2006
I got (not including myself) 28 submissions, which is just a hair under 1% of the average unique daily readership of this blog. On the one hand, I thought more people would participate; on the other hand, I'm almost glad more didn't, because with dealing with the BigSeq release, this almost got away from me. I'm definitely going to have a submission form for next month's entries, to better organize everything so I can do it all in one sitting.
Without further ado, here is the MP3 of the whole mess, rendered straight from Nuendo. I used a pretty heavy dose of L3 to tame the levels, because the submissions were all over the map, so if you submitted, yours might sound a little more squished than when it left your computer. Including the original loop and mine, there are 30 in all, which ends up being slightly over 3 minutes long. It is a mind-bending collection that runs the gamut from nearly prog-rock to nearly ambient. The amazing thing you'll immediately notice is that they all blend together quite well. Using the common source material is the cause of that, I suppose.
No favorites were played, and I added all the files in the order they were received or put up on the site. Here is the list, in order, with websites where applicable:
1. Original Loop
2. Chris Randall
3. shamann
4. Peter Forret
5. Ruger Seeds
6. Switchonoff
7. Wade Alin
8. skOre
9. unempty
10. Angstrom
11. thephlexican
12. X. Cerveau
13. James Douglas
14. PBXorcist
15. Matt Giant
16. Jan Nemecek
17. Navs Abbanay
18. Niclas Markbäck
19. Till
20. Jason vanHelsdingen
21. Bjorn Vayner
22. Cain Torst
23. meto
24. Gösta Wellmer
25. Georg Bosch
26. D' MacKinnon
27. Brandon Daniel
28. MarkmaN
29. Justin Walgran
30. Chris Cortier
After listening to the final product I cant help but wonder if what an arranged version might sound like (All 30 each used once, but arranged for flow)
posted February 11, 2006 by PBXorcist
All we need is Rick Wakeman doing some widdly organ solo over top, and we could be the new kings of prog.
Weird that mine and Jan's sound so much alike. He and I should compare notes.
posted February 11, 2006 by shamann
Keith.
posted February 11, 2006 by X.Cerveau Media
posted February 11, 2006 by whiteboysushi
posted February 11, 2006 by whiteboysushi
I'll have to do something with the next one. If nothing else, there can be some kind of junky-sounding crap in the middle to make everyone else sound better.
posted February 11, 2006 by Solipsist Nation
posted February 11, 2006 by tillthen
Can´t wait for the next one
posted February 12, 2006 by meto
great stuff...I'm looking forward to participating in the next one!
btw, 0:13 (shamann) and 1:34 (mine) are a bit similar :)
posted February 11, 2006 by resonaut