When Jungle/DnB Music Dominated Video Games: A Brief Retrospective

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Lately, we've witnessed a resurgence of Jungle/DnB music, particularly from the soundtracks of 90's videos games. Playlists are popping up all over RU-vid and garnering millions of views. As a frequent listener of Jungle/DnB, this got me wondering: how did so many games from the 90's end up using this style of club music in their soundtracks? In this video, I explore the history of early video game music and its relationship with 90's club music.
Please note I use a liberal definition of Jungle/DnB that encompasses all subgenres.
Sources: pastebin.com/jC4wrRwn
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Background Music (in order of appearance):
- Silver Stream (from Rage Racer)
- The Offing (from Sega Marine Fishing)
- Thrashard in The Cave (from Castlevania Chronicles)
- Monogenic (from Bomberman Hero)
- Do You Believe in Love? (from Rollcage)
- BGM 08 (from Zeus - Carnage Heart Second)
- Move Me (from Ridge Racer Type 4)
Chapters:
Intro and examples - 0:00
Early history - 1:32
The 1990's - 3:44
Notable Artists - 5:10
Video games and the music industry - 8:35
Outro - 10:21

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@TheHansen01 Год назад

Thank you all for watching, I never expected this video to blow up the way it has! To all the new subscribers - appreciate you coming aboard, I've got another videogame retrospective coming soon. One correction: as noted by several of you, Tim Wright worked on Wipeout 1 and 2097, not Wipeout 3. I sourced that from Vice's October 2018 interview with Tim Wright himself, but I failed to catch that the author mistakenly used "Wip3out" instead of "Wipeout" or "Wipeout 1": www.vice.com/en/article/a3pb45/video-games-90s-club-music-commodore-amiga

@Jerry4050 Год назад

Wasn't Tim Wright was in Cold Storage I should know since I have all Wipeout games.. WipeOut XL had more variant artist same with Wipeout 3

@elphive42 Год назад

The Amiga was only a failure in the U.S. specifically. It was wildly successful in Europe, especially in the U.K., which is why jungle as a genre took off starting from there in the early 90s. (A lot of early jungle music was actually produced directly on Amigas using trackers, though not all.) The U.K. had a unique microcomputer scene brought on in part by local computers like the BBC Micro and ZX Spectrum - this spread to such an extent that microcomputers largely replaced the 3rd generation of game consoles in the region, which eventually largely split market share into the Atari ST and Amiga as the 4th generation dawned.

@netneo4038 Год назад

I did not expect the sheer amount of nostalgia induced from these sounds. Thank you!

@spartaninvirginia Год назад

Great video. Subbed.

@SolidSnake684 Год назад

Great video! So Tim Wright did all of Wipeout 1's music, and his work was impressive enough that he also did 2 songs for the sequel, despite them having the budget for a fully licensed soundtrack featuring big names at the time. That game, Wipeout 2097, is the one that blew up in popularity. Wipeout 3 on the other hand was done entirely by DJ Sasha, save for a couple licensed songs thrown in. The game didn't sell too well despite being seen as an improvement, tho, which is a shame as the soundtrack for 3 is one of my absolute favorite game OSTs.

@StuartLutes Год назад

Jungle and DnB was waaaaay more prevelant in the U.K. rave scene than the US and Japan. Ask most Americans and they won't have even heard of the genre. House music started in Chicago but DnB & Jungle are as British as tea and crumpets.

@f67739 Год назад

amen to that lol god bless the UK

@johncasarino5627 Год назад

yeah the guy in this video literally seems to think DnB and jungle came from japan, at least by his use of words in the video, which is flat out WRONG

@NeonBeeCat Год назад

I hear that it's pretty big in New Zealand though

@user-vp6cq4sv3d Год назад

Just like hip hop is as american as hpv rates. I agree.

@rookbranwen8047 Год назад

Makes me wish I was born in a part of the world that actually knows what EDM is outside of Skrillex, Marshmello and Deadmau5.

@thewave-qz9lt Год назад

man i really wish this style of music came back into gaming nowadays.

@Jerry4050 Год назад

Hi-Fi Rush is doing it for this generation to bad its Xbox Exclusive but its also on Xbox Game Pass on PC

@TeckGeck Год назад

The indie gaming scene has many DnB/Jungle-inspired influences, you just gotta look for it. Shameless plug but I'm actually creating a game with a Jungle/DnB themed soundtrack

@Jackemoff Год назад

the forza horizon games have a dedicated DnB radio station with tracks tailor made for the game specifically

@cuppacoffee1572 Год назад

@@Jerry4050 Hi-Fi Rush is just like, on Steam. It's not at all exclusive.

@emmettturner9452 Год назад

Blah.

@MitsurugiR 8 месяцев назад

This is exactly why most of jungle/dnb sounds so ethereal, we all heard it as kids playing these games.

