From a guy that interviewed JB I went into my archives. These are the actual transcripts. He used the rack version of the Casio FZ-1, the FZ-10m as I recall. He sequenced it with the Akai MPC. About Energy Flash: JOEY BELTRAM I sampled just a normal bass, just a plain boring bass from my "Roland JX-3" and played it back and messed with the filters in the "Casio" (sampler). Added a little attack on the resonance, so it would sound a little different depending on how you’d press the key on the velocity. I got that "Energy Flash" bass tone thing, and it just sounded great. It’s the same thing for the bassline, the lower bassline. It’s the same sound, just played two octaves lower. So it all was just coming out of the "Casio", that was it, I’d made my little "Energy Flash" bass. I’m surprised, that people still today are interested in the record. It’s been like 20 years or so and it still seems to get played, and I still hear it out a lot which is pretty cool. I love seeing videos about this tune. There is an excellent recreation by another guy on here. He really nails it. I’ll try and find the link later.

@andrewverran3498

3 ай бұрын

Makes sense for sure.come to think about it he did tell me it was a Roland JX3P years ago ..my mistake saying an SH2...mybad. ✌️

@alexjohnson1612

3 ай бұрын

I have Energy Flash on vinyl

@andrewverran3498

3 ай бұрын

@alexjohnson1612 sold my copy on Transmat , spewing now, but still have my R&S ..

@alexjohnson1612

3 ай бұрын

@@andrewverran3498 I felt like spewing the next day, an associate got me drunk in the 80s & manged to buy half my collection for £7.50p

@andrewverran3498

3 ай бұрын

@@alexjohnson1612 ouch 😢

Excellent stuff man! Got this on 12", we ran to the dance floor when the opening lines where dropped back in the day, one of golden tune's in my collection that I'll always treasure.

Energy Flash is the first tune that prompted me to pester the dj for a track ID, followed by going to buy the 12" the next day. Warehouse party in Manchester, 1991 run by Caz & Jenks. Blew my tiny teenage gourd!

@bez23

2 ай бұрын

@@UROKRK good point! 🤣

R&S was on fire back then with their "Euro" sound.... 2nd phase mentasm and outlander the Vamp, dominator etc.... was selling this out of Red Records in Elephant and castle at the age of 17 in 91. Halcyon Days. great video btw

@supersmileyclub544

4 ай бұрын

I didn't know Red had a shop in elephant, used to go to the one in Brixton, used to get loads of electro in there, never really went there again when house kicked off, would be up in soho record shopping instead.

@cheliozlatchkeykid7886

3 ай бұрын

CJ Bolland - Carmague was insane as well

@bitspacemusic

3 ай бұрын

M500 (Juan Atkins) - Sonic Sunset was my highlight from them. It sounds so Kraftwerk-inspired, but is its own thing at the same time.

@pupster6848

2 ай бұрын

Program II The Omen CJ Bolland Horsepower and Mantra

@ravensmitten5107

Ай бұрын

@@supersmileyclub544 There was one on rye lane as well I remember

Your channel just gets better and better and I already loved it! Thanks for this one mate

I was on the same label as joey when this was released. The moment I heard it, it became my favourite Techno tune. Still is!

@SoundOfVinyl

3 ай бұрын

R&S records, you guys together with Renaat were such a big influence.... In order to dance.... Played them so much... Still great

@DavidMorley

3 ай бұрын

Appreciate it!@@SoundOfVinyl

@SoundOfVinyl

3 ай бұрын

@@DavidMorley Spectrum - Brazil I played that grey, and still such an amazing track... When Bocca exploded those were the years... We dont see that back that kind of freshness and spirit

@DavidMorley

3 ай бұрын

@@SoundOfVinyl 🎶🎵😻

@johnhesketh7100

29 күн бұрын

Just been listening to your tracks on your website - wonderful stuff!

