@@opticalman6417 Hey, not sure what you're asking :) UAD generally started doing a lot of their plugins natively without needing any of their hardware. So I bought some of their bundles and plugins as they always have things on sale, but to be honest I am not even using all that much, i bought more than i could ever need. That is the thing with digital plugins, they don't take up physical space, but you still end up with too many options :D
"Do I really like this?" Yes, that's the #1 thing that matters, if you can create music that you like, the creation of and the finished product, you are a successful musician. 👍
I personally share your relationship to the 90s Jungle thing. I started intensive listening to jungle, especially lots of ambient jungle, in about 95/96 and i think this was the golden era. Your approach to sound like it is always interresting and you finally get it done. I like your tracks and also your way tot talk about it how you actually think and feel about it. As long you have fun with it keep on doing more jungle tracks.
Hey, thanks ! Yeah, i have discovered drum n bass and jungle back in early-mid 90s, i was 11-12 years old and that music just stuck with me for many years to come. It was so different, so out of this world to me back then, I fell in love with it from the very first seconds I accidentally heard it on a radio. By the end of the 90s and early 00 it was changing but was still good until I run in to Squarepusher's Go Plastc, that album just fucked my head completely. It was jungle, but it was superfast, super experimental, and Aphex Twin’s Drukqs completely changed the course for me and for the whole 00 I stopped listening to drum n bass and jungle (and i don't listen to it anymore at all :D ) and went fully experimental with my own music. Only for the past 4 years decided to stick to making classic oldschool jungle again, and it got me further than previous 20+ years :D
@@IJOSoundVideo Thank you for your reply! My first Contact to Jungle was in 95. A friend of mine had the REACT ARTCORE Ambien Jungle Vol. 1. This was the time when i fell in love with jungle...the beats combined with that 90s ambient sounds changed my life and i i still like it today.
samesies....i was about 19/20 and had been a drummer since about 5 years old. definitely feeling the jungle ... i love the longevity of the genre...it had "sorta" sold out for a bit but has really retained an underground continuity to this day (2024_)
i discovered jungle circa 2002 from a guy that moved houses to my village(in germany). i helped him carry the boxes in, not knowing him at all with some friends. turned out he was a music enthusiast with tons of CDs. he gave me a few of them and there were some jungle samplers from 1994/95. my mind was blown when i listened to the first Track. since then i became a collector of everything 90s Jungle. Now seeing the "jungle renaissance" unfold makes me very happy.
crescendo from ppp to full volume reverse amen samples one second before intial drop in the tune...mini transitions like in flooring from one room to another.. your tune is super bumping smooth....loved the detune hissy ride at the interlude. BOH to atmospheric hardstep....real dope dude!!
"strictly jungle" ..... loved your words there. It was as if your analytical mind formulated some equations that manifests the overall theme into those two words. haha loved it. im kind of in your same position. ex-junglist dj and producer..had kids. kids are now 16 and 18 year old babylon demolitionists. mission accomplished, so I'm back lol....and enjoying your videos yeah Amigo is the shit. crushing and punishing the little electrons
I’d be really interested to hear your other non jungle music. It’s fun to watch people make music with hardware. This sounds just like your other hardware tracks. Awesome video!
Hey cheers !! I am sure the hardware / non hardware thing is mostly just an illusion. I keep questioning myself, do i really need all that stuff ? :) You can have a listen to my non jungle stuff at my bandcamp, but a good chunk of it was jungle inspired, but a lot faster and hyper experimental, along with some mellow jazz stuff and IDM.
I am surprised at this my self. I don't even like Reason, but I am so used to it, i am super quick with it and i can do pretty much whatever i want in it. I don't like it because i feel it has some weird "sound", not as pleasant as other DAWs i have tried (albeit uncomfortable for me, like Ableton).. But at the end of the day i get the job done and everything else I don't like about it might be my own illusion. People seem to be liking stuff i do with it so i guess i am just a little delusional about the whole sound :)
Heya, i really appreciate your thoughts on decision making, keeping it simple etc. ... there are a million tech and software tutorials out there, but very little that deal with those "soft skills". I guess because there's money to be made by selling VSTs, and not by telling people that they should concentrate on a few basic tools and trust their own taste 😎 - anyway, thanks!
Hey, thanks for the comment. Most RUclips channels, when they get bigger, they are getting sponsorships hence they start selling products, as they are getting paid this way. I am not interested in selling anything, unless it's my own releases or something i am involved in , which doesn't happen often.. I simply love sharing my insights in to my own head when it comes to making music, i want my videos to be inspiring for others to be creative instead of telling them they need this or that to be able to make good stuff... We need nothing at all, if I am honest, to be able to make good stuff. We only need inspiration, that comes from experiences. So instead of buying stuff, - have experiences and use that to boost your creativity. Instead of buying this or that plugin, buy a trip to mountains or whatever :) I do that all the time, I don't buy stuff, i take trips with my family to places i have never been to, that is a lot more exciting :)
Hey Ijo, gorgeous track. Can really hear the source direct & photek inspiration in this one! If you don't mind me asking, do you generally sample your amens from original source and process them yourself, or do you take second-hand amens from oldschool jungle tunes?
