The story behind "Estuera - Tales From The South" by Jonas Steur | Muzikxpress 205
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Jonas Steur is a DJ and producer from Belgium, who you might know as the creator of tracks such as “Flow”, “Red Shores”, “Second Turn”, “Fall To Pieces” and many others. In my previous interview with Jonas we already spoke about his track “Castamara”, which was the very first track he released under his own name Jonas Steur.
Because of the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Estuera track “Tales From The South”, I made a visit to the brand new studio of Jonas, to ask him about the story behind this classic.
Fun fact, “Tales From The South” has a length of 11 minutes and 11 seconds, which makes it one of the longest tracks Jonas has released so far. Maybe it is a coincidence but at the moment, this interview with Jonas, is the longest interview available on my channel. I spoke to Jonas for more than an hour, so make sure to grab a coffee or another drink and enjoy this very detailed interview we did.
Enjoy and thanks for watching!
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Which Jonas Steur production or remix is your personal favorite one?
Castamara. When I heard back in around 2005, just blew my mind. Timeless classic.
@@rcs2003 love that one too! I guess you watched my interview with Jonas about “Castamara” already? 😉
@@muzikxpress Of course. :)
*Estuera - Red Shores* 🔊👏😍
Услышал его впервые у Армина на ASOT)
To edm lovers, breakbeat especially. Taste this: *The Black Lotus - Eon - Amiga Demo*
Elles de Graaf - Show You My World (Jonas Steur Remix), Tales From The South (Jonas Steur's Revision Flow)...all him production is GOOD!
They just don’t make music like this anymore! I can play “Tales From the South” back to back while working and be perfectly content. It’s not a song - it is a journey. Some of my personal favorites also include “7 Clouds,” “Travels,” and “Red Shores.” Thank you Jonas for creating these masterpieces that still bring joy to my ears decades later, and thank you Twan for bringing us these stories behind our favorites!
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed the interview with Jonas!
Palma Solane and Tales From The South
Part of me died when i found out the Revision Flow wasn't on the vinyl release .... Once you've imprinted yourself onto a piece a music ... And the music over time forges itself into being part of your soul .... From and era so sublime just thinking about it sickens you with noslagia .... An era mentioned here from Jonas where Internet forums were a frenzy of activity after a set was released, and the set regularly compromised of many tracks over 8 minutes long - You just can't accept any other versions of specific productions ... And the Revision Flow is that version of this track .... It makes me feel beyond upset, to a degree where I just have to stop thinking, and listening to these productions these days, as what we had was so so special, and this era of 2005, although it had definitely started to empty itself completely of the magic that survived from 1998-2002 .... Pieces of sublime joy were still meandering around the ocean of trash that was starting to flow musically and socially at trance events .... After 2006, it was the start of a few years, where the rails really became too unstable for many to continue their odyssey with electronic music .... It just makes certain tracks and moments we shared immortalised into memories, forever with us, but for so many nothing but stories and a bygone era of time many will never even begin to experience
I could listen to this guy for hours. His enthusiasm is infectious.
Masterpiece
🙌🏻
I love how open and enthusiastic is Jonas to talk about himself, its productions or the industry.
I remember that same energy on the past interview and is also here, but longer! Great to see how natural and cool some of these guys are!
And good news, there’s another interview with him coming up 😉
What a wonderful interview. He's so animated when he's sharing his story! I love seeing his passion for the music. Thank you, sir!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks so much! And I agree, I love listening to his stories! :)
It was on page 641 of the two towers - this is excerpt - ‘See it, see it? What will you see?’
‘The old fortress, very old, very horrible now. We used to hear
tales from the South, when Sme´agol was young, long ago. O yes, we
used to tell lots of tales in the evening, sitting by the banks of the
Great River, in the willow-lands, when the River was younger too,
gollum, gollum.’ He began to weep and mutter. The hobbits waited
patiently
Castamara is among the top 5 trance tracks of all time for me. It will never get old ❤️🔥☄️🚀
Did you see my interview with Jonas about "Castamara" too?
ruclips.net/video/7j15xawW5l0/видео.html
One of my all time EDM songs of all time if not the best of productions ❤️❤️❤️
Really glad to see Jonas in new studio! Hope we'll hear many more tracks from him like Castamara or Silent waves in modern sounding! My respect to Jonas!
🙌🏻
Tales From the South was, for me, the highlight of ISOS5. I also loved his remix of Starfighter. Also I didn't know for a long time that he was also Fable as I loved the opening of ASOT2006CD2. I'm actually a fan if his new youtube series.
