This past week was home to a multitude of compos, bringing
artists together and promoting growth for all those involved. The World Warrior Remix
Royale reached the voting stage for round two of the Shoryuken
Bracket, bringing out a trio of Street
Fighter remixes. DusK rocked with an undertow of ambience; Main Finger paired double
bass with heavy funk beats and scratches; and Sir_NutS
stuck to his 80s electro vibe complete with accented piano chords. The end of
the week promises to bring further fun when the Sonic Remix Competition
begins, considering the many beloved compositions of the Sega franchise.
Chipmusic.org held
a number of competitions and showed a bit of innovation in a strict sense of
the word. For the Chiptune Battle Challenge, Entrant A creates a tune
that the Combatant B battles by playing off of that initial musical idea. The
resulting track is then countered by Entrant A and so on, continued in
brackets. This compo concept was innovated upon with the creation of the Weekend
Battle Challenge, taking it further by incorporating themes for each
battle, suggested by others and thrown into a hat. The organizer took pride in the fact that the Challenge uses an actual hat and actual strips of paper representing themes.
LLCompo: Battle 12 imbued the week’s “Dungeon” theme
with the spirit of Easter this past Sunday by way of an ASCII bunny. As usual
the listening party’s introduction was put up by Kay Faraday and narrated by
WVI. The round was welcomed by its gang of regulars including Saif’s guitar noodling, PowerFail’s session of metal and WVI’s own
lo-bit pop. As the pleasantries wrapped up, a technical snafu occurred causing one entry to appear twice: Jerkwater’s pulsing
“MindDungeon” is perhaps one of those dance tracks
that should be listened to more than once.
JHCompo on Tuesday guided everyone “Home at Last” for
the night and eased them to relax. Clunkst worked the piano and chimes to a set of harmonies befitting the
title “the land of perpetual excitement”. irrelevnt
fell asleep for half of the compo, but managed to put the remaining 60 minutes
to good use for an acoustic guitar and vocal entry. Kay Faraday went into “Korby’s House” punctuating familiar synth
stabs with silence. After running into trouble uploading his track Clockwerk presented his six minute long foray into IDM leaning toward
break beats. Finally SonicThHedgog entered as a distant last, and urged other entrants guess his
source material.
Thursday’s
OHC prompted contestants to look back upon the past with its “Reflection”
theme. Fusion2004
started things off by reflecting on a chipified chord
progression and asking listener to guess which one it is. A slew on entries
followed, a great deal of which mentioned reflections and mirrors in the track
title. One that differed from the pack was Starshine’s inexplicably titled “pepperoni” that goes from mellow
electronica to flat-out rock in less than a minute. sci chose to reminisce on past compo experiences
while Arcana noted that his previous submission was labeled
“reflection.mp3”. At the end of the night Beat Match
replicated the chords from a Deadmau5 song and produced dubstep with
increasingly abrasive gain, ironically revealing “The Stunning Truth” just as everyone went deaf.
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