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Explaining our latest tech-house track 'Work That' (Spinnin' Records) - FL Studio

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      2:11

    • 2.

      Hooks

      4:05

    • 3.

      Melodics

      10:35

    • 4.

      Drums

      2:26

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In this tutorial we'll talk about our latest release 'Work That' on Spinnin' Records. This track got some good support in the Spotify playlists and YouTube where it got more than 300.000 streams within a week. In this course Sam tells you how this project came to be and how we worked with the sample. 

In this class we'll talk about:

  • Storytime
  • Sample
  • Melodics 
  • Drums

This class will give you all the ins and outs about our latest release 'Work That'. After seeing this class you'll hopefully be able to make a tech-house track yourself and share it with us! 

More info about Mr. Belt & Wezol:

Often described as the Netherlands' most striking DJ duo, Mr. Belt & Wezol stand out both production and appearance wise. Hits like "Finally", "Boogie Wonderland" and "Let’s All Chant" have an old school house and disco vibe, twisted with Mr. B&W’s characteristic dynamic drops. While their sound is easily recognizable among the other Spinnin’ Records' releases, there's also another piece to the cake that makes this act special: their videos. Always spot on between humor and originality it often makes the fans eager to not only listen to the next track, but also to see the next track.

With their packed festival schedule there is a big chance you will see the guys in real life. 2018 marked their debut at Tomorrowland and Wish Outdoor Mexico. Shows like those on Kingsday were celebrated with four appearances throughout all corners of the Netherlands. But if you really want to see the guys in their element, you should visit their "The Cuckoo’s Nest" hostings and clubshows. Here they play long solo sets or invite all of their DJ friends for a huge back2back frenzy. The ADE editions are traditionally sold out and new editions will be announced all year round.

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Mr. Belt & Wezol

DJ/producer duo from the Netherlands

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Often described as the Netherlands' most striking DJ duo, Mr. Belt & Wezol stand out both production and appearance wise. Hits like "Finally", "Boogie Wonderland" and "Let’s All Chant" have an old school house and disco vibe, twisted with Mr. B&W’s characteristic dynamic drops. While their sound is easily recognizable among the other Spinnin’ Records' releases, there's also another piece to the cake that makes this act special: their videos. Always spot on between humor and originality it often makes the fans eager to not only listen to the next track, but also to see the next track.

With their packed festival schedule there is a big chance you will see the guys in real life. 2018 marked their debut at Tomorrowland and Wish Outdoor Mexico. Shows like those on Ki... See full profile

