June Composition Challenge -- VOTING TIME

[lurksalot]

Ladies and Gentlemen, 'tis time to lend your ear to the offerings served up for you this very fine June , and its bloody scary that there is not much left of it.

So get your lugs around these here tunes before you notice the days are drawing in , though in the words of the great AHA the sun always shines on BC 

The picture from last months winner @Leonard Smalls is this beauty and inspired the entries as below 

 

1 Lurksalot

I pulled the movement element in with the music and the dress sense with the lyrics , not overly obscure references and most should pick them out straight away.

guitar, bass,keys and vocal yours truly, announcer is lurksalittle and drums EZ 

Enjoy ....naughty boy 

 

2 Dad3353

Here is my contribution to the June 2020 Basschat Composition Challenge, inspired by a picture chosen by the previous winner: Leonard Smalls..!
It started off as a search for inspiration, as I had no 'handle' on it. As a bit of a change, I turned on my keyboard, dialled away the 'acoustic piano' I usually play, and stumbled upon an 'electric guitar' setting. Using this, I picked out a riff I had in my head. Hmm... Potential, maybe, but my piano is in my modelling 'den', and not connected to my PC. No worries, I have a Fostex hard-disk 8-track recorder; I'll dig that out. Once I'd worked out again how it works (s'been a long time, and I'm old..!), I got the riff down. No click, metronome nor beat, just raw keys. Downstairs to my pica-studio, to export the result into Reaper. Hmm... It's a bit 'ropey', compared to the metronome. I spend some time fiddling about with the files, chopping bits up here and there, but decide, eventually, to ask Our Eldest to play the riff instead. Once I'd set up the gear required to do that, I thought to try it out to get the sound I wanted. Might as well record it, whilst I'm at it. Three takes later (one track, doubled track and one 'extras' track...), no need to trouble the lad; it's done and dusted. Stick a bass on (well, two, while I'm in the mood...) and a drum track, scrub the original 'keys' guitar and it's finished..!
Drums programmed with Superior 3, two mystery basses and three 'live' takes of my Xavier guitar, through a Boss compressor pedal, Boss Fender Deluxe pedal and a Germanium Big Muff pedal. All mixed in Reaper, with the usual post-production mastering with Ozone. I'm not sure if my 'inspiration' hits the spot, but it was more fun to do than I'd thought at first, so... Result..!
Thanks for listening, if you already have; if you're about to, enjoy.

 

3 Leonard Smalls

It's inspired by the time Barf Roco played the Jericho Tavern in Oxford. After the sound check the band went out for some chips, and when we came back we saw a terrified local chap running for his life down the road; he was being pursued by one of the Bromley Boyz in full wig/headscarf/housecoat regalia waving an iron bar and shouting "we're from f@@ckin' Laaaaahnden!!!!"

I've used that very phrase on a number of occasions as an excuse for bad behaviour 😅

Anyway, song features 2 x AAS synths, drums programmed through EZ drummer, bass is my trusty Wal pretending to be a sequencer with distortion from a Darkglass tube distortion pedal, guitar solo is also the Wal through Bias FX free and vox are by me (sorry) with added valve distortion to make sure you hear less of it...

4 upside downer

This month's offering. Seeing as I know zilch about Bromley and the picture looks about 30 years old I went down the route of Python, being silly and how that gets harder to do as we all get older. Well, it's not harder to do at all but youngsters don't like older people being silly cus it's SOOOOO embarrassing, grampa. Go to hell, young shaver m'laddo. Anyhow, Python. They did a cheese shop sketch. Had a bouzouki playing in the background. I've got one so there's my 'in', tried to make it sound 'background-y', too. More or less used the chords from the cheese sketch and that also influences the lead bass line played on my trusty old Starforce 7008 through a Roland Micro Cube. Percussive sounds are samples of me hitting various parts of a bookbinding machine (a Kolbus DA36 casemaker, thanks for asking) with a spanner. That's very silly. Organ sound from my Yamaha keyboard, minimal vox, an ocean wave sample and a metronomic ticking to indicate that there's...no time....to lose....Toulouse. All recorded using WavePad and Audacity. Stay safe, stay silly.