That bit you said at the end was the key. So many classic tracks were made in a couple of hours by looping all the elements through a mixer, bringing things in/out on the mixer, tweaking the pots on the synth and recording it live. Can't link here but there are many interviews with classic producers about this method. e.g. Misha and Tim - Access

@Kung_Fu_Jesus

3 ай бұрын

It was really the only way to do it, you’d be lucky if you could afford the DAT tapes to record it on too

Bass lead “riff” is an alpha Juno sampled into a Casio fz1 using its filters. Heard from the man himself.

@Krimewave186

3 ай бұрын

Joey told me the same thing about Mentasm.

@AutPen38

3 ай бұрын

'Mentasm' was definitely made with an Alpha Juno because it famously uses the "What The" preset that became famous as the "Hoover sound" of Belgian techno, so I wouldn't be too surprised if Beltram used the Alpha on "Energy Flash" as well, either alongside or as a replacement for the old Jupiter.

@gixerags750

3 ай бұрын

How impressive does that make the Alpha Juno...can't believe no one has cloned it yet ...an Alpha Juno with a programmer is fairly expensive...programmer is worth more than the synth... ARE YOU LISTENING ULI ??

@modulartjapan2212

3 ай бұрын

On Mentasm, it's the preset of the Juno sampled in the FZ1 as revealed by Mundo Muzique in an interview. And you can tell it's not the Juno that is directly recorded because of the filter sweep at some point in the track. It doesn't sound at all like the Juno filter.@@AutPen38

@mmrva

3 ай бұрын

Makes sense. Sounds like Alpha to me.

Energy flash! Such an amazing tune. Thank you for this video!! 👍🎹

OMG well done! Great work and hats off to you Joey B. Absolute timeless classic. Had some experiences to this

Amazing! So glad I found this. Thanks, Gyu!

Bro, I really enjoyed listening to/watching your vid, Great work 💯 on showing & explaining how the work is done making electronic/house music 🎶

Opened up for @JoeyBeltram at the Limelite in NYC for the Logic Records Party CMJ in 1995 was so bizarre and yet awesome. This track changed the Scene and was essential.

What a great video this is. I’ll have to watch all your others now.

Lovely work on this Gyu !

Thank you, I been dreaming about this for a long time!!!! this is one of my favorite tracks of all the time

fabulous stuff, great video ! Danced my ass off to this at the time it came out, ah the memories......

Remember the first time I heard it at an outdoor rave near Coventry in 1990. Everyone was communicating the lead synth to each other across the space, eyes and teeth and hands in the air, sympatico 💊. The B side Psycho Bass is excellent too. ✊

@minigrande1939

4 ай бұрын

And the Eclipse

@jasonmfalconer

4 ай бұрын

Oh yeah. Even more memories walking out of the Loft in Shoreditch after an all nighter, all of us mimicking the baseline line 'waa waa wa wa' 😊

@Eightball69

4 ай бұрын

@@jasonmfalconer I always considered Energy Flash Rave personally, not Techno 🤔

Nice work man. Excellent detective work you're done there on that classic and iconic techno track. Regards from Krusty/Tom in Denmark

Stunning work ❤ takes me back to being 20 and mouthing that baaah baa baah absolutely off my nut with that realisation everyone else is doing the same , amazing tune amazing times, your videos always hit that sweet spot.

Fantastic job. Probably my favorite so far!

Amazing. So many little details. Thanks.

Nothing went hand in hand like "A dove and energy flash"

@spngled8654

3 ай бұрын

Until doves became the standard for low grade eastern European aspirin, nothing hit like the snowballs, made doves look like THE PIGEONS THEY ARE

@jakerubino3233

3 ай бұрын

Purple specks all day everyday

@palaHD

3 ай бұрын

2 doves and energy flash might top it 😂

@daz.6112

2 ай бұрын

Mitsubishi's.

@ant2312

18 күн бұрын

@@spngled8654 Snowballs were legendary, so strong, made Doves etc look like sweets

You Nailed it!!! amazing recreation :)

Dammm... I could swear that the classic bow bow sound was from a distorted 303. Great stuff. Tks for sharing sir

Thank you for the video! One thing to mention though. Jupiter 6 does not have velocity. As of suspects what Beltram used I would bet on MKS-50 as it has a velocity. Since we can hear MKS-50 (Alpha Juno) in another musical piece of mr Beltram we can be certain that he had it (or borrowed it) back in the day. Regarding the Jupiter 8 vs Jupiter 6, they are two synths that have not much in common aside the same filter chip. Cheers!