I'm on it ;) I have the bell notification enabled but I think I disable notifications on my mobile phone and unfortunately it disabled many lol
Thanks for the inspiring interview guys ✌
He is one of the best producer ever ! For me ISOS = Jonas Steur !
jonas steur is my favourite dj .
❤ from uk
what a mega interview ;0
Thank you so much!
@@muzikxpress ;) I have been a subscriber for a while but I never get any notifications I'm so many videos behind its panic station here lol
@@ady2416 Haha I hope you will enjoy the ones that you missed still ;-)
These were the best music in our time
Jonas is producing great music, just watched and enjoyed every second of the video. Being a synth freak by myself I guess I know how he must be feeling about extending his gear park 😄 Keep up the great work and thank you for the interview, Twan.
Thank you so much!!
Outstanding, nice and long
Thank you very much!
Ik word gewoon blij van deze gast. Goede energie ❤
Haha jaaa, Jonas is top!!
I missed 6 I think!! lol
An absolute timeless progressive trance classic!!
🙏🏻
I watched the famous synth videos for the tenth time a few days ago 😅 love his channel
Haha, fun fact; he started his channel after the first interview we did (about "Castamara"), since he got really inspired from the reactions on that one :)
Estuera - Tales From The South (Jonas Steurs Revision Flow) is better than the original I personally feel he made it sound groovier. Personally, I miss the longer tracks. I still prefer longer tracks. Jonas Steur played Tales of the South Revision Flow on ASOT 250 as a guest mix.
is it anywhere to be purchased in full version?
@@xaero212 Beatport?
Thank you so much for this interview. Very very interesting. Loving Estuera (Jonas) since I discovered his channel on RUclips. Not necessary his music but the way he explains and makes various music styles. One can always learn from him. So: Thank you again ... and kudos also to @Estuera. 🙂❤
Jonas is a King! Thanks gor the interview. Can we have his studio gear list, please? 🙏🙏🙏😎😎😎🤖🤖🤖
Very nice interview! Such a great guy and i really loved his music back then. Jonas if you read this, do you mind sharing that old track you made "Reflections"? Also im searching for Yahel - Voyage (Estuera Remix). Not sure if this is a remix or not but it sounds awesome.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great, informative interview. Great job, Twan and Jonas. Such an amazing amount of information. I loved hearing it. I enjoyed it. Awesome for Jonas to have so many opportunities after a successful RUclips channel. Good that he decided to return to the scene. Good current new releases are pretty good.
Thank you so much! Very happy with the good feedback on this one. Especially since this is the first time I’m posting such a long interview!
Thank you so much! Very happy with the good feedback on this one. Especially since this is the first time I’m posting such a long interview!
Your channel is awesome 💯💯💯👏👏👏
Thank you very much!! 🙌🏻
Great Interview. Jonas is such a down to earth and nice guy with a lot of talent.
On his own RUclips channel he recreates a lot of different styles and explains how he did it. Really informative and great to watch.
Thank you! And yes, we talk about his RUclips channel and what he does there in this interview (towards the end) for a while as well :)
@@muzikxpress LOL I am just passing that part 😀.
While watching this episode I just came up with the strong feeling that Jonas and Ferry Corsten should hook up and make a great track. I think the could create some thing special together and they are both such nice guys. Maybe you could be the match maker Twan :)
@@DJVasC Haha who knows ;-) I'm already trying to get Jonas to do a track with another legendary producer, let's hope both will happen one day!
"rolling arpeggio bassline, which was popular at the time" - by god, that was an awful cheese even then. Not as awful as an offbeat bass, granted.
Was this track not in a movie? I remember this playing in the background at a house near a pool...
Yes, I found out after the interview when someone told me. It’s in “Never Back Down”.
Yeah. It’s in the scene in Never Back Down when Ryan is getting punked out by his dad in front of his friends. I thought I would be the only person to catch that. Crazy.
Jonas was a bit wrong because Flow (11:44), Red Shores (11:44), Travels (11:36) are his longest released tracks. Tales From The South duration is 'only' 11:11 😀 Another great interview. It would be good to hear more interviews with him. Thanks Twan!
