"The way things were" - early '90s Techno Rave with TR-909, W-30, Alpha Juno-2
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2015
- (*The music starts at 2:00 ) - download the track: / the-way-things-were-m
I felt nostalgic tonight and fired up the trusty old W-30... for the younger viewers, here's a breakdown of how a typical Techno / Rave piece of the early '90s would have come to light. Riffs all played live as we used to do at rave parties. Questions are welcome, this is the sound of my youth and I love making this music and talking about the gear and techniques of the day.
No laptops or VST's were harmed in the making of this video - cheers
VSTs are just soooo 5 years ago now ...... which is great cos now I have all hardware again due to the abundance of hands on Synths released these days ! ............ the Kontakt vst remains important though especially for Orchestral and acoustic style stuff
Those orchestra stabs would make any song dope, amazing piece.
I admire the nickname :-)
I was already in the synth scene in school in 1983, a friend was making music like this at home BUT THIS takes me straight back to the early 90's, trippn' dancn' and leaving as the sun rises..... ears ringing and still buzzing... The breakdowns ... took me straight to the dance floor ... keep it up , so appreciated.... music is hardly made like this anymore!!!
Thank you!
@@SynthManiaDotCom have you ever been a producer for artists back in those days?
Take your kids out to the forest and pump 3000watts of techno in their face and rave until 9am.
and Let they do Drugs
Meineidiger Schuft 🙈😂
forrest pump
I just LOVE the fact, that this lazy, sleepy butcher kinda guy is one of the greatest wizards on the entire yt synth scene. I wish I could give more upvotes to all his vids.
Jesus Christ! What amazing sound, rhythm and melodies! 1980-1996 was truly the golden age of music - dance, in particular! I can compare this to any era in time and nothing even comes close to making you feel this much adrenaline shooting throughout your whole body! Don't confuse nostalgia with a good ear, man! I KNOW this stuff is awesome and still way ahead of even THIS cringy new era we have to endure!
OLDSKOOL RAVER FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!
*****
Wow! We not only share the same story, but also have the same age! HAHA!!
I went to raves through the late 90s and experienced the power of the music through huge speakers that were much bigger than me, and you could feel vibrations through your body based on where you stood in the warehouse. This music would have made everybody go crazy and the repetition only putting us more and more in the trance state even without being on any substances. Timeless dancing all throughout the night and leaving in the morning in broad daylight blinking feeling great, and looking at the appearance of a new day. And then driving to a friends house so we could all crash and wake up whenever.
Actually it was 1993-1996. My time flies! Rave on! Makes me wish I bought more gear back then but I was a broke college student.
u guys def. never heard of modern dubstep music
this shit will rek u
OOOG
PAAAHAAHAA!!! DUB-STEP!?!? Dream on!! That shit sounds so stupid and cringy!! It's all retarded and so damn goofy too!! It's styled like a busted up retarded robot with tons of malfunctions! Fuck that shit! Oldskool techno like this above on the other hand, is always epic, like some apocalyptic event or furious battle of awesome mech-warriors is taking place! Face it! Your shit SUCKS!
That jam would turn the dance floor upside down! A lot of techno from that era sounds kinda cheesy, now, but this holds up and you seem to do it effortlessly. Very nice.
I really wish I could live those days :(
I am so fascinated by the old 90s rave stuff, and can't bare to hear the crap edm in current times.
@Sim on
You have good ears, friend! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
This is the techno I like. It use to make it on the radio late at night, on the weekends.
When those orchestra stabs hit
JAMES BROWN IS DEAD
All the classic sounds. Whip out the glo sticks dust mask and smurf suit
That Alpha Juno-2 is hooverin' mah ass to the space. Sounds massively dope.
This is what I'm talking about.....and as a former 1990-1994 "Techno/Trance DJ" this is how I STiLL make most of my music today. Live and in one shot. No mixing/no DAW...no two songs sound the same.
A link to your mixes please
BIT THROUGH MY PACIFIER AND MY GUMS ARE NOW BLEEDING BECAUSE OF HOW HARD THIS HITS
90's techno is auditory caffeine. Love it!!
I wish they would still have some classic techno mixes like this at events today.
Unfortunately the only closest modern music to this style is Gesaffelstein and Die Antwoord. Barely.
sounds like a proper straight out of belgium tune banging to da core , nice jam !!!!!@
Hoover Time!!! To me Hoovers, Stabs and Acid in Dance is what Guitars, Bass and Drums is in Rock......A Timeless perfect combination!!!
love the jam its groovy tecno syle blazing.....
Absolutely mental, thank you for this track and demo. We had such music on Ridge Racer as well which I think contributed to it's fun and light-hearted factor.
Awesome as usual my friend - Of course my 90's we also dominated by this style, but also those bastions of the synth, the Pet Shop Boys of course.... My love for the synth today would never have been as strong without being totally blown away by Chris Lowe's Emulator III on TOTP's. (I know it was a sampler, but I was young and didn't know the difference)... happy days!
