposed to re-download when we need? Do we have to buy?

Ah, the joy of watching Christian miming a pretend microphone with his left hand, while there's an actual real microphone to his right, which he's talking into 😂

Christian, would you consider making s course on beatmaking and break chopping, CH style? You were there, you were part of it. With DNB and jungle coming back in force, it would sell like hot cakes.

Yeah I remember Electro when I was a school kid borrowing records and tapping them a life time ago now ha. Saw a documentary where the people involved in making electro (cant remember their names New Yorkers) said they were influenced by kraft work mixing it into beats etc. and invited them to collaborate but apparently they weren't interested(Kraftwerk that is). Synth Britannia, another documentary shows most British electronic bands back then also being influenced by Kraftwerk kind of interesting how different that influence manifested itself. P.S. I sighed up to that mailing list ages before the time expired...days. Never received an E mail so didn't get to check out that plug in. Oh well never mind.

a new crow hill video yay!!

(Crocodile Dundee hat on :) Hey dude, you better watch out, I have a Colossus ... Christian : (sniggers) That's not a Colussus, THIS is a Colossus !

🤔 hmm Kanye ok, but really It’s all about J Dilla who was the undisputed king of the beat-makers in hiphop/ rap RIP.

Psychomania is crooked. :)

They are not ‘O’s, they are Zeros :-)

Still haven't received my 'free' drum machine, despite being told it 'should have arrived'. And yes, I checked my spam folder. What a con.