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Root5

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gmanyo Grand Master

gmanyo

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cryptowen:

(1) making the main melody a steady 3 note progression on a thick pad that goes all DOOO...DOOOOOO....DAAAAAAAA over & over.

(2) Playing 4ths or 5ths or some such

(3) putting a reverb preset on it doesn't make it heavily atmospheric

(4) sampling dialogue from an old movie without significant alteration

(5) slowing down and/or adding reverb to a field recording & calling it a day

(6) clean 808s in ambient

(7) name-dropping synth gear in your track titles and/or artist name

(8) recording your entire album on a tape recorder

(9) making your album cover: a picture of clouds, a picture of your gear, an old polaroid, random geometric shape,

yek:

(10) put lotss of reverb on yer bass drums

mokz:

(11) 4/4 time signature

(12) western sense of tonality

(13) amen break

(13.5) minute long "wave your hands in the air" breaks

npoess:

(14) tb303

soundwave:

(15) atypical pad chords

(16) long boring intros before beat

(17) stutter glitch fx 90's idm

(18) snare rushes

(19) sidechain bass drum

(20) swingy minimal house machinedrum beats

(21) tr909

(22) tr808 used poorly

(23) ambient music w/ piano

(24) screechy flat dubstep baseline that have no bass

(25) 'found sound' put thru max/msp preset

(26) supersaw trance

(26.1) sine wave microtonal sounds

(26.2) hipster kraut rock modular analogue noodling

alcofribas:

(27) house with piano

(28) atonal idm classical with beats

(29) ambient with guitar, delay+reverbs

(30) field recording

(31) live drums

(31) sexy women voices

(32) robotic male voices

(33) homemade instrument

(34) making music with 'processes' -- process over final product

(35) 80s themes

(36) indie film scores

(37) compilation of old tracks

(38) working with a vocalist

psn:

(39) creating a false artist identity

aaaah:

(40) a fucking gameboy plus brightly colored clothes and bad hair

logakght:

(41) trying to be aphex

kanakori:

(42) ambient track longer than 5 min w/ 'undecifrable' women vocals

(43) slow track shouting random fruit names

(44) acid

(45) claps (tururururu tu tu *clap clap* tururururu tu tu)

(46) snares

(47) hi hats

(48) wobling synthlines

tech diff:

(49) off-grid programming mess

(50) NI massive bass patch

(51) experimental noise performance

(52) evocative orchestral music

(53) music that misses the point, expresses nothing

(54) epic string/pad sections

(55) behind the scenes/making of video

gmanyo:

(56) rave music with 4:3 cross rhythms

mischjok:

(57) synth with 1 OSC sine wave

(58) repeating same idea ad nauseam

(59) have few beat patterns

(60) dirty recordings

(61) uploading everything

(62) nexus presets

(63) Deadmau5 kick

(64) talking bass

(65) FL studio 1st prest fruity delay bank

(66) dry drums

(67) no velocity on piano lines

(68) 3-note chords

(69) i VI iv i progression

kinski:

(70) electronic music

o00o:

(71) poor arrangement

(72) poor melody, harmonics

data:

(73) take an entire 80s tune, slow it down, it's now your material

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Cryptowen Grand Master

Cryptowen

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Should I speed up the schedule?

I could give it 1 or 2 days for the earlier matches and then a week for the semifinals and finals.

Yeah I'd say. ALSO

 

Nanobots

Richard Nixon

Terraforming planets

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jules Grand Master

jules

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gaarg tumblr

 

coats that look like coat linings

 

shaving your own taint before a tokyo washy washy massage

 

michelada cocktails

 

insomnia

 

edit: the art of yekking

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