Revealing the secrets of RAY KEITH'S Biggest DnB tune 

this is one of those records that are the result of just being young not caring about rules or even have much musical theory down and just letting it go, absolute classic

Jah Shaka rest in peace. I saw him once playing records with his sound system and it was so powerful and loud.

The wizardery in THIS tune is... How the hell does that drop always feel like a shock or surprise each time (even though we obviously know it's coming and it being at the start of an expected bar) 😲 ✨🏆✨

Ah my god, it's so rare to find content like this on RU-vid. Absolutely brilliant, thank you.

whosampled actually carries both samples AND interpolation, so the listing on terrorist wasn’t entirely wrong.

Love that your days of raving in a field has lead you to here.

Always been a fan of Classic Drum & Bass and the Moving Shadow!

I like how you heard the gaps at the end of the amen bars, I think there was a little gap between the two snare hits too though - amazing how our ears can pick up that silence and even prefer it!

It always amazes me how such good tracks were made with what we'd now call primitive methods (sample sequencing). One of the tracks from the same era that I like is Atlantis by LTJ Bukem, another great and distinctive track in my books.

This was another landmark track which stood out because compared to everything else at the time it was stripped down, just drum and bass, and of course that Reese just sounded massive. There was so much ragga influenced stuff and this track licked a shot for the drum and bass style (which got left behind with the takeover of ragga samples) and kept it alive ! Not long after this Jungle changed style into the drum and bass style (not DnB yet), where you had mad edits of amens and big fat basses in all different textures, Ragga got left behind.

What a great choon this was, and remains. Renegade is a legend.

The real man who made this tune is Nookie. He did most the work and all the production. P.s Nookie replayed the sample with M1 keyboard

I definitely think you are right about the art of looping samples as being important. The movement that you get inside a loop can give a line a very definitive flavour. I will sometimes create a sound on a synth and then sample it just so I can get the flavour that comes with speeding up and slowing down a sample to pitch it over a keyboard.

This is and will always be a UK classic....memories of my younger days 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The B side to that tune is a banger as well.

Just wondering why Gav Nookie barely gets any credit for this tune . He was heavily involved in this production as much as alot of Rays earlier stuff.

I was sooo waiting for a Jungle/DnB deconstruction from you! ❤ I got hooked back on M-Beat lately and have been analysing his banger productions ever since. This one is another of my favourite tracks. So good!

Gyu it would be amazing if you could do more oldskool jungle, drum n bass tracks. Like Deep Blue - Helicopter tune or Dread Bass - Dead Dred. Omni Trio - Renegade Snares (Foul play remix) Big respect Gyu, thanks for the fx sample pack.

Love this channel - Just found it!!!!! Thank you!

Absolute banger !! Still rocks as hard today as when it was released.

Your choice of tunes for these videos is legendary!

All the "How was it made" you have.. are so much loved tracks.. after all these years is still music very deep inside me.. This one.. the fluffy clouds.. the Melt..

This will always be one of my all time favourite classics. If you like Jungle/D&B you can't not love this! The way that you recreate these tracks is just amazing, I've seen a few that you have done and it is very impressive, you have some great talent and knowledge.

oh my days - i love this tune and have it in my car :D

This is so so interesting.. not just because of your skill at reproducing the track, but the research you put into it with interviews, the equipment used and stuff. You have immediately gained a new subscriber. Thank-you!

Just for the record, the Japan 'Nightporter' connection is correctly listed as an interpolation / replayed sample on Who Sampled and always has been.

2 days ago i went to my first Jungle party/concert ever with spinscott, i've danced 6 hours non-spot i fucking love this music is just my vibe. That one and Dj marky were the best concerts EVER i'll remember them forever!

What a classic and Thankyou for recreating it and the history behind it 👊🏼

Jungle has always been been the hardest to make easiest to mix for me and your really opening my mind and inspiring Ty Ty Ty

Another great video. Good job man. I was listening to Joey Beltram's 'Energy Flash' the other day, and wondered how the bassline was done. Would be good to see you deconstruct that one, one day.

