Elektronauts Hip Hop battle 24 - Results

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#21

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:

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#22

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 :sunglasses:

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#23

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

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#24

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 :slightly_smiling_face:

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#25

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!

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#26

:point_right: 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.

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#27

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.

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#28

I think it’s okay, a new battle can begin :muscle:

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#29

New one is up :slightly_smiling_face:

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#30

Made an old mistake earlier posting on an older thread :older_man:

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 :fire:

My beat is #7 and thank you for the positive feedback. :beers: 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 :muscle: 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 :beers: Really enjoyed this challenge, and thanks again for extending the deadline for this dinosaur :sauropod:

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