@gobbins8366 Год назад

Jungle and DnB was an essential part of the late 90s - nearly 2000s "aesthetic" (if you'll forgive the pretentious phrasing) It heralded the end of an era, that 'end of the millennium' energy and excitement of entering what we deemed to be a futuristic new age we'd only read about and seen in films. Such an iconic sound that categorically and effortlessly sets a distinct time in recent history. Thank you for capturing this in your retrospective!

@brown9671 Год назад

I won’t forgive the pretentious phrasing you went TOO FAR!!!!!

@askhowiknow5527 Год назад

“Aesthetic” is a word, not a phrase Nothing is more pretentious then using the words “phrasing” or “pretentious”

@AndreasSaag Год назад

You wrote that beautifully, capturing the essence of the heartfelt era that we speak of as the, indeed, ‘post mid nineties not yet early 00’s era’ without phrasing it too delicately for urban ears, phrasing.

Год назад

Definitely not forgiven. What's pretentious about using the word "aesthetic"? Do you think only pretentions things have aesthetics or that pretentious people can appreciate aesthetics?

@thechugg4372 Год назад

Nowadays I'd say musics tend to go a lot towards trap beats, with a more self centered style, like "yeah I'm the shit"

@hellucination9905 Год назад

It was heavenly. The OST of 'Ridge Racer: Type 4' brings tears to my eyes.

@dopey473 Год назад

that soundtrack is incredible

@Samgtv6 Год назад

PEGGIE

@coolandlongmusicalbumsmusi3666 Год назад

EYUP!

@SwratGRL Год назад

@@Samgtv6 BALD! I LOOK LIKE RAY ALLEN.

@Samgtv6 Год назад

@@SwratGRL these nig-s make beats on big wheels

@OceanLordMizu01 Год назад

Street Fighter 3: Third Strike had a stellar soundtrack. Necro/Twelve's, Gill's and Akuma's them are probably my favorite DnB/Jungle video game tracks.

@meebs99 Год назад

Gill's Stage - Psyche Out still gives me goosebumps.

@CrispyLightVybez Год назад

second impact arguably has a more consistent sound track. check out gills theme "the nile" there, almost all the 2I counterpart themes are better than 3s versions.

@naliboi93 Год назад

Love Akuma's theme. Just randomly went on training mode last week against him and it just hit me.

@Daveybird Год назад

Makoto as well.

@richardblack3385 Год назад

Yosss

@_XRMissie Год назад

DnB is such an extremely versatile genre. I love it (and love making it) and I'm glad it's experiencing a comeback... But damn, I didn't know these old/classic games had so many DnB OSTs. Yet another example of how versatile the genre is :D

@SomeRandomPiggo Год назад

Recognized you from the reharmonized version of that guy eating the mic lmao

@atetraxx Год назад

Classic sounds that will never die

@zacharyharris2177 Год назад

How did you start making it? It sounds fun

@Muddy.Teabagger Год назад

it was never gone, all ways been there and never left but iv been in too DnB and jungle for over25+ years and if you look up amiga 500 DnB tracks you see it was being used long before the late 90s

@trevorvogelga317 Год назад

Explains why I love it so much today😂. Never knew at the time what it was

@emckinney765 Год назад

Still listening to the Namco Sound Team producers even today. Takahashi Kohta, Saso Ayako, Megaten, Miyake Yuu, Sakai Asuka... these artists have carved a permanent spot into my rotation.

@uncleizya8760 Год назад

Fr fr, Ace Combat 3 and Ridge Racer is real great stuff

@garx0 10 месяцев назад

i feel like they (megaten, ayako saso, sanodg, j99) were the first to incorporate uk hardcore sound into video games, such as soundtracks to F/A (1992), Ridge Racer series (1993-…)

@ES031 Год назад

I love the resurgence in Dnb, it's led me to some great artists and it seems like there's an endless amount of it being put out. I still play Unreal Tournament (2004) and usually put some Jungle stuff from this site on when I do. BallisticNG is another game which is essentially an unofficial continuation of the Wipeout series, and it has a killer soundtrack with a lot of DnB/Techno.

@sofiawei352 Год назад

can u recommend me some artists?

@Risingson2 Год назад

I have been hearing about "resurgence of dnb" intermitently since the year 2001. Meanwhile things like Hospital Records, Exit Records, Calibre, Klute, Autonomic Records, long, very long, very long etcetera were happening. It is like point n click adventure games, which I always been reading about their death since the late 90s when I never stopped playing them.

@ES031 Год назад

@@sofiawei352 Some older artists would be LTJ Bukem, Shogun/Artemis, Intense, Jonny L. In general I would check out the channels 4AM Breaks, Zorrovian, TUBB, and Ambiance. They've all got a lot of good mixes and you're usually able to find all of the songs.

@Fractal_blip Год назад

Thats sick

@Clos93 Год назад

@@sofiawei352 Seba, Makoto, Big Bud, Nookie, and Goldie are some good ones!

@spartaninvirginia Год назад

The entire Super Monkey Ball and SMB2 OST are prime examples of this. I never knew there was a genre name associated with this, though.

@mattsephton Год назад

SMB 1&2 are not quite jungle/dnb but they are Electronic and use breakbeats.

