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This months photo got the creative juices flowing very well... In fact I had to concentrate very hard putting this thread together, I normally listen through again as I am collating it, but I got drawn in to all the tunes far too much The choice of photo was by @Wolfram who, most impressively, took the win with his debut entry. "I created this image with DALL-E, a natural language artificial intelligence image generation system, from the prompt: "a photograph of two convertible red Ferraris racing through a dystopian city at night with lens flare and atmospheric neon lighting". Take inspiration from the subject of the photo, or from the transformational impact AI is about to have across the creative industries - good or bad? " Have a listen through these and some will amaze you, really! As usual , vote for your 3 favourites before midnight on 28th Feb 1 @Dad3353 There are those that praise highly the musicality of the Ferrari exhaust notes; there are even specialists whose sole task is to tune the beggars. I'll let you judge as to the success of their labours... A collection of sound samples, carefully crafted into a short symphony, with some pertinent tyre squeals for good measure. 2 @NickD The picture evoked memories of the computer games of my youth, so I tried to cast my mind back to the kinds of soundtracks those primitive programs would have. 3 @Leonard Smalls When I was a kid in a small village in Cheshire AI meant a chap with a rubber glove impregnating livestock... And if we're talking about gettin' jiggy with the Artificial Insemination Man there's only one choice, Funk! 4 Lurksalot Quite often you hear a song about cars that sounds a bit cheesy. so here is a proper cheesy one, Ferraris with cheese, Italian cheese. 5 @Doctor J Driving Ferraris around a dystopian city cost me a lots of 10p pieces in the 80's. Beating the clock, getting time bonuses and moving to the next stage were all that mattered, accompanied by 8-bit hard rock. 6 @upside downer A late night cruise by two artificial Ferraris through the mean streets of Artificial City to an artificial electro-synthpop soundtrack. No strings were plucked in the making of this melodic, mood music. 7 @Nail Soup I've gone for the boy racer angle, although with a punky sound not traditionally heard from such a vehicle..... so I present "Ford Cortina with a Home Made Flame Job". 8 @SH73 Here is my entry, Instrumental song recorded Tuesday morning, bass recorded Tuesday evening, mixed and mastered Tuesday evening. 9 @Wolfram Two harmonised guitars race bumper to bumper in a high-octane charge, wrapped around a song musing on the imminent demise of this breed of vehicle.... and perhaps their human drivers too? I present "Endangered Species". 10 @AndyTravis A tension between rhythms, like tension between how much technology takes over, a constant push and pull… That is a fantastic set of tunes, you may well find 3 votes insufficient , but that's just the way it rolls Get those 3 votes in before midnight on 28th February folks

Well done 👍 I’ll try and get the link sorted in the morning

I won’t get to post the voting thread till the morning , so if inspiration bites you in the backside at 3AM , you still have a chance 😁

WOW , I just got dropped slap bang into the arcade BIG TIME

Quite often you hear a song about cars that sounds really cheesy. so here is a proper cheesy one, Ferraris with cheese, Italian cheese. EZ drummer did the heavy stuff, with an Ibby 6 string through 2 different effects paths on Waves GTR 3 , bass was my Perry bitsa through a waves bass amp sim and the keys were straight from a patch on a digital keyboard. ed to add a bit more EQ adjusting to give more room for the bass! All in reaper with a hint of Ozone 8 to bring it together The vocal was very well practiced and subtely auto-tuned and whacked right up in the mix, cos I know how you all loves it. Lyrics ...as you probably wont pick them out to easily. testarrosa parmiagiano dino 246 mozzarella toscanello California gorgonzola mondial grana Padano gran tourismo mascarpone berlinetta maranelo pecorino scuderia spider ricotto here comes the fun little darling here comes the fun and I say it’s alright testarrosa parmiagiano toscanello California testarrosa parmiagiano mascarpone berlinetta here comes the fun it’s alright

Just put a banging donk on it 😁

Quite in our village it was the turkey blowers who had the privilege of the AI I shall enjoy the experience of the funk when I’m done on mine

Oh dear I think I’ve gone there 😂

My vocal tones won’t be holding me back 😂 , I just can’t find the words to use with them 😁 everything is sounding so cheesy that that it may as well be about cheese ! ed to add Ferrari Parmesano 🤦‍♂️

This one is getting sticky at the minute. the tunes done , lots of sloppy playing needs re-tracking , but it needs a vocal to make it work , I’m looking for as little as I can to lift the thing, and I can’t get to do the new playing until I’ve can see the way to sort it 😂

