Alright gang, let’s not waste any time.
This one is going to be pretty loose. I think everyone of us here has got a few things that we have squirreled away that we never figured out how to use. And that’s what I want you to bring, whether that’s a record you wanted to flip or maybe a little piece of music you recorded yourself. Anything you’ve got that you think is cool or at least has potential but you haven’t figured out exactly how to use.
I’m going to put one guideline for the sample submissions. I’d like you to limit them to basically just music or something you think could be made into music like a weird percussive thing. But something that could potentially be the centerpiece of a track. In other words, I don’t have dialogue in mind for this.
Now for the legal:
- Anyone who wants to join has to confirm in this thread by Sunday, September 12th. If you join, you have to supply a single sample for everyone else to use. This can be a youtube video, a link to a sample, or a sound file you’ve recorded yourself.
- You cannot use the sample you posted in the thread.
- The deadline for submitting your song is Monday, September 20th. You can submit the song in any format or on any platform, by posting it to this thread. You can only submit one single beat for the battle!
- After this deadline we will vote in a new thread. Only people who participated can vote, and only after listening to each song. You’ll choose one song as your first place pick and two runners up. Each first place pick will be worth two points. Runners up will each receive one point. You cannot vote for yourself.
- Please don’t post beat entries before the deadline for posting samples (9/12), as things will get confusing!
Here are the battle-specific rules:
- No restrictions on other instruments or outside samples. Acapellas welcome.
- Use at least one sample provided by someone else in the thread.
And this one isn’t a rule, it’s more of a request. Since we’re focusing on samples that people have tried to figure out how to use, I’d like for you to put the focus on at least one of the samples that you use as opposed to piecing together bits from everything. But the creative process is going to take you where it takes you so again, this is just a request.
Anyway, I like this a whole lot but for whatever reason every time I tried to flip it was a bad time.