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daveo1977 Let's ask @NorioDS - Norio, any chance of hosting locally as we did way back?

If not, we could always use box.com as we did before we hosted locally.

    V8 sorry guys I'm stuck in hospital again. Can't help with the hosting. Will have to be Box or something like that.

      Thanks gents ☺ I'm sure I'll be fine soon enough ?

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      So I'll think we'll got with soundcloud as plan A for entries and box.com as plan B if you hink you'll have issues with soundcloud?

      Box probably won't embed nicely as SC does - but it's one click and it'll play on box - well that's how it used to work!

      V8 Great, signing up for Box to submit my entry.

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        daveo1977 Nicely, I can view without having to login (but I did anyways to dbl check, non-box users get the same file).

        Do you have any blurb (inspiration/motivation) to share (purely optional!)

          guidothepimmp . I cannot seem to open anything with that link. Jusy a fyi. Maybe it works for others

          I've tried from my desktop with chrome and firefox - both worked for me - does take a little while to buffer the file, but plays fine.

            V8 I forgot!! This one's called "You want this party started, right?" It was inspired by those radio DJ intros you sometimes hear. There's a bit of 90's nostalgia in there – C+C Music Factory, EMF, Beastie Boys & System Of A Down. Put together in Ableton. I made album artwork, please excuse the big pic:

              and here is my humble submission.

              Struggled with the sample bits but basically stuck it in as a preamble to a song my old band from 10-13yrs back used to do.I am sure you can figure out the sample.. it is rather obvious. The band tune oddly I cannot remember the name of.. i changed out the rhythm guitars and bass to make them a bit more aggressive, and also to fill space. listening back to the recordings of our practices it sounded a bit empty now. funny how that happens. I wrote some words but as I cannot sing, so attempted to voice over rather than actually sing. my throat was killing me after 2 takes.

              One from the archives (5yrs ago, originally for the GFSA 'Action' challenge). More than a little bit of old skool gaming nostalgia with every Duke Nukem sample I could find, some car samples and a couple DJ vox samples.

              Although it's a previous entry :-0 I did make some changes for this one - the intro 45s is similar but mixed with far more delay tails and glitchy bits, middle bit never made the entered edit and the last 1m is pretty much the same, but a bit louder.

              My first attempt at using MIDI - More specifically, my Korg Nano Key.
              Also had some fun with a drum app - Cant use my bongo for everything...

              Vox was a debate but ended up using it, i really need to get a proper recording setup.

              Iconic throwback songs in a bit of a mashup.

              Enjoy ?

              I've remembered quite the interesting video on the making of "drunk" - Sungazer.

              In the video they explain their use of samples throughout the song in quite an awesome way.

              So here's how I came up with my entry:
              I knew I wanted to to do something with Mortal Kombat and I wanted to try to do something easterny sounding (kung fu-ish) maybe with some interspersed "eee-ya" fighting sounds or the like.
              I came up with a easterny sounding riff which went like so:

              I liked it and then decided to toughen it up a bit so I added a driving rhythm guitar which sounded like so:

              But then when I tried to play my easterny sounding melody over the baseline, it just ended up sounding blues-rocky and very pentatonic:

              I spent some time trying different things to keep the easterny feel, but failed miserably, so I switched gears to some more metal-y sounds.
              The only metal song I've learnt recently is South of Heaven by Slayer, I slapped most of the main riffs into this little track:

              Playing with the intro riff, I came up with the main riff of the metal combat entry:

              And then the main rhythm riff was changed a bit as well. This track has the Slayer riff first, and my modification second:

              So then it was just a question of turning the various bits into a song. I was hoping for the BPM to be a bit faster, around 150bpm or so, but I realised I can't reliably tremelo-pick 16ths above 120bpm, so 120bpm it was. Youtube for "120bpm metal drum track" yielded the drum track (the fourth or fifth hit has a good double-kick that I liked), and then Youtube for "Mortal Kombat Sounds" yielded the samples to lay on top.

              I wanted to put in a part with two guitars in harmony --- the timing is bad and it doesn't sound great, but I left it in just because I must've blown 30+ takes on it and I didn't want to bin it.

              I played the bass using an electric guitar with an octaver. The bass is super-boring, I would like some tips from the djentmeisters amongst you.

              So that's the story! I hope it's useful for at least some of you, I quite enjoyed mapping out my thought process.