Lets create early 90s trance || Roland Alpha Juno, Korg M1,Yamaha TX81Z, Korg MS-20,Wavestation,...

Time to visit the early 90s again and focus on the early trance tracks. Think Jam & Spoon, Moby, Humate, Energy 52 (Cosmic Baby), Drax Ltd, Barbarella (Sven Vath), ...
I'm only using synths and sounds that we're available at the time to create a track I would have done if I was born 10 years earlier and started producing in 91. Starring The Roland Alpha Juno, Korg M1, Korg MS-20, Yamaha TX81Z, Korg Wavestation and more.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:03 Laying down a trance inducing groove
2:22 Warm Alpha Juno Pad
3:28 SH-101 Arpeggio bass
4:17 Expanding the beats
5:59 Wavestation Piano and Vox
6:42 Korg M1 Deep Space Pad
7:47 Korg MS-20 Acid bass
8:28 How to build the track
9:23 The final track
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[@serqetry]

This is great. Trance music like this died when psytrance got popular and replaced it. It was a tragedy.

[@jamienoble631]

I would love to see a longer tutorial 1 hour + going more in depth in each of the elements in how to achieve the oldschool sound. And more how to dirty up your sounds, the drums in particular to stray as far away as possible from todays clean & polished sounds

[@Estuera]

Could be interesting. Not sure how many people would be interested in such a long tutorial though.

[@sam-pq8pv]

@@Estuera Would love it! I`m in quarantine and need such content hahha :))

[@timetravelvictim]

+1 for this. I’m definitely interested!

[@sneakyfatcat]

Seconding this

[@briansinger5258]

@@Estuera break it down into ten minute sections for max ad revenue - a consistent series would be good as you’re about to gain traction. (Track-tion)

[@slowbabyfox]

Brings me back to 97-01, when my parents would say 'lights out', but that's when the discman got broken out and the party really started

[@Sonikbytes]

you''ve captured that 90's ghostly trance goodness nicely

[@thesequencer4971]

Hi Estuera, i recorded with Friends and R Elmar (Jam El Mar from Jam & Spoon (RIP)) in Germany at Studio Besser in 1993, and we met Dorian Gray DJ Thorsten Fenslau (RIP) who was working on Mr Vain which was later a huge success. We recorded on 24 Multi Track, Computer was Atari 1040 ST....You nailed the 90s Sound perfectly ...cheers

[@Estuera]

Thanks ! :) Listened to those tracks for hours and hours. Too bad I was too young at the time (early teenager) to really get involved in it.

[@thesequencer4971]

@@Estuera Thanks for Reply. Like Your Channel, very Good Content. Cheers and nice Sunday.

[@SpongeLab]

The Atari ST and Cubase or Creator are essential for that early 1990's sound :-)

[@ImmersionaudioLTD]

@@SpongeLab Not really as the Atari only sequenced MIDI and didnt affect the overall sound as such.

[@SpongeLab]

@@ImmersionaudioLTD But using creator for instance makes you think about the development and structure of a tune, which in the long run does affect the structure and arrangement, I have found using recent DAWs less restricting and susequently lead me to different decisions. Using Creator to sequence and record onto multitrack tape in 1990 was a very different deal to recent Cubase or Ableton, where I can just move whole sections around using a mouse, whereas back then, it was either editing the tape or rerecording everything. It was worse when doing a live run onto a DAT tape with no option to edit! Even worse with a Kawai Q80 as the sequence

[@danielkramer7423]

Chapeau 👍 feels boundless. Unrestricted. Optimistic. Just like we were Back then.

[@JPav91]

Oh my goodness, trance needs to return to this. I'm getting some real Art of Trance - Mongoose (TekTonik Remix) vibes from this, which is a huge compliment because that's one of my all time favorites. Trance used to be about the journey, this takes it back. Between the classic vibes and your excellent mixing, this is easily better than anything I have heard in the scene for years. I have a theory about music and culture repeating on a 30 year cycle (the 2010s just gave us the 80s, the 80s threw back to the 50s in many ways, etc). We're seeing early 90s electronic music throwbacks happening from many different sectors, but it's like trance wants to skip right to the end of the 90s with stuff like Trance Wax's album. I love the late 90s sound but I would like to see the decade explored again. There was such a mysterious vibe and magic to that era.

