Luke Slater (aka Planetary Assault Systems) processing his TR-909

Luke Slater (aka Planetary Assault Systems) processing his TR-909 - In The Studio with Future Music

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3 ай бұрын

UK techno legend Luke Slater is a man of many aliases, but perhaps his best-known is Planetary Assault Systems, under which he has been releasing tough, club-ready techno for more than three decades.
As he prepares to release his latest album - this time as L.B. Dub Corp - Future Music visited him in his hardware-stuffed studio. In this video, he demonstrates the distortion and compression used to capture his signature, characterful drum machine sounds using a TR-909.
Stay tuned for more studio videos from Luke Slater in the coming weeks.
L.B Dub Corp - Saturn to Home is due for release 24 May: lbdubcorp.bandcamp.com/album/...

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@MusicRadarTech 2 ай бұрын

See more: Luke Slater on the creative process behind LB Dub Corp and Planetary Assault Systems - In The Studio kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f82SqpqG2NTHeIU.html

@immyvideo 3 ай бұрын

I love watching a legend playing a 4/4 909 kick drum for 15 minutes ❤

@iSirTaki 3 ай бұрын

every other had stopped it , but he kept talking while the BD hammers 😅

@Confuzius 3 ай бұрын

true jambro @@iSirTaki

@unknownmusicman 3 ай бұрын

The video is only 8 minutes long though.

@MrMcChuckles95 3 ай бұрын

@@unknownmusicmanever heard of, wait for it.. over exaggeration?

@unknownmusicman 3 ай бұрын

@@MrMcChuckles95 yes, I have

@dyoll3012 3 ай бұрын

You can tell after all these years he still gets excited by the simple drum elements on the 909. A true passion !

@vvvictoriav5958 3 ай бұрын

we need an extended uncut of this, i could listen to luke talk days.

@infrarot4052 3 ай бұрын

Definitely! Would be amazing!

@TimH123 3 ай бұрын

He’s a slow talker….

@HarounTT 3 ай бұрын

100% agreed

@amgueddfallwch1025 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely love it when someone whose music you love turns out to be an intelligent, thoughtful and instantly likeable person.

@ayrshiresoundman 2 ай бұрын

You can hear it in his music.

@Tolivar_ 3 ай бұрын

Luke it's an absolute legend and a huge inspiration.

@AndiGee 3 ай бұрын

We need a Luke Slater & Paranoid London collab 🤣

@digitalduch1111 3 ай бұрын

Aren't they both too paranoid for this? 😅

@tylercontex133 3 ай бұрын

❤❤

@RoastLambShanks 3 ай бұрын

eh, No. Luke is on a whole different level.

@jojoris2 3 ай бұрын

@@RoastLambShanks get your head out of your butthole

@topofthemornintoya 3 ай бұрын

@@RoastLambShanks oh yeah?

@boemklap8458 3 ай бұрын

Who needs Luke Skywalker when we have Luke fckn Slater 🎉

@JonnyWebster78 3 ай бұрын

Love how he nearly loses his train of thought when explaining stuff. He's an Intelligent man with a lot of sounds and stuff going in that head. 😊❤

@mrfish4572 3 ай бұрын

Luke Slater has been one of my favourite producers for over 25 years now. Love his music. I really wish he'd produce some more downtempo though. 4 Cornered Room was so unique and mind blowing for me when I first heard it

@Robert_Babicz 3 ай бұрын

this is the right way

@InFamousProductions 2 ай бұрын

I read an interview with him in the mid 90’s that changed my perception of sound and the use of compression and noise sources. He is more metaphysical than music producer. I could type a long text about it, but basically he described the concept of compression to bring hidden sounds out of anything by recording then compress and record then re compress , over and over . I spent years just experimenting with that , and ended up summoning ectoplasm out of thin air. No joke. It really happened.

@hookback 2 ай бұрын

And what did you do with the ectoplasm?

@InFamousProductions 2 ай бұрын

@@hookback it flew through the room, hit a wall, made a left turn into the kitchen, and disappeared. and the house got really cold.

@markilmito 6 күн бұрын

By any chance you found a link for the article?

@InFamousProductions 6 күн бұрын

@@markilmito I just spent a few min trying to find it, but I just can't remember what mag and what year. I think it was Sound on Sound , around 1998-99 but no luck yet. it was definitely a magazine for recording professionals and he was still recording to tape. it could have even been '97. I remember he was sitting next to a 24 inch track tape machine and a rack of outboard gear. that's the best I can remember including when he talked about using compressors on noise and random radio noise and garbled sounds. but the bottom line is, compress and re-compress over and over to reveal hidden sounds

@benlawrence4096 3 ай бұрын

At the top of his game, for decades now. I hope that in 100 years time futuristic producers will ponder over these videos. Like Picasso or Monet.

