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Posted by: Jade 🐠 13th April 2020, 05:32 PM

Welcome to the voting stage of this RECORD-BREAKING synthtastic contest

There are 25 dreamy entries for you lot to choose from. You need to select your 10 favourites from the list below. Please use the ESC 12 point system (12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1) and PM your votes to http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?act=Msg&CODE=4&MID=12810. Voting will close on Saturday April 25th 23:59. The results should then be presented the following day. Please do not vote for your own entry.

I understand that this is not the usual 2 week voting period (due to wanting to present results on a Sunday), but it's still pretty close, so get those votes in within these 12 days to avoid any deductions. A 33% deduction will apply to any non-voter entry. I may accept late votes within reason but a 15% deduction will still apply.

Just a reminder that this is an anonymous contest - so please do not reveal your entry until I've done so in the results thread. Speculation about who sent what is welcomed though, as are general predictions about what will or won't do well.

Let's get to the songs now!

01. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1kWct6Wj_A
02. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR4sOLWlJ_Y
03. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JazrqkugfH8
04. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQSjCEkB6jA
05. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAYfJckSEN0
06. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acwFyZx8nFI
07. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fVkMK7r3tQ
08. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdtv99fZhQQ
09. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-jASTELsow
10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZf15xVrOW8

11. https://youtube.com/watch?v=7Qa6edJ7ZUM
12. https://youtube.com/watch?v=MkgR0SxmMKo
13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpx7u2ziZ7Y
14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q00HQwO2Sg
15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8r-hMQzRXk
16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi2OJw55BDY
17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPFDD2mqCwY
18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YQITuLGAWE
19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9VoDwy-3Lc
20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDdTSLYJX6Y

21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTidn2dBYbY
22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6xgvG9T2K8
23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saC3XYuai54
24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziHd6QWAEQw
25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbSRe9INfHU

Happy synthing!

- NocheLuna
- Dexton
- lewistgreen
- Addy
- awardinary
- Jade
- Bré
- Juan Carlos
- King Rollo
- Dobbo
- HarryEzra
- Pete
- Chez
- Iz
- Cody
- Dan
- Haus
- Jupiter
- dandy*
- math*
- photografdemon
- SevenSeize
- Jacob

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Posted by: lewistgreen 13th April 2020, 05:54 PM

HYPE

Posted by: Bré 🐠 13th April 2020, 06:01 PM

Yay for this contest breaking the participation record despite being probably the most niche theme so far *.* impact of Jade hosting xx (and perhaps the lockdown a little bit lol)

I was wondering if DANCE WITH THE DEAD would get wheeled out again here and indeed they have! An essential for synthwave of course x As are The Midnight so no surprise to see them showing up too! Beyond that there aren't too many other artists I recognise here. David Hasselhoff tho

Excited to get stuck into this, hopefully should be another good one!

Posted by: Chez Wallago 🐠 13th April 2020, 06:06 PM

omg I thought about The Midnight/Dance with the Dead, but thought they'd be too cheap due to past contest success. Very interested to hear them though.

I'm gonna love this contest I'm sure.

Posted by: Jade 🐠 13th April 2020, 06:08 PM

Who knew the Hoff made synth music

Posted by: Bré 🐠 13th April 2020, 06:10 PM

(for anyone who is unfamiliar this is, in my entirely unbiased opinion nothing at all to do with the fact it was a top 3 hit for me in BJSC, the greatest synthwave song of all time)

_eHMCbR_s_Y

Posted by: dan.G* 13th April 2020, 06:29 PM

great to see such a turnout! looking forward to listening to these all properly having only skimmed through for veto purposes.

Posted by: Jade 🐠 13th April 2020, 07:44 PM

Will definitely have to run a BeatSense session at some point btw maybe next week ~

Posted by: dan.G* 14th April 2020, 07:45 AM

spotify

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11. Glitch Lazzer - Don't Give Up
23. Niky Nine - 909 & Heartbreak
24. Sunglasses Kid - Last Days of Sun

Posted by: Dobbo 14th April 2020, 11:38 AM

I think this will be a struggle to vote for me based on the fact that to my ears most synthwave songs all sound the same. Anyway, it's a not a genre I'm all too clued up on at all so looking forward to expanding my musical palette.

