october ordeal ... GOSSIP
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- KVRAF
- 3266 posts since 22 Sep, 2003 from under the sun
BTW, the answer to your sig problem is 2/3 of an egg
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- KVRAF
- 3266 posts since 22 Sep, 2003 from under the sun
nah 2/3 of an egg
[edit]tremendous guitar
[edit]tremendous guitar
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- KVRAF
- 6504 posts since 25 May, 2002 from Bobo-dioulasso\BF__Geneva/CH
NOPE !!!!
the answer is : bloody (in fact !) pain in the ass because of kubik eggs...
(...scary enough heh !!!! )
the answer is : bloody (in fact !) pain in the ass because of kubik eggs...
(...scary enough heh !!!! )
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3066 posts since 31 May, 2002 from My chair
For those that missed the bold text in the voting thread, bitshift has not only disqualified himself from the running, but is also donating a pHATmatikPRO license and XRB sample library to the topmost winner! Much respect to the mad scientist from Glaresoft!
In other news, I suppose we can start the November contest... if there's a demand for one!
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In other news, I suppose we can start the November contest... if there's a demand for one!
- m
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Markleford's tracks: http://www.markleford.com/music/
Markleford's free MFX, DXi2, DR-008 modules: http://www.TenCrazy.com/
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- KVRAF
- 3266 posts since 22 Sep, 2003 from under the sun
i seem unable to download Krakatau's entry, even though i removed the blank after the dot in the provided link. GetRight advises me: "The server returned an error response: 403 = Forbidden"
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3066 posts since 31 May, 2002 from My chair
Markleford's band, The James Rocket: http://www.TheJamesRocket.com/
Markleford's tracks: http://www.markleford.com/music/
Markleford's free MFX, DXi2, DR-008 modules: http://www.TenCrazy.com/
Markleford's tracks: http://www.markleford.com/music/
Markleford's free MFX, DXi2, DR-008 modules: http://www.TenCrazy.com/
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- KVRAF
- 3266 posts since 22 Sep, 2003 from under the sun
thanksMarkleford wrote:Looks to be gone: try this mirrorWopelka wrote:i seem unable to download Krakatau's entry,
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3066 posts since 31 May, 2002 from My chair
Oh, and November contest is open.
- m
- m
Markleford's band, The James Rocket: http://www.TheJamesRocket.com/
Markleford's tracks: http://www.markleford.com/music/
Markleford's free MFX, DXi2, DR-008 modules: http://www.TenCrazy.com/
Markleford's tracks: http://www.markleford.com/music/
Markleford's free MFX, DXi2, DR-008 modules: http://www.TenCrazy.com/
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- KVRian
- 1367 posts since 25 Mar, 2002 from Australia
Tremble in fear as I get behind in the reviewing and am reduced to quick sentences.
slartibartfast - There seem to be a lot of small children being hacked to pieces this month. Hooray! Nice moody piece, makes me think of metal and saliva.
nikp2000 - Subtle and fascinating sound world. No idea how you derived all these sounds from the source.
Caco - Something pulsing under us, wet tentacles breaking through the crust.
WoJ - On first listen, the plunge sample seems to dominate. Next time through, ears focus on the ghostly intro, seeding the ground for and playing subtly against plunge, giving him a new flavour.
Hovmod - Eyes ahead, it's rock zombie time, with cool vocal wisps for the chin-strokers.
Krakatau - Birds and Frenchmen, my two great fears. Cheerful and brutally traumatic.
Markleford - A furry, autistic quality to this. Sonically inviting and nicely restrained.
Unfocused - Nebulous impressions, hard to hold on to, intriguing as they flit past.
starmelt - Bleak fixation. Knockman as a Travis Bickle monomaniac, smooth fit.
Mo Verdigast - The can-do Frankenstein spirit, little chunks stitched together, 'very nice' (heheh), origin unconcealed, but still existing in happy bone-sawing harmony.
freeztar - Another brooding cinematic one, the beast in the shadows, scuttling from tree to tree. Ending a bit hurried?
(Objective ratings updated for those with the spine to take it.)
slartibartfast - There seem to be a lot of small children being hacked to pieces this month. Hooray! Nice moody piece, makes me think of metal and saliva.
nikp2000 - Subtle and fascinating sound world. No idea how you derived all these sounds from the source.
Caco - Something pulsing under us, wet tentacles breaking through the crust.
WoJ - On first listen, the plunge sample seems to dominate. Next time through, ears focus on the ghostly intro, seeding the ground for and playing subtly against plunge, giving him a new flavour.
