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 KZread 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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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
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
I did not expect the sheer amount of nostalgia induced from these sounds. Thank you!
@spartaninvirginia
Жыл бұрын
Great video. Subbed.
@SolidSnake684
Жыл бұрын
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.
man i really wish this style of music came back into gaming nowadays.
@Jerry4050
Жыл бұрын
Hi-Fi Rush is doing it for this generation to bad its Xbox Exclusive but its also on Xbox Game Pass on PC
@TeckGeck
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
the forza horizon games have a dedicated DnB radio station with tracks tailor made for the game specifically
@cuppacoffee1572
Жыл бұрын
@@Jerry4050 Hi-Fi Rush is just like, on Steam. It's not at all exclusive.
@emmettturner9452
Жыл бұрын
Blah.
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
Жыл бұрын
amen to that lol god bless the UK
@johncasarino5627
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
I hear that it's pretty big in New Zealand though
@user-vp6cq4sv3d
11 ай бұрын
Just like hip hop is as american as hpv rates. I agree.
@rookbranwen8047
11 ай бұрын
Makes me wish I was born in a part of the world that actually knows what EDM is outside of Skrillex, Marshmello and Deadmau5.
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
Жыл бұрын
I won’t forgive the pretentious phrasing you went TOO FAR!!!!!
@askhowiknow5527
Жыл бұрын
“Aesthetic” is a word, not a phrase Nothing is more pretentious then using the words “phrasing” or “pretentious”
@AndreasSaag
Жыл бұрын
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.
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
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"
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
Жыл бұрын
Fr fr, Ace Combat 3 and Ridge Racer is real great stuff
@garx0
9 ай бұрын
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-…)
It was heavenly. The OST of 'Ridge Racer: Type 4' brings tears to my eyes.
@dopey473
Жыл бұрын
that soundtrack is incredible
@Samgtv6
Жыл бұрын
PEGGIE
@coolandlongmusicalbumsmusi3666
Жыл бұрын
EYUP!
@SwratGRL
Жыл бұрын
@@Samgtv6 BALD! I LOOK LIKE RAY ALLEN.
@Samgtv6
Жыл бұрын
@@SwratGRL these nig-s make beats on big wheels
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
Жыл бұрын
SMB 1&2 are not quite jungle/dnb but they are Electronic and use breakbeats.
This is exactly why most of jungle/dnb sounds so ethereal, we all heard it as kids playing these games.
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
Жыл бұрын
Recognized you from the reharmonized version of that guy eating the mic lmao
@atetraxx
Жыл бұрын
Classic sounds that will never die
@zacharyharris2177
Жыл бұрын
How did you start making it? It sounds fun
@Muddy.Teabagger
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
Explains why I love it so much today😂. Never knew at the time what it was
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
Жыл бұрын
can u recommend me some artists?
@Risingson2
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
@@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
Жыл бұрын
Thats sick
@Clos93
Жыл бұрын
@@sofiawei352 Seba, Makoto, Big Bud, Nookie, and Goldie are some good ones!
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
Жыл бұрын
Nice video
@forbiddenera
Жыл бұрын
Bomberman is always on rotate ❤
@rafaumtgavioli
Жыл бұрын
Facing worlds and Ice station zeto! Masterpieces!!!
@ObeseChess
Жыл бұрын
These were the two games I thought of before I clicked on the video!
@woodman94
Жыл бұрын
Redial is a classic
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.
My current favorite genre of music. Its so good. We took things for granted back in the mid-nineties and early two-thousands.
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
Жыл бұрын
Gill's Stage - Psyche Out still gives me goosebumps.
@CrispyLightVybez
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
Love Akuma's theme. Just randomly went on training mode last week against him and it just hit me.
@Daveybird
Жыл бұрын
Makoto as well.
@richardblack3385
Жыл бұрын
Yosss
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.
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 ай бұрын
Man, that analysis is spot on! Thanks for putting that into words.👍
@ezu5131
8 ай бұрын
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.
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
10 ай бұрын
People can always go and watch the comprehensive Bearing UK docu on the roots and history of British electronic music.
@jasperposey3446
10 ай бұрын
@@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 ай бұрын
Thank you
@divinasi0n
10 ай бұрын
@@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 ай бұрын
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 KZread doc about it is fine, it shows you’ve done your homework on a topic
I miss these kinda tunes, they were hype and they just... worked. Specially on racing games.
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
Жыл бұрын
good looking records bro
@davep5698
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
Hospital is goated dnb
@marcelochagra3307
2 ай бұрын
@@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.)
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.
Soichi Terada's 'Sumo Jungle' was and still is a genuinely amazing jungle album
@k2a2l2
9 ай бұрын
anything that man touches is gold
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
Жыл бұрын
Awesome, Im looking forward to checking it out ^^
@Zeagods-CyberShadow
Жыл бұрын
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.