[@Estuera]

Thanks :) And 100% agree. It sort of happened already though. Some modern melodic techno really sounds like a continuation of the early 90s trance sound.

[@TooMuchpl0xin]

Got any track suggestions from the melodic techno? I'm intrigued

[@JPav91]

@@Estuera You did mention that in the video, and I have heard a few tracks even over the past few years from people like Pig & Dan and even Boris Brejcha. The techno scene in the past several years has been incredible in its own right. I just wish the trance scene could break it's monotony and rediscover its roots as well.

[@Estuera]

I personally like most of Joris Voorn' recent music a lot. Some of those tracks go straight into trance. And he's not the only one in the techno scene doing this.

[@TooMuchpl0xin]

Hahah just yesterday added joris voorn - incident to my playlist :D it's a bit older and more housey track. Have to definitely look up his newer production too

[@dzod]

Pre supersaw trance was always the real trance for me. Think Reactivate Vol 5. Good job here.

[@dereinzigwahreschnitzelmann]

Same here. Supersaw killed Trance.

[@djalphared9945]

Just what I was looking for! Whenever people say classic trance they think of late 90s anthem trance instead of early 90s trance from the harthouse and eye q record labels.

[@Estuera]

Yes, these are the true roots of the sound. It was big time that I highlighted them.

[@willdatsun]

OMG i have eye-q compilation on pause in the next tab!

[@malcolmdee77]

Harthouse, Eye Q & Rising High too

[@bajerle]

303 vibes fit nicely here - sounds like 1995 I remember

[@fkthewhat]

This is definitely reminiscent of 90s trance, not just because of all the lovely period-appropriate synths (and their emulations) that you've used, but because there is an >actual< stereo field and some dynamic range! Who knew a trance track didn't need to be filling up the mid to highs full of saws to the point where it sounds like white noise!

[@yustyni5280]

Also the lack of sidechaining ties into making that ethereal hypnotic atmosphere, like the track actually 'breathes' and isn't being throttled by the kick, which I think sort of kills this vibe.

[@PurplProto]

I wish trance would return to this style, I get goose bumps from classics and, this track too😯

[@StudioMargalima]

Defo '92-'93-ish stuff, neatly done man!!!!!

[@swapnilprasad6136]

Love trance music, makes you feel disconnected from the world, this genre of music needs to coma back ASAP

[@bradleypeters_dj]

I'm so glad I discovered your channel bro. It's actually criminal you don't have more recognition

[@OperatorMax1993]

love Trance especially Robert Miles, he may be forgotten, but he's never forgotten

[@digitalduch1111]

I miss those days 🥳

[@Alex-vg7uu]

OMG that “low” tom! In my attempts I never could work out what was missing and that was it! Thanks!

[@wrmusic8736]

Ah, yes, finally. When you have to follow no rules, just the flow taking you to all kinds of weird places, it's fun isn't it?

[@tobiaslofi]

Wow that Roland Alpha Juno pad sounds like so perfectly warm and soft without ANY UNIQUE sound... it's like the MOST GENERIC NON-DISTURBING PAD SOUND EVER! :) WOW

[@Estuera]

So is this a good or bad thing ? (I think for the purpose it serves in the track its exactly what it should be but the way you wrote your comment is very open to interpretation ;) )

[@tobiaslofi]

@@Estuera I usually struggle to find pads that don't have too much CHARACTER and just fit in everywhere, but that pad from the Juno it sounds both meditative by itself and also warms and fills your song... it is like vanilla ice cream, good but a little boring, and fits to everything. :)

[@Estuera]

Although the juno can do a lot more (with a lot of character as well) I find it indeed perfectly suited for these kinds of 'vanilla' pads. Its that nice and gentle analog filter that does it I think. It can't really scream but it certainly can cream :D

[@tobiaslofi]

@@Estuera I want to sample it! :)

[@rjbush7955]

I still listen to Stella by Jam & Spoon. That to me was trance before trance was a genre.

