Prodigy style beats????

Hi guys,

Just wondering if anyone makes Prodigy style beats with MPC?

If so what methods do they use? Do they chop breaks and sequence or do they use the MPC to trigger MIDI in a DAW?

picaso24 wrote:Hi guys,

Just wondering if anyone makes Prodigy style beats with MPC?

If so what methods do they use? Do they chop breaks and sequence or do they use the MPC to trigger MIDI in a DAW?

AFAIK Liam used the Roland W30 for the early stuff. He also sequenced with Cubase on a Power Mac and got a SP1200. But I dont know about his Equipment today.

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picaso24 wrote:Hi guys,

Just wondering if anyone makes Prodigy style beats with MPC?

If so what methods do they use? Do they chop breaks and sequence or do they use the MPC to trigger MIDI in a DAW?

Intresting...

I try to answer my best.

Option 1. Picaso is talking about Prodigy from Mobb Deep:
"Just wondering if anyone makes Prodigy (From Mobb deep) style beats with MPC?

If so what methods do they (Mobb Deep) use? Do they chop breaks and sequence or do they use the MPC to trigger MIDI in a DAW?"

Answer: Havoc makes most of the Mobb Deep beats out there, I believe he uses an MPC 3000. Alchemist who works frequently with Prodigy uses MPC 5000 at the moment (he changes equipment a lot these days). They use the classic methods of MPC beatmaking, nothing special. They use DAW afterwards for mixing and mastering (and they dont do it, but some geeky white guys.(like me))

Option 2. Picaso is talking about the electronic music group "The Prodigy":
"Just wondering if anyone makes (The) Prodigy style beats with MPC?

If so what methods do they (The Prodigy) use? Do they chop breaks and sequence or do they use the MPC to trigger MIDI in a DAW?"

Answer: flowers TECHNOOOO

Joidibeats wrote:Answer: flowers TECHNOOOO

hahaha, no doubt!

i instantly thought electro/d&b kruu 'the prodigy'. beacause i knew havoc and alc wear the labcoats in the studio and i grew up listening to them.

their new shit is average imo compared to the old joints(voodoo ppl, breathe..)
now they seem to be biting 'pendulums' d&b style whos from perth btw, meh..

but none the less i would love to know what the use. pretty much every classic sampler or synth selling on ebay will have 'the prodigy' at the bottom claiming they use it, and you know what.. i believe it!

they are OG's of their genre.

I am talking about the Prodigy as in the dance band. Liam Howlett et al.

I was just interested to find out if he uses hip hop methods of chopping breaks for his drums? I was curios because so much of his production involves him using synths but his drums remain grimey.

As for the 'fuk techno remark' ?

well its not really techno and in my opinion the Prodigy are light years ahead of the vast majority of hip hop producers in terms of originality.

picaso24 so true, liam is a beat making master. nobody sounds like prodigy

Too right. Just so original sounding. I read an interview article on Reason's website with Liam and he claimed he used Reason 4 to do make alot of tracks on.

. Dont get me wrong I love hip hop and there are some amazing producers but alot of hip hop is the same. Get a loop, chop, process, lay some dusty breaks on, send to get mastered ect..... all this crapppp about RZA and Dre and everyone chopping loops intricately is largely rubbish. They just loop loop and loop

i chop everything

thats great but a hell of a lot of tunes that are realised are looped.

i like to have the loop play out somewhere in the track just to give the listener an idea of what i did with it, if its a dope loop.

firestarter is some one hit wonder shit but mobb deep *****

Liam pretty much uses breaks and chops em up. The earlier albums are just funk breaks pretty much, but sped up. Fat of the Land is a lot more chopped and programmed. Sounds pretty tight! I love that album! He used reason for the "always outnumbered but never outgunned," but i assume he used some of his earlier techniques. Not too keen on the newer album, just sounds like the thought "hey, pendulum are ripping us off, lets rip them off, but better."

Saw them live a few months ago for the second time. I was dissappointed. They didn't play anything of always outnumbered, not even spitfire. And Dizzee Rascal was on before them, and he sounded so much heavier than the prodigy!