Sorry I should have done this yesterday…
1st
#6 that’s the one for me, a great mood and a loungy beat, nice feel to it
2nd
#7 very inventive, a great beat like the sound that sounds a bit like a Rhodes but I think is a filtered guitar
3rd
#3
love the way the violin sample is being worked and great all round beat
Enjoyed all those, well done everyone
This was a hard battle for me. Hard to make, hard to critique, hard to pick and order. But challenge is good. Thanks again @1-2 and @Ooly for hosting, and kudos to the rest of the crew
1st: 6
2nd: 4
3rd: 8
HM: 7
Full Notes
1: I like the Caribbean theme here, high drums and laid-back groove, and I really like the filter env on the True Lies sample about a minute in. The dubby stuttery breakdown at the end fits the theme but is a bit too chaotic for my taste
2: Man, when the main drums kick in on this beat, it’s everything. The Davy Jones bit is a great hook, drums pop just right, killer work! I’m less in love with the transition to the B-section, although it ends up in a good heavy place, and I really like the celesta/hats transition back
3: Between the drums and the skitchy violin, this has me ready for a brawl! I really like how this stomps and swings, and that first hook is catchy. The drums get kinda boomy and harsh, and the B-section feels a little disconnected from the rest of the beat.
4: What a great beat trio: dark and soulful, bouncing swagger, and smooth but whimsical. The drums do a great job bridging all of these together, and I love the snap of that snare. Lots of great touches touches throughout (especially that fading echo on the horn crescendo in part 2). Nice work!
5: Lots of great sounds weaving through this one, from the warm panned violins to the fast drum sections to the forment bass and that rising modulated echo hit. The organ vamp kind of hurts the momentum for me, but otherwise, a great pair or grooves playing off each other
6: Deceptively spare nocturnal beat that knows exactly when to tweak the recipe every time to keep me hooked. The first section with the the back-and-forth celesta is magic. Will be pulling out the notebook for this one
7: This took a couple listens to get past the metallic shell, but I’m glad I did. Grooves getting passed around and developed between layers, sweet guitar licks against heavy clangs, and that steady kick-snare like a drummer in the hurricane’s eye. Nice work!
8: Another fun triptych, with the extra space giving it the loose energy of a DJ at a three-way rap battle. More praise for the bass and scratching of course, but also the smooth mood shifts throughout
|||1ST||| - 8 - That bassline in the beginning is captivating, but the second half caused me to dust off the old neck brace. So many bobbers laced all throughout this jam 
|||2ND||| - 4 - This is like walking down several dark alleyways represented by a song, in a good way. That “let it breathe” drop is amazing 
|||3RD||| - 6 - The way you made that bass half reverse at the middle and the buildup/ transition to the second half is done so gracefully leading into the lovely close 
HM’s
Track 1 - Sweet intro to this playlist and enjoy the pleasant vacation vibes on this one 
Track 2 - Excellent job on how you chopped those bells, the beat/bells combo is candy and has a really sticky/catchy nature the way you pieced everything together
Track 3 - This jam feels like a war chant and has a lot of big energy, awesome beat
Track 5 - Tasty delays on here and this track sounds like a dope dub groove
Track 7 - Well I’m sorry to disappoint you but you’re gonna live to enjoy all the glorious fruits life has got to offer - acne, shaving, premature ejaculation… and your first divorce.
Oddly specific 
1st> numba 6 - Overall vibe. The cuts on the bell melody- jumping intervals of intriguing beauty and the way the bass played off it so nicely. The Space, the use of noise in a sizzling snare trail and the delayed bursts, the snap on the drums, the laid back hats, the little pauses, A lot to like here. I especially enjoyed the build up in the middle and what really set it off for me was the bass progression in the 2nd half (top notch, seriously that bass line movement felt SO good) Funky chill 101
2nd> numba 5 - Percussion on this was bliss in tone/rhythm and paried up with the rushing hats so well. Env filtered bass yeoowph sound and drawn out synth bass bass droning and dipping was a great unique stand out touch. Props for smoothly fitting in the Davy Jones organ as well
3rd > numba 4 - the lion king samples were put to good use here, intresting choice and was propably tricky to fit in but was skillfully pulled off. Transition into 2nd half was great, esp with the use of Dialouge. Deep bass line and the rhythmic use of the bass was well played
I want to mention Track#7/aggressive cymbals and sounds sharply cutting in felt dominating but the filtered melody that comes in around the 30s mark was soooo sweet, it just felt a little buried to me but really had something magical going on
Now to solve the mystery of how many tracks sampled Sherlock Holmes
Agreed an interesting unconscious shift in the collective
Agreed, same here and maybe that was part of the shift in sound we got on this round
Yeah for sure. A lot of people really threw it down on the drum side of things this round. Track #3 was particularly wild
Now that I have voted and can read all the comments in detail without influence I just wanted to highlight a couple of my favorite descriptors here
Ha, yes. Spot on 
Linguistically painting in metophoric accuracy of keen observations
I couldn’t put it to specificness but you nailed it
Overall the way with words you all had in the track analysis made me smile and it also spoke the truth, keep this going in future battles- I love the feedback here
And
Nah, there was at least one other track plus I was still trying to manage to get mine together in the last stretch and we were hoping @eerieacid would come through or any additional late join in because it is more fun with more numbers
So we ended up with a decent number of tracks and although it wasn’t too many I thought they were all pretty interesting. I am very appreciative of everyone who took the time to take part in this and bring all the unique flavors
1-Track 8, very cinematic 
2- Track 6, has a great vibe and very well mixed
3- track 2, main sample is hypnotic.