@lineoneL1

3 ай бұрын

MKS-80 would be another option

@gixerags750

3 ай бұрын

The Don !! .great Mc909 sample set BTW!

@DonSolaris

3 ай бұрын

@@gixerags750 Thank you! OMG it was almost 10 yrs ago.

@gregthompson7961

3 ай бұрын

@@DonSolaris no one knew the difference 30 + years ago. Genre’s weren’t really a thing until about 92 IMHO, we had house & techno up to that time and then sounds such as rave, jungle, trance etc started to branch out into their own sound

@DonSolaris

3 ай бұрын

@@gregthompson7961 I'm not sure I understand what you're talking about?

Well happy to find this. Jaw clenched hard, for whole video 😆👍

Word man ! Just made a mix of tracks from that era recently this is a seminal techno track : powerful !

this is very much some breakthrough information for some things im trying to achieve! thank you very much :)

Damn you're a mind reader. I stuck a BBC Rave Forever playlist on earlier that had this in it and wondered how it was made. Thank you 😁

Great content! Interesting. Energy!!! 💕

Holy crap, Dude! You completely NAILED it.

Great work bud, love it.

This is AWESOME! Period reconstructions are such a detailed endeavour! This song was HUGE enough that I remembered it, but I was a house and jungle kid, and just not that into techno, at that time. However, your building it back is like a crime scene!

Great stuff fella, so informative

Great video. Thanks!

Absolute class. Thank you for this. :D

Pure Hardcore. I remember this being a full on head back, eyes closed beast of a track. Only for the headstrong!!!

That was simply brilliant you created it so well your a brilliant producer I so would of liked to make some hardcore techno with you 👍

fairplay for spotting that downturn on the second Ecstasy

The extacy vocal definitely stood out to me at the time, especially on xtc in a dark room was something else 👌👌

Nailed that one there, what a track! Always liked Green Velvet's Flash as well. Thanks for yet another great video 🙂

Just discovered this channel. Grew up on the south coast in this music era. Great stuff…..thanks 😊

Awesome, incredible re-created !!! Energy flash is my all time favourite techno track. @the early 90, this song and some years later dominator bigger & bolder ... they were a bomb on the dance floor. Can I suggest a next challenge for Gyu Beats : re-create the intro of 'D-Shake - Techno Trance (Paradise Is Now)' I tried but i'm getting nowhere near it

Probably one of the most defining Dance Tracks of Club Kaos, Galway in 1990.Blew everyone away.

@AlienPsyTing1

3 ай бұрын

the best

@eyeq7730

3 ай бұрын

I remember going from Dublin to Galway mid nineties, there was a spot I think called 'The Castle' is that right? Good club that!

@djrhythmik9929

2 ай бұрын

Yeah. I started the Castle in Salthill in 1990. Some great Club Nights.

@eyeq7730

2 ай бұрын

@@djrhythmik9929 that's mad, in asking verification of a club's name from the guy who created it 😄

You are amazing! Thank you kindly 🙏🏼

cool video. made me sub. really shows that you do your homework and spend time chasing down the facts and the clips.

When Gyu gets into it it's the icing on the cake!

How the F did I know exactly what track you were going be!! That's the beauty of techno!! ❤ Such a classic!!

Yo Gyu! What a great and inspiring video.

energy flash still totally kicks ass. amazing track, oh the fun we had :)))) and you recreated it so well!! the orbital connection is awesome too

Fantastic work. There was an interview in one of the dance mags of the 90’s wher he talked about making this at the R&S studios, if I remember correctly

@gixerags750

3 ай бұрын

He met Renaat ( also with C J Bolland )and gave him Energy Flash, that was his original ticket into RandS ...was made at his " OnOne "studio in Broooklyn.

when i was 17, i used to wake up in the weekend with this song. I just reached out to the power switch, had the needle on the record the night before just on the right spot, turned power off the mixer and amps, so everything powered up and it just played loud. I even had a light organ (and jbl disco 100's with vitavox horns and jbl bullets) - yeah the neighbours loved me. WOW WOW WOW WOW WOOOOOOOW WOOOOOOOWW WOOOOOOOWWW... I still have the record naturally

@FayezButts

3 ай бұрын

Your neighbors? What about your parents? hahahaha

I d love to listen to your interpretation of this track. Love your vids mate!

