GroovyCompo #2 Results

I added up the top 3 about 50 times hoping I made a mistake, but I didn't. Maybe 1st placings should get more than 10 points? Maybe you should have your points automatically halved because you're a compo organiser? As you can see, you're rewarded heavily if you're consistent with all the judges. Yannis managed to beat Vv just by getting into the top 10 a lot more.

Filename        Author         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Last  Score     Place

mr_doggy.it    MickRip         2 5 5 3 2 0 3 1 0 0  0     153        1st
growing.it     Beek            4 2 3 1 5 4 0 0 2 3  0     146        2nd
sc-innu.it     Screamager      5 3 1 3 1 2 3 1 2 1  0     142        3rd
chsfist.it     Spec&Elem&Paso  2 4 4 2 1 0 0 1 1 2  0     115        4th
ybgc02.it      Yannis          1 1 3 3 3 2 2 0 3 1  0     107        5th
vv_crmbl.it    Vv              5 2 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 1  0     98         6th
mro3yb2.it     OzoneMickYannis 0 1 0 2 1 4 2 3 1 1  0     69         7th
cashew.xm      Firelight       1 1 0 2 1 1 3 1 0 0  0     59         8th
pro-345g.it    Protocol        0 0 0 4 0 3 0 2 1 2  0     53         9th
vector.xm      Exhale          1 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0  0     42         10th
brainsyn.it    CiupMan         0 0 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 1  0     35         11th
cp_cp.it       Catspaw         0 0 1 1 0 1 1 2 1 0  1     32         12th
hus-gc2.it     Husanuk         0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 2  0     30         13th
supprise.it    sustance        1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2  0     27         14th
s_gc2.it       Shudder         0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 3 1  0     24         15th
injustic.xm    nsite           0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1  0     13         16th
icant.it       D.T             0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1  0     12         17th
00001.it       WayFinder       0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1  0     12         17th
dkforeth.xm    Decker          1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0  0     12         17th
dredge.xm      Akaris          0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  2     9          20th
sugargc.it     Katala&Cullyn   0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0  0     8          21st
space.it       BlueZone        0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0  0     7          22nd
scm-toe.xm     Scheme          0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1  6     1          23rd
boylove.it     Genosha         0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1  0     1          24th
io_sf.it       io              0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  0     0          Last
kn-bware.it    Knos            0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  1     0          Last
rl_dayrd.it    Red Lightning   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  7     0          LAMER AWARD

Tigerhawk, Mild, FireStarter, HyperExtorstion, BrassMonkey, Major Bludd and Nick Borgen didn't vote. They have been placed on vote probation, if you fail to vote the next time you're in GroovyCompo, you're suspended for 3 weeks. Go sit in the corner.

GC2 Comments

  A very tough compo this time, very much good entries and i had to ditch various out of the top ten which made me doubt about:should they make the cut or not? Well the combinations have done a good job in my opinion, "Cheese Fist" actually shares first place with "Groggo !!!" but i find "Cheese Fist" more relaxing to listen to. Hmmz Mick's "Doggy Style Mario" sounds like he tries to represent Wave when he is about 45 years of age:becoming a bit lazy in big variaty along the song and no special "Ooh's and aah's" effects to support his breaks, Yannis and Xhale are really dissapointing me by delivering a song with actually no or few key change. Beek, nice try, but sometimes a song will never be finished, i have various songs released i'm still not satisfied of it's sound, i can't help it now and i don't:give it a rest, get some sleep :) Aha The Lamer Award for Red Lighting, if you need two days to compose a song which has no reasonable structure that actually shows you have the natured gift to become a musician i should say that you should not waste any more time in tracking. Last and least the answer to Scheme's question:style of your song:Structured rubbish :)
 
  [sustance] It really soothed me, because I love techno and this was the only techno mod in the compo that really was "techno". He also did get all the techno parts right and all chords went so well. Vector too was a good mod but to com!
 
