Some of you asked for a tracklist, so here it is: 2 Unlimited - No Limit (Intro) Scooter - How Much Is The Fish? (Part 1) Vengaboys - Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) Corona - Rhythm Of The Night La Bouche - Be My Lover Haddaway - What Is Love? Culture Beat - Mr. Vain 2 Unlimited - No Limit Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam Scatman John - Scatman Scooter - How Much Is The Fish? (Part 2) Mo-Do - Eins Zwei Polizei Aqua - Barbie Girl DJ Bobo - Somebody Dance With Me
S'funny, at the time I absolutely, aggressively despised this genre, but got odd waves of nostalgia listening to these recreations. Well, maybe apart from "Barbie Girl"
@@Kj16V funny thing about "how much is the fish, by Scooter" is that it originates from a song called son ar christr, im not a historican but its old as f, it have been covered so many times it might be world record, starting from acoustic folk / celtic to what scooter made in the 90s, then other people started making covers of scooters up to a point where we started seeing acoustic / classic style covers of it, In a way circling it back to the very beginning. i just find it kinda cool
The raps were so cringe-worthy and cheesy that UK mixes of them often removed the rap. 2 Unlimited's first UK hit "Get Ready For This" was issued as basically an instrumental. I'm sure the rapper (Ray?) was a nice guy, but "No Limit" was a really great club track that was "ruined" by the silly rap. The only part of the rap on the UK version (which was a huge number one pop hit) is the word "techno".
'Pump Up The Jam" kind of changed my life in 1989, but until this video pointed it out I'd never noticed it had 3 open hi-hats per beat. Those crazy Belgians did something special there.
I think it was a delay though. "Pump up the jam" is fairly inspired by "The Acid Life" by no other than Farley Jackmaster Funk (from the "No vocals necessary EP") and has pretty much the same bassline (303 and not an FM synth) and similar rhythm (808 though)
I never realized this is the drum machine lesson I always wanted!!! And where did you find my Sunday morning cleaning playlist? You're the best Captain!
Love eurodance and (omg) I’m a part of currently acting eurodance band. hah, so fun to watch you doing patterns that I doing for some years already in every track :D accidentally stumbled at your channel while looking reviews of RD-9 and wow, how amazing your videos are!!! That’s sad you have not so much subscribers at this time, cuz I think it’s really better than 90% of “musical TH-cam” and believe that you will have really a lot in a while! Thanks so much, subscribed!
Eure Videos sind grandios, sowohl inhaltlich als auch vom Produktions-Level, vorallem die Stop-Motion-Sachen..wenn man das mal selbst gemacht hat, weiß man diesen Aufwand erst recht zu schätzen!
@@CaptainPikant oh wow 🤩 thanks for your reply! so many good ones to list! here are some popular ones that come to mind- King Kong - Boom Boom Dollars Radiorama - Bad Boy You Chip Chip - Radio Michael Fortunati - Give Me Up Sabrina - Boys Gipsy & Queen - Call Me Sheela - Gimme All Your Love King & Queen - Turbo Lover Niko - Night of Fire Norma Sheffield - Touch Me Touch Me Dave Rodgers - Deja Vu Nathalie - Heartbeat Cherry - Yesterday Lolita - Try Me Ace - Play the Music Fastway - Spacelove
I have a Roland TR-06 and this was still pretty helpful for me! Personally, I'm trying to figure out how to program patterns for Drum and Bass, Techno, Trance, and Trip Hop, but I grew up listening to a lot of the tracks featured in this video so I found it quite informative!