Hovmod - Eyes ahead, it's rock zombie time, with cool vocal wisps for the chin-strokers.
Krakatau - Birds and Frenchmen, my two great fears. Cheerful and brutally traumatic.
Markleford - A furry, autistic quality to this. Sonically inviting and nicely restrained.
Unfocused - Nebulous impressions, hard to hold on to, intriguing as they flit past.
starmelt - Bleak fixation. Knockman as a Travis Bickle monomaniac, smooth fit.
Mo Verdigast - The can-do Frankenstein spirit, little chunks stitched together, 'very nice' (heheh), origin unconcealed, but still existing in happy bone-sawing harmony.
freeztar - Another brooding cinematic one, the beast in the shadows, scuttling from tree to tree. Ending a bit hurried?
(Objective ratings updated for those with the spine to take it.)
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- KVRAF
- 2495 posts since 18 May, 2004 from ATL-USA
ROFLMFAO!!!!!Barnadine wrote: (Objective ratings updated for those with the spine to take it.)
I think that's the most clever thing I've ever seen on kvr...and there's some tough contenders...
Bee dogs just tops it all off!!!!
Anti-aliasing is for "synthmonk%ys".
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- KVRAF
- 2495 posts since 18 May, 2004 from ATL-USA
'Tis the season for breaking out Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. I've recently been reading from Lovecraft's "The best of H.P. Lovecraft:Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre"
Mr. Lovecraft decided to join me in my reviews....
Farlukar - Nice percussive feel to this and a spooky atmosphere no doubt. "Then came that damnable, recurrent thing about the swineherd and his filthy drove in the twilit grotto."
Wopelka - Weirdness abounds in this interestingly crafted tune. "As his hammer blows began to fall, the horse outside whinnied in a tone which may have been encouraging and may have been mocking."
Mystahr - Disturbing, but not scary. Perhaps this is what a telephone call sounds like in hell. "This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his claws into my ankle, unconscious of their effect; for on every side of the chamber the walls were alive with nauseous sound."
Barnadine - Grabs one by the balls it does. Somehow both scary and musical. "But he neither answered me nor abated the frenzy of his unutterable music, while all through the garret strange currents of wind seemed to dance in the darkness and babel."
Patrick9 - Scary until about half way through. I like how evil walk and the scream were incorporated. "They will not hurt us if we leave them alone, but no one can say what will happen if we get too curious about them."
HanglowSkank - Cool mashup, but off mark for the theme. "Under the spectroscope both samples gave off an unknown spectrum, in which many of the baffling bands were precisely like those which the strange meteor had yielded in the previous year."
Youtm - Incredibly brilliant and well done, but out of bounds and not scary. "The manuscript writing consisted of the common traditional symbols used today in astronomy and anciently in alchemy, astrology, and other dubious arts-the devices of the sun, moon, planets, aspects, and zodiacal signs-here massed in solid pages of text, with divisions and paragraphings suggesting that each symbol answered to some alphabetical letter."
fucanay - Irresistably groovy and funky, but far from scary, unfortunately. "At the junction where the main highway runs inland and avoids Innsmouth, I was half-afraid my driver would take the bleak shore road that goes through that damnable place. He did not, however..."
knockman - Nice work. Spooky and contemplative. "Just then, however, chance made the opening which my questions had been unable to make; and the wheezing ancient's rambling took a turn that caused me to lean forward and listen alertly."
WattTyler - Holds a groove, but does not transcend to bloody madness. "For an instant I felt absolute despair, since my trapping in a chamber with no window egress seemed complete."
Scoops - Very cool. It kinda reminds me of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure 2 where they are trapped in hell and keep opening different doors and experiencing different horrors. "I was irresolutely speculating on when I had better attack the northward door, and on how I could least audibly manage it, when I noticed that the vague noises underfoot had given place to a fresh and heavier creaking of the stairs."
Emdot_ambient - Very impressive use of samples. Over 100!
" By the time I had managed to tell him, as rationally as I could, what I thought I was hearing, my ears gave me the last fading impression of the scurrying; which had retreated still downward, far underneath this deepest of sub-cellars till it seemed as if the whole cliff below were riddled with questing rats."
Rachmiel - Like the minimalist approach, but it falls short of interest and fear. "Behind and below was only a darkness to which the men dared not return, and all about was a mounting wind which seemed to sweep down in black, frore gusts from interstellar space."
Mr. Lovecraft decided to join me in my reviews....