Posted by: Jade 🐠 15th April 2020, 09:06 AM

Having a listen through now in the background and I've definitely been transported from my desk to an 80s movie *.*

Posted by: fl00zy* 15th April 2020, 12:15 PM

When do yous fancy a beatsense?

Posted by: Jade 🐠 15th April 2020, 12:17 PM

I was planning to host one next week!

Preferably a day from Monday - Wednesday, whenever we can avoid a Teams live event clash I guess

Posted by: dandy* 15th April 2020, 03:42 PM

This is going to be a nightmare to vote in. I kinda get dobbo's comment in that synth wave tends to be quite similar, I'm finding I like pretty much everything but not necessarily any one track much more than the others.

Posted by: lewistgreen 15th April 2020, 03:57 PM

Thankfully there are varying tempos so it’ll be different for you

Posted by: Jade 🐠 15th April 2020, 06:08 PM

It is a bit samey in places but in a good way for me *.* the tempo changes + mixture of instrumentals and vocals help at least.

I agree that it's going to be hard to vote in this. Even The Hoff delivered

Posted by: Nancy 🍾 15th April 2020, 06:27 PM

I echo the same sound comment lol.

But what's good about that is we will have a very intense voting and no clear winner during results

Posted by: Bré 🐠 17th April 2020, 02:45 PM

Bumping back to first page after lewistgreen went on a spam rampage pushing it down xx

Posted by: fl00zy* 17th April 2020, 02:47 PM

Maybe pin it?

Posted by: Dobbo 17th April 2020, 02:50 PM

I'd be more likely to miss it if it were pinned tbh.

Posted by: lewistgreen 17th April 2020, 04:21 PM

QUOTE(Bré 🐠 @ Apr 17 2020, 03:45 PM)

Bumping back to first page after lewistgreen went on a spam rampage pushing it down

xx

This is my forum and I do what I want x

Posted by: Bré 🐠 17th April 2020, 07:34 PM

QUOTE(Dobbo @ Apr 17 2020, 03:50 PM)

I'd be more likely to miss it if it were pinned tbh.

Same tbh, I mentally skip over pinned threads a lot of the time oops

Posted by: Jade 🐠 18th April 2020, 01:01 PM

Still a week left to get votes in

Posted by: HospitalWard* 18th April 2020, 02:04 PM

When will the listenthrough take place then as I want to listen to PFSC sometime in the week too. Is Monday night good?

Posted by: Jade 🐠 18th April 2020, 02:41 PM

It depends when Teams live events are taking place as I don't want it clashing with any of those. I do want to do it early next week so will speak to the mods

Posted by: Infludexton* 18th April 2020, 02:57 PM

Some of these are a lot better than my entry

Also David Hasselhoff released an album last year apparently??? Gutted I missed out on this masterpiece being released I am low key liking his cover of Here I Go Again

Posted by: Jade 🐠 20th April 2020, 11:42 AM

Decided that I’ll do the BeatSense session on Wednesday!

Posted by: Nancy 🍾 20th April 2020, 06:56 PM

Posted by: lewistgreen 20th April 2020, 08:28 PM

Sounds good to me!

Posted by: Jade 🐠 22nd April 2020, 01:12 PM

Going to aim for an 8pm start for the session tonight!

(will post a room link later, still working atm)

Posted by: fl00zy* 22nd April 2020, 02:52 PM

fab

Posted by: Jade 🐠 22nd April 2020, 05:12 PM

Made this room for tonight https://www.beatsense.com/synthwave/#/

Will start in a little under 2 hours

Posted by: Nancy 🍾 22nd April 2020, 05:18 PM

I should be in there :cheers:

Posted by: lewistgreen 22nd April 2020, 06:01 PM

Heading on now to play some synthy bangers

Posted by: Jade 🐠 22nd April 2020, 06:17 PM

There now too

Posted by: 🐠 IT’z Cody 🐠 22nd April 2020, 06:20 PM

I’ve got a bit of a break before my next tutoring session so hopefully this won’t take that long

Posted by: Breraldine 🐠 22nd April 2020, 07:44 PM

RIP BeatSense being a reasonable alternative to plug.dj, it was good while it lasted xx

(we've got it to work now but unfortunately due to similar problems with the YouTube API that plug.dj had it's now significantly more restrictive and not really sustainable to keep using :') I've found a thing on Reddit that claims to be a workaround for plug.dj so I'll test that out later and see if it actually works...)

