Let's create Jungle/Drum&Bass like we're back in the 90s

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Time for another trip back to the 90s and ruff it up by creating old school jungle/drum&bass!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro and history
2:20 Samplers and breaks
6:58 GPU Audio sponsored section
8:07 Let the bass boom
10:39 Rave Flava, dark pads n' bells (Atmospheric elements)
13:00 Re-rewind to da hardcore vibes (Vocal samples)
14:50 The final full track
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[@margosdesarian]

I lived in London and the radio waves were filled with pirate Jungle radio stations - it was fantastic!

[@AmeyahOfficialTV]

Damn the endresult sounds like directly from the 90s. So well done!

[@Estuera]

Thanks!

[@ZachNa]

Literally the only channel that helps me understand how to make this stuff, and what a great genre to recreate.

[@Estuera]

A lot of fun to research and create as well!

[@ZachNa]

@@Estuera Please make more videos on Sample Based House music theres not enough old school tutorials.

[@Estuera]

Garage is still on my list amongst things.

[@RaverOperatorGeeza]

@@Estuera or more jungle (if I can interject...), and some old skool hardcore Tekno and jungle tekno, and Ragga jungle, then Some piano house ♥️ I'm asking a lot, I'm sorry 🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@smsno1]

Stranjah! Look him up!

[@SatanicJamnic]

Jungle is still the best genre. I can't believe not many people still create in this aesthetic. It's so sick.

[@Guzik124]

there's plenty of people on sc that are keeping this genre alive

[@vexathebassinjector]

like me label da demolition squad baby!

[@sparkleeangel]

Jungle has been getting huuuuuge with Gen Z kids, just has different aesthetics now

[@JohnWayniac]

Not sure where you're from, but it well and truly alive in the UK. Constant releases, vinyl and digital. Plenty of labels from all round the world with bit too.

[@vexathebassinjector]

@@JohnWayniac thing is this tune stranjah made here is more drum n bass and not many people at all make this style :(

[@joshherreramusic]

This is the perfect drum and bass tutorial video: you acknowledged hardware, history, produced great work and did it in a way that was easy to follow/understand.

[@jeannetitor]

ah yes the sound of growing up on the ps1 and n64 soundtracks... nostalgic and honestly quite often ahead of its time, never gets old and works just about everywhere

[@DarkMeta_Minecraft]

the jungle room always draws you away from the main room, then you just melt into the lights, lasers, smoke and sounds while bass cabinets vibrate your every atom

[@anggrimunki]

16:30 To me this is such a mid 90s sound, like 94-96. Fucking love it!

[@emphatic001]

We used to call this Breakbeat (before Jungle) back in the day. The drums here have a nice Alec Empire vibe.

[@urmumsbaps]

Breakbeat isn't the same thing.

[@Strafuzz]

We used to call it Hardcore before jungle

[@fieldoregon6679]

wow i remember alec empire he made nasty jungle/breakcore

[@Repayola]

I'm 18 and I wish I could go back in time to the 90s to witness this jungle culture. Loved the tutorial and the final result is fire! 🔥

[@Its_JustTaku]

You missed out lol! Grand Turismo was like my founding father of Jungle lol

[@Repayola]

@@Its_JustTaku used to play GT4 with my dad and loved the soundtrack! Still missing those jungle hits though hahah

[@Tweaked818]

I need to go play gran turismo tf i’ve been sleeping on it

[@Its_JustTaku]

@@Tweaked818 facccctttssss

[@matthewcornwell9643]

I wish there was a way of knowing when your in "the good old days" As good as it was at the time (we were all young, and the world was a very different place) I would guess that very few people knew that they were living through a classic era at the time. Maybe I am wrong and just didn't pick up on it myself. I still think that because vinyl was king at the time, a lot of time and money went into putting a tune out, and so that acted as a type of quality control maybe? Maybe I am just waffling nonsense..either way it was a special time and I look back on it with fond memories.

[@h3rdo]

You so nailed it. Absolute 90’s banger! I’m a teenager again thanks to you.

[@Estuera]

My pleasure!

