Lets create gabber house like we're back in the 90s

Gabber house, early hardcore, call it whatever you like. It's time to create an old school hardcore track like we're back in the 90s. Off course the Roland Alpha Juno will join this retro 90s party !
Chapters:
0:00 Intro and history
2:14 Creating a Roland Alpha Juno Gabber lead
4:10 Distorted hardcore kick
5:55 Roland TR-909 rhythm
6:55 The classic rave Amen break
7:57 Classic rave stabs , Roland S-50 and O fortuna
8:40 90s action movie sampling
9:37 DHS - House of God like synth
11:20 The final full track
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[@bobbyarchaic9649]

"Certainly not radio friendly music at all." That's probably the best brief comment on Gabber I have heard.

[@camel303]

Several gabber hits ended up in the charts in Holland. Rotterdam Termination Source, Ruffneck, Dj Paul... you name it

[@doctorscoot]

whaddya mean, "not good for radio" on late night community or pirate radio, banging the choons hard midnight to dawn thursdays telling' ya the toll number to call to get the location of the event they're playing at come tomorrow morning at 4?! ;-)))

[@cleverhardy5230]

@@doctorscoot I think he meant "Not good for mainstream radio."

[@shpongled587]

We need to get all them fossils out and make a radio station that would play stuff like this and other electronic music. Then again, nobody listens to radio these days.

[@drutt1985]

@@shpongled587 oh you will only upset the "think about the children" people🤣

[@neuronmind]

Bert on the kick drum made my day.

[@Estuera]

+1

[@sebastian78503]

Bertram 😉

[@wisetheodore.]

@@sebastian78503 😂 people who don’t know who YTRAM are gunna be so confused

[@tillorrly1128]

That whole video ist fuckig top notch...

[@thatguyalex2835]

@@Estuera I prefer breakbeat over gabber, but cool beat bro. :) Can you try combining breakbeat with old-school Oliver Heldens future house synths/bass next? Future Breaks?

[@emphatic001]

Your love for this genre clearly shines through.

[@Estuera]

It is the music that made me really look into how it was made and this is how I first learned about 909's, the Alpha Juno, Akai samplers, ... So yes, even though I never actually released any real hardcore myself and have been very deep into the trance scene it will certainly always have a special nostalgic place in my heart :D

[@raoulduke7668]

@Mr. Sophistication strange? why?

[@kolaas2006]

@Mr. Sophistication lots of shit tracks, but also some real gems

[@whoknows8225]

@Mr. Sophistication if this music does not give you goosebumps, it's not for you, move on, goodbye

[@TheBeat66]

@Mr. Sophistication i'm rarely listening to hardcore at home but going to a hardcore party is fucking fun... it's a workout... You should try it ;)

[@LaDolceFotografia]

This surely would have been a great track on "Thunderdome 8" or "Earthquake 5" with a title like "Estuera 909 - Raving Lunatic (Streetfighter Mix)"! And I absolutely love it!

[@user-vu6kt1rf4q]

Fr man! God this genre just brings me back. I honestly forgot about thunderdome and all of that.

[@pappo666]

I cant be the only one who still love and want more of this music

[@joe2751]

obviously not

[@rekeltje]

check out Mokum records, they've been putting out a lot of releases in the early rave style for the past years.

[@pappo666]

@@rekeltje Will do! thanks for the suggestion

[@benedictjephcote6815]

video has ended and I'm left thinking; drop me in a club with this playing

[@Braindizruptor]

THUNDERDOOOOOOOOOME

[@ssalient]

Me: Let's watch this video even though I'm not into early hardcore/gabber anymore, just for nostalgia sake.. .. Also me after wathcing the video: Scrambles to find all the stowed-away Thunderdome CD's

[@Estuera]

It happens 😁

[@acidDJclay]

YES DUDE!!!! Of all the 'hardcore' or 'gabber' tutorials I've seen on youtube, you're the ONLY one who actually nails it! Excellent job man, you did wonderful!

[@tillorrly1128]

It because of the Dutch accent.