@@CaptainPikant The first pattern I learned how to make was actually the percussion from Teardrop by Massive Attack! I have also successfully recreated a Bjork track, although I can't recall where I saved it. 😅
So true! Super content, as always! Funny and informative. The BPM is often 136 or 138. TR-909, snare roll, crash, all of it...Maybe Ms-20 laser kick drum every now and then. On the synth side, it is always subtractive. Mainly saw or dual detuned saw oscillators with low pass filter. (sometimes a PWM square or supersaw) For bass do the same. Sometimes saw and a square wave an octave lower. For authenticity (which I don't do) keep it dirty, don't do a lot of low cut EQ, use broad eq curves, use send fx for reverb and delay and chorus for all tracks, add harmonic distortion. (emulating a cheap mixer and the workflow) For samples don't go round-robin or multi, just take 1 sample and spread it across the keyboard. (Emulating old samplers, I shall try this too..maybe go 12 bit?) Touch of Organ bass (can do with stacked sines), Pizzicato strings, and a hint of TB-303... By the way, how much is the fish? :D
I love how the first thing you showed after creating the foundation, was that "Eurodance" is basically just speed up Disco music on a TR-909. 😂 The need for putting labels on everything in music is really funny... Whenever there's evolution it's called "cross-over" until someone can make up a new label. Jazz, Motown, Latin, Philly, Soul, Disco, R&B, Garage, House, Chicago House, Rap, Hip Hop, Rap House, Hip House, Latin House, Detroit Techno, Acid, Techno, EBM, Eurobeat, Dance House, Eurodance, Club House, Hardcord Techno, Gabber, 2Step, etc. ...and everything influences everything.😇
Dear Captain, I have no clue when it comes to drumming and music. So, sorry for the education going straight above my head. But I do love your videos for the pure entertainment value. And this one... just takes the cake. It is a hilarious piece of entertainment.
I really hope you well and your channel to grow, that's some great content. I've been having some fun with my beatstep pro (plus vcv rack) and some ideas from your vids, thanks for everything.
I consider Ray Of Light by Madonna a eurodance song I have some guilty pleasure eurodance songs because they are bangers even though I'm a Latin Freestyle/ Electro Funk fan
I've really started to think about getting a drum machine after seeing your videos. I do most of my drum programming in daw but it's tempting to get something more tactile. Tr6s seems like good piece of gear.
Can somebody tell me what happened to crash cymbals? I was so used to the sound of a crash cymbal announcing and starting a drop or new section, but it seems it has disappeared. I mean, it was even in drum n bass (like Squarepusher and Aphrodite using it) and now it has disappeared from everybody's EDM drumkit.
You explained why yourself, everyone was using it, so the counter culture people evolved, and then the culture follows counter culture and normalizes it again. Basically it became uncool. But then of course it becomes cool to be uncool again!
I like the Model:Cycles very much, the only thing that worries me are the reports from heavy Model series users that the pads have to be replaced quite often. I would love to see Elektron finally put some good pads in their machines. I'm very happy with the pads on my Akai MPK 249, but the velocity range of Elektron's pads is not in a usable range for me, so I have to disable the velocity sensitivity on them altogether.
@@CaptainPikant I don't use the pads on the cycles for drumming, I have my novation launchkey mini mk3 and the pads on that are phenomenal for the price and you can also enter your synth parts with the keys if you like. But yeah it would be great if the pads weren't so stiff. There's a way to set the sensitivity higher that I think most users end up implementing that actually might make them usable I just haven't bothered to try yet.
Some of you asked for a tracklist, so here it is:
2 Unlimited - No Limit (Intro)
Scooter - How Much Is The Fish? (Part 1)
Vengaboys - Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom
Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
Corona - Rhythm Of The Night
La Bouche - Be My Lover
Haddaway - What Is Love?
Culture Beat - Mr. Vain
2 Unlimited - No Limit
Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer
Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam
Scatman John - Scatman
Scooter - How Much Is The Fish? (Part 2)
Mo-Do - Eins Zwei Polizei
Aqua - Barbie Girl
DJ Bobo - Somebody Dance With Me
S'funny, at the time I absolutely, aggressively despised this genre, but got odd waves of nostalgia listening to these recreations.
Well, maybe apart from "Barbie Girl"
It’s all fun and games until you make an analysis on Gabber…
...and now I have a new playlist. ;-)
I'm pretty sure the one between "What is Love?" and "No Limit" is not "Mr. Vain" but Masterboy's "I Got to Give It Up"
Ah, salad days!
"Makes you want to grab the megaphone and ask the audience about seafood prices" - on the list of sentences said for the first time.
Brilliant Scooter reference
@@benjaminsmits2499 also great history about that song
yee-haw!
@@MrVein5.0 I guessed it must be a reference to something, but I don't know what!
