august contest ... VOTING

[pHz]

as ever ... top 10 in order with BOTH artist name and track title please ...

slainte rob

[fucanay]

I'll go first.

1. Sleek Month - Lemme Be

2. Barnadine - A (Not) Very Cellular Song

3. BitFlipper - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

4. oddbods finger - Peace!....Now!

5. Guitarjeff - Crosstown Traffic

6. bitshift - For Renais!

7. Techbot - Thru de crooked glass

8. emdot_ambient - On My Way To Vurtstock

9. Markleford - Sax, Dub, Understanding

10. donkey tugger - shakoor rana

[Marc JX8P]

I'll go second.

Very difficult... I very much enjoyed listening to all tracks.

Anyway, here are my favourites:

1. Peace Now - Oddbods Finger
2. Lemme Be - Sleek Month
3. Believe in the power - mystahr
4. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - BitFlipper
5. What is Vurtstock - rockstar_not
6. Surfing the rings of Saturn - Hovmod
7. Born six years later - ZioKiller
8. Peaches En Cream - Richiebee
9. Crosstown Traffic - Jefi Prentrix/Guitarjeff
10. Shakoor rana - donkeyt

[j_T]

Didn't take part this month. But I'll vote anyway

1. Sleek Month - Lemme Be
2. Hovmod - Surfing the rings of Saturn
3. Guitarjeff - Crosstown Traffic
4. wilkoryte - HIPPIE UN JOUR
5. herodotus - What it is
6. Ixox - En été comme en hiver
7. RichieBee - Peaches En Cream
8. Katanaman - Special Girl
9. Diek - Lovechild
10. oddbods finger - Peace! .... Now!

HMs (it's a shame):
softegg, fucanay, kovacs, ColG., Patrick9, WoJ

[Wopelka]

1. Sleek Month - Lemme Be
energy, unconventional mix, don't let him win, if you can
2. Jens - relax friend
excellent, you're a talentous troll
3. ......xander - Grabacab
wow! very cool. real bass?
4. Barnadine - A (Not) Very Cellular Song
your soft genius leaves me silent
5. Techbot - Thru de crooked glass
very creative and top notch production
6. YouTM - An Aquarium Implosion
microtonality and good sounds, me like
7. BitFlipper - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
a catchy little ditty, authentic
8. Jefi Prentix - Crosstown Traffic
already said all i think about this one - very good
9. donkeyT - shakoor rana
typically DT yet original, you give the length all the way
10. rockstar_not - What is Vurtstock
creative and inspired

11. Oddbods - Finger Peace Now

and then (in no particular order): Col.G - Emdot Ambient - Katanaman - knockman - Kovacs - Marc JX8P - Poepe - Respirator

[Caco]

It was really difficult but I've finally made a decision.

...Xander - Grabacab: 1

Oddbods Finger - Peace!...Now: 2

Markleford - Sax, Dub, Understanding: 3

Barnadine - Cellular Song: 4

Sleek Month - Lemme Be: 5

Hovmod - Surfing The Rings Of Saturn: 6

Wilkoryte - Hippie Un Jour: 7

Bitflipper - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down: 8

Rockstar_Not - What Is Vurtstock: 9

Ixox - En été comme en hiver : 10


HMs to Guitarjeff, Knockman, YouTM, Sepheritoh

[oddbods finger]

1. Sleek Month - Lemme Be
2. Barnadine - A (Not) Very Cellular Song
3. Donkey Tugger - shakoor rana
4. Knockman - Vurtstock Dreaming
5. Emdot_Ambient - On My Way To Vurtstock
6. ...Xander - Grabacab
7. Thomekk - Grausamer Sommer
8. Respirator - Vurtstock
9. Wolpelka - An Aquarian Introduction
10. YouTM - An Aquarium Implosion


.....looks like someone could run away with this (sleek) month.

[thomekk]

It was so goddamn difficult to decide, so many brilliant entrys, to be really fair there had to be numberous Nr.1s, but ok ok (secretly all top ten are nr ones :

1 HovMod - Surfing the rings
(great athmosphere, great guitar!)
2 Oddbots Finger - Love! Peace!
(wonderful beatlish song!)
3 Wopelka - Aquarian Introduction
(so funny!)
4 Katanamen - Special girl
(kind of good satire!)
5 Diek - Lovechild
(very hippiesk, good vocals)
6 Barnadine - Cellular Song
(great athmosphere here)
7 Rockstar_not - What is vurtstock
(very introspective and humorous though)
8 Bitflipper - The night they drove old dixie down
(very charming cover!)
9 Liquih - Empire
(such a brilliant nightmarish bad acid trip)
10 Alex James - Grabacab(really weird tune, the vocals causing fear...)

Others:
Respirator, Softegg, Duncan Parsons, Patrick9, Jeff Prentix, Sleek Month, Col. G, Richiebee, Techbot

[farlukar]

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1. respirator - Vurtstock
2. freeztar - The Way Forward
3. liqih - empire
4. oddbods finger - Peace!....Now!
5. ZioKiller - Born six years later
6. Barnadine - A (Not) Very Cellular Song
7. You™ - An aquarium implosion
8. ...xander - GrabaCab
9. Techbot - Thru the crooked glass
10. emdot_ambient - On My Way To Vurtstock

_________________________________________________
Best of the rest: Markleford · Katanaman · herodotus · Sleek Month · Glassback

[Glassback]

1/ Oddbods Finger - Peace Now

2/ Sleek Month - Lemme Be

3/ BeardedOne - Vurtstock

4/ Griels - That Vurty Feeling

5/ Duncan Parsons - Some Are Luvvin

6/ Donkey Tugger - Shakoor Rana

7/ Wopelka - Aquarian Introduction

8/ Farlukar - Its all a bunch of tree-huggin hippie crap

9/ Hovmod - Surfing The Rings Of Saturn

10/ jens - Relax Friend



HM's to Patrick9, Barnadine, ZioKiller, utm, ...xander, Ixox, Techbot...

