Beastiemixes.com Halloween Remix Contest

[Nygel]

yea, im getting high speed internet on wednesday, so i'll start mixing somethign up around thursday, so yea, AWESOME, plus like a dozen enw remixes will be put up cuz i will finally be able to send them within less than a day on dialup.

[bobaratt]

I love this...Silence, i think you should run a contest every month, just for fun (no prizes necessary). I had a blast with it! And it's amazing how everyone's mix has its unique feel, nobody's sound alike!

[DeeJayZap]

Originally Posted by Nygel

yea, im getting high speed internet on wednesday, so i'll start mixing somethign up around thursday, so yea, AWESOME, plus like a dozen enw remixes will be put up cuz i will finally be able to send them within less than a day on dialup.

awesome!!

[silence7]

you should run a contest every month, just for fun

Fun for who? Yes they are fun, but they're a load on top of my usual pile of stuff I need to get done during the day.. I am an army of one over here.

A contest a month is a bit much for me, but if they keep going smoothly and there's no BS, and people continue to participate, I'll keep doing them when I get a wild hair and want to test you guys.

I almost feel bad for last contest and made up for it with the current one, which is probably just as hard. I'm gonna find something one of these days that nobody will even attempt.

Back to the mixing, only 14 entries? You guys sleeping??

Silence7

[psx]

good looking out Silence. These contests must be a bit of work to keep track of everyone's entries and make sure nothing gets wacked. Cheers!

Slightly OT, but this got me to thinking about a project I did a long time ago. Basically I had a bunch of artists from mp3.com upload their songs, and then I'd stuff them into a playlist of sorts. Then when folks visited the site I had built, they got to listen to the "radio"(shoutcast). Each time a new song came on, while it was playing the visitor could vote, simply "hot" or "not". Then I kept a chart of who had the highest average.

What was even cooler was that you (as a visitor) had to listen to what was being played. The original artist (or friends of) couldn't just show up and vote for their track without hearing at least a few other tracks. To emphasize that... their friends couldn't help but vote "hot" for a few tracks they heard while waiting for the "gimme" vote. The playlist was of course randomized every day so they didn't know what time their track was going to be on.

I guess it's not really a contest, but as a remixer it'd be cool to say your track was in the top-10 over at beastiemixes.com for the past two weeks or whatever.

Anyway, I thought it'd be cool if we did something like that. Just chuckin' it out there. Silence, I know we kinda talked about it a bit a week or so ago. I can build the radio/voting front-end and back-end if needed. I work full-time as I'm sure you do but I'm willing to work on it if there's any interest at all.

Ok. Back to what you all were doing. Sorry for going off topic.

psx

[silence7]

I can't say a lot about it right now but I already have a database guy on the team and some of the stuff mentioned is semi in-place as we speak. along with some other surprises.

I'm just busy enough where anything above maintaining the site is killin' me. Hence the temporary ban on new dj's. But i'm working on it. I Swear.

By the way. two new DJ's tonight on Beastiemixes.. Go check em'

Silence7

[bobaratt]

Originally Posted by silence7

Faz, Do it, I promise, it only hurts the first time...

Silence7

I agree...i haven't been mixing for that long either. In fact, i lost a lot of my first stuff because i upgraded my operating system, and i thought id never miss it because i thought the stuff just wasnt that good. But in the 6-7 months that i have been mixing, i've learned a TON (still not as good as Nygel or Taco Zip though, props guys). Now i wish i still had those first mixes to go back to and polish....gone forever. I guess my advice would be to not throw out anything!!!

[CosmoKramer]

Same thing happened to me....I reinstalled Windows XP and lost about the first 30 Acid Project files......So If I wanted to, I can't go back and fine tune them.........I should've backed them up....I backed up the actual mixes, but not the project files......

[faz]

Originally Posted by silence7

Hence the temporary ban on new dj's.

....

Originally Posted by silence7

By the way. two new DJ's tonight on Beastiemixes

Originally Posted by bobaratt

I guess my advice would be to not throw out anything!!!

I've actually been doing stuff and not even saving it. Just making it for fun and to learn stuff. I've been saving most stuff now though.

[bassdriver]

Originally Posted by silence7

Fun for who? Yes they are fun, but they're a load on top of my usual pile of stuff I need to get done during the day.. I am an army of one over here.

^know exactly what ya mean. hope you know we all appreciate this very much....i guess that's the downside of being a nice guy - sometimes you wish wouldn't do all that shit.

regards bassdriver

[Nygel]

Originally Posted by bobaratt

i've learned a TON (still not as good as Nygel or Taco Zip though, props guys).

whoa now, I think ya mean Uru-Nitro and Taco Zip . . I don't think I deserve to be put up to there level.

[silence7]

Three new DJ's tonight.. slipped in under the temp ban

Posted the 14th contest entry last night. "Pinhead"

Maybe Karma will be good to me...

Silence7

[Joakizmo]

Not to be an ass or anything, but using other non"night of the living dead"-samples for the "main beat" and voicesamples for intro's and stuff.. wouldnt that be considered cheating?

[chromium05]

^^^ That's what I assumed - that ALL samples, loops and sounds HAVE TO COME FROM THE SOUNDTRACK (except the drums)???