  i put crumbin by vv in first place because i realy liked listening to it for the first .. and it was some good tracking there .. it won over innuendo by screamager because it had something that innuendo diden't have.. but they where both great modules , and i enjoyed listening to them (and many other ofcourse) as for the other modules , i think it was very many realy good mod's here , specualy the ones to mick rippon. but mr's mod's diden't come on the two first places this time because of that they diden't have the things the other one's had ;D not good expressed .. ;D
  [screamager's peice] Not so funky like the others, but it's got a really full, rich found that the others just didn't seem to achieve with the limited sample set.  There were some lead detunes that didn't seem all that appropriate (too slow?, e.g. seq. 26), but it was nonetheless well-orchestrated.  The doubled-up instruments helped accentuate the melody nicely.  The intro section was perhaps a little too different from the rest of the song, but gave good contrast.
   Beek's tune has the best sound from the whole pack and I doubt there is another one with that great beginning and complex composing. Everyone can hear that Beek put a LOT of work into this song and not only slamed some notes together without any basic structure and theme like LOT of others in GC2. Great chord changes and a simple (but very nice) bass line. The only flaw I've found is the BIG amount of channels. I can imagine the same song tracked in16 channels, but that's Beek's job :) When all 26 channels playing, the songseems to be overpowered a bit. Comparing to the rest of tunes, this song has something to say and not only to harm the voter's ears. Mick's tune is also very good and I was on doubts which of these two should be first and which second. Mick did a great funny styled tune, but it sounds too much Wave-ish. Mick, try to do something with less attack on chords and drums, because they leave the melody in background and the song sounds a bit "drums&chords". Where is a little bit of variation? The song is all the time the same sound and same ... everything. And THIS is the main reason why I put Beek 1st. Variation, originality, overall sound and IDEA. Great job, Beek.
  UV's song (vv_crmbl.it).. At first it sounded a bit dodgy but around order 12 or something it really kicked in and I think this song gave me the best overall feeling.  It really thumped! .. pure energy!..  It had quite different use of the samples to most of the other tunes too.. The way he mutilated them was errr...  so it sounded a bit too fuzzy at the start (but whaddaya get with flipping the sign bit! :) ). Mick's song scored reasonably highly for me because I like to see a well tracked tune technically .. the only thing i didnt like was that it really sounded like a bit of a wave clone... quite complex and the tune held together ok to support it so it got the thumbs up.
  I really liked NB-PUNK.IT because it's a really well tracked IT, with a really great melody. (and really great choruses too) It was difficult for me to separate VV-CRMBL.IT and NB-PUNK.IT because VV-CRMBL.IT got a very good intro -powerful and energic- However, VV-CRMBL.IT seemed more  uperficial in the end, like finished in a hurry. But what decided me to put NB-PUNK.IT first is that it reminds me some really great 4channel mods like NUKE, DIZZY ones.
  "Punk's Not Dead" - Nick Boergen, stood out for a number of reasons. Firstly, it uses a progression that I haven't come across in modules before, and follows it well. It's catchy, generally well mixed and uses the given samples effectively. No I don't get the title either, but WTF :).  It's not  perfect - for example, the hihats are a little too loud, the tune is too bassy in parts and it's too short on the whole, but in this compo it was easily my favorite of the bunch. One question remains: why haven't I heard this guy's stuff before?
  growing.it is very well done music module. Overall, module needs little more work, but melody is perfect. This astonish melody make me think about good, old PM's music. I listen it more and more and it's not boring me! This melody not going from my head! Buti like it!:) Check this  certainly, if you love old style music. To Beek: make more music like this!:) Now i'm going to Hornet and check some other music from you.:)
  I voted "punk's not dead" (nb-punk) first because:
A. it had an incredibly kewl intro.
B. it had a great rythem section and general "feel" of the tune.
C. it had good leads.
D. I really liked it!
