Hosted at the VGMusic Forums by MaliceX and ButzaW
Original concept by Blitz Lunar.
The first Sample Pack Contest was conceptualised in February 2005. The second one was finished by January 2006. This time we have 27 amazing entries from 11 equally amazing artists.
Sample Pack Contest III ran from April to June of 2007, hosted at the Videogame Music Archive Forums again.
The host was MaliceX, with some help and support from Blitz Lunar and ButzaW.
The idea of a Sample Pack Contest is quite simple - people submit short original WAV files as samples, which they also have to keep in mind the "theme" or "rule" intended.
When we got the sample packages together, this time there were a handful of complaints regarding the quality and usability of the samples. This proved to be the new obstacle this time round.
In contrast, participants were free to manipulate the samples to their will as much as they like. However, to make things interesting, some rules have been made to make the submitted samples themselves more unique this time around.
While in previous SPCs the sample submission has been not very restrictive, this time around sample submitters were forced to send in only sounds which have been produced using the mouth.
The results are, quite simply put - staggering. It is quite incredible to comprehend the vast diversity of music that can be achieved with such humble resources. Total playtime is a couple minutes off SPC2's total!
Here
are the 27 entries that were submitted, up for download!
This is a list of them according to the initial judgement playlist, and not according to score. Further down the page you can find the order in
which they placed after judging:
Sir Camehan - lawrencine
The Kroc - Very Tiny Little Frogs!
Magister ZZ - De-mo-krrhra-tia
banjofella - Momentary consciousness
dj.tuBIG/MaliceX - DRUGABAS!
ButzaW - Intergalactic Urination on Uranus
The Kroc - Dharma 'n' Buddha
Blitz Lunar - Spaz Discount
Alastair - unicornsex
Lawrence - Sync-Depth 555
Kris Troutman - Legend of the Diesel
dj.tuBIG/MaliceX - Zuu-m'ln
The Kroc - White Spectral Mirror
Blitz Lunar - Anxious Little Butterfly
Blitz Lunar - Spherulitical Dance
Kris Troutman - Flaunting Flatulence
dj.tuBIG/MaliceX - Silted Hills
Blitz Lunar - Sufferin' Silicon
The Kroc - Tzul'ak Maisyen
Sir Camehan - bed
Anubis - BeeP BeaT
Kris Troutman - Medium Rare
Magister ZZ - roccocounterpoint
Kris Troutman - The Owl Song
Blitz Lunar - Analysis Paralysis
ButzaW - Pixel Fountain
The Kroc - Reversed Heart Disease
Unsubmitted tracks can be found here. Some equally interesting stuff.
With such great tracks, judging has been a difficult task for sure.
The judgding process was done by a single score, in addition to the anonymization of entries judged.
Judgement was based on three criteria: enjoyablility, sound design and production.
And the results are:
| Rank | Entrant | Track Title | Track # | Score |
| 1 | banjofella | Momentary consciousness | #4 | 88.22 |
| 2 | Blitz Lunar | Spaz Discount | #8 | 87.50 |
| 3 | Blitz Lunar | Spherulitical Dance | #15 | 86.38 |
| 4 | Blitz Lunar | Anxious Little Butterfly | #14 | 85.25 |
| 5 | ButzaW | Intergalactic Urination on Uranus | #6 | 84.00 |
| 6 | Blitz Lunar | Analysis Paralysis | #25 | 83.63 |
| 7 | dj.tuBIG/MaliceX | Zuu-'ln | #12 | 81.38 |
| 8 | Kris Troutman | Medium Rare | #22 | 81.13 |
| 9 | Blitz Lunar | Sufferin' Silicon | #18 | 81.00 |
| 10 | Kris Troutman | Flaunting Flatulence | #16 | 79.75 |
| 11 | dj.tuBIG/MaliceX | Silted Hills | #17 | 79.38 |
| 12 | The Kroc | Reversed Heart Disease | #27 | 79.33 |
| 13 | The Kroc | White Spectral Mirror | #13 | 79.00 |
| 14 | The Kroc | Dharma 'n' Buddha | #7 | 78.56 |
| 15 | Alastair | unicornsex | #9 | 77.89 |
| 16 | Kris Troutman | Legend of the Diesel | #11 | 77.88 |
| 17 | dj.tuBIG/MaliceX | DRUGABAS! | #5 | 76.75 |
| 18 | Kris Troutman | The Owl Song | #24 | 76.25 |
| 19 | The Kroc | Tzul'ak Maisyen | #19 | 75.56 |
| 20 | ButzaW | Pixel Fountain | #26 | 73.13 |
| 21 | Magister ZZ | De-mo-krrhra-tia | #3 | 72.44 |
| 22 | Magister ZZ | roccocounterpoint | #23 | 70.33 |
| 23 | Sir Camehan | bed | #20 | 70.25 |
| 24 | The Kroc | Very Tiny Little Frogs! | #2 | 69.78 |
| 25 | Sir Camehan | lawrencine | #1 | 68.25 |
| 26 | Lawrence | Sync-Depth 555 | #10 | 66.13 |
| 27 | anubis | BeeP BeaT | #21 | 63.38 |
And with all that said and done, here's to Sample Pack
Contest IV!
It should happen sometime eventually, and I personally shall pester all involved constantly in order to make sure it does.
You can be sure some crazy stuff will be decided as limitations next time. Each time we try and make things more interesting!
--Cover art credit goes here-- Get it here:
Picture of the front cover (ARTIST).
Picture of the back cover (ARTIST).
etc.etc.etc.).
Special thanks goes to these precious chaps, in no particular order:
Thanks to Sir Camehan, ButzaW, The Kroc, Blitz Lunar, MaliceX, Magister ZZ, Kris Troutman, banjofella, Lawrence, Alastair, and Anubis for sending in tracks. Awesome work from everybody!
Thanks to Blitz Lunar, MaliceX, ButzaW, Kris Troutman, Pongball, Lawrence, Blank, and Anubis for judging. A task that can be difficult to decide!
Thanks to Anubis, Alastair, Lawrence, MaliceX, Blitz Lunar, ButzaW, The Kroc, banjofella, Horn, and Rocco for recording and submitting samples. Very diverse samples, especially considering the limitation this time around. Good work!
And finally, thanks to anybody who took the time to listen to these tracks. We all hope you had a good time doing so. ;)
Text on this page is by ButzaW, edited by MaliceX, based on the basic SPC page layout by Blitz Lunar. (^_^)
Any questions or queries about this contest, please contact MaliceX on djtubig.malicex -at- gmail.com.