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1. Introduction: What's up, guys and welcome to a new industrial video. This time, I'm going to explain our latest track with some Boudin called pork death. If you haven't heard it yet. This is what it sounds like that there. So let's get right into the projects. So Tom and I have known each other for I think maybe longer than six years even. And we've tried collaborating over the years, but there was always something in a way we had this track would assembling it, but the clearance didn't came through. Or we have clashing releasing schedules, always something like that. But now we finally created something together and we bounce over to stems a couple of times. Right in front of me is the final projects. And I think it's a bang or, you know, it's, I think the most unique thing about this track is that there's a lot of elements in there, but nothing really stands out as much, you know, track. Its unique thing is to track itself, not like this little synth who are it is little focal or this little groove. It's everything combined to get her. There are quite a few elements. There's a vocal, there's some baseline, there's a synth hook, there's a level of weird sounds. That's a bit much. And in the original mixture to extended mix, which is four minutes and 12 seconds long, we have we have the time to introduce every elements one-by-one. But in the radial edit, for example, we didn't have as much time because the radio edits is two minutes and 24 seconds. So I had to cut some corners there in making death edits. Um, but yeah, let's go over the elements one by one. And then in the end, I'll show you guys how I managed to introduce all those elements in a somewhat acceptable way in the radio edits as well. 2. Hooks: So let's start with the vocal. The vocal is pretty cookie cutter. The amount of times there has been some kind of work debts, vocal in a dense track. I think it's well into the ten thousands, but the original vocal is, let me find it right here. Now. Bada, bada, bada, bada. Bada worked at bought it. I bought it worked out body. And if you updates tree semitones. Yeah. It worked. It worked. You. Of course, it's higher up, but it's also kind of indistinguishable if it's a male or a female vocal. So I think that's quite funny. And of course the focus has been cut up. And I've shown this tons of times already. But if you throw like the actual vocal into a slicing program like this one, but you can simply start cutting it up in a way you like it. So that's the way the cuts are made. And there's quite a few cuts. So we have this one which is the main one that works. We also have this one worked at. And there's also like small vocal chops, which are right here. They're all just cuts from that sample, which is pitched up to three semitones. And there's also later and attract a lot of little effects. Liken to throw drop. We have this crazy that vocal and a couple of more those effects that I'll get into that a little bit later. But it's a Vogel, OK, it's just a simple, nothing too interesting. What is kinda funny is that we have interrupt break. We have some Tom's actual voice singing these little vocal right here. Sometimes. It's actually done. And if i will do That's my English wouldn't be as good I think so. His voice is perfect there. It's also makes up for a little variation there that it's not only that Vogel which are getting thrown at your ears the whole time, you know. So nice variation. Then we have the baseline. Typical, fairly fast repeating tech. How's baseline? And this is throughout the entire track. You can see the render right here. Once it starts in the first break. So if any intro, which is all beats baseline there, once the baseline comes in there with, without its low frequencies, it just continues throughout the entire trick, except for it is a little part before the teardrop. And that's typical of tech house. You know, there's always a baseline going and there's always a beef going. Even here at the beginning of the term break, they're still kick the English. There's no offices in the drums except for this little predrawn here, which we'll get into a little bit later as well. This is just typical tech house. You know, if he wants to create a tech house trick, just makes sure that the drums are to baseline or even both are always throughout the entire trick. That's what's giving, giving it its groove. I think that's what's happening right here. So that's dependent on the baseline. 3. Melodics: So half the lead sounds, which is this one. And also to render here. And later we also have a variation. And if you've created a future house in your producing career, you know that this sounds is created by adding sevenths through your leads. So right here we have the media of the original leads, like the main leads, call it the mainly. If you've copied it and move it up seven semitones, which is 1234567. You get that seventh effects, which is, which is here. Here. This is a great way to make variations in your relief without actually changing. You just add a layer on top of it. I've found that it was a really good way of keeping it interesting without adding a entirely new melody to it. So those three things, the vocal, the baseline, and delete, are the big hoax of this track. And as I said, they're not that interesting by themselves, but if you combine them into the tray, I think it makes up for, for a perfect in-between track. And of course there's a level of difference. Little sounds That's keep the track interesting, like sounds like this, for example. The teardrop, we have a couple of more. Those kinds of sounds can be made with a variety of plugins. I mainly use direct wave and see if I can show you guys real quick. So in direct way, if you can, it's basically a sampler which has a couple of effects building. There's tons of plug-ins like these lipid tails, sampler or contexts. They all, each have their own built-in effects. But simply said, you can load settles into here. And you can simply play with the settings of those samples. So right here. So you can play with those kind of sounds the entire time. And let's just let your recording software and just run a recording. Loads Edison or something. Simply press record and start recording this. Just load up a few sounds at some reverb and there you have it, some interesting sounds. So I think you can do the exact same thing with the vocal. And if we go down here, you can see that this, for example, is a render like that. This is just playing with sounds. So deadlock, for example, that one sound of goods, so that one ended up in a trick, and it's right here. It's the exact same thing is done with the vocal. So right here, if we go to this render right here, you can see that there's just these kinda sounds. Yeah, I bought it worked. There's one, for example, that it's kinda like a volume LFO that is just before the end of the term builds. So those are all little things that keeps the track interesting, I think. And it's just really fun to play with. Because, you know, you're just messing around with the synth. And I'll just, you know. Ninety-five percent of its sounds like crap. That 5% is can, you know, it's usable in your trick. That makes it a little bit more interesting. I think. The same with this one. So the teardrop put this into the second drought, would just go through all the drops. The first graph is simply the baseline in its full effects. So in first break, you have to baseline disrupt just the baseline, the full thing. Then in the second row, we're introducing deletes. Every now and then, and also some, some crazy cells. Edited tear drop where introducing even crazier sounds. So that's the way they're all a little bit different from each other. So that's how we kept the trick interesting throughout the entire trick. So another fairly interesting thing of this track is that it's a little bit more unconventional than most dance tracks. And that's because of this little pre drops section here. So this entire term break, it's built up to this big climax. And it's supposed to drop right here. But we've chosen to just extends the buildup until the ends, then give it this big payoff and then it drops. So this results in your guts feeding telling you, oh, now it should drop, but then it doesn't drop. And then it does drop. So it's like an extra layer of pleasure. I think when listening to distract, especially on the dance floor. If you will throw this part's right here. It, Let's just not be as powerful because you know, where all programs to know when to expect certain things. And this is pre drop here, breaks with that tradition. So it's more powerful when it drops. So that's just a little Bill thing we did to make it more interesting. Yeah. As you can see, there's a ton of little small semi melodic elements in here. As I said in the beginning. There is, this track is long enough for minutes. And for Spotify, you don't want a track to be four minutes long, it's just simply too long. So in radio edits, there's, we cut a couple of corners to make make the track a lot shorter. For example, we just introduced the vocal by doing a reversed reverb and beginning. That's still in the baseline is immediately to the hair. And also the lead is here, but it's filtered. So it doesn't take as much of your attention, sort of introduction of the actual leads. It starts here, but you can only hear it in full when first grout comes in. So this breaks with the original mix entirely. There's just two drops, which is also different from from the original mix. And just the introduction of parts. It's just a lot different than in the original mix, which was absolutely necessary. Because else if you listen to a district for the first time, you'll be like, well, there's so much going on in verse 15 seconds already. You wouldn't be able to keep track of every single individual elements. And that's what's, that's what's important in radio edits. I think. After an added skips, immediately to disturb break, skips the second drop entirely. Yeah, that's that's Spotify, I guess. And then it goes through the break or threat drop. And that's just the same as the entire tour drop off the actual track. So that's a radial edits. 4. Drums: The draw lumps. If you are patriots support or you get these drum samples for free. So university to your end up right away. So if you're interested in that, go check it out. The drums are there's quite a few loops in here. And they're all not really doing their own thing, but they're just actually layers. So if we listen to determinant of a couple of elements like this one, like a little close higher there or these ones. Like the knob half-step beats that actually make up for the groove. And the rest of it is mostly layering. So there's a little high and this is an open hi-hats. This one also has opened I as it's all just layering but nuts, individual elements but loops. While creating this groove, it's just a matter of knowing when it's too much and knowing which parts make up for the groove and which parts are actually layering. So we can listen to the individual elements one by one. Running, reload, doing them up for group layering, layering, layering as well. So as you can hear, it's almost everything is almost layering. Nurses, a couple of elements that make up for the group. I think that's quite interesting. This drag has a lot of drum loops in it, but it doesn't sound overwhelming or something. I think that's about everything I can tell you guys about this track. It's an interesting trick. I think it's one of our more techie tricks. So I hope you guys dig that as well. A lot of crazy sounds in here and we'll be playing this track in our sense a lot. Definitely. Especially this works like a charm every time. So that's it guys. I hope you learned something and I hope to see you guys in the next video later.