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My real name is James Jakob.
I am otherwise known as Jakwob.
I produce Dubstep, primarily for club.
I also produce a variety of other kinds of music for other artists as well.
Constantly gigging. Making music all the time.
The drop idea, and the wobble idea, came from the house aspect of Dubstep.
One big heavy bass line and... so distinct through the track.
There were a lot of wobble tracks, there were a lot of big bass heavy tracks.
So there will be a build up and then something will stop
and then something very, very clean and simple will happen.
And that little bit that like....
you need to go change your underwear or something like that.
That's the drop element, yes.
There's probably not many people in the world who would be like,
"They've definitely used that and they've definitely done this, this and this, to create that sound."
Cause they're such awkward sounds, they're such weird kind of sounding things.
I think they have to be kind of a combination of accidents really.
Before I even started making this style of music I got drawn towards it
because I've listened to Regge since I was born,
I love Regge, and then I played in Metal bands.
This is perfect. This just seems to work really, really well.
Just completely using Reason and Record.
I'm using Record now, solely.
Everything musically that happens is recorded and automated and edited everything in Record.
I got my first laptop and that's when I had Reason 2.
And I was just, I could use it in my front room, my kitchen,
sit in my bedroom and play with it and then go into the studio room
and hook it up to speakers and then blast it out and see what I had made
and then really go into the sounds and perfect them.
This is the first thing, this is how it's made.
I originally made it in Reason.
I thought this one is getting a bit muddy, the original was kind of like, if I added a bit...
one of two more elements to it, it would just be getting all
muffled and I wouldn't be able to...
I'd have to EQ it by putting EQs on each individual component
but with Record I could put it all in and make new mix channels for each one
and it would be a lot cleaner and a lot more EQed and, I don't know....
there would be a lot more space between the sounds.
Overall this is just amazing and to have it in different windows as well,
to have one arrangement in one of the mixer, and the other in... it's just brilliant
so I can just listen to the track and do the automation.
It's just really, really handy.
There were three bass lines going on here and then there's this sample.
An orchestral sample, which is at a point where I was like,
"I definitely, definitely want to start using strings in my music."
So there's one that's got LFO going on then there's one that's got nothing on it.
They're exactly the same sample I use and kind of crossfade them into each other.
The effect is a bit more rhythmical than just having straight stings so it's...
About a month ago I kind of made these sounds that I was probably
first trying to make on Reason when I heard this record,
there is this track by "The Others", they're from London.
I was just like, "I need to be able to make this sound."
"How the hell did they make this?"
It's a Malstrom sound actually.
OK, so I got two Malstroms up. Took out the main output of the top one.
Then put the output into the input of the bottom one,
then this is the thing that you're not going to have access to, is my presets [laughing].
So, I've got my preset there and preset here. And then, so this is kind of...
And then you can do like...you can even add an arpeggiator on there...
I'm not 100 percent sure how it works, but it does.
Two years ago it was like, "Alright, I'm making music in my room."
and then a year later it was like, "Alright, I've got a manager, agent."
and then I got a lawyer and it was like, "Oh, crap."
Now I've got a live agent and then
within a week of having a live agent I had a year of gigs.
Oh ***, *** got serious.
Now I'm making music, really making music. For real .
Like, people are going to hear this music.
I can't go to another piece of software and use it.
It's not because I haven't taken the time it's just because...I have,
I've tried everything but it just seems the way that I like to lay things out
and things are rooted, and you can see things physically and be hands on
with something that is completely different.
There's no real set rules or ways you should work.
You can read manuals and stuff but the best things I've made have always been
through accidents and through experimentation.
Do absolutely anything and don't be peer pressured in
by anybody or anything you watch or read, to do things a certain way.
Experiment loads, don't be scared of trying new things.
I guess that's the, that's one of the best bit of advice I'd probably tell them.
Yes.