[@goodvibezzone2443]

Yeah, I love Stella :)

[@kvisser26games25]

Early 90s trance in 1 word a e s t h e t i c

[@beckheldsell9063]

that bass sound reminds me so much of resurrection PPK, such a nice sounds

[@larslengberg]

If one year of f-ing pandemic haven't made you dream of partying all night long, this kind of music will..! This brings me back to places like BCM in Magaluf...

[@Estuera]

I'm totally ready for a couple of nights like that ! :D

[@addictedtocraic]

Trance in the 90s for me was Goa. All the way but I loved Age of Love, Jam & Spoon as well. Amphetamine was a killer track too. Great job mate.

[@orpheuscreativeco9236]

Don't forget Orbital! 🙌 Halcyon On and On is one of my favorites of all time! 🎶🥰🔥 Great demo/tut! 🙌 Thanks for sharing ✌️

[@callactm14]

Thats more like house. Nice track

[@nathanlewismusic]

Love watching these videos, brings me back to my younger days I was making trance. Yes in the end of the 90’s. I miss the days of Innercity…

[@elissitdesign]

I started raving in 97 when things were pretty underground still in LA. This sound was still heavily played and I remember it like yesterday. It gives me chills! Warmth! Nostalgia!

[@muco007]

Resembles Sasha and Sunscreem very well! Great rendition and thanks for educating the younger crowds where trance came from.GOA!.

[@magnafide]

Masterful. Please recommend me more songs like these early 90s trance vibes. I almost teared up when you explained how trance and techno are merging back together. Just got me in these feelings. Been a fan of electronic music since 1995 and have loved watching the styles evolve.

[@Estuera]

There's quite a lot of good stuff so I'm just going to put a few of my favorites here: Early 90s: - The age of love - The age of love (Jam & Spoon remix) - Jam & Spoon - Stella - Energy 52 - Cafe del mar - Emmanuel Top - Acid Phase - Humate - Love Stimulation - Metro Dade - The Andor Voyage Mid to late 90s: - Extreme Trax - Final Fantasy ( and "Don't hold back the music") - Moonman - Galaxia - Albion - Air - Brainchild - Symmetry 3000 - Kamaya Painters - Far from over (Oliver Lieb remix) - LSG - I'm not existing There's a lot more off course

[@Coasterdude02149]

I really love watching you put these tracks together. You make it look so effortless and the full track at the end...outstanding! I needed this pick me up. You're da man Jonas! 💜🍻

[@Estuera]

Thanks a lot :) My pleasure !

[@tygonsam2296]

Hearing moby in that Juno bro . It’s a quality mix of early 90s . It’s an art form to summarise a whole load of songs from that period into one .

[@Estuera]

Been listening to those old tracks quite intensively to get that 'sound' in my head. Trying to recreate the experience I would have had if I was in that scene 30 years ago.

[@tygonsam2296]

@@Estuera certainly also got the reverb hi hats from jam and spoon . It’s literally about 6 songs spanning from 1992 to 1996-7

[@Estuera]

That hihat was indeed a deliberate jam & spoon easter egg 😁

[@tygonsam2296]

@@Estuera love it 😍

[@TheFranticgamer]

Man I love this. One of my favorite periods for trance music.

[@AmeyahOfficialTV]

the SH101 bass put it all very good together. the first break wow. now i know where this perc hit/stab came from in the 90s, maybe from D20/50?! loving the track! glad it took a bit longer.

[@AmeyahOfficialTV]

also the video editing! \o/

[@danm3570]

Through the stratosphere to a festival on the moon

[@szezoli]

Total euphoria!!......

Listening to these tracks in a row feels like listening to one of the first Dream Dance compilation albums. :)

[@RAZOR1985]

Man, that conga drum really made me think of Allure - Somewhere inside of Me. Good times!

[@mitchstoryboard7147]

Incredible. Absolute gem

[@diegobeccaris4270]

just find you on the Tube! love your tutorial mate!

[@Bigger-Circuitry-Bigger-SOUND]

the alpha juno has a phenomenal timbre, the pad you made is superb "THE PERFECT PAD ", it reminds me of one of the most epic trance tracks Flash - Closing Session ( perfecto RECORDS ). i hope to be able to replicate it in the matrix 1000, diferently i will buy an mks50 only for that pad

[@TriviaChallenge]

You made that look very easy.

