Looks like a 5-way fight realistically though can't rule out anyone here if we see a landslide winner tonight.
Except Leww, just remembered he didn't enter this volume.
Posted by: awardinary 27th October 2022, 02:57 PM
I don’t know with what yet, but I’m predicting Jade to announce herself as the winner!
Posted by: Dankenstein 27th October 2022, 02:57 PM
I'm quietly confident about a top 10 here so here's hoping. The winner I suspect is one of Aurora B.Polaris and Julien Bracht if the listenthrough reaction was anything to go by.
Posted by: Cody Wesker 27th October 2022, 03:33 PM
i don't see myself doing well in this so hopefully my faves do well and I don't end up the biggest loser on the YTD again
Posted by: lettuhsting 27th October 2022, 04:28 PM
I think you'll come 3rd
Posted by: Addy! 27th October 2022, 04:59 PM
I can totally see myself dropping to #4-#5...I wasn't online for listen through so I'm assuming my entry didn't leave big impression
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 05:04 PM
Hiipe I initially thought I might be doing fairly well this month but I'm a bit less confident of that now oops. Hope I can at least beat the 15th place I got in the previous Jade hosted CB (there are 4 fewer entries so that isn't that big of an ask really). Also hoping Christian Löffler improves on his result when I entered him before (and Julien Bracht to win or at least come close x).
Posted by: lewistgreen 27th October 2022, 05:16 PM
It was quite the turnout in the listenthrough so it could be quite representative in the voting but we shall see. Looking forward to the results shortly
Posted by: Silence of the Wombats 27th October 2022, 05:23 PM
Julien Bracht, Leaving Laurel or Aurora B.Polaris would make wonderful winners *.
Posted by: J00prstar 27th October 2022, 05:35 PM
I think Jade wins too
Posted by: Juan Carlos 27th October 2022, 05:46 PM
Looking forward to the results too. I hope I avoid the bottom 5.
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 07:00 PM
01 • lewistgreen was behind...
Nicky Elisabeth - Sun
QUOTE
12 points: Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) 10 points: Julien Bracht - Nocturne 8 points: Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 7 points: FC Kahuna feat. Hafdis Huld - Hayling 6 points: DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 5 points: mïus - Panorama 4 points: Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 3 points: Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks 2 points: Recondite - Levo 1 point: Kaskade feat. Sunsun - Are You Listening?
Lewis not only opens the show tonight as a voter but is also revealed as the first song in the running order! He championed young, female talent with Dutch DJ Nicky Elisabeth. The warm 'Sun' isn't the only time that a certain star at the centre of the solar system would appear as a theme in the contest. His entry may have featured vocals but he champions an all-instrumental top 3 here - with Aurora B.Polaris chosen as our first leader of the night.
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LEADERBOARD
1 12 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) 2 10 Julien Bracht - Nocturne 3 8 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 4 7 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 5 6 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 6 5 mïus - Panorama 7 4 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 8 3 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks 9 2 Recondite - Levo 10 1 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun)
11 0 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen) 12 0 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 13 0 Whitewildbear - Light 14 0 AVAION - Pieces 15 0 Christian Löffler - Blind 16 0 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight 17 0 Aphrodelics - Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub) 18 0 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales 19 0 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train 20 0 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun
21 0 Faux Tales - Soar
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 07:03 PM
First in the running order and first to be revealed 'Sun' was a very pretty opening track here, good pick from Lewis!
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 07:05 PM
02 • uhsting was behind...
mïus - Panorama
QUOTE
Hi Jade!
Here are my lovely votes from Sovarasma me:
12 points: 21. Faux Tales - Soar 10 points: 10. Recondite - Levo 8 points: 08. Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 7 points: 09. Julien Bracht - Nocturne 6 points: 02. Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 5 points: 14. Svën Vath - L'Esperanza 4 points: 03. Whitewildbear - Light 3 points: 20. Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun 2 points: 18. Sunlounger - Sunny Tales 1 point: 06. Christian Löffler - Blind
not me getting exposed in the listenthrough naurrrrr
uhsting
Next up is uhsting's entry which was not at all hinted at during the listening session after being uncovered in his personal chart He currently sits in the top 10 at this early stage with mïus, based in Hungary, who is defined as "a multi-art project wherein the different fields of self-expressioin meet each other" so, ~arty~ stuff. His points result in a new leader as 'Nocturne' clinches that top spot!
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LEADERBOARD
1 17 Julien Bracht - Nocturne 2 16 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 3 12 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) 4 12 Recondite - Levo 5 12 Faux Tales - Soar 6 9 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 7 7 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 8 6 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 9 6 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 10 5 mïus - Panorama (uhsting)
11 4 Whitewildbear - Light 12 3 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks 13 3 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun 14 2 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales 15 1 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 16 1 Christian Löffler - Blind 17 0 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen) 18 0 AVAION - Pieces 19 0 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight 20 0 Aphrodelics - Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub)
21 0 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 07:07 PM
Imagine my shock at that being uhsting's entry Not a lot of point in pretending you've not heard it before when you already charted it, that just eliminated any doubt ddd.
We love to see Julien taking the early lead *.*
Posted by: J00prstar 27th October 2022, 07:09 PM
I thought that one was Bre actually ha
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 07:10 PM
03 • awardinary was behind...
Sunlounger - Sunny Tales
QUOTE
Hiya Jade, fantastic job hosting the latest Club Bizarre, we are all very grateful for your hard work and effort you put into it all!
Here are my votes, they do feel slightly rushed having only done one listen, but I will have another listen during the week sometime using your Spotify playlist if I can.
I have voted like this;
+12 FC Kahuna – Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) +10 Kaskade – Are You Listening? Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) +8 Tangerine Dream – Love On A Real Train +7 Julien Bracht – Nocturne +6 Faux Tales – Soar +5 AVAION – Pieces +4 Nora Van Elken – Dire, Dire Docks +3 Svën Vath – L'Esperanza +2 Whitewildbear – Light +1 Leaving Laurel – Winter In The Woods
Thanks to everyone for all the fine entries sent in this month!
Thank you for the kind words, Wardy! You may have wondered if Dobbo was behind German artist Sunlounger, as his BJSC nation Dobago sent him there in the past, but no - not this time. He finished 14th in the BuzzJack Song Contest - can he aim for top 10 in Club Bizarre? If so then it's a slow start at the moment, but at least off 0. Meanwhile, Wardy helps a legendary name in electronic music rise off nil points in style, as Tangerine Dream receive his bronze. A gold medal is not enough for FC Kahuna to topple Julien Bracht from the top, as the latter still has a strong showing in these votes, with 7 increasing that lead to 5 points ahead of 2nd.
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LEADERBOARD
1 24 Julien Bracht - Nocturne 2 19 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 3 18 Faux Tales - Soar 4 17 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 5 12 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) 6 12 Recondite - Levo 7 12 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 8 11 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 9 8 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train 10 7 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks
11 6 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 12 6 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 13 6 Whitewildbear - Light 14 5 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 15 5 AVAION - Pieces 16 3 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun 17 2 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 18 1 Christian Löffler - Blind 19 0 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen) 20 0 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 07:15 PM
04 • Chez Wombat was behind...
Julien Bracht – Nocturne
QUOTE
12; Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 10; Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) 08; mïus – Panorama 07; Faux Tales - Soar 06; Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 05; DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 04; Recondite – Levo 03; Svën Vath - L'Esperanza 02; Sunlounger - Sunny Tales 01; FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld)
xx Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight xx Nicky Elisabeth - Sun xx Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun
I aspire to be as relaxed as the above frog. Next up the identity of a hot favourite so far is revealed, as Chez Wombat is behind the captivating 'Nocturne' by German-based producer Julien Bracht! One of my favourite ever Eurovision winners is called 'Nocturne'... could this scoop the prize here? Well, not right now, as Chez performs a foot shoot and pushes himself down to the bronze position. Leaving Laurel and Faux Tales, ahem, soar ahead. But it's still very early days! Three songs continue to remain on 0.