Hey thanks for the comment. I do both ways. It is a lot harder processing the first generation break to get it to sound the way i want, but i used the first generation amen break on my Disrupt 12". The only processing it had was going in to the S1000 and then through the mixing desk preamp and EQ. Mosttly I just find clean breaks in original jungle tunes and sample those I like, there's actually only a handful i have that i keep using over and over again. Running them through AKAI and mixing desk can add another layer of gentle shaping to fit my tune. The amen here in this video was actually lifted from early Photek stuff and before i put it in to AMIGO VST i run it through the s1000 as well.
Hi, I really enjoy your Jungle tracks and your explanation of your process. I would like to check out your ambient channel but the link doesn't work for me.
Yes, Jim Baker, he's the one responsible for everything Source Direct is known for. Phil was just there as a companion to Jim, but wasn't as involved in anything creative.
@@IJOSoundVideo Oh I see, yes that was Jim, for sure. Programming genius considering everything was hardware back then. These 1996 interviews on RUclips are such a treat. They were so young and so ahead. Lightning in a bottle much
Hey ! I don't send my tracks to DJs unless it's someone I know, and when I send them my tracks, they're always mastered. Either the label masters them when they're putting out a 12" or I do using LANDR. Everything on my Bandcamp is mastered by LANDR unless otherwise stated.
Hey mate ! I actually haven't sent you my stuff yet, but most probably labels Like Disrupt or even Tim Reaper might have sent you some of my tunes. I know Rapture from IG stories others are posting, but I stopped following the scene and gigs altogether some time ago as I have lost interest in clubbing :) Big ups though !!!
You sir, are some type of savant with how you program your drum breaks. Understand that you want to expand your musical horizons and big up to braving new challenges, but it be a shame if you completely stopped producing Jungle
Yo IJO I just wanted you to know if you are ever gonna leave the jungle scene and you switch to the Ambient music side of things I just wanted you to know thank you for all the awesome jungle music tracks you’ve created over the years big ups have a good day mate🌴🥁
Thank you, mate ! Well, comments like this kind of keep me going ! But at the same time I am running out of ideas, i feel like jungle is just being recycled, and it's just all the same over and over, i am losing interest in hearing the same stuff and making the same stuff, if you know what i mean ?
would you consider selling reason project files if you don't want to give them away? You shared one before on this channel that was a god send as nobody makes reason project files anymore
@@IJOSoundVideo Link doesn't work for me either, link in description displays "/@uc2e1mrnt4it5keuh_-ip-ug", but if I search Future City Music Ambient, I found the channel, looking forward to checking it out.
I am very subtle with it, but there was a time when I was cracking it to the fullest and indeed everything was too distorted. I had to learn to use plugins very gently, as i was always overdoing it.
I share my inside in to making simple proper 90s oldschool jungle with Reason 12 and Amigo sampler.
what Edition uad native are you using
@@opticalman6417 Hey, not sure what you're asking :) UAD generally started doing a lot of their plugins natively without needing any of their hardware. So I bought some of their bundles and plugins as they always have things on sale, but to be honest I am not even using all that much, i bought more than i could ever need. That is the thing with digital plugins, they don't take up physical space, but you still end up with too many options :D
"Do I really like this?" Yes, that's the #1 thing that matters, if you can create music that you like, the creation of and the finished product, you are a successful musician. 👍
I personally share your relationship to the 90s Jungle thing. I started intensive listening to jungle, especially lots of ambient jungle, in about 95/96 and i think this was the golden era.
Your approach to sound like it is always interresting and you finally get it done. I like your tracks and also your way tot talk about it how you actually think and feel about it. As long you have fun with it keep on doing more jungle tracks.
Hey, thanks ! Yeah, i have discovered drum n bass and jungle back in early-mid 90s, i was 11-12 years old and that music just stuck with me for many years to come. It was so different, so out of this world to me back then, I fell in love with it from the very first seconds I accidentally heard it on a radio. By the end of the 90s and early 00 it was changing but was still good until I run in to Squarepusher's Go Plastc, that album just fucked my head completely. It was jungle, but it was superfast, super experimental, and Aphex Twin’s Drukqs completely changed the course for me and for the whole 00 I stopped listening to drum n bass and jungle (and i don't listen to it anymore at all :D ) and went fully experimental with my own music. Only for the past 4 years decided to stick to making classic oldschool jungle again, and it got me further than previous 20+ years :D
@@IJOSoundVideo Thank you for your reply! My first Contact to Jungle was in 95. A friend of mine had the REACT ARTCORE Ambien Jungle Vol. 1. This was the time when i fell in love with jungle...the beats combined with that 90s ambient sounds changed my life and i i still like it today.
