Let's create happy hardcore like we're back in the 90s

[@bastiaanvanhoorn6306]

Gotta love the combination of in-depth cultural knowledge, spot-on production and of course the delicious dutch accent. You got another sub!

[@KCinSD84]

90's happy hardcore will always be my guilty pleasure!

[@pipapopipapo2056]

U need the real stuff from the UK back then.

[@SkyBlue-px1tc]

Don't feel guilty. Progressive & Trance is way more embarrassing:)

[@hermanthetosser4219]

​@@pipapopipapo2056 love it all UK breakbeat stuff, happy hardcore from UK and holland

[@DaerrizNoize]

😂

[@paulreynolds5751]

dont feel guilty. embrace it. hardcore to the bone

[@dave_s_vids]

That was magnificent! Totally like a time-machine taking me back to being a happy 14yo wandering around with my walkman on listening to Dreamscape and HelterSkelter tape packs

[@notenoughram3312]

vibes n livelee! whistle posse blow blow!

[@carlbuckler1807]

Haha exactly the same here + Fusion tape packs. Brilliant great video. Very nostalgic indeed, rate this music highly actually.

[@My_man_G_UK]

Takes me back to being 12, working on the fairgrounds in 1997! Hold tight RIP Miller's Amusements, Leeds UK Would love to see/ hear you make a track with Pete Cannon ❤️

[@KaceyBakerFilms]

Man please release an album with all your throwback stuff.

[@KaceyBakerFilms]

Just bought your album on bang camp!

[@Estuera]

Thanks!

[@Casketkrusher_]

There are still people who make authentic 90's happy hardcore and gabber, like me!

[@freakanoizer]

me too! not very good at it, but it's fun

[@sn0wt1ger]

When most people leave comments saying how they are producers they are usually egotistical with bad music, but I've just listened to some of your stuff and it's so good honestly.

[@XRavemc]

me too))

[@DJChrisNeon]

I've got some of your work on a few Japanese releases I've acquired ❤

[@tmxboom]

OH MAN, this is incredible! You captured every single sound that is important in happy hardcore, the m1 piano, classic synths and the kicks with this amazing bass. Brilliant!!!

[@dat1boi800]

ain’t no way you actually did my request, thank you

[@tehedx]

Back then, Walkmans had a little pot on the bottom for pitch control. With sped up happy hardcore, I could cycle even faster to school! Thanks for this video Jonas, good to see you again and it worked out really well!

[@growingup15]

man if you didn't tell me that he final track you created wasn't from today I would of thought it was just a remastered Mid 90s Happy Hardcore song. Please make more of this style of music. :) I was born in 1991 but didn't hear my first Happy Hardcore song until 2007 on KZbin when Happy Hardcore had a resurgence thanks to Nightcore and Anime Music Videos taking over. It wasn't until later in life that I realized the majority of my Favorite Happy Hardcore songs or Nightcore'd versions were from the Mid to late 90s. Now the 90s Early 2000s sound is having a comeback again as of late. I love it. This sound is timeless.

[@triptechable]

Looking forward to this! I was a happy rave from 93-98. Best time of my life!

[@dussie920]

I second that! 🙂

[@gav1233]

What is/was your favorite happy hardcore record label? I wasn’t born yet during that time, but my favorite is probably Pengo.

[@dussie920]

@@gav1233 Ahh Pengo, nice one. I have some records from Pengo. Critical Mass - Burning Love for example! 🙂

[@Pushing_the_cathinone_limits_]

@@gav1233 kniteforce

[@PoorRoleModel]

Man just when I think the video can't get any better... You have an ad timer too. You are an absolute rockstar, and gift to the production community.

[@nubman41]

the inclusions of the ms-dos demos at the end caught me severely off guard, great vid!

[@IchBinCaptainIglo]

There are days I regret wasting my time on KZbin. Then there are days I discover channels like this. Amazing work!

[@BartWronsk]

The end result sounds great (totally would rave to it, an absolute banger for the dancefloor), and I love your insider insights about the history, used synths, scene. :) Your channel is always so refreshing from other (also great) KZbin music channels that mostly focus on specific contemporary genres and modern production methods.

[@Pushing_the_cathinone_limits_]

So glad to have been a part of this scene. Always nice to revisit occasionally ! Choon gives me Paul Elstak vibes. Time to grow a moustache maybe ?