@@Kj16V funny thing about "how much is the fish, by Scooter" is that it originates from a song called son ar christr, im not a historican but its old as f, it have been covered so many times it might be world record, starting from acoustic folk / celtic to what scooter made in the 90s, then other people started making covers of scooters up to a point where we started seeing acoustic / classic style covers of it, In a way circling it back to the very beginning. i just find it kinda cool
That was so wonderfully made, but at 07:00 it really got me killed XD "...something very good is coming - possibly a rap part"
The raps were so cringe-worthy and cheesy that UK mixes of them often removed the rap. 2 Unlimited's first UK hit "Get Ready For This" was issued as basically an instrumental. I'm sure the rapper (Ray?) was a nice guy, but "No Limit" was a really great club track that was "ruined" by the silly rap. The only part of the rap on the UK version (which was a huge number one pop hit) is the word "techno".
@@AutPen38 It isn't real eurodance if it doesn't have a shitty rap part.
The random horn shot at the end of every demo had me dying
Klaxon!
I love that I knew every single one of these songs 😊
I also love that someone does.
I knew a lot of them but only recognized some of them
'Pump Up The Jam" kind of changed my life in 1989, but until this video pointed it out I'd never noticed it had 3 open hi-hats per beat. Those crazy Belgians did something special there.
They just Pumped Up the Jam.
People don't read the labels these days.
From mid 80’s till the end of the 90’s, Belgium was the place to be for Electronic Music.
I think it was a delay though. "Pump up the jam" is fairly inspired by "The Acid Life" by no other than Farley Jackmaster Funk (from the "No vocals necessary EP") and has pretty much the same bassline (303 and not an FM synth) and similar rhythm (808 though)
I never realized this is the drum machine lesson I always wanted!!! And where did you find my Sunday morning cleaning playlist? You're the best Captain!
😂 Hey Jeff, so glad you enjoyed it!
Great stuff, your comedic timing is almost as good as your drum sequencing.
Agreed. I love the subtle humor 👍
Ouch, Eurodance!
Captain don't hurt us, Captain don't hurt us, no more
Which Captain? Captain Pikant, Jack or Hollywood? 😉
This channel is state of the art editing, good mood/vibes, knowlege and beuty
Love eurodance and (omg) I’m a part of currently acting eurodance band. hah, so fun to watch you doing patterns that I doing for some years already in every track :D accidentally stumbled at your channel while looking reviews of RD-9 and wow, how amazing your videos are!!! That’s sad you have not so much subscribers at this time, cuz I think it’s really better than 90% of “musical TH-cam” and believe that you will have really a lot in a while! Thanks so much, subscribed!
Eure Videos sind grandios, sowohl inhaltlich als auch vom Produktions-Level, vorallem die Stop-Motion-Sachen..wenn man das mal selbst gemacht hat, weiß man diesen Aufwand erst recht zu schätzen!
Amazing video! Would love to see your take on Italo disco and eurobeat patterns 😁
Thanks! Do you have any particular recommendations regarding patterns?
@@CaptainPikant oh wow 🤩 thanks for your reply! so many good ones to list! here are some popular ones that come to mind-
King Kong - Boom Boom Dollars
Radiorama - Bad Boy You
Chip Chip - Radio
Michael Fortunati - Give Me Up
Sabrina - Boys
Gipsy & Queen - Call Me
Sheela - Gimme All Your Love
King & Queen - Turbo Lover
Niko - Night of Fire
Norma Sheffield - Touch Me Touch Me
Dave Rodgers - Deja Vu
Nathalie - Heartbeat
Cherry - Yesterday
Lolita - Try Me
Ace - Play the Music
Fastway - Spacelove
OMG. You've literally recreated my entire adolescence on a Roland drum machine!
Please captain explain to us also harmony and melody! 🙏
Your videos are beautiful and nostalgic, I love them all! 😍
Why did I watched this twice even though I knew already about all this ? These videos are soo good.
great video! would love to see drum & bass, jungle, dubstep beats too
Jungle especially, I'd love to see ways to integrate drum machines into my tracks, it's something I often struggle with
Oh yeah D'n'B pleeeease!
He kind of did, via the "Amen Break"
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I feel like I'm prepared for Eurovision now more than ever
You excelled with this one. I had a smile on the whole time!
