Source Direct: The Secrets Behind The Music

I’m super excited to bring you the first part of my Source Direct Breakdown series! I’ve got so much I can’t wait to get into after Easter such as break processing, break programming, pads, bass, FX etc.
I’m also incredibly grateful for anyone who supports my channel through my Patreon or sample packs. I love making this content available for everyone here on KZbin but I’m also trying my best to turn this into a full-time career. Any contributions really make a huge impact on driving me toward my goal!
Happy Easter all :)✌️🥷
/ groovining
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[@futureworldmachines4407]

Secret Liason is an absolute Amen classic, I don't know anyone who's into Drum & Bass who doesn't love that tune.

[@AdamTheAd-vanc3d]

Hey Future World Machines 😉😉😉👍🏾

[@futureworldmachines4407]

@AdamTheAd-vanc3d Hey Adam, nice to hear from you, hope you're keeping well. 😀

[@groovining]

Hello Adam, Hello Future World Maschines. Happy Easter to you both!✌️🥷

[@AdamTheAd-vanc3d]

@@groovining Same to you Happy Easter G 👊🏾👊🏾

[@AdamTheAd-vanc3d]

@@futureworldmachines4407 Doing ok my freind. Hope your doing well too.

[@newtype-tv]

Secret Liason is one of my all time favourite tunes!

[@groovining]

Same! Such a wicked tune. Proper summer vibes :)

[@ajmedia559]

proper jungle music my favourite track of all time

[@KrzysztofHorn]

Your channel is a discovery of the year for me 🙂 I started my adventure with music in the 90s on Amiga and Protracker. For many years it was my primary program for creating music. Later I went in the direction of midi and hardware synthesizers. Last year I purchased Renoise Redux and I'm rediscovering the fun of making tracker music. Your channel inspires me a lot. You are doing a great job.

[@groovining]

Hey, thanks so much Krzysztof! I'm glad that you've been enjoying my channel so much & I've helped you get back into trackers! I love Renoise/Redux so much. It's just a fun way to work on music & be creative. What's your favourite hardware synth in your setup?✌️

[@supportsquid]

Fuck yeah man. Loved Source Direct for coming on 30 years now. I hope this breakdown brings some younger kids on board. Learn from the masters and keep that old school spirit alive.

[@groovining]

Cheers mate! Appreciate the kind words. There's so much for be gained from studying these pioneering artists. The music/techniques/hardware all fascinate me! Such a shame Source Direct fell apart as they had so much potential in their late teens. ✌️

[@StripperPingvin23]

Dude ive spent years to search for the techniques of source direct, especially the arrangement and their hokusai stuff. Cant thank u enough

[@groovining]

Their Hokusai stuff is very cool. I'm basing most of this series on Secret Laisions but i've got a couple of little things i'm working on for a bonus vid at the end you might like!✌️🥷

[@bubaondesign]

I totally love Source Direct! What a great taste you have, mate! Thank you for all you do! Big love!

[@groovining]

They're such wicked artists. Little less info around about their techniques etc. but i've still managed to rustle up some decent stuff for the next few vids! Thanks for all the comments mate. Big love!✌️🥷

[@josephcreer883]

Very eager for the following videos, great as always!

[@groovining]

Thanks Joseph, I'm hyped too, can't wait to get back at it next week. Happy Easter! ✌️🥷

[@m00ftak]

Amazing video. One of my favorite groups ever. Really cool to see all the research you put into this

[@groovining]

I agree, I love these breakdowns beacuse I get to dive deep into all their music and techniques. Really takes over my life for a month or so! ✌️🥷

[@droidattack3092]

Fantastic, many thanks

[@groovining]

All good mate, glad you liked the vid. Source Direct are wicked!

[@supahfly_uk]

Happy Easter can't wait for the next one.

