Hey folks!
The time has finally come for me to start my roulette, and hopefully it will run quite smoothly. Unlike many other members who are busy with school or work, I currently have nothing on my schedule (since I continue studying halfway through September), so getting regular updates should not be a problem on my part.
In this post I will try to explain the details for the roulette, also the participants and the different rounds. I think most of you should be familiar with the "deal" by now, but if someone isn't 100% sure of the rules, they are quite simple.
Everyone sends me a song fitting under the Round-theme by an artist or a band that I don't know but you think I might like. I check the songs out and score them, eventually we get a winner after all the rounds are done.
The Participants:*Ravenheart
*Heretic
*Gorille85
*kári
*Lateralus88
*ClairvoyantCatSo 6 participants, all are cool dudes.
Before I go through the most important information, I thought I would already give you the rounds. This way, it might help with planning or some thinking about what to send for which round, and if you feel like it's too much to take in right now, you can skip the Round-section for now and come back to it as the roulette moves forward. However, make sure you check out the last section of this post since it will have some key information.
Rounds:Round 1 - OpenLike the title suggests, an open round where you can send pretty much whatever you want. Maybe something that doesn't quite fit into the other categories, or just something cool overall.Round 2 - Dark/LayeredFor Rounds 2 and 3, my initial idea was to have two opposite rounds. At first I played with the idea of a Heavy round and a Soft round, but I know that some people listen to more softer music and some listen to more heavier, so I think that would have been unfair. My idea instead changed to this, the thought of a Dark round and one Light round.
The title is fairly open to interpretation, and what's dark to someone might not be as dark to someone else. But when I think of "Dark", I think about the words "dense", "layered". Perhaps also a bit "depressing" or a sad atmosphere.Round 3 - Light/Scaled DownSo, as the opposite round of Round 2, here I want something drastically different from the previous round. To me the word "Light" could be used in the same context as "Scaled Down", "Positive" and maybe "Uplifting". If the previous round had a song with lots of layers and lots of things going on, then I would want this to be something more simple, something more basic.
But again, the title is very open to interpretation, and I will have a fairly open mind regarding what you might send.Round 4 - Avant-Garde/ExperimentalBring on the odd stuff! This round will also be a bit vague in the sense that "Avant-Garde" and "Experimental" can have different meanings to different people. I'm looking for something that isn't your typical song structure, but instead a song that takes on some twists and turns and has something related to the round-title. Avant-Garde or Experimental? It's your choice.Round 5 - FusionSort of inspired by Xanthul's roulette. In this round I'm looking for a song that blends different elements together. It could be Metal and Electronica or Jazz and Progressive Rock, I'm more interested in how these elements work together and how good the song is, than what the elements are. It can be more than two musical styles in one song as well, but at least two fairly obvious influences should be clear in the song.Round 6 - NewTwo more opposite-rounds. As the title suggests, here I'm looking for something new. A band or an artist with only one album out would be pretty optimal, but if you have one with two albums out, then it's not a big deal.Round 7 - Old"Old" can have different meanings. For some, music from the 90's is old, for others the same word applies to music from the 70's. I'm not going to set a year, but I'm thinking pre-90's. If you happen to have something to send from the first years of the 90's, then that's fine too. Round 8 - Band RoundSometimes it's hard to get someone interested in a band or an artist just with one song. This is where Round 8 comes in. Here you will send 3 songs by one band/artist, and the score will be based on how good those 3 songs are. Apart from that, the theme is open. It can be 3 songs by a singer/songwriter or by a metalband, or anything else. Your pick!Rules/Information:*The scoring system will be 0 to 10 for each song in each round, and there might also be a bonus point if I've been meaning to check out the band/artist or if the song fits perfectly into the round-theme.
*Sending the songs and how you do it might be very different. A Grooveshark or a Youtube link in a PM with some basic information about the song/artist, but sending an .mp3 file also works. If you want to do the latter, my email is: jimmy.olofsson@outlook.com
*Knowing what to send and what you can't send, use my lastfm profile:
www.last.fm/user/Zantera/library?sortBy=nameIt should be sorted alphabetically, and here you can simply browse through what I have listened to and what I know.
HOWEVER.. I do happen to have some artists scrobbled, but I don't quite know them. The reason is that I used Spotify a lot last summer, added lots of stuff to my list, and had the list on random. So I'm gonna allow some exceptions if I have less then 20 scrobbles of something, but if I have scrobbled the song itself then I can't really allow it. (20 is a high number, but in some cases I might have one song scrobbled that many times and not much else)
So, I'm gonna send out some PMs and hopefully we can get this show on the road.
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