Hm, track 6 as first?
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Sorry, posted while still editing. Hard to edit 3 posts at once!
(The titles and names are correct)
edit: Track listings for others added as well.
Also, the track titles and artists have been updated in the BandCamp album.
Artists—Please let me know if you’d like me to take your track down, otherwise, it’s up there for all to hear.
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Congrats to all, especially @Symian.
You killed it with this one.
Great challenge @KingDuppy.
See you in next one
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Thanks, koko!
I have to repeat myself here—I’m still floored by those spoken-word samples at the end of your track; they’re so well-chosen. The idea of working in a classical (and therefore pre-Xtian) text into the song is such an interesting swerve, and the performances just ratchet the energy up so much it takes the song to a whole other place.
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Literally blown away, and thank you all for the kind words and taking time to contribute, tbh I wasn’t even going to submit a beat and this track was the result of a pretty crappy day, so yeah sometimes out of the ugliness something good appears, anyhoo I have to say I actually realised after the playlist was up that the vocal was horribly pitched compared to the track which has bugged me no end even though none of you seem to have been bothered by it but I’ve fixed it in the days since and bumped the BPM a bit to lessen some of the artifacts in the vocal due to the time stretching…
Here’s the slightly buffed version… once again thanks everyone, I truly appreciate it… 
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I’ve updated the BandCamp playlist with your buffed version, but if anyone prefers the original, they can listen to it in your original post:
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Thanks man, well that’s all thanks to original gospel song i used vocals from.
Funny thing is that i am atheists, and this topic is something completely out of my world, though i can appreciate great vocals.
Whole song was done in a rush, i think i had 2 hours before flight.
I could have done better job if i had few minutes to spare for some editing, and have some time to let it cook and think about next steps.
So entire song was made with me doing the drum and bass part and then later fit in vocals.
Ending was done on purpose because it had such a strong message, so i deliberately didn’t use any drums in background.
Here is the image of entire project
Honestly i was just kinda vibing with it.
Just to add mine was Track #9
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I started with “Count it All Joy” by Bebe and Cece. I had the little vocal chop worked out. Originally I was going to layer some synths and a bassline around it. But I decided I wanted the melodic part to be choppy too. So I made this little piece to chop up with the sample:
I also used the GForce Bass Station 2 for the synth chord and the bass sound.
On top of the drums that I pulled from some of the tracks posted in the original thread, I also used this little drum break that I made with MODO Drum 2:
I was going for the break from “I Believe In Music” by the Kay Gees.
From there, I went and put everything together on my Digitakt. Once that was done, I stemmed it all out in Overbridge and then mixed it in FL Studio. You can see my Digitakt perform the song here:
Hopefully the mix is better on this one
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Hats off to you fella, I really really liked your track, great job 
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I made track 8. I have been listening to a load of 160 recently and wanted that, but would say my tune was more of a hardcore track than a jungle/dnb one
The melodic stabs were brass hits and vocals from a gospel tune, the intro sample was from another and the vocal samples in the middle were James Brown in the Blues Brothers church scene.
All the synths and pads were on the op1, which is also where I chopped all the drums - I can promise there was no Amen break!
I also put the whole thing together in the op1 and recorded the output as a stereo file which I dropped into Logic just to take a tiny bit of low mid mud out and some light limiting
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Congrats winners.
Track 10 was mine.
I sampled Count it all joy from Bebe and CeCe Winans.
Flipped chords and vocals on SP404mk2.
Then Live12.
Added a Blofeld pad and a MC707 arp and bass.
Found it hard to get real DnB flow, fx etc.
I get that more often when a track is based around harmony instead of a groove or lick.
Beautiful harmonies make me act like a deer in headlights, I listen to it and my brain becomes mush.
The flu and the low energy in the aftermath made it a challenge to finish it.
Glad I feel better now.
I could not finetune the drums and I missed some extra little synth stuff.
But this battle was a positive experience and I’m thankfull for the feedback I got.
