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See also this great recreation of a Prodigy track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5Dn-WaElI

That one is a lot more enlightening as to the creative process for this kind of music.

(Of course the prodigy didn't do it like that, all point and click. There would have been a lot more twiddling of knobs and generally wigging out with actual hardware.)

IIRC, the Prodigy's Liam claimed to have written one album in bed using Propellorheads' Reason (then moved to the studio to finish off in pro-tools).

I know I've done stuff just point and click on the train home from work in both ableton live and Reason.

It's not quite as fluid as having a real keyboard (or other instruments around), but it is completely doable.

I think that's more the later stuff. Fat of the land certainly sounds like it was composed lying down.

It's perfectly doable to create good sample based tracks in Reason. But you couldn't finish and master something of the standard of a Prodigy track on that alone.

I once saw Liam walking along the street of Sarm studios around the time that 'Always outnumbered never outgunned' must have been in production: http://www.sarmstudios.com/ - I assume he came out of there. It's a touch more advanced setup than Reason ;) Although if I had to guess which album he made on Reason I reckon it's that one.

I doubt the latest album 'Invaders Must Die' was done on Reason alone because of the quality of the synths used. Although again he could have just programmed the rough idea on Reason and then used the midi-notes to drive high-end synth.

I have a feeling it was actually 'Invaders...' he was talking about when he made that claim.

This is not on the same level as Prodigy, but a great Australian electronic artist Flume [0] creates his music by "playing a Mac" [1]

[0]: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flume_(musician) [1]: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/flume-q26...

All of the electronic artists that are big in Aus right now do. Had drinks with a whole heaps of em at Bigsound a few weeks back and chatted to a few of them, all really nice people.

I had no idea that Rage was sampled in there. Holy moly thanks for that, that's a fantastic video

ehehe this is is sick. at least they used more than 1 sample, lol. i gotta figure out ableton.... i use it but mainly to process live tracks with max. WHY DONT I USE MY SAMPLING SOFTWARE FOR SAMPLING GAH

also... <3 the sprite cameos

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