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2 TUNES ENTER, 1 TUNE LEAVES. Who is ultimate victor of the first VST contest?

Poll ended at Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:18 pm

Blinking Lights
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You're Annoying!
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Total votes : 0

VST Contest #1

Postby alphacat » Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:18 pm

Click Here to listen to the songs,

then VOTE you bastards.



You have one week to pick the winner, and they get to pick the featured VSTi for the next round.

August 27th, 2010 EDIT:

The contest produced a tie! Vote Now to help decide who gets to do the next one...
Last edited by alphacat on Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:55 pm, edited 4 times in total.
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby DZA » Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:27 pm

You're Annoying!
.onelove. wrote:There needs to be a DZA app on iPhone just for id'ing old Grime tracks.

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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby Depone » Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:28 pm

Tough call, all had interesting ideas, but for me the most creative use of a vsti was on "Monkey pickle"
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby amidoinitrite » Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:34 pm

Elliptical Chasm
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby sixth sense » Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:39 pm

DZA wrote:You're Annoying!


Voted for this one as well loved the vibe
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby weedcali » Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:10 pm

Blinking Lights has a real Flying Lotus feel to it. loved it!

Elliptical Chasm caught my attention.

Rasta in a Bottle was pretty legit.

Youre Annoying was fuckin sick! real bouncy flow to it.

its a tough call, but im gonna have to vote for Blinking Lights.
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby alphacat » Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:33 pm

Some very, very high quality tunes here - many, many contenders if you ask me - not to mention many tunes I'd love to hear dropped 'pon the dancefloor. Each track has a unique approach and something cool to offer, and that's despite using the same basic kit. There's a lot of musicality going on here too, which is great. I can honestly say that there are no glaringly 'bad' tracks in the lot, IMHO.

Have to say also that anyone who doubted the potential of ELEK7RO may want to reconsider... and I'll bet that some of the participants (as opposed to party zip pants :6: ) may wind up using it or some of the Kjaerhus plugs again in the future.

I'm gonna go spread the word about voting in some other threads (or Freds if you speak Cockney. ;) ) Oh, and this thread needs to be stickied at some point...
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby Phigure » Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:46 pm

Tough decision.

Bunch of good ones here

Definitely liked Rasta in a Bottle a lot, monkeypickle had some sweet sound design, and Dactylic was another nice one as well

But I think Blinking Lights gets the vote
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby alphacat » Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:30 pm

OK, 2 things:

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1) THE VOTING HAD TO BE RESET. Here I thought that I'd been all careful and thorough and avoided making the same mistakes we've seen in past contests, but I fucked up and missed a tune - "Contest" - that I just added to the set. Please be sure and give it a listen. My sincere apologies to the producer of that tune as well as all of you who already voted! :( Please re-submit your vote (all 10 of you that already voted, that is.)

2) Anyone fancy making a mix from these tunes when the contest is over?
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby paravrais » Thu Aug 19, 2010 11:23 pm

Ah cool they're up! Time to start listening then..
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby tripaddict » Thu Aug 19, 2010 11:49 pm

will check em all out later is there a dedicated listening thread with all the submissions ?
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby tripaddict » Thu Aug 19, 2010 11:53 pm

Dactylic got my vote ;)

structured, melodic, well mastered and diverse :D
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby Recessive Trait » Fri Aug 20, 2010 12:31 am

dude, in the end there was no contest.

for a while it was a close call between elliptical charm, monkey pickle and rasta in a bottle, but then i heard:

you're annoying!

this beat takes the cake. it's not a song, per se, but as a hip hop beat it is great. it's the only one of the submissions that i would actually listen to again (no offence other guys - hey i didn't even finish mine), and i would totally dig it again especially if it was done up in full. truly grooving! nice one whomever wrote that piece.
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby deadly habit » Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:45 am

blinking lights did it for me
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby curmee » Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:20 am

Natural System was my favorite :wink:
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby bustadoug » Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:28 pm

ill go with out for a walk
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby icanicant » Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:35 pm

blinkin lights just over your annoying
New Track. 140 subby business
http://soundcloud.com/d-m-p-1/gallon

New mix - of the ramadanman / fantastic mr fox ilk

http://soundcloud.com/d-m-p-1/brushy-tees-mix
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby alphacat » Fri Aug 20, 2010 6:49 pm

I think it's interesting that nobody used any vocals too.
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Re: VOTE HERE for the winner of VST Contest #1!

Postby Lethargik » Fri Aug 20, 2010 7:18 pm

out for a walk, nice tune :)
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