When Jungle/DnB Music Dominated Video Games: A Brief Retrospective
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2024
- 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 TH-cam 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 - บันเทิง
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
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
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.
I did not expect the sheer amount of nostalgia induced from these sounds. Thank you!
Great video. Subbed.
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.
Hi-Fi Rush is doing it for this generation to bad its Xbox Exclusive but its also on Xbox Game Pass on PC
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
the forza horizon games have a dedicated DnB radio station with tracks tailor made for the game specifically
@@Jerry4050 Hi-Fi Rush is just like, on Steam. It's not at all exclusive.
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.
amen to that lol god bless the UK
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
I hear that it's pretty big in New Zealand though
Just like hip hop is as american as hpv rates. I agree.
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!
I won’t forgive the pretentious phrasing you went TOO FAR!!!!!
“Aesthetic” is a word, not a phrase
Nothing is more pretentious then using the words “phrasing” or “pretentious”
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.
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?
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"
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
Recognized you from the reharmonized version of that guy eating the mic lmao
Classic sounds that will never die
How did you start making it? It sounds fun
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
Explains why I love it so much today😂. Never knew at the time what it was
It was heavenly. The OST of 'Ridge Racer: Type 4' brings tears to my eyes.
that soundtrack is incredible
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@@Samgtv6 BALD! I LOOK LIKE RAY ALLEN.
@@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.
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.
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.
Fr fr, Ace Combat 3 and Ridge Racer is real great stuff
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-…)
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.
can u recommend me some artists?
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.
@@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.
Thats sick
@@sofiawei352 Seba, Makoto, Big Bud, Nookie, and Goldie are some good ones!
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.
Gill's Stage - Psyche Out still gives me goosebumps.
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.
Love Akuma's theme. Just randomly went on training mode last week against him and it just hit me.
Makoto as well.
Yosss
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.
Man, that analysis is spot on! Thanks for putting that into words.👍
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
People can always go and watch the comprehensive Bearing UK docu on the roots and history of British electronic music.
@@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
Thank you
@@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).
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 TH-cam doc about it is fine, it shows you’ve done your homework on a topic
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
Nice video
Bomberman is always on rotate ❤
Facing worlds and Ice station zeto! Masterpieces!!!
These were the two games I thought of before I clicked on the video!
Redial is a classic
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.
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.
Soichi Terada's 'Sumo Jungle' was and still is a genuinely amazing jungle album
anything that man touches is gold
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.
good looking records bro
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.
Hospital is goated dnb
@@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.)
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
Awesome, Im looking forward to checking it out ^^
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^
So which was it
@@Zeagods-CyberShadow Awesome! Best of luck with your projects 😎
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.
When I need extra concentration I always listen to Rage Racer soundtrack!
the Rage Racer soundtrack is something else alright. Unfortunate how it always gets confused for Ridge Racer lol
Mate that’s a fantastic soundtrack, Volcano Vehicle, Industria, Deep Drive
My current favorite genre of music. Its so good. We took things for granted back in the mid-nineties and early two-thousands.
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
Underrated game and killer soundtrack!
’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 miss these kinda tunes, they were hype and they just... worked. Specially on racing games.
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.
I loved the aesthetics of gaming during this period. To this day music like this triggers positive nostalgia in me.
Same. I kind of make it the soundtrack to my life.
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!
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.
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.
@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.
@@3xsxs953 not even, it makes it look like the Japanese got it from the Chicago and Detroit "club music" scene.
It’s a glaring omission and makes me question everything else he says in the video. terrible.
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 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.
@@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.
This music is so inspirational and futuristic. It's one of those things that stimulate your thought process.
Music and cool sound effects is one of the biggest things missing from games nowadays.
And fun
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!
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.
Indeed a needed video
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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
Hey thanks so much, love your music! Really great to see other people moving the genre forward!
Hell yeah this video brought back some great PS1 memories
I love your shit, man
Should've known you'd be here, love your stuff man, keep up the good work.
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 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 😀
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.
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.
@@wryyyy No XL/2097 was
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.
@@omegaxi Actually there are other tracks on 3 not made by Sasha. A lot of it is though.
@@DragonGrafx-16 Ah of course you are right because Kittens by Underworld was on there iirc, I'm sure there were others ^^;
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.