[@oldtimer24]

This definitely a great in depth tutorial, but I would argue Frank Jav Cee nailed it as well.

[@djresource717]

I miss 90s rave culture, so much fun!

[@darkmetaOFFICIAL]

💙

[@Marauder1981]

@@darkmetaOFFICIAL Better wear your face diaper and get vaxxed for not getting your freedom and fun back.

[@darkmetaOFFICIAL]

@@Marauder1981 noo! 😂

[@OperatorMax1993]

agreed!

[@eadweard.]

You mean you miss whamming a feff load of gubbins.

[@verapamil07]

Gabber is a secret pleasure music of all serious techno DJs :)

[@verapamil07]

@@titobascou9047 I forgot to say, the final track is lit. Literally listening to it 5x in a row. I am a sucker for early rave/techno :)

[@randyrankin682]

@@titobascou9047 and then round again

[@ouatedephoque]

Sure. :D

[@ZombiesWerePeopleToo]

Gabber influence is sneaking its way into the techno scene nowadays, and even though I was never into gabber itself I’ve been really enjoying what artists like VTSS have been doing with it

[@nikk8089]

@@ZombiesWerePeopleToo think it started sneaking in a few years ago tbh. Almost feel like it's got nearly mainstream enough that people will start rejecting it again haha and so the cycle continues

[@ronaldraygun7571]

This is phenomenal. As a kid, i listened to so much gabber and this absolutely nails it - sounds like something straight off of one of the Thunderdome compilations!

[@DjAlexincontrol]

I made all of my Hardcore Releases back in the mid 90’s basically like this. First I sampled everything and put it in an Amiga 500, later with a TR 909, 2 Alpha Juno’s, soundcraft Ghost and a Sampler. Only thing is, the Alpha Juno can make the sound you made with it on its own. Just take the ‘What the…’ preset it has built in. Change the beginning and the end, and voila, the ‘Dominator sound’ straight out of the Juno…

[@CrippleX89]

Any chance of getting a listen of your releases? You got me kinda curious now :)

[@DjAlexincontrol]

@@CrippleX89 check the Dj Alex releases on Brrrr records.

[@mike3787]

@@DjAlexincontrol as in DJ Alex in control? About to do the Wayne's world I'm not worthy haha

[@DjAlexincontrol]

@@mike3787 yes. That would be me! 😀

[@mike3787]

@@DjAlexincontrol that's awesome! FYI your tunes are still making me stomp thanks for the bangers dude!

[@whiteshiftracing]

Gabba House. Fuckin banging. Jesus the 90’s and early 00’s were just one Mitsubishi blur.

[@llllbserkllll]

As a 90s Gabberhead I can confirm, you just nailed it

[@lpluke2299]

If someone said this was a gabber track from like 1996 I would of believed them, incredible job!!

[@Vaenus.]

I love how balanced your voice is compared to the music on speakers, truly a top tier audio engineer.

[@ouatedephoque]

Yeah ! You nailed it !! This track could have been released on a Thunderdome compilation !!

[@TraxtasyMedia]

If I'd have been a DJ back in the days and someone gave me this as a demo, I'd defo blast it out in every session :D

[@DIGITALF0RCEREC0RDS]

Wow! I wish people were still producing this kind of music :(

[@jamesfaircloth8588]

It still is being made theres lots of classic hardcore gabber tracks being made checkout rotjecore records gabberhead records no new style records mokum records total destruction records i make classic hardcore and sometimes gabber tracks all 90.s styled on labels like rotjecore records and other labels so the 90.s sounds have not gone away also ruffneck records is throwing out the real classic dutch hardcore sounds again 🙂👍

[@Komodo1312]

Check out Peckerhead

[@whoknows8225]

DJ Paul also makes new versions of his old stuff

[@luisgomez-pc9ev]

As a music lover I really appreciate the time you spend explaining the history behind the music genre

[@MattGreerMusic]

I never liked Gabber but still found this fascinating. I suppose when Gabber was getting popular, I was fully in on Jungle at the same time and honestly had no interest in anything with a 4 on the floor but now that I'm older I appreciate a much wider variety of electronic dance music styles.

