I’ve seen more scratch videos than I care to remember. And with increasingly regularity, I’m shooting them too. I think we can agree that we’ve seen all the old warehouse locations with floating waveform videos we’ll ever need, so Australian DMC champion B.Two‘s Game of Death video comes as an amazing breath of fresh air.
Obvious turntablist skills aside, the location and production values really do put just about everything else to shame. I’ve got a huge beautiful old mill at my disposal for future projects, but a temple? B.Two wins.
If you were wondering, the location is the Heavenly Queen Buddhist Temple in Melbourne, Australia. I think I’ll have to try to get Stone Henge for my next video. And I’ve got to get me a drone too.
I didn’t know this was from Aus when I first started watching it, then spent a few minutes staring at the establishing shot trying to work out if it was the temple around the corner. Really impressive building though.
Awesome video too,
Meh. The video didn’t live up to the hype
Well shot video, i mean WOW!!!
But, that routine he’s doing has to be one of the wackest i’ve heard.
Literally sounds like someone who’s dj’d for 2 years entering a battle.
yeah i kept hoping for something funky but it lacked big time in that department, location and filming is making up for a wack set
Ooooohhhh my ears !
Superb production, but the routine is so not musical that even those beautiful location shootouts couldn’t hold me from skipping.
5:42 is probably the best part of this routine….
you can practice till the cows come home but you can’t by taste
yuk
All you guys putting him down……. how many DMC championships have you won?
*ZERO*, and im also non-defeated as well!
Deadly wicked comment ! Made me laugh . I’m going to use that one
Go ahead M8, its free of charge! ;D
Urgh…fucking garbage.
DUBSTEP MUST DIE, PLEASE PLEASE PLEEEEEEEEEEASE KILL IT, KILL IT!!!!!
Why must it die? It’s fine where it is….
Beautiful video…
Not a fan of the routine. At all. In the least.
At least he got *POWER* to fuel the equipment!
Jesus, stop it. If there was no video only audio, could you bare to listen to this? Supporting this video for a high watch count only promote more of these ear sores videos. Change the title.
I don’t know if there are many battle sets I could bare to listen to on their own. But that’s not the point of a battle set — they’re about skills and the visual element of the performance as well as the audio, and B.Two’s video has both of those. Granted, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I posted it from the perspective of being a great all round video.
So no, I won’t change the title of the video, because from a video perspective it’s true. And others should aspire to it. I know I will.
I’m not trying to sound really old here, but when I was coming up. I remember many days listening to a mix tapes and hearing the skills a dj had on his mix. I didn’t need to see him to admire is set. That’s what wrong today with the dj scene, aswell as todays music production. Everyone wants to seen and not heard. This what I miss about old school. If the sound was garbage, than you got toss. No ifs or ands about it. You was graded for the skill, the sounds and your music choice. Not because you have gold plated 1200s in the middle of no where. You don’t have to change the title, but thank god you’re not trying to sell this video to anyone. Because someone might sued you for false advertisement.
Visually this may be the “The most beautiful scratch video ever made” and there’s no doubting the guy has technical skills but… where’s the music? The rhythm, melody, soul?
Someone should introduce this guy to the millions of amazing records that have been made from across the genres from all congeners of the earth for the last century.
Thee best routines have always been the ones that surprise you MUSICALLY: a cut up of an AC/DC riff in the middle of a funk routine, cutting from a hip hop track to the original Psych record it’s ample from etc.
don’t hate… educate!!
The Sabbath bit was *great*.
skills = dope
cinematography = beautiful
music = beyond bad. Imagine Tiesto discovered hip hop. The ender was entertaining I guess, but I really think this guy needs to send a written apology to Sabbath for including it amongst this god awful toss.
Why does anything DMC related seem to be devoid of all taste? I know this shit is subjective but come on…
I have to agree – I didn’t even get 1 minute in before turning it off.
Not as beautifully filmed but an interesting rooftop location for Kentaro
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYrrbB9QQ4
I agre i would be also pleased to hear some music :) Like 90´s DMCs .
Ironman ending was super-dope! Well done, B.Two.
Tight work B.Two, dang… I need that mixer (upgrade the 56s).