@ryancdallas 3 ай бұрын

5:37 he could just sit and play with those hats along with that hefty kick and I'd happily dance to that for an hour or two 🤣

@bloopbleepnothinghere 3 ай бұрын

I saw a break down of Mr Fingers, Can You Feel It recently. It's so goddam simple, mostly composed by hand with overdubbing on cheap tape. And yet, it's one of the top ten deep house dance tracks of all time. We are spoiled for tools these days. A good reminder that talent can make anything work. I rewatched New Order on BBC top of the pops in the 80s the other day, man, it was such a horribly rough performance, but it also kicked ass in the way it was so gritty and real. I'm gonna put away my Push, and get my TR8s out tomorrow 😂

@JEANBRUCE1991 2 ай бұрын

that's why the 909 is my favorite, this incredible groove and at the same time this incredible power. 🤩

@sijkenyon 28 күн бұрын

Love this so much. What a legend. You can tell the amount of enjoyment he still gets from it.

@CryptoXPrime 3 ай бұрын

Luke hardly ever does these sorts of things, so this is a real privilege! It would be amazing to see the run through of a full PAS track 🙈💜

@MusicRadarTech 3 ай бұрын

We’ll have two longer videos with Luke coming when he drops the new L B Dub Corp album in May

@sjmaury 3 ай бұрын

What do we have to do in the meantime then? @@MusicRadarTech

@inveruriedruglegend1550 3 ай бұрын

@@sjmauryhe did a tutorial vid for Echio last year about parallel processing. Have a look at it between now and May.

@burger659 3 ай бұрын

@@MusicRadarTech awesome !!! looking forward !!!

@LacklusterOfficial 3 ай бұрын

@@MusicRadarTech how does one find out it's out, please? :)

@JonMurray 3 ай бұрын

Loved this so much. Some people don’t understand listening to a 4/4 kick for hours on end getting it just right! Hahah! What a nice dude as well.

@tombelton4192 3 ай бұрын

i feel so relaxed after watching this

@rickyspanish4792 3 ай бұрын

he has a very chill energy doesn't he

@lesynthlofi 3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for this! Slater’s recent collab with Dubfire is 🔥 🔥 🔥!

@djkimotei 3 ай бұрын

«That sets my heart on fire» 😅 ❤🏆

@falconhoof6 3 ай бұрын

Legend! I could watch Luke work for hours

@MXVDJ 3 ай бұрын

What a legend

@super-ulitka 3 ай бұрын

Master at work! Love his sound and rhythms! Both, PAS and L.B Dub Corp are amazing projects.

@LulaJake 3 ай бұрын

Heard Luke interviewed by the late Colin Favor what must be over 25 years ago. Clementine the opening and dreams of children are still my favourite tunes of his.

@MrFlyingguy 3 ай бұрын

heard DJ sneak play a track of his back in 97 and i never really stopped respecting his work ever since, not necessarily my sound but i know a genius when i hear one...

@nlmk 3 ай бұрын

Some words of encouragement from within his studio, still so stoked by the like of Luke Slater's inspiration.

@fabiandegussion5134 3 ай бұрын

There’s so much knowledge going on inside this man’s brain he just can’t spit it out at the speed he thinks. Wow. ❤

@grambo4436 2 ай бұрын

Yes, Bring back this kind of techno please.

@paparazzia 3 ай бұрын

Oh man, his 4 Cornered Room as The 7th Plain ... so many gorgeous tracks on there. And it's 30(!!) years since release this year. Listen to "The Needs of the Many" or "Astra Naut-E". That shit hit me so hard, and still does.

@intrepidbun5002 3 ай бұрын

Yes yes and yes

@MrTimbo666 2 ай бұрын

The master Luke Slater

@stone-islay..74.50 2 ай бұрын

It's awesome to see a genuine/producer person in their environment and then hear/picture their music in your head...It's ALWAYS unique to that person...Like their handwriting signature.

@ZoleyGee 2 ай бұрын

This man is a True Legend ! This man is Techno ! 🫶🏻 God Bless you Mr. Slater! What an Epic studio! And this oldschool sound from 909 🌹🌹🌹

@LouisePlusOne 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant video. :)

@freejazzbone 3 ай бұрын

love Luke Slater's record Freek Funk, listens to the beat of a different drummer... 909!