[@MORTYCJA]

i never would imagine myself saying this, but wish i was born earlier, god gabber seems like the coolest shit ever

[@EpicPrawn]

Some of the best gabber was made in recent years imo. I recommend anything by Azrael, and after checking out some of that check out D.O.S. by Azrael-II

[@MORTYCJA]

@@EpicPrawn oh hell yeah, musically i was basically raised by lapfox trax, thanks for reminding me about it :^D

[@Basuko_Smoker]

@@MORTYCJA sorry to hear about being raised by furry music :/

[@MORTYCJA]

@@Basuko_Smoker thanks, it was very traumatic

[@frequencymanipulator]

For us old gits, we measure everything pre and post 9-11. Ahh, the before times. They were so awesome.

[@noone6905]

One of my fav genres gabber finally demystified for me. To think the kick has just been from a drum machine this whole time kills me instead of some over engineered synth sound, but it makes so much since.

[@koffing2073]

The sound of electronic chaos, perfect fit for this era of revolutionary mind-blowing electronic technologies.

[@Elias_Frost]

- ravin' Lunatic... - OF COURSE!

[@NotAlrightSpider]

I remember when my homie Nick dropped Euromasters “alles klaar de kote “ (spelling? I’m not Dutch) in a club on Long Island. Half the crowd went batshit for it and loved it. The others stood in confusion. RIP Nicky Father Fingers-[Disciples of Annihilation- Industrial strength records].

[@bartelvandervelden9894]

Yeah, alles naar de klote (everything "to" pieces) is a classic, especially that farmer at the start ("Rotterdam, Amsterdam, ik wee' allebei niet waar da' ligt") is iconic

[@Kaas_is_Baas]

Lekker hoor! De meeste producers van tegenwoordig die de oude stijl proberen terug te halen zijn om te janken, maar met deze track kom je wel heel dichtbij het echte geluid van toen! Bedankt hiervoor! 👍🏻

[@hiddenintheshadows1469]

Painbringer is wel goed (mocht je die nog niet kennen)

[@hoidoei941]

Ik hoorde laatst een hele goede track, maar ben de naam vergeten.. beetje kutverhaal. Iets met een X in de naam volgens mij

[@interlooper83]

Goddamn this takes me back. You’re a KZbin treasure, please never stop.

[@leewightman8619]

909 kick with overdrive sounds amazing 606 kick works just as good too but definitely need them 909 hats

[@ncot_tech]

This is even better when played at 1.5x. At high volume, preferably in a residential area 😉

[@robiocraft2383]

top tier sample

[@markjones8136]

Weak as fuck 2.0x or go home lol

[@johnstewart7274]

You really nailed this sound.Gabber was massive in Scotland when I was a teenager and this really takes me back to bouncing like a lunatic all over the place! 😊🎶 Great times

[@streglof]

Especially DJ Ruffneck was quite popular in The North if I remember correctly!

[@Ravinstomper]

Wasn't it more known as bouncy techno in Scotland?

[@conflummix13]

​@@Ravinstomper Bouncy techno was old Scott Brown though he made gabber too. Paul Elstak was a fan of Brown's Shoop and Evolution releases and started to make similar 'fun lighter' stuff by 1994-95 (Forze, Babyboom, etc). Ruffneck (big in Scotland) called his stuff artcore though few used that. / A Scot who went to Rez, Fubar, etc. back in the day. Great days.

[@mlggamebarker6188]

Judgement day Newcastle was ep8c

[@goreshit]

that ms-20 trick is hawt.

[@SingleMaltZombie]

From the title I was expecting something on hardware only :D like we were back in the 90s, but at least it's already mostly machines, and only a tiny bit computer. Good job!

