Well this is a great list of choices. I would add: Haddaway - What is love? Culture Beat - Mr. Vain Depeche Mode - Enjoy the silence New Order - Blue Monday Pet Shop Boys - Before (extended mix) - this one it's so groovy to me!
thanks so much! I'm learning so so much here. Today I created a 90s trance track following your video and I nailed it :) Learning about composition of basslines and melodies, arps, beats, rhythms and specific sounds is equally important to recreate the classic trance and dance music that I love so much. Thank you!!
Few years back I got a TR-09 and started syncing my Juno-60 arpeggiator with a trigger pattern (instead of a continuous pulse). Then I realised that basslines like Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It, can be played just by chord on hold + arpeggiator + trigger pattern. :)
Great video! Other superb basslines were: Snap - Rhythm Is a Dancer Ace of Base - All that She wants Culture Beat - Mr Vain Technotronic - Pump up the Jam But I am still in love with these two legends: Michael Jackson - Billie Jean Queen - Another one bites the dust
Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat, Benny Benassi - Satisfaction, Buzzy Bus - Don't Stop, Kriss Kross - Jump, Run DMC - It's Like That, Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise, Mauro PIcotto - Komodo/Proximus, 2 Unlimited - Let The Beat Control Your Body, Haddaway - What Is Love, .........
Jonas, I found your channel a few weeks ago and am watching one or two videos every other day and I love every single one of them. I want to tell you that I absolutely love your content. Just the right amount of introduction, explanation and entertainment. Keep up your great work and a big thanks for everything! :)
Personally, I think Livin Joy "Dreamer" with that click on the Bass organ was the one that that did it. The grove on that track takes it to a different level.
The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/estuera08211 So what are your favorite dance synth bass lines ? And what defines a 'good' bass line according to you ?
My favorite is "Snap! - Rhythm Is a Dancer" of course! I would also like to highlight these rolling two-octave bass lines from Spacesynth genre, but almost the entire genre revolves around them (the variant with FM RubBass then even got into "James Brown is Dead" from there).
- Rick James - Super Freak (aka M.C.Hummer - can’t touch this) - Depeche Mode - World in my eyes. - A lot of Michael Jackson songs such as Thriller, Billie Jean and so on.
Hard & Cheap - Too Late Egma - Let The Bass Kick D-Shake - My Heart The Beat Bodyrox - Yeah Yeah King Bee - Feel The Flow Dr. Baker - Kaos 1989 Fire On High - Float In A Dream Of EX-TC
Some iconic ones… Joey Beltram- Mentasm (What the…, need we say more?) Terrorist - P.A. Mix (say Reese) AWEX - It’s our future (playing in your head now, isn’t it?) Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 (detuned saw never gets old and this one was a massive hit using it. Could’ve suggested N-joi - Malfunction, too.) Ramirez - La Musica Tremenda (quite unique bass sound) AFX - Alien Fanny Farts (no list is complete without RDJ!)
Great video, great bass makes instant hits! My vote goes to Just an illusion by Imagination. Maybe too old (1982?) to be considered synth dance but still hits right where the heart is. Legend has it ithe bass was recorded live in one take because they had no sequencer..
Great selection! Some more for the check: Boney M - Ma Baker (accoustic, but I can't help to think about this whenever someone says "bassline") Colonel Abrahms - Trapped Snap! - Rhythm is a Dancer Bomb the Bass - Beat Dis
Great selection. A few others Michael Jackson - Billie Jean Giorgio Moroder - Chase Madonna - Into the Groove Mr Oizo - Flat Beat Benny Benassi - Satisfaction Pet Shop Boys - West-End Girls Double 99 - RIP Groove
Excellent list, Jonas! Your videos are great! I'd like to suggest some bass lines that always make me groove when they play on my stereo: Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam; Snap! - See The Light (Original Mix); Masterboy - Everybody Needs Somebody (Up & Down Mix); B.G. The Prince Of Rap - Round, And Round; 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor - Dreams; Culture Beat - Mr. Vain; Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis; Micro Chip League (MCL) - New York; Front 242 - Headhunter; Information Society - Running. I hope you like them. Cheers!