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LEADERBOARD
1 29 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 2 25 Faux Tales - Soar 3 24 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 4 22 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) 5 20 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 6 16 Recondite - Levo 7 15 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 8 13 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 9 12 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 10 11 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun)
11 11 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 12 8 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train 13 7 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks 14 6 Whitewildbear - Light 15 5 AVAION - Pieces 16 4 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 17 3 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun 18 1 Christian Löffler - Blind 19 0 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen) 20 0 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight
So yeah I did already know Julien was Chez's due to him having confirmed the song for BJSC last month before switching but it is a gorgeous song by a fantastic artist (stream the Rave Flower EP) so I'm very pleased it was still sent somewhere in the end! Here's hoping for it not to be yet another Chez 2nd placer x
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 07:20 PM
7 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 6 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 5 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun 4 Faux Tales - Soar 3 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 2 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdís Huld) 1 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train
Looking forward to finding out the identity of the one song in my top 3 that I don't already know (probably) who it is
Some great stuff here anyway, including most of the artists that I was excited for delivering. Would also have been happy to throw a point or two to Nu, Craig Armstrong, Nora Van Elkan (that Super Mario 64 sample tho) and Sunlounger.
Thanks to Jade for the hosting <3
Cat klaxon!! This can only mean one thing... the Bré votes have landed. He is behind yet another German producer in the contest, this time Recondite. He finds himself in a strong 8th place position at the moment, alongside Whitewildbear who launches into the top 10 now off the strength of a silver medal. But Bré's 12 points propel Chez back into the lead. Could he be an incredible 3-time Club Bizarre winner after tonight? We'll just have to wait and see...
Elsewhere, just two songs remain on 0 now as Bré puts lewis out of his misery!
Also... look at that 17th - 19th place section as Noah & The Whale once said... "sun, sun sun!"
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LEADERBOARD
1 36 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 2 32 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 3 29 Faux Tales - Soar 4 22 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) 5 22 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 6 21 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 7 18 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 8 16 Recondite - Levo (Bré) 9 16 Whitewildbear - Light 10 13 mïus - Panorama (uhsting)
11 12 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 12 11 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 13 9 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train 14 9 Christian Löffler - Blind 15 7 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks 16 5 AVAION - Pieces 17 5 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen) 18 4 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 19 3 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun 20 0 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight
Off to a pretty solid start so far, thanks to uhsting for a silver medal and Lewis/Chez for a few more points!
'Levo' was giving me some Nora En Pure vibes when I stumbled across it ~
Oops at the sun entries flopping a bit but at least I've got Nicky off 0 x
Posted by: Dankenstein 27th October 2022, 07:22 PM
the sun entries all need to be a fair bit higher! pleasing to see Leaving Laurel, Faux Tales and Aurora B.Polaris all currently in the top 5 though.
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 07:25 PM
06 • gooddelta was behind...
Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks
QUOTE
12 Faux Tales - Soar 10 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 08 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 07 Svën Vath - L'Esperanza 06 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 05 Whitewildbear - Light 04 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales 03 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train 02 mïus - Panorama 01 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun)
So it is Rich who is behind 'Dire, Dire Docks'! This was a bit more of a quirky pick as it's a Super Mario 64 cover. However, this isn't the first time that Rich has selected female Mario-related talent in a song contest. Some of you may remember FSR Rontvia's standout BJSC entry 'Super Mario Bros.' by Tina Guo around 5 years ago! Niche goals.
His votes result in a switch around of the 'Soar' / 'Winter In The Woods' / 'Nocturne' trio once more, as Chez is knocked back down to third. These really seem like the ones to beat so far!
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LEADERBOARD
1 41 Faux Tales - Soar 2 38 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 3 36 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 4 32 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 5 28 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 6 26 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 7 22 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) 8 21 Whitewildbear - Light 9 16 Recondite - Levo (Bré) 10 15 mïus - Panorama (uhsting)
11 12 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 12 12 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 13 12 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train 14 9 Christian Löffler - Blind 15 8 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 16 7 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta) 17 5 AVAION - Pieces 18 5 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen) 19 3 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun 20 0 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight
Oops flopping a bit. So I always loved the music from Dire, Dire Docks (I always got a similar melodic vibe from Madonna’s Jump too?).
Thought I’d check for this if anyone had made it into a dance song and turns out they had!
Very much loving the current top two, and Hayling being top five <3
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 07:27 PM
I was wondering if the person who confirmed Nora Van Elken would have actually been aware it was a remix of a track from Super Mario 64 since it seemed most if not all people at the listenthrough weren't - I guess Rich makes sense with him having sent a Mario remix to BJSC before too haha. It was a little weird to hear in the contest but a pretty good remix of it, could have come across a lot more gimmicky than it did!
I'd be happy with a Faux Tales or Leaving Laurel win too (actually voted for all of the current top 6).
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 07:30 PM
07 • jimwatts was behind...
Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train
QUOTE
12 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) 10 Julien Bracht - Nocturne 08 AVAION - Pieces
07 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 06 Faux Tales - Soar 05 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales 04 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 03 mïus - Panorama 02 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 01 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks
Next up it is first-time participant jimwatts! It has been a pleasure to have you in the fold this time. He selected the legendary Tangerine Dream, who have been active since my mum was born right up until present day. They are yet another German act in the contest! Bré once came 24th with them in the BJSC 80s spin-off (the song in question was '21st Century Common Man (Part I)') but they're at least guaranteed a top 21 place here Jim's votes keep 'Soar' at the top but the lead between first and second is cut to just one measly point - and it's Chez back in his oh-so-familiar bridesmaid position now! Elsewhere, Aurora B.Polaris can now be found lighting up the top 5.
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LEADERBOARD
1 47 Faux Tales - Soar 2 46 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 3 38 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 4 36 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 5 34 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) 6 33 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 7 28 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 8 21 Whitewildbear - Light 9 18 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 10 16 Recondite - Levo (Bré)
11 14 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 12 13 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 13 13 AVAION - Pieces 14 12 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 15 12 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (jimwatts) 16 9 Christian Löffler - Blind 17 8 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta) 18 5 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen) 19 3 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun 20 0 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight
I had a feeling that Mario 64 might be a little …vintage for that many people here to have played it/recognise the song!
I didn’t want to draw attention to that though and hoped it would stand up on its own musical merit!
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 07:32 PM
All this German talent
I've been a fan of most of what I've checked out from Tangerine Dream and this song was no exception, my only complaint was it being a little too short!
Rather top heavy looking results so far, me still clinging onto the top 10 despite not getting points from the last few voters gah.
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 07:33 PM
QUOTE(gooddelta @ Oct 27 2022, 08:31 PM)
I had a feeling that Mario 64 might be a little …vintage for that many people here to have played it/recognise the song!
I didn’t want to draw attention to that though and hoped it would stand up on its own musical merit!
I've never actually played the game, I'm just randomly quite into Super Mario 64 speedrun content on YouTube so I've heard the music hundreds of times in those videos haha.
Posted by: jimwatts 27th October 2022, 07:34 PM
Thanks Jade, great commentaries and it's a pleasure to have joined this! No expectations for my entry as this isn't my area of expertise, but it's going OK so far, thanks Wardy for the bronze!
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 07:35 PM
08 • King Rollo was behind...
Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix)
QUOTE
This was a great collection of chillout songs and my top 5 in particular stood out.