[@ExodineMusic]

Had my mouth open the entire video -- everytime you created the sounds, all those hours i spent in the 2000's listening to this music, it all came back. I got more into new retro wave, vaporwave, and the explosion of indie music in the past decade so its been awhile since i've ventured into the early hardcore music. Going through all of Thunderdome back in middle school was one of the greatest musical moments of my life, as well as experiencing new releases in the mid 2000's with things like Masters of Hardcore. I even have old recordings i made of Masters of Hardcore radio from 2004, which i often listened to in school -- In america, this music is essentially non-existent, so it felt like i discovered some other world when i found this style of music on the Winamp ShoutCast stations. Thanks so much for making this video! never subbed faster in my life lmao. At some point i'd love to own a lot of these synths and musical devices you're using, to at least preserve or try my hand at shaping the magical vibe of gabber into some new shit.

[@Manthikor]

It makes me feel 30 years younger! That's just great! Goosebumps to the end! 🤪

[@DaftFader]

I watched every single batman movie one after the other, JUST to get a 10 second sample I liked for a tune! XD "The fire's rising"

[@H3adcrash]

As a 90s hardcore and gabber dude I'm just grinning like a fucking idiot at this. Fucking yes man!

[@BartManNL]

Although I never was into gabber (early german techno is more my thing) this track indeed has a very nice 90s feel to it!!

[@GeirEivindMork]

After a visit to the Netherland I came home with a thunderdome compilation and well. I was hooked. This was pretty much in the same lane. fun to see how it was made. Never did any drugs, but doing exercise while listening to hardcore was my thing.

[@workethicrecords5901]

So sick. There are still a handful of producers making things with this feel, DJ Technorch "Metalic Mind" is a great example.

[@ne10ne10]

I've been trying to get this vibe popular again waah

[@johanodinson8839]

You have to see how incredible its the gabber in Bogotá, Colombia, its actually a really dense known culture in new generations...

[@pavelmolchanov7156]

do you live there ?

[@whoknows8225]

This takes me back to my days, on my 486 with gravis ultrasound card, loading the samples up in Fast Tracker 2, it was awesome, i made many tracks.. only shared with friends tho... i wasn't bad but too shy to ever produce.

[@Jaspa42]

My colleagues are wondering why I'm grinning like a Cheshire cat at my desk :)

[@Estuera]

hahah love it :D

[@lars5174]

You know a Gabber Tutorial is legit when the jonge spreekt engels like this

[@DeadKoby]

Any time I hear the word Gabber , I start thinking "All your base are belong to us"

[@EarlyMist]

I wasn't even that into Gabber (don't shoot me) but this makes me smile and honestly...laugh aloud with nostalgia. Quite a feat my man.

[@BarryEuphorik]

The memories of my 90's raving years listening to the music from both Scotland and the Netherlands. Thanks for this!

[@fryloc359]

That was a walk down memory lane.

[@Antara755]

Belgium is like the grandfather of all those genres, glad to have witnessed all this in person starting with the New Beat in 1987 ( A Split Second - Flesh, slowed down to 33rpm)

[@evilscientistrecords]

That "raving lunatic" sample is awesome! Great vid, thx

[@KUPHSER]

nice vid! i used to have a stack of thunderdome cassettes when i was a kid in the 90s, wish i still had them. i loved artists like rob gee, neophyte, da predator, omar santana, rotterdam terror corpse, inferno bros, the stunned guys, etc etc... great memories! a personal fav was - buzz fuzz - destroyer, absolute classic

[@florianfanderl6674]

EXTREEEMMMEEEEE TEERRROOOOORRRRRRRRR

[@___fokker___974]

Part 4:10 hicked pitch comes to mind lateron in that bit. Pretty good bro

[@johnny.storm-wolf]

Simply amazing!!!

[@TranceJedi]

Brilliant flashback to the 90s.... Feels like it was yesterday and you made sound like it was yesterday too.... Brilliant work and a brilliant track ... Pumping good .... Well done Jonas ... Loved it .... Now I really want a Disco Buiscut....lol👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪

[@Estuera]

Thanks :D Lets go get back to the old school !

[@BaronVonYolo]

Me now running down to the basement: "Where're all my records from the 90s!"

