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-----< results >------------------------------------------------------------
These are the results for The Trackering #26 :
(Now featuring Hornet Ratings(tm) :>)
1. Radix - sunchild. it 6.400 - ***+
2. Mickrip - mr_whine. it 5.929 - ***+
3. Ballistique - tb-lizrd. it 5.400 - ***
4. Argh! - tb-80s-2. it 5.267 - ***
5. Liam The Lemming - m1-aim . it 5.143 - ***
6. Cruel Creator - cc!box . xm 5.000 - ***
7. Zest - tt26zest. xm 4.733 - ***
8. Lagioto - rl_adbfx. it 4.714 - ***
9. Stg - stg-ttt . it 4.533 - ***
10. Welti - robbie . it 4.500 - ***
11. Cubik - cbk_mvot. xm 4.467 - **+
12. Keefa-Z - keefa . xm 4.154 - **+
13. Lonewolf - downtown. xm 4.071 - **+
14. Assign - agn-tt26. xm 3.857 - **+
15. Csabo - logre . it 3.429 - **
16. Animal - an_32mns. xm 3.286 - **
17. Lord Jon Ray - midvoc . it 2.786 - **
18. Mild - coke . xm 2.286 - *+
19. Recc - kintobor. xm 2.067 - *+
Inopia - inp_depr. xm 2.067 - *+
Voters :
shaithis, Caramel, LordJonRay, axl, assign, welti, CruelCreator,
Lagioto, Keefa-Z-, LOgre, MickRip, phantasm, Lemm, LoneWolf, Mild.
* I wont disqualify anyone because today is TT and I is one year
older :D. TT is 1 year.. horray.
-----< comments >-----------------------------------------------------------
1. Radix - sunchild. it 6.400 - ***+
* Cool panning. Drums need to pick up tho. Decent leads. Drums too quiet
. Relatively well put together over all. Better ending needed.
* Thanks a lot for saving my day! This tune is excellentamundo.
Nothing more to say.
* Speed and Tempo should have been a bit faster on this one... maybe
a Speed - 5
* You should have made more of this song! It shows a lot of potential,
but simply isn't worked out.
* You know you rule man. I wish you would track more tunes for
everybody's pleasure :D
* This is very good, and it should win. The string sample didn't fuck
up anything too badly to affect the enjoyment/atmosphere.
* I give you my word, this does NOT suck. =) Keep writing those groovy
.ITs dude. =)
* Can't you ever make a bad tune?
* i love this style
2. Mickrip - mr_whine. it 5.929 - ***+
* I love the way Mickrip does drums! :) Very distinctive style. Well put
together. Nice harmonies, cool use of chords as leads. Good tune! Per
manant PMT?
* Whoa.. it's.. GREAT. Freaky style and all that. Perhaps the hihats
are a bit too amped, but who am I to complain since I didn't even
enter this time.
* Very good. I guess ispiration can come from despair :)
* the complete title is rock. :P
* Groovy. Not SO bad mixing. But quit telling me what's so bad about
W95, you sod, I'm trying to build up the courage to install it. :)
* funky
3. Ballistique - tb-lizrd. it 5.400 - ***
* Interesting "New Age" tune. Good effects. A bit repetative. Drums too
quiet. Drop your lead echo down another 8 lines or so, and the lead wo
uld sound _really_ cool.
* Yaaawn. Clichs all over. Is this a hangover I'm having?
* Good to here about places in England, wished I was there... ;>
* I liked that mood in your tune a lot. Well done!
* Nice tune, the lead is a bit messy though. Not the melody, the sample.
You should use a cleaner sample for the lead...or paint one :)
* I loved the lazy atmosphere and the modulations. Very well mixed and
tracked, well done!
* GEE IT SOUNDED OK IN CUBIK PLAYER TO ME *cough*
Nice laid-back tune... I hope you get your mb/cards/etc sorted out
soon; you write great stuff and I know I'll miss it a lot.
* top notch. steal a soundcard so you can keep tracking.
4. Argh! - tb-80s-2. it 5.267 - ***
* Okay intro. Techno tune...well put together. Decent lead. Altogether a
pretty cool tune.
* Indeed boring chords and percussion. Ahhey.