I saw the four gameboys and knew this was probably the new best video on the internet. I was not disappointed :D
Thank you so much 😄
Your tracks always hit the right note. Keep them coming! 🎼👌❤
Eurodance from the 90s were the best thing since sliced bread.
This is brilliant! lol Kinda reminds me of that 3 chords for every pop song ever video.
I have a Roland TR-06 and this was still pretty helpful for me! Personally, I'm trying to figure out how to program patterns for Drum and Bass, Techno, Trance, and Trip Hop, but I grew up listening to a lot of the tracks featured in this video so I found it quite informative!
Happy to hear that :) Let us know a few of your favourites from those other genres, we're always looking for new patterns.
@@CaptainPikant The first pattern I learned how to make was actually the percussion from Teardrop by Massive Attack! I have also successfully recreated a Bjork track, although I can't recall where I saved it. 😅
@@nenivTASTE! Any published songs? 🔥
@@Victorcolongarcia Unfortunately no, I don't really have the mind for recording, more for making and playing in the moment.
Thanks a lot author, very positive, beautiful video. I adore 1990's Eurodance🎹🎶
Love this! Even though I find this comedic gold, I gotta admit I have a few Eurodance guilty pleasures (especially Mr. Vain and Rhythm is a Dancer)
Why guilty? You are absolved of guilt
So true! Super content, as always! Funny and informative. The BPM is often 136 or 138. TR-909, snare roll, crash, all of it...Maybe Ms-20 laser kick drum every now and then. On the synth side, it is always subtractive. Mainly saw or dual detuned saw oscillators with low pass filter. (sometimes a PWM square or supersaw) For bass do the same. Sometimes saw and a square wave an octave lower. For authenticity (which I don't do) keep it dirty, don't do a lot of low cut EQ, use broad eq curves, use send fx for reverb and delay and chorus for all tracks, add harmonic distortion. (emulating a cheap mixer and the workflow) For samples don't go round-robin or multi, just take 1 sample and spread it across the keyboard. (Emulating old samplers, I shall try this too..maybe go 12 bit?) Touch of Organ bass (can do with stacked sines), Pizzicato strings, and a hint of TB-303... By the way, how much is the fish? :D
Awesome, now I can program "Pump Up the Jams!"
thank you Captian Pikant for putting "Somebody Dance with Me" at the end
looking back, i was right about not liking somebody dance with me
This is a really good vid.
Keep up the good work, Captain!
Love the “No Limit” lead line at the beginning 👍🏻👍🏻
I did NOT know I needed to know this,... now I'm addicted to Pikant..!!! 😊🤙🏄☘
I love how the first thing you showed after creating the foundation, was that "Eurodance" is basically just speed up Disco music on a TR-909. 😂
The need for putting labels on everything in music is really funny... Whenever there's evolution it's called "cross-over" until someone can make up a new label. Jazz, Motown, Latin, Philly, Soul, Disco, R&B, Garage, House, Chicago House, Rap, Hip Hop, Rap House, Hip House, Latin House, Detroit Techno, Acid, Techno, EBM, Eurobeat, Dance House, Eurodance, Club House, Hardcord Techno, Gabber, 2Step, etc. ...and everything influences everything.😇
Dear Captain, I have no clue when it comes to drumming and music. So, sorry for the education going straight above my head. But I do love your videos for the pure entertainment value.
And this one... just takes the cake. It is a hilarious piece of entertainment.
Great video! Thanks for the help🤩
Mr.Vain. what a song. 🖤
Really love the concept and realisation of this video. Eurodance forever :) Cheers.
So useful, id love to see some breakbeat stuff like the prodigy or chemical brothers
That's definitely on the roadmap :)
breakbeat!!! oh man you would be the perfect person to teach that
Seafood prices :))))). I hope Scooter are not watching ;-p. Brilliant as always, great job!!!
This has officially made it into my “Happy Place” Playlist
Ahh, the good ol' boots and cats beat. Keep up the good work!
(no boots, nor cats were harmed in the making of)
And here am I, a true 90's baby who is singing every single song after just two beats of the presentations
Great laughs, loved the video! Thanks!
Your videos are incredibly well executed. Nice work.
Quality work. Greetings from Bolivia.
Ah, another great video from captain *airhorn* Pickant.
I really like youre videos man! Keep it, I think this chanel will go up and up!
Awesome lessons!