Farlukar - Nice percussive feel to this and a spooky atmosphere no doubt. "Then came that damnable, recurrent thing about the swineherd and his filthy drove in the twilit grotto."
Wopelka - Weirdness abounds in this interestingly crafted tune. "As his hammer blows began to fall, the horse outside whinnied in a tone which may have been encouraging and may have been mocking."
Mystahr - Disturbing, but not scary. Perhaps this is what a telephone call sounds like in hell. "This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him sink his claws into my ankle, unconscious of their effect; for on every side of the chamber the walls were alive with nauseous sound."
Barnadine - Grabs one by the balls it does. Somehow both scary and musical. "But he neither answered me nor abated the frenzy of his unutterable music, while all through the garret strange currents of wind seemed to dance in the darkness and babel."
Patrick9 - Scary until about half way through. I like how evil walk and the scream were incorporated. "They will not hurt us if we leave them alone, but no one can say what will happen if we get too curious about them."
HanglowSkank - Cool mashup, but off mark for the theme. "Under the spectroscope both samples gave off an unknown spectrum, in which many of the baffling bands were precisely like those which the strange meteor had yielded in the previous year."
Youtm - Incredibly brilliant and well done, but out of bounds and not scary. "The manuscript writing consisted of the common traditional symbols used today in astronomy and anciently in alchemy, astrology, and other dubious arts-the devices of the sun, moon, planets, aspects, and zodiacal signs-here massed in solid pages of text, with divisions and paragraphings suggesting that each symbol answered to some alphabetical letter."
fucanay - Irresistably groovy and funky, but far from scary, unfortunately. "At the junction where the main highway runs inland and avoids Innsmouth, I was half-afraid my driver would take the bleak shore road that goes through that damnable place. He did not, however..."
knockman - Nice work. Spooky and contemplative. "Just then, however, chance made the opening which my questions had been unable to make; and the wheezing ancient's rambling took a turn that caused me to lean forward and listen alertly."
WattTyler - Holds a groove, but does not transcend to bloody madness. "For an instant I felt absolute despair, since my trapping in a chamber with no window egress seemed complete."
Scoops - Very cool. It kinda reminds me of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure 2 where they are trapped in hell and keep opening different doors and experiencing different horrors. "I was irresolutely speculating on when I had better attack the northward door, and on how I could least audibly manage it, when I noticed that the vague noises underfoot had given place to a fresh and heavier creaking of the stairs."
Emdot_ambient - Very impressive use of samples. Over 100!
" By the time I had managed to tell him, as rationally as I could, what I thought I was hearing, my ears gave me the last fading impression of the scurrying; which had retreated still downward, far underneath this deepest of sub-cellars till it seemed as if the whole cliff below were riddled with questing rats."Rachmiel - Like the minimalist approach, but it falls short of interest and fear. "Behind and below was only a darkness to which the men dared not return, and all about was a mounting wind which seemed to sweep down in black, frore gusts from interstellar space."
Anti-aliasing is for "synthmonk%ys".
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- KVRAF
- 2495 posts since 18 May, 2004 from ATL-USA
(found the Krakatau mirror)
Krakatau - Now THIS is strange, which I always like. The birds detract from the scariness me thinks, although I like how you used them as a rythymic element. "Somewhere I heard a clock ticking, and was vaguely grateful for the normality of the sound. It reminded me, though, of another thing about the region which disturbed me-the total absence of animal life."
Krakatau - Now THIS is strange, which I always like. The birds detract from the scariness me thinks, although I like how you used them as a rythymic element. "Somewhere I heard a clock ticking, and was vaguely grateful for the normality of the sound. It reminded me, though, of another thing about the region which disturbed me-the total absence of animal life."
Anti-aliasing is for "synthmonk%ys".
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- KVRAF
- 2093 posts since 19 Jun, 2003 from UTM 18 317254E 4295335N (WGS84/NAD83)
Not that it makes much difference, but as I don't believe music can actually be that scary or ominous (besides sounding like the sentimental RnB pap that passes for mainstream pop these days), my interpretation was to resurrect a overexposed classic of sentimental pap that passed for mainstream pop of another era. My song was a twisted cover of ""A" - You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song)" popularized by Gordon Macrae & Jo Stafford from 1949. TBH, I'm rather fond of the original. I have a picture map of where all the samples in my version are if anyone is interested.
I played all the submissions this month at our annual Halloween party. Lots of good atmosphere, but each was too short.
Thanks for the reviews.
I played all the submissions this month at our annual Halloween party. Lots of good atmosphere, but each was too short.
Thanks for the reviews.