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

[@margosdesarian]

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

[@zodiac909]

Wish I had a time machine.

[@liorsilverstein9802]

when was that, jungle is so interesting

[@AmeyahOfficialTV]

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

[@Estuera]

Thanks!

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@RuffNRuffer]

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.

[@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)

[@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

[@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

[@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 :(

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@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!!

[@RandomNoiseMusic]

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

[@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!

[@ghal3on]

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

[@Estuera]

Welcome :)

[@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..

[@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 💯

[@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.

[@DarkMetaOFFICIAL]

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

[@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 ♥️

[@nexuzeb79]

Another delightful demonstration by Estuera, thank you, Sir!

[@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.

[@asdifasi]

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 😁

[@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

[@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.

[@MaximErased]

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

[@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

[@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...

[@reidbabbington8027]

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

[@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

[@DuckTronic]

Thank you, Jonas! 👍

[@MichaelLoda]

Drum and bass and jungle will never die, wicked!

[@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.

[@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.

[@leonvankammen7499]

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

[@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.

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

Top explanation. Top track. Top visuals too. 🌻

[@platypushatstand]

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

[@PaulCarsonProducer]

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

[@jesseshaw7853]

super comprehensive. love how you show how they might of made it back in the day, even keeping these in mind while producing just helps you learn new things great video

[@CorentinHarbelot]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@marinerecords58corshagwen]

As usual, a very didactic video, which let us to understand how was made the music we loved when we were "younger than now" ( I don't want to admit I am getting old now). Through your channel, 80's and 90's dance musics are still alive, thank you, and congratulation for your hard work ;)

[@Estuera]

My pleasure :)

[@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!

[@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. 😄

[@Jack_Rivet]

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

[@anggrimunki]

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

[@rogerlouie1]

Getting strong Photek and Squarepusher vibes from this. Sounded excellent. I noticed Squarepusher also sampled his own drums (real drums) to make some of his iconic tracks. You're an amazing artist. Thanks for whipping this up and explaining this work.

[@SlaserX]

I love how this channel is so educational. It's rare that you learn the history of this stuff

[@NedBouhalassaVideos]

I still remember! Thanks for the trip back in time.

[@xirtus]

PERFECT

[@OTR392]

This track is dope af, props to you. Youre more of a dope producer that happens to make music production tutorials than the other way around (as is usually the case on here, myself included). Keep making these PLEASE! ROCK ON!!!

[@jakerubino3233]

What a trip! The start of the original breakbeat genre then into jungle and dark jungle was a very formative part of my life! Icons like Rat-E and Grooverider were pioneering the sounds and it was so much more than where things began in early house/rave. Adelaide South Australia was a renowned location for Rave and always a destination for top DJ’s to play. I loved this time of my life and still have so many awesome and rare sets from amazing DJ and underground raves in my music stash. Well done for making an ol raver reminisce!

[@trenthm]

What a treat stumbling upon this. Thanks KZbin recommended! And great work with the video and esp that final track with music video!

[@Tclans]

Im still so in love with this kind of Drum and Bass! ♥

[@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 ❤

[@abyssaldesolation4064]

Insane visuals on the final track, good job

[@Spinnenkop]

Return of the king!

[@TheDjcorey19]

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

[@t.m9504]

Not often do i watch an explanation video where i actually like their endresult. That was FIRE

[@Tom_G_Hausler]

Another great videotutorial! Thanx for this research!.. keeping up you perfekt work.. love all your videos. You are the best. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@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

[@serumz0rg]

Holy shit! Estuera, the trance producer from like a decade and a half ago? Awesome!!

[@Gahet]

Damn dude, you nailed it! This brought me back to the "good'ol days"!

[@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

[@tnkkneat147]

You have fantastic skill and knowledge in all that you give. Big respect ✌️

[@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 😭

[@Targetdrew]

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

[@plutonium87]

Man that turned out really well. Very interesting to see the process and learning some history. That AKAI is a real beast. No RGB or bullshit, just pure power. Cheers

[@tweeleaf]

omg finally! this is absolutely awesome.

[@ssalient]

This is utterly awesome! It indeed comes straight from the 90s.

[@stockwellengineeringhints3527]

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

[@Estuera]

Thanks!

[@danm3570]

Thanks for continuing to educate us who are interested in edm Jonas, very appreciated 😎

[@thenoisengineer]

Glad I still have my S1000, can't believe I bought it 32 years ago. All my old 90's tracks were made with two S1000's. Nice track by the way!

[@suop1234]

you're great, everything you make teaches me heaps, from history and cool techniques to sounds and samples i can try out -- thanks for everything!

[@Paperfunk]

amazing! thank you for your vibe and atmo in this video. i'm very pleased, so rare in internet

[@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 )

[@DreamShadow76]

I can't believe that I am actually NOW just discovering very innovative and insightful videos here on you tube that goes in depth and actually still produces great music that I remember back in the 90s. This is great stuff! I am pumped! I aim to be getting something going myself actually. Thank you for this! I remember a short lived dance club in my city that would spin out tracks like this. It was called Club Utopia (1997-9) I would sneak out of my parents house through my bedroom window and dance my ass off in the clubs and after party then come home thinking I was sneaky and then being asked why I smell like a smoke factory *LOL*

[@keithbroughton4476]

A clear, concise and detailed "break" down of this style. Well done!

[@equallystupid6820]

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

[@Gainn]

Dred Bass vibes. With a taste of N'n'G 'Right Before My Eyes' too. Nice.

[@patrickc8007]

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

[@sock_park]

This was extremely fun, thank you.

[@Estuera]

my pleasure!

[@NatsukiMogiIsBestGirl]

I can't believe I just got this recommended to me. This is so damn good!

[@ronaldraygun7571]

Some of the best content on KZbin! Your videos are always so good.

[@awelshphoto]

I started on Electronic music in early 1990s and enjoy DnB. I'm not a producer, nor have I studied to be one.. but this walkthrough was inspiring.. and the track is 🔥🔥🔥

[@RyanKirk99]

That was really great! I miss the 90s. Liked and subbed. Banana.

[@hpuredatalover]

thanks for uploading! We were starting to miss you.

[@placeholder6503]

I still produce jungle these days, happy to see it get some love on your channel!

[@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!

[@Soykaf_]

I really liked that trick you have for making breaks. haven't seen this one before. very nice!

[@niiranen]

Watching this was like coming home. Although I have never had a Akai-sampler. The videos you make hit me hard, thank you!! Love these videos!

[@vectorhold6489]

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

[@GolabKitsForTR-8s]

This is pure Gold. Would like to see a Techstep Episode with the famous NO U TURN Sound. Best.