More forensic detective work. Just gold. Thanks.

Very good recreation, nearly spot on! I read somewhere Joey saying he used a Juno 106 for the bass sound and mostly in all his early classics.

@goonfish

3 ай бұрын

You are mistaking the 106 for the Alpha Juno (MKS), but as far as I've read it was neither a Juno variant nor as simple as only one synth (JX-3P sampled into a Casio for its filter seems to be more on track, and verified by Joe himself & others trying out the combo - but we also have to keep in mind the producers protective nature & decades of time affecting memory!).

There was a Q&A many years ago online where Joey answered questions for a few hours on a forum. Apparently, it was several synths that made that womp sound and he admitted he's doesn't clearly remember which ones. or he didn't wanna reveal. He did say that it's not a 303.

Really enjoyed this video. Made me get out my old R&S 12" records and play them (volume muted a bit because of neighbours...)

This is brilliant! Deconstruction of one of the most important and powerful tracks of ALL TIME!

Absolutely superb recreation ❤

one of my alltime favs up there with sourmash pilgrimage too paradise and turkish bazar never forget these tracks

Fantastic remake. I havent heard Energy Flash for years but have some good memories of hearing back in the early nineties. Damn, I feel old now 😄

Also back in 1990 , knowing the Jupiter 6 and 8 did not have velocity he could have quite easily sampled (in real time )the wah wah womp womp , as it doesnt change that much ,, whether it be SH2 , Alpha Juno or Jupiter, SAMPLING the riff with his CASIO FZ1 sampler, like he did with MENTASM. The Casios filters worked a TREAT on the HOOVER for MENTASM. Peace ✌️

@clusterchord1

3 ай бұрын

my FZ10m has trademark nasal resonance (Aphex SAW) and definitely does not have that liquid bubbly sound like earlier, classic rolands. my guess is possibly jup6 or sh2. tho i think it somehow sounds the most like jup8. with inverted vcf env yes. definitely not alpha juno. it doesn't have that filter anymore. sounds plausible that he just sampled a few bass note from a synth, with different filter env positions. and played them from FZ (which can of course be used transparently, with its own filter set on full open). this would solve the filter "velocity" mystery. at the time, sampling bass notes, sweeps or stab chords from a synth, and truncating them in the sampler to perfection, was way more common than actually driving that synth via midi.

i can never forget the first time i heard Energy Flash it was in Quadrant Park. i had come out the club and gone into the all nighter and it was playing i always remember the sound of those claps in the warehouse.

Impressive work man 👍😲

Remember buying this on the Transmat pressing and then got it on R&S Stunning track

Been waiting for this. I knew it was inevitable. And strangely, I was watching that same documentary earlier today (Pump Up The Volume). Synchronicity. Wump wump!

I don’t know one person who has heard this tune and their mind wasn’t blown. Great video.

Always loved it & one of my favorite tracks of all time ,it still sounds brilliant its stood the test of time 😜

There’s a nice interview with Joey in which he said he used the Casio SZ-1 for the Energy Flash lead. “DJs and Beers” around 36min

the "extacy" sample pitching is a hint at that it was recorded from vinyl, s hitting stop and letting the deck slew to finish when recording it. maybe by accident, and he liked how it sounded ?

@GyuBeats

3 ай бұрын

Yeah that's a good shout!

@AutPen38

3 ай бұрын

When sampling the vocal from the 101 record into his Casio FZ-1, he probably used his finger on the vinyl to stop the chords that start almost instantly after it from getting recorded. I think it was quite common for samplists back then to have one hand on the sampler's record/play button and another on the record deck. The stop button on the Technics might have worked quickly enough though.