12pts - Craig Armstrong - Let's Go Out Tonight 10 - Julien Bracht - Nocturne 8 - Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 7 - Faux Tales - Soar 6 - FC Kahuna featuring Hafdis Huld - Hayling 5 - DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 4 - Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun 3 - Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks 2 - Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 1 - Christian Löffler - Blind
Rollo wasn't behind the longest song of the contest but his chill-step ambience did clock in at almost 7 minutes long. The pun-tastic Aurora B.Polaris is based in Italy and this has single-handedly reminded me to do my Duolingo lesson before the day is over. Thanks for that unintentional nudge Anyway, a certain Armstrong has made a noteworthy journey. No, not that one, instead Craig Armstrong has shot from 0 to 12 points! A few people actually speculated that 'Let’s Go Out Tonight' could be Rollo's entry at the SyncTube listening session, so him being such a fan may not come as much of a surprise. Instead, Rollo is smashing it in 6th place right now. His silver medal puts Chez back at the top of the podium at this moment in time!
Now there is just one entry left on 0... poor Aphrodelics. Where are all the weed [citation needed] heads at?
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LEADERBOARD
1 56 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 2 54 Faux Tales - Soar 3 46 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 4 42 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 5 38 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 6 34 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) (King Rollo) 7 28 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 8 21 Whitewildbear - Light 9 18 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 10 16 Recondite - Levo (Bré)
11 16 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 12 13 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 13 13 AVAION - Pieces 14 12 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 15 12 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (jimwatts) 16 12 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight 17 11 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta) 18 10 Christian Löffler - Blind 19 7 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun 20 5 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen)
'Into The Void' is the one song out of the consensus hits so far that I wasn't feeling quite as much as the rest (not bad by any means though), interesting that most of those remain unrevealed so far.
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 07:40 PM
09 • Dobbo was behind...
Faux Tales - Soar
QUOTE
Thank you for these entries! I am now suitably ~chilled~
12: Recondite - Levo 10: Whitewildbear - Light 08: Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train 07: FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 06: Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks 05: DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 04: AVAION - Pieces 03: Svën Vath - L'Esperanza 02: Julien Bracht - Nocturne 01: Aphrodelics - Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub)
Now we have Club Bizarre titan Dobbo who may just have another smash on his hands! 'Soar', by Swiss born talent Faux Tales, ended the contest on a high for voters so far as it is currently second on the leaderboard, even after Dobbo's own votes! He provides a slight boost to the current leader 'Nocturne' and pushes FC Kahuna up to the podium positions too. Dobbo stated in the voting thread that his 12 was an almighty grower and this has turned out to be Bré's entry, which is slightly more secure in the top 10 now.
1 point to Aphrodelics means that everything is off 0 sorry folks, no wooden spoon to see here!
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LEADERBOARD
1 58 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 2 54 Faux Tales - Soar (Dobbo) 3 49 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 4 46 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 5 43 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 6 34 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) (King Rollo) 7 31 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 8 31 Whitewildbear - Light 9 28 Recondite - Levo (Bré) 10 20 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (jimwatts)
11 18 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 12 17 AVAION - Pieces 13 17 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta) 14 16 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 15 13 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 16 12 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 17 12 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight 18 10 Christian Löffler - Blind 19 7 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun 20 5 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen)
Ooh! Thank you Dobbo, lovely to have a gold medal in the bag here *.* and a great entry from you too (so you were recycling one of your past BJSC artists after all, just not the one I predicted haha). Faux Tales are another act I've generally enjoyed most of what I have heard from (since being introduced to them by your own BJSC entry) and again no disappointment here, another great cinematic song, glad to see it doing so well so far.
Posted by: jimwatts 27th October 2022, 07:42 PM
ooh top 10, thanks for the Bronze, Dobbo!
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 07:45 PM
10 • Jade was behind...
FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld)
QUOTE
12 Svën Vath - L'Esperanza 10 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 08 mïus - Panorama 07 Julien Bracht - Nocturne 06 Christian Löffler - Blind 05 Whitewildbear - Light 04 Faux Tales - Soar 03 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 02 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 01 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales
xx Recondite - Levo xx Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix)
So it was ME behind this much-talked about entry in the voting thread I discovered 'Hayling' from looking through trip-hop playlists for this contest and couldn't believe my luck to discover such a gem, from this fusion of British and Icelandic talent. I observed that the eerie music video I submitted had 600k views in 10 years and it charted outside the top 40 so I didn't think it was that well known. It has since been brought to my attention that it's a cult classic in the Chill Out universe so... my bad, especially as others considered it but, in my defence, I was 5-years-old when it came out and was listening to music like Busted and Junior Senior, certainly not anything outside of the top 40 yet and so far it isn't a winner! Instead I've just shot myself in the foot and booted 'Hayling' out of the podium. Now, my 10 pointer by Leaving Laurel re-enters the medal table and becomes the third entry to break 50 points. I secure Julien's lead a little more but also throw some points to Faux Tales just behind. Some people guessed that 'L'Esperanza' was me at the listening session, but nope, instead it was my favourite and rises to 6th. Whitewildbear was another guess for me (maybe due to my enthusiasm towards samples?) but this wasn't quite right either. I push that up to 7th now and uhsting back into the top 10.
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LEADERBOARD
1 65 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 2 58 Faux Tales - Soar (Dobbo) 3 56 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 4 49 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) (Jade) 5 46 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 6 43 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 7 36 Whitewildbear - Light 8 34 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) (King Rollo) 9 28 Recondite - Levo (Bré) 10 26 mïus - Panorama (uhsting)
11 20 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (jimwatts) 12 18 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 13 17 AVAION - Pieces 14 17 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta) 15 16 Christian Löffler - Blind 16 14 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 17 12 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 18 12 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight 19 7 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun 20 5 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen)
Posted by: Pting Rollo 27th October 2022, 07:47 PM
Thanks to Lewis and Jim for the top points and Chez for the 10.
It's double figure scores or nothing at all for my song so far so I'm not sure where I'm going to finish.
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 07:49 PM
FC Kahuna was definitely all new to me as I thought anyway! Was reminding me a bit of Portishead, good stuff. Hafdís Huld queen of Icelandic Spotify with her decade old neverending album bomb also x
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 07:50 PM
11 • Doctor Blind was behind...
DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
QUOTE
Hey Jade,
Hope you are feeling much better today.
Here are our votes- thanks for hosting. : )
★12★. Tangerine Dream “Love On A Real Train” ★10★. Whitewildbear “Light” ★08★. FC Kahuna ft. Hafdis Huld “Hayling” ★07★. Julien Bracht “Nocturne” ★06★. Craig Armstrong “Let’s Go Out Tonight” ★05★. Aphrodelics “Rollin'on chrome [Wild motherf***er dub]” ★04★. Kasbo “The Making Of A Paracosm” ★03★. Sven Väth “L'Esperanza” ★02★. Nora Van Elken “Dire, Dire Docks” ★01★. Faux Tales “Soar”
Really enjoyed this contest!
Next up another poster within the top 5 is unmasked! Doctor Blind opted for trip-hop legend DJ Shadow who is also known as formerly being a part of UNKLE. Some suspected that Dandy was behind this one at the listening session, alas, we wait a little longer for his reveal. 'Midnight In A Perfect World' started to bring back some voices in the contest after a long string of instrumentals prior to it. Doctor B rewards a fellow well-respected name, Tangerine Dream, well and sends them back into the top 10 off the back of a gold medal. Could jimwatts achieve a top 10 result from his debut? We shall see how it holds up. That silver medal for Whitewildbear is his third of the night so far. Elsewhere, these votes also put FC Kahuna back into the top 3 and strengthen Julien Bracht's lead - now 13 points ahead of Faux Tales, whose tally was also topped up a little here. Will that unlucky number gap be the sign of a turning tide on the horizon?