Hope to participate next time.
Thanks @KingDuppy and all you creators for a positive time.
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Thanks for hosting this, thanks for all your votes and for all the great submissions! I also got very useful feedback in this thread, thank you for listening and writing down your thoughts! Mine is Track 3. I think this challenge was super fun because it sent me down a deep rabbit hole. Like last time, I spent a lot of time searching for the right songs to sample from. Like last time, I thought I found the right thing several times, started building ideas, and then started all over because I didn’t like it 
From the start, I knew that I wanted to make an uplifting liquid DnB track which I hoped would go along nicely with Gospel, ideally with some choir samples. When I came across “It All Belongs To You” by Deitrick Haddon I knew this would be the one! The rest of the song came together really quickly. As always, I created all melodic elements on my Digitone and Digitakt II, as well as the overall song structure. I played the piano parts on my epiano, sampling into the DT and after that I jammed some more until I fixed the obvious problems and after even more jamming, I recorded everything into Bitwig via Overbridge. I wasted some time trying to align the vocals on the DT, this is just a pain to do on the groovebox I guess. In Bitwig, stretching and aligning the vocals was a breeze. There were some happy accidents that shaped the rest of the song, especially that part in the middle with the huge reverb on her voice. I redid this part so many times, I lost track. At first, I basically had a chorus and then nothing to transition to and I was looking for high and low energy points in the original song that I could maybe sample from - to be honest, I found that quite hard because imo, at any point of the song there’s just a lot going on. I ended up choosing this part for the buildup at 2:24 because she really goes crazy and she gets almost comically intense at the end (“let go of depression!!!”). In the last DnB battle, I learned a lot about mixing and I learned the hard way how to already prepare for the mixdown while I’m doing stuff on the DN/DT - this really paid off, I spent much less time mixing and more time making music! Fun times.
cheers
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Some notes from my side. Thank you all for your feedback and thanks to @KingDuppy for hosting this batlle.
I struggled with this challenge a lot. Gospel is completely out of my comfort zone, but I somehow found a nice song to sample, I could have done better with sample slicing and making vocal smaples a proper element of the track. Instead I tried to “throw in” a nice vocal sample here and there.
I also struggled with my other elements. First I tried to do the drums on my Model Cycles - which did not work for me at all. FM drums might work with D&B but I could not make them work. Then I tried to use my Microfreak for some chords/bass. This didn’t work out as well too. After my initial experiments I kept everything in Ableton - Wavetable / Drumrack. Accidentally I kept one Microfreak track with a static minor chord enabled and played some other chords with Wavetable over it - this wasn’t so bad. The piano melody was done with a rhodes preset from Ableton.
I have learned a lot while doing this challenge but I also have to say: kudos to all the winners. You really deserve your spots. 
And of course to all other participants - it was an honor to be on the same track list.
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Thanks for the votes and congrats master @Symian to the victory!
I aimed to do my track strictly in renoise but struggled with arranging and mixing so I moved over to ableton in the end. I used the break from jesus rhapsody part 1. Vocals I think I snatched from sinners crossroad. I went to Paiste cymbals homepage where you can listen to hundreds of cymbals and ripped a bunch of ridehits with audacity. Ran the padswell thru a tapedelay. Another pad with Surge. Might finish it someday because feels a bit thrown together. Which it was.
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Well as much as I’d like to be able to give you all a detailed breakdown of the track I did there’s really not a great deal to tell, the vocal was extracted with serato sample, with a heavily modulated splash of reverb from arturias rev intensity, the rest is all audio from various sources including some ready rolled breaks fx etc. with liberal helping of dubstation and blackhole reverb…
The bass was 2 resampled serum 2 patches from the stranjah wubs and wobbles pack layered up…
No mastering done, all I use on my main channel is tone boosters morphit and goodhertz can opener at the mixing stage then drop them out and run the main through baby audio taip for export… no black magic…
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