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V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Sun May 01, 2011 9:17 am

Time to vote for your top 5 tracks. All tracks are here.

RULES:
- Give 5 points to the track you think is best, 4 for second, then 3, 2 and 1.
- Voting is open to anyone.
- Last day for voting is 15th May (KVR time).
- If you have entered in the competition, you must vote to be eligible for prizes.
- No voting for yourself.
- Voters must have had 20 prior forum posts or participated in this month's contest.
-In the case of equal scores after voting, they will be separated by how many 5pts they got, then 4pts and so on.

HOW TO VOTE:
You should allocate your votes, in a single post, in this thread ... something like this ....
Artist zxy - Track zxy: 5
Artist xqy - Track xqy: 4
Artist zyx - Track zyx: 3
Artist zqx - Track zqx: 2
Artist qzx - Track qzx: 1

NOTE:
Reviews, however brief, are always welcome. Even if you can only find the time to add a short comment, then please do! ...it keeps the thread alive and encourages others to listen/vote. A pro/con type review is always most interesting and useful, so do that if you can.

Xenox.AFL · Post by **Xenox.AFL** » Sun May 01, 2011 12:24 pm

My votes... (and again i didn't managed it to finish my track in time, argh!

Vivolator - The Investigation, 5 Points
Vivolator - Shut the door, 4 Points
elipsis1 - alphanumeric, 3 Points
IrionDaRonin - Falling Asleep,2 Points
Ancient - Tokyo Clockwork, 1 Point

Lotsa good entries but i had to make my decision. There were many more entries i want to give at least one or 2 points...

Frank

RuediRena · Post by **RuediRena** » Sun May 01, 2011 3:38 pm

A large number of really entertaining tracks. Voting was a very tough decision. We needed at last seven points.

Our votes are:

Vivolator - Shut the door: 5 Points
Ancient - Tokyo Clockwork: 4 Points
elipsis1 - alphanumeric: 3 Points
Happy Frog - Surfing With Ballerinas: 2 Points
IrionDaRonin - Falling Asleep: 1 Points

Reviews:

Yeager - Previou5ly
Pros: Groovy tune, nice sounds and delay.
Cons: We think it is a bit too long.

CapDan - And now for something completely different
Pros: The title, simple but infectious groove, great bass, the goofy riff in the end.
Cons: As mentioned in the submission thread only a connection of ideas. You were on our shortlist. Hope you get your points from someone else.

HemmickReef - FreedomForAlpha
Pros: Beautiful melodies and build up in middle section.
Cons: Lacks a real climax.

V'ger - Soma
Pros: Heavy, rasping sounds, thundering bass, great breakbeats.
Cons: None. You too were on our shortlist. Hope you get your points from someone else.

Vivolator - The Investigation
Pros: The title says it all, really building.
Cons: Not quite our taste.

edteneyck - Alpha23
Pros: Strong lead synth in the second half
Cons: Weak ending.

Doc Jon - Last Voyage Of The Thetis
Pros: Floating piano, very,very strong hihat rhythm.
Cons: Noises in the middle section are a bit annoying. Overall no much progression.

Doc Jon - Dirty Weekend In Blackpool
Pros: Strong sequences in the first part, piano in the last third is so laid back.
Cons: Could have lasted longer in the end. Where is the repeat button?

elipsis1 - alphanumeric
Pros: Amazing sounds and automations throughout, vocals!!! Why didn't we find them? RuediRena are jealous.
Cons: None.

Vivolator - Shut the door
Pros: Driving riff at the beginning leads to laid back intermission leads to joyous hymn leads to so many good sounds and ideas. This is way better than your other track. Reminds us of some Isaac Hayes instrumental tracks.
Cons: Maybe a little more reverb on some melodies.

Tattiemannie - Alphabetcha
Pros: Nice and lively sequenced melodies throughout.
Cons: Bass and drums are a bit static but not really heavy. Maybe they lack the finishing touch. Too long.

IrionDaRonin - Falling Asleep
Pros: The "fretless bass", courageous but appropriate use of metal bleeps, epic pads.
Cons: Could have gone on some more time.