The top song may not have changed but we now have a new last place after Aphrodelics received 5 points within these votes. Poor lewistgreen!
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LEADERBOARD
1 72 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 2 59 Faux Tales - Soar (Dobbo) 3 57 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) (Jade) 4 56 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 5 46 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World (Doctor Blind) 6 46 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 7 46 Whitewildbear - Light 8 34 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) (King Rollo) 9 32 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (jimwatts) 10 28 Recondite - Levo (Bré)
11 26 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 12 22 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 13 19 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta) 14 18 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight 15 17 AVAION - Pieces 16 16 Christian Löffler - Blind 17 14 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 18 12 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 19 7 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun 20 6 Aphrodelics - Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub)
21 5 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen)
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 07:53 PM
DJ Shadow/UNKLE entries are pretty much always high points bait for me and once again no disappointments here <3
How am I still the only person who's voted for Nicky Elisabeth oops
Posted by: Dankenstein 27th October 2022, 07:53 PM
Could Dobbo win this yet again then? Great entry there so I'd be happy with that.
Posted by: jimwatts 27th October 2022, 07:54 PM
Thanks for the maximum Dr B! New high of 9th *.*
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 07:55 PM
12 Recondite - Levo 10 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 08 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight 07 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 06 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks 05 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 04 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 03 Julien Bracht - Nocturne 02 Christian Löffler - Blind 01 Whitewildbear - Light
Our twelfth voter tonight is Ansel who is behind the intriguing 'Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub)' by Austrian hip-hop group Aphrodelics. As mentioned in the previous commentary, this has now escaped last place at least and is fighting for that top 20 scrape. 'Levo' now receives its second 12 of the night (a 12 from voter #12 is pretty cool, right Bré?) and moves up to 8th place. The silver medal for 'L'Esperanza' vaults it into the top 5, so we now go back to being unaware of the identity of two current top 5 participants. 8 pointer Craig Armstrong has quietly been making progress, after being stuck on one voter for a while - now he not far off the top 10. Julien Bracht's lead is cut down to 9, with a new immediate rival now in FC Kahuna, plus 'Winter In The Woods' re-enters the podium. It's definitely still all to play for!
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LEADERBOARD
1 75 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 2 64 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) (Jade) 3 61 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 4 59 Faux Tales - Soar (Dobbo) 5 56 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 6 50 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World (Doctor Blind) 7 47 Whitewildbear - Light 8 40 Recondite - Levo (Bré) 9 34 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) (King Rollo) 10 32 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (jimwatts)
11 26 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 12 26 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight 13 25 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta) 14 22 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 15 18 Christian Löffler - Blind 16 17 AVAION - Pieces 17 14 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 18 12 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 19 7 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun 20 6 Aphrodelics - Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub) (Ansel)
21 5 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen)
Posted by: gooddelta 27th October 2022, 07:59 PM
I can’t begrudge you for sending Hayling Jade, especially as it was a new discovery for you, you had no way of knowing its cult status, and as I said in the other thread, it was hardly a smash hit so unless you’re in those older circles you’d have never known. I’m always happy to be reminded of it, if only Hafdís would get the attention she deserves commercially <3
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 07:59 PM
A second 12 thank you Ansel!! I didn't really expect this to be a 'high points or nothing' type entry this time but I guess that is how it's turned out more or less
Aphrodelics definitely a memorable entry even if not quite a favourite.
(and yes, 12 from voter 12 is cool indeed x)
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 08:00 PM
13 • Cow Cow was behind...
AVAION - Pieces
QUOTE
Hi Jade,
Here are my votes:
12 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 10 Julien Bracht - Nocturne 08 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks 07 Faux Tales - Soar 06 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 05 Whitewildbear - Light 04 Aphrodelics - Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub) 03 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight 02 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 01 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
Cow Cow served us an emotional entry about loneliness, albeit with a bit of a kick to the production. This was courtesy of another German artist, AVAION. He currently sits just outside of the top 15. Cow's favourite of the edition was Kasbo, who now rises into the top 10 thanks to this gold medal. 10 points to Julien Bracht ensures Chez a lead of 15 points at this stage. Dobbo now re-joins the top 3 thanks to 7 points for 'Soar'. Nora Van Elken has quietly been making progress lately and is a whisker away from top 10 now, thanks to a bronze medal.
Aphrodelics are now out of the bottom 2, leaving Nu & Jo.Ke to take their place in 20th instead. We still await the identity of the poster behind 'Who Loves The Sun'.
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LEADERBOARD
1 85 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 2 70 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) (Jade) 3 66 Faux Tales - Soar (Dobbo) 4 63 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 5 56 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 6 52 Whitewildbear - Light 7 51 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World (Doctor Blind) 8 40 Recondite - Levo (Bré) 9 34 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) (King Rollo) 10 34 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm
11 33 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta) 12 32 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (jimwatts) 13 29 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight 14 26 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 15 18 Christian Löffler - Blind 16 17 AVAION - Pieces (Cow Cow) 17 14 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 18 12 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 19 10 Aphrodelics - Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub) (Ansel) 20 7 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun
21 5 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen)
Posted by: Cody Wesker 27th October 2022, 08:08 PM
some inch resting results
i wasn't there for the listenthrough but i'm sure everyone else was there so if everyone's saying a song is going to smash here then it's going to smash here
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 08:10 PM
I think we peaked at having 12 people online during the listenthrough so a pretty big sample yeah but not quite everyone. x
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 08:10 PM
14 • Addy was behind...
Sven Väth - L'Esperanza
QUOTE
12. Sunlounger - Sunny Tales 10. Whitewildbear - Light 08. Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 07. Nicky Elisabeth - Sun 06. Aphrodelics - Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub) 05. Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) 04. DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 03. Recondite - Levo 02. Faux Tales - Soar 01. AVAION - Pieces
So it is Addy who received top marks from the host this time! SyncTube listeners guessed that either me or Addy had sent 'L'Esperanza' so you guys were definitely on to something here. We have a multitude of German DJs in the contest, including Sven Väth now, but I believe this is our only foreign language entry. The soft vocals are mixed with ambient, trance-meets-techno production and a summery video, filled with water and dolphins. The song missed the top 40 in the U.K. but did chart within the top 75. It deserved better! Addy performs a bit of a foot-shoot here by knocking himself out of the top 5, allowing Whitewildbear in there for the first time. 'Light' has now received FOUR silver medals but no golds yet! Addy's top marks to Sunlounger mean that Wardy is now in the top 15. We also have a new last place as these votes were generous to both Nicky Elisabeth and Aphrodelics! Nu & Jo.Ke are now right down there. The top 2 of the leaderboard are snubbed but 3rd place 'Soar' receives a top up.
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LEADERBOARD
1 85 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 2 70 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) (Jade) 3 68 Faux Tales - Soar (Dobbo) 4 63 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 5 62 Whitewildbear - Light 6 56 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza (Addy) 7 55 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World (Doctor Blind) 8 43 Recondite - Levo (Bré) 9 42 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 10 39 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) (King Rollo)
11 33 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta) 12 32 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (jimwatts) 13 29 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight 14 26 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 15 26 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 16 18 Christian Löffler - Blind 17 18 AVAION - Pieces (Cow Cow) 18 16 Aphrodelics - Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub) (Ansel) 19 12 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 20 12 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen)
21 7 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun
Posted by: Dankenstein 27th October 2022, 08:10 PM
Interestingly the Avaion song was by far the most popular with the general public with 97m Spotiplays. However I'm not surprised it isn't top 10 here tonight.
