Central Cee’s Producer Cooks Up 3 Insane Drill Beats — Transcript

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1. 0:00Ever wondered how producers with actual
2. 0:02hit records make beats for artists like
3. 0:04Central C, Giggs, and Skepta? Well,
4. 0:06today I'm taking you with me to meet
5. 0:08Scott Styles, the producer behind Wif in
6. 0:10It's Goin' On.
7. 0:13Wif in It's Goin' On.
8. 0:15>> [music]
9. 0:16>> And 10.
10. 0:17>> Done it again. Half past 10 just made me
11. 0:19a 10 day and got out of bed.
12. 0:20>> You're going to see his full process,
13. 0:22plus get industry insight on techniques
14. 0:24and placements. And yo, next Friday,
15. 0:2521st of August, I'm dropping Drum Saga,
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26. 0:46and more. All right, let's get straight
27. 0:47into it.
28. 0:48What's your usual process for making
29. 0:50beats?
30. 0:51Are you sample-based?
31. 0:53>> Like
32. 0:53>> Yeah, I'm quite a sample-based, to be
33. 0:54honest. That's just that laziness, isn't
34. 0:56it? It's not because I can't. It's It's
35. 0:57It's normally but I've If I'm just in
36. 0:59the mood Yeah, I'll find a quick loop,
37. 1:01boom, boom, boom. It'll be done in 20,
38. 1:03innit?
39. 1:03>> Yeah.
40. 1:04>> You know what I'm saying? But I think
41. 1:04for the sake of content
42. 1:06I'm going to use these keys, brother.
43. 1:08>> We could do a few. We could make
44. 1:09something from scratch, and then if we
45. 1:11want to fly through some, we could do
46. 1:12some samples as well. Like I could show
47. 1:14you some of my loops, too.
48. 1:15>> Yeah, yeah, I know you got cold loops,
49. 1:16bro. Even if you want to start with
50. 1:17that, bro. Send me a loop just to get
51. 1:18into the groove of it. You know what I'm
52. 1:20saying? Yeah, yeah,
53. 1:21just so we can just, you know what I'm
54. 1:22saying?
55. 1:23>> [music]
56. 1:30[music]
57. 1:31>> Yeah, that's central, there.
58. 1:37>> [music]
59. 1:38>> It's a little bit slower, but we could
60. 1:39speed it up, I guess. What plugins you
61. 1:41two using these days? Omnisphere?
62. 1:44>> Omnisphere, quite a bit. Pure low-fi,
63. 1:47I'm [ __ ] with a lot of that one.
64. 1:48>> Pure low-fi?
65. 1:49>> Pure low-fi is another Arturia vibe.
66. 1:51Carbon Electra, do you know about Carbon
67. 1:53Electra?
68. 1:53>> Is that the same as Electra X?
69. 1:55>> Nah, nah. Electra X I use. [ __ ] with
70. 1:58Electro X heavy, especially in the grime
71. 1:59days with the ops and that.
72. 2:00>> Yeah, yeah.
73. 2:01>> The Carbon Electra is a new one, but
74. 2:03it's got crazy bases and that.
75. 2:04>> Same company though?
76. 2:05>> No, it's actually done by the company
77. 2:08that do Skala.
78. 2:09>> Oh, okay.
79. 2:10>> Carbon Electra 2. Carbon Electra, if you
80. 2:12haven't [ __ ] around with that.
81. 2:14>> Yeah, let me try that.
82. 2:14>> It's a underground one as well, like
83. 2:16>> I haven't seen many people using it.
84. 2:17>> Yeah, so it's one of those that I found.
85. 2:19I was like, "Oh, [ __ ] the bases are
86. 2:21cold." Yeah, like
87. 2:22>> [music]
88. 2:30[music]
89. 2:34[music]
90. 2:43[music]
91. 2:47>> Play instruments as well?
92. 2:48>> Nah, just the keys, though. Just the
93. 2:50keys. And I wouldn't even say I'm like
94. 2:51expert on it, but just taught myself
95. 2:53over the years
96. 2:55to do what I need to do on it, you know?
97. 2:56Just like top lines and stuff.
98. 3:00>> [music]
99. 3:04>> How did you connect with Sense?
100. 3:06>> He's from round here, innit? So I
101. 3:07started working with him. Yeah, early
102. 3:10on. Early on. So, yeah, I just like
103. 3:12working on early on and then he kind of
104. 3:13just whist to stardom, do you know what
105. 3:15I'm saying?
106. 3:16>> It felt like he took off quick. Although
107. 3:18he was making music for a long time
108. 3:19before that.
109. 3:20>> making music for a long time. Yeah, he's
110. 3:21making music like auto-tune and that.
111. 3:23>> Yeah.
112. 3:24>> And then obviously I had my eye on him
113. 3:26from there. Like I actually produced one
114. 3:27of his first tunes, innit?