[@Estuera]

I kind of already have a moustache 🧔‍♂️

[@karlt3026]

What an absolute banger man! Top tier content for us nostalgic people

[@mrfister1899]

Your videos are so good. A great balance of music history and technical information. Having now seen a couple of videos about music that I'm very familiar with, I can be certain that whatever the subject matter, it's always authentic. Right down to the visuals. Brilliant work. Thank you

[@Shin3y]

I love this, I was born well after the hardcore scene was active, and “radio friendly” but have always loved the retro hardcore styles, I am a modern hardcore producer but I will definitely take some of these tips into account

[@brammeijer5411]

as a 19 year old Dutchie, i obviously haven’t been there in the 90s, but to me this gives me a lot of nostalgia for the 2010s gabber/happy hardcore revival and my own childhood, so i absolutely love it!

[@Luckyball8]

Wow, the track fits 200% on the genre!! Perfect job

[@beinghappy1312]

The prodigy called, they want their song back

[@Timecop1983]

Hele vette video! Nodigt uit om zelf ook weer aan de slag te gaan mey Happy Hardcore! 😎

[@mudi2000a]

If I just heard this without knowing that you made this for the video I would have thought it is an authentic track from the 90s 👍

[@brad7957]

As a hardstyle fan for 15 years, hearing a Dutch say "kick" always gets me excited :D

[@AleScala]

You've brought a big smile on my face more than once during the making of. All those samples I grew up with... and the final result is absolutely brilliant. Also, the quality of your videos is always on top. What can one ask more? Ah, yes... a time machine ;)

[@B1SCOOP]

14:18 my favourite moment. You don't often hear polyphonic melodies in EDM.

[@Estuera]

Yes, it all comes together in a very satisfying way at that point.

[@ianbeepower8542]

It makes want to see a rainbow high in the sky 🌈

[@Estuera]

It makes me smile every night and day

[@m0-m0597]

Ellessdee

[@dancewithpianosteve]

It makes me flying high..

[@PainekattilaStudiosOfficial]

This sounds a bit like that song.

[@francescof.9290]

I'm in love with 90's happy hardcore

[@Tiesdk]

Amazing as always!!

[@DJVasC]

Oh Yes, good to see you active on your channel! Can’t wait to see it online!

[@randallross420]

Happy 2B Hardcore was my intro to this stuff. fun times

[@sneekeruk]

14:05 was from Jesus on E's by LSD on the Amiga, and I think 16:08 was from meybe second reality on the pc. The track was amazing, Happy Hardcores always been a guilty pleasure since the early 90's when I was still at school.

[@MisterExcelsior]

Thank you so much for this content, From the pianos to the choir this video is a gem for me

[@russianvoodoo]

Glad I’ve tuned in to this random FM radio show this night. Time to hit record on my cassette player, so I could play this on my school party and see how girls from my class party to this.

[@Estuera]

It certainly beats showing off your flippo collection :D

[@russianvoodoo]

​@@Estuera I had to google this. We had those here in Russia in the 90s, but they were from all sorts of brands. That was the crypto coins of my childhood. But pirated casetes were a big deal for sure. I've traded some rap album for a Modo album (you know, Gut-gut Supergut...just found out recently that this german singing guy was italian lol). Later had a chance to find Music for the Jilted Generation and hardcore (live Thunderdome VA) was in that chain too. What a times!

[@Estuera]

Probably has a lot to do with nostalgia but it seems the 90s were good times indeed.

[@xVampireAngelWolfx]

Thanks!

[@LucVNO]

Hardcore will never die! #1 at the front of the hardcore dancefloor till the day Im in the ground. Day after even.

[@Maboidatboi]

It is funny to read this, cause hardcore died years ago.

[@LucVNO]

@tobiasflou6196 and yet just thus weekend, I went to a bar .got drunk and they played not just hardcore all night, but even happy hardcore for an hour. Your opinion is useless to me.

[@krz9000]

Wonderfull days indeed

[@JDelwynn]

KZbin recommendations are crap 99% of the time, no matter how many times I tell it that I don't care about cars, Minecraft, Fortnite or local American news, sometimes it does hit the jackpot like this gem of a channel!

[@Estuera]

🎉 Yay for a system that (sometimes) works

[@KattKirsch]

Yayyyyy! So happy to have you back!!

[@Dayta]

i just came on this by accident and like around 11:45 .. man wow i was blown that harmony change on the actual vocal or let say the change of the harmonys this vocal was actualy beeing sung over back then ... awesome execution love it :) .. im gonna check more in the future gotta go for the moment but let me tell you this is awesome work my friend ... (i was playing as dj back then like 1990-2010 and ive jumped around to elstak keeping the spirit alive .... man i just got chills just thinking about that time it was soooooooooooooo much positivity like .. i cant put that into words just ighnore what im writing listen to the track you produced it it is so oon point it sais it all

[@paintedfoxes9889]

Happy hardcore is what got me into jungle , years later i became a french house producer . I still love the crap out of this sound

[@lawts78]

An absolute brilliant video. Love the trippy video for the tune at the end too. Amazing break down of everything.