This is an absolutely EXCELLENT deep-dive you’ve done here chief! I also saw that Zinc x Ray video but was still a bit confused about a couple of things - good to hear you elaborating on what was actually done 👏🏼👏🏼 I’ve been obsessed with this track since I was at school (a very long time ago! 😂🤣)

Amazing video! Best moment of my life when Ray Keith fed back on one of my promo mail outs, legend! Also, is that Mickey Finn in the interviews with him?

New to your channel loved the video. Day dot raver but new to sampling, so really enjoyed this. Ahh man you remember when terrorist ruled the way in 94, it disappeared and I didn’t hear it till hmmm 97 when NBM dropped it at the Sanctuary, me and the whole place went mental, people climbing up to the decks, carnage!! Big up 👊

Since I last watched this seems like an improved format for your video. Nice work!

Excellent analysis bruv.. subbed!

Nice Gyu! I've been really inspired by these. The last few recreations you have done really resonated with me, but this one most of all. Drum & Bass, specifically tracks like this one are what made me ever want to make music. I feel like this time period (1996-ish - 2000) is somewhat of a golden age of Electronica and Drum & Bass. Well done! BTW I find that if you sample the Reese bassline to where the hh kicks and run it through a LPF it adds a little harshness. I spent a few years trying to create tracks like this back in the day before all these tutorials on the internet. You kick yourself trying to figure out the techniques and sounds only to realize it was all samples! Still an artform after you figure that out however. Plus the sh*tty equipment that added the icing on the cake.

hi and thank you so much for deconstructing some of the classic underground dance tracks! very interesting indeed. please keep them coming.. kind regards.

Fantastic breakdown of a classic. 👏👏👏

Awesome video Gyu, taking the how it was made format to new heights. Love it

The two baselines are fundamental at different frequency ranges. They need EQ'ing obviously but they're naturally quite different. Great Vid!!!!!

Holy shit, totally forgot about this track. I was right there when this was playing during the rave scene back in the day. That bass made yah soul vibrate.

This is really good. Great work 🙌🏿

Brilliant video and reworking of such a absolute classic oldskool jungle track takes me back to my 90.s rave days. Ps i would like you to do some altern 8 like infitrate 202 or even klf what time is love or 3 am eternal anyway defnitely will checkout the rest of your channel

Wow!! This video is 🔥 THANK YOU 🙏

Mind blowing thanks 🙌

Love this! Just shows that simplicity is bliss.🙂

What i didnt realise was the piano riff wasnt sampled! I always (wrongly) assumed that it was taken from another track. Glad I've learnt something today!

Just found this, great channel!

Great job recreating this epic track. I picked up a few tricks too. Big up!

some awesome insights in this video, this was my favourite tune on the World Dance - The Drum + Bass Experience CD back in the day!

Brilliant breakdown of how this track was made.

Great video! Love the editing in this one

A few years ago I first heard about them zero G sample packs, I was obsessed for weeks with trying to get them. They were well hard to find, but they're worth the effort

Would love to see more jungle videos like this ❤

Another intersting fact, the piano and the bass are a semitone out from each other, wich is a shame as the piano wont work over the top of the bass

Great video mate would be interesting delving into some other jungle tracks

love ray keiths sample pack. it helps inspire ideas when working on fresh tracks. i'd layer other packs in a small amount sometimes. eventually made my own drum sound, but found the style doesnt always fit with stuff i'd made.

Brilliant. A 15 minute shiver session. Oi Oi.