[@groovining]

Happy Easter mate! Same, hyped to get suck into this series! ✌️🥷

[@OCTOSHED]

Massive goosebumps watching this when the big pads/synths/bass drop in to Secret Liaison!😊 This channel is incredible. I've just watched your series on Renoise, then the series on finishing tracks. Then clicked straight through to the Source Direct vid because I've been a huge fan of theirs since back in the day - I've got a nice little SD section in my d'n'b vinyl 😀

[@groovining]

Yea its such a banger! Cheers about the channel also. Glad you've found so much to get stuck into :) ✌️🥷

[@PhilipPHL]

Amazing channel! Please go on and on and on!

[@groovining]

Thanks Philip. I absolutely intend to! :) ✌️

[@cm1point5]

valuable breakdown, good that someone is making videos like this

[@groovining]

Thanks mate. Someone had to go back over all this great music! ✌️🥷

[@MrDenme0]

WoW, wicket. Frist Photek, after that Paradox. And now Source Direct. A secret liason breakdown...crazy mate! Can’t wait for that. Your vids are next level. I finally folllowed along with your previous amen video in renoise and applied the chopping and re programming to another break. I finally starting to see how to work with this amazing DAW. Absolutely amazing what you share! Thanks mate.

[@groovining]

Thanks Mr Denme! Really appreicate your feedback. I love breaking all this stuff down. Such intresting artists to go over and pick apart their techniques and practises. That Amen technique is quite time consuming to set up, but so fun once you get to the programming stage. Renoise is wicked for all this kind of stuff. Such a creative DAW to work in. Happy Easter mate! ✌️🥷

[@MrDenme0]

@@groovining thanks mate and happy easter to you as well. Thanks for opening the renoise world for us. Your video’s are about the only resource. Great that you help with that. Source direct are legends. Feel my dreams on Odessy is one of my favoriete 12”. I am guessing you know that one as well! 🤘Lovely break programming and sub on that one. Love complexities also, and secret liason ofcourse. Cheers!

[@groovining]

@@MrDenme0 Absolutely mate, Renoise is such a wicked DAW so I'm glad I'm inspiring more people to use it. Yea feel my dreams is dope, just gave it a quick listen. Source Direct break programming & processing is definitely top-class! I actually transcribed an entire passage from Secret Laision just so I could really understand their process.✌🥷

[@MrDenme0]

@@groovining 😉 complexities, that is the all in one word. Studying these classic tunes is a very rewarding, I know as well. Thanks dude for all the insight that you bring us. I know I keep repeating myself. But it truly means a lot. Your techniques really brought my producing 'skills' further.

[@groovining]

@@MrDenme0 Thanks so much for the comments mate. I'm really happy to hear that I'm helping your production! It's kind of the point of the channel is that we can all level up together! ✌🥷

[@1234321mike1234321]

Currently visiting my mum back in Cambridge for the week as it's been a while. As soon as I get back to Leeds I'm digging out all my Source Direct records and locking my door for 3 hours. Quality content as always mate, keep it coming!

[@groovining]

Enjoy Cambridge mate, never been there myself but i've heard its a pretty city. I'm sure I missed out heaps in my hunting for this tutorial so if you find any obscure bangers, please let me know! ✌️🥷

[@QWLMusic]

Class in session! Nice and love Liason!

[@groovining]

Same, such a wicked tune. One of the best Amen's out there! ✌️🥷

[@jonicasino]

I messaged Phil on Facebook and asked him what was his favourite Source Direct tunes were. Fair play he replied.. Black Rose and The Crane. 👍

[@groovining]

Intresting! Crane hits hard! Lots of great tunes though. Wish they had stuck at it for a couple more years.✌️

[@jonicasino]

The thing that still amazes me about Source Direct was how young they were! They were 19 when they made Secret Liaison, that's incredible! 🤷‍♂️

[@groovining]

Yea madness. So much talent at 19! I think they were all pretty young then. Shy FX, Hype, LTJ Bukem, Photek, Source Direct, Ed Rush, Optical.

[@ddsssa]

He released great label as vampire records. There are some highlights as ruins by gremlins, snake style version by teebee. Hope Vampire get back.

[@beautifulcaramelman]

Dude please don't stop working on this channel until you get to 1M subs and produce a Netflix doccie about DNB. ❤ From South Africa

[@groovining]

Haha that my dream also! Sending the ❤️ back from the UK. I will certainly do my best! ✌️🥷

[@atetraxx]

I don't know if anyone has 1 million followers on KZbin from jungle/dnb content.

