People’s
Remixing Competition 214 started off with its chosen source material, Castlevania III available for participants to
remix. A trio of entries came about as the round wrapped up: Zerothemaster worked out some reverb-heavy piano
interpretation, surrounded by deep synths and lo-fi high end. chroxic’s drum and bass
has perhaps too much sub-bass as well as a half-rhythm indicative of dubstep
influence. Yami rounded things out with his first entry for PRC
mainly out of love of the source, beginning soft and tearing a hole in the
soundscape for a trance-y take. The World Warrior Remix
Royale also began the voting stage for round one of the Hadouken
Bracket, which brought about seven entries. LLCompo:
Battle 9 followed shortly thereafter with 15 compositions related to its
theme of “The Sea”.
JHCompo on Tuesday invited entrants to ascend “The
Throne” and compose in a royal manner. After my Conker’s Bad Fur Day-sampling introduction, a wild dusthillguy appeared for a session of bass playing. Jakesnke17 came back to JHCompo after some time
away, serving up his usual tribal percussion, strings and horns. ShinnyMetal similarly returned and made his “Contemplation of the Throne”
by way of somber solo piano. Obtuse
took his present drum beat and made a competent dance tune despite not being
fully sober. Both he and Jarski admitted that their music were unrelated to the theme
and made some untz for the sake of untz. Kay Faraday broke out of the cage for a “Battle Royale” of chips that lasts
a full minute. skyndileg
riled up the orchestra for “Coronation of the Damned”
that takes a quiet turn before coming in full force. Listeners noted that oginome’s 8-bit
track suffered from an unusually swing beat, but otherwise garnered
complements. At the end of the round SonicThHedgog put up his characteristic Sonic-infused rock licks, while MandraSigma set his spaceship coordinates to electro.
Thursday’s
OHC once again had a theme presented by an epic introduction by The
Stuff of Legends, this time set to a lush orchestral backdrop. AutomaticJack created a four-second track in two
minutes, bringing in quality rather than quantity. Misael.K’s clashing harmonies are centered by a synth
bass and eventually a chime to “Remember the Future”. DucksUnlimited generated a chorus of pitch vocal clips
leading into mellow industrial. JackTHerbert
unintentionally continued the vibe of the previous entry by retaining the key,
but picked things up with some fast drum and bass. isidor3’s studio
hiss established the stirring mood pervaded by acoustic guitar, bass and
distant piano. Acuity
fell into a deep sleep and entered a “Dreamscape” somewhere within the bowls of
a Game Boy. General
Mumble pulled the listening party back to the realm of ambience and heavy
effects, eventually slamming down drums. OMGitslewis
traverse a long tunnel of reverb emphasizing each beat of every measure until
finally laying a drop.
sci pondered the mixture of
jazz with brostep, the result sounding like a
scratched jungle breaks CD. Fusion2004
stumbled upon a keyboard shortcut activating a quantum leap of blips
transitioning to orchestral. Forty-Two’s
bell-like pads and minimal structure adequately represented a voyage through
“Alien Landscape” punctuated by piano. cyberjet189
deftly experimented with compression to make a hip hop piece with hints trance
chords. The clanging of bells rises in CJthemusicdude’s entry and
melds with layers upon layers of arpeggios. Arcana
lifted the low-pass filter just enough to let the sonorities and dance beats
fill the listening party’s ears. A-zu-ra’s sparce
intro belies the eventual dense arrangement of 8-bit elements. Foozogz
layer together recording of a multitude of musical sounds topped with an
incomprehensible song title. jarski began with just bass, and the other pieces
of the brass-filled electronic soundscape fell into place. Roseweave's track apparently followed the established bass-plus-reverb pattern of the night.
Trancient
made the plunge from a life of piano to that of boom-pat, and back again. DDRKirby(ISQ)
celebrated his 100th OHC entry by incorporating techniques old and new and
spanning nearly nine minutes MandraSigma
pondered a conspiracy and glitching some lo-bit
instruments and ramblings along the way. Jakesnke17 found
himself in the Matrix as evidenced by the slow ebb of trip-hop beats and spacey
pads. MisaelK put in another track from the future claiming
“This Happened Tomorrow” with a compressed musicbox.
After dusthillguy’s eight minute
loop, munchi discovered that he submitted on time in a
parallel universe, thus allowing him to submit it to the party. Duosis
entered with a mixture of sampled and pitch-shifted elements, most notably from
the Mark Ronson production "A La Modeliste".
At the end of the party bjkmenu
expressed failure, but delivered his signature quirky humor rock in spades.
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