No problem friend! I will come up with another battle idea and post it maybe later today or tomorrow. Great job!
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What an impressive and humbling list of tracks.
Congratulations everyone!
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Everything here was super gassed, really feelin the playlist and even the track order was dope.
Really feeling track 5 though, thought that it was straightforward and everything just worked. The elements of both cuts came together in a very appealing way. Who made that one?
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@flipinfantile! Thanks for the listen and kind words! I kinda wish we could open up the voting to everyone
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Naw, itâs good the way that it is. Thatâs also one reason that I didnât say anything until the vote was over with. I realize anyone can say anything at any time but better for voters to just vote on their own judgements.
Hopefully I can get my shit together and participate in the next one.
All of them were dope though. Listened to this a couple times.
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Aphex Twin and MF Doom are like 2 sides of the same weird, goofy and kinda scary coin.
I think the next battle will be fun, stay tuned!
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All aboard the soul train!
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congrats @malus_mons and @electricthing! this was a challenging and fun battle.
i was beat 3. i made a couple beats for this and was strugglin with each one. i actually cant remember how i made mine lol, it was either on the p-6 pair or the ep-133. it was fun practice! looking forward to the next one
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Beat 7 started on SP 404 mk2, a pad from âin a room7 F760â
Making a bass from an 808 kick was a challenge for me. Nice with an 808 bass is that you donât have to do the usual mixing kick & bass.
âAlberto Balsamâ for perc sounds. Thanks LyingDalai.
For the leadriff I took a single cycle from an 808 cowbell (thanks malus_mons for the tip) in Model: Samples.
SP insert fx made it duophonic, plus a delay + drive.
MF Doomâs rap was so flowing that I kept it all in.
Arranged in Live 12.
Thanks malus_mons for an inspiring battle.
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yo, beat 1 is mine. 
i did everything on OT, drums from TR-6S through AH.
samples from the aphex twin piano pieces i posted. chopped, some reversed, OT fx, etcâŚ
looking forward for the next battle! (:
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Bit late getting around to writing this up
I did beat 4
Did everything on DT
Main loop(s) from Kladfvgbung Mischk and some piano from a couple tracks Klaus_Wuhan posted
The loop wasnât quite on grid (the âoneâ was between trigs 2 and 3 ) so played in most of the drums then pushed em around with microtiming as necessay.
Initially was planning to take DOOM vocals from record so picked DeLaâs Rock Co.Kane Flow since its the only acapella ive got. In the end had some turntable noise issue that i didnât get around to troubleshooting so used YouTube rips instead.
Also took MF saying âI go nextâ from the Molemen track âput your quarter upâ
Triggered all the vocal samples freehand while recording so timing never repeats exactly i dont think.
Thanks to all! Dope shit
Just pulled some Stax out of some stacks to start thinking about the next one
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I never posted my track breakdown. Mine was Track 8. It was pretty straightforwardâŚ
All sampling and sound design were done in the SP404ii.
808 sample arrangement was done on the Digitakt I, using Song Mode.
I tried to keep things simple this timeâŚ
I sampled â4â and âGirl/Boy Song,â as you can probably tellâstrings and that 3-note motif from âG/Bâ and the melody from â4.â Various DOOM vocals based on whatever a cappelas I could find on YouTube. Those elements were all performed on the 404, which was in Pattern Chain mode.
The rest was all 808 samples sequenced on the Digitaktâthe wonky woodblock sample @schoolbabyboy mentioned in his critique is actually just the standard 808 mid tom through a bunch of filters, played chromatically with a Minilab in âArpâ mode.
DT drove the clock and transport for the SP.
As usual the recording is one take, live & direct with no overdubs. Very minor editing after the fact to cut down on the runtime, then âmasteredâ in Reaper via ReaEQ, ReaXcomp and MGA JS Limiter.
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Oh, and the chorus, âWho could knock the most dead birds out the skyâ had been in my head before the challenge, ever since I ended up with this little maniac, who spends all day looking out the window at birds to knock out the sky.
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