* Drastically different from your other work I've heard :) Really good!
* Some nice ideas in there. The mixing was pretty good too.
* HEY DONT TELL ME NOT WHAT TO USE AND THING COS I LIKE CUBIK COS IT
ROOLZ *ahem*
Werd to the 80s, for verily they roqeth mine werld muchly. :)
* I like this.
5. Liam The Lemming - m1-aim . it 5.143 - ***
* Ehahahah lemm...I hit F6 instead of F5...only playing the first patter
n. I'm like "wtf?!?!"....alright...there we go. F5 this time. Nice int
ro. Picks up well. Good panning. Typical Lemm quality. :) Hey, cool pi
ckup with stronger drums. Good leads too. Far better than anything els
e I've heard so far. (And eventually my pick for best. Woop!)
* Perhaps a tad too much of a clich, but still: melodic and NICE to
listen to. I liked it FAR better than your tt25-tune.
* The begining guitar sounds a bit offtune, or offkey (whatever). But
overall it's quite lemm-cheesy. Not his best though.
* Typical lemm :) Nice lead comes in but you should vary the structure
a little.. and DO A DIFFERENT STYLE sometime :)
* yep, you've definately written better songs
* Your rhythtm was a bit limp, probably because you flooded the
orchestration with too many string samples. Nice progression.
Typical 'lemm' trademarks
* it may be a very fake sounding guitar, yes, but that sounds sO cool
with an nna and a simple envelope. great work!~@
* "Aimless" my arse, this is WASTELANDS 4. :) You're gonna get yourself
a name for composing with "progression bla-bla-bla" like Necros, you
know that? :)
* mediocre. percussion is nice, tho.
6. Cruel Creator - cc!box . xm 5.000 - ***
* A respectable effort! Kinda short tho. :)
* Hey ho, let's go clogdancing. Or something. This tune is very cool
indeed!
* The organ is played a bit too loud, and it's a bit short. Otherwise
it's quite a cool, happy tune. :D.
* Nice pleasant progressions, but bad mixing and poor tuning make the
tune as a whole only about half as good as what it should have been.
* Great song... but the panning was wack. :P You don't pan some stuff
full left and some other stuff full right. It doesn't work very well.
* overall phatness outshines flaws. i like
7. Zest - tt26zest. xm 4.733 - ***
* Needs to go somewhere. No leads. No harmony. Just another techno tune.
Average
* No thanks.
* YES! a Rave tune... Thanks dude P-) Rave On!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* Come on you can do better :)
* hmm.. i *like* this one.. and i don't really like the other songs i've
heard from you.. odd..
* I would have liked a few more ideas. Implementation was good though.
* Very stylish and cool. I really liked this one, why didn't you? It rep
resents something else than the usual "TT"-style module. I'm sure Hunz
found it strange that someone created techno - as good as this - with
his samples.
* hmmm.. weird
8. Lagioto - rl_adbfx. it 4.714 - ***
* Cool intro. Nice "Happy" song. :) Lagioto is quite a good tracker.
wow...tons of stuff going on, but mixed well. Cool leads, good effects
. Neet drums too!
* A bit christmas-carol-ish if you ask me :) Repetitive. Uninspired
lead. But otherwise a very nice piece of tracking.
* ccur stuff is getting better, don't back down now, go fer tha TOP!
* Nice tune, the high freqs seem to go down on you though.
* reminds me of a michael bolton song.. =/
* Arg, the tuning is wrong. Where's the bass sample? Where's the lower
end? This tune would be ok if you fix all these problems.
* Too cluttered. =(
* too happy :)
9. Stg - stg-ttt . it 4.533 - ***
* This song shows promise, but kinda falls short. USE YOUR PANNING! Dece
nt drums and leads tho. Pretty average all around.
* This tune was..uh..strange. A bit bad. Yes. Still.. why do I like it?
* Your Original, I like that... Liked the beat in the 2nd part.
* You know, there are other panning position except left and right :)
Good song though.
* Nice rhythm. Bad everything else unfortunately. Although the 2nd
section was very nice. Everything was nicely executed when the tune
jumped into a happy and content mode. Left/right panning?
* i dunno what rules in this song, but there's definitely something. a
breath of fresh air in an otherwise pretty dull votepack. the synth is
too loud in the first part though.
