Beat battle discussion thread

The Red Scare · Post by **The Red Scare** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:14 pm

EDIT:

I'll leave this poll open for a day or two. We'll roll with whichever one gets the most votes.

choice #1 - We all remix the same track and can use whatever samples we want

choice #2 - everyone submits one mp3 as a sample source, and each person can use everyone else's mp3s to make their beats.

choice #3 - We all use the same group of pre-selected mp3s or albums for our sample sources.

sun ra · Post by **sun ra** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:35 pm

I'm in.

CHANCE RANDOM · Post by **CHANCE RANDOM** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:36 pm

let's have another battle. the last one fell flat on its face.

Captin Planit · Post by **Captin Planit** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:39 am

I promise to submit this time.

The Red Scare · Post by **The Red Scare** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:57 am

How should we organize it?

I kinda liked what we did before...everyone uploads one mp3 of their choice to be used as a sample source, and we all use each others samples to make our beats.

LameAim · Post by **LameAim** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:04 am

I'm in. I need some motivation to churn out something new. But I tend to like the prepackaged-sample type competitions a bit better. The one we did with the Ennio Morricone soundtracks was awesome to me. Lots of room for variety.

sun ra · Post by **sun ra** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:09 am

The Red Scare wrote:How should we organize it?

I kinda liked what we did before...everyone uploads one mp3 of their choice to be used as a sample source, and we all use each others samples to make our beats.

that sounds perfect to me.

Captin Planit · Post by **Captin Planit** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:46 am

The Red Scare wrote:I kinda liked what we did before.

Of course you do, you put on a three-ring circus and the rest of us watched and applauded when the lights went down.

Fuckin' show-off.

CHANCE RANDOM · Post by **CHANCE RANDOM** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:31 am

Captin Planit wrote:
The Red Scare wrote:I kinda liked what we did before.
Of course you do, you put on a three-ring circus and the rest of us watched and applauded when the lights went down.

Fuckin' show-off.

it's true.

ardamus · Post by **ardamus** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:00 pm

Captin Planit wrote:I promise to submit this time.

You better dammit.

And I'll be down for it, if Red promises to be a spectator more so now. Damn dude kills it everytime.

Renessis · Post by **Renessis** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:19 pm

I always forget about the battles. Upload a sample and not visit the board for a week or two. If this does happen I'll make sure not to forget this time.

CHANCE RANDOM · Post by **CHANCE RANDOM** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:50 pm

Renessis wrote:I always forget about the battles. Upload a sample and not visit the board for a week or two. If this does happen I'll make sure not to forget this time.

this is kind of a good point. maybe each contestant should receive periodic PM updates? or at least one like a couple days before the end of the battle.

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:16 pm

im down, we should do a ranking system though and then come up with a final tally. like mf bob got 1 1 2 4 3 votes, get me?

and everyone who submits has to review each track

CHANCE RANDOM · Post by **CHANCE RANDOM** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 2:49 pm

citizen wrote:im down, we should do a ranking system though and then come up with a final tally. like mf bob got 1 1 2 4 3 votes, get me?

and everyone who submits has to review each track

kind of like a 5 star system or something?

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:48 pm

QWALMS wrote:
citizen wrote:im down, we should do a ranking system though and then come up with a final tally. like mf bob got 1 1 2 4 3 votes, get me?

and everyone who submits has to review each track
kind of like a 5 star system or something?

no like, everyone who votes just ranks in order whos beat they liked
1. alchemist
2. rza
3. pete rock

then at the end its like
alchemist got these votes 1 1 5 2 3

and then they get added up so whoever has the lowest number is the winner. we did this before about 3 years ago

Nacho Vidal · Post by **Nacho Vidal** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:07 pm

I'm down.

Brazen · Post by **Brazen** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:11 pm

I'm always down...last one failed pretty horribly though. I'm down though, no doubt

CHANCE RANDOM · Post by **CHANCE RANDOM** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:20 pm

citizen wrote:
QWALMS wrote:
citizen wrote:im down, we should do a ranking system though and then come up with a final tally. like mf bob got 1 1 2 4 3 votes, get me?

and everyone who submits has to review each track
kind of like a 5 star system or something?
no like, everyone who votes just ranks in order whos beat they liked
1. alchemist
2. rza
3. pete rock

then at the end its like
alchemist got these votes 1 1 5 2 3

and then they get added up so whoever has the lowest number is the winner. we did this before about 3 years ago

how dare you put alchemist above rza and rock

but good call, i think that's a nice system.

Captin Planit · Post by **Captin Planit** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:02 pm

That ranking system is a great idea. I thought you meant everyone rates the beats on a 1 to 5 scale.

'Cuz I was gettin' ready to basically give everybody a 2 after everyone else rated the beats fairly.

sun ra · Post by **sun ra** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:19 pm

so, when do we start?

Renessis · Post by **Renessis** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:18 am

sun ra wrote:so, when do we start?

The Red Scare · Post by **The Red Scare** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:03 am

Sorry for the delay...here's how we'll do this.

I don't have any ideas for a sample package, so everyone who wants to enter the battle, upload one mp3 of your choice that will be used as a sample source. Each person can use everyone else's mp3s to make their beats with.

You can add your own drums and bassline, but don't use any samples outside of the songs that people provide when making your beat.

Every poster who enters the battle will be expected to vote and give their opinions on all of the other beats. This will make sure that every participant gets some solid feedback.

For the voting, I was thinking that instead of having to rank all the beats in order, each voter should just list their top 3. A first place vote gets 3 points, a second place vote gets 2 points, and a third place vote gets 1 point. The person with the most points wins the battle. How does that sound?

Everyone who wants to participate, you have until Sunday to sign up and post your sample source.

CHANCE RANDOM · Post by **CHANCE RANDOM** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:09 am

count me in. i'll have my sample source up in the next couple days.

AWAE · Post by **AWAE** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:42 am

you should post shitty songs and see whos really good..

perabigail · Post by **perabigail** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:12 am

i'm down i just really dont like the "upload your samples and only use those" idea, kinda takes all the fun out of it for me. i think it would be cooler if someone chose an acapella and we all remixed that or something.

but fuck it. either way im down, count me in.

The Red Scare · Post by **The Red Scare** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:58 am

^We could do a remix battle if that's what others are up for. It doesn't matter to me. We haven't had one of those in a couple years.

Thoughts anyone?

AWAE · Post by **AWAE** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:25 pm

if its a remix i'm in..

The Red Scare · Post by **The Red Scare** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:42 pm

ok, let's just do a remix then. no one has uploaded any samples anyway.

any ideas for the track?

AWAE · Post by **AWAE** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 3:58 pm

i just got redman - whatever man..

buncha stuff here:
http://www.acapellaarchives.blogspot.com/

Nacho Vidal · Post by **Nacho Vidal** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:07 pm

The Red Scare wrote:^We could do a remix battle if that's what others are up for. It doesn't matter to me. We haven't had one of those in a couple years.

Thoughts anyone?

My thoughts are that people are just gonna take pre-constructed beats, fit the vocals to them and submit. Which is fine ethically, but that sucks the fun out of this whole thing.

I much preferred when you uploaded the Good, Bad & Ugly soundtrack, etc and we had to build beats from that. It was a challenge (plus I had a gang of new samples to work with).

I'm down either way. Just saying.

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