Comments on: Yes, he does have a midi port for synchronization on the back of his neck.

Yes, he does have a midi port for synchronization on the back of his neck.

bigmusic — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:25:30 -0800

By: bigmusic

bigmusic — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:25:42 -0800

Here's a how-to. And I mean "how to" the loosest possible sense.

By: rsanheim

rsanheim — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:33:46 -0800

Whoa. Nice. As long as we are talking about insane drummers: Chris Pennie solo at a drum clinic - he's the drummer for the Dillinger Escape Plan. It took me a bit to really "get" the rhythm he is doing, but it really kicks in around 4 minute mark. Here's another Pennie clip, doing his part for the song Panasonic Youth.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:37:30 -0800

Jesus. I was all ready to jump on the "wha, youtube on a poorly described link, wtf?!" bandwagon but damn that was good.

By: mullingitover

mullingitover — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:40:27 -0800

I sure love me some drum 'n bass. That was fun.

By: TheNewWazoo

TheNewWazoo — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:42:25 -0800

That reminded me of this, which was linked on MeFi at some point. Truly, the intersection of techno and live performance is the future of music.

By: rsanheim

rsanheim — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:43:40 -0800

One more - jojo

By: brevator

brevator — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:44:24 -0800

man is better than machine

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:47:00 -0800

His lymphatic glands must produce pure expresso.

By: Stynxno

Stynxno — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:51:26 -0800

that...i'm...wow. no idea this stuff existed. thanks!

By: mykescipark

mykescipark — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:54:39 -0800

Aww. And here I was hoping for a Best-of-Kraftwerk FPP.

By: peeedro

peeedro — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:57:36 -0800

Sorry to be the first hater, as I do admire their focus and expression, but some instruments, such as the harpsichord, the Reba McEntire, and the drum kit, make my ears beg for mercy.

By: four panels

four panels — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:59:20 -0800

Was this an LTJ Bukem cover? It makes me sad kids choose this over DeLlilo.

By: geekhorde

geekhorde — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:02:26 -0800

No, this was cool. But it needed more swing.

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:02:46 -0800

more proof that musicians are insane, butnot particularly harmful to themselves.

By: zek

zek — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:06:20 -0800

Great stuff... sort of dispels the image of a techno musician hitting the MIDI "start" button and then kicking back to wait for payday.

By: isopraxis

isopraxis — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:13:27 -0800

I'm pretty sure that the sampler is a Roland SP-808, but I think he could have sequenced it better so that he could have done a lot more than hi-hat taps and crashes to accompany the preformed factory beats. But maybe the manual filter sweeps and pad punching is part of the charm. The boy does keep good time.

By: Mars Saxman

Mars Saxman — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:16:19 -0800

I saw him perform at Phoenixfest a couple of years ago. He can keep that up for hours.

By: Milkman Dan

Milkman Dan — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:18:07 -0800

It's the liveness that makes his performance rawk. Sure his little button-pushing looping device is adding to the complexity, but as the village elders say, "It Takes Fast Hands To Keep Up With The Machines."

By: carsonb

carsonb — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:26:27 -0800

Amen!

By: tsarfan

tsarfan — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:33:00 -0800

i'll still take bonham any day

By: Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese

Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:40:59 -0800

Meh. He was just reading it off that piece of paper.

By: empath

empath — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:48:33 -0800

What's amazing to me about live D&B is that they're playing music that was never intended to be played by people. It's an incredible technical feat. I absolutely love, love, love the new technology coming out for music making and I can't get enough of watching people use it in new ways. We're really in an amazing musical era and most people don't recognize it, yet.

By: SteelyDuran

SteelyDuran — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:54:18 -0800

He's even more amazing here.

By: geekhorde

geekhorde — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:06:04 -0800

But he really needs a bass player.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:07:18 -0800

Oh man, I want to see the guy live... I could dance for hours.

By: paulsc

paulsc — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:28:42 -0800

Needs more cowbell.

By: benign

benign — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:50:23 -0800

That was pretty impressive. While I was watching it I couldn't help but think that it'd make a good drum track for high speed baroque music. I wonder if anyone can play a fugue that fast...

By: eparchos

eparchos — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:52:57 -0800

At first I was all "Well, he's not THAT great a drummer." Then I realized that, well, he's not just a drummer, he's a performer. He's definitely a good drummer, but that's not the whole story. Although I question his taste in music (bland cardboard techno/DnB *snore*), he's definitely fun. Thanks for a nifty link!

By: hototogisu

hototogisu — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:58:24 -0800

That shirt gives him power.

By: LooseFilter

LooseFilter — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:18:52 -0800

empath: I absolutely love, love, love the new technology coming out for music making and I can't get enough of watching people use it in new ways. We're really in an amazing musical era and most people don't recognize it, yet. Amen to that!

By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:48:55 -0800

If you're going to drum like a drum machine just use a drum machine and be done with it.

By: dminor

dminor — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:50:00 -0800

machine is better than man Aww. And here I was hoping for a Best-of-Kraftwerk FPP. posted by mykescipark at 7:54 PM PST on January 17 [+] [!] word.

By: Hat Maui

Hat Maui — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:58:11 -0800

buddy rich just contacted me from the afterlife, and said that that cocksucker couldn't keep a beat if his life depended on it, and that he was clammin' all over this joint. also, he stated that he had played with the greatest fucking musicians in the world.

By: dminor

dminor — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:11:55 -0800

then he said that if this guy picks up a drumstick one more time to trigger a midi sequence that makes it seem like its him hitting the snare.. ooh.. then he is really going to get angry and play some swingin ass shit.