samesies....i was about 19/20 and had been a drummer since about 5 years old. definitely feeling the jungle ... i love the longevity of the genre...it had "sorta" sold out for a bit but has really retained an underground continuity to this day (2024_)
i discovered jungle circa 2002 from a guy that moved houses to my village(in germany). i helped him carry the boxes in, not knowing him at all with some friends. turned out he was a music enthusiast with tons of CDs. he gave me a few of them and there were some jungle samplers from 1994/95. my mind was blown when i listened to the first Track. since then i became a collector of everything 90s Jungle. Now seeing the "jungle renaissance" unfold makes me very happy.
Nice one ! 90s jungle is definitely great music.
banger! really amazing stuff, thank you so much for your insight into your process. I cant wait to get my hands on this amigo sampler.
crescendo from ppp to full volume reverse amen samples one second before intial drop in the tune...mini transitions like in flooring from one room to another.. your tune is super bumping smooth....loved the detune hissy ride at the interlude. BOH
to atmospheric hardstep....real dope dude!!
Very inspiring chat and track. Love seeing the way you are manipulating the breaks using Amigo and using Reason. Keep up the good work my friend!
Thank you !
We're grateful for the upload! Thanks Ijo :)
Thanks for stopping by ;)
"strictly jungle" .....
loved your words there. It was as if your analytical mind formulated some equations that manifests the overall theme into those two words. haha loved it. im kind of in your same position. ex-junglist dj and producer..had kids. kids are now 16 and 18 year old babylon demolitionists. mission accomplished, so I'm back lol....and enjoying your videos
yeah Amigo is the shit. crushing and punishing the little electrons
Hey ! Nice one :)
Dude i have the same doors and lght switchers in my apartment in Moscow 😂 Good choon! ❤
:D
The Jungle master!
🙏
Once again a very interesting video. I really like the sincerity when you talk about your ideas.
🔥🔥🔥 track too! Big up
🙏
Keep uploading, everytime I get a notifcation that IJO has a new video out, I get so excited!!! Your music slaps!!! Big up 👊
:)
Great work on the track! Sounds killer! 👊
Thank you !
13:22 hello Goldie!
Big up IJO from Canada! This is one of my favorite channels on youtube, and i appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos 🙌🏼🙌🏼
Thanks for tuning in, appreciate the comment !
Great stuff. You and a very few other RUclipsrs are nailing the sound of Jungle.
Appreciate !!!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks for the insight, its great to see your setup and the reasining behind your decisuons.
Thank you ! I think reasoning is very important. To me at least.
'ere 'e is!!
:)
I’d be really interested to hear your other non jungle music. It’s fun to watch people make music with hardware. This sounds just like your other hardware tracks. Awesome video!
Hey cheers !! I am sure the hardware / non hardware thing is mostly just an illusion. I keep questioning myself, do i really need all that stuff ? :) You can have a listen to my non jungle stuff at my bandcamp, but a good chunk of it was jungle inspired, but a lot faster and hyper experimental, along with some mellow jazz stuff and IDM.
This is great, drums are crisp
Thanks !
Love that you use Reason :-)
I am surprised at this my self. I don't even like Reason, but I am so used to it, i am super quick with it and i can do pretty much whatever i want in it. I don't like it because i feel it has some weird "sound", not as pleasant as other DAWs i have tried (albeit uncomfortable for me, like Ableton).. But at the end of the day i get the job done and everything else I don't like about it might be my own illusion. People seem to be liking stuff i do with it so i guess i am just a little delusional about the whole sound :)
@@IJOSoundVideo I saw someone test if the different daws had their own "sound" and he found that Reason had its own sound because of the ssl mixer!
Excellent
Heya, i really appreciate your thoughts on decision making, keeping it simple etc. ... there are a million tech and software tutorials out there, but very little that deal with those "soft skills". I guess because there's money to be made by selling VSTs, and not by telling people that they should concentrate on a few basic tools and trust their own taste 😎 - anyway, thanks!
Hey, thanks for the comment. Most RUclips channels, when they get bigger, they are getting sponsorships hence they start selling products, as they are getting paid this way. I am not interested in selling anything, unless it's my own releases or something i am involved in , which doesn't happen often.. I simply love sharing my insights in to my own head when it comes to making music, i want my videos to be inspiring for others to be creative instead of telling them they need this or that to be able to make good stuff... We need nothing at all, if I am honest, to be able to make good stuff. We only need inspiration, that comes from experiences. So instead of buying stuff, - have experiences and use that to boost your creativity. Instead of buying this or that plugin, buy a trip to mountains or whatever :) I do that all the time, I don't buy stuff, i take trips with my family to places i have never been to, that is a lot more exciting :)
@@IJOSoundVideo wise words !
