Groovin' in G

How to make 90’s Aquatic Jungle

Another massive undertaking for the channel & hopefully a big step forwards in terms of production value/animations/sfx etc. 🚀

The green screen is making a massive difference in how immersive I can make everything and I'm super excited to see how I can develop it further! 

Saturday Sampling Session 🏖

Well, you all know what they say about records with naked ladies on the front! Full of gems and this one is a true classic. 💎

I've always felt there would be some great slices in this record and I wasn't disappointed. I've been through the entire album a picked out all loads of wicked ch...

UK 2 Garage 2-Step Drums From Scratch 🥁

Hope everyone is doing well and looking forwards to the weekend. 😊

Here is another Patreon Exclusive video going through the process of making 2-step UKG Drums from scratch. I've thrown a lot in here from the Triplet Shuffle to Ghost Hits, Hats, FX, Textures, Fills etc. all into a 16-bar...

I Hacked my DAW!

Pretty crazy project this one! Got to show off my new green screen also thanks to all of you. ❤️

Went super hard to get this one out today which should hopefully free me up to do the UKG drums from scratch Patreon Exclusive next week. 🚀

I've uploaded my Hack 2 Drum Presets here...

4 Creative Ways to Make FXs and Ear Candy 🧨

You guys vote and I create! 🗳 🚀

I could quite easily do another one of these going over more ways to create FXs but you get a good idea of my workflow from this video. Resampling is really the key to it all.

The more you practise resampling, you more you'll discover unique thing...

Patreon Video Content Poll 🗳

Good Sunday everyone! 🤓

One of my resolutions this year was to really nail the Patreon content. I've been trying to find more ways outside of the samples & YouTube to reward the people who ...

4 Unique FX Techniques in Renoise (Preview)

The key to all of this is to think outside the box & use resampling to capture all the weird and wonderful things you make in the DAW. 

1. Slider Technique 🚀

2. Resonant BandPass Filter Modulation 🧨

3. Valhalla FREQ Delay + Looping Pitch Modulated Sampl...

Chopping Samples like Todd ‘The God’ Edwards

Here is the finishing Todd Edwards Sampling Project. 

I really liked being able to give you guys early access to the video ideas I'm currently working on so there will be loads more like this in the future.

As promised here are the 5-star chops from the project! ⭐️

I co...

Todd (the God) Edwards Preview

This is a quick walkthrough of my new project on Todd Edwards. I explain the chopping technique & demo the track so far!

The audio levels weren't perfect so I've done my best to correct them from a single audio file in post. Will fix that for next time :)

Going to be doing lots mo...

New Year Post and Gift! 🎁

Hello everyone and welcome to a whole another year in our lives. 😊

Whilst I'm usually a big believer in starting the New Year off with a bang, this year has been slightly different. I suddenly got to December last year and realised that I'd been sat indoors at a computer, 70 hours a week...

Final Vid for the Year! 🥳

What a year it's been! 56 videos later from Paradox & Source Direct to Atmospheric Jungle & Renoise we've really been on a bit of an adventure together through the mysical lands of Jungle & DnB. 🌘

I thought the perfect way to finish up the year would be a big old breakdown of...

Master the Shaolin Moon Way Technique! 🌙 ⚔️

I'm super happy to have this all done and dusted now! I'll keep this sort as I've left quite a detailed summary in the comments of the video on YouTube.

I just wanted to share my drum breaks from this project so you can see the extra work I did before even starting. All the breaks are quant...

Break Slicing Techniques - Gate to Tempo

Good afternoon everyone on what is hopefully a very productive Monday for you all! ✍️

I'm back again with my monthly blog post and today we'll be talking about another one of my favourite break-slicing techniques - The mystical Gate to Tempo Technique. 🌔

Whilst I didn't invent ...

George Benson - Face it boy, it's over (Samples)

Such a classic record. Amazing for Hip-Hop style chops where almost every part of the record is usuable. 

I've made a favourites folder this time as well as the folder for all main slices. I always find it so inspiring to break down a record in this way, scan through all the little pei...