@biokode 3 ай бұрын

One of the absolute very best

@digitalduch1111 3 ай бұрын

He's a great DJ and Producer ❤ it's nice to get this insight 🎉

@LlewynDaviesTheThird 3 ай бұрын

Love it.

@cyberpunkbg140 3 ай бұрын

Luke Slater is inspiration for me .

@mir-dr 3 ай бұрын

Heavy easily-distracted professor vibes here. 8 minutes isnt enough. The word legend gets bandied about a bit but surely it applies to this man.

@exorhollend 3 ай бұрын

Techno legend!🙏

@Quiet_Forge 3 ай бұрын

Gruve by Planetary Assaut Systems (1996) is still for me an epoch-defining track.

@burger659 3 ай бұрын

i love filter 02 and voodoo

@ntro9347 2 ай бұрын

quad-fonik for me!

@filippoBTV 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful, just beautiful

@emilandersenaudio 3 ай бұрын

This and Rene Wise Telekom Tech Talk in the same week!? 🔥

@domeniquexander_ 3 ай бұрын

Oh great. Can’t wait for more 🔥🔈🤙🏼

@simonhmackie 3 ай бұрын

What a studio! Jeez.

@Strafuzz Ай бұрын

Christ that space echo looks brand new!

@anthonyrothercom 2 ай бұрын

love this

@wackerburg 3 ай бұрын

I pulled the (pricey) trigger about 3 years ago and bought the original machine after being musically "socialized" with the #RolandTR909 sound and groove for nearly 30 years. I used samples before, some good, some better. And tbh, I was a tad nervous if spending that serious chunk of money on a machine with "just" eleven sounds. After like two minutes of using it, I was sold and all my doubts were gone instantly. THIS is my religion, there's nothing like it. Its sound, its groove, its workflow. Perfection in beige. 😅

@jsleeio 3 ай бұрын

I haven't got to a 909 yet (though I do have all the parts/chassis/PCBs/etc ready to build an RE909) but I did pick up an RE303 last year and I know *exactly* what you mean. Despite the 303 being infamously terrible... it's simultaneously awesome. A real paradox. There should be a TV game show where contestants get 60 seconds to program a melody from a piece of paper into a 303, it would be hilarious

@wackerburg 3 ай бұрын

@@jsleeiohehe, there was some kind of "contest" some time ago where participants had to enter a specific pattern as fast as possible 😂 And a RE-909 will totally give you the 909-thing, too! These RE-boxes are awesome imho. If I hadn't had the OG units already, I'd 110% get these.

@XanderEwald 3 ай бұрын

Isn’t the whole point of the video that it kind of doesn’t matter what the sound source is, but that the magic happens in the processing?

@jsleeio 3 ай бұрын

@@XanderEwald sure, you could read it that way. But people buy "sound source" gear for reasons other than what it sounds like. Eg. I have a hardware modular system because I stare at screens professionally all day 5 days a week and after that I have zero desire whatsoever to stare at a DAW. Yes of course I could use VCV Rack or Rebirth or whatever but ... no, absolutely not.

@wackerburg 3 ай бұрын

@@XanderEwald Interesting *theory*. I did not see that as a topic, but why does Luke Slater then still keep a room full of quality gear? Both as sound generators and manipulators? In my experience, the overall result gets better with quality ingredients 👨🏼‍🔬

@JEANBRUCE1991 2 ай бұрын

the great Luke, love his prods since 1990

@Art-B85 3 ай бұрын

Legendary producer

@keptmarvelous 3 ай бұрын

This makes 909 kick sooo juicy!

@FattSunny 3 ай бұрын

LEGEND!

@Bin909able 3 ай бұрын

There must be more footage than this. Great fun!

@gmreynoldsjr 3 ай бұрын

Slater fan for years. PAS fan for years. Got some LB Dub Corp stuff too. Today I learn they are the same person.

@PK-ct1bm 2 ай бұрын

When the snare starts it really gets wicked.

@kickdr 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant ❤

@CJ-gp9yh 3 ай бұрын

Love this

@altberg__ 3 ай бұрын

lovely

@ClaudeYoung 2 ай бұрын

Legend!!! 🥰

@ManakachaRec 3 ай бұрын

This is the way to do proper Techno , Experiment and search for your sound ; Thanks to Luke Slater ! True Legend 👽

@tomasnovis 2 ай бұрын

Amazing amps, turned the classic 909 into super nice mega kicks in no time.