115. 3:29>> Oh, back in the day when he was doing
116. 3:30more wavy [ __ ]
117. 3:31>> Yeah, Sense was here. It's called Over
118. 3:33You, innit?
119. 3:34>> Oh, okay.
120. 3:36>> [music]
121. 3:38>> Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think I've heard this.
122. 3:42Nah, I don't even [singing] know that.
123. 3:43Yeah, this is years ago.
124. 3:45>> So, yeah, man. I've been chatting with
125. 3:46him for a minute, innit? You know what I
126. 3:47mean? Yeah, it's mad. It's like when I
127. 3:49was growing up, it was like West London
128. 3:51it really the place to be. All the
129. 3:52rappers and everything was all South
130. 3:54London, you know what I'm saying? Over
131. 3:55the years, you know what I'm saying?
132. 3:56With Senge, AJ Tracey, Weston, you know
133. 3:59what I'm saying? We've built a nice
134. 4:00little
135. 4:00>> Yeah, definitely.
136. 4:01>> nice little vibe. It's like a [ __ ]
137. 4:02sometimes it's like a tourist
138. 4:04destination here.
139. 4:15>> [music]
140. 4:23[music]
141. 4:25>> You usually use quite a few different
142. 4:26sounds for the perks.
143. 4:28>> Yeah.
144. 4:28>> Yeah, it used to just be like one kind
145. 4:30of standard.
146. 4:31>> like one. Now it's kind of doing the
147. 4:32same thing but using
148. 4:33>> Yeah.
149. 4:34>> space and loads of different things,
150. 4:35isn't it? You know what I'm saying? I
151. 4:36kind of like when I'm hearing what Senge
152. 4:38is jumping on, hearing that all right,
153. 4:40cool, you've got like
154. 4:42a lot going on, but it's kind of got
155. 4:44still [music] open as well.
156. 4:45>> Yeah.
157. 4:51>> [music]
158. 4:57[music]
159. 5:02[music]
160. 5:07[music]
161. 5:18[music]
162. 5:30[music]
163. 5:56[music]
164. 6:05[music]
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174. 6:25description. Now, let's get back into
175. 6:26it.
176. 6:27>> You got an all-time favorite placement.
177. 6:29Is it Whippin' Excursion? Cuz I went
178. 6:30crazy, man.
179. 6:31>> Yeah, Whippin' Excursion was crazy. And
180. 6:33Whippin' Excursion was good for the time
181. 6:34that it happened because it was like a
182. 6:36real
183. 6:38bridge the gap moment, I feel. You know
184. 6:40what I'm saying? It ended up on Drake's
185. 6:41tour.
186. 6:42And I feel like this was at a moment
187. 6:43where the UK wasn't getting fully
188. 6:45embraced by Americans, you know what I'm
189. 6:47saying? And this was at a time where
190. 6:49it's like, "Raw, like Giggs has got on
191. 6:51Drake's tour with Whippin' Excursion."
192. 6:53You know what I'm saying? And that's
193. 6:53coming out every night and shutting it
194. 6:55down. And I actually went to one of the
195. 6:56Drake shows, and that's how I ended up
196. 6:58in the studio with Fard, Gunna, Giggs,
197. 7:01Waka Flocka. That was all cuz they were
198. 7:03all on tour with Drake.
199. 7:04>> How did you connect with him the first
200. 7:05time? Like, how did that track even come
201. 7:07about?
202. 7:07>> Giggs, that A lot of that was like
203. 7:09online. So, I done a I done a tune with
204. 7:12that Giggs was featured on years ago,
205. 7:14years and years ago.
206. 7:15>> Yeah.
207. 7:16>> [snorts]
208. 7:17>> And I think it was just a a thing where
209. 7:19I like put it up on the gram, innit?
210. 7:21Just like featuring Giggs and all that
211. 7:22[ __ ] And I think he just hit me like,
212. 7:23"Nah, bro. That beat's cold." Been
213. 7:26thinking who the producer was, sort of
214. 7:27thing. I mean, cuz cuz Giggs is quite
215. 7:29trap. And this is again at the time
216. 7:31where
217. 7:32there weren't many UK producers really
218. 7:34doing that dark trap sound, you know
219. 7:36what I mean? And then we ended up
220. 7:38linking up at one of my old studios in
221. 7:41Cricklewood. Dingy studio, do you know
222. 7:44what I'm saying? That's when we done the
223. 7:46blowbacks. We done blowback first.
224. 7:48That's when he ends up getting Stormzy
225. 7:49on it.
226. 7:50So, that was the first record we done.
227. 7:52And then we linked up again at a studio
228. 7:54that Giggs sorted out. Giggs had his dog
229. 7:56there and that, and that's when we done
230. 7:57Whippin' Excursion, you know what I'm
231. 7:58saying?
