ARIICH’S ROULETTE OF WONDER, PART II We’re back, bitches! Competition should be fierce this time:
Gorille
LLTWM
DTVT
Ytse
Ravenbuel
jingle
kingshmeg
Sigzypoo
I haven’t yet decided how many rounds I’ll do, it depends how fast things go and how many ideas I come up with. But it’ll be in the region of 6-8 rounds, and if it’s on the lower end then I’ll do some kind of playoff/final, just to add a fun bit of competition in! I would like to keep this roulette a bit more prompt than the last one I did (which was usually my fault, admittedly) but I know I didn’t send a reminder as I didn’t realise I was up so soon, so a bit of a delay on this first round will be forgiven.
The themes will mostly be based around moods, rather than specific styles or anything too restrictive. Hopefully this will keep things somewhat open and allow people to send things that they think I'll like, rather than struggling to find something that happens to fit an arbitrary theme.
What you can send me:Rather than use last.fm (which is not really suitable for me as lots of stuff I listen to isn’t in there, and it’s not really indicative of how much I like something), I use RYM. My account is here:
https://rateyourmusic.com/~ariich[In case you’re not familiar with RYM, here’s how to use it for this: scroll down to the Music section of my profile, and you can check out the Ratings button to see the list of my 5 star albums, 4.5 star albums, and so on. It also makes things easy to see if I am familiar with a band or artist, as at the top of the Music section there is a “Search ariich's music for” field, so you can check whether I have rated an artist (if not, it will run the search but there will be no results).]
I will allow submissions of any band or artist I have never rated an album by with more than 3 stars, as long as the song sent is not on an album I have rated. Obviously artists I’m not at all familiar with are best, but sometimes I hear some music that I’m not that keen on but the artist has other music that I might love. Use this however you like, but obviously the more albums I’ve rated lower by an artist (or indeed the more similar a song is to the album I’ve rated lower) the less likely I am to like the other song by them.
If the same artist is sent by more than one person in the same round, that’s fine. Once an artist has been submitted, they cannot be sent again if they scored 3 or more points (reasons same as above). This may seem weird, but Mason used this to very good effect in my first roulette.
There is no limit on song length, though obviously I will be judging from only a few listens, so if a song is
particularly long or meandering, that could be quite risky.
How to submit:My main preference for submissions is via Spotify links, but if you don’t use Spotify (or the song is not on there) then submissions can also be mp3s or, failing that, Grooveshark. Absolute last resort can be Youtube, but I’d prefer not (unless there’s a particularly significant promo vid accompanying).
Links should be via PM, mp3s via email (to my DTF username @gmail.com).
How I will score:The top song each round will receive 6 points. The rest of the songs will score anything from 1-5, but there will only ever by a maximum of two songs receiving the same number of points to ensure there is a spread. I.e. the highest quality round will see scores of 6, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, and the worst will see 6, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1.
My tastes:I have very eclectic tastes, in all honesty. I am extremely open-minded and have no bias when it comes to genre or style. I am more familiar with various rock and metal genres than any other simply because of my listening habits as a teenager, but even within those there is a ton of stuff I’ve never checked out. So just send me anything you think I’d like based either on my RYM ratings, or anything else you know about me, or even simply because you yourself love it. It’s not a requirement, but in your submissions if you could include an explanation of what's so good about the song, I can listen out for it.
ROUND 1: Opening Songs – I love a good start to an album, so send me any song that opens an album. If there is an intro track that leads into the first full song, it is fine to send both as one submission. Other than that, no restrictions on style, etc. Go!
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