Drat, Beat me to it , you won that one 😁

here we go again then .... Have a good one

Congratulations to new entrant @Wolfram who managed a very competent win on his debut! Keen to get the ball rolling for February , he has designed an image and offered the following as an introduction ... "I created this image with DALL-E, a natural language artificial intelligence image generation system, from the prompt: "a photograph of two convertible red Ferraris racing through a dystopian city at night with lens flare and atmospheric neon lighting". Take inspiration from the subject of the photo, or from the transformational impact AI is about to have across the creative industries - good or bad? " So dive in all and put your own take on it , Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and deadline. X No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on X Bagpipes. please no bagpipes, the midwinter truce has passed us by . X No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you.. Deadline wise , we will go for the 22nd which means you'll probably have till tea time on the 23rd ....but no longer A line or two of blurb as well for the vote thread will be lovely. Have fun

And congratulations @Wolfram a great inaugural tune and a deserved win. please PM me a picture that we can use for the February challenge and I’ll post the thread in due course 👍

Well I loved 5 of them and really liked the others so I absolutely agree. it’s great to see some new voters dipping in as well.

Well you can go for a city break to Wrexham now 😂😂😂

I sent an email to the place he used to do a few gigs in felixstow , I’ve not heard anything

voting thread up and running , well done dudes

Well. by a fluke I scored top in November and won a certificate to put on my wall. with thanks to you kind folk, for honouring me with the choice of photo this month and this was my offering This is a themed part of Chester Zoo that highlights the plight of wildlife in the southern Asian Islands. Here are your choices , and a fine bunch we have , with newcomers to being welcomed to the fold. As is the norm , please choose your favourite 3 entries before midnight on 31st Jan. 1 @Leonard Smalls It's inspired by the time I worked at Chester Zoo (as a boat driver, what else?). One day loads of police turned up and completely locked the place down - they thought they'd smashed a major drugs ring. Turns out a lad who used to work there had been caught in London with a carrier bag full of weed, that he said had come from Chester Zoo. The police duly found a large amount of cannabis plants growing behind the bird house; however, they'd grown from hemp seeds thrown out while cleaning out the bird cages! For those who only want the very funky bit, rather than the ambient build-up, just skip to 3 minutes... 2 lurksalot my take is cheesy wordplay ...but not too many of them 3 @Nicko I'm not one for laying on a beach so here is the island nightlife (or Cheshire nightclub) soundtrack instead. 4 @Nail Soup "Daddy's Taking Us To The Zoo Tomorrow" - the antidote. 5 @Doctor J A quick glance on a small phone screen, with my deteriorating eyesight, of the seemingly deserted resort made me think of the Jonestown compound, Waco and then some kind of Andromeda Strain type of apocalyptic tragedy, as these things frequently end up. Yeah wrong way, I know! 6 @Dad3353 I've composed the jingle for the TV spot that this paradisiac resort has commissioned. All is in the title, really, it's a hypnotic exhortation to make you think of Paddling, Pedalling and Pédalos when next booking your holidays. Cunning, no..? 7 @Wolfram Hey guys, this is my first entry, so go easy on me! In fact, it's my first recorded bass guitar line since about 2006!... New Years' Resolution has got me going on some music again, which can only be a good thing. It's not really finished - I have had time to neither write nor record lyrics, but here it is so far - Midwinter Daiquiri: 8 @SH73 Song about a zoo and ice cream that makes no sense at all. the lyrics don`t. I tried reggae this time. 9 @upside downer Decided on a laid back, gentle reggae feel for this one, despite Indonesia not being in the Caribbean. The lyrics focus on the wish to get away to sunnier climes and the attractions of a South East Asian holiday. What's it like in Indonesia? You're asking the wrong bloke. I've never been further east than Antwerp 😄 Many thanks to Tom Waits for the pronunciation of 'Indonesia'. That's your lot folks But I reckon there'll be something for everyone in there , most excellent so that's 3 votes closing at midnight on the 31st

Great to see a last minute flourish from you all , I’ll get listening later on 👍

When you are not at work 😂

this is my take on the picture , the view is a mock up of far eastern islands and they are using it to highlight endangered species in the area such as Orangutans and the like.

If it helps , and I don’t do this for just anyone, but I could offer to do some singing for you 😁 😘

I’m not too far off now , I need to record some more vocals , but they are not excessive, but really do tie the theme together with incisive observation and an element of charm 😂