Nice work Guy, that's a really good recreation of a seminal track. Every time I hear this I expect it to be mixed into Mentasm by Second Phase, as that's what Stu Allan did in what is probably his best work, the Best of 1991 mix he did for Key 103. If you want to relive what the dance scene was like in the early 90s was like just before the magic died, I'd highly suggest you check it out - there's a decent copy right here on KZread.

@skum73

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for reminding me of that tune.

@DjViceroy

3 ай бұрын

The magic is still there.

@AutPen38

3 ай бұрын

As you probably know, Joey Beltram was half of Second Phase. After defining the new sound of techno in 1990 with 'Energy Flash', he followed it up by popularising the "Hoover Sound" on 'Mentasm' and his remix of ''Dominator'. That hoover sound (the "What The" preset designed by Eric Persing for the Juno Alpha 2) is arguably more influential and/or famous than the sounds on 'Energy Flash', since as well as being THE sound of Belgian techno in the early '90s, it's appeared on everything from the Streets of Rage games to pop records by Rihanna and Lady Gaga.

this is awesome!!

I was wondering whether you were gonna reference how he always considered it a house track (though slightly darker than the house around at that time). I always thought of it as a dark house track too. great video mate and you absolutely nailed the re-creation!

@StuSiney

4 ай бұрын

Me too. Before the sub genre's

@UpFunkDNB

Ай бұрын

Every subgenre or spinoff was made by people making the original genre, its when people like the sound so much that they all copy it and expand on it that it becomes a subgenre

Great vids…new to the channel. Love the knowledge in the comments to 👊

Thank you very much for this upload it is very much appreciated.

The 90s was an amazing and exciting time for all genres of electronic music. Miss those days.

@classicallpvault8251

3 ай бұрын

The true heyday of electronic music was the early 2000s. Producers like DuMonde, Ace da Brain, Alphazone, Cosmic Gate (before they started producing shitty prog/EDM bollocks), JK Walker and Scot Project. Most tunes from the 1990s sound dated but DuMonde - Never Look Back (from 2001) is still of the same standard as the best uplifting trance produced today.

@haro82

3 ай бұрын

@classicallpvault8251 I agree that early 90s stuff is dated, but I'm talking more about the excitement of how many styles we're emerging. I remember taking in everything from orbital to chemical brothers to psytrance. The newness of everything is unparalleled. I never really buy into the word dated much. Something either sounds good or it doesn't. As far as trance though, I 100% agree with you. Early 2000s blows away anything today.

@mrkeeny

2 ай бұрын

@@classicallpvault8251 I think not!

@ant2312

18 күн бұрын

@@classicallpvault8251 no way not at all, deffo the 90's

This track was also the opening theme to "The New Dance Show Detroit" in the early '90's. Stunning piece of music.

i always thought a 303 was used for the acid line. i first got introduced to Energy Flash in the school as we discussed modern music there, JBs track was there to introduce the way how elements are introduced and tension is build up. after years later i remembered the Title name and then searched for it and since then its in all playlist i made. nothing else JB has done, i really liked, its just that one perfect track, which is filled with perfect new ideas ... thanks for the video, actual quite respective recreation.

Still gives me *goosebumps* just like 30 years ago! 💯🔊🔊🔊

what a tune it was indeed 1990 was a winderful year to be 19, so glad youre covering this banger... here we goooo! :o)

I remember the first time i heard that track on a club. Criminal track!! Next week i went to the DJ and asked him, please can you play this track that was like, and i was making the sound with my mouth, thinking like the DJ would say - i don’t know man, i don’t recognize this, but instead the DJ said Oh yeah, of course, and some minutes after it was on the speakers. ❤

I always thought the lead came from a distorted 303 😲

@AntAciieed

2 ай бұрын

No not at all , I have a TB303 I got in 1984 it can never make that sound

@lego5745

2 ай бұрын

⁠@@AntAciieedIf this is true, then the fact that you’ve had it for that long is absolutely amazing.