Brings back a lot of awesome memories from my days in college in central Florida in the early 90's especially the Coliseum in Daytona Beach, had a lot of great times there. Love the channel.
Been raving to this since 2015 and haven't stopped ever since! Thank again Marco
Oh yeah brother! Bringing me right back to 1992. Rave on! This is a pure nostalgia trip. Love it.
This just completely raved my brain off... Amazing track, mate...
I could not get rid of a happy smile throughout the whole video.
Classic early techno sounds!!! Keep ravin'!!!!
I always come back to this video every so often. LOVE the sound...reminds me of my early 90's day listening to technorave. I seemed to be the only one in my group of friends that liked it though lol. Still listen to it today. Got some pretty sweet Techno mix tapes from the Ceasar's Bay Bazaar back in the early 90s
Thank you, Richard
Please link me to your mixes please thank you
Pity I missed your live raves in the '90s... This sounds great!
those are crazy sound....very filling on the spatial pallet!!!!
Very Very Good. Thank You for sharing this.
Hey! Chapeau! Wonderful demonstration of REAL knowledge. ;)
Love it. Take me back to being an underage teenager sneaking out of the house to go to warehouse parties, or go to the clubs that didn't ID for all night fun. Too dope man.
Thanks for the lesson. Another good one from SynthMania! :-D
+BlixtenMarlowes Thank you so much, Blixten
You did an amazing job on those drums. I'm playing along on my Yamah AN1X here :p
Thank you for sharing a piece of history!
WELL COOL :) i am glad UA-cam recommended this as it has made my day ;) thanks for the download too , i am going to grab that.I have started to build a some rave/techno style sounds for my new UnoSynth and will use this for inspiration , thanks again
Thanks!
love this music! brings back the 90s memories
The stabs so early 90s
Man I love your videos in your taste
Super cool! Flashback for sure!!
Historian, gentleman, and impeccable taste. Thank you.
i would of loved to grown up in my parent day!! love the music
That was beautiful way cooler than the rave music my brothers listened to
yeap, this guy gets it. this brings me back to the mid 90s and the heap of synth music I heard when I was younger.
The old school stuff is always the best sounding in my honest opinion, good stuff!!!
awesome sounds! :)
The things you stumble across on UA-cam..this is pretty amazing. Got to love early nineties techno
It's great, my friend!!!!!🖖🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Fantastic piece.. I even managed to drown out the tinnitus....
+Paul Noble Thank you very much, Paul, I wish you best luck with the tinnitus.
Belgium techno via Italy ! You really know your stuff every video is spot on
You are the best parts of UA-cam!
Still watching!
Great stuff!!!
this is proper,my cup of tea m8,nice one!
Instant like. The first rave (underground warehouse party) for me was in 1991 I think. A strobe or two, candles for the DJ. Night, darkness around. True underground except the place was a floor high, not literally below ground level ;)
Dude im buzzin off this put me in a right good mood u no ya stuff ! ;-)
Always wondered how they produced those crazy jungle bangers. A lot but not all used trackers or computers to sequence. The trackers probably allowed them to do some crazier sample tricks at the expense of lower bit depth and sample rate. What I always pondered about is how much of a pain in the ass it must have been to get a good breakbeat chop.
You have to synchronize the tempo of the break sample you have by calculating the amount of pitch to apply, and then slicing the breaks up into equal pieces and applying the pitch changes to that to so you didn't have any clicks from the sample gaps. If you wanted to change the project's tempo you'd probably have to reapply and recalculate the pitch again. I believe a lot of it was software assisted if you had the Amiga for instance. There were probably tools for that. But if you had to do that sort of editing purely on a sampler, holy crap. I think there were some people that did lazy hacks with chopping by just transposing the break to approximate the tempo and only selectively cut out the part you wanted to chop. But that wouldn't fly with some of the more crazier jungle stuff.
All that stuff with no automated tempo synchronization. (At least not to my knowledge)
I'd actually like to see SynthMania attempt to try making some jungle-esque improvised music.
+sticksquash Hehe.... yes, kids have it easy today. Yeah, Jungle was all samplers, Akai, Roland, etc., chopping done by ear. While I listened to it, I never really got into making it. A bit later there was the ReCycle software that made it easier, which I bought at the time but seldom used it (I should rediscover that, now that you mention it). Trackers came later
SynthMania The first Amiga tracker was released in 1987 (Ultimate Soundtracker).
OH, I wish I had that gear at the beginnings of the 90s! Instead I fooled around with a Kawai K1 II and a Yamaha QX 21 sequencer ... in noway techno like this, but I had my fun! I got the W-30 now, gotta really get into that thing!
Thanks for the time travel! I know got to play some BOY RECORDS stuff! ;-D
QX21 you have my deepest sympathy, i actually still have one in the cupboard. painful .
