Jesus On E's Audio Re-make - Ableton Live Playback
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Following 21 years and 3 days since its original release at the Digital Symposium demo party on the 24th October 1992, I present my remake of the Jesus On E's demo audio!
Recreated and sequenced from scratch using Ableton Live, the majority of sounds and samples have been sourced from the original (or better) sources and span some 80 channels of audio. The remake closely follows the original, with some artistic embellishments and modern production techniques added along the way. The remake slightly exceeds the original's runtime, totalling nearly 28 minutes.
Due to the lack of accompanying visuals which match the audio, I have made a video of the playback in Ableton Live for you to enjoy*.
The complete audio can be downloaded from SoundCloud for free here: / jesus-on-es-remake
You can also find the interview I did regarding the demo for RMC here: • Echo / Spoon Wizard | ...
Any suggested feelings of elation are completely optional
NB: Critics may argue that this video is more boring than the original demo. The author has considered this argument and has determined that this video is in keeping with the original result.
Banger!
I'm gonna tell you man, that what you've made had an big impact in Sweden and surely many countries. We had a stupid small and very underground rave scene in the 90's. This kind of music was really not possible to find in record shops when you released this for the Amiga. So it was really gold to get it. We had only heard of the Prodigy and maybe a couple of other artists. We listened to this a lot. It was a great inspiration also for my own music productions. You made a lot to spread the rave/techno/trance music around the world! I think you made more impression than most record labels from that time. Cheers : )
/ SLC (SLiCE) Ola Lindfeldt
coming up to 30 years and still am awesome track
92 the year i was born all the way intill i was about 5 my dad ues to put this on to shut me up lol and still i come back to find the sound track to my 1st years of my life to find this brill remake .....loves it
+Jack Bye Haha awesome!
You could perform this set live at a demo party, would be amzing
OMG Dude, you have taken me back and kicked me back to the future with this :)
Jesus on E's was always on at our copy parties in the UK, along with 9 fingers etc...
To see what you have done here is amazing and gave me Goosebumps, thank you so much for remaking this classic ❤
Jesus On E’s blew me away. I’ll never forget where i first heard it, round a mates house with the Amiga rigged up to his Kenwood Hi-Fi with his mum yelling at us to turn it down. RIP Howard.
I actually bought an external drive to run this all those years ago, great to see and hear for that matter that the original creator of this incredible peace of Amiga history is still with us, happy memories of the most creative time in modern dance music.
Gotta love the internet age, poking through some of my old Amiga disks and had to see if I could find Jesus on E's on the tube, didn't disappoint, and neither has your remake. Modern Nostalgia. Thanks!
Absolutely amazing! JOEs hugely influenced me over the years!
OMG! Thank you for this Echo!! So much time and effort put in to this and the original. Wow. Thank you!
Best Amiga demo ever...
Just fell in here again. Bloody awesome!!! (: - FuZion/NeoKorteX
Astonishingly good. Well made!
Retro man cave sent me to the original Amiga track and then I found this.... I still have an Amiga and was creating music with computers too when I was younger. You put a lot of work into this... Wow.
Holy crap, this is a fantastic remake/update to the original! Love it!
Holy shit! this takes me back! I had my 1200 wired to my Panasonic VCR, it had editing functions. I taped this and many other Amiga demos and compiled a 4 hour tape. I was friends with a DJ in a local rave club and he displayed my tape looped on the screens in the club. Great times!
Great Mix m8! I found this via the Retromancave link :)
Suddenly the whole internet knows who the real Echo is...
There's another Echo?
Holy shit this is a work of love, I had not seen the video of this remake before.
So many happy memories of turning the lights off and playing this demo on my much-loved A500 despite never having ever listened to anything remotely similar either before or since. Thanks for contributing to those special Amiga years! Even after all this time, listening now, every sample and musical twist and turn feels familiar. Despite its approaching midnight and my need to go to work tomorrow, I'm simply unable to interrupt this epic mod and go to bed! :-D
I had all these demos bak then on my amiga 600+, n nice sound system, the memories, uv done it very proud, iv got this still and play it now n again, as with a few of them
Still remember our (Digital) original party where this was released - awesome stuff :)
Yaz/DTL
Still Love this track after all these years.