[@mutzbunny]

it is crazy and insane, how this kind of music manages to give me nostalgia. it gives me nostalgia, of a time, thati never had, and never experianced. when that music was popular, i did not exist, and i was not born for another like 5 years after that. but i still feel like i remember it. i remember the time. the time where i wasnt even alive....

[@Estuera]

There must be a name for that feeling. I get it myself with some 70s music.

[@FoxerTails]

I mean, I would say Jungle and Drum & Bass were still popular by the late 90s and spilling into the early 2000s. In fact, like Jonas said, it was used in popular media such as video games, movies, and even commercials. For me personally, I was born in 1998 and was encountering these 90s genres mostly in games found in the 5th and 6th generation game consoles.

[@digitalduch1111]

@@FoxerTails In London it's still pretty popular. You can even hear it occasionally as background-music in supermarkets. And I'm not talking about small shops, I mean Tesco's and Sainsburys big markets.

[@Ninzumecha]

Such a special time, still waiting for the new youth to do something this exciting… it’s not gonna happen is it… we were spoilt

[@urmumsbaps]

@@digitalduch1111 you're talking absolute nonsense. No supermarket is playing jungle bangers buddy... you've probably just heard a break sampled in a pop song.

[@css172]

5:26 wow I've heard so many happy hardcore tracks from the late 90's using that sample. Thanks for showing how you made it. Final track is amazing oh the nostalgia!!!

[@Estuera]

Thanks!

[@diegoveloso3rd]

This sample reminds me of the powerpuff girls lol. Listen to the show's intro. At the time I was too young to recognize drum&bass

[@finitesound]

It's the most famous sample in the world. The amen break.

[@diegoveloso3rd]

@@finitesound I watched a vid about that after reading your comment. Pretty cool how its everywhere

[@KNURKonesur]

@@diegoveloso3rd Powerpuff Girls intro had the Funky Drummer sample AFAIR

[@StereoAnthony]

This is the greatest time in history to be into music technology!! The fact we have wonderful and talented folks like this that learn all these invaluable things about this history of rave music, distills them down FOR FREE for those of us that are interested. Just WOW!

[@Estuera]

My pleasure :) Love to deep dive into these genres and share my findings.

[@benh7107]

Imagine what comes next...

[@LxcheeMusic]

this is extremely accurate to the real jungle sound bro

[@iggysixx]

I love how this is a history lesson, and a tutorial on breakbeats, samplers, Ableton, and an entire genre (that I still love to bits)

[@deeman3000]

Perfect - to complete the sound it’d have to be broadcast over a dodgy FM transmitter and played back in my Ford Fiesta as I drive along the South Circular.

[@zoltar808]

Started listening to this on my iPhone, didn’t take long for me to realise I needed to fire up the hifi and subwoofer. 🔊

[@Estuera]

Need to feel that sub indeed

[@russelledwards001]

It’s jungle is there any other way?

[@funkysmell]

My man

[@Seekdnb]

Well done. That would be a vinyl release in 93-94 for sure.

[@softservomusic]

Man, I remember hours spent with my first laptop and a secondhand copy of Reason 2 trying to do the exact thing you're doing in this series. I knew nothing about music production.

[@deltahomicide9300]

Yes! Reason 2.5 then my hard drive crashed and I only backed up my breaks and hardcore songs 😭

[@PapyPetitPois]

I love the fact that you dig into the genres history before making sounds. I never had found this before, or at least with that concern. I find it pleasing ! Thank you 😊 Time to watch !

[@Estuera]

My pleasure. I'm personally always very interested in both the why and the how so I try to make these videos with that in mind.

[@Raydensheraj]

