Andrew Grant - King of The Jungle

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 14 Feb 2007 12:42

This video is dedicated to Steve Irwin, the real king of the jungle.

Taken from a 1 hour solo session i had monday night. Not my greatest shred as i've had some nasty shin splints the past coule days, and i don't think any of the runs are something to write home about. However, i'm just really happy to be able to play, so every run has something i wasn't able to do (with out pain) last year, and it could be as simple as a flipside fairy set, so don't get excited.

i've been trying to work on my form recently, so there aren't many big tricks, and althought you may not beable to tell with the music, any one who knows my shred from around 2005 should be able to notice a different level of control and speed (i play a heck of alot slower!)

Been having trouble getting the compression right. it was either too shitty or too huge, and this is the best i could come up with. i'm trying one more compression, and if it's any better i'll repost that.

so without any more yakkity-yak...

[edit] did a version in mp4. it's actually smaller and better quality...

http://www.hackrifice.com/andrew/ag070212-forsteve.mp4
duration: 4:58
size: 10.7 mb

http://www.hackrifice.com/andrew/ag070212-forsteve.mov
duration: 4:58
size: 21.4 mb

Pyroman924 · Post by **Pyroman924** » 14 Feb 2007 13:00

Awesome man! Very nice Blenders and Torques, really smooth. I like your form and speed a lot. It's not too rushed and not deathly slow.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 14 Feb 2007 13:53

Great video. Liked the editing. Little soccer break there in the middle was pretty funny.

I was like, wtf?!

You were sooo close to that one trick. Scary. Have you gotten it?

Last link was sweet as pieee.

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 14 Feb 2007 14:15

FUCK YEAH! So good!

Favy video in a long time? you bet!

I loooooved all the butter swirls! barfly>flurry?? too sexy!!!

The editing was juuuust right, if I was good at edititng I would do it just like that.

Amazing music choice too.

Our strings are really similar now eh? The only thing is that you can do lotsa things I can't. (fogs and pdx blenders and stuff)

You're the best Andrew.

Your number one fan,

Tom

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 14 Feb 2007 15:16

Isilwar wrote:You were sooo close to that one trick. Scary. Have you gotten it?

i think so. i've hit it a bunch, but i have never seen it on video, so i can't be certain if it was clean. i've had people tell me it was clean, but again, when it's that fast it's hard to tell. monday was just not my day, but i thought it worked well with the video.

thanks for the comments Tom. i haven't seen a video from you in a while. maybe it's time again eh? I know how monotonous tripod footage can be, so i tried to mix it up a bit with the editing. looking back on it now i think the first black screen was way too long and i should have filled it with something. oh well. expect more butter swirls when my shin splints go away!

zach4th · Post by **zach4th** » 14 Feb 2007 15:42

Kick ass style!! Thanks for the vid!

shredzilla · Post by **shredzilla** » 14 Feb 2007 16:38

Hahaha King of the 'Jungle' Music. That's too much!

Riptide>Riptide was insane.

Jorden · Post by **Jorden** » 14 Feb 2007 18:09

Whoa -- a unique and exciting style!

Such a rarity these days.

Sporatical_Distractions · Post by **Sporatical_Distractions** » 14 Feb 2007 18:55

Heck yeah!

that first chorus is from a louis armstrong song. Good Choice

It's great that you can play more now. Hackrifice seems to be pretty notorious for injury. Looking great. I love the way your pdx blenders look. You rotate your torso and it's just right there. The toe2toe rocked. pretty much everything rocked. It's always interesting to tweak your form here and there.

WOOP

david · Post by **david** » 14 Feb 2007 19:22

Wow. That was really well done. Normally I am not impressed by videos I watch, but that really got me. I was pretty glued.

I thought your style was really on. You hit a lot of good concepts. You have lowered your arms so you look less.... sky praising.

You hit things pretty solidly, good form on most tricks. You do some nice links. The blurry drifter>ss butter swirl was really neat. bsos too I believe. barfly>flurry midstring totally unexpected. Good janis and everything, only one looked low.

I'm happy that you are still playing. You were one of the coolest people I met in montreal. I hope one day we can play together again.

Keep up the good work. Thank you for sharing this.

dc

SlashC · Post by **SlashC** » 14 Feb 2007 21:36

What a beautiful snake. I think I'm going to muck with it a bit. I'll see you in a couple days.

PS

was that a QUANTUM?

brian relly · Post by **brian relly** » 14 Feb 2007 22:01

fuck yah!

keep up the good shit Mr.

peace

p.s. thanks for the comment about my beats - it means a lot.

Ian Brill · Post by **Ian Brill** » 15 Feb 2007 00:44

mmmBop wrote:fuck yah!

keep up the good shit Mr.

peace

p.s. thanks for the comment about my beats - it means a lot.

Were those yours? I was REALLY feeling them. I was wondering if it was done in ableton live or not.

BOT-

Your style in terms of shred and editing are great. I'm impressed.

brian relly · Post by **brian relly** » 15 Feb 2007 06:07

LOFA wrote:
mmmBop wrote:fuck yah!

keep up the good shit Mr.

peace

p.s. thanks for the comment about my beats - it means a lot.
Were those yours? I was REALLY feeling them. I was wondering if it was done in ableton live or not.

BOT-

Your style in terms of shred and editing are great. I'm impressed.

lol no, I'm talking about a comment he gave me earlier about my beats. different subject. and no I don't really like Ableton Live.

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 15 Feb 2007 09:34

Man, Ive been watching this vid so much!

Your style is looking so good!

I am going to try some of your cool combos tonight.

Andrew is the best.

