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.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Lovely work on this Gyu !

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. ✊

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

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.

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!

Fantastic job. Probably my favorite so far!

Amazing. So many little details. Thanks.

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

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

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

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

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!

You Nailed it!!! amazing recreation :)

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

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

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

Great work bud, love it.

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

I used to use to two copies of “Energy Flash”, one mixed a quarter beat behind the other, and then cross fade between them really quickly! It used to drive the place mad!

Great stuff fella, so informative

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.

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

Yo Gyu! What a great and inspiring video.

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).

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

Holy crap, Dude! You completely NAILED it.

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 😁

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

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

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

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

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

Great content! Interesting. Energy!!! 💕

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

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

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!

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

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 👍

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.

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

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

You are amazing! Thank you kindly 🙏🏼

Impressive work man 👍😲

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

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 ?

Absolute class. Thank you for this. :D

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

AT 6.35 THE SOUND IS A PRESET ON THE JUNO 106

fairplay for spotting that downturn on the second Ecstasy

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

More forensic detective work. Just gold. Thanks.

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 ✌️

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

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

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 KZfaq.

Absolutely superb recreation ❤

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.

Great video. Thanks!

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

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

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

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 😄

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.

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! 👍👍✌

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

I recorded an interview with Joey Beltram backstage at a PURE rave in the Livingston Forum where he was DJing back in the very early 90’s. It was myself and Kieth McIvor from PURE that asked him a bucketload of probing questions about the gear he used to record “Energy Flash” and “My Sound” from Beltram Vol.2. Frankie “Bones” was also there and jumped in with a few insights here and there! The main thing I was interested in was the “hoover” synth sound Joey used in “My Sound”. I was convinced it came from a white label I used to hammer at our gigs, called “Choice Of A New Generation” by A.Z.T. on AZULI RECORDS that has been released about a year previously….and sure enough it was. To have it confirmed by the man himself made my day. I keep meaning to digitise it and stick it up on KZfaq, one of these days I will!

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

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!

this is awesome!!

You did it again, man! Excellent. Can we do requests? If so, I'd like to see you recreate Phantasia - Inner Light.

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.

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. ❤

Nice work! :)

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

Very cool. The evolution of music is interesting, and it's so hard to see where it's going.

great video!

What a tune! Your remake sounds decent mate.

What a tune. I got it on vinyl. PS: Fantastic re make. Well done. Man you are clever.

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

Brilliant video! How long did it take you to figure out?

great vid as usual

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

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

Very cool Video, thanks 🙏 The track was and still is - mind blowing, a masterpiece and milestone ❤