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It's on friday. I'm an alternate so i won't know till the last minute if i get to go on or not. I'm a bit nervous because i've never been in a laptop battle, nor have I even been to a laptop battle. I mostly want to just play real loud in front of people so i guess if i get to go on, in a way, i've already won. sort-of. I get a free t-shirt regardless and some beer tickets and free entry for a guest so it should be a good time. there's info and you may have heard a little blurb about it on NPR this week..? anyway, anyone have tips? suggestions? should i wear a funny hat? or a tie? should i dance a jig??! how do these things go generally?! |
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I think you need to put some metal covering on your laptop and attach a chain and some spikes. Dont forget to wear a helmet. |
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bring a change of pants |
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at the end of your set start to cry, drop to your knees and then pretend to faint, then when crowds of people come over to your assistance, wait a second or two, even three and jump right up screaming. Sure they will be a little shocked, but they will remeber your wont they ? AS for attire, you need to make a t-shirt, out of THE picture, poop cannons are deffinately going to be the next thing happening |
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just drop your pants and fart really loudly. at any time. I'm sure they will remember him. |
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they say no pub is bad pub, but your statement is absurb and redickulus, sorry brian warner |
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...or how about fondle some kids, that seems to be all the rage nowadays! and people always remember a paedophile. |
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what do you do at a laptop battle? just stand there and play music? |
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fight to the death, of course! |
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but really, do you just press play and stand by your laptop? |
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maybe you could just play a game of solitaire to look busy. |
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improvisational work via software is rated. if you just press play and stand there youre obviously not going to get much response. you have a limited amount of space to work with as well, so you cant bring in tons of shit. also crowd interaction is part of it. doesnt mean you have to wear crazy shit to get a response, but thats up to the individual. each area has different judging, since the crowd also judges. maybe people will be more on the 4/4 tip or maybe ambient. its quite a cool thing, NPR recently did a small blurb about it. |
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PHVKKAGE is going to win. |
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woah, i'd like to go to this...mail me off list! (i'll contact you too) |
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Hardware rules!!! arrggghhh i know a whole bunch of people are gonna disagree w me but like earlier in the post, what are u gonna press the space bar and start jumpin round pretending. we all know about the dj fakers that act all hype bop there head and throw up there hands crossfade but there not mixing theres only one record going. but to go further i believe a computer(ONLY) for tunes is like trying to make one item a chainsaw, lawnmower/weedwacker, motorcycle and treetrimmer in one. im sure aphex plays live w a computer so he doesnt have to travel w his fragile irreplacable gear and so people dont see his secret stash im sure he uses his computer for certain needed things only. i believe you need 1 dedicated item for each task. Does your computer have flam & roll for your drums? do you know what flam is?do u have pads for your drums and keys for your nonpercussion sounds sustain pedal etc. do u have these accessories for your computer or can u type them or assign. im not trying to be a dick/joking these are real questions/ an attempt to make you get better |
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a/d from watmm is on there! go look on , click on listen...he's about 3 and a half minutes through. |
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you're an ignorant cunt aren't you? |
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you clearly know shit about music production. |
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also, I'll have my pc against your hardware any time. |3RING IT 0N M0F0!!!1!!!1111!1! *warms up his index finger* |
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thats stupid you could still pre-record something and fiddle with the knobs like you're actually doing shit |
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(7000th post!) i will be running ableton live. i have taken some of my recent tracks and set them up in Ableton so i can perform them live. this will involve triggering loops or groups of loops, manipulating effects, and triggering samples, all in real time. mostly i will be improvising the structure of the songs and the breaks more than, say, individual notes or beats. if you've used Ableton Live, you know what i'm talking about. there are videos up of the past laptop battles at fourthcity.net. you can download them . anyway, thanks for the "support" bastards! |
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seriously tho, good luck! |
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I'd like to participate in one of those too. I gotta buy a laptop first though... |
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you can't even use a mouse...it's all about wankery...i mean a laptop is the same fucking thing as a desktop computer... why fucking bother...get something released by a record label instead and play some fookin gigs... |
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you can use a mouse. and why bother? because it sounds like fun. there are prizes. there could be as many as 700 people there and i get to play loud enough to ring all of their ears. i'd love to 'get something released by a record label' and perhaps this will be a catylist for that to happen. this could also lead to more gigs. duh! |
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I just found out that i am no longer an alternate, I'm a contender. I battle tonight at Chop Suey in Seattle, 9:00pm under the moniker kenji beatbox. please meditate some good juju in my general direction at that time! |
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where can we hear some of your music? |
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oh god that makes me sick - details Laptop Battle is electronic music's new cultural phenomenon - LAPTOP IS THE NEW PUNK ROCK! OH GOD :( |
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judging from these videos - none of these white kids know beats at all... evolume we have high expectations for you. your video will be associated with XLTRONIC so it had better be fat son |
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i'm half japanese so my set will be at least half fat son. here my shit hear |
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good luck tonight, have fun! |
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it was a good battle. there were several very talented producers competing. unfortuantely for me, in the first round i was paired with a guy called Nordic Soul, a laptop musician on Decible records which was also a sponser for the event. he was damn good. my set was good too (well thats what people were telling me) but not good enough to beat a localy known guy. I did a live mix of my janet jackson remix, i thought on april fools day, the audience might see the humor in it. but it seems people were more into the straight forward traditional style electronic than that. *shrug* so i got eliminated in the first round and only got to play 1 set. but, it was fun. i'd definitely do it again. it was a learning experience! |
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most of them just did some jungle type of stuff. Nordic Soul sounded the most interesting to me. I could take him though. ;) |
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he was getting a lot of pre-performance hype. i think i was eliminated before i even started :/ but i guess if i was really fucking awesome i would have beat him and i was admitedly not really fucking awesome :( still fun though, lots of people there and they were cheering though not as loud as they did for Nordic Soul! |
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Y'know the thing about internet banter is it's almost exclusively geeky and unfunny. |
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my wife shot a video of my 3 minute set. it's now up at my zebox site if anyone is curious. unfortunately, the mic on the camera is kinda shit so the sound is, well, shitty. if you want a better idea what it is supposed to sound like, the original version of the track is also up |
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