Yo!
Epic track man.
Thanks !
Hey Ijo, gorgeous track. Can really hear the source direct & photek inspiration in this one! If you don't mind me asking, do you generally sample your amens from original source and process them yourself, or do you take second-hand amens from oldschool jungle tunes?
Hey thanks for the comment. I do both ways. It is a lot harder processing the first generation break to get it to sound the way i want, but i used the first generation amen break on my Disrupt 12". The only processing it had was going in to the S1000 and then through the mixing desk preamp and EQ. Mosttly I just find clean breaks in original jungle tunes and sample those I like, there's actually only a handful i have that i keep using over and over again. Running them through AKAI and mixing desk can add another layer of gentle shaping to fit my tune. The amen here in this video was actually lifted from early Photek stuff and before i put it in to AMIGO VST i run it through the s1000 as well.
Hi, I really enjoy your Jungle tracks and your explanation of your process. I would like to check out your ambient channel but the link doesn't work for me.
I fixed (i hope) the link in the description. It's this one www.youtube.com/@FutureCityAmbient
Source Direct ftw, one of them is still djing and doing gigs, saw him in Manchester a few years ago. Exorcise the
demons
Yes, Jim Baker, he's the one responsible for everything Source Direct is known for. Phil was just there as a companion to Jim, but wasn't as involved in anything creative.
@@IJOSoundVideo Oh I see, yes that was Jim, for sure. Programming genius considering everything was hardware back then. These 1996 interviews on RUclips are such a treat. They were so young and so ahead. Lightning in a bottle much
Great track!
Would your process make the track loud enough for DJ's to play out, or do you only send mastered tracks out to DJ's?
Hey ! I don't send my tracks to DJs unless it's someone I know, and when I send them my tracks, they're always mastered. Either the label masters them when they're putting out a 12" or I do using LANDR. Everything on my Bandcamp is mastered by LANDR unless otherwise stated.
Hey Ijo I am sure you have sent me beats or I have played your beats Really like your music. I run Rupture with Mantra . Peace!! Double O
Hey mate ! I actually haven't sent you my stuff yet, but most probably labels Like Disrupt or even Tim Reaper might have sent you some of my tunes. I know Rapture from IG stories others are posting, but I stopped following the scene and gigs altogether some time ago as I have lost interest in clubbing :) Big ups though !!!
@@IJOSoundVideo yes we run a club night but also a label as well it’s Rupture London
You sir, are some type of savant with how you program your drum breaks. Understand that you want to expand your musical horizons and big up to braving new challenges, but it be a shame if you completely stopped producing Jungle
Hey, thank you :)
Cool tunes 😎 any chance we can get that photek amen sample... Or point in direction that can find it?
This particular break comes from The Sentinel - Heavy Vibes . Enjoy !! ;)
@@IJOSoundVideo thank you for sharing, most appreciated 👍
Yo IJO I just wanted you to know if you are ever gonna leave the jungle scene and you switch to the Ambient music side of things I just wanted you to know thank you for all the awesome jungle music tracks you’ve created over the years big ups have a good day mate🌴🥁
Thank you, mate ! Well, comments like this kind of keep me going ! But at the same time I am running out of ideas, i feel like jungle is just being recycled, and it's just all the same over and over, i am losing interest in hearing the same stuff and making the same stuff, if you know what i mean ?
@@IJOSoundVideo yeah i definitely know what you’re saying
can i get your music on vinyl ?
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would you consider selling reason project files if you don't want to give them away? You shared one before on this channel that was a god send as nobody makes reason project files anymore
Never thought about that ! Will think about it .
@@IJOSoundVideo Yes PLEAAAAAAAAAASE do! Thanks.
What's your other RUclips channel? The link in description doesn't work
Hey, it's Future City Music Ambient. Just checked, the link in my description works fine.
@@IJOSoundVideo Link doesn't work for me either, link in description displays "/@uc2e1mrnt4it5keuh_-ip-ug", but if I search Future City Music Ambient, I found the channel, looking forward to checking it out.
@@IJOSoundVideo the link in description didn't work for me either, but I think I found it by name searching. www.youtube.com/@FutureCityAmbient
@@IJOSoundVideo Didn't work for me either.
@@chocomalk I hope i fixed the link in the description, but here it is: www.youtube.com/@FutureCityAmbient
I love this channel and your tracks under this project. I will happily support as long as you feel inspired to keep creating 🙂
Appreciate !
Haha at 9:15 I fully expected some crazy ass distortion VST called "Satan".
I am very subtle with it, but there was a time when I was cracking it to the fullest and indeed everything was too distorted. I had to learn to use plugins very gently, as i was always overdoing it.