That was actually because of a mistake of me, let me explain; When I did research for the interview I saw on Discogs that "Tales From The South" was 12:12. I think the person who added that duration there, got his information from a RUclips video which has a length of 12:12, but.... the last minute of the video is just silence. I only found out when I started to edit the interview, so I updated the information on Discogs. Before we started the interview I was saying that "Tales From The South" was his longest track and Jonas also said he thought it was "Flow". I think he says that in the interview itself too. The part where I mention that it is 12:12 has been edited out of the interview and I updated Jonas that the Discogs info was wrong ;-) And I said that I was wondering if someone would notice and hey, there you go, less than 6 hours after the interview is live you noticed haha, well done! Hope this clears some things up! And there will be an interview about "Fall To Pieces" as well. Plus we might do something later in 2024, let's see how things are going :)
Longer tracks that took the time for the build up actually takes the listener on a whole journey rather then the shorter ones we have now, where you get an immediate satisfaction. One of the reasons why I still cherish trance from the early 2000s
The connection here is that track 2 is by Fable (which is Jonas). But track 1 is Arksun Arisen, which takes 7 minutes of slowly building until the drop where the bassline starts using more than one note, and perfectly transitions into Above and then Exactly. That CD is probably my favourite from the entire ASOT series, and I was pleasantly surprised, but not that surprised, when I discovered that Jonas was behind track 2. I love long builds. (I first came across his name as the remixer of Starfighter on the 'Worlds Greatest Euphoric Trance' compilation, then discovered he was Estuera, and then Fable.)
Great interview! 🙏
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it!
Great interview. Would love to see him next year playing at lumi
Thank you! He did play at LBF22, hopefully they book him again next year indeed! 🤞🏻
@@muzikxpress yeah that's what I'm hoping 🤞
@@daft009 Fingers crossed!
@@muzikxpress no lumi looks like :(
Lovely interview.
Thank you so much!
Cant wait to watch! :)
Only a few hours left!
@muzikxpress , we need the story of FLOW!!!
Sorry, not doing any requests at the moment. I have a lot in the works, so ideas enough, but unfortunately not enough time and budget for more trips abroad….
One of the reasons why they should do vinyl, is to put the long versions out on vinyl and release the edited versions on streaming and download services.
I know from personal experience there's only a very limited amount of people that still purchase vinyl. That, combined with the high production / shipping costs and production times (currently between 3 - 6 months) are the main reasons there's not many artists / labels anymore that release vinyl. It is way too risky, what if a track doesn't become a hit? Plus since almost everything is digital in clubs / festival these days it doesn't make sense to only release edited versions on download services. What if a DJ wants to support a track? He needs the full version then and not an edited track. So, this is not gonna work ;-)
@@muzikxpressI still buy vinyl. And with vinyl we can get rid off of all the fake dj's. Another plus is that your dj set would be more special.
@@karstenvangijzen5117 I also still buy vinyl, but times have changed. It is just not the same anymore as like 20-25 years ago…
@@muzikxpressYes, that's sadly true. I have great respect for dj's like Sven Väth that still only play vinyl.
Nice
Thank you!
Here's a few suggestions of subgenres you could still cover from the 90's:
- Clubhouse / Clubtrance (similar to Klubbheads, Southside Spinners, DJ Jean & Peran, Club Caviar etc.)
- Techtrance (similar to E. Craig or Marco V.)
- Hardtrance (similar to Dumonde, early Cosmic Gate, Alphazone)
- Acid Trance (similar to Kai Tracid, Warmduscher)
- Piano World Music House Crossover (no name for the genre but similar to Dario G. - Sunchyme, Wes - Alane, Syndrome - Heyo (Nana Ae)
- Dark Techno (similar to early works of Yves DeRuyter and Bonzai)
- Synth Pop (similar to William Orbit, for example his work for Madonna and All Saints)
- New Age (similar to Era, Adiemus, Enigma, Deep Forest)
- Downtempo (simliar to Moby's '18' album)
Hope it helps to give you some more ideas on new Making Of videos. I thoroughly enjoy them, both from the technical aspect and as a huge 90's music lover.
You should post that on Jonas’ channel as he suggests in the interview 😉
@@muzikxpress done. Also, there are still people who really like loooooong (10min+) tracks and double breakdowns. ME! 😛
Hi muzikxpress , I have one question. Can you catch up with Techno Legend SNTS ?
Is that even possible ? Thank you for regret.
No plans for that tbh. FYI, I focus mostly on interviews about tracks from the 80s/90s and early zeroes. That's what my channel is about. You won't really see interviews about more recent tracks.
@@muzikxpress I understand, Thank you for your respond , maybe in the future , you never know. Wish you all the best.
I don't think so, just being honest, my main focus are the years I just mentioned. But more great stuff to come soon!
@@muzikxpress But you heard about him , you Gotta see him , at least one time , he is something Unique , in my opinion the best Dj and Producer of all time , Never saw someone like him.
@@imrichhorvath3310 yes, but it’s not really what I’m listening to myself, but glad you enjoy his music.