[@AngryBulldogg]

8.30 that stab pattern is absolutely brutal. Biiiiiiiig up!!

[@NeMsY2k]

Perfect. This track brings back so many memories. You really nailed it!

[@LightBlazeMC]

love this series!

[@atonegames]

You really nailed it! Awesome track man.

[@belledesirepc]

Nice, brings back memories.

[@IQM24]

Wo! Very cool great vid and tune thanks!

[@stinkymart3173]

4:20 wow so they overdrove the kick right in the mixer? I always assumed they used a pedal or rack unit, explains why the old school kick is so uncoloured though.

[@randyrankin682]

It was both or either. The big thing was back in the day the average producer didn't put nearly as much effort or complex thought into the sauce on the kick. But to say that people weren't plugging in guitar pedals in the 90s would be completely wrong. They also had DAWs back then. Akira was producing on some box in the 90s... not an Amiga, I forget the name of it. Either way, the sound was different back then even in digital because the digital stuff just wasn't on a quarter of the level it is today.

[@DaftFader]

They used to do the same thing with D+B bass lines too. There's an old clip of edrush and optical talking about overdriving the gain on their analog makie mixer with a bassline, recording it, then running back through the same channel and doing this several times to get the grit they wanted.

[@forkless]

@@randyrankin682 Most likely an Atari Falcon (a souped up 1040ST), which was quite popular back in the day in due to supporting MIDI IN and OUT natively on the main board.

[@randyrankin682]

@@forkless hmm interesting thank you for the information

[@ftj4441]

I honestly lose my mind when I realise people use crazy chains to make a "coloured" kick. I don't know man all this processing to have something I found really boring. A 909 kick drive into an analogue mixer just kick ass.

[@TheWwhhiizzzz]

As a Belgian DnB producer from Gent who got into electronic music through Music Man, Bonzai etc... your channel is pure Gold 🔥 keep it up mate

[@Estuera]

Thanks!

[@allannyholmnielsen5559]

WOW ! Thanks for sharing. Love me some Gabber!

[@LouisSerieusement]

So glad I found your channel ! Thanks !

[@Sky3RN]

Sounds really great ! As a huge Gabber fan since I was a kid, I really enjoyed the song.

[@blkrbbt]

Okay. 3 things. Thank you for keeping history of 90' s rave culture from being lost. Also, I have the TR8S, and I am so happy to have more people to learn off of. Lastly, I just went into debt to buy an Elektron Analog Heat mkII, and it has a notch filter that you can assign the LFO to, so thanks for the breakdown!

[@Estuera]

My pleasure!

[@synchro505]

Couldn't help but smile through most of the end result video. Really appreciate the research, execution and tons of work put into this.

[@briannolan]

I am LOVING the historical context stuff. ❤️ Awesome. 👍

[@Chasing_Thoughts]

Very high quality and informative video!!

[@macdaddybender]

That was fantastic. You were totally speaking my language with that track. My tastes have mellowed as I've got older but the hoover sound still rings my bell. I loved the creative use of the MS-20 too.

[@nekrokick]

Hell yeah! Cool throwback tutorial video!

[@essayam5268]

I enjoyed this thorouly!! That breakdown that goes into that awesome sampled pattern is insane!!

[@lazyboy9883]

Superb video mate! We loved a bit of this stuff in Scotland. Bert pounding the drum at 13:04 as the tune is thumping... perfection!

[@patbreacadh]

Great track. Sounds like back then. Gabber is insane! ♥ And man, the visuals are priceless! Your music and videos always put a smile on my face, and this one is no exception. Love this channel! 🙏

[@junglejon74]

I bloody love this. Now you've got me tempted to make some of this! Great work.

[@wboumans]

Brilliant 🎉

[@KOZGERFWAD]

You’re amazing. Very happy I found you. Would love a video where you turn your whole setup around and show a detailed review of how you patch all your synths, drum modules, fx boxes, midi boxes, mixer, computer all together! Great job!! Thank you!

[@dubnightstudio]

You’re such a legend of a producer!

