u/BrontosaurusB

Been learning to mix for a few months

I’m a yank that didn’t experience the birth of jungle and I’m curious about something.

Question: what city or cities created jungle, which cities had big contributions via either radio, record shops/labels, DJs, producers? And how did each city contribute to the sound?

Context: in USA, we used to have very regional styles of hip hop. The beats and rap styles were distinctive between east/west coast, Midwest, South, etc. The current post internet rap game feels homogeneous much more so than in the 90s. I’m guessing jungle would have had a similar thing. It’s more obvious when it’s thru the lens of crews or labels and how they had their own sound, but idk anything about the location aspect.

Long time dabbler, trying to understand how people approach combos. I struggle to grasp how people create combos without just copying someone, or stringing a bunch of basic tricks together.

Recently I was doing a branding combo tutorial that eventually lands in a kamikaze mount midway thru. It was the first time I realized oh I can just move from here into the first half of kamikaze. Take a piece of this guys branding combo, pivot to the front half of kamikaze, then do other stuff. Barely opening my understanding to how to construct your own combos.

But I still feel incredibly limited. Even something as simple as moving from trapeze into something else without just slinging it off to move to a different mount. I feel like maybe I just need to learn way more tricks and thru this you gain new avenues to pivot off into combos? Or pieces to harvest? And I feel like there’s probably glue type movements that help transition between basic mounts? Idk, this doesn’t seem to be something there’s tutorials for, how to go from performing a list of individual tricks to stringing things together in a cohesive way.