Here is the result of the 24th Hip Hop battle 
(please check my math to be sure)
A warm thanks to everyone involved in this! Great to be part of it as well. And once again, happy to have co-hosted this one with @1-2.
EDIT: Please tell us the samples used and your manufacturing secrets.
Congrats to all the winners! 
Congrats to @1-2, @Ooly, @Yabba, and @malus_mons, and thank you everyone for giving me feedback on mine. Thanks once more to @1-2 and @Ooly for co-hosting!
Mine was #3. Samples below, all assembled on my M8 with tiny help from Koala and Audacity
Main Drums: “Here (In the Garden), Pts 1 & 2” by G*psy, submitted by @Doug
Oneshot Layered Clap: Created by me, three claps layered on top of each other in Koala (each clap recorded in a stairwell)
Layered Snare: “The Vulture” by Labi Siffre, submitted by @malus_mons
Layered Kick: 808 sim (Macrosynth on M8)
Violin and Filtered Strings: “Not In Blood, But In Bond” by Hans Zimmer, submitted by @Ooly
Celesta: “Davy Jones Theme Suite” by Hans Zimmer, submitted by @Yabba
As surfacescan accurately assessed, this is not super technical.
The violin hook came early, just playing around with chops, and the Garden drums seemed to match really well after dropping them 4.5 semitones. I went back and forth on trying to take out the cowbell or force a standard 2-4 snare, but it just lost punch when I did that. I am proud of that heavy clap, which I used mainly as an alterative crash. The layered kick has the standard high-pass/high-resonance trick, but I think I mixed it too loudly. Similarly, I like having the rattling hat section at the end of the 4-bar drum loop, but I should’ve taken a notch filter to it or something.
The “synth” part is just the long string section from the end of “Not In Blood, But In Bond” with a LPF with cranked resonance. The celesta part from Davy Jones is decent enough, I think, but I mostly added it because I wrote myself into a corner with that string hook. I don’t think adds to or contrasts enough with the A section. So it goes.
My beat:
Nice write up. I really liked the filtering sound you got on your track, you really brought it to life and it did end up giving a using a synth type of sound to the sample. I thought that section Davy Jones was too good of a sample to pass up and ended up exploiting a sustained note from it a lot in my track. I thought that the big kick gave it some nice punch and cool that you used your own clap 
Congrats to @Ooly @Yabba @sleepside & @malus_mons
To not host back to back, Yabba are you interested in hosting again for the next one? And if not we’ll pass it to sleep/mons
Congrats and thanks to @1-2 & @Ooly for hosting and the deserved follow up win, also @sleepside and @malus_mons plus everyone else for your equally enjoyable beats and thanks to anyone who gave mine a listen or comment.
I used Digitakt as usual and bits from a few tracks.
In future I will make notes of what I use when I sample but for this one I skipped through the submitted YouTube tracks and screen recorded parts that caught my ear on my iPhone.
By the time I’ve converted to Wav and transferred to Digitakt I haven’t got a clue about most of what I sampled, so my bad for not being specific but it was bits from a few submissions.
The vocal parts were from Sherlock Holmes which Zim did the soundtrack for.
I sent the wrong version of mine, the only difference is the first section of my beat had a few overdubs after 16 bars and was levelled a bit better but nothing significantly different.
Thanks @1-2 I haven’t hosted for quite a while so I’ll be happy to come up with something for the next one if everyone is ok with that, I may even try and set one up by tonight ready for the weekend if that’s not too soon.
Cheers and have a good weekend all
For #1 I used david axelrod’s drums and percussion, which was a popular choice this time. And for the main theme i sampled and chopped a small part of the true romance sound track. Used a single bass note sampled from one of my syths. What can I say, i’m either lazy or a minimalist, maybe both hehe. Also I do agree that this was a tough challenge to get into.
Arrangement was made by resampling on the sp404 mk2, messing around with the fx, and as always with this device I had a blast doing it.
Can’t wait for what you come up with @yabba!
I was #6. Track made on DT (except bass line and dialogues), polished on Logic (edits, add (more) effects, rearrange things, mixing)
Cliff Edwards -> drums
Ultrafunk -> drums
Davy Jones’ Theme -> celesta
Interstellar movie -> dialogues
Home made bass line
I started on something more abstract, try a lot of things, then I managed to make a semblance of melody with pieces of celesta.
For me, my track lacks some of dynamics and layers. It was a bit frustrating because I would have liked to add some strings to the second part to make it more intense, but I haven’t been able to do it with a sample, so I gave up this idea. And I think Interstellar’s dialogues helped the song a lot, so I built the song around that.
Good to know that @Yabba takes control of the next one.
I’ve got an idea and I’m ready to set it up but I don’t know if I should wait until all the people that want to post their workings for this battle do so.
I think it’s okay, a new battle can begin 
New one is up
Made an old mistake earlier posting on an older thread 
Congratulations to @1-2 and @Ooly on the back-to-back wins, and to @everyone for creating such a diverse, flavorful mixtape! One more and you guys are on fire 
My beat is #7 and thank you for the positive feedback. No matter what I did on that song, I couldn’t make the beat loud enough for that melodic part on this go without it getting harsh, but we live to fight another day I only used @dougs submitted samples for my beat, but there were several other one-offs that shall be buried for the foreseeable future lol. Chopping those drums was a real mother, but it felt really good once they sat in place and thanks for inspiring that good work ethic Really enjoyed this challenge, and thanks again for extending the deadline for this dinosaur 