I love all your videos. I was going to suggest Newcleus - Jam On It but I can't find confirmation of exactly what synth was used. I always thought it was a Jupiter 8 but it seems like they didn't own one until after that song was released. Others say it could be a Jupiter-6 or most likely a Pro One.
Thank You! Those tracks are great to learn, as they are great "party starters". Even my MC-303 can make some music now! For me Chase by Moroder , Body language, Overpovered by Roisin Murphy are also good
Thanks for the memories and great basslines. 🙂 The youtuber KOSmusic has made a complete instrumental version of "show me love" without being flagged. I recommend it if u haven't heard it already. KOSmusic makes many great instrumental covers on keyboard, I recommend this channel. Maybe a part II in a near future, but yeah it is hard because there are so many great and awesome basslines out there.
And a couple of cassette recorders (!) because he needed to do overdubs, but didn't have access to a multitrack recorder, let alone a DAW. It's Incredidble how something so lo-fi still sounds fresh today.
Occasionally I do (kind of) review some gear. But it's basically the gear I purchase because I plan to keep on using it in the studio. This means videos like that will remain quite limited and irregular.
@@Estuera yeah, i’m against you buying gear for the sole purpose of reviewing it - but yeah some sort of gear reviews and studio tour would be great! also, what’s your opinion on the behringer deepmind ??
I'm going to move to another place later this year, which also means I'm going to have a new studio. So there will most probably be some content coming about that :) In theory the deepmind looks quite interesting but I have no practical experience with the instrument so can't really say anything else about it.
great video! is it possible to explain how you program or use your TR-08s. I m planning to program some basic 4 by 4 beats. Lots of other famous baselines to go man, thx for the possitive vibes, i ll also check on your link in a minute
Great video. Here are my top 5 basslines: Liaisons Dangereuses - Los Niños Del Parque ATB - Renegade (A&T remix) Nitzer Ebb - Murderous Fatboy Slim - Everybody Needs A 303 The Prodigy - Everybody's In The Place (fairground remix)
Crockett’s Theme from Jan Hammer also has a unique and famous (arpeggio) bass line. It’s on his album Escape From Television, and most people know this iconic song from Miami Vice. Great video btw.
I did. You'll need to use the Juno-106 model and set the pwm and filter values just right. I actually learned this after watching this video of synthmania: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OuPh-PaPhp0.html
Great examples! I always took the sound of “I like to move it” as not being a bassline, but a lead sound. Depends on how you look at it, I guess. And if the audio is getting flagged, you know you’re doing it right 😁
Yes indeed. I already mentioned it in the text in the video. I initially thought 'square roland house bass line late 80s ? Must be a 303' but than I realized the chorus sounded very Juno like.
pretty sure Jam El Mar knows about the synth used for the remix? xD it always amazes me how iconic and remembable you can go with just a bassline ... in almost all i hear the rest of the song playing, upon you playing the bassline ...
If he remembers :D Because I sure as hell do not remember all the details about my own old tracks. And the Age of Love remix is almost 30 years old now.
Nice topic! Regarding the 'sloppy playing', which is completely forgiven btw, would it be an idea for a video to cover how sequencing was done those days?
Interesting idea. Although the further back you go the more diverse methods you'll find. So its a topic that can go anywhere from early Cubase on Atari to all kinds of hardware sequencers and multitrack recording variations.
@@Estuera Glad you like it! Perhaps the scope could be limited to house/trance/techno (and variants)? I noticed there's a ton of videos about the synthesizers used in the 90s, but barely to nothing covering the sequencing (without modern software that is).
I'm not a very big fan of covers, although I am always interested in how a specific track has been made. I rather focus on a specific aspect or the general sound of a genre and thats what you are proposing in the second part of your question. So I'm already doing that. Recreating tracks is something I don't want to do though. I rather write new original tracks (with occassionaly a wink towards a specific old school sound)
@@Estuera Moroder worked on modulars and minimoog. fact is that the bassline from "I feel love" wasn't written on 303, coz the track released on 1977 and teh first TB-303 produced on 1981.
Zig and zag " Them Girls Them Girls" is a dope one.... But my Favorit Bassline is Not from a Dance Track. "When the musics over" from The Doors is my all time fav
Have to agree that the Doors have some pretty great basslines going on. The Zig and zag one is basically the same patch as the reel to real one as far as I can remember.