For me - personally - still the absolute pinnacle....the greatest Mastering of Studiogear...mid to end 90ies Drum & Bass like Goldie's "Timless" LP , Metalheadz Platinum Breakz 1 & 2 or the Atmospheric Drum & Bass Compilations 1 thru 5 ( Millennium Records....especially Volumne 1 which was mixed by DJ Wildchild ).... It had everything...Breakbeats, Sub Bass or Melodic basslines, Pads, Leads, Strings, Jazz elements, Vocals...it even can work in a live environment like Goldie, 4 Hero, Phoneheads, Roni Size, EZ Rollers and others perfectly show....just look at Gioldie & The Heritage Orchestra, 4 Hero at the Mercury Music Prize, Phoneheads Live in Tonhalle etc So....Drum & Bass is an incredible style for anyone that feels it...just alone the fun sampling, cutting, twisting your breakbeat samples...then getting the frequencies right, add filter sweeps...or timestretching or phaser...whatever sounds tight...etc...its a dream for anyone that wants to produce - what I think - to be the greatest Style of Electronic Music. It takes a real Studio Wizard to produce a "classic" where other producers just shake their heads and ask "How did he do that!!!" Drum & Bass always has had this "Studio sport" thing to it...who can produce the next futuristic banger....

[@multi_rosa]

Gonna be checking out these recs 💯

[@Zaumar.]

The final song was so cool. The human evolution quote is from the X-Men movie (2000)

[@Estuera]

correct ✅

[@johntammaro]

Was wondering the other day when you would give us another master class. Love jungle. Big up big up

[@Estuera]

It was about time indeed

[@lairdtomfrenchelectromusic2545]

How to go to bed more educated at night? By watching a video of Estuera necessarily! It is always a pleasure to follow you Jonas, thank you for sharing. :)

[@Estuera]

My pleasure

[@patrickc8007]

Honestly when it comes to 90s electronic music i like Drum&Bass as much as i love trance.

[@erichobbs4042]

I used to listen to quite a bit of jungle back in the 90's, and it was so cool getting to see how it was produced.

[@TheDjcorey19]

I feel like I'm back in 1994 in my boys basement spinning on his 12's all over again. That was awesome

[@ghal3on]

Huge respect for using the sampler!!!! Well done, subbed

[@Estuera]

Welcome :)

[@Oli1974]

14:02 That time stretching still gives me the shivers. It sounds so eerie still to the day! Love the track you created here!

[@persona83]

My day gets much better with a new Estuera video! 👍👍 Sugestion for next videos: Hard House, UK Garage and Speed Garage.

[@Estuera]

Garage (both flavours) is on my list for sure. Especially now I have the old S1000 in the studio.

[@joefarren8511]

Agreed!

[@paulred158]

It’s like metalheadz in Camden on a Sunday night again.

[@JayKaufman]

Someone was listening to a lot of Omni Trio and Moving Shadow stuff in the 1990s. ;) I find it interesting that there's now a whole subgenre of music that recreates this sound but are modern productions. There's even UK Hardcore labels that are releasing new old school 1990s sounding stuff... The only thing that differs is the sonics and production is better, but it still sounds like it could have been done in the early 1990s.

[@BachelorMachinesTV]

Flashback to the hours and hours I spent cutting up breaks in Recycle and then loading them onto my sampler using the "ak.sys" utility, that was basically my 00s. Loved that stuff.

[@DJAndeKarmaRecordings]

We are making jungle exactly like the 90s!!

[@urmythicozzy]

What makes it so much easier to add variation this way is that you can sample any break and play it through the midi keyboard.

[@hoidoei941]

I remember this underwater theme videogame with dolphins on PS1 with an on board crappy DAW/Looper/musicmaker vibes, mostly jungle breakbeat and autotuned sinewave solo when smashing buttons.. kept me busy for hours.. Can’t remember the name but it was really dope for the time being

[@Estuera]

Ecco the dolphin?

[@hoidoei941]

@@Estuera I found it : ) kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6iqeH6Oeqese7c It was called Fluid from 1996, the attached video starts with great music too, but I specifically remember this atmospheric track at the 10min mark; the sinewave could be “improvised” by the cursorarrows on the left if I remember well : )

[@DanglyLingham]

I was amazed at how convincing the final track is. Excellent work.

[@WilliamAshleyOnline]

I am expecting the flare before the last but it keeps andling on the last "snarey" part, yet it feels like it should be rolling on the second last not the last. This does have a bit of that King of Jungles Mixtape that was first exposure to Jungle. This isn't halcyon jungle though this is more of an early vibe ex. 1994 or 1995 vs the more matured sounds in 1998 that tended to be more developed and anthemic etc..