Hell of a job, !!!!!!!! Awesome
I need to show you like nearly 25 years of appreciation for your work. Took this with me on my travels when i was 15-16 and it made me the man I am today :)
Dave, Martin, and that flat in Gainsborough - Those were the days!
This is brilliant work, well presented sounds and the sounds crisp . Love it... Bigups
This is still superb to the day, you were and still are a legend amongst myself and closest mates Echo. Fair to say we "used" this music demo in the right mental state a canny few times ;)
25 years now, keep on rocking bro.
Thanks man. I appreciate it :)
I was at that demo party and remember it well :-)
That fucking drop at 19:18 still kills me!
Love this, I really do. Ive listened to the original so many times it feels as though some of the 4 channel charm is missing, a bit like listening to Kraftwerk remixes. It does mean though that I can now play it to death all over again but this time on my 17 speaker+sub car stereo!
Awesome, awesome, awesome!
Love the original, love this too!
Like so many others have said this was so influential to me back in the day (and still is now).
Love the tasty acid in the new one, is that ni massive?
There was a comment above asking if you would consider sharing the Ableton project? This would be a dream come true for me.
I struggled back in the day with Quartet on the Atari ST (had a hardware cartridge and gave you 4 channels, 2 hard left, 2 hard right). I remember having to chop loops up as 1.5 secs was the limit. And no time stretching/pitch shifting. So matching different clips was a mix of key changes, experimentation and luck.
I wondered how anyone could produce such a masterpiece.
I'd love to have a mess about with the Ableton project.
Awesome ! Thank You !
Awsome. Thank you.
I had JOE back in the day on my A500 and on emulator now but this is a great remake. Awesome!
+Burst Nibbler Thanks bud - glad you liked it ;)
Amiiigggggaaaaaa!!
holy moly I saw this looking for a blast from the past, I love listening to the orginal - I normally hate 'remixes' or covered version, but by the original dude YES! got it nailed and embellish away! Yes it does lose a bit of 8 bit charm, but makes up for it.
👏This was the greatest thing to happen to the Amiga. Kissed my first girl while this was blasting out in the background at a house party. This demo got me into music, mixing and computing. I knew "Mark KD" who apparently did the "loading..." graphic on the Amiga demo, if that story was indeed true...!? And shame about Rolf...
Great tunes mate
This is awesome! Good job
Brilliant!! You have no idea the impact this track had on my life and my choice of music over the last 25 years. I can now thank you personally, so, THANK YOU!
P.S. I need this track in my life, any chance of a Ableton project download???!!!
Love the Mindflux sample :)
What the FUUUUUUCKKKK!!!!! This is amazing!
Thanks!
can we find out who was involved in the original amiga version
the list would be great
Nice 1 for keeping this alive i might have a crack next
Shagratt, Pazza, Echo etc. The group was LSD.
Nice 1
Keep up the good work I miss pro tracker made about 6000 beats on it
its nice
I actually hated rave music but man I loved the Amiga demo scene. You guys who created these were demigods. Myself and a couple of mates tried to make a demo. I even chose my name which was ‘Raven’ 😂. It was bloody crap though so we discarded it
I too member dis... Always wondered what that sample at 8:38 says - "You Must Be Awesome Rules To Prove Shit?"
I think it's actually "You must be on some new improved shit"
Nice one. Thanks for teaching me Protracker Bretheren ;)
'sup grazy?
Scary how the original fit into a little under 2MB of storage in total, and played on a 512K machine. I bet the Ableton project is many hundreds of MB in comparison :)
Thanks Peter. The Ableton project is nearly 60Mb :)
Only 7.5 MB?
@@macdonalds1972 no the original went on 2 floppy discs so less than 2mb
@@Mind-your-own-beeswax Mac Donalds was referring to the claim of nearly 60Mb (megabits) for the Ableton project, which is 7.5MB (megabytes).
Thanks Echo :) Loved this, it was my favourite demo. I use to trade it all around our LSD BBS's and other groups boards back in the days. MeCHaNiC/LSD. Would you give me permission to use Jesus on E's as backing music for some of my videos. Will give you credit and links back to the music source?
Hey Mech - sure, no problem. All my music is free to use for non-commercial purposes and free to download from SoundCloud. Enjoy!