[@BliterTV]

R&S, the sound of Belgium 😋 Good job... 👍

[@johntammaro]

Great old skool mix. I was expecting Paul Van Dyke's style, big time euphoric, so caught me of guard.

[@GregoryDumont2]

This is your best track yet! I'm a big fan of that era of early trance music. OMG your track is spot on!

[@Estuera]

Thanks ! :) And obviously I'm a huge fan of that era as well

[@TobyBorrow]

Coupled with the fact that right up until the 1990 guitar still dominated these sounds were like a heavenly alternative. If anything these sounds felt ‘otherworldly’ when played. That’s my feelings

[@davidgeppert5763]

Harmonischer Loop/Track👍😍

[@MrPegekh]

Fantastic! This music is full of emotion! The mixing is as great as the sounds swim in and then the piano hits them! I think you could do any trance music made in the nineties! My number one favorite is Systematic Parts - Déjà Vu. I tried many times to find the sounds or mixing technique of this music, but failed! I think you could show these little ones how it's made! Congratulations on these productions because it is very rare for someone to feel and bring back the original Trance music with such deep respect.

[@Estuera]

Thanks for the big compliment ! :) And that Systematic Parts track is very nice indeed.

[@christianschroer1923]

Great song song. Thanks for the helpfull and interesting insights.

[@MrCyssiek]

OK, after watching gabber video I basically binged thru your channer. Im super happy that I found you! Keep up, I cant wait for you to post new stuff. Cheers!

[@Estuera]

My pleasure :)

[@milesroe5082]

Sounds just like the productions from HOOJ tunes. Superb!

[@MitchellWCheek]

one word, WOW.

[@oldskooll-vinyl-djs]

👌👌👌👌😎😎😊😊 nice ,, good stuff

[@Phantomous]

Amazing track. You could make an album with tracks like this!

[@ryukusu_luminarius]

Thank you! It's like touching the period of time that I missed. And there are nice and visuals that help with that!

[@RitchieCaron]

I was doing sound in the mid nineties and the Trance shows where the best. Intense sound that needed much more the power that a rock show.

[@user-pl3he7eo6g]

Loving these older trance style videos. So nostalgic and timeless. 👌

[@steverandall1967]

Early house and trance are my heartbeat ❤️❤️🎶 fantastic video

[@MattGreerMusic]

Inspiring. I can see how this does fit the category of Trance but clearly back then they still were throwing in whatever they thought would work. Acid, house M1 piano, atmospheric pads.

[@Estuera]

Which made it a lot more interesting as well. As soon as you get strict rules and formulas in a genre the golden days are over usually as it now attracts copycats instead of innovators.

[@YnseSchaap]

Pretty much spot on 😁

[@Kaldisti]

that remember me the Windows XP Media Player animation, such nostalgia The sound is very similar to X-Dream ones, I love it

[@simplesimp3780]

I am a late 90s trance kid and i think this is just perfect. The feels man.

[@lairdtomfrenchelectromusic2545]

Mon premier morceau "Trance "que j'ai écouté, c'était" The Age of Love"... 27 years ago now. It was my trigger for this style of music. It is the benchmark, timeless ! Jonas, your production took me now to that time, your song is simple and complex at the same time, the sound universe is very perfect !!! Merci à toi une fois de plus pour ce partage Jonas ! :)

[@Estuera]

Merci ! :)

[@MrEssjayK]

great Job! Great Time

[@AJO87]

Banga! Love what you said about Melodic Techno going back to these roots. The blend of trance and tech is unbeatable!

[@LellePrinter82]

Thanks so much for making this, it sounded amazing. Kai Tracid is one of my favorite artists with this genre of music.

[@ssalient]

That one dislike MUST have come from DJ Jean !!

[@Estuera]

I do not think Jean has anything against old school trance though 😁

[@dawlessstrolling5306]

Nicely done. Like the combination of those elements. Uplifting, trippy, ravy: yeah! I remember going to recordstores to find new music somewhere around '96 and often coming across compilations of Misjah Helsloot (if I have the name right). In those times you gave a cd of choice to the employee and if there was a headphone left he put the cd in the player for you. Ah...miss those times sometimes..