Kljopa · Post by **Kljopa** » 15 Feb 2007 11:11

cool shred!

ripwalk swirl b2b was hottt

hacksterbator · Post by **hacksterbator** » 15 Feb 2007 11:19

david wrote:You have lowered your arms so you look less.... sky praising.

Good janis and everything, only one looked low.

I hope one day we can play together again.

yeah, i've dropped the shoulders and the arms have come down, except for atomics, i think they will always go up atomics

. But as you can see i took your advice to heart. jani's are chronic problem i have been working on and i'm seeing some improvement, but i'm just glad i can do them with out tearing my hip off! i am looking into comps in the US this year, maybe we'll finally meet up again?

for those interested the tracks were:
Cool Mr Croc - Croc Hunter (ChavXL King of The Swingers VIP)
Evol Intent feat Beach Boys - I Get a-Plague (DJ Phrenzy remix)

i mixed them from a 1 hour jungle mix by Chav XL which can be found here:

http://crocs.asleepattheswitch.net/Chav ... wn_Mix.mp3

and he mixed it without abelton or traktor
track list alone makes it worth a listen...
1. Cool Mr Croc - Croc Hunter (ChavXL King of The Swingers VIP)
2. Konflict VS Spor VS Delboy - Peckham Messiah
3. Evol Intent feat Beach Boys - I Get a-Plague (DJ Phrenzy remix)
4. Starship Calyx - We Built these Illusions (Hipnotic Remix)
5. Nena VS Bad Company - 99 x The Nine Luft Balloons (ChavXL "Wishes he had Traktor" remix)
6. Stakka & Skynet & The Bangles - Clockwork Flame (Hipnotic Mash up)
7. Forthcoming - Front Bottom
8. Cool Mr Croc - Foxy Fu
(Ridiculous teasing section)
>> Dillinja - Twist em Out
>>>> Mampi Swift - Play me
>> Renegade - Terrorist
>>>> Vinyl Syndicate - Man of Steal
>> Fresh - Signal
>>>> Sub-Focus - X ray
>> Total Science VS Baron - Nosher (DJ Craze Remix)
>>>> Bad Company - Nitrous
>> Wots My Code - Dubplate (Total Science Remix)
>>>> Total Science - Squash
>> Digital - Deadline
>>>> Fresh - Formula 1
>> Dillinja - Warning
>>>> Aphrodite - Badass
>> Shy Fx - Original Nuttah (Aphrodite's naughty naughty VIP)
>>>> Q Project - Champion Sound (Total Science' Hardcore will never die remix)
>> Moving Fusion - Turbulence
>>>> Andy C - Quest
9. Mampi Swift feat Nancy Sinatra - Nancy's One Boot
10. Dads Army Lost in teh Jungle
11. Ray Keith feat Grooverider feat Nancy Sinatra - Grooverider shut me down
>> Simon "Bassline" Smith & Drumsound - Odyssey
12. Cool Mr Croc - Dukkystep (the Rubbacore Remix)
13. Logistics vs tiffany - together alone now (k-fire blend)
14. Logistics feat Europe - Together at the Final Countdown
>> Pendulum - Horse Slam (Alan Partridge Remix)
15. Pendulum - Danger Slam (Asnivor's Kenny loggins remix)
16. Tech Itch VS D-Bridge VS Kenny Loggins VS Kerpal - Footloose Soldiers kicked my dog (ChavXL's "or Ableton" remix)
17. DJ Anus - Haemerrhoids (fresh VS Noisia Remix)
18. Roni Size feat Chas n Dave - 26 Rabbits (ChavXL's Dog and Bone Mix)
19. Bad Company VS Sean Paul - Hornet Infiltrate (Asnivor Remix)
>> Kerpal (Jerky Boys) - Conclusion

RawSko · Post by **RawSko** » 15 Feb 2007 18:34

soooooooooooo sweet. I'll definately be skooling my swirls alot more form now on thanks to that vid. You made them look crazy awsome. Super good stuff, Andrew. Much props

I'm prolly coming to Winnipeg again this summer right after Worlds (I'm missing folk fest this year

). Hopefully another session can be had with the Hackrifice crew?

again, lotsa props on a very def shred-vid. I love it.

Ian Brill · Post by **Ian Brill** » 15 Feb 2007 21:42

hacksterbator wrote: for those interested the tracks were:...

Thanks for breaking it down. That was really helpful and I appreciate it. I will definately check out the set. I am an electronic musician, and by no means I purist, but I have great respect for the skill that is involved in making great art, ie: classic DJ'ing.

The number one reason I ask is because I evaluate each in different manners (though the final aesthetic is the imo the most important.)

I am blown away by your style. I'm glad there are cats like yourself, Vasek, David and Jorden (Etc..) that really integrate all of this hard work and creativity to this sport. The way that the video was all captured in one general perspective really enhances the sort of Street Fighter II-80's breakdance aesthetic that I love.

Also, since I studied art, I thought I would interject a little bit of rhetoric, via:

Giorgio de Chrico's Mystery and Melancholy of a Street.

The exagerated perspective of this painting is supposed to encourage a sense of paranoia. It is accredited with the imminant attack of the creeping shadow above. The surrealists were big Freud-heads. All about paranoia man.

I bring this up because as an unrelated (to footbag) aesthetic, this angle really (for me at least) reinforces not only the jilting, kinetic nature of the sport, but it also reinforces the taste in cuts both interms of music and video.

I think before I went to school I would have been like, yo, that shits dope and shit, but you put together a surprisingly unique, and challenging style/vid. Fuck yeah. Some of you motherfuckers just rock.

B_Man · Post by **B_Man** » 16 Feb 2007 08:17

Solid Andrew. The last link was incredible, way to make me shit my pants

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