Thank you very much!
I really hope you well and your channel to grow, that's some great content. I've been having some fun with my beatstep pro (plus vcv rack) and some ideas from your vids, thanks for everything.
No doubt that Eurodance was the best thing that happened to "new" disco scene. After that was mostly on a downhill.
Just what I was looking for! 🤣 Thank you so much for the video, subscribed.
I may not have been alive through much of its hayday, but I still feel fondness for Eurodance because of DDR.
DDR introduced everyone to eurodance at somepoint in their life
Wittily executed!
How much is the fish?
That's my favourite episode of your series so far.
amazing
@6:22 "Ba-da-ba-da-ba-be bop bop SPECTRUM ONE"
You activated my fight or flight instinct when you played boomx4
Brillant - well done
This is just what I needed !
This is awesome! Thanks.
so much joy in your vids. wonderful!
My mind is literally blown right now
just had fun guessing the songs as you went. awesome!
There's no 'Oooomphtss' without 'tss'.
The words of a wise man.
Beautifully made video.
Exceptionally well made video! I enjoyed every bit of it :)
This is gold
I consider Ray Of Light by Madonna a eurodance song I have some guilty pleasure eurodance songs because they are bangers even though I'm a Latin Freestyle/ Electro Funk fan
Thank you! Very clear and simple to understand!
Great video, as always! Keep it up!
Man, I‘m feeling 20 again when I hear this. Awsome 😄👍
Funnily enough that Eurodance is actually doing a revival in pop music 😂
It will never die :)
I've really started to think about getting a drum machine after seeing your videos. I do most of my drum programming in daw but it's tempting to get something more tactile. Tr6s seems like good piece of gear.
Hahahahahahha. Your video style is aweso*FOOOMMMM
Tremendous, thank you.
Amazing!!!
BRILLIANT
Do a video on programming Caribbean and jazz rhythms!
Your best video so far... ❤️❤️
This is fabulous.
I laughed, I learnt, I love it.
Excellent presentation on a genre I had not intended on trying. Excuse me while I pull out my drum machine. :),
Thanks so much and sorry for turning you to the dark side ;)
WOW, I loved this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a nice video!
awesome idea for content ..could you maybe do an episode dedicated to snare drum rolls and meaningful fills.
…enough to tell the audience that you absolutely mean it and something very good is coming … possibly a rap part…
It would be wonderful to see a Eurodance being built in Ableton Live!
Funny! I'm thinking of picking up the 8S
WHAT IS THE SEAFOOD PRICE
funny thing is i never heard about eurodance but im sure i heard most of this songs
Can somebody tell me what happened to crash cymbals? I was so used to the sound of a crash cymbal announcing and starting a drop or new section, but it seems it has disappeared. I mean, it was even in drum n bass (like Squarepusher and Aphrodite using it) and now it has disappeared from everybody's EDM drumkit.
You explained why yourself, everyone was using it, so the counter culture people evolved, and then the culture follows counter culture and normalizes it again. Basically it became uncool. But then of course it becomes cool to be uncool again!
Very nice video
More Rabbits please! Neverless a great educational video btw.
Would LOVE to know your opinion of the model:cycles
I like the Model:Cycles very much, the only thing that worries me are the reports from heavy Model series users that the pads have to be replaced quite often. I would love to see Elektron finally put some good pads in their machines. I'm very happy with the pads on my Akai MPK 249, but the velocity range of Elektron's pads is not in a usable range for me, so I have to disable the velocity sensitivity on them altogether.
@@CaptainPikant I don't use the pads on the cycles for drumming, I have my novation launchkey mini mk3 and the pads on that are phenomenal for the price and you can also enter your synth parts with the keys if you like. But yeah it would be great if the pads weren't so stiff. There's a way to set the sensitivity higher that I think most users end up implementing that actually might make them usable I just haven't bothered to try yet.
This is both an amazing tutorial and making fun of how ridiculous euro beats are. Love it
I love eurodance
List of all songs referenced in this video? I like to listen to the original music, some I couldn't identify, some I could identify.
I made a tracklist, it's pinned to the top comment :)
You are the capo!
I know all these songs but don't know the song names lol. Great video
Let me hear you say YEEEAAHH!
Possibly rap part 👌