Battle #32: The official three year anniversary - Summer Vacation Edition

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Whatsup guys! In juli 2021 we did the first Elektronauts hiphop beat battle and started a great run which has produced hundreds of amazing beats, lots of discussion and feedback, and 31 winning entries so far.

This month marks the official 3 year anniversary of the beat battles. Congratulations to everyone who ever joined one of these! To honour the anniversary me and @doug decided to go back in time and use similar rules to the first battle, but with a Summer theme.

Rules:

  • Because its summer, this editions theme is ‘Summer Vacation’.
  • Anyone who wants to join in has to supply a single sample for everyone else to use before the deadline (friday 26/7) by posting it to this thread. This can be a youtube video, a link to a sample, or a sound file you’ve recorded yourself. Summer themed songs are highly appreciated!
  • If you join the battle, you have to make a beat/song/instrumental in which you must use exactly three of the samples supplied by the others. You cannot use less or more than three of the samples provided. You cannot use the sample you supplied yourself.
  • The track can be no more than 3 minutes long.
  • Besides these three samples you are free to use any other one shots, synths, drumbreaks or instruments you want to use.
  • The deadline for submitting your song is friday 26/7. You can submit the song by sending it to me. You can only submit one single beat for the battle!
  • After that, voting will commence in the traditional format: You’ll receive a point for each 3rd place, 2 points for each 2nd place and 3 points for each first place vote you receive.
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@flipinfantile
@Lailai
@Yabba
@looms
@rockpapergoat
@electricthing
@KingDuppy
@Leonsarmiento
@malus_mons
@jiffybox

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@Synu
@sleepside
@aarb420
@Novitchok
@schoolbabyboy
@Ooly
@Jedilicious
@Smapti
@janglesoul
@PeteSasqwax

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@Kuro
@blaize
@emadb
@Unifono
@drrumble
@Maisin
@surfacescan
@LyingDalai
@monquixote
@1-2

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Wow 30 battles? Its been an honor chopping and cooking with y’all :man_cook:
Lets kick it off with a modern classic

Off topic favorite summer hip hop jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLSbWDVI_pw

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Yes yes yes, happy birthday to our beloved beat battle!!! :smiley:

Gotta find some time to take part to this one.

@Sleepyhead you might want to double check the dates, because the deadline for sample submission is later than the finale deadline ahah.

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Thanks man! I adjusted it. The deadline for posting samples is the same as the deadline for sending in the final beat, but please post a sample as soon as possible guys!

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Finally going to try one of these, mostly to see if I can finish a track for once. For my sample I’m adding a simple drum break I recorded on my phone a few weeks ago while I was waiting for my band to setup for practice. Should at least be some nice “roomy” hits in there :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Great stuff @Sleepyhead @Doug

I really like the idea and thanks to you both for hosting, here’s my track to sample

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hell yeah im in, i love a summer time vibe. this is my favorite summer track of all time, featuring anderson paak before he was paak

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Thanks for the invite. I’ll be trying to master the 404mk2. Since it’s summer I came to remember a compilation of 60s Sunshine Pop that I bought in the 00s. On it was this song:

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I like this variant of « la méthode de Borda » (Borda count).

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It’s not fair that I can’t use this one myself :upside_down_face:

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:loopy:

Let me get my Octatracking beam ready!!!

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I almost choose that one, great track.

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I think I have time to make some summer sounds


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