@TheDoomWizard Год назад

I thank you deeply for publishing this. I'm 34 now and this sounds like my childhood. I didn't grow up in the best household but at least I had the hypnotic sounds of ambient drum and bass coming from across the world beamed into my dome.

@jhhwild Год назад

The style of Drum & Bass in video games is good background music that provides intensity without distracting from the gameplay. It provides a fast rhythm juxtaposed with chill melodies. It fits very well with video games of the era.

@EtherealLifeRecords 11 месяцев назад

Man, that analysis is spot on! Thanks for putting that into words.👍

@ezu5131 9 месяцев назад

Couldn't have said it better (or simpler) myself. I think that's the real magic in it, it's both relaxing and high energy at the same time. That sort of vibe is really hard to achieve in music.

@M1BIGIEMAC Год назад

Unreal Tournament 99 and Bomberman Hero OSTs are 2 of the only albums I have actually downloaded on my phone that don't need to be streamed. I got excited when you mentioned both soundtracks back to back in this (very well made) video. Great work, thanks for sharing

@TheRealJPhillips Год назад

Nice video

@forbiddenera Год назад

Bomberman is always on rotate ❤

@rafaumtgavioli Год назад

Facing worlds and Ice station zeto! Masterpieces!!!

@ObeseChess Год назад

These were the two games I thought of before I clicked on the video!

@woodman94 Год назад

Redial is a classic

@TheNamesJER Год назад

MSX FM in Grand Theft Auto III opened my eyes to jungle / D&B and made me realize how a bunch of other games I had played had incorporated the genre.

@Fractal_blip Год назад

My current favorite genre of music. Its so good. We took things for granted back in the mid-nineties and early two-thousands.

@jasperposey3446 Год назад

i get that the focus of this video is on jungle's history in regard to video games, but i think it would've been helpful to spend a little more time talking about its origins in jamaican dancehall and UK club culture (not to mention the amen break's popularity starting with 80's hip hop), since i feel like a lot of folks just getting into it might assume it's primarily VGM or primarily a japanese thing

@divinasi0n 11 месяцев назад

People can always go and watch the comprehensive Bearing UK docu on the roots and history of British electronic music.

@jasperposey3446 11 месяцев назад

@@divinasi0n not if they don't know it's a british genre to begin with though, they wouldn't know to go looking for that doc

@BEP4LIFE 10 месяцев назад

Thank you

@divinasi0n 10 месяцев назад

@@jasperposey3446 My bad, I wasn't dismissing your comment, I was just suggesting something else people who are interested in this stuff would enjoy, but looks like that got lost in the process of typing it.😅 Either way, I would highly recommend the Bearing docu as its brilliantly put together and contains the insight of someone who grew up in the London music scene. (Where I'm also from).

@dls182 5 месяцев назад

Agreed, I think there should be a reference to it, or at least a suggestion that people learn about it from somewhere. Even referencing another RU-vid doc about it is fine, it shows you’ve done your homework on a topic

@macN64 Год назад

Cool video. I think DnB is a good fit for the Nintendo 64 in particular - since DnB as a genre is based on short samples and drums, it seems well suited to midi and the limited storage capacity of the N64 cartridges. Shoutout to the Super Mario 64 title screen music. That was literally the first piece of music that came out of a lot of people's Nintendo 64. If anyone reading this, having watched the video, would like more of this sort of music in their life, I recommend checking out Hospital Records and V Recordings.

@richardblack3385 Год назад

good looking records bro

@davep5698 Год назад

I would suggest PSX(1,One),is the true home of the sound. Sony made the sound chips for nes and SNES, before being snubbed by Nintendo and taking it out on them with the PlayStation, and it had the CD quality audio. N64 could only synthesise it. A cheap replica sound trying to keep pace with a console generation it was far out classed by. It has great games and music, but not a patch on the PSX.

@aithon6936 Год назад

Hospital is goated dnb

@marcelochagra3307 2 месяца назад

@@davep5698 There is never a shortage of fanatic reviling the N64. The fact that the Nintendo 64 had to synthesize sounds and music gives it even more value, when the PlayStation had the advantage due to having more space. It's a matter of logic and common sense, because if the PlayStation got this far, it was not so much thanks to its chips, but to the recorded music it could play. (Remember that we are discussing soundtracks, and not sound effects, and in that sense, the N64 had to do it all without depending on a player.)

@EsperHubb Год назад

Without a doubt 90's-early 2000's DnB molded my music tastes back then. The Neo-Geo game, Shock Troopers, has some great Jungle tracks like Break Silence and Jungle Rhythm

@underlightmusic Год назад

Underrated game and killer soundtrack!

@gotoastal Год назад

’90s-2000s* Apostrophes are for possession and contractions. Contracting 1990 to ’90 puts the apostrophe on the left-hand side. The ‘s’ makes it plural and plurals in 99% of cases don‘t get apostrophes.

@fredtaylor9792 Год назад

I listen to the Rage Racer soundtrack all the time at work. It's nostalgic, soothing and yet, upbeat. I love this genres of music.