@rabmccudden683

2 ай бұрын

I thought 303 myself

@kostradamus5739

Ай бұрын

Me too

@Guitarist888

Ай бұрын

@@AntAciieednot true at all. The 303 devilfish can make that same exact sound. Even the non modified 303s with external distortion added to it can make the same exact sound! Listen to the Blade acid club song, which makes a very similar sound to this because the Pump Panel used a MXR D pedal to record that song.

AT 6.35 THE SOUND IS A PRESET ON THE JUNO 106

Fantastic insight. Imagine coming up with this in 1990 with the likes of Betty Boo and whatnot in the charts - when music didn't sound like this really, it was futuristic Techno synth madness! For him (Joey) it was just "harder edged House", but it really pushed an evolving Techno sound to its forefront. So much rides with the percussion the claps and beats that feels more industrial, and musically feels less melodically warm like a lot of synth based pop had just a few years prior (Duran Duran etc) and I love the different filtering techniques and oscillations, attacks etc, creates that really cool spacey, alien like vibe as though it's music from another planet or dimension. Hasn't even really aged either.....just amazing

Love your videos. I reckon Joey tweaked those knobs live on his JP6.

Energy Flash can sneak into modern techno sets and still fit in. Quite amazing for a track well over 30 years old.

Good job! About the bass: the original Jupiter 8 (or Juno, Jupiter 6, ..) has no velocity sensitivity (but most plug-in recreations added that feature).

Now do "Orbital - Out There Somewhere? (Parts 1 & 2)" ... Should only take you about 5 years 😂😂😂

Still - alongside Substance Abuse by F.U.S.E (Hawtin, obviously) - one of my go-to techno tracks. Phenomenal piece of work. edit: yet another fantastic recreation G. Your level of knowledge is mind blowing.

Nice work! :)

One of the absolute classic crossover oldskool rave techno tracks

Massive 90's tech house banger! I've noticed its the only house track I have (out of over 1000 tracks) in key 4B (serato analysed). I could be wrong! Big track! 👍👍✌

What a track. Wow

Great breakdown! - The Jupiter 6 and Jupiter 8 did not have velocity though - the feature was introduced with the MKS-80 Super Jupiter.

@Conenion

3 ай бұрын

> The Jupiter 6 and Jupiter 8 did not have velocity though Maybe the software version has?

@baronpavalla

3 ай бұрын

​@@ConenionBeltram surely didnt have a software version 😊 Maybe a master keyboard with velocity though...

@maup01

Ай бұрын

I’ve asked him last year by WhatsApp. He has used the Roland JX-3P.

What a tune! Your remake sounds decent mate.

For the record dude, i think it was a juno alpha joey beltram was fucking with back then, or a sh 101, i think theres a video of him talking about what gear he used on energy flash on here, trying to remember the sampler he used as well programming that bassline

@gixerags750

3 ай бұрын

He used a Casio FZ1 sampler ,and Alpha Juno on Mentasm , probably the Fz1 on Energy Flash, I must have a play around on the Alpha Juno to see if it can get that wah wah womp womp, I dont think it is fat enough after hearing GYU, Jupiter effort. ✌️

@DaGabbaGangsta

3 ай бұрын

@gixerags750 casino FZ 1 thank you, I knew it wasn't an mpc or s1000 he used

@gixerags750

3 ай бұрын

@DaGabbaGangsta I sold my FZ1 in the mid 1990s, very hard to find these days.

@DaGabbaGangsta

3 ай бұрын

@gixerags750 how good is the timestretch on the FZ 1 ?

@gixerags750

3 ай бұрын

@DaGabbaGangsta unfortunately I didn't have it very long and had to sell it as a Kurzweil K2500RS popped up...miss them both bigtime

great vid as usual

One of my favorite techno/house tracks. Something very raw, primal, simple and unpretentious about it. The DJ at one of the last warehouse raves I went to in Philly played it and I am happy to report people are still loosing their shit to it.

@CrawfordMethod

4 ай бұрын

We’re they also losing their shit? Loose shit is not fun…

WOW! you Da Man ! love it ;)