A word of welcomeI didn’t expect to ever have time for another Roulette, but now that this Corona crisis forces me to barely leave the house… STAY AT HOME - MINI HOME ROULETTE LETS GO!
Format The format will be quite simple, it starts with 4 regular rounds with the first one being a cut-off round if more than 10 people apply. This will be followed by a final EP round, details for this below. I will allow any song up till 8 minutes and give everyone the chance to send one song that is below 20 minutes. This can be done in any round you want. Do note that you don’t have to send a long, I actually usually prefer short songs. Just a heads up, the best song of my previous roulette, and most listened song of that year according to Spotify, is less than 3 minutes long (such attention span I know). I’m not putting up any themes as I don’t want to restrict the players (very lazy too I know). Please note that it’s a short roulette, and that you are in for all but the last round if you made it past the first one, so please take risks!
Oh and songs will be scored out of 10 (damn I started to miss this intuitive grading system now that I live in Germany).
Also deadline for sending will be 48 hours after the results. Late submission is less listens. in general I won't wait ;p
EP RoundThe three participants who have the highest summed score after the first four rounds can send an EP (the others are of course still welcome to send one, but won't be able to earn points for it).
EP's have to adhere to the following:
The maximum total time length is 30 minutes and the minimum is 24.
The maximum amount of songs is how many you can fit within the time limit, the minimum is 3.
The maximum amount of songs by one artist is 3, the minimum amount of
different artists is 3.
Scoring will be done as follows:
The mean score over all songs on the EP will be calculated. This will be multiplied by 2.
Songs that segue into each other (including short introduction songs) may be counted as one song, if you want to make use of this let me know.
On top of this 5 points will be awarded for flow, story and creativity.
The total amount of possible points in the EP round is thus 25.
The EP score will be added up to the point total from the first four rounds, making the maximum achievable score in this roulette 65 points.
The person with the highest score wins!
TastesI would say that I am quite open to try a lot of things. Lately (I say lately, but I mean the past two years) I listen mostly to Indie Rock and Hip Hop. Some of my all time favourites in these genres are The Dear Hunter, Frank Ocean, Tyler, the Creator, Kendrick Lamar, Mac Miller, James Blake, Death Cab For Cutie, Elliott Smith and Bon Iver. For Hip Hop I tend to like stuff that is slightly more experimental, industrial sounding while for Indie Rock I mostly look for stuff that really hits me in an emotional way.
Next to this I obviously like Progressive Music. Within this genre I am usually not that a big fan of super technical stuff, loong songs or el o n g ated solos, but enjoy more stuff that is either groovy or again, emotional. Favourites here are Steven Wilson/Porcupine Tree, Karnivool, Mastodon and Fair to Midland.
Finally I have been digging some lyric-less music, be it electronic, modern classical music or post-rock, stuff like Odesza, Jon Hopkins, Bonobo, Olafur Arnalds and God Is an Astronaut hits the right spot.
If none of these names say anything to you don’t worry at all (but be ashamed), just send something in the first round and see if you get through!
Just two notes, firstly I am definitely looking for stuff out of my comfort zone, so don’t be restricted by this Tastes part (I feel most Roulette hosts say this and are ignored but hey). Second note, despite trying to be open I am just not a big fan of cheesy stuff (I’m so sorry Evermind but this includes most of power metal for me).
TLDR: If it makes me feel
melancholic or on top of the world things you get points.
Participants so far:Kattelox
Puppies_On_Acid
Cyril
Train of Naught
Tomislav
Sacul
romdrums
HOF
Elite
Nekov
Scoreboard
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Tomislav: 33
Cyril: 32
romdrums: 30.75
Nekov: 30.5
Sacul: 30.25
HOF: 30
Puppies_On_Acid: 29.5
Train: 29.5
Elite: 28.75
Kattelox: 27.5
Poll
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