[@groovining]

@@atetraxx I'll happily be the first! :)

[@atetraxx]

@@groovining I here for it!

[@sukantchandan7255]

nah. keep Junglist underground away from sellingout

[@croay]

Bro why did it take so long for me to receive the video notification? lol anyways I love these series of videos covering the history of dnb, the quality is amazing and afaik theres no one else here making this type of content. Cheers, groovin', your videos have historical value.

[@groovining]

Hey Moloko. Nice to hear from you mate. Really appreicate your comment, been slowly leveling up the production value of my vids so were getting there now. Lots more to come this year! ✌️🥷

[@billtriangle2260]

very interesting! thanks!

[@groovining]

Glad you enjoyed! Lots more to come in the next few weeks. Happy Easter! ✌️🥷

[@flobama7200]

badass video bro

[@groovining]

Cheers brotha! ✌️🥷

[@AM1media]

Call and Response!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@groovining]

Bad boy tune! ✌️🔥

[@brightonbackgammon7802]

Great video and subject matter G! The thing that grabbed me is that the drums on 'Secret Liaison' aren't just an example of highly-skilled choppage: they've been finessed to form a flow of evocative musical 'sentences'

[@groovining]

Yea, it was actually really intresting breaking them down. I transcribed certain passages directly so I could really understand what was happenig. There's a certain formula to the way they are structured. Also the Amen processing is pretty amazing. Stoke to get into it all anyways. Happy Easter mate!✌️🥷

[@brightonbackgammon7802]

@@groovining Maximum boost bro 🚀🧑‍🚀 Wishing you a very Happy Easter!

[@brightonbackgammon7802]

@@groovining what you said about a (secret) 'formula' reminded me of the classic Aronovsky film, 'Pi' 🔬👨‍🔬🤖🎶⚛️ kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4PNnISKbt1_kNU

[@Gosha1992]

Happy to see this! It seems like the price on the S3000XL is a bit exaggerated, I got one last year for around 200 pounds. It's in great condition and you can upgrade it with a Gotek and an LED screen for another 200-300 pounds.

[@groovining]

Yea I've been looking, they've all gone completely insane. Especially the s950's going for over £1000. Luckily, I picked up an Emu E5000 Ultra last year. Went and did all the upgrades to the PSU, LED screen, Zulu SCSI. Well worth it. Love it to bits! ✌️🥷

[@Strafuzz]

Hey dude where can you get replacement screens for the S3000?

[@Gosha1992]

@@Strafuzz Hi, I just got mine from eBay. Came with a nice manual too. It's not very difficult to replace and the quality is so much better. Good luck!

[@groovining]

@@Strafuzz This discord is full of helpful people for this kind of stuff! madlabz.me/

[@nickskywalker2568]

Source Direct defo made some timeless tunes! This was really cool thank you

[@groovining]

Thanks Nick! For sure, some super dope tracks. Lots to come over the next few weeks. Happy Easter mate! ✌️🥷

[@nickskywalker2568]

@Groovin' in G happy easter mate! Your videos are a pleasure!

[@ghal3on]

brilliant !!!! full stop

[@groovining]

Cheers ghal3on! Hope you had a good easter mate! ✌️🥷

[@ghal3on]

@@groovining They have some serious god-like output in the early / mid 90's. looking forward to more vids on these guys

[@groovining]

@@ghal3on Thanks mate, had building work start right outside my flat recently so I've had to spend the week relocating to the back room. Up and running now so will have something out this week!✌🥷

[@ghal3on]

@@groovining looking forward :) keep bangin

[@DerGrosseKrieger]

Proud to get the first like in!

[@groovining]

Ha thanks brother! :)

[@dolomick]

Source direct is great!

[@groovining]

They certainly are! Love that old-school sound. ✌️🥷

[@MrOuija-rr8kq]

Blade was the first time I heard them. I was 8 years old and knew this music was for me.