[@twennysebben]

The track makes me want to find my old Toonami Deep Space Bass CD. 😌

[@Thought-Forms]

This is the sauce!! Love it, killer track. Akai sine wave bass = god mode. Lot of renewed interest in using old samplers to make jungle/dnb these days - fun process

[@Estuera]

Thanks! And sine bass from the S1000 I can feel all day! 😁

[@digitalduch1111]

Pete Canon did also a lot of great stuff with an Akai + Amiga set-up 🙂

[@Estuera]

Yes, seen those vids. Certainly an inspiration for this video.

[@leonvankammen7499]

Breakbeat Jungle can never be undone, it will forever be produced for all kinds of reasons ❤

[@RaverOperatorGeeza]

4:45 Thank you! I love making breakbeat old Skool but wondered why I still wasn't getting that sound I was looking for! Quality mate, thank you, subscriber ♥️

[@graffie]

It's always a great joy to see someone who is the same age, from the same country, listened to the same music and has also made music for years.

[@RandomNoiseMusic]

Like we used to say in the 90s, this is wicked!! 🙌the final results sounds freaking authentic! 🔥

[@srosted]

You have my vote for best channel on KZbin. Once again strike the perfect balance of history lessons and production techniques. ❤️ I'd love to challenge you to make something in the style of Alien Factory - Get The Future Started, mid 90s hard trance.

[@Estuera]

Thanks! And noted.

[@rich69694]

OMG yes! Huge Alien Factory fan here so I second this. I also second the nice comnents said above too. ☺🙏

[@srosted]

@@Estuera This challenge would also provide you an excuse for acquiring the mighty Kurzweil K2000, which was apparently their weapon of choice. You're welcome 😉

[@Raydensheraj]

@@rich69694 Alien Factory...lol....thats oldskool. Do you like Raver's Nature? You might like= Amorph - Sunflow Circuit - Transport of Love Attention Dimension - Gary D Love Stimulation - Humate (Lovemix by Paukl Van Dyk) DJ Hooligan - Culture Scooter - Rhapsody in E ( the only phenomenal track by them) Casseopaya - Musicmaker ( Love Mix )

[@project-95]

I never knew about the S950 test tone and now it explains *that* bass sound I've always loved, and all this time I thought it was a sampled 808. Great video!!

[@AnalogFlava]

same here man...never was able to get t with the 808, not that it cant be done.

[@philip6252]

A KZbinr who actually makes amazing music. Finally!

[@davidd5403]

Not my kinda sound but i was a teenager in the 90s and this sounds very authentic to what I heared those days, good work

[@michaelluciano1980]

16:20 NAILED IT

[@BsktImp]

Omni Trio; Moving Shadow; 4hero; Goldie; E-Z Rollers, JMJ; Hoax... Good times. Feeling 👴

[@stighelmer1265]

Me and a friend made some killer jungle tunes on FastTracker II back in the mid 90s. Had a hell of a time.

[@alessiotasco1289]

This was so enterateining, i love how you go deep into the origins of the sounds instead of just playing and arranging them in the track

[@p.ezequielariasvanlierde2067]

the right tickle to the ears

[@dnbkilla]

9:50 didnt know the history of reese creation) Thank you!

[@thomream1888]

I still can't believe there's a Dude under 60 that knows how to pronounce 'genre' correctly! A while back I was browsing the bookstore and two cute babes walked by chatting about books and stuff. Then one Einstein mentioned to the other Einstein she wanted to check out a new 'Jenner' - as in Bruce Jenner, or whatever he's into this week. Had a hard time not snorting Pepsi out my nose! I will give them props for actually being in a bookstore instead of the "Brain-Dead Shop For Crappy, Overpriced Clothing" store. I'm so new to this I don't even know the right questions to ask. Reading the comments helps me understand this channel is real, and the info is on it. What/where else should a noob be looking for info? Thanx!

[@Estuera]

Welcome 😁 What/where else you should look for info depends on what you are looking for specifically. Music production in general? Drum and bass specific?

[@DjNikGnashers]

Here in the UK DnB was quite underground, until Roni Size - Brown Paper Bag was heard booming out of every pub, shop, and taxi. Great tune but killed that underground scene here.