@alex8thebest91 Год назад

When I need extra concentration I always listen to Rage Racer soundtrack!

@ablationer Год назад

the Rage Racer soundtrack is something else alright. Unfortunate how it always gets confused for Ridge Racer lol

@tadhg3 Год назад

Mate that’s a fantastic soundtrack, Volcano Vehicle, Industria, Deep Drive

@jumanjidnbuk6152 Год назад

Jungle music was born out of the uk in the very late 80s and early 90s jungle had very thick roots by the release of the ps1 so Sony used what was popular in the 90s

@TeckGeck Год назад

As a music composer, I can confidently say that Videogames got me into Jungle/DnB (and a mother who used to rave to Jungle back in the day probably helped too) Even so much so It's inspired me to make a Videogame along with a Jungle/DnB-inspired soundtrack

@Zeagods-CyberShadow Год назад

Awesome, Im looking forward to checking it out ^^

@Zeagods-CyberShadow Год назад

Im a complete newbie to EDM and I just watched a video about PlayStation Jungle DnB and im now starting to learn about what i need and then figure out how to start out with making Jungle DnB. An idea i have is to mix Panflute and Ocarina with PlayStation Jungle. Wish me luck ^w^

@SOLIDSNAKE. Год назад

So which was it

@TeckGeck Год назад

@@Zeagods-CyberShadow Awesome! Best of luck with your projects 😎

@CappuccinO80 Год назад

I miss these kinda tunes, they were hype and they just... worked. Specially on racing games.

@michaelclarke1986 Год назад

This video just blew my mind. I’ve always loved this sound and never really knew why. I played all these video games growing up and has made me connect the dots.

@theodorethompson5367 Год назад

Soichi Terada's 'Sumo Jungle' was and still is a genuinely amazing jungle album

@k2a2l2 10 месяцев назад

anything that man touches is gold

@pizzahotline_ Год назад

what a great vid! I loved watching this. This era has been quite under-represented until recently so it's nice to see other people giving it some love :D

@TheHansen01 Год назад

Hey thanks so much, love your music! Really great to see other people moving the genre forward!

@MrDenyven Год назад

Hell yeah this video brought back some great PS1 memories

@_loss_ Год назад

I love your shit, man

@GRA2itous Год назад

Should've known you'd be here, love your stuff man, keep up the good work.

@bourkey1567 Год назад

It's great to see the surge of interest that's been happening recently with the DnB/Jungle community. It's easily my favourite genre of music and I think that largely has to do with growing up on it. My dad was a DJ for a good chunk of his early years and as a result he had a big influence of my taste in music, out of all the stuff he showed me it was DnB I latched onto. I started out with artists like LTJ Bukem and Peshay but gradually moved further afield, discovering people like Soichi Terada and Shinichiro Yokota. Before long, all these VGM DnB compilations started flooding my feed and I discovered a whole new genre of jungle. Whether I'm writing up an essay for college or chilling with the lads DnB has time and time again been topper. This video just solidifies how expansive and intricate this style of music is, fair play Hansen, with any luck this video will blow up.

@i_used_adblock_to_watch_this Год назад

I didn't realize that there's been a resurgence of interest in DnB. I'm quite happy to hear that. I was under the impression that this genre of music was on the decline. Since you seem to be such a fan of this type of music have you ever heard any tracks from Mutt? He's one of my favorites. Unfortunately he's left this music genre and has pursued a different type of music.

@bourkey1567 Год назад

@@i_used_adblock_to_watch_this just checked him out there, pure urban vibes. Yeah it seems the genre has been picking up again, it was always a niche one in all honesty. Big in places like London but never really topping the charts. The only example that stands out to me in that regard would be Inner City Life by Goldie.

@Vivec Год назад

As an avid fan and DJ of drum & bass music, this video was an absolute delight!

@englishwithphil42 Год назад

This music is so inspirational and futuristic. It's one of those things that stimulate your thought process.

@mrrayner7162 Год назад

This was a pretty dope video. I do feel a "brief history of D&B in general" would have helped (came out of the UK rave scene in the early 90s, London, Fabio & Grooverider, etc), and I feel it came across as a Japanese VGM offshoot. Other than that, it was nicely edited and paced well. Keep up the good work!

@3xsxs953 Год назад

Yeah surprised he didn't mention the UK scene at all. This video gives off the wrong impression like it started in Japan when that isn't the case.

@cyrusf Год назад

And going back further, I think the video also gives the false impression that breakbeats were promulgated by computer musicians using the Amiga in the mid 80s. This idea totally glosses over DJ Kool Herc, the father of the breakbeat, and other early turntablists who laid the groundwork for hip hop in the early 70s. Not to mention, breaks were being sampled using tape way before the Amiga came along. This isn't to say that the Amiga didn't play a role in breaks eventually making their way into VGM, of course, but I think presenting it this way erases a lot of important history.