Happy Frog - Surfing With Ballerinas
Pros: Reminds us of Surfing on Sinewaves by Aphex Twin
Cons: We couldn't find any.

Gorgorgathgorgorgor - Fantasie for Steel Pans
Pros: Beautiful steeldrums.
Cons: Somewhat - hmmm - spastic drums, if you pardon the expression.

Happy Frog - Run Replicas

Pros: Gains some life towards the end.
Cons: Sorry, not our cup of coffee. Bass drum needs EQ.

Ancient - Tokyo Clockwork
Pros: Fat bass, great drums, gorgeous melody, very professional breakdown in the middle.
Cons: None. We could have listened for hours.

ParadoxUn - Disco
Pros: Dry, in the face, deep filtering, compression, buildup.
Cons: Compression (although at first is sound very impressive, there is no real development posible towards the end). This will work in the club, but we are at home. Sorry.

RuediRena - Free Kindergarten Alpha

No pros and cons on our own track. Surrounded by so much good music it definitely sounds Kindergarten. Maybe as a next step we can develop to Krautgarten.

See you on Tyrell competition. This is such fun!

ParadoxUn · Post by **ParadoxUn** » Sun May 01, 2011 4:46 pm

You're at home? Well get your bellbottoms on, and celebrate.

Anyway, I'm skipping the votin' this time. Too busy.

rezidue · Post by **rezidue** » Sun May 01, 2011 5:17 pm

First time voting which was a bit hard because there were a number of good tracks submitted.

ParadoxUn - Disco, 5 Points
IrionDaRonin - Falling Asleep, 4 Points
V'ger - Soma - 3 Points
Ancient Tokyo Clock Work, 2 Points
Vivolator - Shut the door, 1 Point

Mac of BIOnighT · Post by **Mac of BIOnighT** » Tue May 03, 2011 12:27 am

I've taken advantage of the very boring job of painting my studio's walls to listen to this OSC's tracks, so here are my votes, while the first coat of the fourth wall dries

5 points: Doc Jon - Last Voyage of the Thetis

4 points: Hemmick Reef - FreedomForAlpha

3 points: Yeager - Previou5ly

2 points: Vivolator - The Investigation

1 point: Tattiemannie - Alphabetcha

Peter from LinPlug · Post by **Peter from LinPlug** » Tue May 03, 2011 6:15 am

Elipsis1 - Alphanumeric - 5
V'ger - Soma - 4
Vivolator- The Investigation - 3
Yeager - Previou5ly - 2
DocJon - Dirty Weekend in Blackpool - 1

elipsis1 · Post by **elipsis1** » Tue May 03, 2011 11:09 am

IrionDaRonin - Falling Asleep: 5
Doc Jon - Last Voyage of the Thetis: 4
V'ger - Soma: 3
Ancient - Tokyo Clockwork: 2
Vivolator - The Investigation: 1

IrionDaRonin - Falling Asleep: This just seemed to really grab me, a lot of emotion in there.

Doc Jon - Last Voyage of the Thetis: Very well done, the audio you got from FREE Alpha really lined up with the whole underwater theme. Very cool.

V'ger - Soma: Loved the vibe, a lot of synth variation on the lead lines.

Ancient - Tokyo Clock: Very laid back, but in a good groovin way. At 1:34 this sound really added a lot to the track. Very interesting right in there.

Vivolator - Wow, this could have come off the miami vice CD, and that is a compliment! Great sounds on that soundtrack. Nice use of dynamics, good sound choices.

I can't think of any tracks that I didn't like, this voting was all about making hard decisions. I hope you all do well

LXNDR1 · Post by **LXNDR1** » Wed May 04, 2011 9:39 am

Ancient's 'Tokyo Clockwork' - 5
(the only track made me want to rewind continuously, hypnotizing)
IrionDaRonin's 'Falling Asleep' - 4
Vivolator's 'Shut The Door' - 3
elipsis1's 'alphanumeric' - 2
ParadoxUn's 'Disco' - 1

sorry his tunes didn't make my list, but kudos to Doc Jon for capturing the 80's feel

Yeager's 'Previou5ly' has dope string machine pads

if i chose some over the others equally potent is only because their harmony and melodies spoke to me more

