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The hybrid concept for me is about taking my acoustic instruments which I dearly love over the years
and my electronics which I also dearly love and fusing them together. So the idea is
I take my acoustic sound, my electronic sound and play whatever sound I want, together.
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With this sort of hybrid setup you can do anything, for example, behind me I have an
acoustic setup with a couple of hybrid elements. So this snare drum can be a hand clap. This
floor tom here can be a sub-trap or a bass line. IT can do anything.
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Obviously most of you will know the kind of history behind a drum set, dating back centuries
and centuries. With electronics its obviously more recently. For me, when I first started
playing electronics it was kind of mid 80s. There was Kraftwerk, playing all this crazy
electronica stuff and I saw Bill Bruford I think it was 85 or 86, playing these amazing
crazy Tama setup and he had a Simmons pad in there, those crazy hexagonal pads, and he
was playing the hybrid kit. I also used to listen to Nick Mason and Nick used to play
a lot of hybrid stuff. And then more recently I was staying in xxxx and went to the Neil
Peart and he was a massive influence of mine - and he was the perfect example for me of
hybrid, where he would take all these amazing acoustic drum sounds and fuse them with electronics
so all the Rush things that you heard on the album, he'd recreate those sounds live. It was truely mind
blowing.
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On this kit behind me, its obviously a traditional acoustic kit but I'm using little RT-10 triggers
fired off a drum module and I'm taking and I'm taking some of the most amazing phat sounds
or hip hop sounds or synthetic sort of 808 sounds and playing them over the acoustic.
They sound incredible. When I play my acoustic kit I know exactly where the sounds are going
to come from and what they're going to sound like. When I play electronics I've got to
choose where that sound comes from. Here's the answer.