Жыл бұрын
So which was it
@TeckGeck
Жыл бұрын
@@Zeagods-CyberShadow Awesome! Best of luck with your projects 😎
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
Жыл бұрын
Underrated game and killer soundtrack!
@gotoastal
Жыл бұрын
’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.
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
Жыл бұрын
When I need extra concentration I always listen to Rage Racer soundtrack!
@ablationer
Жыл бұрын
the Rage Racer soundtrack is something else alright. Unfortunate how it always gets confused for Ridge Racer lol
@tadhg3
11 ай бұрын
Mate that’s a fantastic soundtrack, Volcano Vehicle, Industria, Deep Drive
As an avid fan and DJ of drum & bass music, this video was an absolute delight!
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
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
@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
Жыл бұрын
@@3xsxs953 not even, it makes it look like the Japanese got it from the Chicago and Detroit "club music" scene.
@TytoAlpha
Жыл бұрын
It’s a glaring omission and makes me question everything else he says in the video. terrible.
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
Жыл бұрын
Hey thanks so much, love your music! Really great to see other people moving the genre forward!
@MrDenyven
Жыл бұрын
Hell yeah this video brought back some great PS1 memories
@_loss_
Жыл бұрын
I love your shit, man
@GRA2itous
Жыл бұрын
Should've known you'd be here, love your stuff man, keep up the good work.
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
I loved the aesthetics of gaming during this period. To this day music like this triggers positive nostalgia in me.
@peterhub1
9 ай бұрын
Same. I kind of make it the soundtrack to my life.
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
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
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
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
Indeed a needed video
@urphakeandgey6308
Жыл бұрын
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
11 ай бұрын
@@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
11 ай бұрын
@@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.
This music is so inspirational and futuristic. It's one of those things that stimulate your thought process.
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_
I knew I wasnt crazy... I'm like "man there's a lot of dnb in vgm!" Awesome video!
Surprised to see a relatively low view count on such a high quality video. When KZread 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
Жыл бұрын
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!
Music and cool sound effects is one of the biggest things missing from games nowadays. And fun
How don’t you have millions of subscribers? This video is of immaculate quality research and knowledge, hope you blow up now
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
Жыл бұрын
Also it has a reggae easy listing quality to it. (Most early jungle producers parents where involved in reggae production)
@mikeypafu
Жыл бұрын
Exactly
@neo1711
10 ай бұрын
The sound limitations didn't really affect the ps1 and saturn
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
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
@@wryyyy No XL/2097 was
@omegaxi
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
@@omegaxi Actually there are other tracks on 3 not made by Sasha. A lot of it is though.
@omegaxi
Жыл бұрын
@@DragonGrafx-16 Ah of course you are right because Kittens by Underworld was on there iirc, I'm sure there were others ^^;
The quality of this video is outstanding for such a small channel.
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 😀
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
Жыл бұрын
It’s all from moving shadow records if you didn’t know already. Also did GTA 3 msx fm
@mattsephton
Жыл бұрын
@@TheAppleCap and Wave Rally PS2
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
Жыл бұрын
Same here need for speed 2 and 3 got me into Trance and Techno.
@antonschmid229
Жыл бұрын
Aquilla 303
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!
thanks, it is awesome video. ive listened to most of the tracks through KZread mixes, and thanks to you im now deep into Soichi Terada rabbithole
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
Жыл бұрын
That games soundtrack is the sound of my childhood. It means so much to me.
@gblargg
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
Dark Ruins and Spectre’s Castle are amazing tunes. Hoping to see Soichi Terada live soon!
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
Жыл бұрын
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.
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
The deep connection of videogames and club music is always something i love to see
I never actually considered what genre the music of Unreal Tournament was. I always just associated it with itself. A very interesting video!
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!!!!!!
Akuma's theme in Street Fighter 3 is an absolute Jungle *BOP.*
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
Жыл бұрын
Same, games like Ape Escape essentially got me into DnB/Jungle
@woodman94
Жыл бұрын
Where’s a good place to start with music production?
@SpearowEdits
Жыл бұрын
wanna coproduce something
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
Жыл бұрын
I was shocked too and no mention of Third Strike
@FortWorthRaised
Жыл бұрын
Third Strike has top tier DnB music, I’m shocked as well
@NK-vd8xi
Жыл бұрын
Not only that, but the fact it was programmed Jungle, and not just CD-like tracks! Very impressive!
Here from the algorithm, music is such an underrated and underappreciated section in the video games world (by the majority) so I just loved this video and this kind of content, subbed!
@TheHansen01
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
This jungle music in Unreal Tournament is one of the best things about it. It's just so soothing, all these years later I still want to listen to it.