 

5 Nick D

My contribution to the June 2020 Basschat Composition Challenge, inspired by a picture chosen by last month's winner, Leonard Smalls.
The picture asked me for a dumb, rough, punky, sub 3 minute romp.... so that's what I did. Lyrically, I suspect the guys in the pic were a welcome sideshow, looking at the band, but I've drawn on my years at bike events, where there was often a bunch of chubby, beardy, middle aged attention whores, often in tutus and fairy wings, being 'hilarious' and 'wild', because they're' soooo crazy' and 'don't care what anybody thinks' (except they do, obvs)... Getting in the way of people who actually want to watch the entertainment they've paid for. A novelty at first, but irritation after the first few times.

All recorded in Cubase Elephants, with bass and guitar through the Helix. Drums courtesy of the Mrs, and Roland.

**** Not totally worksafe, verse 1 contains a single, mid-scale profanity (Tw@t) ***

OK there are your choices , or will be when @Dad3353 finds the link to his 😉 Edit : Done (I weren't the one that lost it..! )

Voting closes at midnight 30th June , enjoy 

Edited June 24, 2020 by lurksalot

[SH73]

Some interesting stuff this month. There is a mixture of Morrissey, Motor Head, punk and even something that reminds me a European band entering Eurovision. Will have a listen later. I only got as far as writing lyrics this month....

Voted

Edited June 29, 2020 by SH73
Voted

[Dad3353]

So, who's the naughty boy voting for three, eh..? Eh..? So anxious to get the ball rolling he/she didn't read the small print, eh..? Eh..? Who's going on the naughty step, then, eh..? Eh..? Come on, own up, innit...

...

Edited June 28, 2020 by Dad3353

[NickD]

Lol. Take a guess.... Maybe the offender also had to contact you last month cos they'd fluffed up.

i mean... What kind of idiot...?

 🤣

Edited June 28, 2020 by NickD

[lurksalot]

Well done @NickD , top toon , I’m sure dad will be along with a certificate when he wakes up 🙄 

lets have that new picture to myself or Skol and we’ll get July up and running 

[upside downer]

Congrats ND, great stuff!

[NickD]

Huzzah!🤘

Thanks a lot... Must have been the first time I've used a pick in 10 years, as the timing tells quite clearly!

Listening to the other entries, by comparison mine sounds quite homemade in terms of production, Not so much of a problem with this kind of tune, but something I'd like to look into and learn more about, either that of I'll have to go for dumb and punky every month. 😂

Off to my Flickr now, I'll have a pic to @lurksalot asap.

[Dad3353]

And the winner is...

NickD..!



Here, then, is your Winner's Certificate (download and save as pdf file, then proudly print and frame...) ...

BC_Chal_Cert_2020_06.pdf

... which looks like this (but bigger, of course..!)…

[Dad3353]

@NickD Well done indeed, although I must admit I couldn't listen to your track twice, and even the once was with the volume turned right down..! I wouldn't have stayed long at that gig..! 

[NickD]

Thanks!🤣

*Rushes off to find a frame*

[Dad3353]

1 hour ago, NickD said:

...*Rushes off to find a frame*

Ah, at last. You'd be the first to profit from my splendid range of perfectly-fitting frames, hand-crafted from the finest materials to set off the Certificate in the grandest of styles. A very moderate cost, with easy payment terms over twelve months make this a fine investment, making you the envy of your entourage, and very attractive to intelligent and discerning young ladies. PM for details; discreet packaging assured. 

Edited July 1, 2020 by Dad3353

[NickD]

Lol. Reminds me of the classic Sunday papers tat shtick!

 

[Dad3353]

No, I don't do clock plates, just Certificate frames (although, now you mention it, that one does look particularly interesting. Hmm... Maybe, with my 3D printer ... )

Edited July 1, 2020 by Dad3353

[lurksalot]

July Composition challenge is up and running ...........go go go