[@Wheresthepepsibismol]

Jungle and DnB is part of my childhood from playing the early Need For Speed games even though I'm more of a Electro Funk/Freestyle and Trance type of guy.

[@MichaelLoda]

Drum and bass and jungle will never die, wicked!

[@joman66]

I've tried searching previously how to create Drum and Bass/Jungle tracks but mostly what was available were forum posts and short videos on how to make specific instruments. This is the first one I've seen which goes in depth with great explanation!

[@jpbalx]

When I listen to this kind of music I get a feeling that is kind of hard to explain but you managed to put the very own aesthetic of this music both in words and video editing perfectly. Honestly, I genuinely appreciate your talent and the way you explain what this genre and other types of electronic music are all about. Plus, the finished track is an absolute banger. Keep it up!!

[@E_-_-]

You could do a whole series on "arrangement". How to change and (re)introduce parts without sounding jarring, track structures, etc It's done really well here, again

[@Estuera]

Certainly something I have been thinking about.

[@vhsx]

@@Estuera please do this. i’ve never seen it well done

[@rabmccudden683]

Great job as always. Brought me back to the mid 90’s sitting in Ken Damage’s bedroom blasting this stuff loud as hell.

[@reidbabbington8027]

Amazing video, ive seen lots of "90s Jungle" tutorials and none come close to this. The final result is spot on. Well done 👏

[@T.H.W.O.T.H]

Top explanation. Top track. Top visuals too. 🌻

[@solifuctioncorruption4343]

That amen brothers break. Reminds me of the PowerPuff girls

[@Estuera]

Why is that?

[@Spinnenkop]

Return of the king!

[@ottok5477]

5:26 I believe games as famous as unreal tournament have used this in their music. Great stuff! Drum&Bass is epic and unreal!

[@alasdairbreingan3967]

Great job! Would love it if you could recreate a Bouncy Techno track from the 90’s, like early Scott Brown or Bass Generator style track 🙌.

[@nexuzeb79]

Another delightful demonstration by Estuera, thank you, Sir!

[@asdifasi5379]

good to be back bro,it was a pleasure to watch this episode! in mid 90 i always listened jungle/dnb and i tried to reproduce the sound .in lack of know how i coudn't come close to the sound. the gear i used was casio fz1,yamaha dx11 ,alesis mmt8 sequencer,digitech 128 effects in autumn of '97 when one of my relatives started a recording studio it was pure heaven.the king of the studio was an akai s1100 also he had a w30 ,sh 101, juno 106 ,an1x .akai s1100 has all you need for jungle 2 types of timestrech, dozens of effects,8 individual outputs and so on! next month it comes with an amiga500 with octamed for an another level of sequencing. good old days!

[@Estuera]

That studio certainly sounds like a place you had to drag me away from kicking and screaming if I would have been there in the 90s 😁

[@MaximErased]

You have a very good understanding how things work in different genres! Really enjoy watching your videos!

[@roadmanlarry853]

Jonas is love. Jonas is life.

[@Estuera]

😄😅

[@vectorhold6489]

Bad ass. Memories of '94 come flooding back. Reminds me of old Aquasky and Omni Trio jams.

[@YOBAMUSTDIE]

Interesting barely unknown fact - Prodigy invented jungle and invented term drum and bass to describe it. Charly trip into drum n bass version seems to be earliest track that has all jungle elements already shaped. And while some tracks that sort of considered as jungle was released earlier they still has less jungle sound than Charly remix from album, so you can really call it 1st true jungle track as many tracks in jungle followed similar sound patterns. And the term drum and bass is first ever time mentioned in this remix, you will not find any earlier usage of term. But thing is that prodigy used drum n bass term even before jungle term become used, but irony is that prodigy invented term drum and bass started to get used years later when what supposed to be drum and bass but was called jungle evolved into new thing that finally got deserved named that was waiting to stick to genre since Charly.

[@jordonvazquez7620]

I'm glad Drum and Bass is making a comeback.

[@puk182]

Soul is the sole.

[@karimayoubi74]

Nailed it. Brilliant explainer video. Valley Of The Shadows was the seminal track, the moment hardcore went dark and turned into jungle. I still remember that bass line dropping and blowing the roof off the Paradise Club.