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 08:12 PM
Thanks for another few points Addy (first non 12 points for ages ) and a banger of an entry from you as well *.* yass at finally another taker for 'Sun' too, that really didn't deserve to be floundering in single digits.
Wow at how many people have been drawn to German artists for this.
Posted by: awardinary 27th October 2022, 08:13 PM
Ooh thanks Addy!
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 08:15 PM
15 • Juan Carlos was behind...
Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun
QUOTE
+12: Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm +10: Julien Bracht - Nocturne +8: AVAION - Pieces +7: Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods +6: FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) +5: Christian Löffler - Blind +4: mïus - Panorama +3: Recondite - Levo +2: Faux Tales - Soar +1: Nicky Elisabeth - Sun
Voter #15 is Juan Carlos who was behind the penultimate song in the running order! 'Who Loves The Sun' was our longest entry as it clocks in at over 9 minutes. It was also potentially the funkiest. But the lyrics paint quite a sad picture behind all that. 'Who Loves The Sun' is experiencing difficulty on the leaderboard at the moment, but there's still time for it to crack double-figures before the night is out. Juan's 12 this time goes to Kasbo, which strengthens its chances at a top 10 finish. These votes are a lot kinder to the contenders than the last, as Julien receives a silver medal (extending that lead in 1st to 19 points!), FC Kahuna get 6, Leaving Laurel 7 and Faux Tales 2 - the latter two are currently tied in 3rd place. Juan's own bronze goes to AVAION, who is fighting for a spot in the top 15.
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LEADERBOARD
1 95 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 2 76 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) (Jade) 3 70 Faux Tales - Soar (Dobbo) 4 70 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 5 62 Whitewildbear - Light 6 56 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza (Addy) 7 55 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World (Doctor Blind) 8 54 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 9 46 Recondite - Levo (Bré) 10 39 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) (King Rollo)
11 33 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta) 12 32 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (jimwatts) 13 30 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 14 29 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight 15 26 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 16 26 AVAION - Pieces (Cow Cow) 17 23 Christian Löffler - Blind 18 16 Aphrodelics - Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub) (Ansel) 19 13 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen) 20 12 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun)
21 7 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun (Juan Carlos)
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 08:17 PM
Thanks Juan as well, getting a few more lower points now. 'Who Loves The Sun' was quite close to my votes so a shame to see that taking over in last place as well D:
Julien with a decent lead we love to see.
Posted by: Juan Carlos 27th October 2022, 08:17 PM
Yeah, I was the one who submitted "Who Loves The Sun" and I think some of you may have guessed that earlier if you checked my last.fm account.
Anyway, the way I found out this song is interesting to be honest. I was at the gym and while I was taking a shower after I finished my training, this song was being played there. I liked what I was listening to, so I shazamed it because I have no idea who were behind the track. That said, thanks to the ones who liked the track and gave votes to it so far, although I'm currently in the last place.
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 08:20 PM
16 • Kath was behind...
Christian Löffler - Blind
QUOTE
QUOTE
Good evening,
If you have received this PM then I currently await your votes in the Club Bizarre: Chill Out II edition.
The deadline is 26th October 23:59 BST, so a little over 24 hours.
Please send them over before then to avoid any deductions for your entry!
Many thanks,
Jade
Sorry for the delay!
12 - Julien Bracht - Nocturne 10 - Recondite - Levo 08 - Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 07 - Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun 06 - FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 05 - Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 04 - Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train 03 - mïus - Panorama 02 - Whitewildbear - Light 01 - AVAION - Pieces
xx
Next up is Kath who is behind 'Blind' by German DJ Christian Löffler, who describes his sound as the mixture of a gloomy spirit with a warm sincerity. I'm surprised to see this one in the bottom 5 right now, as its second biggest fan so far! Kath rallies big support behind 'Nocturne' which has become the first entry to smash past triple figures. If Chez keeps up this momentum until the end and seals the win, then he would eclipse mine and Mattias' 2 Club Bizarre wins and would only be behind Dobbo's 4 to date. There's still time for a late snatch, but Julien is looking pretty strong at the moment with a 25 point lead. He has 2 gold medals and 5 silvers to date. Kath's 10 points to 'Levo' pushes that up to 7th place and the bronze medal for Kaskade means that is out of the bottom 3 now. We actually have an updated last place again as Nicky Elisabeth slips back down there with 13 points. A 6 point boost for FC Kahuna ensures that 'Hayling' is still the closest competition to Julien Bracht at the moment.
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LEADERBOARD
1 107 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 2 82 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) (Jade) 3 70 Faux Tales - Soar (Dobbo) 4 70 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 5 64 Whitewildbear - Light 6 61 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza (Addy) 7 56 Recondite - Levo (Bré) 8 55 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World (Doctor Blind) 9 54 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 10 39 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) (King Rollo)
11 36 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (jimwatts) 12 33 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta) 13 33 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 14 29 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight 15 27 AVAION - Pieces (Cow Cow) 16 26 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 17 23 Christian Löffler - Blind (Kath) 18 20 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 19 16 Aphrodelics - Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub) (Ansel) 20 14 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun (Juan Carlos)
21 13 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen)
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 08:23 PM
And that's the other entry that I already was pretty sure I knew the identity of because Kath previously confirmed it for BJSC
Booo at Christian flopping a second time unless our last few voters have taste :'( another really lovely song from him.
Thanks Kath for another medal position though *.* and now up to a new high on the leaderboard I think, woo ~ + the taste pushing Julien further into the lead
Posted by: Addy! 27th October 2022, 08:23 PM
Awe Jade thanks for your 12!!!
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 08:25 PM
17 • Dandy was behind...
Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight
QUOTE
Hi Jade! Thanks for the reminder, here are my votes for the second chill out edition:
12 Faux Tales - Soar 10 Christian Löffler - Blind 08 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 07 AVAION - Pieces 06 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 05 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 04 mïus - Panorama 03 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 02 Aphrodelics - Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub) 01 Whitewildbear - Light
00 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 00 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales 00 Recondite - Levo 00 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks
Thanks for hosting a really great contest. Enjoyed this one very much - especially seeing people's bored reaction to my entry on the listen through!!!
Next up it's Dandy and I'm rather pleased that this edition has the seal of approval from the host of the previous Chill Out! It was speculated at the listening session that he might be behind DJ Shadow, but instead, it was Scottish composer Craig Armstrong. I think the only guess people made for this one was Rollo. 'Let’s Go Out Tonight' is a blend of contemporary classical and downtempo. This one currently sits in 16th place, mostly helped by two huge fans in Ansel and Rollo so far. Dandy's favourite of the lot was one of the contenders tonight, from Faux Tales, who now claims bronze for himself at this stage. Dandy snubs the favourite but awards my entry in second place his bronze, so Julien's lead is cut down to 17 points. Could this still be assailable by the end? Meanwhile, Christian Löffler finds a new biggest fan so far in Dandy with that silver medal and ascends into the top 15 as a result!
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LEADERBOARD
1 107 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 2 90 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) (Jade) 3 82 Faux Tales - Soar (Dobbo) 4 75 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 5 65 Whitewildbear - Light 6 61 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza (Addy) 7 61 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World (Doctor Blind) 8 57 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 9 56 Recondite - Levo (Bré) 10 39 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) (King Rollo)
11 37 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 12 36 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (jimwatts) 13 34 AVAION - Pieces (Cow Cow) 14 33 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta) 15 33 Christian Löffler - Blind (Kath) 16 29 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight (Dandy) 17 26 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 18 20 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 19 18 Aphrodelics - Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub) (Ansel) 20 14 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun (Juan Carlos)
21 13 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen)
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 08:27 PM
Ooh well this is a good start to Christian Löffler redemption in the last few votes x
Posted by: Dankenstein 27th October 2022, 08:27 PM
looks like we may as well congratulate chez for winning already then, can’t see him being overtaken at this stage!