Loved the Ridge Racer series soundtracks. years later I learned that Ambient Jungle is the kind of genre I was looking for since forever.
The late 90's and early 2000's are the new face of pop culture and I am down with it!
@gotoastal
Жыл бұрын
’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
Жыл бұрын
@@gotoastal Sorry it's a force of habit.
Shoutout Bomberman Hero 🙌🏼 it really put me on to the genre. Loved that you covered this.
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
Жыл бұрын
There was a whole Moving Shadow radio station available in GTA3 called "MSX FM"! Was always a good choice for racing missions 😜
@ewerybody
Жыл бұрын
here is a playlist :D kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z2uHz7iCiNHJaLw.html
@Scorpio19110
Жыл бұрын
@@ewerybody MSX98 in LCS was better
@Ninja_Gaijin
Жыл бұрын
@@Scorpio19110 LCS?
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.
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
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.
Haha that “You hit marine?” Playlist has been on repeat for MONTHS! Dope video!
@TheHansen01
10 ай бұрын
I'm obsessed with that playlist too haha! It was nice seeing @zorrovian make an appearance here in the comments. His mixes are amazing. Thanks for watching!
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.
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.
That song that played in Unreal Tournament’s Facing Worlds is so damn iconic
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
Жыл бұрын
Hey thanks for the kind words! Next video is almost done…
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
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.
to end on MOVE ME! is such a fucking power move dude. this video was super well done, you got a new sub
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
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
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!
@joelwilcox5424
Жыл бұрын
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
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.
the tri-fusion grime one was insaaaane, I kind of doubted what you said before the clip started but as soon as it started and I heard the 808s I could instantly imagine multiple mcs spitting on it. fire
Dude, this video is amazing. Great work!
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
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
Aw Shinji! Love Ridge Racer!
@mustardegg2
Жыл бұрын
@@TheHansen01 RELEASE THE HOUR LONG CUT !!!!!
@mattsephton
Жыл бұрын
Let's have the extended play!
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.
I think it’s also important to add in a large contribution was that jungle music at the time was made on trackers on the amiga and such. I learned that music production software was developed that took the samples used to assemble the songs, bundled with composition instructions made whole songs well under the MB space a whole cd quality track would be. It’s a more technical side of the whole thing, but whole soundtracks taking way less space was really important as graphic fidelity started to rise.
What an extremly valuable video! It came from nowhere and I subscribed. Well done and composed!
fantastic to see this type of music come back after all these years, it's my main inspiration when producing
Little to no mention of the UK Jungle / Drum and Bass scene? Okay :/
You're on to something here man, keep making videos like this. Excellent pacing and information!
@TheHansen01
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Sticking with this format for now, next video is almost done...
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.
@discoHR
Жыл бұрын
Oh right, I forgot about amazing TOCA 2 music.
The Drum and Bass parts for RayCrisis' Special Mode on PS1 have some sick beats.
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.
Amazing sweet and short little video essay! I remember little me listening to the tracks of the Gran Turismo games and SSX while I played, so this big resurgence and interest in DnB music today really make me happy to see as a producer :)
Thank you for the upload of this video. The last track in this video is from Ridge Racer Type 4, its called Move Me. One of my favorite tracks of all time. Lately I listen to a lot of music from video games of that era. It was truly a magic time. BTW you should make part 2.
I miss this era of game music. It was simultaneously magical and badass.
Excellent video! You just gained a new subscriber!
Solid presentation. Thank you for taking the time to put this together. I love that classic 90s video game sound.
Bomberman Hero has the sickest beats of all games I played so far back then. No wonder I love DnB so much today.
There was always a "japanese twist" in the jungle/dnb/breakbeat music from games that came from japan at that time for example the entire Tekken 3 soundtrack. Fantastic and Unique. Something western productions simply where not able to immitate
Incredible quality vid thanks so much for your hard work. So well done.
I *love* this era of video game music. There's something so fresh, stylish, futuristic, and cool about Jungle and D&B music, especially in video games. When you're playing a game and the music is just "real" and doesn't necessarily *try* to sound "video game-y", it really enhances the experience because of the natural sound of it all, in a sense.
Bro, I cannot fathom how you only have 355 this is such an interesting and well edited video,
The OST of Ridge Racer was a piece of art. Great content! I could only wonder why the music of Ace Combat, Ridge Racer and UT99 was so appealing to me.
This was a trip, it's been years since I've listened to any jungle or DnB.
Great video! I think this is why I vibed so much with Umurangi Generation and Neon White passing the torch for sure.
I had to double check how many subscribers you had. You'll definitely get more subscribers if you keep maintaining this level of quality on your videos.
@TheHansen01
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! I had ~20 subscribers when I uploaded this, the reception has been mind-blowing. More videos to come!