  What style man! I can hear this tune million times... Anyway, compared to other tunes, this one had a lot of feeling. Many trax were good but lacked somewhere or the other. For eg. Beek's tune was a bi videogamish, and some dudes used samples at very low distorted frequencies that ruined their songs. VECTOR was really good but the ending was a complete wash out... the side stick freq sucked...  Screamager's tune started wierd and the panning of certain low freq  instruments sounded stuck to one side of the room... but overall, I love the chorus and the feeling... I could have cried!
  Innuendo impressed me with pulsating energy plus a memorable melody - which is a not-so-usual combination. I like upbeat tunes, and Innuendo is a nice mélange of rather stomping beats, a funky bassline, and sort of dreamy, catching melody. This is what raises it beyond vv_crmbl.it and chsfist.it - Crumblin is pure energy, Cheese Fist has the cool melody. But Innuendo has both, and is therefore my winner tune.
  I voted for dkforeth.xm because the melodies in it were great. The song had a goa trance style in it, and that is impressive to make when the only samples that were used were from the samplepack. It didn't sound like goa towards the end, but the melodie was very good. The only thing that were wrong with this song was that it were WAY too short. Only 2:11 min. for this type of style is too short. It should be at least 5 minutes. But I think this tune was in a class of it's own in this compo.
  [vector.xm Exhale] Nice use of effects.  I like the overall mood of this song.  I really like the piano at the very  beginning of the song. I was also impressed with the downtempo second half  of the song.  The only thing I disliked was some of the high pitched samples, but they did not bother me that much.
  [doggy style mario] Implementation was great. Swing time I believe helps with samples like these. The panning and orchestration were good, and the idea was original if not commic. Very strong chord wise.
  vv's tune was extremely original, and not only was it original, it was actually a good song! :) extremely funky, those basslines rule. i can't believe vv made those ALT-A samples sound good, excellent melodies. perhaps the song could have used a bit better mixing, but other than that, i love it. it's not boring, or repedative.  funky stuff.
  Great song, kinda sad at the begining, it´s one of the few songs i can imagine hearing in a album, great usage of the instruments, the melody is very nice, the sudden changes in the song are well made it´s not monotunous (the major were) (huugg, did i wrote the 100 words already..?), i wish i could compose like this (someday i will), the beat is realy cool, but the primary reazon i voted this one first is that i like sad songs, i felt some heart in this one.... :)
  MickRip's tune was the best, it was simply the most memorable and solidly tracked tunes of the lot, with nice chords and a good game-music melody.
  this tune is one of the most driving and fast songs i've heard on the scene.  the samples that were provided are used excellently as well as are the effects.  best when played at high volume.  the use of the amiga-ibm sample modifications and envelopes are also quite good.
  Screamager was able to use the samples effectively and also put out a chewn that is similar to his own 'release' style.  The song was light but not comical <cheese sux0rz> and retained a proffesional approach. The initial intro was contrasted beautifully by the bridge and the
song flowed the entire piece... unlike even my own entry. :> Mickrips song was a close second in my opinion.  I just couldnt allow something SO DAMN CHEESY to get first place;> <hehehe>
  [chsfist.it,Spec&Elem&Paso]Smooth laid back and funky style. The jazziness of this tune is amazing. The bassline is catchy and not very repetitive. The drumming is good too. The laid back style and bassline are what made this tune better then "stopgrowing"
  I judged Yannis's song (ybgc02.it) as first.  It was a close match between that and my second and third choices, nb-punk.it and mr_doggy.it.  All three of those top songs showed much skill.  I'll start with third and work my way up.  The main reason that I placed Mick's song as third behind Nick's was that Mick's was a bit repetitious, and Nick's seemed fresher to me (whew, that was a mouthful :).  I placed Yannis's as first mainly because in my opinion, it meshed together better than second or third place.  Nick's tended to switch a bit abruptly between sections, and Mick's tended to get a bit repetitive in parts, and since I felt that Yannis's song had neither of these faults, I placed it above the other two.  if I said anything about last place, it wouldn't be too nice of me, so I won't say anything at all.
  I feel that Crumblin should win for the simple fact that it was the only song I could listen to more then twice and enjoy it.  Persistance of Memory and Brain Sync are both good songs, but lack the flare and grumph of Crumblin. The opening jam is a cool effect, while rest of the song carried well.