@mrrayner7162 Год назад

@Cy Fi I mean I agree, but talking about D&B history is something that could be glossed over in 30 seconds but adds context, talking about the history of breakbeats and editing techniques for sampling is well beyond what feels like the scope of this video. The way (as I said) this comes across is that Drum & Bass is an offshoot of Japanese VGM, which is far from the truth.

@NK-vd8xi Год назад

@@3xsxs953 not even, it makes it look like the Japanese got it from the Chicago and Detroit "club music" scene.

@TytoAlpha Год назад

It’s a glaring omission and makes me question everything else he says in the video. terrible.

@blahfm Год назад

Someone needs to do a video on how Happy Hardcore actually affected Japanese media in the late nineties. it really hit people on the Japanese underground more than people know. it was even in the extras of the film Tokyo Drift as they knew how big it was on the underground scene then! UK's Future Dance did a few iconic events out there, and before you know it almost every anime from the late 99 to the early 2000's had fast happy hardcore intro songs!

@snakejazz Год назад

Ever heard of breakcore? Breakbeats crossed over with happy hardcore. Quite the genre mix, chaotic jungle breaks with a hardcore tempo. Discovered this while in Osaka for a week and it was crazy but cool.

@sr60030 Год назад

Indeed a needed video

@urphakeandgey6308 Год назад

Japanese Hardcore is still kickass, both the "Happy Hardcore" and the more Gabber style Hardcore. I advise everyone to look into J-Core and actually dig deep. You'll probably have to dig past some weeaboo sounding stuff if that's not your thing, but don't dismiss a track just because of an anime pic. Here's some tracks to start out with: t+pazolite - Collapsing Carnival DJ Shimamura - U Bring Me Joy lapix - Captain Cowbell USAO - Cthugha Camellia (かめりあ) - Everybody do the Twist (of Rock and Roll) I tried to recommend a variety of styles. Some will like the more standard EDM while others will like the more experimental.

@user-vp6cq4sv3d Год назад

@@snakejazzBreakcore is a non word. Most have said breakcore is jungle with faster bpm. How you would've made the discovery in Japan I find very disingenuous. Breakcore is as real as me making a sub genre out of my faps per minute. Weyheyhey! did try to make the distinction legitimate.

@snakejazz Год назад

@@user-vp6cq4sv3d people who sit there and get this hilariously uncomfortable that other genres and subgenres exist should probably just get into knitting and leave music to people who aren't sensitive to evolution, adaptation, and change. Breakcore has indeed been popular in Japan for at least a decade if not more, there are entire cultures and enthusiasts behind it. If you don't know about it and therefore you're afraid of the unknown, which entices you to comment nothing burgers on topics you are completely ignorant about--don't worry kiddo that's a pretty normal thing for inexperienced people. You'll grow up eventually.

@mileshill7196 Год назад

I loved the aesthetics of gaming during this period. To this day music like this triggers positive nostalgia in me.

@peterhub1 9 месяцев назад

Same. I kind of make it the soundtrack to my life.

@ABuffWizard Год назад

For the longest time, my only exposure to this kind of music was from PS1 games. I was ecstatic to find out it was an actual genre with a wealth of artists and not just _PS1 Music_

@zOMGItsDarkJ Год назад

I knew I wasnt crazy... I'm like "man there's a lot of dnb in vgm!" Awesome video!

@Constricta 7 месяцев назад

I remember being 5 years old and playing video games with my dad, when he realised I really liked the music that’s when he started showing me his jungle and hip hop cd’s and records, I used to love the soundtracks on snowboarding games, I’m going snowboarding irl for the first time next week, I’ll definitely have a soundtrack on in my headphones 😀

@SoulofStatic Год назад

Music and cool sound effects is one of the biggest things missing from games nowadays. And fun

@kaishmuper Год назад

Nice Video. wipeout 1 and XL already had licenced music, and they were super popular in the uk when they came out. And there's composers like Namco's sampling masters that are pioneers in including electronic music on their games. There's even this japanese meme saying a lot of people got into those genres thanks to them.

@wryyyy Год назад

Exactly. Wipeout 1 soundtrack is a collab of many artists, including Tim Wright under the name "Cold storage". But I guess what Hansen wanted to point out, Wipeout 3 was one the first to have actually large scale artists included in the soundtrack.

@DragonGrafx-16 Год назад

@@wryyyy No XL/2097 was

@omegaxi Год назад

Came here to say this, Tim Wright (aka Cold Storage) worked on Wipeout and Wipeout 2097, the soundtrack for wipeout 3 was created by Sasha which was a big deal at the time. The information in the video is not entirely incorrect, Wipeout did feature 3 licenced tracks, one each from Chemical Brothers, Leftfield and Orbital with the rest of the soundtrack being created by Tim Wright, however Wipeout 3, the game mentioned in the video was all created by Sasha.

@DragonGrafx-16 Год назад

@@omegaxi Actually there are other tracks on 3 not made by Sasha. A lot of it is though.

