🎄 Christmas Track Challenge

[amku]

need a few more ornaments for the

[nionmu]

me too

[Fin25]

Just finished recording (all live, no overdubs, about 370 takes).
Just a bit of limiting and compression, some auditioning in the car, a bit of last minute tweaking and it’ll be ready.
It’s a bit shorter than I would have liked, but a nasty dose of shingles earlier in the month limited my time (as well as two jobs and a nine month old) so you’re only getting 2:30 out of me.

[Fin25]

Done.
Well, there’s a fumbled transition at 1:40ish but I can’t be bothered to record it again.
Just to be clear, this is very NSFW.
I’LL SAY IT AGAIN…NOT SAFE FOR WORK.

Merry Christmas you filthy animals.

[Vorlis]

Fin you legend! this put me in the Christmas spirit rightly, the snowman has been called and the tequila is out!

[anguslocke]

ok, I made this a few years ago, but I’ll share just for fun:

All OP-1:

[TonyDS_1]

Sounds like it’s based on a Rotterdam style first executed in the early 90s

[Fin25]

That was the intention. I’d like to think if I was 20 years older I’d have been famous (at least in the Netherlands).

[olibol]

hahaha funny reminds me of that thunderdome christmas cd

[Fin25]

That was my first and only Christmas themed cd purchase.

[amku]

love the reharms and the 8bit sounds, this is right down my alley!

[Munro]

Just finished mine. Need to practice performing it (which is tricky) and record it. Will be done tomorrow!

[sezare56]

Dedicated to my wife who left me a few weeks ago.
The song is not finished, like our relation.

Octatrack + QY100 + H4N, no daw.
I hope I’ll found energy to mangle this shit with OT one day…for now, not sure I can do better tomorrow.

[Snipecatcher]

Best wishes for a loving, peaceful resolution

[zpink]

Bloody brilliant track man!
Hope tings’ll work out for you and Christmas not sucking to bad.

[defenestration]

this is very, very good and powerfully honest music - sad and chilling, a strong sense of longing and hope for happier times, but with a bittersweet sense of acceptance, the pitch shift echo at the end gives me a sensation of trying and failing to rewind a situation back to its beginnings

has a bit of ‘nightmare before christmas’ aesthetic/vibe, but it’s simultaneously brighter, darker, and more human - there are a lot of contrasts in this piece that work together in very strong and interesting ways

[Munro]

I’ll see all your clever musical stuff and raise you some noise:

[Sherelle]

Sorry, you all. I won’t be able to get my track in by the deadline. I’ll try to get in in on the 26th or 27th (sometimes life just gets in the way). I don’t expect any votes, but some comments would be nice.

Merry Christmas!

[Fin25]

I don’t mind waiting a couple of days extra to accommodate your piece. I doubt most of us will have voted before then anyway. Not that I’m in charge or anything…

Merry Christmas

[amku]

the more the merrier! I say we can extended to new years eve.