How Central Cee’s Producer Actually Makes 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 Sea, Gigs, and Skeptor? Well,
4. 0:06today I'm taking you with me to meet
5. 0:08Scott Styles, the producer behind
6. 0:09Whipping Excursion.
7. 0:13>> Whipping Excursion [music]
8. 0:16>> and 10.
9. 0:20>> You're going to see his full process,
10. 0:22plus get industry insight on techniques
11. 0:24and placements. And yo, next Friday,
12. 0:2621st of August, I'm dropping Drum Saga,
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14. 0:30There's five brand new kits covering
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18. 0:38everything you need for modern
19. 0:40production. And it's honestly my new
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22. 0:45wait list for discount, bonuses, [music]
23. 0:46and more. Now, let's get straight into
24. 0:48it.
25. 0:48>> What's your usual process for making
26. 0:50beats? Are you sample based? Like
27. 0:53>> yeah, I'm quite a sample base to be
28. 0:55honest. That's just out of laziness and
29. 0:56it's not because I can't. It's it's
30. 0:58normally bro when I'm just in the
31. 0:59moment. Yeah. I'll find a quick loop.
32. 1:01Boom boom boom be done in 20.
33. 1:03>> Yeah.
34. 1:04>> You know what I'm saying? I think for
35. 1:05the sake of the content,
36. 1:06>> it's got these keys, brother.
37. 1:08>> We could do a few. We could make
38. 1:10something from scratch and then if we
39. 1:11want to fly through some, we could use
40. 1:12some samples as well. I could I could
41. 1:14show you some of my loops, too.
42. 1:15>> Yeah. Yeah. I know you got cold loops.
43. 1:16Even if you want to start with that,
44. 1:17bro, send me a loop just to get into the
45. 1:19groove of it. I mean, just so we can
46. 1:21just, you know what I mean?
47. 1:23>> [music]
48. 1:30[music]
49. 1:31>> That's sense right there.
50. 1:37[music]
51. 1:38>> It's a little bit slower, but we could
52. 1:39speed it up, I guess. What plugins you
53. 1:41two using these days? The Omnosphere.
54. 1:44>> Omnosphere quite a bit.
55. 1:45>> I know.
56. 1:46>> Pure Lowi. I'm [ __ ] with a lot at the
57. 1:48moment.
58. 1:48>> Pure Lowi.
59. 1:49>> Pure Lowi. It's another Atari vibe.
60. 1:51Carbon Electra. Do you know about Carbon
61. 1:53Electra?
62. 1:54>> Is that the same as Electra X?
63. 1:56>> Nah. Nah. Electra X I use. [ __ ] with
64. 1:58Electra X every especially in the grime
65. 1:59days. All the apps and that.
66. 2:01>> The Carbon Electra is a new one, but
67. 2:03it's got crazy bases and that.
68. 2:05>> Same company though.
69. 2:06>> No, it's actually done by the company
70. 2:08that do Scala.
71. 2:09>> Oh, okay.
72. 2:10>> Carbon Electra 2. Carbon Electra. If you
73. 2:12haven't [ __ ] around with that, it's
74. 2:14crazy. It's an underground one as well.
75. 2:16Like
76. 2:16>> I've seen many people using it. Yeah.
77. 2:18It's one of those that I found I was
78. 2:19like, "Oh [ __ ] the bass is old." Yeah.
79. 2:22That [music]
80. 2:30[music]
81. 2:34[music]
82. 2:43[music]
83. 2:47>> play instruments as well.
84. 2:48>> Nah, just the keys still. Just the keys.
85. 2:50I wouldn't even say I'm like expert on
86. 2:52it, but just taught myself over the
87. 2:54years.
88. 2:54>> Yeah.
89. 2:55>> To do what I need to do on it, you know,
90. 2:57>> like top lines and stuff.
91. 2:58>> Yeah.
92. 3:00[music]
93. 3:04>> How did you connect with Sen?
94. 3:06>> It's from around here, is it? So, I
95. 3:07started working with him. Yeah.
96. 3:10>> On early on.
97. 3:11>> So, yeah, just working on him early on
98. 3:13and then he kind of just rised to
99. 3:15stardom. Do you know what I'm saying?
100. 3:16>> Felt like he took off quick. Although he
101. 3:18was making music for a long time before.
102. 3:20>> Yeah, he's making music for a long time.
103. 3:21Yeah, he's making music like autotune
104. 3:23and that and obviously I had my eye on
105. 3:26him from there. Like I actually produced
106. 3:27one of his first tunes, isn't it?