[@Estuera]

Those were the days indeed

[@smiljanicn]

Simply great!

[@Banglish123]

Stunning work.

[@willdatsun]

Nice. every current track on the radio here in the UK has those wretched lawn-sprinkler hi hats in it . I love this old 90s rave, trance, D&B, Dance etc.

[@macdaddybender]

That was fantastic. 👍

[@alfr83]

This is excellent ! What I really enjoy about your channel, is that you're always trying to use as much hardware synths as possible. It's inspirational.

[@Estuera]

Thanks :) Yes, while the channel has been growing my studio has been slowly filling up with more and more hardware and I really enjoy the different perspective on music production it offers me (I have been ITB for quite a few years before going back to hardware)

[@masp441]

Very educationel video

[@notdon245]

Stella and Love Stimulation my favorites. I just discovered early trance a year ago and can't stop digging it. Althought recreating the sound was tough 😂

[@playwithpassion]

Really nice track!

[@BeatByBit]

Great job!

[@mvmnt.]

Another fantastic video

[@digitalbase9396]

Very good 👍

[@lsdave]

Seriously awesome visuals. Also this is the kind of trance that got me into underground music in the 90s. Loved this video!

[@ElectronicazMusic]

Beautiful Job.

[@greenleaf2074]

This is really good 😊

[@SynthStreet]

Very nice 👏👏👏

[@pizzagogo6151]

Great work! Thanks 🙏👍

[@baxoutthebox5682]

What a great channel, so glad I found this

[@valentinsurner]

Another amazing track, great work mate!!

[@VladoT]

Nice one, great job 🙂

[@richardvanenteren2745]

Really love this one😎

[@PaapMezilane]

This is superb. Gonna get this.

[@grayfiresoul]

My introduction to trance was the late 90s stuff, but these sounds would have wholeheartedly inspired me to delve deeper into the genre were I just seven or eight years older in 91!

[@HashBandit]

Magnificent.

[@bright1180]

You are so talented!!!

[@TonyOldskool]

wow, amazing

[@Romper_Stomper]

Great work, perfect early 90s feeling! 💕

[@JayKaufman]

Jonas, as a fan of the genre from that era (and a bit into the mid-1990s), my only critique would be that your SH-101 bass sound is a bit too bright for that time frame. A lot of those records were mixed down on pretty rudimentary mixing consoles, so there wasn't a lot of room to EQ each track a lot. I know you're not going for a full on recreation, but I just thought it worth mentioning. ;) For what it's worth, that Wavestation sound is spot-on for the time! As always I really enjoy your channel and when you do these classic sound track breakdowns.

[@Estuera]

Well in theory it could have sounded like that if I had a very high end studio at the time :D To be fair though I actually didn't do much of eq'ing for this track (but my preamps and signal path is off course a lot more high grade than what most producers would have had available at the time) . I think what makes the SH-101 stand out as a bit more modern is actually the delay from the Jupiter Xm. Its probably a bit more hifi than the usual delays you'd hear on most of those old records.

[@JayKaufman]

@@Estuera for sure. You'd need to dig up an old Alesis MIDI Delay or an old Yamaha unit - which have notoriously bad A/D conversion and add to the character of their sound. Ironically, people pay thousands for that these days when back then, I'd have wished for nothing more than good A/D conversion! Haha.

[@fabian_sounddesign_musicprod]

Great work. Brings me back to the 90s.

[@cunnyfunt30]

Beautiful tune, I would of bought this back in the day. Really wish I was 20 again

[@magnafide]

Ditto man. Was 14 when this sound was in vogue. Now I'm almost 40. Time doesn't mess around.

[@cunnyfunt30]

@@magnafide I'm 50 but I hung up my dancing shoes a long time ago. Still love the music but rarely even party nowadays. If anyone ever invents a youth tonic and a time machine I'd happily do it all again, exactly the same.

[@escpsm6165]

Man I love these sounds... and your videos! Keep it up man :)

[@josephalfarano4521]

Great song way to use all your equipment and originality to put such a great groove together, if your in Florida I have a great studio with some amazing equipment you can work on