Posted by: J00prstar 27th October 2022, 08:28 PM
just watching along waiting for my reveal~
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 08:30 PM
18 • Iz was behind...
Whitewildbear - Light
QUOTE
12 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 10 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks 08 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun 07 Faux Tales - Soar 06 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) 05 Julien Bracht - Nocturne 04 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 03 AVAION - Pieces 02 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World 01 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix)
The identity of another top 10 participant is now revealed! A lot of people seemed to think that I was the one behind 'Light' during the listening session, possibly because I pointed out that the "I've fallen somehow, feet off the ground" lines sounded like an (inspired!) sample of 'Climax' by Usher, alas I just have an ear for a sample/interpolation. Iz performs a bit of a foot shoot here, as he falls out of the top 5, due to giving a full 12 points to Kasbo. To date Iz has achieved two top 5 positions in Club Bizarre, we shall wait and see if Whitewildbear can claw his way back in for a third by the end of tonight. Elsewhere, 10 points for Nora Van Elken sends 'Dire, Dire Docks' back into the top 10 at this stage! The bronze medal for 'Who Loves The Sun' lifts it out of the bottom 2. Iz awards our current leader Julien Bracht 5 points, but second place 6 points, so the gap between me and Chez shortens to 16 points. Faux Tales is chasing my tail though as that is only 7 points behind FC Kahuna in 3rd. Exciting times!
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LEADERBOARD
1 112 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 2 96 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) (Jade) 3 89 Faux Tales - Soar (Dobbo) 4 75 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 5 69 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 6 65 Whitewildbear - Light (Iz) 7 63 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World (Doctor Blind) 8 61 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza (Addy) 9 56 Recondite - Levo (Bré) 10 43 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta)
11 40 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) (King Rollo) 12 37 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 13 37 AVAION - Pieces (Cow Cow) 14 36 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (jimwatts) 15 33 Christian Löffler - Blind (Kath) 16 29 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight (Dandy) 17 26 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 18 24 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) 19 22 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun (Juan Carlos) 20 18 Aphrodelics - Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub) (Ansel)
21 13 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen)
Posted by: Cody Wesker 27th October 2022, 08:31 PM
USHER???? no wonder it sounded familiar!
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 08:32 PM
Excellent entry from Iz <3 (and slightly curious about where you found it, I was trying to look up the sample(s) and from that have learnt it seems to be a rather obscure one).
Nicky in last again :'(
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 08:35 PM
19 • Jupiter was behind...
Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun)
QUOTE
QUOTE
Good evening,
If you have received this PM then I currently await your votes in the Club Bizarre: Chill Out II edition.
The deadline is 26th October 23:59 BST, so a little over 24 hours.
Please send them over before then to avoid any deductions for your entry!
Many thanks,
Jade
ty jade 12 whitewildbear 10 aurora b polaris 8 fc kauna 7 kasbo 6 faux tales 5 nicky elisabeth 4 recondite 3 sunlounger 2 sven vath 1 mius
ty again fabulous hosting
Next up we have the J00ps votes! It turns out that they are the poster behind the Kaskade entry. This may be a familiar artist name thanks to the deadmau5 feature 'I Remember' back in 2009. This time Kaskade is the lead artist, with Sunsun the feature. It seems that people have icy hearts as we have Sunlounger, Sunsun, 'Who Loves The Sun' and 'Sun' all in the bottom 5 it's like the contest was, err, oversaturated or something. Jupiter awards their 12 to Whitewildbear, the first gold medal for Iz tonight after a huge haul of silvers! His entry is now 4th, albeit by a whisker. The 10 pointer in these votes is courtesy of Aurora B.Polaris, so Rollo experiences a top 10 comeback. Jupiter then awarded FC Kahuna 8 points... so I become the second person to break past the 100 point barrier tonight! They have snubbed Julien Bracht so the lead is cut down to just 8 points at a crucial point in the game tense times.
Two votes left to come... from the posters currently in 5th and 6th place!
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LEADERBOARD
1 112 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 2 104 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) (Jade) 3 95 Faux Tales - Soar (Dobbo) 4 77 Whitewildbear - Light (Iz) 5 76 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 6 75 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods 7 63 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World (Doctor Blind) 8 63 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza (Addy) 9 60 Recondite - Levo (Bré) 10 50 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) (King Rollo)
11 43 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta) 12 38 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 13 37 AVAION - Pieces (Cow Cow) 14 36 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (jimwatts) 15 33 Christian Löffler - Blind (Kath) 16 29 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight (Dandy) 17 29 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 18 24 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) (Jupiter) 19 22 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun (Juan Carlos) 20 18 Aphrodelics - Rollin'on chrome (Wild motherf***er dub) (Ansel)
21 18 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen)
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 08:37 PM
Thanks Joop, hope I can cling onto top 10 here. (I guess something would need to go quite badly wrong for me not to since I am 17 points ahead of 11th but you never know x)
Much as I wouldn't mind seeing a back to back Jade win and 'Hayling' would still make for a good winner, I am ofc rooting for Julien to hang on here!
Cody doing well shocker x
Posted by: Addy! 27th October 2022, 08:37 PM
I would like for Sven to finish Top 10 and give me fourth consecutive Top 10 this year!!!
Posted by: Pting Rollo 27th October 2022, 08:37 PM
Thanks Jupiter for the 10 points. I've had a couple of low points scores but it's still mainly top 2 or nothing for my song.
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 08:40 PM
20 • Dan was behind...
Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods
QUOTE
+12 Faux Tales +10 Nicky Elisabeth +08 Nora Van Elken +07 Jo.Ke +06 Sunlounger +05 Sven Väth +04 Aurora B.Polaris +03 Aphrodelics +02 Whitewildbear +01 Recondite
Our penultimate set of votes come from Dan who is currently sitting in 6th place! He rebelled against the sunny tales elsewhere and instead took a premature snowy walk in the woods in winter. This was courtesy of Leaving Laurel and their pretty instrumental effort. He did turn up the heat in a few places for his votes, though! Such as Nicky Elisabeth receiving her biggest points of the night, a generous 10. This demotes Ansel back down to last place, despite also receiving 3 points here. Nora Van Elken edges ever closer back to the top 10 again thanks to that bronze-coloured top up. However, by far the biggest impact here, a whopping full 12 points to Faux Tales, has contributed to DRAMA AT THE FINAL HOUR!!! Dobbo now becomes the third (and final, based on the numbers left) country to pass 100 points and leapfrogs me in the process, as Dan snubbed FC Kahuna... and he also gave 0 to Julien Bracht. So, we have THREE songs battling for the crown with one set of votes left maybe we'll get a debut winner next contest, but in the meantime... will Dobbo extend his cabinet of Club Bizarre wins to a huge 5? Or will either me or Chez become the second most decorated person in Club Bizarre to date - as one of us would achieve our 3rd win? Not long to go to find out...!
CODY DECIDES
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LEADERBOARD
1 112 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 2 107 Faux Tales - Soar (Dobbo) 3 104 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) (Jade) 4 79 Whitewildbear - Light (Iz) 5 76 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm 6 75 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods (Dan) 7 68 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza (Addy) 8 63 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World (Doctor Blind) 9 61 Recondite - Levo (Bré) 10 54 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) (King Rollo)
11 51 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta) 12 38 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 13 37 AVAION - Pieces (Cow Cow) 14 36 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (jimwatts) 15 35 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 16 33 Christian Löffler - Blind (Kath) 17 29 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight (Dandy) 18 29 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun (Juan Carlos) 19 28 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen) 20 24 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) (Jupiter)
Posted by: Juan Carlos 27th October 2022, 08:43 PM
Suspense...
