Haha no, I said in the other thread that I fucked up!
My track should not be listed.

Gonna try not to insta-DQ myself next time fasho

Damn in that case your entry was amazing! This forum should almost have a battle where people have to perform the beat on a video. That'd be cool.

Holy shit, so many beats this round! Wicked battle all round!

Spwarlock: nice and mellow, really like that change up

freshserfpro: Jump UP! Loads of energy in this, love your chops

Atls: nice and gritty man, that second section is sweet

thedingo: low down and dirty man

rak: got some nice low end on that kick drum, nice vocal samples too man

gissweden: darkness man! Real nice soundtrack vibe

yung tamagothci: couldn't find your track bro

frankielee: nice and laid back vibe on this one

otbt: heavy! Niceeee chops man, fat beat, can't fault this!

Doogs: oooooo didn't expect that change up, really liking what's going on in those chops dude

natan: this reminds me of deltron 3030s first album, like it man

neirojdc: that delay works so well man, wicked beat

medearis: nice man, minimal and dark, nice mix, could do with this building for like five minutes

r4ph431: nice work on the drums, like you say straight loop, nice though man

skinnyb: who the fuck is this guy, is he taking the piss

lif: wicked man! How did this come out of those samples!? Love it!

Ellaguru: real groove here man, that compression works a treat

heavyhead: nice loop, could do with hearing so drums though bro

ritchrd: couldn't seem to get at your track man

runmeraw: nice and heavy on the horns, wicked vocal chops man, jump up shit

selftaught astronaut: really like the sound of your drums man, nice strings too, cool change ups

went with otbt, cheers for the vote Yung Tamagotchi!

Cheers r4ph...! I was pretty pleased myself. Had effed around with the provided break for a day or two and gave up in disgust, until I banged out a new beat using some trap hits i found in my sample library. And yeh, to answer your question - I could never have pulled this off without my SP.... But I will go a little further in my explanation.

Have posted in another thread the probs I've had with the zip drive in my 808. Original drive fucked up discs, but go-figure... I bought the machine new in 1999. Recently found three second-hand replacement drives, the first of which i installed worked perfectly for about 2 or 3 weeks before the clickadeath and the loss of another new disc and a bunch of work (not cheap or easy to find here either).

So I installed a different drive and this one is s l o w a s f u c k. I can't change pad banks or play chops over a drum loop without the loop glitching badly, so for this battle I recorded about 55 seconds of the drums looped/chopped to my Tascam, grit comes from a Harmor synth patch, sounds like a cross between vinyl-dust and an open hihat was layed at the same time.

Fed the recording back into the sp and jammed the sample chops live, did maybe three takes and chose the one I thought worked best, them fed it back for another pass to lay the vocal cuts. All shit I wouldve normally done using resample with the old drive. Might be worth mentioning I probably have my cuts set to 'gate' 98% of the time, 'drum' sometimes, never use trigger (hold button more effective imo).

Mastered in Adobe Audition 1.5, BootEQ vst, some compression/limiting. There was no pattern, quantize, sequencing here, everything came out of banging the pads. I also don't subscribe to the opinion that SP is synonymous with LoFi. It's an aesthetic, not a rule. But yeh, my SP's functionality is now quite limited, I'm forced to multitrack to produce anything and I'm grateful for each track I produce since the mahf*cker could die at any time.

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Yo ra4ph, I havn't listened to all the tracks enough to cast a vote yet, but I wonder if you could take the time to remove the dead-links and any DQ's from the poll, would make listening/choosing easier... just a request.

btw, fascinating to watch Neiro'S vid - totally differnt machine and track-construction.. way interesting.

honestly i can't not go for RITCHRD. dude gets me every time. every one of his beats.

ATLS had the best chops, but Runme Raw had the best overall sound because his beat had more bass and grit!

From a purely musical perspective, I go with Runme, Skinny B and FreshSerfPro, no doubt... these are the tracks that for me, this week at least, show some prod-skills, chop-skills and artistry in overall concept/execution. But...


Vote: Yung Tamagotchi

Figure as long as heads voting for DQ's might as well vote a non-entry.

And before you tell me to cool it, ask yrsf what's the point of using provided samps? composing to a time-limit? or pushing the equipment?

I lack the word to critique each individual.
Overall, crazy good work from everybody, lots of finesse. Really enjoyed this battle.

This being my first, gottah start somewhere. My main mistake, putting a super noisy background sample over the beat, that was pretty harsh and don't really know why I though it was a good idea. Lesson learned.


SKINNY B, gets my vote.
Thats an unexpected flip. Makes me think, early mid 90's hype "go in" type beats that gets an emcee blood rushing.

Sick turn out, glad I joined and witnessed this.
Peace

SpWarlock: Sweet flip, bangin' drums, nice'n'short

ATLS: Awesome chops on this love the vocal drops DILLA SIREN

[thedingo.]: Nice chops drums are super dope.

rak: cool beat awesome sound effects nice loop run.

gis_sweden: Extra points for using original japanese haha this beat is awesome!!! great chops.

YUNG TAMAGOTCHI: no beat available?

Frnk e Lee: Smooth drop nice and mellow.

OTBT: Nice beat ninja scroll chops wordemup.

Doogs: O.G. beat nicely done very sweet use of guitar solo in the middle there.

N8000: Word! Fresh flavour on this flip very cool.

NeiroJDC: Excellent beat love that boomp bap extra points.

medearis: Completely different sound on this very cool, extra points for uniqueness.

r4ph43l: Word guns at high noon, dope and raw.

Skinny B: Dang! Blazing drums on this very dope.

lif: another unique flip very bangin! Sweet chops on this...

Ellaguru: Woah awesome percussions awesome chops this track is funky!

Heavyhead: Very sweet track love the loops very nicely spun...

ritchrd: Monster beat super raw.

Runme_Raw: Wow nice drop crazy effects and vocal drops.

selftaught astronaut: Nice beat cool drums cool samples.



Hmm came down to gis-sweden, NeiroJDC and lif... hard choice but went for gis in the end, nice beats from everybody!

So whens the next one??

SpWarlock - well balanced and solid
FreshSerfPro - grooovy
ATLS - sweeeet sounding flip
TheDingo - fire. great chops
Rak - beat and anime sample blend masterfully
gis_sweden - wanted the beat to work like a sound track. not that bad
YUNG TAMAGOTCHI - x im sure it was great
Frankie_LEE - nice slow crispy
OTBT - ok this is goood, but a little muddy...
Doogs - gr8 chops and skillfull use of them
NATAN - dramatic, colorful
NeiroJDC - like the delay fx smart
medearis - sweet experimental submission with atmos
r4ph43l - we used the same loop. nice sound
skinny.b - über funky
l i f - f a r o u t but it works just fine krispigt
ellaguru - tubular... skills
heavyhead. - meditative. like the small rythmic "clicks"
ritchrd - what a trip
Runme_Raw - wacky class as always
selftaught - classic style

4 favs. ritchrd, Runme_Raw, l i f and OTBT.....

i vote ritchrd. the beat is a disrespectful exclamation mark of sounds.
sp-style tradition.

voted for ATLS (great use of both samples) with ellaguru a close second (very professional, but still dirty) runme_raw (best picture), doogs (chops!) and OTBT (Layering and use of vocal samps) round out my top 5

great battle all around!

ATLS STR8 FIRE AHHHHHHHHH

thanks to everybody that participated it really was a great battle this week. Ill be putting up the samples and such at around 5:30-6:00am pacific time,
Piece

Congrats ATLS!!