A big piece of music history in a small disk like that… Love this video, really inspiring!

Ahh man that floppy sound will forever be engrained in my brain.

back when making music was fun.... i love gear with limits

You better smack that .... I mean back that shit up.

Seriously can you imagine how many people danced ther assess of to that w30 and 303

Damn. Those floppy disks man 😂😂

Liam would probably smile if he saw that old Roland W30 again.

look after this piece of history. High quality memorabilia right there

I Cant believe Liam would have let any of his gear go including samples!? If this is real. Keep it locked away and in good condition. It's irreplaceable!

I had a Roland W30 I could never have done what Liam did with it , that is an artifact right there

Experience is one hell of a dance record!!! In a field, early 90's...buzzing my tits off...great days!! ✌🏻🎶

Love the w30. Nice playing!

Ive come back to this video a few times over the years its just super cool 👊

You are one lucky man!

1:50 to hear samples

Hopefully you didn’t back them up only to similar floppy disks but also with low-level disk images saved on hard drives. However you know as well as me that it will never truly be protected until you share it online.

A piece of history

Amazing. chills dude

everybody is in the place

Gawd... make dupes of the data!!! Thats pretty damn priceless info.

Ah, the nostalgic sound of a floppy being read

Thank you for sharing, this is amazing to see it still going and also jelious 🙂 Look after it!

That 2nd sample has been burned into my mind since the early nineties?

Amazing!! I still have all my floppy’s for my equinox.

Beautiful instrument.

A floppy drive, ohh my days. So cool.

I cant imagine a disk so small can contain many samples for that keyboard

Wow, really great video. Thanks so much...

cool stuff 🏵🎹

Sequencer, sampler and synthesizer in one piece of gear. Even now, there are few devices that do what the Roland W-30 could.

Would have thought Liam would want this.

Fantástic muito original 👏👍🤘🤟😎🇧🇷👊🎹💿📀💽

Love this

Price of history

I need this floppy! 😍

AMAZING....... 🥰🥰🥰

thats pretty fackin cool mate

I still have my Roland W-30. In hindsight, I spent too much on it ($3k+ in 1990), especially for being my first keyboard. I should have bought a DX7 or Korg M1 or something like that.

Everybodys in the place… Lets go!

The last sample also used on N-Joi techno gangsters

so is that how liam writes and perfoms? he samples loops to keys and plays back songs that way? if so , amazing they did that even before abelton live

I bet he used reading of the disk as a sample lol, great stuff

The W30 was a bad ass machine

Wow ! Tell us more ? 🙏

Does Liam come up with any beats, or sounds on his own for songs? Or is everything from samples? Or does he do a combo of samples and original music? 🤔

I wonder how many people have taken samples from this video

Your either Liam or very close to him.. If you are Liam thanks sooo much for music to my teen years ❤️

Have you made a back-up/bump of the disk image for preservation?

what samples are this? have you a list?

Back when this was new, where did you get the samples from that’s on the floppys?

bascially the 90s all there at his fingers

awesome

This is ace

3:55 haha he sampled Mothra. I have to wonder did he ditch this and move on to the ASR-10 when it came out?

Awesome

Surprised that Liam sold a lot of his gear. Thought he would have kept them even though he probably won't use them.

I've owned a W30 for 20 years. It's in need of a bit of attention - no backlight on the display (like in this video) and a 2 dead keys (the low D key was always dead for note data but I used it for transmitting after touch to the filter without note data being generated, a great performance feature from a fault!). It still sounds great. There's a lovely indefinable "quality" to the sound. I had an S550 for a while to expand the capabilities (used to load my W30 samples onto it...) but it didn't quite have the same sound. I always wondered why that was the case. I love my W30 and would never sell it. I still use it on almost every track I do.

1:07 Pretty minimalist remix of the song.

I haven't seen those floppy disks for over 20 years

I would love to have his kits

pardon the stupid comment but did he make these sounds (other than the samples) on another synth and then save them onto disk for this? so at a live gig he would have to carry a load of disks with him?

Where can you get a zip disk drive? I recently purchased an sp-808 and can't load samples without a zip disk....please help

I hope you've made some backups of those diskettes ;)

Wow That's cool. I used to have a W30 - they were pretty damn basic... a testament to Liam's innovation. So is that Liam's handwriting on the discs?

If you put a blank floppy in there, and start sampling, is there a way you can save every thing to that floppy? I'm new to this so I'm not sure if you have to have a certain type of disk

Wow that was interesting

Damn its such a nice set up. Please man just make a beat!

How did you get hold of Liams Disks, and is there song on there too?

hey Mr generator, mind explaining to me how this pile of samples is turned into the original studio mix of 'everbody in the place' for a simpleton like me? like how does a young Liam Howlett play this on stage at a gig? i read once from a interview with the prodigy's dancer Leeroy Thornhill that they needed "two W30's to play the set" Is that true here? would you need two W30s to do a 1:1 recreation of the original?

Did you get any other disks?

For the sake of musical history, I hope you've made full backups of those floppy disks! Many of my old floppy disks from the 90s are already unreadable or partly corrupt and I lost some of my first MIDI compositions. Lovely retro instrument and looks like you've kept it in good condition. Why not invite synth4ever over to have a play? ;)

Wow havent seen a floppy disk in like a lifetime

Holy shit, a 3 1/2 floppy.

Like Alan Wilder's sampler and disks, legendary.

Where would Liam Howlett have gotten these samples, especially that bass (the one also used in Passion - Gat Decor) at 2m06s?

Do you ever plan making groovie music like Liam? I debate about getting either a Roland W-30 or an EMU SP12 or SP1200 to try and make my own grooves to cassette tape. :)

Those disks, are they imaged/backed up?

"It belongs in a museum!"

Here's Liam's W-30 live on stage: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mciIfKx8mKjRdok.html

Где бы найти теперь эти чудо звуки в 2022м...

Are you creating a prodigy museum? You have the 303 and now some pretty priceless samples. Your either a millionaire with great taste or someone with an insane obsession.

E💥clusive

Waw, someone 3d printed the save icon!

Are you going to make copy of thoses floppy ??

Hi everybody!

im pretty sure you could layer few of these samples together by opening this video in a few browser tabs. 😁

Chug chug chug...

where did you got this ??? :O

How did he load up songs live. Takes a minute per song...

Wow how did u get your hands on that and the 303... What a piece of history youv got

Ah! The "Save" icon!

HOW MUCH?

Was it me who didn't believe this was real a while ago? I'm pretty certain I remember saying to someone that the disks could be fake or something then they gave me a link showing it was legit. I would make a total copy of them disks and keep the originals away safe, although I dunno what kind of crazy disk formatting Roland may have been using at the time .They're a proper physical piece of 1990's history along with the W30.

Where is the donk bass sample from at 2:06?

3:30-This sounds like Korg M1 Organ Bass with distortion effect😂

Surely they are not stock sounds? Did he sample and load them up himself?

Does anyone know what that bass sound is on the second sample

Awesome! Did Liam sell it to you?

Solo tengo un disco quiero saber si es necesario los dos discos

Very lucky