@omegaxi Год назад

@@DragonGrafx-16 Ah of course you are right because Kittens by Underworld was on there iirc, I'm sure there were others ^^;

@EmptyKingdoms Год назад

One thing you didn't mention was the technical limitation of the 32 and 64-bit video game era. They were more powerful than sound chip music, but still limited. Since Drum n Bass is a genre that welcomes chopping, sampling, remapping, and so on, it fitted well for the soundtracks. It was also great because of its mixing of samples (drumbeats) and synths (chords, melodies), which reduced the memory required by the music on the cartridges and discs. Since Drum n Bass is a genre very tolerant to small harmonic movement, while still retaining a lot of musical energy via drumbeat, but the drumbeat itself is just a short sample programmed, it was easier for this genre of music to stand out in the games. You could talk about the marvellous jazz-fusion/jazz-rock soundtracks of Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha and Mega Man X6, both for the first PlayStation, especially the first one, which is CD-quality band (recorded) music, with solos and everything.

@jjjjj2220 Год назад

Also it has a reggae easy listing quality to it. (Most early jungle producers parents where involved in reggae production)

@mikeypafu Год назад

Exactly

@neo1711 11 месяцев назад

The sound limitations didn't really affect the ps1 and saturn

@federicomondini205 Год назад

How don’t you have millions of subscribers? This video is of immaculate quality research and knowledge, hope you blow up now

@2pac1411 Год назад

Foregone Destruction has been etched into my brain since I was a kid, and only later in life when I started developing the love for Jungle/DnB music, did I connect the dots why. Inflluence since forever!

@spectrobit5554 Год назад

Surprised to see a relatively low view count on such a high quality video. When RU-vid recommends me this type of content it is generally from videos with 100K+ views. Regardless, great retrospective! Can't wait to see more from you.

@TheHansen01 Год назад

Appreciate the kind words! With more regular uploads, the algorithm should start pushing them out more. Working hard to get the next video out soon. Thanks for watching!

@BlaineMakesBeats Год назад

This was wholesome being a 90s kid who spent a lot of time looking up and listening to vgm when it took 40 mins to buffer a 30 second mp3 sample on Amazon. Ridge racer type 4 was the iconic jungle OST for me. Blew my 6 year old ass away. Runner up was the Ehrgeiz OST full of fucking gems. Different time to be alive.

@Reeceline Год назад

Ridge Racer Type 4 is arguably one of the best OSTs ever made. Songs that still have the excitement of an arcade racer while still being credible as stand alone music. You grew up listening to amazing music ha ha.

@RoseSupreme 4 месяца назад

Akuma's theme in Street Fighter 3 is an absolute Jungle *BOP.*

@swift84 Год назад

Incredible quality vid thanks so much for your hard work. So well done.

@herbertpocket8855 Год назад

Dude I can’t get over the Rom De Prisco Need for Speed 3 Hot Pursuit soundtrack. It was so influential on my taste in electronic music.

@Wheresthepepsibismol Год назад

Same here need for speed 2 and 3 got me into Trance and Techno.

@antonschmid229 Год назад

Aquilla 303

@brandon4622 Год назад

To this day I still routinely listen to the Ape Escape soundtrack. One of my favorite games of all time with one of the most amazing soundtracks out there. I still get shivers listening to the Time Station theme.

@JonathonJDog Год назад

That games soundtrack is the sound of my childhood. It means so much to me.

@gblargg Год назад

Came here to say this. Looking back that was clearly one that hooked me on DnB. Back then I would record the tracks on my PC (16-bit 44 kHz) and burn to audio CD and listen constantly.

@sm0akable Год назад

Dark Ruins and Spectre’s Castle are amazing tunes. Hoping to see Soichi Terada live soon!

@felipemiranda8743 Год назад

Dude, this video is amazing. Great work!

@OliverEckstein Год назад

What an extremly valuable video! It came from nowhere and I subscribed. Well done and composed!

@danielisbell Год назад

You're killing me playing all that Rollcage music and not mentioning it once. Great video. I never realized just how intertwined that era of gaming and style of music are. It made me want to go back and play some old favorites again.

@TheAppleCap Год назад

It’s all from moving shadow records if you didn’t know already. Also did GTA 3 msx fm

@mattsephton Год назад

@@TheAppleCap and Wave Rally PS2

@linkingheartsmusic Год назад

As a music producer inspired by video game music and jungle/drum and bass. This was fun to watch. It's nice to see how inspirations (turn into/create) new pieces of music.

@TeckGeck Год назад

Same, games like Ape Escape essentially got me into DnB/Jungle

@woodman94 Год назад

Where’s a good place to start with music production?

@SpearowEdits Год назад

wanna coproduce something

@raknikmik Год назад

The quality of this video is outstanding for such a small channel.

@Sal_lazaro Год назад

Oh man great vid love stumbling onto channels like this. I love this kind of music/beats from back in the day

@highpotencyiron4529 Год назад

The late 90's and early 2000's are the new face of pop culture and I am down with it!

@gotoastal Год назад

’90s* 2000s* Apostrophes are for possession and contractions. Contracting 1990 to ’90 puts the apostrophe on the left-hand side. The ‘s’ makes it plural and plurals in 99% of cases don‘t get apostrophes.