[@MatheusMPL]

Absolute master!! Thank you for the showcase! 🙂

[@unownnnn]

I love hearing about music history along with the great production!

[@davidboudreau4054]

You can call the music genre whatever you want, and you are most likely right, but to me that was some of the best old school techno I have heard in quite a long time...and the music video you made for it was perfect.. Makes me want to pull all my Techno-Rave collection CD's out of the closet now...I have dozens of them...

[@AH-wt7zu]

Phat rave! Great series(:

[@KennethFlodqvist]

Thank you once again for being so awesome! I love how you casually explain and show the process and add some history to your videos as well! Amazing! And gabber - it brings me back to my childhood! ❤️

[@dussie920]

Jonas, spot on again! That SF sample just fits the track perfectly. Really good retro track! LOVE IT!

[@synthfluencer]

Back in the days we tried to figure out how these signature gabba tunes have been created. When Thunderdome on Tour was at our place we spent more time spotting Gizmo and Rob Gee how they worked on their sets than actually partying 😅Man I should have watched this video back then!

[@bobbyarchaic9649]

As usual, a stellar track using the compositional elements of the original genre. Well done. Even the pitching up and placement of the Street Fighter movie sample was spot on. I have watched so many hours of movies and television shows to find little bits from them to sample after seeing it the first time in some random out of the way location or at some unexpected time.

[@simontunnicliffe2107]

So have I but 9 times out of 10 there's music or noise in the background. 😢

[@dgsoundCA]

Genius video Jonas, thank you! 🔥🤘

[@justinarchiquette7591]

Perfect throw back track!!! Nailed it!!!

[@cryptout]

Kan zo released worden op Dwarf Records! Nice job.

[@Febovideo1]

Kan ik ergens een demo naar toe sturen? :-)

[@jimmylaze]

This is identical to rave if the drop was a breakbeat. It's almost uncanny valley hearing with this beat! Good vid

[@AmeyahOfficialTV]

I love how you explain everything and give some insight. And this always inspires to try and play around with the tools i have here. Thanks man.

[@marcelscholz6358]

You are the best.... only the best! Thank you Jonas.

[@apedap]

This reminds me a lot of the Ruffneck/artcore sound, good stuff!

[@VladimirUnique1]

Yeah, this is near mid 90-s and Ruff sound

[@aminoacids13]

Actually it sounds more like Isaac in the 90s

[@Tezzarito1]

im from uk , started listening to hardcore hard trance in like 1994/5 on rave tapes , first rave was in jan 1997 , gabber (didnt know it was called that back then) we called it all bouncy techno lol was and is my fave along with belgium/german trance sound this tune is basically made from then , you could say to someone listen to track i found from 1995 and they would believe you 100% banging dude , love it subbed off this alone

[@TheIndustrialWaves]

Thanks for sharing!! Great video mate!

Man, you're awesome, there's no any better explanation of these on KZbin like this! Thank you so much!

[@firstnamelastname6978]

Been a bit of resurgence in interest for gabber recently thankyou for doing this not many tutorials on early gabber out there

[@Estuera]

My pleasure

[@equallystupid6820]

SICK!!! respect for knowing what actual early hardcore/gabber is!!

[@Estuera]

In my early teenage years this music was one of the styles I listened to most and it pointed me towards taking my first steps into electronic music production. (Reading interviews and howtos from producers like Maurice Steenbergen in Thunder Magazine) So it was a genre I simply could not skip for this series :)

[@equallystupid6820]

@@Estuera this is so cool, thank you for your content. I'm only 24 but gabber brought me in music production as well. i think that video is the one and only that is proper in the meaning of the gabber sound if we're talking about youtube tutorials. absolutely authentic!

[@joni.sirvio8867]

its 1995 . Me living nowhere finland. Real hard underground "Techno" was heard only in radio once a week. Recordstores didnt sell anything else than radio freindly rave like marusha and u96. Couple year later I went to local drift store where i noticed these horror cd covers. i fell love immieadetly to gabber. 20 years later still going hard!

[@vectrexboy5605]

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