Thank you Dan for your points, as well as Kath and Iz.
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 08:44 PM
Thanks Dan, I had you in mind as someone who might be a big fan when I found it (mainly because of aforementioned Nora En Pure vibes), I'll take one point tho lovely entry from you too, nice to finally hear the original version of that song after previously only listening to a couple of remixes.
Cody make a wise decision pls x (not that any of the top 3 would be bad winners, I voted for all of them)
Posted by: TheInvisibleMan 27th October 2022, 08:44 PM
Just in time for the reveal!
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 08:45 PM
07 POINTS | AVAION - Pieces 06 POINTS | Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks 05 POINTS | Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train 04 POINTS | Sunlounger - Sunny Tales 03 POINTS | Julien Bracht - Nocturne 02 POINTS | Sven Väth - L'Esperanza 01 POINTS | Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight
So it was Cody who was behind the (very dreamy!) death slot entry, blame random.org and he foot shoots himself out of a top 5 position thanks to the bronze medal for Dan (6th is still great though!!), however, he may take pleasure in the fact he has single-handedly shaken everything up at the last minute, because...
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FINAL LEADERBOARD
1 117 Faux Tales - Soar (Dobbo) 2 115 Julien Bracht - Nocturne (Chez Wombat) 3 104 FC Kahuna - Hayling (feat. Hafdis Huld) (Jade) 4 91 Whitewildbear - Light (Iz) 5 83 Leaving Laurel - Winter In The Woods (Dan) 6 76 Kasbo - The Making Of A Paracosm (Cody) 7 70 Sven Väth - L'Esperanza (Addy) 8 63 DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World (Doctor Blind) 9 61 Recondite - Levo (Bré) 10 57 Nora Van Elken - Dire, Dire Docks (gooddelta)
11 54 Aurora B.Polaris - Into The Void (Deep Mix) (King Rollo) 12 44 AVAION - Pieces (Cow Cow) 13 41 Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train (jimwatts) 14 39 Sunlounger - Sunny Tales (awardinary) 15 38 mïus - Panorama (uhsting) 16 33 Christian Löffler - Blind (Kath) 17 30 Craig Armstrong - Let’s Go Out Tonight (Dandy) 18 29 Nu & Jo.Ke - Who Loves The Sun (Juan Carlos) 19 28 Nicky Elisabeth - Sun (lewistgreen) 20 24 Kaskade - Are You Listening? - Extended Mix (feat. Sunsun) (Jupiter)
DOBBO HAS SNATCHED A FIFTH CLUB BIZARRE WIN AT THE FINAL MOMENT !!!
☆ WINNER: Faux Tales - Soar (117 points) ☆
Posted by: Cody Wesker 27th October 2022, 08:46 PM
anyways
I was about to post "and i oop" when i saw the first half of the votes but OMG 3 GOLDS!!! thanks so much Cow/Juan Carlos/Iz for the top scores!
Posted by: TheInvisibleMan 27th October 2022, 08:47 PM
LOL Chez second
Posted by: gooddelta 27th October 2022, 08:49 PM
Ooh great winner, Nocturne didn’t grab me that much but Soar really did, I didn’t expect my 12 pointer to win this though! Well done Dobbo again!
Big thanks to Iz, Dan and Cody for the last minute lift into the top ten nice to add another to my tally as I’m not sure I expected that! Lovely to see Hayling third too.
Thanks for the fab hosting Jade! Hope you’re somewhat on the road to recovery from Covid and we all appreciate the effort you’ve gone to to put this show on during that!
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 08:49 PM
Congrats Dobbo!! fun fact, Dobbo won the first edition of Club Bizarre with this exact points total too.
So sorry Chez to award you yet another bridesmaid position at the last second </3 but still amazing of course! Happy to be up there with you two on the podium
Aphrodelics achieved last place in style: 21st place with 21 points in the 21st contest.
No ties or deductions this edition thanks everyone once again for your timely votes. <3 hope the hosting was okay, it felt like more people were around for the listening session than the results
The spreadsheet can be found https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d0Jj8OH24Il4DzK66FmdXwu4cWqSv2CgI_iAQUyU5bs/edit?usp=sharing ~
Posted by: TheInvisibleMan 27th October 2022, 08:53 PM
My favourite winning *.*
Good results for a good round… thanks Jade for hosting so efficiently and congratulations again to dobbo!
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 08:54 PM
Tbh I should have been predicting Julien to be 2nd all along given I knew who sent him a shame to see my 12 missing out on the win by such a tiny margin but I did vote for 'Soar' too of course so still a good winner, well done Dobbo once again!
In fact voted for 7 of the top 8, while finishing in 9th myself, so hooray for being pretty in touch with the majority this time! (Tbf they are mostly songs I'd have predicted to do quite well, I think Whitewildbear is probably the closest to a surprise out of those so fab to see that as high as 4th). Happy with a single digit finish for 'Levo' especially with the bulk of its points coming from 12s and 10s, I felt a little more invested in this entry than I do for a lot of my CB entries so glad it didn't entirely fall on deaf ears! 'Dire, Dire Docks' in the top 10 is quite a surprise but why not x
Christian Löffler came 16th/21 when I sent him as well so I guess that's just his glass ceiling D: still think Nicky Elisabeth deserved way better too but yay for not being last at least.
Thanks for the hosting Jade, has been another fun edition!
Posted by: awardinary 27th October 2022, 08:54 PM
The timing of these results! I just played the entire playlist whilst you presented Jade and then the final song came on, the winning song, right as you announced it! *.*
Posted by: Cody Wesker 27th October 2022, 08:56 PM
ayyyyy my top 3 were in the top 5! (and I gave points to Julien so pretty good results all around) Congrats Dobbo! the set list saved the best for last, random.org did something right for once!
ngl I was tearing my hair out with finding an entry for this as I was in Europe and didn't have anything at hand prior, but I remembered having Kasbo as a BJSC potential last year... Went back to that album, found this beauty, LOVED IT and thought "let's do it, full send" expecting ABSOLUTELY NOTHING considering how y'all treated Snail's House. I expected bottom 3 so 6th was a SHOCK. Thanks to everyone who loved it enough to give it points!
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 27th October 2022, 08:57 PM
QUOTE(gooddelta @ Oct 27 2022, 09:49 PM)
Thanks for the fab hosting Jade! Hope you’re somewhat on the road to recovery from Covid and we all appreciate the effort you’ve gone to to put this show on during that!
Thank you Rich! I'm still not fully recovered yet but definitely better than the first few days so, progress *.*
QUOTE(awardinary @ Oct 27 2022, 09:54 PM)
The timing of these results! I just played the entire playlist whilst you presented Jade and then the final song came on, the winning song, right as you announced it! *.*
That is so satisfying.
(thanks guys for the kind words! x)
Posted by: Pting Rollo 27th October 2022, 08:59 PM
Well done Dobbo. Soar was 4th in my vote so I'm happy to see it win.
I just missed the top 10 by three points. Thanks to everyone who gave some points to Into The Void.
And thanks to Jade for doing such a good job in hosting this chilled out contest.
Posted by: jimwatts 27th October 2022, 09:02 PM
Such a dramatic finish you couldn't script Faux Tales overturning a 37 point deficit with 5 votes left commiserations Chez and congrats Dobbo! And well done Jade for hosting! I voted for all the top 3 so that turned out OK. I'll take 13th, it was fun to take part and follow
Posted by: lettuhsting 27th October 2022, 09:02 PM
Congratulations to Dobbo! Well-deserved winner! Also yay at me for getting out of bottom 5! CB is still my weaker contest When will I break the top 10?
Thanks for hosting Jade and the 8 points xx Prompt presentation and love to see a full house. Thanks Chez for 8 points too!