By: anthill

anthill — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:19:44 -0800

Amen Break to that!

By: MonkeySaltedNuts

MonkeySaltedNuts — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:09:46 -0800

masturbation. Give me some music that has drums that I want to listen to.

By: aladfar

aladfar — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:19:58 -0800

Meh. Let us now praise Mr. Art Blakey

By: redteam

redteam — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:51:38 -0800

Nice! Immediately I thought of AB Didgeridoo Oblivion from Byron Bay, Australia. Sadly, I can't find any videos of his incredible performances. He performs with a didge on a stand right up to his lips with a pickup and effects on it. For his hands he has a dumbek or an electric hand drum synth (an old, rare, Korg Wavedrum), cymbals and other drumpads, a synth of some kind, and a kick pedal. Really amazing stuff. Also, I believe, from Byron Bay is Wild Marmalade. Two drummers and a guy on a didgeridoo. Absolutely great live.

By: Clave

Clave — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:21:46 -0800

I'm so old I remember Buddy Rich. I'll figure out the HTML thingy one of these days, but for the cut&paste-enabled: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk6smBERb_U&mode=related&search=

By: sexyrobot

sexyrobot — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:44:25 -0800

yeah, well, i saw this clip once from the 50's on late night pbs a few years ago where this kid played a set on the drums that puts this guy to shame...and by kid i mean 8-year-old. (it was pretty cute...wish i could find it on the you tubes) he was like buddy rich good... and peedro, gotta agree (except for the harpsichord...i dig that groovy aadams family sound) ...actually got dragged to a reba concert once in baton rouge. it was unsane. she had on a stack of like ten dresses, one for each number (the first was this gawd-awful wedding dress monstrosity attached to a wall that she broke out of like the incredible hulk) when she ran out of dresses she asked the audience "hey, who here likes TV?!"...thank god i was high.

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:50:37 -0800

Meh... It ended too soon :-P

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:52:48 -0800

Awesome stuff. I'll tell you, I much prefer listening to D&B when I know there's a real human who has real talent and spent real time practicing to perform it. And Clave, excellent link. That roll at the end was... amazing. I didn't know you could get it so quiet.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:02:55 -0800

To be able to play along with a tight, fast, pre-recorded beat that seamlessly shows excellent technical skill (at keeping time). So what, the guy can't swing, and the beat is mechanical by nature... maybe he would be terrible in an improv situation with other musicians. But he's damn good at what he does.

By: jcterminal

jcterminal — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:32:48 -0800

he's the absolute greatest! ...or so i thought until i bought a metronome.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:35:42 -0800

Buddy Rich loved his work. You can see it in his face.

By: Jody Tresidder

Jody Tresidder — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:50:44 -0800

Well, it's not exactly Cozy Powell live, is it? (Not the point, I suppose...)

By: ScottUltra

ScottUltra — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:21:03 -0800

By: Floach

Floach — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:27:26 -0800

Awesome. Thanks!

By: matty

matty — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:49:36 -0800

I guess you'd have to be a D&B fan to enjoy that clip, much less learn anything from it. Although I guess I DID learn something from it, since before today I thought the term "D&B" was referring to Dave & Busters Food & Fun restaruant / game-room.

By: piratebowling

piratebowling — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:05:19 -0800

Huh, that's the radio station run out of my old highschool.

By: everichon

everichon — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:03:49 -0800

I love DnB, and I loved that clip. I don't have a link, but Rahzel has done some crazy d-n-b beatboxing with Roni Size, well worth a listen.

By: daHIFI

daHIFI — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:27:02 -0800

He's good but he really needs to team up with someone to give him a fuller sound. I couldn't really hear anything new going on after about halfway thru. It also sounded like he had some kind of hi-hat sample running on the quarter notes or so to keep time. Not to beat on what he was doing cause it sounded great. Definitely could have used some squeltchy low throbbin bass though. Team that guy up with one of those crazy ass French hip hop sampling DJs that build songs up from scratch and you'd have quite the show.

By: Espoo2

Espoo2 — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:43:00 -0800

Who needs a sampler? Street DnB.

By: LionIndex

LionIndex — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:47:17 -0800

Animal (the muppet) vs. Buddy Rich taken from Spanish-dubbed Muppet Show

By: cccorlew

cccorlew — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:22:06 -0800

I was hoping this would be about music. Oh well...

By: phaedon

phaedon — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:12:33 -0800

billy cobham not even mentioned? retarded.

By: crawfishpopsicle

crawfishpopsicle — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:31:01 -0800

i agree that any great jazz drummer blows this guy away, and in my opinion any drummer from any other genre, but it is still pretty cool. sort of reminds me of the Bad Plus drummer covering Aphex Twin's Flim (not a good clip), without the aid of triggers or a sampler. not that triggers or samplers are bad, in fact this is my favorite blog after the blue.

By: basicchannel

basicchannel — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:32:31 -0800

Brilliant. Thanks for this post!!

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:23:03 -0800

I cannot say enough positive things about this guy.

By: hellphish

hellphish — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:29:18 -0800

Hey cccorlew, go away.

By: asok

asok — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:33:01 -0800

That's a bit of fun, but a dire tune. Not one we are going to be humming (or tapping) around the old joanna when we are in the home.

By: Luddite

Luddite — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:41:30 -0800

Woah. (Ok, wtf?)

By: TechnoLustLuddite

TechnoLustLuddite — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:39:10 -0800

all the haters who said it's mostly samples should watch the second link. Much better than the radio spot. And, last commentor, nice handle. =]

By: eparchos

eparchos — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:07:50 -0800

When jazz fans are competing with techno kids.... techno wins.