Thank you :)
Download the MP3 from Soundcloud, buy Beat Hazard, put Beat Hazard on Insane. Play Jesus On Es. Marathon level achieved.
One can do tracker to MIDI one sample / track at a time for a sort of automatic place to start...
That is stunningly good... Does anyone know what happened to Echo? His music was so amazing, but cant find anything on the web about him and what he is doing now?
I am Echo/LSD - the author of both the original and this remake!
Go by the name Spoon Wizard these days, and you can find me @ www.spoonwizard.com/
Wow so impressed matey. I can't tell you how important both this song was for me growing up (it still amazes me today, even more so when you consider how it was all squeezed on to a couple of Floppies) .. Also used to love the LSD Grapevine disk mags.. Was never part of the scene or anything, but used to love reading them and all those great crazy articles :-) All the best and cant wait to look at your site.
spoonwzd I *never* thought I would get to say thank you to the maestro behind Jesus on E's. THANK YOU for the original and this remake is also amazing. Same as TheDrisk, this was a major deal for me growing up and enjoying the demo scene (and rave music in general). Kind of shaped who I am today!
Ian Witts Great to hear and thanks for the kudos!
great but the problem I have with sharing is Rolf...
For all the high-end you can do with studio mastering, effects and everything these days it sounds too 'clean'. Though I suspect the Lo-Fi sound of the original Amiga 8bit audio hardware made JoE's sounds as good as it did!
I agree with you, especially with rave music - when re-sourcing the original sounds it was clear that things were much rougher back then too - even in the professional industry - and some of that charm is missing from the remake. Hopefully I've added enough new stuff to compensate!
I must give you praise for what would be 'mod 10' of the original tracklist, where it gets a bit trance-y around 19:17. That was very well recreated, between the dirty zine-wave intro and all the other instruments, excellent job done with that.
I did always wonder about the "slipping" staccato sound of the stabs at around 4:44, but given they're on this version too it must have been deliberate. Huh.
*artistic embellishments* :)
@@spoonwzd I like it. Makes it sound like you flubbed your cue :)
Currently trying to compile a list of samples you used...but some of it is rather tricky, especially the drum loops :/
That loop playing at 1:21: Where is that loop sourced from? I would like to use it without the bassdrum, like in the original. Thx
+laxiton That loop's from Messiah - There is no Law
@spoonwzd: Do you think you could go back to the limitations of soundtracker/med and create something as epic as the Original J on E today?
I'm afraid the original is ingrained into my consciousness as will always be superior. Great facsimile but IMHO opinion seems too sterile - although I'm glad you kept Rolf in there!
I have considered trying to use a tracker again, but I think it would be too much of a backwards step for me especially given how much time I actually dedicate to making music these days (hardly any!) and how much I love Ableton. Certainly I've learned much more about production quality over the years so would expect that to have an impact, but I always found the 4 channels extremely limiting so it's not something I'd want to engage with again.
I agree totally but nostalgia has got the better of me. Even the simple tools such as Audacity blow the trackers of old out of the water. I've not had a play with Ableton but tried Reason and found the learning curve too steep for me. Can't teach an old dog new tricks I suppose. I'm glad you are still making music.
I spent a few days with the Ableton tutorials and something clicked, and this is from someone who hasn't clicked like that with audio software since the tracker days. The control you have over samples with their Warp feature is AMAZING. Ableton does way more than I use.
19:31 the Antico - We Need Freedom part kinda lost some of its energy when you thinned out the lead :/
Great track! Still have thge original disks (and Amiga) Here's a 6 minute mix I mastered www.ionsonic.com/music/ElectroKnight/track2482.php
Hellow, name This original track 19:18 -22:30
Tanks guy.
I believe that was my own take on ANTICO - WE NEED FREEDOM
where did you get the clean samples from? such as Rolf ect
+ukgareth316 Went back to the original sources and re-sampled / ripped where possible. The Rolf sample (and many others atually) came from the megamix CD "Hit The Decks vol 2".
Can you please make a shorter version? About 6 minutes maximum. I cannot put it on my playlist because it's too long. I mean it's good but a 6 minute version including those oh-ah-oh-ah-oh-ah-oh's from the first minutes would be cool. Thanks.
That'll be a no.
@@spoonwzd Teramega apateruega