That Zero G sample the full sample was also used by Mickey Finn in his track D-Pressed

Wow.. Random click and blessed with this!!! I've subbed mush.. What age did you get into this mate? I remember hearing this at the Mannor in Dorset for the 1st time. That drop.. 100% blew my mind to.. My arms were in the air then BOOM!!! Ty for the vid mate. 🎉🎉🎉

That whole sample at 7:45 was used in some other classic jungle track, I'm thinking Bukem but i can't quite place it as my brain is quite addled, having lived the 90's!

Loved this and thanks for the tips. Subbed for more 😊🙌🏻

Intro of Grooverider at World Dance, then into an FB1 track for a hanger blasting mix (shame the rest of the set was a clangfest).

Mind blown! Amazing!

Omg yesss my fave too love it soo much ❤😢❤..yea i went thru those samples the other night 😮😂 great to see where there from

Did you ever catch up with Norman Cook after he commented on your remake of his track?

Nice one. I love all that old school Drum & Bass. The modern stuff just doesn't have the same bite. I'm sure it was those old samplers that give it that vibe. Do you know what they used on this track? I remember seeing LTJ Buckem back in the day using an old MPC. Check out the plugin RX1200 by Inphonik. It gets you in that early 90s ballpark.

Really cool video, learned a lot! Always love these types of analyses. Also makes listening to the original track better somehow.

You know what mate? You're getting pretty good at these.

Outstanding video man!

Top quality breakdown many thanks for this gyu ✌️

great video, appreciate all the work you´ve done here

Brilliant video, thanks a lot!

Although the pianoriff is "loaned" from Japan, it has a very strong reference to classical composer Satie ofcourse. That makes it even more interesting I think.

So good mate! Well done 👍

My dude's white beard IS school! I might be from the D, but I have been a D&B fan for a damn long time. Probably since the mid 90's. I'll upload some of my tracks from that era, soon. Been a fan, and have seen KMS spin records many times, and do live sets, several times in the D, beginning in 1990.. Techno is the roots of my soul.

This is a classic, also love Ray's Marvel action hero beard.

Re: Dub - read Francois K’s description of the dub aesthetic. He talks about dub influence on drum and bass, space disco, techno, etc.

This is brilliant. Thank you

That dub bline reminds me of mantronix for some reason.... nice one for sharing vid..

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I only realized now that vocal sample is from Soul II Soul. Fun! Thanks

I think (could be wrong) the way the Think break is chopped up is just a straight lift from the 1st future music cd demo'ing sample cds from the time.

I’m not a producer of any kind, but I can remember absolutely loosing my mind to this all those years ago. 🤘

Wicked videos these, really enjoy them. How about re creating Joey Beltram's energy flash?

8:10 yea i noticed that when cutting up samples for my sample pack. i’d take a sound that just sounds like a garbled mess, and cut out some separate sounds that have a distinct and different sound, sometimes even just cutting one sound in half made me able to hear the two different timbres that were somewhat masked by being super close together

I've always wondered where that sample from Jah Shaka came from . It's been rinsed over the Years on tunes.

The "correct" way to create a loop point on a sampler is to zoom right in on the waveform and drop the loop points when the frequency is visually in the centre of the waveform, click free sample looping.

Brilliant video, thank you!

Shit hot breakdown, you're very good at explaining, respect.

Thank You For What You Do

So sick, great video. !@!!!

You should take a look at The Bassheads - Back to the Old Skool. That has a bassline that's shifted by one beat so it catches you by surprise and then it sounds amazing.

Great video... I'm definitely inspired to rephrase reece and neuro basslines using loop points... and carve of the asymmetry away to reveal new micro grooves. 🎉

Great video !

Amazing video! You got a new subscriber!

Nailed it!

for reese bass cz is the way to go (number one digital reggae synth btw largely underrated one of my fav'z) to do it you need to combine two detuned saw waves....

Just found your channel and loving the videos! Excellent work. Did you happen to use the Hijack Bristol forum back in the day?

07:55 Yes! One tiny snippet of a sample can prove to be a defining factor in a phrase. I almost just bought Tal Sampler as a result of this video.