Posted by: Dankenstein 27th October 2022, 09:03 PM
oh wow what a great surprise turn of events right at the end there! Soar is a real beauty so easily made my twelve points and is a very deserving winner here.
anyhow, thanks for a great hosted contest Jade! a really good quality contest songs wise also, I did enjoy the remainder of the top three albeit not enough to give them any points.
very pleased to have another top five finish for myself too, it was a fave of mine last winter and I hadn’t really considered it as a song contest entry but thought it would be most suited for chill out theme.
nice to see Nora Van Ellen eventually grab a decent position, shame for the sunny entries they couldn’t follow.
Dobbo if you’d like to host in January then let us know now then we can think about the theme and dates closer to the time.
Posted by: WaspBrë 27th October 2022, 09:23 PM
Just peeped the results archive thread and seeing this is a third top 10 in a row which matches my best run to date (although only just as that current run is 8-10-9, my previous one was 5-6-10 so including a 10th place scrape both times )
Posted by: Dobbo. 27th October 2022, 09:24 PM
Oh my *_* thank you so much! I love this entry loads so to see it perform so well is amazing.
Will give this a proper read through tomorrow but on a quick scoreboard glance good to see my top 2 also in the top 10
Thanks to Jade for hosting! And I might as well say now that January is typically my busiest month work-wise by far so I'll pass on the hosting again (sorry!) Look forward to the next theme.
Posted by: Silence of the Wombats 27th October 2022, 10:06 PM
Well, now I'm kinda glad I didn't follow this live, or Dandy, Jupiter and Dan might have been banned by now
Tbh, I'll take the 2nd place (it's only my 2nd runner-up here actually, I had more wins here until now!), I'm more annoyed as I passed on this in BJSC last month as I wasn't sure how well it would do, in favour of Sung which DNQ'd, I'm now thinking I may have made a mistake there (I mean this is like a quarter of those who take part there, but still x).
Nonetheless, I'm really pleased I got to send Julien somewhere and I'm very happy I can introduce this to others. This is taken from his 2021 album, Now Forever One, which contains numerous other ambient techno brilliance and he also has a new EP out right now called Rave Flower which has a slightly more, well, ravier style, but still wonderful. I would really recommend it to all who enjoyed this one, thank you very much all for your generous points
I can't begrudge the winner, hell I completely shot myself in the foot for it, congrats yet again to Dobbo! Another great entry from this artist after the one in BJSC. Fantastic to see my 12-pointer, Leaving Laurel in the top 10 as well as most of my votes, though I was hoping Into the Void and Panorama would do a bit better.
Thank you for your excellently organised hosting as always, Jade, apart from leading me along
Posted by: Juan Carlos 27th October 2022, 10:12 PM
Congrats Dobbo for winning and thanks Jade for hosting.
Posted by: Cowborn 27th October 2022, 10:53 PM
Chill electronic is a difficult genre for me, so I'm satisfied with my 12th place. Congratulations Dobbo, and thanks for the 4 points. Thanks Wardy, Jimwatts, Addy, Juan Carlos, Kath, Dandy, Iz, and Cody for the votes too. Thanks Jade for the hosting.
Posted by: Dankenstein 28th October 2022, 09:05 AM
Final EOY leaderboard is here ... only 2 points in it between Jade and Dobbo however it is congrats to Jade who is this year's Top DJ.
Posted by: Rizhi Sunak 28th October 2022, 09:10 AM
QUOTE(WaspBrë @ Oct 27 2022, 08:32 PM)
Excellent entry from Iz <3 (and slightly curious about where you found it, I was trying to look up the sample(s) and from that have learnt it seems to be a rather obscure one).
Nicky in last again :'(
Actually, seeing that my previous entry to Chill Out was one of my best ever results here, I just looked up similar artists to Kazukii (would have never thought about the sample) Definitely a style of chilled dance I really like though, not too dissimilar from the old Schulz remix hits.
Great winner, 'Soar' was definitely one of the best tracks here though 'Nocturne' was also exccellent, fantastic top 3 overall, plus so many high points for 'Light', thank you everyone, it's really nice to score another hit. And fantastic hosting by Jade, really enjoyed reading the commentary.
Posted by: lettuhsting 28th October 2022, 10:01 AM
Oh wow this is my 2nd best performing entry
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 28th October 2022, 10:48 AM
Ooh EOY #1 I shall cherish this moment *.*
Posted by: Doctor Blind 28th October 2022, 01:39 PM
Really strong Top 3 there! Congrats to Dobbo, and thank you Jade for hosting - and doing such a great job with it all. FC Kahuna is fairly niche, the only reason I really knew of its existence was because of its use in Monkey Dust, which had a lot of great 'under the radar' type singles from the early 2000s as its https://www.mixcloud.com/Roots_Loops/monkey-dust/. Sometimes I can't believe that BBC3 ever put out something as dark, controversial and brilliant as Monkey Dust and it was all a dream..
Anyway I really enjoyed this edition and having that playlist to soundtrack my few days hill walking in the SCottish Borders was matched the mood perfectly.
Posted by: Dobbo. 28th October 2022, 02:09 PM
Wow that was quite the ride with how the votes turned out then. As jimwatts alluded to overturning a 37 point deficit with only 5 votes to go seemed quite the stretch indeed, couldn't believe it! Turned out to be a bit of a rematch following the 70s and 80s edition between myself and Chez although Jade was also in the mix for the whole battle this time. Congratulations for winning the EOY too
I was actually planning to send Soar to BJSC 150 for a very rare self-recycle in that specific contest but when this theme appeared I had to jump at the opportunity. Good to hear others have gotten into some of his stuff after I sent Atlas a few years back (albeit that was mostly Alpha 9 sounding of course).
QUOTE(JaDevil Woman @ Oct 27 2022, 09:49 PM)
Congrats Dobbo!! fun fact, Dobbo won the first edition of Club Bizarre with this exact points total too.
That's a nice nugget of trivia there I wonder if CB22 will follow CB2 as well?
Posted by: k👠th 28th October 2022, 02:21 PM
Sorry I missed this! Been having the worst couple of weeks IRL at the moment with my mom's illness 💔
Super hosting Jade, well done! I seem to be alone in thinking this was a meh contest in terms of quality and Christian Loffler flopping was a bit of a surprise. Blind is an all-time electronic fave of mine, immaculately produced and the emotions it evokes gives me goosebumps. Good thing I never sent it to BJSC then 🙉 Ty Dandy for the 10, and Brer and Jerd for the other decent points x
Posted by: JaDevil Woman 28th October 2022, 02:25 PM
QUOTE(k👠th @ Oct 28 2022, 03:21 PM)
Sorry I missed this! Been having the worst couple of weeks IRL at the moment with my mom's illness 💔
Sorry to hear this Kath! 💔 I really hope things will look up for her.
Justice 4 Christian Löffler
Posted by: WaspBrë 29th October 2022, 12:34 AM
QUOTE(Rizhi Sunak @ Oct 28 2022, 10:10 AM)
Actually, seeing that my previous entry to Chill Out was one of my best ever results here, I just looked up similar artists to Kazukii (would have never thought about the sample) Definitely a style of chilled dance I really like though, not too dissimilar from the old Schulz remix hits.
Ahh that makes sense then! Kazukii got high points from me too so you're doing good with the chill dance ~
WD Jerd on the EOY #1, me being #9 there and in the all-time list, the consistency. (Oops at still being behind Leww even after him missing a contest though lol x)
Posted by: Addy! 31st October 2022, 08:27 AM
Congrats Dobbo…smashing as per usual!!!
7th is amazing for Sven and I thought this was 4th Top 10 hit in a row for me but it’s actually 5th