[Hovmod]

Aaargh.
My first draft shortlist had 28 songs on it.
This morning it was down to 21.

This is almost a random selection from that list:

1. ...xander: Grabacab
2. Barnadine: A (not) very cellular song
3. respirator: Vurtstock
4. Katanaman: Special
5. wilcoryte: hippie un jour (love the way "hippie" sounds in french )
6. Sleek Month: Lemme be
7. Liqih: empire
8. Beardedone: vurtstock
9. UTM: An Aquarian Implosion
10. Markleford: Sax, Dub and Understanding

Emdot, herodotus, knockman, col.g, ziokiller, thomekk, wopelka, bitflipper, guitarjeff : You're all in the weird unlucky space between HMs and votes...

HMs to all the rest. Best month since I joined.

[duncanparsons]

Code: Select all

1. Rush'69.........................Poepe
2. Cellular Song...................Barnadine
3. Sax,Dub,Understanding...........Markleford
4. Xtown Traffic...................GuitarJeff
5. LemmeBe.........................SleekMonth
6. The Knight They Drove Old Dixie.BitFlipper
7. Peaches and Cream...............RichieBee
8. StopListen......................Fucanay
9. Relax Friend....................Jens
10.On my way to vurtstock..........Em.Ambient

HM Rockstar_not, ...xander, WoJ, CaCo,AndreasE, and everyone else..!

Shame we couldn't have a top 60.. excellent month

DSP

[bitshift]

[Max el Belga]

Voting time and I feel as if I have to choose between a swiss cow, a chinese bicycle and two balls of a french petanque-game... So I talked it over with my wife... Having a smoke... And an other one... Feelin´ better all the time... I would like to vote for the mash-up (Pervurtstock) that You(tm) made yesterday... Impossible... Ok., I took a decision and of course an other...

1. Oddbods Finger - Peace now (no doubt)
2. Art Gillespie - For Renais
3. ZioKiller - Born 6 years later
4. Guitar Jeff - Crosstown traffic (thanks to my wife)
5. Rockstar not - What is Vurtstock
6. Barnadine - Cellular song
7. Donkeyt - Shakoor rana
8. MarcJX8P - Coasting
9. Sepheritoh - Nshawu (Gesundheit )
10. Herodotus - What it is

Were also nominated : Markleford (Mr. Saxo), Bitflipper, Peppy197, Xander and in fact all of you !

Duncanparsons, thank you for that first place. Sorry I didn´t return the favour, but as soon as I have my cd ready, I´ll send you one (so you can break it with your own hands ).

Probably tomorrow´s list would be different and the day after´s too, etc... I´m only sure about the first place : Oddbods wins the goldFinger !

[emdot_ambient]

Okay, this is fucktarded. 10 songs is so few.

I'm going to start out with a some appologies to the following artists:

Thomekk
herodotus
donkeyt
Andreas Ehrhardt
You™
ZioKiller
Techbot

You all did wonderful songs, some of them connecting with me on a very personal level. But my top 10 ended up being the following . . .


. . . wait for it. I solved my having to judge these songs by arranging them in the order I'd play them on a radio station. I feel strongly that they're all equal in merit.

1. Alex James - GrabaCab: Dude, I love the music in this and the sense of dark urban Chinatown-kinda goings on is so intense . . . excellent work.
2. Beardedone - Vurtstock: Definitely has your mark and spark of skewed genius. It rocks and it works SO well after GrabaCab!
3. Knockman - Vurtstock Dreaming: Totally, totally awesome song! Everything I love about your work and more. This is a real gem and an incredible step forward from the other songs I've heard by you. Kudos, dude. Extra and groovy!
4. Barnadine - A (Not) Very Cellular Song: Not sure how to say it other than, I LOVE this song! Funny, I started out wanting to do a Syd Barrett style PF song (and gave up on that), only to be told my song sounds like Incredibel String Band. Here you set out to do ISB and I hear a Syd Barrett kind of little fairytale. Go figure.
5. Glassback - Garden Party: I almost (almost) threw a bong hit sample into my song. So glad to hear someone didn't Just Say No. Awesome song. Reminds me of a lot of things including Hardfloor's song Bevis Goes To Bat and even some old stuff I've done with friends.
6. Markleford - Sax, Dub, Understanding: Really like this. Sax plus synths. It works. It really does!
7. Col.G - KvR Rabbit: There are problems with this song, as much as I've praised it before. It doesn't sit well in a mix of other songs 'cause the overall volume isn't up to snuff . . . and the very last vocals are really kind of painful. BUT! Wow! You've more than nailed the early psychedelic sound and the lyrics are a riot! But the Donkster actually said "c**t off" not "feed your head." Oh well, artistic liscense and all that!
8. Griels - That Vurty Feeling: Cracks me up. Not always people actually get humor in their music as well as their vocals. This even has a bit of a Residents sound in the vocals. Awesome!
9. Hovmod - Surfing the rings of Saturn: That Pink Floyd sound is totally irresistable. Someone said they thought it was like PF from their Animals album, I think it's a little more Wish You Were Here. What ever, great rocking tune and an incredible intro. Sweet job!
10. vurt and friends - all you need is bud: Classic ending track for a terrific bunch of really incredible songs. This is the big AHHHHHHHHHH! after a perfect concert experience. Lush and enfolding. Can't beat that!

Peace, love and ham sandwiches all around y'all!