[@groovining]

Yea for sure - some people just get this style. Such legends, I wish they had more time making tunes before it all fell apart. :)

[@bryngreen9921]

Vampire aka phil source label was dnb also.....I had a couple of releases thier in 2013 under Deeper Connection

[@mranchovydrumbass]

Big Ups G :-)

[@groovining]

Yes Mranchovy, Big Ups! ✌️🥷

[@jackfullarton-johnson6127]

Holy shit. Never heard the crane until now, sent waves straight through my spine and made my hairs jump. Fucking brutal

[@groovining]

Yea, killer tune. Can imagine everyone going crasy when they first heard it on a big system.✌️🥷

[@faint.static]

Pretty sure Sounds of Life is Jim and Photek. Great video nonetheless 👍

[@groovining]

ah yes! thanks for the correction :)✌️

[@andybaddaley9843]

Confirm that:) and Mirage is Jim & Tilla (Odysee)

[@ddsssa]

Source direct is finest jungle / dnb ever. I had started listenning tech itch, paradox and found Sd next.

[@groovining]

Yea they were incredibly talented at 19! Photek/SD/Paradox all have legendary drum work and very unique styles. ✌️🚀

[@chemicalstuff442]

let's gooo

[@groovining]

Were going deep next week! Hyped ✌️🥷

[@beautifulcaramelman]

Do Wax Doctor next

[@groovining]

On my list! ✌️🥷

[@andreimarchenko4680]

Man

[@ultrajayme]

Not sure if you have, but I'd love to see you break down Endemic Void! If you have done so, can you link it up in a reply? Source Direct, as I've mentioned, is untouchable.

[@groovining]

I've only really done - LTJ Bukem, Photek, Source Direct, Paradox, Shogun - Ken Ishhi Remix. I have plans for more of these in the future so Ill add Endemic Void to the list :) ✌️

[@ultrajayme]

@groovining awesome! I think maybe because their portfolio isn't as prolific as others they aren't quite as remembered as some of the other legends. Also for what it's worth, Hidden Agenda would be fun and maybe even Nookie. Twisted Individual made some heinous sounding amens back in the day. Love your videos! Cheers.

[@sukantchandan7255]

great vid bro, thanks. #Junglist

[@groovining]

Thanks mate! Glad you enjoyed, Source Direct went hard! 🥷✌️

[@UltraTerryMain]

What’s the song at 5:18? Thanks.

[@groovining]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jaGcaZujjt2NgKs x

[@ernest7954]

What is the song called at 5:22?

[@groovining]

Source Direct - Bliss kzbin.info/www/bejne/jaGcaZujjt2NgKs

[@fabianpino5121]

what's the song that plays at the beginning? Literally min 0

[@groovining]

SD - Modem kzbin.info/www/bejne/boHGhJuBqrCXqrM

[@AdamTheAd-vanc3d]

Thankyou for featuring Source Direct they defo had a distinct sound and imo had a meaningful contribution to the landscape of even dnb today. They were also funnily enough partly inspirational to me when in wrote this track which was also a tribute to my 2 brothers who passed away. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJuZmKOfnbh6sKs Look forward to more vids 👊🏾🔥🔥

[@groovining]

So sorry about your loss. Track's wicked mate definitely has that Source Direct flavor. Really solid drums✌🥷

[@AdamTheAd-vanc3d]

@@groovining Thanks G, music was and is a good outlet for me to stay afloat. Thanks for having a listen . Again look forward to the next chapter.

[@xgmode]

Exorcise the Demons is still one of my favorite albums, timeless imo. Thanks for making this video series about them! Ps, 1996 interview from Lola da Musica (dutch tv program): kzbin.info/www/bejne/qofRnmiZmbOWq9U

[@groovining]

Thanks for the link! I love Call and Response. I almost want it to hit harder but its got a wicked atmos to it! I thought about including some of that footage but it didn't really work with my 4K vid. Maybe i can find something for the next one. Happy Easter! ✌️🥷

[@xgmode]

@@groovining Think you made a good choice doing Call and Response, looking forward to the rest of this series.

[@hxwow]

based content

[@groovining]

Thanks mate :)