* Improved a lot around order 24 when the strings came in.
* Actually, TT rules, so you have to do a good tune to win ;) Not bad th
ough!
* cheezy but not that bad
10. Welti - robbie . it 4.500 - ***
* Eerie intro...Drums too quiet. Other than that pretty good. Could use
some effects tho.
* I especially liked the intro. What did you do, smoke yer socks? :)
But the tune itself is okay. Not too good, not too bad. You know.
* I love what you did at the begining of this song! I've often wonder
about synt. a voice with instruments.
* What's up with the first pattern?, otherwise quite a nice tune :D
* I would have given more if this tune wasn't a tad noisy.
* bad rhythm. The main theme was interesting, and t seems to go all
over the place a bit (in terms of metre), but I liked that :)
* Cute little tune. :) But WHAT DOES THE SPEECH SAY?!?"?!$%!$
* i don't like this one
11. Cubik - cbk_mvot. xm 4.467 - **+
* Totally Average.
* Very good potential, but the lead is dissonant on several occations.
Also, far too short.
* Way too chaotic ;D some good parts but do you deliberately ruin them?
* A bit disorganised in both the structure and the mixing. Nice sounds
in some places, but the rest sounded bad.
* fun little tewn, cool to watch too =)
* Nice scrolling-up-through-the-pattern bit. ;) The song wasn't too bad
either. ;>
* weird groovy tune
12. Keefa-Z - keefa . xm 4.154 - **+
* Decent intro. Cool, a song with real melody and harmony. Leads are a l
ittle loud and eclectic. Ugh, dissonant chords...the first half was be
tter, but overall okay.
* If I have to listen to this to find Nirvana, I think I'd rather go
have a Big Mac.
* Nice sounds now and then. Some nice chordal movements. Melodys were
pretty poor though. Keep trying.
* It IS a bit "Deer Hunter", isn't it? :) That doesn't make it bad tho.
It's a rare progression... and I liked it. =) Nice bit of almost-
ambient. =)
* not bad
13. Lonewolf - downtown. xm 4.071 - **+
* Yet another "bunch of noises and effects" tune. Come one folks...
* Uh. Messy.
* Not your best, but I like you style, Keep it up! (LJR)
* Weird. :) Kind of drives you dizzy.
* Although it wasn't all that musical, I liked the atmosphere. The rest
however was dissapointing.
* the dougy synth sounds like it's trying to be in pinion's waterscape.
* The most weird-ass rhythm I've ever heard. :D Not the kinda thing you
generally expect to hear from tracked music. Pity the song itself
isn't brilliant. Oh well. :>
* strange
14. Assign - agn-tt26. xm 3.857 - **+
* No real harmony or melody.
* What IS this?
* Repetitiove, but pretty nice.
* The is a peice of poo - one big huge mistake. Wrong notes, no sense
of anythingg musical whatsoever.
* Doh! I was listening to this for 3 minutes before I realized it had
LOOPED. :)
* out of tune, sorta yucky
15. Csabo - logre . it 3.429 - **
* Drums overdone in beginning. Interesting "heavy" feel. You need some r
evern and effects though. Maybe some melody in pattern 4? This song is
way too eclectic. Pick a style and stay there man. :)
* Well.. er.. it's kinda mean, isn't it? Anyways, perhaps one can
say that this is just a big shitload of cacophonia, and I am willing
to agree.
* Where is LoGre?!?!?! I used to count of him for me not coming in last
place. Come back, we need you! :)
* 4324 styles in one. I wonder if you scared LOgre away from TT? :>
* aww.. sweet of you to do a tribute, but you'll probably want to leave
this sort of music to Depeche Mode.. btw, why did you promise that you
'll write an 'industrial' tune? i have yet to write any industrial mus
ic for TT.. maybe you should do yourself a favour and do some reading
on the genre.
* Man, if you spent a few hours more on the peice and decided to
elaborate on your ideas instead of turning it in some cheesy
rhapsodic mishmash, it's be good.
* Damn you and your filenames... :> Even so, I don't think LOgre2'3 is
QUITE gonna get the message. :> ...Ow. This IS horrible in parts.
