September Contest: Gossip

[folderol]

Gah... free soundcloud is limited to 100 downloads Can't download rifftrax's entry anymore

Sheesh. I keep a'tellin' yooz all. Set up a page on the Internet archive.

Add songs whenever you like with true direct links - no messing about.

No limit on downloads.

They don't mess about with your file format.

No time limit. File can stay there as long as you want.

You might get some nice reviews.

[folderol]

Late arrivals

thomekk+mona throughthescrub
I really liked the intro to this and then the way it developed. Very strange, but effective entry. Mona has a lovely voice

spirulence playtimeOver
Way overdue for an entry from you m'lad! Nice work. Comes over as a cross between a carnival, and a somewhat sinister movie - very short though

milkshake thespinningoftheearth
This was interesting but I had a real struggle hearing the vocal. Was that intentional? Then I'm afraid I rather lost interest.

shrikant Prison Diary
Often I have a struggle connecting with your work, but this time I think your entry tells me what you want it to. It can also say 'chain gang' or 'slave mine'.

Patrick9 ToyBoy
Interesting the way you've used 'toy' on two levels. I wanted to like this - the song is good - but the heavy compression and distortion spoiled it.

ChuckEJesus ROCKPAPERSCISSORS
Sesame Street meets Andy Pandy with a touch of Blue Peter

[thomekk]

short Reviews:::::

(More to follow hopefully during the next days)

Liqih
Athmosperic scene music. A slow imaginative dance. It's growing to the end but also seems a bit trailing away. The title is fitting well.

Barnadine
Cool drums and a lovely song, it's flowing its own waltzing flow. A real lullabyish one with very fine vocal arrangements and a cool decent usage of the toy piano.

beanpole
This has a very nice hook-line and is a classic juvenilinistic song. Compact and charmy. The flute is a tad too loud for my humble taste in parts (after 2:**).

Echo Voodoo
Nice minimal arrangement. The percussion is too foregroundish to me and a little bit out of the groove in parts but ok so it's more livish. So the main thing is the mix here which could have been more outbalanced with all the elements for my taste. Would have loved to hear you singing again here!:)

Jack Solium
It's good but too static for my personal eareyes which want to be pleased with maybe some progressions. Ok than the transposition lately - maybe I'm just a victim of expectations with the imagination of a live-situation where more dynamic is going on, don't know.

Spirulence
HiEnergyTheme with game-character. Too short, some development would have been nice.

jenderton
Seems to be out of a situation with the dragon either being a dragon or some human(s) in a tense situation. I like it. Abrupt ending!

Jerru
A funny one and a solid production! I like the mixup of the childish part with the boogie-one. When the cat-theme reappears it's a good foil.

mrblitz000
Starts outrageously wild and good. Goes for more, screams, breaks out, the wildness the wildness - give a shit on the stone-cold sober Malmsteen-Tapping,
so the guitar goes out of anything. A collage? Had fun with it.

rifftrax
Movieish, the title binds the music and nails it to a score music for the end of a movie or a scene inside where dramatic things are being recognised and assimimilated by the protagonist. Very good concise consolidation of all elements in terms of composition. This has dramaturgy.

Mona's Reviews:::

oddbod
Super popsong!
Like the explicit arrangement, the balanced mix, the lightly singing and the part of the little Toy piano. All in all very smart.
Don't like? Nothing...

Jack Solium
nice accordion playing. the melody is easy and I hear it in my head when it's over.
Good soundtrack for a mafia film.

[knockman]

thanks for all the reviews

still not sure what the deadline is for posting reviews - surely not the same as the track submissions themselves

anyway, i've got my music PC running again after it died on monday - i've had to swap the motherboard. i can now listen to the entries properly and do the reviews this weekend

[Echo Voodoo]

still not sure what the deadline is for posting reviews - surely not the same as the track submissions themselves

My assumption was that reviews had to be done before end-of-voting. I certainly hope so, else I'm fated to be DQ'd.