Branis · Post by **Branis** » Wed May 04, 2011 11:23 am

Ancient - Tokyo Clockwork: 5
Vivolator - Shut the door: 4
Doc Jon - Last Voyage of the Thesis: 3
Happy Frog - Surfing With Ballerinas: 2
elipsis1 - alphanumeric: 1

CaseR · Post by **CaseR** » Wed May 04, 2011 2:46 pm

Elipsis1 - Alphanumeric: 5
IrionDaRonin - Falling Asleep: 4
V'ger - Soma: 3
DocJon - Dirty Weekend in Blackpool - 2
Tattiemannie -Alphabetcha: 1

Doc Jon · Post by **Doc Jon** » Wed May 04, 2011 4:17 pm

What a difficult task this has proved to be with so many excellent pieces, I genuinely enjoyed each one

Thanks to all the positive comments on my pieces, and the points!
Mac of BIOnighT

very kind of you sir!
and a point from Peter of Linplug

that'll do me just fine!
and a big thanks to everyone else who has been so kind

My points go as follows:

Vivolator - Shut the door: 5 points
They say that initial impressions can be misleading but the moment I heard this I knew it would be my favourite, and it's just got better with each listen. I see you have a background in sound design and boy does it show!! Brilliant selection of sounds and so well put together, it's almost as if you've been using a completely different instrument to the rest of us - if this is an advert for your current Alpha soundset then sign me up!

Ancient - Tokyo Clockwork: 4 points
So good. Hypnotic and wonderful interweaving sounds with clever percussive blippy sequences. And that section at the end with the guitar and electric piano was simply perfect

V'ger - Soma: 3 points
Epic opening, loved the whole of this with such an impressively heavy feel to the track and a huge variety of different sounds contained within, special mention to the pulsing bass

Elipsis1 - Alphanumeric: 2 points
It was the rhythm throughout this track that really made it stand out for me and I thought the formant style patches suited the feel just great

IrionDaRonin - Falling Asleep: 1 point
Another epic piece, really chilled, absolutely beautiful pad sounds, now I feel so relaxed!

Sorry I couldn't give points to more people, there were so many others that deserved them. Special mention to edteneyck and Tattiemannie for some excellent retro style sounds, and RuediRena for such a hilarious tune - sounds like the intro to some brilliant off the wall alternative composition - I want to hear it!

gorgorgathgorgorgor · Post by **gorgorgathgorgorgor** » Thu May 05, 2011 1:05 am

5 Ancient - Tokyo Clockwork
4 IrionDaRonin - Falling Asleep
3 Edteneyck - Alpha 23
2 Happy Frog - Surfing with Ballerinas
1 Doc Jon - Last Voyage of the Thetis

Ancient killed it again, I'm much impressed. I see that I'm headed for a goose egg, C'est la vie, I'm havin' fun anyway!

V'ger · Post by **V'ger** » Sun May 08, 2011 5:07 pm

5 pts: IrionDaRonin - Falling Asleep

Lovely moody track that really works with nice sounds and good production.

4 pts: Ancient - Tokyo Clockwork

Same as above, very hard to separate the two.

3 pts: Vivolator - The Investigation

Despite being on the short side, this is really a cool piece with great sounds. Reminds me of the soundtrack of Grand Canyon by James Newton Howard. Amazing how few instruments and a relatively simple arrangement can work so well.

2 pts: elipsis1 - alphanumeric

A good showcase of Alpha's sound with some clever and interesting details.

1 pt: Yeager - Previou5ly

Nice melody with good sounds and production.

Overall great entries and Alpha really impresses with good sound and range.

edteneyck · Post by **edteneyck** » Sun May 08, 2011 11:54 pm

My votes are:

Ancient - Tokyo Clockwork, 5 points

DocJon - Last Voyage Of The Thetis, 4 points

Vivolator - The Investigation, 3 points

Hemmick Reef - Freedom For Alpha, 2 points

Iriondaronin - Falling Asleep, 1 point

There were many very cool tracks. I would have liked to have given
points to all.

Ed

One-Synth-Challenge 27: Free Alpha - Voting and Results