Jungle Battle: BuddyUK vs Mr.Smashy

[Delta V]

Forgot how tasty old skool DnB & Jungle is. Love the skippy beats and the deeper / not overbearing bass-lines.

Mix 1 - I can tell a few places where you were mixing, some people said your mixes weren't "locked in" but hey I understand vinyl combined with this older stuff is harder to mix. There's a tune a little after half way with a smooth b-line and sounds all sci-fi that I really like. The ending moved into a bit more funkier territory; which is good, it was getting a little too middle class white kid sounding.

Mix 2: First transition sounded a bit off and I don't think the fade worked. This mix certainly sounds more underground than the first, got me bouncing around. Beatmatching here sounds a bit more off than mix 1. The mix itself though sounds a lot cleaner and better sound quality, could just be newer tunes I don't really know.

This is pretty difficult, I think mix 1 had better beatmatching / technical ability, but I liked the programing in Mix 2 more, there were points of high energy and some deeper stuff, I'd much prefer to hear it live, so that's the mix I'll go with. Thanks to both DJs!

[The Blackest]

Yeah gunna have to go w/ mix 1. Hate to come across as being a dick or anything, but damn the mixing was pretty rough for both of them. I preferred the tunes in mix 1 more. I mean it started out w/ T.Power & MK Ultra's Mutant Jazz!!! Thats a tune that I listened to A LOT when I was a kid(along w/ others I'm sure). Man that brought back some awesome memories.

Rep to both of you though. These mixes inspired me to make an old school mix. Was digging around in my 70s funk collection for samples and I found about 400 old school jungle bits that I forgot about!

[mr.smashy]

Thanks for voting.

[The Blackest]

Once again, I meant no disrespect to you guys. I'm sure you guys are well established in your local scenes as top selectas.

[mr.smashy]

Everything in it's place and this soundboy don't fear no test.

[dlove]

congrats to the winner

[Synergy]

was gonna do a breakdown like my other posts but im drunk lol....and mix 1 has it for the tracks! fast for it all for oldskool but hey, im stuck in 91 for the oldskool, phantasy - never try the hippodrome?


people, this is vinyl, unforgiving. with oldskool i love how it clashes a bit, it means it is REAL. so fuck what ppl say about rough, its true to form. listen to cool hand flex, jjf and the like from back in the day, its like that, those drums are hard to mix.

some jump up in mix one...nice! good mix man.

[Synergy]

aye closed but....good mix 1!!!

[Doppelganger]

So who won?

[The Blackest]

was gonna do a breakdown like my other posts but im drunk lol....and mix 1 has it for the tracks! fast for it all for oldskool but hey, im stuck in 91 for the oldskool, phantasy - never try the hippodrome?


people, this is vinyl, unforgiving. with oldskool i love how it clashes a bit, it means it is REAL. so fuck what ppl say about rough, its true to form. listen to cool hand flex, jjf and the like from back in the day, its like that, those drums are hard to mix.

some jump up in mix one...nice! good mix man.

Um I do old school jungle sets with vinyl and crunchy dubplates time to time and I don't have issues w/ mixing them.


Not good to use JJ Frost as an example. He's publicly admitted he's an awful dj....



Anyways, congrats to the winner! Can you guys do up a tracklist? I wanna to hit up discogs for some of these tunes!