Also it has a reggae easy listing quality to it. (Most early jungle producers parents where involved in reggae production)
Exactly
The sound limitations didn't really affect the ps1 and saturn
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
There was a whole Moving Shadow radio station available in GTA3 called "MSX FM"! Was always a good choice for racing missions 😜
here is a playlist :D th-cam.com/video/57SmVIXnc8Y/w-d-xo.html
@@ewerybody MSX98 in LCS was better
@@Scorpio19110 LCS?
As an avid fan and DJ of drum & bass music, this video was an absolute delight!
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 TH-cam 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.
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!
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!
That song that played in Unreal Tournament’s Facing Worlds is so damn iconic
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.
Same here need for speed 2 and 3 got me into Trance and Techno.
Aquilla 303
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.
That games soundtrack is the sound of my childhood. It means so much to me.
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.
Dark Ruins and Spectre’s Castle are amazing tunes. Hoping to see Soichi Terada live soon!
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
The deep connection of videogames and club music is always something i love to see
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.
Same, games like Ape Escape essentially got me into DnB/Jungle
Where’s a good place to start with music production?
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
I was shocked too and no mention of Third Strike
Third Strike has top tier DnB music, I’m shocked as well
Not only that, but the fact it was programmed Jungle, and not just CD-like tracks! Very impressive!
Akuma's theme in Street Fighter 3 is an absolute Jungle *BOP.*
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.
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.
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.
The late 90's and early 2000's are the new face of pop culture and I am down with it!
’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.
@@gotoastal Sorry it's a force of habit.
How don’t you have millions of subscribers? This video is of immaculate quality research and knowledge, hope you blow up now
Wish this was longer. Well done dude.
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.
It’s all from moving shadow records if you didn’t know already. Also did GTA 3 msx fm
@@TheAppleCap and Wave Rally PS2
Dude, this video is amazing. Great work!
What an extremly valuable video! It came from nowhere and I subscribed. Well done and composed!
I never actually considered what genre the music of Unreal Tournament was. I always just associated it with itself.
A very interesting video!
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.
The quality of this video is outstanding for such a small channel.
I loved seeing these Jungle mixes crop up in my feed. I was immediately hooked and so happy to have this resurgence!
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.
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!
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.
Aw Shinji! Love Ridge Racer!
@@TheHansen01 RELEASE THE HOUR LONG CUT !!!!!
Let's have the extended play!
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!!!!!!
Solid presentation. Thank you for taking the time to put this together. I love that classic 90s video game sound.
Loved the Ridge Racer series soundtracks. years later I learned that Ambient Jungle is the kind of genre I was looking for since forever.
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.
This was a beautiful little bit of history, thanks for making the video!
Incredible quality vid thanks so much for your hard work. So well done.
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.
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
Thank you so much!
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
Truly delighted to stumble across this well made and informative video. Great work
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
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.
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
The production of this video is excellent! Really cool breakdown of the era!
Can't thank you enough for this video. So much music near and dear to me from this era with so many great games!
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
The Drum and Bass parts for RayCrisis' Special Mode on PS1 have some sick beats.
Great video. There are so many incredible Drum & Bass tracks from games of this era.
Thank you for making this video. It feels so involved.
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.
fantastic to see this type of music come back after all these years, it's my main inspiration when producing
Shoutout Bomberman Hero 🙌🏼 it really put me on to the genre. Loved that you covered this.
Oh man great vid love stumbling onto channels like this. I love this kind of music/beats from back in the day
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.
GTA III MSX Radio. Moving Shadow baby.
Thanks Hansen, great wee look back there. Absolute vibes 👌
Amazing job on this video. Captivated me from start to finish.
Appreciate that, thanks for watching!
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
Bomberman Hero has the sickest beats of all games I played so far back then. No wonder I love DnB so much today.
What a fantastic video! Very rich in detail and presented perfectly👏
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!
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!
Hey thanks for the kind words! 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.
Oh right, I forgot about amazing TOCA 2 music.
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
You're on to something here man, keep making videos like this. Excellent pacing and information!
Thank you! Sticking with this format for now, next video is almost done...
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.
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.
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.
Wonderful documentary, love the format, thanks for the nostalgia. I actually listen to those musics all the time while working ;D