[@MrGreenAKAguci00]

Wicked! Wicked! Jungle is massive!

[@hinsen]

Great. You can be transported back to the 90s again! From what I've heard it's common to use a tracker to produce this type of music, so instead of Cubase maybe Renoise would be a better choice.

[@Estuera]

Yes, trackers obviously were being used but also cubase on the Atari. Anyways. Using an old school sampler was hardcore enough for me 😅 But I actually used cubase to sequence midi just the same way you could have done in the olden days.

[@iKiWY]

There's some days where I'm like, I wish Estuera would make a vid about this genre, and then I open youtube a week later and there's the video about that genre, amazing

[@Estuera]

So which one will you think about next? 😁

[@iKiWY]

@@Estuera That would be too easy hehehe ;P we'll see where my musical discoveries take me next ❤

[@paulburkhart2619]

This was extremely fun, thank you.

[@Estuera]

my pleasure!

[@CorentinHarbelot]

Brings back a lot of memories, good ones. We were young. What a time.

[@equallystupid6820]

i said before and i'll say it again - best channel on yt

[@abyssaldesolation4064]

Insane visuals on the final track, good job

[@vivavideo-videofilmer]

As a Jungle, Drum n Bass Lover since 94, I welcome this Video from you , Jonas with deep love and respect. As always, great Video. Very insightful!

[@vivavideo-videofilmer]

by the way: I totally miss the "Vibes" from the Hardcore Sample...haha. It is so deep rooted in my mind, that I finish the sample with singing it in my mind. "Hardcore Vibes" is a great Happy Hardcore Track from Dune.

[@platypushatstand]

Thank you for educating me as to where so many of these tracks got their baseline hooks from ❤

[@digitalduch1111]

1 Month later. Listened several times to the final track. Still partying hard on it 🙂

[@jasonlogan5622]

It took me a while to get around to watching this, but I was not disappointed! Great work

[@therealdmarco6366]

That track turned out awesome! Good insight on how the drum sequences were built too. As a follow up to this I’d love to see you create a Speed Garage track. I think that would be a fun one to watch 🙌🏻

[@Estuera]

Speed garage is on the list indeed

[@therealdmarco6366]

@@Estuera Woohoo 🙌🏻 I’m a little bit excited ngl!

[@tweeleaf]

omg finally! this is absolutely awesome.

[@draggonhedd]

i think its super cool how you're showing all the ways to do the basic samples, and already I'm hearing so many of the tracks I grew up with. I also think its kind of interesting that you're showing the "real" ways to do all this when I've only seen how to do it with trackers on the Amiga to get basically the same sounds I've seen a little bit of how its done, watching Bizzy B do his amiga+akai videos, but still. I love this.

[@Estuera]

There are multiple 'real ways'. People were using whatever was available to them.

[@draggonhedd]

@@Estuera Yeah its so cool, I love this stuff.

[@benhall2235]

Trackers are just as much the real way. I’m fact loads of 90’s jungle masterpieces were made on Amiga and Atari trackers.

[@draggonhedd]

@@benhall2235 i'm aware, i put "real" in quotes for lack of a better term for what I meant.

[@benhall2235]

@@draggonhedd oh sorry, fair enough

[@issabeganovic8822]

*_🏎️ RACING GAMES BABY! 🏁_*

[@Paul-Carson]

Jungle is the best. 90s was the best, your videos are the best.

[@jfidel3943]

Yes! Just last week I got into DnB from one of your older videos... been making some myself when I saw you uploaded this! Awesome!

[@christianvictor827]

That comes exactly at the right moment since I tripped over M-Beat/General Levy a few days ago and got hooked again! Also X-Men. 😄

[@d.control3107]

Love the video and the song. Great job again.

[@stockwellengineeringhints3527]

So good! You always make it seem very easy, but really it isn't. I guess that comes with experience!

[@Estuera]

Thanks!

[@sonicunleashed-topic150]

Love seeing you upload always a treat, great video!!

[@hpuredatalover]

thanks for uploading! We were starting to miss you.

[@nkogliaz]

Drum & Bass, the shapeshifter of Electronic Dance Music.