Time to Vote! 🗳

Ok, so it's time to get voting once again! 😊

I have one or two more videos planned before this but I’d love to hear everyone's thoughts for my big December project. I’ve added ba...

Break Slicing Techniques - Mono Break Slicing

I thought it would be really useful to do a step-by-step guide on some of my favourite break chopping techniques! Turns out it actually quite difficult to explain things like this on PDF :)

I've given it my best shot! If you have any questions, feel free to give me a shout.

If anyone ...

My Favourite Old School Jungle Techniques

Ok we made it! This is what you all voted for :) I hope I lived up to expectations on this one, it certainly took me a minute! 

I think I managed to get the most interesting techniques in here but there is definitly the possibility for a part 2 in the future!

Let me know what you...

Freddie Hubbard - First Light (Sunday Samples) 🛀🏼

Good Sunday all! Been a massive month this one. Probably about 70/100 hours through the jungle production video now. 🌴 Going max effort once again so thanks for your patience, it should be out towards next weekend :)

Hope everyone is feeling bright and cheerful with the change of seasons...

Hardware vs Software: Sample Rate Reduction & Pitch Interpolation

Ok so I started making notes and collecting ideas for my top jungle techniques and ended up going down a massive rabbit hole on this one! 👀

I just really wanted to know what was going on with sample rates & pitch interpolation and anti-aliasing.  Was there any differences in the...

Record Chopping Techniques (Blog 1)

Here are my 5 favourite ways to chop up records. They should have you covered from chopping up full tracks to 4x4 records with kicks & snares in them! 

Have a great week all! ✌️&❤️

What is Sampling? Akai S1000

New video up on sampling for everyone! Finally go around to incorporating the Akai S1000 in this video. In the second half I break down all its features if anyone is interested :)

Future of my Patreon (Video Poll)

So I’ve been thinking hard about how I improve my Patreon and give some more exclusive content to you all.

I love that my videos are available to everyone & whilst other Patreon’s keep cer...

Come join my livestream Vs Human Synthetics on the weekend! Ethereal Darkside 🌗

Stoked to be going in for round 2 of Ableton vs Renoise. My aim this time to to talk a little less and hopefully get some more music done but we'll see how it goes! 

I've collected some wicked samples for this one from my custom library! I thought it would be cool to upload them here s...

How to Chop Breaks like the Crane - Source Direct

For anyone looking to get that Source Direct Sound into their Amens - Here a workflow to have a go at over the weekend! Big love to all! ✌️

Renoise Beginners (90's Jungle from Scratch)

I've now got two parts out on this series with one more coming early next week! I've always wanted to have something on my channel to help give anyone new to Renoise a well presented learning path into the program. I know not all of you use Renoise but I hope there is still lots of useful informa...

Bill Evans Rehersal (Sample Session)

Some lovely Jazzy Chops here to give you something to work with over the weekend! They have a bit more of a hip-hop/boom-bap vibe but should certainly still help to get the creative juices flowing! ✌️

I started a Discord as a better way for us all to communicate and share!

https://discord.gg/3mJSXcsMsq

How to make 90s Atmospheric Jungle (Dreamy Sine Pads)

Walking through how to make those dreamy sine pads on the Digitone! Loving this resurgence in Atmosheric jungle at the moment. Have a good weekend all! ✌️&❤️

Hero Breaks - Just hit 5000 Subscribers on YouTube! ❤️

Wow, I've recently been seeing some really good growth on my channel and I'm super happy to have just hit 5000 subscribers! Big love to everyone on here for your support. It feels amazing to be slowly starting to turn this into a full-time career & I can't wait to get out all this new content...

Renoise vs Ableton: Atmospheric Jungle Livestream

Going head-to-head against Human Synthetics this weekend for a 3-hour live stream! Representing Renoise in a battle of the DAWs, 90s atmospheric Jungle style. Hyped for this! Tune in this Sunday at 14:00 (GMT+1) ✌️🥷