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-----< Results >------------------------------------------------------------
These are the results for The Trackering #22 :
1. Tito - tt22bb . xm 6.719 - ***+
2. Nitris - ni-cdrea. it 6.467 - ***+
3. Lemm - m1-wl3 . it 6.400 - ***+
4. Centurion - amazing . it 6.333 - ***+
5. Hunz - hnz-pboy. xm 6.250 - ***+
6. Cygnes - cgs-tc . it 6.167 - ***+
7. Lepra - lep-evil. xm 6.156 - ***+
8. Thefear - tf_tinj . xm 6.063 - ***+
9. Yannis - ybjuggy . it 5.900 - ***
10. Lagioto - flat35 . it 5.828 - ***
11. Beek&Stalker - crystl .s3m 5.750 - ***
12. Welti - groove .s3m 5.688 - ***
13. Lonewolf - infin . xm 5.625 - ***
14. Caramel - crmkaram.s3m 5.438 - ***
15. Mako - dipswinc. xm 5.406 - ***
16. Sledgehammer - g_smoke . xm 5.406 - ***
17. Starf0x - f0x-hurr. xm 5.281 - ***
18. Pfister - pf-hypr2. it 5.000 - ***
20. Monaco's - mnc-mcas. xm 4.813 - **+
21. Balrog - trip . xm 4.594 - **+
22. Argh - nty . it 4.467 - **+
23. Darius - 22trax . xm 4.250 - **+
24. Not opus - no-tt22 . it 4.233 - **+
25. Axl - dancing . xm 4.125 - **+
26. Grin - grin_ind.s3m 3.781 - **
27. Jer - j_entry . xm 3.438 - **
28. Shade - goodnite. xm 3.063 - **
29. Clepto - cl-stuff. it 2.633 - *+
30. Lord Jon Ray - ljr_tt22. it 2.581 - *+
31. Inopia - inp_god . xm 2.152 - *+
Voters :
Jer, Axl, Lord Jon Ray, smeg, Cygnes, Balrog, Centurion, beek, Lagioto,
Sledgehammer, Tito, Welti, pfister, Nitris, LoneWolf, Starf0x, mako,
Caramel, Inopia, Lupin, Clepto, ARGH!, Ballistique, The Fear, Phantasm,
not opus, Grin, Darius, Monaco's, YanniS, Hunz, Lemm, lepra, Shade.
Disqualified :
Stinger, Charlatan, Motiv, 3no, Eneff, Stein, Galahad - didn't vote.
* Read below about the mailing list, where you can get the results/
samples/votepacks right in your mailbox.
-----< comments >-----------------------------------------------------------
Specific Tune Comments:
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22trax . xm -- Darius
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Some samples prominently off-key, otherwise I'd have given this a 6.
Try tuning instruments
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amazing . it -- Centurion
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Very well mixed and orchestrated, original despite being a cover :)
Very good arrangement.
I don't care what anyone else thinks, that song's cool.. Good job!
Never was a file so aptly named. :) The lead melody is very well
tracked and the chord structure is positively exquisite. =) You might
just win with this one. ;)
Low on originality
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cgs-tc . it -- Cygnes
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Piano solo leaves a lot to be desired. I would call it lack of
dynamic contrast, but I don't want to be percieved as a theory head.
Other than that, the song is fine.
U have that Eurobeat sound right? ne-wayz liked ur song.
No bass
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chr-feel. it -- Charlatan
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Too much Dune ripoff.
No tune
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cl-stuff. it -- Clepto
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Boring
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crmkaram.s3m -- Caramel
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The drums are irritating. Watch the retrigs.
sticky
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crystl .s3m -- Beek&Stalker
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Portas at beginning of chorus are too slow. End of chorus stretched
out too much. Sudden key change in repeat of verse was completely
unexpected, not good. Ending is decent except the fadeout is boring.
The melody is gorgeous. The flute is slightly out of tune tho, so I
had to knock a point off. Sorry. :}
way too nice
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dancing . xm -- Axl
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Try tracking with sound next time, nice poem tho
you are one WEIRD guy..
Axl, gave yours a nine, cuz it rocked! (I wasn't name voting!)
