SURCO's Live Hardware Techno Secrets Revealed

In this episode of Electron Talk, we are delighted to welcome Eric, also known as SURCO, to the EZBOT studio, where he will divulge his preferred techniques for live improvised Hardware Techno. SURCO has earned acclaim for his electrifying Techno productions, renowned for being crafted live, ensuring a unique experience for his audience. Today, he will share insights into his creative process, utilizing an array of equipment including the an assortment of Eurorack, Elektron Syntakt, Rytm, Octatrack MK2, Oxi-One, and 1010 Blackbox. Join us as we explore the intricacies of live Techno music production with one of the genre's luminaries.

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0:00 Stream starts
02:11 SURCO's setup
11:07 Take me to Techno Paradise
23:00 It's starting to make sense
53:35 Live Fully Improv VS Finished Patterns
1:01:03 Dropping the tempo for a laugh
1:05:43 How do you mix on your hardware?
1:58:16 SURCO Performs
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[EZBOT_]

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[coronaanticorona]

I've watched this at least 5 times in full and learn something new and useful every time. thanks for putting this resource online Matt and Eric!

[barbaraf]

This guy has refined a very challenging process. Love hearing him talk through the process and do demos. Thanks EZ for sharing this great conversation and demo.

[hosedog]

Thank you both for sharing this knowledge. It’s super inspiring.

[ycnakajsph]

And to paradise we went! Surco is amazing god! Such a great artist and a great set up, both is combination is incredible !

[sonicindustries]

EZBOT - with SURCO! 2 of my favourite YouTubers - talking gear & Techno. Fantastic! Quite the incredible set-up Eric. Changed again since I last saw it. Slamming performance at the end too. (The DB4 didn't have midi, had one myself. The Xone 96 is the latest flagship model and that does).

[Lordxfx]

I still remember the day I discovered Surco. What a lad, what a knight.. The man just loves what he does. It truly resonates with me!. Just like EZBOT, the AlgoRYTM just smashed another electronic wizard in to my YT-feed.

[luvinfunvan]

Cool to see other performance setups, thanks for sharing. Also so much for "less is more" ;-)

[RJ_Eckie]

This must’ve been my favorite stream so far! Surco’s improvisational techniques are truly inspirational

[MrRachele]

Wonderful to see some more improvised hardware sets happening.
Funny to hear you talking about recording stereo. I have also been doing it for years now. I know exactly that feeling of living with what you produced at that moment. And living with the little mistakes, and releasing them as tracks anyway.
People have told me to multitrack. I then try to explain that even if I did multitrack, if I altered anything, then it would end up being something different. The sound I was loving at that moment, would be lost.

Talking about live mixer, Honeysmack and I have been using Play Differently Model 1 for live. It is awesome.

[rolymiller]

thanks gents, awesome stream, love seeing you hang out, learned a ton.

[maikvanrossum]

Those damn nights I wake up way too early and can’t get no sleep… that these kind of conversations are available to all of us is such a relief 🙏🏻😊👌🏻 Night well spent after all 😉

[EricRaymondSF]

Eye-opening, super generous, and tons of fun. Thanks, guys.

[Honeysmack]

Great insight as always... and thanks for the mention, humbled!

[circadian_daw]

Always great to see you two chatting together. I love this setup and the overall idea of starting with a clean canvas. The one thing I do not understand is how Eric knows where all the settings need to be set again to get to the clean starting canvas. I would think after a while you are so far down the rabbit hole that it is hard to return.

[YT]

Very insightful and inspiring!
Thank you!

[nemoymodular]

That was insightful… thanks for sharing!

[jorgbarr]

Great Techno set. Surco and Ezbot are a great team. love this content, I always leave inspired ready to learn the elektron workflow, just got the syntakt

[JorgBarrett]

Such a nice complex setup. Great sounding techno. It’s hard to create such groovy hypnotic techno. Amazing Surco

[mandosea]

this inspired me greatly! great collab!!