We’ve got a winner! And as promised here’s the video of my daughter picking the winning piece of paper from a hat.
All songs in a 202 MB pack: MBC #4 Final Votepack
Good times!
Here is the vote pack: MBC4.zip [194 MB]
There are 23 songs in this pack. Participants must pick and post their top 3 in the Mutant Breaks Competition #4 thread or they are disqualified. The top 10 go into a hat. My ~18 month old daughter picks a winner. I will make a YouTube video of this.
If you were not a participant you can still post, but your vote will be ignored. If some weird thing happens, like a bunch of tied tracks make it so that more than 10 are in the top, I will exercise veto power and truncate however I feel like it.
All songs in this archive are copyright, or not, their respective authors. Don’t pull a Timbaland. Contact the authors before assuming anything. Sample at your own risk.
Some songs are OGG files. It’s 2011, you should be able to playback Ogg Vorbis by now?! If not try:
Good times.
Once a year this shit is mandatory! Submit your song by Sunday, November 6th, 2011 and maybe you’ll win $100 Canadian dollars.
Details after the jump.
The results of the Efficient Music Compo have been calculated and the winner was announced in a live internet radio show. For those who missed it, you can download it now: Efficient Music Compo Show [50MB].
Check out the complete list of Efficient Music Compo Results.
Peter Kirn from CDM has posted a summary of the compo and picked a winner for the Renoise license. Read the full story here: Tracker Tracks: Winners of the Efficient Music Competition Span Genres, Moods.
The The Efficient Music Competition is almost over and we want YOU to vote. The submitted songs combine awesomeness with low CPU usage which is exactly what we are looking for. All that remains is picking the winning song. Vote now – the voting booths are closing this Sunday.
We will conclude the Efficient Music Competition with an internet radio show hosted by MC Ron from Indamixx. He is going to broadcast a selection of the songs in record chart style. The show starts with the low tiers and moves up to the number one. The winner of the competition gets the Indamixx Netbook. The radio station will be at http://www.indamixx.com/indamixx-radio.html under channel “Renoise Competition”. Stay tuned for the exact broadcast time.
Note that the competitions songs are also excellent learning material. Just in case you’re looking for examples in the form of self-contained Renoise XRNS songs that don’t rely on VSTs… Well, here they are.
The “optimize your song like hell” aka Renoise/Indamixx/CDM compo has a new name; The Efficient Music Competition. We have just opened a new mini-site on renoise.com, where you can upload and download songs, discuss optimization techniques and vote for competition entries – in a special kind of way.
Together with the new website and new name, we have a new deadline as well: October 25th.
The Efficient Music Competition mini-site
The goal of the competition remains the same. You have to write a song in Renoise that is efficient enough to run on a netbook. One would think that’s not too hard, considering trackers have been around since man made fire and PCs had the brainpower of a cobblestone. It appears we have been spoiled with high quality effects nowadays, turning the concept into a worthy challenge.
Three strikes, you’re out! Mutant Breaks Compo 2009 “RBI Baseball” is over and we have the results. Blac Waldo – Chicken Eggz 2.0 struck gold, Spodnik – Drail is a close second.
Song downloads are here: Songs from Mutant Breaks Compo 2009 “RBI Baseball”. Check it out if you love sick shit, crazy chopped-up breakbeats and bass lines that give your bowels a proper rinse. A must-have collection for the distinguished gentleman.
Now it’s time to pull the tracker trickery out of your magic hat to win that tasty Indamixx Netbook with your sustainable, low CPU, green power Renoise smash hit! Indamixx + Renoise + CDM Music Production Contest
Trackers have always been about getting the most out of little. Big productions from tiny bed rooms. Epic songs in kilobytes rather than megabytes. And most importantly, all that through your personal computer instead of a multi-million dollar studio.
Lately we’ve been spoiled with elaborate plugins, unlimited channels and an ever more powerful growing CPU. At the cost of the true ninja tracker spirit.
So here’s a competition in honor of the tracker legacy. We’d like you to create a kick-ass song, using computer resources as efficiently as possible. In fact, you will need to optimize the hell out of your song if you want to win the grand prize: an Indamixx Netbook
To enter this competition, go to Create Digital Music.
Deadline: October 15
We’ll launch a public upload, comment and voting system soon.
Update: Results and song downloads
The most unorganized Renoise competition is back for round two. This year’s confusing and slightly erotic “RBI BASSBALL” theme is sure to delight chiptune aficionados everywhere. With one slight twist: no chiptunes allowed.
SAY NO TO CHIPTUNES – SAY YES TO MUTANT BREAKS
Calling out to all the IDM / breakbeat / breakcore / bassline heads out there. A panel of hand picked profesional alcoholics and drug addicts eagerly await the opportunity to judge you.
* Breakbeats, basslines, any tempo, any thing
* Some proof that Renoise was involved with production, an MP3/OGG file
* The track that appears in the most top 3 lists wins
The winner may choose 1 of the following:
* Registered copy of Renoise
* Renoise T-Shirt and Mouse pad
* Each judge chooses a CD they like or are involved with, I buy and ship the pile to the winner
Upload your song somewhere and post the link in the Mutant Breaks 2009 thread.
Songs must be entered by August 24th, 2009
Tat dads.
The Immortal Empire – Renoise Music Competition has come to an end. The winners are: Jacek Dojwa, Frej Bjon, and Bence Tasnadi. Congratulations! They receive $300, $200, and $100 (USD) respectively and will have their music featured in the upcoming role playing game Immortal Empire.
The response to the compo was immense, with participants sending in over 50 great songs. Immortal Empire’s developer Tactic Studios has ranked and reviewed all songs: Compo results and comments.
To commemorate the closing of the competition, here’s a trailer of Immortal Empire featuring the music of first place winner Jacek Dojwa.