[@npche9865]

Loved this video bro. What a blast from the past.

[@musiquemacabre]

Super fun watch, and video at the end, priceless throwback!

[@PBromide]

I never realized how dense the percussion in happy hardcore was. A lot of layers going on. Thank you for breaking it down!

[@draggonhedd]

Found your channel the other day through the new DNB Video and i really love you exploring all these genres i grew up with. It's super fun and nostalgic

[@Analogsoup]

Awesome video Jonas!. Pure Authentic 90’s ! I appreciate all of your videos! Your detailed explanation of 90’s hardware and how it was used is a real treat. Espen Kraft is the 80’s YOU ARE THE 90’s!

[@Estuera]

Thanks!

[@wunsemusic867]

I love what you came up with there, great job keeping Happy Hardcore alive!

[@djshineboy]

Spot on ! If you created this in the 90’s it would be in the charts ! This needs to be in my 90’s happy hardcore DJ setlist.

[@Estuera]

Born 10 years too late 😁

[@Fir1-t3d]

Amazing video! You Gotta make Some UK hardhouse (Tony de vit / lisha lashes style and the donk style of it, Scouse house/ bounce etc.

[@CrashBangWallop-WAV]

Um....I'm going to dig my happy hardcore cds out...but this...is better. This is absolutely brilliant.

[@davidmartinez-zn3wo]

I'm glad you're back man; It's been a while

[@axemanracing6222]

Re-visiting and still loving it.

[@mickdtd]

Every time I hear the end result of whatever you make it brings a huge smile to my face. Great job as always!

[@sergiogonzalesYT]

Wow! Such amazing thing to see work in progress and final song.

[@robvermeulen]

Hahaha I enjoyed the end result quite lot! Thanks 🙏 Also for using the demoscene visuals, which brought back even more memories of good times.

[@MrBlackmaxDK]

Graphics at 14:00 takes me back to watching demos on my Amiga 500 :D

[@nolesy34]

Those synth backing tracks were quite nice 👌

[@dussie920]

M1 piano percussive chords and arpeggios, chopped up Amen breaks, 909 drums, Juno Alpha stabs... This is going to be my cup of tea! :D Bring it on Jonas!!

[@Estuera]

😎

[@dussie920]

@@Estuera Someone get us some white doves or blue Mitsubishis, because Estuera is gonna throw some uplifting "shit"!!

[@dussie920]

@@Estuera Holy cow Jonas! This was the best video in the "Let's make... like we're back in the 90's"!! This was just spot on. I always love the M1 piano's and the offbeat LatelyBass. They never get old and they both cut through the mix like nothing else. It's good to see how clean the Roland Alpha sounds after all those years. And I have to mention how nice, clean and organized your new home studio looks. You will be a happy person working there. Thank you for this incredible upload. Let it be inspiring to lots of people.

[@Estuera]

Thanks! My pleasure :) Lots of fun to make this track for the video. And working in the new studio has been really great indeed. No spaghetti of wires on the floor, I can actually get behind the equipment if needed and it obviously doesn't feel cramped anymore.

[@dussie920]

@@Estuera It is nice to have space to be in front of the gear, but man is good to have space on the back end of it! My room is not big enough to be able to walk around the gear and that's a pain in the ass sometimes. Especially without patchbays. Glad I bought a few :D

[@originalman01]

I was just thinking about Basshunter today and this vid popped up. Thanks for sharing some awesome tunes

[@Housemusic90]

Helemaal top man! Toen je die M1 begon te spelen kreeg ik dikke flashbacks. Wat een heerlijke tijd waren de jaren 90 toch!!

[@Estuera]

Zeker 😁

[@sirlikealot]

Really cool to see you dissect the style of that era and produce something that would have fitted in perfectly. Cheers mate 🙂

[@bocmanize]

Cool! You are come back! Very interesting new video! Thank you and i will wait for the new videos!

[@outerspacebass]

This is actually really good! 😍 🕺. Also enjoyed seeing era accurate synths/modules being used. (Nice alphaJuno with the programmer)

[@vincentvanhelden3398]

Ay makker, ik wil je effe bedanken voor deze reeks van videos die je over het produceren van hardcore hebt gemaakt. Je houd hierdoor de cultuur nog in leven en je zorgt er ook nog voor dat mensen die later geboren zijn wat van vroeger mee krijgen en dit ook kunnen leren produceren. Je bent echt een held man! Dankjewel!

[@Estuera]

Dank je!

[@carlbuckler1807]

Good to see you back posting videos!