107. 3:29>> Oh, back in the day when he was doing
108. 3:30more wavy [ __ ]
109. 3:31>> Yeah. Essential. See, it's called Over
110. 3:33You, is it?
111. 3:34>> Oh, okay.
112. 3:36[music]
113. 3:38>> Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think I've heard this.
114. 3:42>> I [singing] don't even know the year.
115. 3:44This is years ago. So, yeah, man. I've
116. 3:46been tattooing with him for a minute,
117. 3:47isn't it? Do you know what I mean?
118. 3:48>> Yeah. It's mad. It's like when I was
119. 3:49growing up, it was like West London. It
120. 3:51wasn't really the place to be. All the
121. 3:52rappers, everything was all South
122. 3:54London. You know what I'm saying? Over
123. 3:55the years, you know what I'm saying?
124. 3:56With S AJ, Tracy, Western, you know what
125. 3:59I'm saying? We've built a nice little
126. 4:00>> Yeah, definitely
127. 4:01>> nice little vibe. It's like a [ __ ]
128. 4:02Sometimes it's like a tourist sport
129. 4:04here.
130. 4:15>> [music]
131. 4:23[music]
132. 4:25>> You
133. 4:25>> usually use quite a few different sounds
134. 4:26for the perks.
135. 4:28>> Yeah.
136. 4:28>> Yeah. It used to just be like one
137. 4:30>> kind of use like one. Now it's kind of
138. 4:32doing the same thing but using
139. 4:34>> space and loads of different things in
140. 4:36it. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Kind
141. 4:37of like when I'm hearing what Sense is
142. 4:38jumping on, hearing like, "All right,
143. 4:40cool. You've got like a lot going on,
144. 4:43but then kind of [music] still open as
145. 4:45well."
146. 4:45>> Yeah.
147. 4:51[music]
148. 4:57[music]
149. 5:02>> [music]
150. 5:07[music]
151. 5:18[music]
152. 5:30[music]
153. 5:56[music]
154. 6:05[music]
155. 6:09>> Yo, real quick. If you like the drums
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164. 6:25description. Now, let's get back into
165. 6:27it.
166. 6:27>> Your all-time favorite placement is
167. 6:29whipping excursion. That went crazy,
168. 6:31man.
169. 6:31>> Yeah, whip excursion was crazy. And whip
170. 6:33excursion was good for the time that it
171. 6:35happened because it was like a real
172. 6:38>> bridge the gap moment. I feel, you know
173. 6:40what I'm saying? It ended up on Drake's
174. 6:41tour
175. 6:42>> and I feel like this was at a moment
176. 6:43where the UK wasn't getting fully
177. 6:46embraced by Americans. You know what I'm
178. 6:47saying? And then this was at a time
179. 6:49where it's like raw like gigs has got on
180. 6:51Drake's tour with whipping excursions.
181. 6:53You know what I'm saying? And that's
182. 6:54coming out every night and shutting it
183. 6:55down. And I actually went to one of the
184. 6:56Drake shows and that's how I ended up in
185. 6:59the studio with Gunner Gigs Walker
186. 7:02Flocker. That was cuz they were all on
187. 7:03tour with Drake.
188. 7:04>> How did you connect with him the first
189. 7:05time? Like how did that track even come
190. 7:07about?
191. 7:07>> Gigs that a lot of that was like online.
192. 7:10So I done a I done a tune with that
193. 7:12Giggs was featured on years ago. Years
194. 7:14and years ago.
195. 7:15>> Yeah. [snorts] And I think it was just a
196. 7:18a thing where I like put it up on the
197. 7:20gram in it just like featuring gigs and
198. 7:22all that [ __ ] And I think it just hit
199. 7:23me like no bro that beat is cold been
200. 7:26thinking who the producer was sort of
201. 7:27thing. I mean cuz cuz gigs is quite trap
202. 7:30and this is again at the time where
203. 7:32>> there weren't many UK producers really
204. 7:34doing that dark trap sound. You know
205. 7:36what I mean? And then we ended up
206. 7:38linking up at one of our old studios in
207. 7:42Cicklewood. Dingy studio. Do you know
208. 7:44what I'm saying? That's when we done the
209. 7:46blowbacks. We done blowback first, which
210. 7:48he ended up getting Stormy on it.
211. 7:50>> So that was the first record we done and
212. 7:52then we linked up again at a studio that
213. 7:54gig sorted out. Gigs had his dog there
214. 7:56and that and that's when we done
215. 7:57whipping excursion. You know what I'm
216. 7:59saying?
217. 7:59>> Yeah.
