The making of locked grooves | Native Instruments

Irrupt Audio, the team behind the Carbon Decay expansion visit ManMade Mastering in Berlin, to talk about the process of cutting locked grooves.

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Based in the heart of the Berlin’s creative hub, the company employs around 600 people in its seven offices globally.

[chriszanf]

That told me nothing about cutting locked grooves.

[fakshen]

Is there a history of locked-loop usage? Is there a decent market for locked-loop vinyl? If one rotation is 1/33.3 of a minute... almost 2 seconds, then how do they manage production of the loop? How do they avoid carving over areas they've already cut? Gosh, all of these questions that could have been asked of the artists to create some structure and interest. Instead... the video kind of just meanders. NI needs better video producers.

[RishiJParmar]

Does anyone know the songs in this video?

[necrotictrust]

Those two guys have tonnes of gear and I'm very happy for them. Can we have long promised song layer for Maschine software?

[herculesmclovin]

Here you go:
You might appreciate the info on loops and the format of printing grooves here:

As far as the history of use goes, they came about during the gay rights movement and cocane (no really) in the 1960s.

DJs, almost accidentally, found that stripping the music back to the 'breakdown' would get great results from the coked-up audience. Something about the repetitive simple feel just resonates with being drugged on cocaine and wanting to dance to it.

The DJ would need a break (let's say a fag or a piss) and would leave the sample track record spinning (the breakdown track) then when they came back they realised that simple repetitive breakdown worked really well without mixing another record over it.

... and so... more of these 'locked/closed loops' where the needle continues to follow a singular groove in a loop, were created.

Aptly named 'DJ Tools' they would be used most frequently by HIPHOP and ELECTRONIC artists in America.

What's also interesting about loops, is that it can be speed dependent (another 'DJ tool)
Some DJ records if deliberately spun slightly slower (tune down the tempo) would stop the needle from continuing along the next groove and would instead keep it within the same groove, usefully creating a closed loop on the fly for more creativity.

Fun side quest... the Soviet Union and illegal BONE MUSIC:

[gonideccbjer]

Bonjour un amie ma dit de demander les instrument de piano pour le akai mpk mini mpk2
Pourrais tu me les passer
(Car j'ai l'inprésion que vous parler pas français traduit sa sur google)

Merci ci tu accept est tanpis si tu refuse

[aries]

No idea what the point of lock groves is or what the point of all that gear is what just to make a loop ? Seems a bit extreme

[PaulMcCranie]

I wish they could've made me care