I don't really have any european pop cd's, but now I'm considering
buying some if they sound that kewl =)
Not that it was a brilliant song anyway, but that bass was both
OFF-KEY and OUT OF TUNE!!!£%!£$£^%%& You're doing this to make the
lamers look good, aren't you? ;)
crap
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dipswinc. xm -- Mako
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The bass seems a little off, but otherwise a reasonable song.
monotonous
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flat35 . it -- Lagioto
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Chord progression is boring, but the implementation with the piano is
well done. The lead is kept hanging at the end of many patterns at
the beginning, and is far too repetetetetive near the end.
get later versions of IT for newer features. :)
Nice piano, shame about the rest
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floor . xm -- Stinger
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Hey! These samples DEW NAWT SUQ!£!%$£$!"^$£"^¬$% :) I know this cos
your tune isn't bad at all. :D
No bass, no tune. It's disco.
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friggen . it -- Motiv
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Nice attempt, but didnt work out, especially with these samples. The
hihats were very strange near the beginning.
Very original tune
sorry if this is merely a coincidence, but 'friggen donuts'
sounded like a nigh rip-off of the 'caero' (plant) theme music..
nice tune nonetheless.. ;)
I couldn't hear your song
Nice piece of ambient mood stuff.
No motive
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f0x-hurr. xm -- Starf0x
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Nice fast paced tune. Buggered if I'm loading up FT2 just to see if
there are any mystic hidden bits tho. :)
Nice piano, shame about the rest
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goodnite. xm -- Shade
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Far too messy.
Badly mixed
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grin_ind.s3m -- Grin
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And I thought that bass sample was useless! Clever use of retrig,
very nice. Rest is kind of boring however, and ending is too abrupt.
Repetitive. Inane. BORING. When you say "overload", you ain't kidding.
Even more badly mixed
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groove .s3m -- Welti
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good groove, good bass, albeit a bit generic (I'm trying very hard to
ignore the samples :)
Funky! =) This is soooo 70s I can barely believe you've pulled it
off. :)
Too jolly
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g_smoke . xm -- Sledgehammer
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Great tune! Some parts reminds me WAVE's mods :]
Groovy! =) and it DOESN'T suck. :)
I hate Peter Gabriel
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hd-tt12 . it -- Eneff
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Disjointed, noisy, messy stuff which tries to be a bunch of different
styles and ends up being just plain horrible.
Jesus ain't gonna save yo' sorry ass this time, sucker. :)
Call that a tune?
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hnz-pbly.s3m -- Hunz
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Pornofunkey enough
Nice tune, well tracked, damn I hope you don't beat me. :)
Too happy
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infin . xm -- Lonewolf
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I've never heard of you before TT22, but I like your style!
I liked this until it went all... techno. :P
28 tracks??????
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inp_god . xm -- Inopia
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you're gettin' better! keep at it, man! :)
Urgh. Boring. Repetitive. Monotonous.
? (lost for words)
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j_entry . xm -- Jer
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Remind me never to buy a game that sounds like this. ;} That said,
the bassline amd drums are good.
Don't want your new releases
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lep-evil. xm -- Lepra
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Damn good tune. +2 for arr and mix
Bra jobbat Lepra :) (hehe)
Huh, I should mark you RIGHT down for being scared of a bunch of
fluffy puppets but I can't cos the song rules so much. eeeks.
Speak english, please
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ljr_tt22. it -- Lord Jon Ray
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The start is noisy, you've got the channels panned FULL LEFT/RIGHT
which is plain sloppiness in an s3m, and it's too damned repetitive.
Only one thing prevents me from giving you a 9... the song. :P
Too JapanCheesey
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m1-wl3 . it -- Liam The Lemming (The oasis dude you know ;>)
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man I think ur on ur way to being famous! :) Keep up the good work.
your piece was quite nice, but you could have spent a *wee*
bit more time on the string loops, and actually, after a while,
hat panbrello effect gets *really* annoying.. (only imho)
interestingly, pattern 7 sounds strangely like pattern 18/19
of 'insideout' by pm.. (inspiration? :)
Nice story, shame about the song. :P Boring, repetitive, lost all the
good things that made WL2 so good. Kosmic just grabbed themselves a
lame duck.