This does my heart good! Exactly as I remember it! Back when you didn't just use a damn laptop. I was googling some info on how to make electronic music because I got a bunch of analogue gear and it seems nobody uses hardware to perform anymore. I'm good with my video game music and my 90s rave music thanks! My 2 analogue synths and my Emu Proteus 2000 can do great music just fine with a drum machine or two and a sequencer. Laptops just crash and kill the vibe.
DAMN!!! That juno2 looks like you just inboxed it😍😍😍😍 like new... those where the days😍😍
Excellent!
This feel soooo Matrix. I love it.
This is an awesome history lesson. Right on.
So good miss these days
Great sound!
love this. still the greatest rave sound ever
This is sick! Rave till the grave. And beyond!
Невероятно! Просто волшебник.
Reminds me of the music in the 2nd level of the Einhander game on PS1. Cool Stuff
Typical early techno drum pattern with all these 909 offbeat snares. This makes me recall some of the most awesome, wild parties in the early 90s. Today's youth pales in comparison!
ur old
You're right if we're talking about mainstream EDM we hear on radio (Avicii, Porter Robinson, David Guetta). However there's few scenes driven by youths, that keeps same spirit - like Dubstep, Hardstyle, Drum'n'Bass or Footwork.
while the music was different back then.. the parties are still at least as crazy. you have no idea
Very good track:) Shame that not many people do this music any more, but maybe that is what makes it so special :)
it,s a yes for me.keep doing yo thang.
This is great!
PolySix PWM really is special with its imperfect clocking.
Good job!
Oh yeah. I'm also one of the RAVE and TECHNO pioneers in Croatia. That time we were so poor that we used Commodore Amigas as samplers. So brutal, 8 bit! We had all analogue stuff (worthless that time), TR808, TB303, Jupiter 4, Juno 106, JX3P, JX10, Alpha Juno, Korg MS20, MS10, modulars, etc, etc... but no money for decent sampler! :-) Cheers!
Very cool! Croatians love synths. I have three online friends for years who are well known in the synth world - Don Solaris, Roginator, and Clusterchord - who are from Croatia.
@@SynthManiaDotCom Yeah. I'm friend with Roginator from early days... Small world.
A day in your studio would be like a music lovers theme park. I was going to club & raves in the UK from 1989 onwards.
The stabs....always the stabs!!! LMAO.
3:55 the voice introduced at this point reminds me of one of my favorite vintage game opening themes. So simple but I love it. Sounds similar to the opening sequence from "LHX: Attack Chopper"
The good old days with Underground Resistance, Orbital, and Aphex Twin
It's even earlier era: T99, Human Resource, U96, Quadrophonia, numerous side projects by Lords Of Acid.
Oh man, that brings back memories of when I'd go clubbing in Liverpool. I'm an 80's guy at heart but still love a bit of techo now and then. Thanks for the upload.
+Retro Core Thank you very much - I'm an '80s guy too (you can find Synth Pop, Italo Disco and other '80s styles on my channel). As a keyboard player, early '90s Techno was a lightning out of the blue and literally a musical revolution - many keyboard players like me sold bought their first samplers because of it.
Yeah, I've actually watched all of your videos over the last few months. I really enjoyed the Italo Disco tracks played with the Juno.
Will you ever be doing any Pet Shop Boy tribute style demos? I'd be interested to see your take on something such as paninaro.
+Retro Core Thank you, yes, I've had it on my to-do list for a long time to do a cover of West End Girls with the Emulator II.
You make ALOT of amazing music; it is almost painful that I'm listening to this at work through shitty headphones when I have a hifi system in my car that would be worthy of your music...
This awesome!!
Loooooved my W30...and stull have my "From New" Alpha Juno 2!
Excelente 🎈🎉
So good
i just found my new favourite channel
You got that ´91 vibe!
* Needs moar reverb!
+Anamnesia and cowbell
Gerry No DEFINITELY!!! ;)
Ahhhhhh man!
Sooooo proper!
Can I just say that I appreciate not only the content you've provided here but the tone in which you delivered it? Instead of casting a derisive eye on younger people, you're inviting them in, which is so valuable. Cheers
@Dinosaur Hunter
They were always "invited" in, it's THEM who rejected great music out of being brainwashed and having dumb and deaf ears. That's why they're called new millennial trash.
LOVE IT!
mate, do you wanna kiss yourself?
alex monty bigger and bolder and ruffer and tuffer
he's the one and only dominator
Usted sí que sabe !!
I'm the one and only Dominator
Wanna kiss myself!
this made me dance :)
Thank you!
You bet!
THis is rad!
Perfect!
Ha! Hoover me baby!! Gotta go fire up my old Alpha Juno II now. Still immaculate and rave-worthy (if anyone wants to buy it). :-)
Greg Anderson how much? Lol
Hey
I've been getting into producing Goa Trance, PsyTrance, and Dub Reggae in my little home studio.