232. 7:59>> Yeah.
233. 8:09>> [music]
234. 8:17[music]
235. 8:21>> I normally cook the idea up
236. 8:23and uh in that yeah, half hour and that,
237. 8:26and then I like to have like a bunch of
238. 8:28stuff done. And then once my missus and
239. 8:30kids and that are in asleep
240. 8:32>> Yeah.
241. 8:33>> I'm in I'm in my kitchen
242. 8:35just tweaking things. Get me. Roll my
243. 8:36weed.
244. 8:38And then I just put my headphones on and
245. 8:39just Um cuz it's Do you know what it is?
246. 8:41It's like the end result is almost so
247. 8:43much better if I just do it in my
248. 8:44headphones mixing and that. In here,
249. 8:46I'll get gas fam, and I'll just turn the
250. 8:48808 up more than it should be and
251. 8:50certain little things. And then I listen
252. 8:52back in the headphones and it's never
253. 8:54hitting the way I want it versus if I do
254. 8:55it in headphones and then I bring it to
255. 8:57the studio and then I listen back I'm
256. 8:58like, "Yeah, crispy."
257. 9:03>> [music]
258. 9:09[music]
259. 9:17[music]
260. 9:22[music]
261. 9:26[music]
262. 9:28>> Favorite UK artist right now?
263. 9:30>> Do you know who I'm who I'm rating right
264. 9:31now? I won't I won't say favorite UK
265. 9:33artist, you know, Cas
266. 9:34>> Oh, yeah, yeah. Never heard of him
267. 9:35before, yeah.
268. 9:35>> Yeah, he's hard, actually.
269. 9:36>> He's cold. Like he like when he when he
270. 9:38freestyles pop up like I'm I'm literally
271. 9:40there like doing the stank face. I'm
272. 9:42like
273. 9:43>> The 110's one.
274. 9:44>> Yeah, he done a he done a new one
275. 9:46recently still.
276. 9:47And it's just like the things that he
277. 9:48says and the way he's like he's cold
278. 9:50still.
279. 9:51>> Yeah, articulate his verse as well,
280. 9:53don't he?
281. 9:53>> Yeah, yeah.
282. 9:54>> Just like it's all clear.
283. 9:55>> [music]
284. 10:00[music]
285. 10:06>> And then the vocals
286. 10:07going to check our case see if
287. 10:08[singing and music] we've got any light
288. 10:09bulbs.
289. 10:11Any light bulbs for
290. 10:13lines.
291. 10:15>> Or like a phrase?
292. 10:16>> Yeah, that's what they're actually
293. 10:17saying.
294. 10:25>> This saves the day sometimes.
295. 10:30Run this through the vocal template.
296. 10:33>> Yeah.
297. 10:40>> [music]
298. 10:47[music]
299. 10:58[music]
300. 11:05[music]
301. 11:15[music]
302. 11:25[music]
303. 11:31[music]
304. 11:37[music and singing]
305. 11:46[music]
306. 12:10[music]
307. 12:24[music]
308. 12:34>> Is that a goal?
309. 12:36>> [music]
310. 12:36>> Off ground.
311. 12:41>> [music]
312. 12:58[music]
313. 13:04>> Oh.
314. 13:04>> [music]
315. 13:10>> Two way space for [music] a snap or two.
316. 13:12Oh, he can't be.
317. 13:17>> [music]
318. 13:25[music]
319. 13:28>> What are you me on this one, Harry?
320. 13:30>> Yeah, I can hear you Harry on this one
321. 13:32still.
322. 13:33>> But but any driller, any driller
323. 13:36>> [music]
324. 13:49>> Yeah, 143.
325. 13:51>> [music]
326. 14:02[music]
327. 14:08[music]
328. 14:13[music]
329. 14:29>> Hard though.
330. 14:30>> Which one you preferring out the three?
331. 14:32You got a favorite?
332. 14:34>> Maybe that one, you know, but maybe
333. 14:35that's recency bias.
334. 14:36>> Yeah, that one's rolling.
335. 14:37>> You see you see that me like I like I'm
336. 14:39quite I think I'm quite like you. I like
337. 14:40the dark hard [ __ ] you know what I'm
338. 14:41saying? Like it's it's it's got to be
339. 14:43like if I've got briefs and I've got
340. 14:45little things I'm following, I'll go
341. 14:46into different bags.
342. 14:47>> Don't know why. I'm just yeah, I'm
343. 14:48always drawn to the dark [ __ ]
344. 14:50>> That's it, fam. Keys as well. It's
345. 14:52something about just those keys and
346. 14:53those B minors. Those C minors. The the
347. 14:56808 hits different, you know what I'm
348. 14:58saying? Everything just
349. 14:59>> What was it called?
350. 15:00>> Cold.