There may well be a few tracks where some of the sounds seem a bit iffy. I did one using 1 sound that I EQ'd and filtered and played up and down the keyboard but it sounded so far removed from the original that I guessed that people may think it wasn't from NOTLD - so I didn't use it.

[silence7]

Not to be an ass or anything

Was this a question for me??? Since I didn't really define that you couldn't use other samples I don't know if it would be cheating or not (I really should think these things out a bit) Anybody who submited an entry is a judge, and therefore can judge the mixes the way they see fit.

If the judging were up to me, the more of the actual soundtrack that made it into the mix the better, Obviously hard to do when you have SOoooo much soundtrack to deal with, but the more the better.

Second I would be looking for creative uses of the soundtrack, a rhyme that is answered by a line of dialogue in the soundtrack, a little pass the mic action between the Beasties and the movie, if ya know what I'm sayin' among other tricks of the trade I'm sure you guys know all too well.

Third would probably be based on how much the song overall made me want to get up off my ass and jump around my appartment. (not a pretty sight, but it's fun )

Judge it how YOU see it this time. Maybe next time we'll all work together for some rock solid rules before I spring a contest on you guys out of nowhere.

BTW, you guys RULE!!!

Silence7

[Tammeloeki]

All my entries are entirely made with the soundtrack.. even though you might not hear it... In one mix ive used a synth to give an extra boost to the chorus, but it uses the exact same chords the movie does...

I had the feeling that some stuff didnt come from the soundtrack too, but when i listened to it again if found these samples. Some are just a few secs long... Before you run into any conclusions you might want to check the soundtrack out again.

regards Tricky Dick

P.S. Lets stay positive guys, its not the end of the world if you dont win

[Joakizmo]

Originally Posted by Tammeloeki

P.S. Lets stay positive guys, its not the end of the world if you dont win

Rightright.. Let's have fun.

[Tammeloeki]

Cheers to that

[faz]

I sort of fear a low rating due to people thinking i didnt used samples in the main bit, which I did, it'll just be hard to find

[Tammeloeki]

By the way Silence, there are a lot of entries, you should go for a double album this time

TD

[bassdriver]

hey fellas. just don't let us get this too serious. i really don't like serious music and band contests at all!

before i made my mix (or 2 or 3 mixes) i checked the tracks that were already uploaded and i thought to hear some sounds which were to hi-fi to just be sampled from the original soundtrack. so maybe i also used 1 (or 2 or 3) sounds to boost some parts a bit. probable i made a track (or 2 or 3) just with bb rhymes a drum loop and samples of the soundtrack. i don't see any problem about that. sure the best sounding mixes with the "closest to the soundtrack" vibe will get the extra points.

and hey Joakizmo and chromium05 i'm pretty sure that your mixes will rock the contest!!!!!

to all out there who didn't mix yet: get going! judgement day is coming soon.

[silence7]

2 new contest mixes tonight.
#17 The Mummy
#18 Jack The Ripper

you should go for a double album this time

The three new DJ's from two days ago don't even have headers yet, and I need some art for the second CD? I can whip something up. If they won't fit on a single CD as CD Audio, I'll do up a second cover, back cover etc.

FAZ

I sort of fear a low rating

You are allowed to submit more mixes.

It's all about the fun! Glad to see you guys keepin' it light hearted. I get enough serious at work.

Silence7

[faz]

Originally Posted by silence7

FAZ
You are allowed to submit more mixes.

Yeah, i did plan on making some more

[Nygel]

well, i just went through all of the mixes up so far and I'm pretty impressed, I think only one or two have really showed up to me as exceptional, of course I have no room to talk, mine is similiar to most of the ones out there now, It keeps tone to the movie, although a few of the ones up do kinda go against the movie in ways of it sounds happy and shit, idk, sounds wierd to me hearing people talk about getting eatin and then i feel like dancing, oh well, mine will be up within the next few days so everyone can make fun of it when it comes out. just felt like expressing my views on this

[PWN productions]

Well NYgel, i couldn't have said it better....

mc JymE, PWN productions

[psx]

I can't decide if it's a good idea to have the already submitted mixes available before the judging starts or not. I guess we'll find out after this one's done.

I was thinking it would be cool if when we voted, we could add a comment or 2 stating why we voted like we did. "I didn't like the added synth. Drums were bangin though." etc.

psx

[bassdriver]

Originally Posted by psx

I can't decide if it's a good idea to have the already submitted mixes available before the judging starts or not.

that's a good point. I think there are not to many parts in the soundtrack that are really great to loop. and hearing that these were already used made it even harder. but on the other side: there's some great stuff that was uploaded pretty late and I was biting my ass to not have made these loops.

[Nygel]

Originally Posted by bassdriver

that's a good point. I think there are not to many parts in the soundtrack that are really great to loop. and hearing that these were already used made it even harder. but on the other side: there's some great stuff that was uploaded pretty late and I was biting my ass to not have made these loops.

i think its a good idea to have them before, cuz if we all had the same samples, that would suck.

[silence7]

Next time I'll put them all up at the same time and watch the server melt as everyone is trying to download at the same time

It would be much easier for me to put them all up at the end. But it's kinda good for you guys to feed off of each other's mixes and improve on what you've heard. Feeding the fire so to speak.

Silence7

[psx]

True, it is good to feed off of what's already been done. I know when you posted the first few I tried my best to avoid listening to them. But I think in the end it definitely pushed me to make a better mix.

psx