218. 8:03I have
219. 8:09[music]
220. 8:12grime [ __ ] Yeah.
221. 8:17>> [music]
222. 8:21>> I normally cook the idea up and uh in
223. 8:24that yeah half hour and that and then I
224. 8:27like to have like a bunch of stuff done
225. 8:29and then once my misses and kids and
226. 8:31that are in asleep.
227. 8:32>> Yeah.
228. 8:33>> I mean I'm in my kitchen
229. 8:35>> just tweaking things
230. 8:36>> getting me roll my weed
231. 8:38>> and I just put my headphones on and just
232. 8:40because you know what it is. It's like
233. 8:41the end result is almost so much better
234. 8:43if I just do it in my headphones, mix
235. 8:45it, level it. In here, I'll get gas fam
236. 8:47and I'll just turn the 808 up more than
237. 8:49it should be in certain little things,
238. 8:51and then I listen back in the headphones
239. 8:53and it's never hitting the way I want
240. 8:54to. If I do it in headphones and I bring
241. 8:57it to the studio and then I listen back,
242. 8:58I'm like, "Yeah, crispy.
243. 9:03[music]
244. 9:09[music]
245. 9:17[music]
246. 9:22>> [music]
247. 9:26[music]
248. 9:28>> favorite UK artist right now. Do you
249. 9:30know who I'm who I'm rating right now? I
250. 9:31would I wouldn't say favorite UK artist,
251. 9:33you know, cast from Liverpool. Yeah.
252. 9:36>> Yeah. He's hard.
253. 9:36>> He's cold. Like he like when when his
254. 9:38freestyles pop up like I'm literally
255. 9:40there like doing the stank face.
256. 9:42Yeah, the 110 one.
257. 9:45>> He done he done a new one recently
258. 9:46still.
259. 9:47>> And it's just like the things that he
260. 9:48says and the way he's like he's cold
261. 9:50still.
262. 9:51>> Yeah. He articulates his verse as well,
263. 9:53don't he?
264. 9:54>> Just like so clear. [music]
265. 10:00[music]
266. 10:06Anything else? We're going to check
267. 10:07arcade. See [singing and music] if we
268. 10:08got any like vocal
269. 10:11>> any like vocal lines.
270. 10:15>> Oh, like a phrase or something.
271. 10:16>> Yeah, that's where they're actually
272. 10:17saying.
273. 10:17>> Yeah.
274. 10:25>> It saves the day sometimes.
275. 10:30>> Run this through the vocal template.
276. 10:40>> [music]
277. 10:44>> I know you got
278. 10:47[music]
279. 10:55heat.
280. 10:58[music]
281. 11:00Heat. Heat. N.
282. 11:05[music]
283. 11:10Heat. Heat. N.
284. 11:15[music]
285. 11:20Heat. Heat. N.
286. 11:25[music]
287. 11:30Heat. Heat. [music]
288. 11:37[music and singing]
289. 11:44Heat. Heat. [music]
290. 12:10>> [music]
291. 12:24[music]
292. 12:34>> Is it sounding cold?
293. 12:36[music] All right, girl.
294. 12:41[music]
295. 12:58[music]
296. 12:58Always
297. 13:04[music]
298. 13:11pay [music] for a snap or two.
299. 13:17[music]
300. 13:25>> [music]
301. 13:29>> We hearing on this one headache. Yeah, I
302. 13:31can hear Eddie on his side still.
303. 13:34Eddie Drer. Eddie Drer. [music]
304. 13:50Yeah. One more. One more. [music]
305. 14:02[music]
306. 14:03Heat. Heat. N.
307. 14:08[music]
308. 14:13[music]
309. 14:29tie though. Which
310. 14:30>> one you preferring out the three? You
311. 14:32got a favorite?
312. 14:34>> Maybe that one, you know, but maybe
313. 14:35that's recency bias. That one's rolling.
314. 14:37You see? See, like me, like I like I
315. 14:39think I quite like you. I like the dark
316. 14:41hard [ __ ] You know what I'm saying?
317. 14:42Like it's it's got to be like if I've
318. 14:44got briefs and I've got little things
319. 14:45I'm following, I'll go into different
320. 14:47bags.
321. 14:47>> Don't know why I'm just Yeah, I'm always
322. 14:49drawn to the dark [ __ ] That's it, man.
323. 14:51Keys as well. It's something about just
324. 14:53those keys, those B minors, those C
325. 14:55minors, the 808 hits different. You know
326. 14:57what I'm saying? Everything just
327. 14:59>> That one's cold. code.