@highpotencyiron4529 Год назад

@@gotoastal Sorry it's a force of habit.

@tbotalpha8133 Год назад

I never actually considered what genre the music of Unreal Tournament was. I always just associated it with itself. A very interesting video!

@simpleserpent1337 19 дней назад

thanks, it is awesome video. ive listened to most of the tracks through RU-vid mixes, and thanks to you im now deep into Soichi Terada rabbithole

@theblowupdollsmusic Год назад

Solid presentation. Thank you for taking the time to put this together. I love that classic 90s video game sound.

@bartdude82 Год назад

Street Fighter 3 is notorious for this sound and I loved every bit of it. Yang’s theme from 2nd Impact is peak, top-tier quality of video game music.

@megatechbody3207 Год назад

Loved the Ridge Racer series soundtracks. years later I learned that Ambient Jungle is the kind of genre I was looking for since forever.

@BennyIncorporated Год назад

I'm so happy I found this video, to this day I constantly listen to a lot of the music from Ape Escape (specially Pumped and Primed) and 90's videogames. And always wandered what was the name of the genre. This has unlocked so many new avenues for me to get my fix on this music. Thank you truly!!!!!!

@grecog92 Год назад

fantastic. these were the soundtracks that defined my tastes and associations in the crucial years of my youth. this resurgence in popularity makes it clear that the same happened to a lot of other people and that this aesthetic is coming back. i love it

@gnomegguy69 Год назад

I'm kinda sad that you didn't include Street Fighter III, some iterations, 2nd Impact especially, had a whole lot of Jungle in it

@Jerry4050 Год назад

I was shocked too and no mention of Third Strike

@FortWorthRaised Год назад

Third Strike has top tier DnB music, I’m shocked as well

@NK-vd8xi Год назад

Not only that, but the fact it was programmed Jungle, and not just CD-like tracks! Very impressive!

@hoonami139 Год назад

I first got into DNB back in 2011. When I first heard it I immediately thought of N64/PS1 era racing games as well as Toonami. Great video.

@Xavwanderboy Год назад

Wonderful documentary, love the format, thanks for the nostalgia. I actually listen to those musics all the time while working ;D

@craigchaotic Год назад

Thanks Hansen, great wee look back there. Absolute vibes 👌

@mil3sperhour Год назад

dude this editing is so damn nice! loved every second of it. I'm surprised there wasn't a mention of shinji hosoe? he did the first few ridge racer titles and the SFEX series, super underrated work!

@TheHansen01 Год назад

Thanks so much! There are so many other great Jungle artists I didn't get to mention. You're right that Hosoe is a juggernaut. I have no excuse for NOT mentioning him. I worry about wasting viewer's time given the length of the video. One day I'd like to do something on this subject that is far more comprehensive. I had an original script that was over one hour long, but I had to cut it down.

@brerkris Год назад

Aw Shinji! Love Ridge Racer!

@mustardegg2 Год назад

@@TheHansen01 RELEASE THE HOUR LONG CUT !!!!!

@mattsephton Год назад

Let's have the extended play!

@cattysplat Год назад

As a kid I had no idea what this kind of music was called. All I knew is I enjoyed it so much and the energy it brings to the gameplay. This was before most games started trying to be cinematic, so soundtracks were more something you grooved along to in the background whilst you enjoyed the gameplay.

@indighostt 11 месяцев назад

Shoutout Bomberman Hero 🙌🏼 it really put me on to the genre. Loved that you covered this.

@jaylinmoore9630 Год назад

Awesome video man, keep ‘em coming

@jongatango Год назад

i never realized until recently that a lot of my favorite videogame soundtracks were riddled with these breakbeats and early jungle/dnb inspiration. anything with a breakbeat is immediately a banger to me lol anyways here's some of those favorites: vs rival - monster racers vs legendary - monster racers finale - undertale your best nightmare - undertale deep core - sonic rush adventure amalgam - undertale great video btw

@WickerMahn Год назад

dnb was inescapable in the 90s/00s, it even made its way to street fighter 3rd strike in some character stages (akuma, gil) and that was mostly hip-hop inspired in both aesthetic and soundtrack

@seancooo Год назад

Amazing job on this video. Captivated me from start to finish.

@TheHansen01 Год назад

Appreciate that, thanks for watching!

@madfangkills Год назад

I loved seeing these Jungle mixes crop up in my feed. I was immediately hooked and so happy to have this resurgence!

@jz1612 Год назад

I always loved this type of music in the 90s as a child I always enjoyed when I walked into the arcade and they would be playing this type of music it added to the esthetic and magic to the arcade.

@randomize5301 Год назад

very cool video, i was aware of this “type” of songs but not of them as a coherent body of work/style… awesome work putting this together

@TheHansen01 Год назад

Thank you so much!