Where does it go?
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mgspo4 . it -- 3no
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get later versions of IT for newer features. :)
Takes a while to get going, but it's not bad once it does. The hidden
bit scared me. :D The panning seems deliberately l/r tho, which I had
to knock a point off for. I liked the sampletext tho. ;)
Utterly crap
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mnc-mcas. xm -- Monaco's
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Nice mellow kinda melody.
Nice but unoriginal
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monday . it -- Galahad
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Hmm... it IS boring, isn't it? :P
This worries me...
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ni-cdrea.s3m -- Nitris
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Some very good parts to this song.. doesnt blend together too well in
some parts, but decent overall. The chord progression is somewhat
overused. (somehow cheezy doesnt seem quite right :)
Pure melody... and gorgeous harmonies. You were right. Percussion
would more than likely have spoiled this tune. It's beautiful, and
it flows amazingly well.
Too long
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no-tt22 . it -- Not Opus
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Some good parts here, but a crude overall feeling. The moments of
silence the end do not help.
Too monotonous.
Boring
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nty . it -- Argh
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Cut it out, you dumb brit! My bass bins are fux0red enough as it is!
;) Seriously, tho. It's a decent enough piece of hardcore techno, but
it becomes unsuitably melodic (wow, I never thought I'd use those two
words together) toward the end. It just doesn't sound right in techno
.:}
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pf-hypr2. it -- Pfister
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I hated to knock points off this tune for silly things like a
trailing bass sample, an inaudible bass line (that sinebass was a
bitch to follow) and stuff, but I couldn't let it pass. :I Helluva
shame, cos I loved the tune once I'd "fixed" the faults. Without
those faults I'd have easily awarded this tune an 8. It's quite an
improvement on the original. =)
Heard of Stereo ?
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st-ride . it -- Stein
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I tried and tried, but I could not find any sort of coherent rhythm
with this song, but it could be just me (its happened before :)
Good drums, the rest is worthless
I found myself struggling to keep listening two minutes into this. The
monotony made it really drag on. By the way, LEARN TO USE THE PATTERN
LENGTH FEATURE!!!
Noise.
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trip . xm -- Balrog
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Interesting, but kinda wore off me toward the end.
Where's the tune?
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tf-tinj . xm -- TheFear
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Nice drums and sound effects in some parts.. otherwise fairly boring.
"This Is Not Jazz.", No, it's just cool. :)
Boring
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tt22bb . xm -- Tito
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Perfect, but for one fault; the bass was out of tune. :I
Bass is out of tune.
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ybjuggy . it -- Yannis
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Well. The middle part is very strange, and I think it would sound a
lot better with different samples. But.. the HIDDEN part just
rules :)
Average tune, nice "HiDDeN pHaRT"
"hidden" patterns 1F-23 are the best part!! :]
Yikes. :) I'm giving you a 7 for sheer entertainment value. The song
was a bit duff but the concept made me chuckle. ;)
Great beginning, rest was crap.
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General Comments :
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I was really stunned about that incredible amount of cool sounds
which can be produced by such a humble sample set! OK, the samples
are not really bad (how easily can be found out listening that tunes
:), but it is amazing, though! This proves, that sample quality is
not THAT important thing which makes a good Musician! ... But
interesting, some songs with bad looped samples didn't sound good
though.
I was surprised about the big differences in quality which come with
these songs. Some songs seem to be bad jokes, while others show a lot
of tracking experience and cool tricks. Sadly, some of the better
musicians seemed not to be too much motivated. But still there were
some outstanding songs.
----> 8 bits are enough! i love small songs! efficiency rules!
Hmm. two paragraphs beginning with the word *I* .. am i selfish?
Maybe. But one thing is sure, i will compete again.. It is a very
cool compo. It really doesn't care that my song will be placed
somewhere in the middle field....
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check out the major/7th action!!
there were *far* too many 'major, fade, 7th, fade'-type chord tunes!
they all start to sound the same after a while! ;)
it's in the best interest of entrants to lay off the stuff like
that, which has been done to death already..