[@landersmolders3724]

This video made me smile so many times. I'm 15 years old and i love happy hardcore so much. It always makes me feel good and i'm sad because they don't make it anymore the same way as they used to do it in the 90s. I wish i was born sooner.

[@jitplaya]

was born after all of this type of music (trance/hardcore/techno/house/acid) but ive always grown up around it and i love it my uncle worked in nightclubs and at raves and he still has all his gatecrasher and ministry of sound cds as well as some nice ones like cafe del mar and house classics like hardrive thanks jonas for showing an enjoyable, informative presentation of how happy hardcore was made as well as all your other lets create videos, i really love watching them

[@djpapakuma]

Great video and track!

[@CSMAudioEngineering]

Fantastic video, Jonas! Instantly took me back to the 90s. I also love all the background information like pointing out which sound originally came from which synth. Keep up the great work!

[@sherub9608]

Full album please :D will buy

[@unykan]

Would be nice to get this music back on the radio

[@hpuredatalover]

The man keeping the spirit alive. Don't ever stop

[@Fnirr]

Damn this is so good! And your music video production is on point! Love it!

[@wojciechszost3619]

That's one of the ABSOLUTELLY BEST happy HC tracks I've listened ever! The final effect is simply SPLENDID! ^^

[@DrGrooveBeat]

My favourite KZbin music tutorial of all time! Loved it!!

[@smellymala3103]

God reach’d down to my heart through this KZbin title

[@KeirMurphy]

That's a banger. You nailed the Elstak vibe - I could "hear" what was coming next in my brain before it played haha!

[@sebco7854]

This is simply amazing man! I don't know anything about music production whatsoever and just stumbled upon this video. Really love the music form this era, so it was really interesting to see! The track turned out amazing! Subscribed :)))

[@Estuera]

Thanks!

[@BboySalamon]

Thanks a lot bro. Love this. In the style of early songs of my favorite Music Instructor.

[@rambozo_fpv176]

Nice demoscene style video to complete the 90s vibe.

[@Knuckism]

Estuera leuk om weer video's van je te zien! Deze gaat zeer zeker terug naar de jaren 90 , top gedaan en ook een erg leuke track!

[@REBELRAVEBOY]

Had to come back to this, it has the perfect 95 sound, just freaking amazing!!

[@George-hh7gn]

Awesome video, thanks for the trip down memory lane!

[@markloodewijk527]

Definitely waiting for this one. I guess I’ll be making a happy hardcore track afterwards. I tend to do music in the style after your videos. Probably will finish in the next 5 to 10 years as always.

[@markloodewijk527]

Update: I have made 3 songs, now I “only” have make it unique and really finish it. Now on vacation and not doing things about it… maybe it doesn’t take me 5 to 10 years.

[@goingbike]

Nice

[@Ill_Intentions]

That's some proper 90's Hardcore nostalgia right there but from the modern era. Nice work

[@sitamaja3717]

love it man! happy hardcore is the genre i have listened and enjoyed the most, and this track is really well done, sounds exactly like something from that timeperiod, the thing that makes this track different from others though, is the structure. some chord changes and stuff sound a little bit different but god damn it makes me like it even more

[@Romper_Stomper]

Nice to see a new video from you again. Great work as always! 💥👌

[@mooooooooooooooooooo]

I love the visuals at the end :)

[@Johnatronmusic]

Only just come across this, this is awesome!

[@killakanz3728]

Thank you so much for this!! I have been looking for a video like this for years but no one presented the history and methods behind the classic Dutch sound. Happy Hardcore got me into music production and I've always wanted to make a track like this! Great job!

[@Estuera]

My pleasure :)

[@Repthyl69]

Geweldige video weer :D Jouw video's geven me echt de inspiratie om de hele dag in m'n studiootje te zitten! This song definitely would have been in the charts ♥

[@boriscat1999]

I have so much of this stuff packed away in boxes. I should dig it up and listen to it after 20+ years.

[@alantaylor2694]

The music video reminded me of old school Amiga demos. Good times.

[@YUCON]

omg yet again u totally nailed it! i fkn love this! i am really impressed by ur knowledge about all the different genres, the sounds that were used and ofcourse production! respect from another dutchie :) u got urself another sub, sir! ❤

[@FoxerTails]

Yes, a new Estuera video! Amazing work on the track.

[@dahd0h]

Woah! Thank you for this! My teenage years were all about this genre.

[@andrewrossy]

Finally … been waiting for this one for ages 🤣

[@GRUBBJUICE]

Watching you make this was amazing. Looks seamless . Sounds perfect

[@Niele160]

glad to have you back

[@chrisf5475]

Absolutely amazing. The video reminds me of the video creator on the Amiga CD32!