@joelwilcox5424 Год назад

this video completely skips the history of jungle/dnb and implies that the genre was invented by/pioneered by japanese VGM composers which is pretty far from the truth. I get that it’s coming at it from a video game perspective but if you’re getting into the genre i’d recommend looking into its history in the UK. Great video, don’t get me wrong, but Jungle would exist without video games and to not even mention the original UK scene is kinda bizarre

@CH11LER. Год назад

I loved the music on games from back in the 90s. It's chill but also upbeat and keeps you engaged. I never realised it until you made this video, but this is probably why I love my D&B even today. Thanks for making this video!

@Rasec1120 Год назад

Wish this was longer. Well done dude.

@itryen7632 Год назад

I always felt like it was only a matter of time until other people started to get nostalgic for this stuff too. I'm so happy that that's the case.

@user-nm9yd4wq4s Год назад

great video! love how brief it is! I find too many video essays want to go over the entire "rise and fall" history of a topic.

@Fractal_blip Год назад

Thank you for making this video. It feels so involved.

@SeedemFeedemRobots Год назад

i remember as a wee lad when i heard UT99s Foregone Destruction, i wanted more of this kind of music long before i knew what Jungle DnB was and the many artists and labels who produced them. Junglism4Life. also i think GTA series deserves a mention for having some Jungle sound in their earlier games and Moving Shadow records putting some of their artists tunes into their games and some other PS1 games like Rollcage

@ewerybody Год назад

There was a whole Moving Shadow radio station available in GTA3 called "MSX FM"! Was always a good choice for racing missions 😜

@ewerybody Год назад

here is a playlist :D ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-57SmVIXnc8Y.html

@Scorpio19110 Год назад

@@ewerybody MSX98 in LCS was better

@Ninja_Gaijin Год назад

@@Scorpio19110 LCS?

@tekgeekster Год назад

I miss this era of game music. It was simultaneously magical and badass.

@AzureOtsu Год назад

fantastic to see this type of music come back after all these years, it's my main inspiration when producing

@mhod99 Год назад

What a fantastic video! Very rich in detail and presented perfectly👏

@nickburnell8641 Год назад

You're on to something here man, keep making videos like this. Excellent pacing and information!

@TheHansen01 Год назад

Thank you! Sticking with this format for now, next video is almost done...

@kaydenkumar3920 Год назад

I just discovered your channel and let me say, you deserve way more subscribers! The storytelling, editing, narration, music snippets- everything about this video is fantastic. I’m looking forward to seeing more videos from you!

@TheHansen01 Год назад

Hey thanks for the kind words! Next video is almost done…

@jakesnake1793 Год назад

You could turn this video into a series diving into different eras of its influence. Jungle DnB continued to be influential through the GameCube and PS2 era. Monkey Ball 1, 2, and Deluxe all had great soundtracks.

@houstoner 11 дней назад

I always liked DnB in the 90s games as a kid, but I associated it with just that, game music. Then GTA3 came around with the MSX FM radio with the Moving Shadow mix and that sent me out into the wild to hunt down the sound for real. I bought DJ Irene - Phonosynthesis, fell in love with that one, especially the Aphrodite tracks in that mix. I took to Napster to get more Aphrodite tracks, and that led me down the rabbit hole of all the other artists, labels, etc. I am almost in my 40s now, but I still both listen to and spin DnB. It's part of who I am. And the community has grown substantially over the years and it's an amazing thing. To think this all started from playing games as a kid.

@itisnottaken4444 Год назад

I always loved the music of this era of video games but for the longest couldn’t figure out what style it was. THANK YOU for bringing back my nostalgia and shedding light on this style.

@murkywaters5502 Год назад

Very cool and well made video! I didn't know this history at all but it makes sense when laid out like this. The emergence of Drum and bass in video games corresponds to the era and the advancement in sound technology in video games, so I wonder if we'll see collective sound shifts in video games similar to this ever again.

@IzzyMann Год назад

any video talking about the genres that i love, will always get a thumbs up :) you get a sub!

@reiseninaba3779 Год назад

Msx 98 on GTA 3 was a loving letter to Moving shadow jump up and uk dnb of the 90's and it shaped my childhood. Even today i like lot of house and liquid/atmospheric dnb and i'm stuck with early titles of 90's/2000's and i'm glad to

@st1ka Год назад

Excellent video! You just gained a new subscriber!

@KienPhung Год назад

The Drum and Bass parts for RayCrisis' Special Mode on PS1 have some sick beats.

@HeatBoi Год назад

Little did I realize how this sound played such a big part of my childhood when in adulthood I am diving back into it Great Video! Definitely Subbing and looking forward to your future videos!!! Your video style is so relaxing, concise, and informative without being boring at all

@Kess_P2 Год назад

Great video. There are so many incredible Drum & Bass tracks from games of this era.

@JAIQMIXES Год назад

Little to no mention of the UK Jungle / Drum and Bass scene? Okay :/

@lahuk1194 Год назад

As a kid, I loved playing Toca 2 Touring Cars, and the Intro and Main Menu music always stuck with me. As I much later learned, these were EZ Rollers songs "Soundclash" and "Retro" respectively. Rediscovering them has lead me into looking deeper into all this D&B/Jungle music and I'm finding plenty of fantastic music.