Given thedecent tune you did last time, you must have worked HARD to
make this sound so bad. And yet some bits of it sound okay. Just as
well you DIDN'T try too hard, huh? ;)
* sucks
16. Animal - an_32mns. xm 3.286 - **
* 32 minutes...<sigh>...yeh, it shows. Put in some more effort.
* This is what I call a complete waste of 45 secs.
* Too Short!
* Could be good but too damn short.
* why did you bother?
* leave the 30min songs to tempest :P
* Next time you leave your TT entry so late, wait until the deadline
has passed then get the Cruelization samples instead. :)
* sorta cool, i guess
17. Lord Jon Ray - midvoc . it 2.786 - **
* Not too bad...Since you already know it's repetative, I guess I won't
comment on that...D'OH! :) Samples in tune, kind of lacks direction.
First half was better, more melodic.
* Hm.. that bassline is indeed very ugly, isn't. Not too good.
Still an improvement from the last one I heard from you.
..and YES, it IS monotonous.
* Even the so-called 'repetitive' styles can be varied and made more
interesting. it doesn't have to be jazzy-orchestra-blah to be varying
and fresh sounding.
* not bad, though it could use a bit less tranciness
* The very average unimaginative music was poorly executed.
* Yup, repetitive. Yup, improved some. Nope, still not gonna set the
world on fire. :)
* boring
18. Mild - coke . xm 2.286 - *+
* All effects, no substance. :(
* I HAVE to get some fresh air.
* A masterpiece :)
* not bad for 5 seconds =)
* You are an idiot. Weirdness for the sake of shit.
* yes, that's pretty damn weird.
* Sounds Like Five Seconds... :P (Weird, btw. :) )
19. Recc - kintobor. xm 2.067 - *+
* Another "bunch of noises" song. Try for some substance.
* Does the word "blargh" give any hints?
* are you still possesed by _gore while making the tunes?
* Ack :)
* uhh... is this what they call "experimental"?
* The 'sound' wasn't too bad, but the implementation was horrid.
* It'd make a good atmospheric thingy to have in the background of some
game... but TT ain't no game. :)
* woo... somebody else entered a 30 second piece of crap tune. i thought
i'd be the only one :)
19. Inopia - inp_depr. xm 2.067 - *+
* Not terribly interesting. Shows some good fundamentals tho. Keep pract
icing. Try and use some effects. Very repetative.
* Well, now you've made me depressed also.
* ugh *cough* erm
* I don't care how depressed you are, I feel more for the people who
were unfortunate enough to be close by while you were tracking this
horrid piece of shit.
* Misery loves company. Ouch. =P Keep coding... :>
* not bad for a tune that uses no effects (ie it sucks)
-----< 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 the tracker in whatever way you want,
you may NOT copy the samples and make several different
instruments. (one sample, one instrument). You may NOT use any
external program to edit/process the samples.
* Be sure to write in the sample-test what you did 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 1997 hall of fame >------------------------------------
1. Radix - sunchild. it - 6.400 - TT#26
2. Mickrip - mr_whine. it - 5.929 - TT#26
3. Ballistique - tb-lizrd. it - 5.400 - TT#26
4. Argh! - tb-80s-2. it - 5.267 - TT#26
5. Lemm - m1-aim . it - 5.143 - TT#26
6. Cruel Creator - cc!box . xm - 5.000 - TT#26
7. Zest - tt26zest. xm - 4.733 - TT#26
8. Lagioto - rl_adbfx. it - 4.714 - TT#26
9. Stg - stg-ttt . it - 4.533 - TT#26
10. Welti - robbie . it - 4.500 - TT#26
----< the trackering 1996 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
-----< Mailing List >--------------------------------------------------------
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you votepacks/samplepacks and results of The Trackering, then just send
an e-mail to axelsson@freenet.hut.fi, and write the following as Subject
to subscribe:
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* this because the damn filter system isn't word-sensetive, so you
will not be removed if I had used "Unsubscribe". :>
----< suggestions & ideas >-------------------------------------------------
If you have any suggestions or ideas laying around in your head
please mail me and tell me it. :)
-----< staff or whom to blame >----------------------------------------------
Axl - Organizer - axelsson@freenet.hut.fi
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