@ashfaq1999 3 ай бұрын

Great luke slater. His track moave violin is a perfect example of his great talent amongst other great tracks

@dustinkirk4515 Ай бұрын

The look on Luke's face at 4:03 🤣 I know exactly what he's thinking - wow what a kick drum

@nemesishacking 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely mental! Id pay sooo much to use this studio for 1 day!

@FunkinMatt 3 ай бұрын

Legend. 909 went from being a cheap drum machine, to being run through 100k of outboard processors. Love that.

@aikighost 3 ай бұрын

Luke slater, what a lege. ♥

@boswollox4636 3 ай бұрын

Very very cool.

@Rippenstain 3 ай бұрын

X-Tront Vol. 2, one of the best techno albums of all time

@xaosm_os 3 ай бұрын

I learned a lot today.

@GloveBunniesVideos 3 ай бұрын

Luke is a mad genius.

@AdrianAkaArdt 3 ай бұрын

Lovely

@Hrdvsion 3 ай бұрын

Hammer time! ❤🤘

@skriptico 3 ай бұрын

grande uomo Mr. Slater!

@aeiouxs 2 ай бұрын

Bloody legend. Aside from his awesome PAS material (Bell Blocker, wow) I've always rated his Four Cornered Room album from around '94 alongside Aphex's SAW 1.

@margaretmillsom2285 2 ай бұрын

I think 4 cornered room is better than SAW tbh.

@ExpectResistance Ай бұрын

@@margaretmillsom2285you might be right there. It’s so good!

@user-rv8wb1nl1b 3 ай бұрын

I STILL REMEMBER HEARING HIS FIRST 12INCH AT A RAVE , IT USED A BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP SAMPLE AND BLINDING BEATS , JELLYJAM RECORDS I THINK !!!!!!

@pennywise5095 3 ай бұрын

I think it damaged your ears😂

@user-rv8wb1nl1b 3 ай бұрын

@@pennywise5095 WHAT ?

@pennywise5095 3 ай бұрын

@@user-rv8wb1nl1b 😂

@DonSolaris 3 ай бұрын

@user-rv8wb1nl1b Do you remember which sample it was? I am curious to find out which libraries he used in the past. I'm a sample collecting nerd. There's a tonne of BBC RW stuff released, this would help a lot to narrow it down.

@user-rv8wb1nl1b 3 ай бұрын

@@DonSolaris hi , are you the Yamaha Don Solaris CS15 guy ?

@2beer_OR_NOT_2beer 2 ай бұрын

Living Legend

@MrBeatcreep 2 ай бұрын

omg what a nice guy. i know his music such a long time but never knew the person behind.

@inveruriedruglegend1550 3 ай бұрын

The King!

@frankbuntenbach3933 2 ай бұрын

909 sounds never boring

@bestdisco1979 3 ай бұрын

Luke Slater a brilliant D. J used to love those days at Troll.

@Jantimsen 2 ай бұрын

haha the twinkle in the eyes when the compressor does its thing

@Dimahoo1973 3 ай бұрын

I known he's more known for the harder stuff but sleeping sin seemless sets my heart on fire. The emotive detroit stuff totally inspires me. IE

@flazay_da 3 ай бұрын

ever listen to his Radiance track?

@Dimahoo1973 3 ай бұрын

Not sure actually....might need to check that. Thanks.

@ThisIsDownstate 3 ай бұрын

can't beat blasting a drum machine through an old mackie ! especially if you're broke like me and can't afford that wall of processing power he has. sheeeeesh i could live in there for years and never leave !

@andrewverran6998 3 ай бұрын

Yep, has to be the CR1604 , the original..

@OM-Tree 3 ай бұрын

That Ruster creates proper Good vibe!

@markothomson1105 2 ай бұрын

This just makes me want to put on planetary assault system, photon printwork 2017. Wow 🎉

@felmoe Ай бұрын

so sympatic ...

@alexc.c.4025 3 ай бұрын

LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!

@johngorgis 3 ай бұрын

I love the collaboration he did with speedy j

@freyasworn2600 3 ай бұрын

His 909 sounds incredible

@richiesantana7628 3 ай бұрын

guy is an absolute beast!!!!! also helps its all going through an SSL lol....

@chateaudisco1436 3 ай бұрын

Mad elbow patches worn by this superb gentle geezer

@firsthippy 2 ай бұрын

Luke's a straight up legend. Who's neighbours would kill them if they had that many toys to play with? :D

@matthill8601 3 ай бұрын

That digital patch bay is essential!

@kvmoore1 3 ай бұрын

Cool! It's amazing what outboard analog processing gear does to the sound of a drum machine. Although I have to admit, the gear presented here in this video is very, VERY expensive!!!