[rifftrax]

Gah... free soundcloud is limited to 100 downloads Can't download rifftrax's entry anymore

oh crap... seriously?? Damn, how in the world did that get dl'ed 100 times??

um, hey scoops is it okay if I get a new link put up?

[Scoops]

Gah... free soundcloud is limited to 100 downloads Can't download rifftrax's entry anymore

oh crap... seriously?? Damn, how in the world did that get dl'ed 100 times??

um, hey scoops is it okay if I get a new link put up?

@ rifftrax - Go for it.

@Knockman - Reviews need to be done by the end of voting. If you have a boot, you will not be eligible for a prize.

@ all
I was thinkin about the next contest......Hmmmmmmm.....how bout everybody does a remake of one of their own tunes submitted to a past contest. No, not just a remix. Something like in a whole different genre. Just a thought Oddbod does Punk. Knockman does grunge, Offthewall does reggae. EV does New Age....hmmmm, this might be fun. BUUUhhhaaaaaaaaaa!

[Chuck E. Jesus]

@ all
I was thinkin about the next contest......Hmmmmmmm.....how bout everybody does a remake of one of their own tunes submitted to a past contest. No, not just a remix. Something like in a whole different genre. Just a thought

what about the people who haven't been in a contest?

[Echo Voodoo]

@ all
I was thinkin about the next contest......Hmmmmmmm.....how bout everybody does a remake of one of their own tunes submitted to a past contest. No, not just a remix. Something like in a whole different genre. Just a thought Oddbod does Punk. Knockman does grunge, Offthewall does reggae. EV does New Age....hmmmm, this might be fun. BUUUhhhaaaaaaaaaa!

I'd be up for that. Definitely.

Might be a little tough on those who are totally or relatively new to the contest (unless they could re-do a track they'd made elsewhere).

[nikp2000]

more more more

shrikant prison diary
i really like the way the toy piano is incorporated, sounds like finger cymbals. very organic sounding mix of synthetic and real textures

chuck e jesus rock paper scissors
nice new wave throwback tune, b52s style. you definitely embraced the challenge and threw more toy instruments than any other 10 entries combined! good tune

milkshakeii spinning of the earth
everything here just kind of blends together. i don't really like the murmuring vocals. if you would have brought them out to the front of the mix and edited them down to a few spoken passages you would have had a stronger piece

pat9 toyboy
another new wave throwback. psych furs this time. dense mix fits the mood and attitude of the song. good mix of melody and edge.

thomaskk and mona through the scrub
minimalist treatment builds a nice creepy mood that grows on you. nice neo-indian-classical vocals.

spirulence playtime is over
good concise electronica. you made your statement and got out. the toy piano sits well in the mix and with the other elements.

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[shrikant]

I was thinkin about the next contest...... No, not just a remix. Something like in a whole different genre. Just a thought

Twinkle Twinkle little star.

[PurpleCatfishBettie]

shrikant, lol! thanks for posting that. (lol) (edit: the singing is actually quite good)

[Laguna Rising]

@ all
I was thinkin about the next contest......Hmmmmmmm.....how bout everybody does a remake of one of their own tunes submitted to a past contest. No, not just a remix. Something like in a whole different genre. Just a thought Oddbod does Punk. Knockman does grunge, Offthewall does reggae. EV does New Age....hmmmm, this might be fun. BUUUhhhaaaaaaaaaa!

[oddbod]

oddbod: didn't get the "toy" vibe at all though...

both in the chorus - stylophone (a real one) and Toy piano (sampled: Red Grand by Precisionsound)

[Max el Belga]

OK, let's skip next month, 'cose there's no way we can beat Shrikant's Twinkle Twinkle submission !!!

Oh dear ! Tears of laughter in my eyes, but I see similarities in Andalusian (South-Spain) and Indian singing.

Wow,

Max... .. .