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Generally quite decent this time round. Well done to everyone.
Pleaze.. people.. tune those instruments tho!!
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-----< info >---------------------------------------------------------------
The Trackering is divided into 2 weeks, here's the info :
---- compo ---- Week : 1
The Trackering is held on channel #tt, every first and third
Saturday->Sunday of every month at 01.00AM CET / 07.00PM EST. I'll be
offering a samplepack in 1 hour, if you get them I'll declare you an
contestant. If you weren't there in time, you can always get the sample-
pack from ftp.cdrom.com /pub/demos/incoming/music/tt/samples, just make
sure you get the most recent pack. In the samplepack there is a file
called deadline.txt, this shows the date and time when the deadline is.
Right after you get the pack you can begin tracking.
I want all the tunes back before the following weekend, same time(1am
cet/7pm est). I'll be on IRC as axl_ (of course) at that time so you can
just dcc them to me, or mail it to 'axelsson@freenet.hut.fi' with either
UUEncode or MIME. This is just the deadline so you can send your tune
to me during the week.
* Note : TT is on AnotherNet,
so connect your irc-client to one of these AnotherNet servers:
- neato.org
- irc.netnation.com
- serve.org
---- voting ---- week : 2
The vote-pack will be out 1-2 hours after the compo-deadline and
the pack will be available on IRC and on FTP :
- ftp.cdrom.com /pub/demos/incoming/music/tt/votepacks
- ftp.arosnet.se /demo/musicdisk
- filename : tt##vote.zip - where ## is the number of the contest.
Everyone can judge the TT compo, but a contestant must judge it or
he'll be disqualified.
The voting system is a scale from 0-9. There will be a vote-form included
in the vote-pack, which is almost self-explainatory :), If you need
help on how to vote, then just mail me.
The results will be out 1 week after the compo has ended, it'll be
distributed on IRC and in the next sample-pack. You can also get it from
ftp.cdrom.com /pub/demos/incoming/music/tt/results
-----< rules >---------------------------------------------------------------
Formats Allowed : XM, MOD, S3M, MTM, IT
Max Channels : 32 Channels.
Module Max Size : 150k (153600 bytes, uncompressed, unpacked!)
Tracking Time : 1 Week. (From Sun 01.00AM CET)
External Samples : NONE!
* Only one tune per composer
* The tune may NOT! be compressed with any modulecompressor to make it
lower than 150k.
* You can do co-ops, but you have to tell me that when I declare
contestants.
* You have to judge the compo-tunes if you enter the compo.
* You have to either DCC'd or mailed me your entry _before_ Sun 1AM CET
the week after.
* You may edit the samples in whatever way you want, including
FT2 painting, but you may not copy the samples and re-edit it.
But be sure to write in the sample-text what you've done to the
sample you changed (that does not include sample-pitching).
* Written your handle in the sample-text.
* If the competitor doesn't follow this rules, then his module has
the right to be disqualified.
* Please delete the samples you dont use from the sample-pack.
Judging Rules :
- Anyone can judge the compo.
- You may _NEVER_ vote for yourself.
- If a competitor doesn't vote, he will be disqualified.
----< the trackering hall of fame >-----------------------------------------
1. Lemm - wstl-ii . it - 8.000 - TT#11
2. Lepra&Marwin - lepmrw_r. xm - 7.889 - TT#3
3. Lemm - lem-beat. it - 7.688 - TT#15
4. Aahz - az-jahw .s3m - 7.600 - TT#10
5. Radix - dow&son . xm - 7.538 - TT#12
6. Siren - c&r .s3m - 7.556 - TT#4
7. Mellow-D - murder . xm - 7.500 - TT#9
8. Lepra - lep-brkn. xm - 7.455 - TT#14
Yannis - magic . it - 7.455 - TT#14
10. Yannis - wolfen . it - 7.400 - TT#10
Radix - pedigree. xm - 7.400 - TT#18
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----< suggestions & ideas >-------------------------------------------------
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please mail me and tell me it. :)
-----< staff or whom to blame >----------------------------------------------
Axl - Organizer - axelsson@freenet.hut.fi
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