Posted by: Jade 🐠 22nd April 2020, 09:35 PM

Sent my own votes in, we've had five more sets tonight yay! Great stuff guys ~

Posted by: Breraldine 🐠 22nd April 2020, 09:44 PM

Had to quickly revisit the first 3 songs before voting as I wasn't really paying attention to them amidst trying to make BeatSense work but boted now ~

Posted by: lewistgreen 24th April 2020, 08:49 AM

Not long left folks!

Posted by: Jade 🐠 24th April 2020, 09:03 AM

I'll send out reminders tonight 9 votes are in so far.

Posted by: Jade 🐠 24th April 2020, 10:58 PM

Reminders sent! Last day watch list:

IT’z Cody
dan.G*
Chez Wallago
math*
Iz
HarryEzra
Jupiter
Jacob
dandy*
Pete
SevenSeize
Coronarella
Hauspital*
photografdemon
Meekul

Posted by: Beverly 💪 25th April 2020, 12:03 PM

Voted! Such a tightly-packed set of songs, my ranking changed so much on second listen

Posted by: Chez Wallago 🐠 25th April 2020, 03:41 PM

Sent my votes~ A wonderful contest as I expected it would be, it definitely was samey and a pain to vote in, but in a good way as I quite literally liked every song! My top 2 in particular were stunning, I need to check out the other work of my top pointer!

Posted by: Jade 🐠 25th April 2020, 06:46 PM

Waiting for 11 people now:

IT’z Cody
dan.G*
math*
Jupiter
Jacob
dandy*
SevenSeize
Coronarella
Hauspital*
photografdemon
Meekul

Posted by: photografdemon 25th April 2020, 09:30 PM

Well, I'm there, finishing second round of rehearsals.
What a donkey I was to reject promptly other wise people's words that it was going to be a special kind of pain to vote here this time!

Posted by: Hauspital* 25th April 2020, 09:38 PM

Voted

Posted by: dandy* 25th April 2020, 09:46 PM

I'm still struggling! There isn't any one song that I loved more than some of the others... At this rate I'm just going to have to randomise my top 15!

Posted by: fl00zy* 25th April 2020, 09:55 PM

Done xox

Posted by: Breraldine 🐠 25th April 2020, 10:01 PM

In my own entirely unbiased opinion that has nothing to do with the fact it's the only song I've heard more than once, I thought my song stood out fairly well amongst the rest here so I'm going to be very tentatively optimistic

Curious to see if the scores are going to end up being super close this time around though or if there will be certain songs that are consistently standing above (or indeed below) the rest. Gonna predict a win for Scandroid/DANCE WITH THE DEAD, aided a little by name recognition. x

Posted by: photografdemon 25th April 2020, 10:06 PM

QUOTE(Breraldine 🐠 @ Apr 26 2020, 03:01 AM)

In my own entirely unbiased opinion that has nothing to do with the fact it's the only song I've heard more than once, I thought my song stood out fairly well amongst the rest here

Um, same, but at the end of second round I already forgot my entry.
---
Phew, done!
I thought that I'm 1 min late but - damn time zones - I had 59 more minutes to check it all out!

Posted by: dandy* 25th April 2020, 10:09 PM

I really like my entry but it doesn’t stand out at all in this I don’t think. It took quite a while to grow on me so possibly wasn’t the best tactic for an instant contest!

Posted by: Jade 🐠 25th April 2020, 10:11 PM

Oh wow suddenly got an onslaught of votes *.* just waiting for Jacob, Leww, Michael + Seven now!

Posted by: fl00zy* 25th April 2020, 10:41 PM

I'm predicting a dead last for me again

Posted by: 🐠 IT’z Cody 🐠 25th April 2020, 10:48 PM

Thinking I’m gonna flop in this but oh well it was a pretty good final even if I did get a bit bored towards the end

Posted by: Jade 🐠 25th April 2020, 11:00 PM

Everyone voted except Leww and Michael - those entries will now receive a 15% deduction, you guys have until 4pm tomorrow to avoid the 33% deduction! Hope that’s fair as I want to be able to check potential mistakes and wrap up everything before dinner

Posted by: Coronarella 26th April 2020, 12:24 AM

ahhh forgot about this - will send through tomorrow morning m'love!! x

Posted by: Jade 🐠 26th April 2020, 12:47 AM

Yay thanks Leww x

Meek are you in??

Thanks to everyone else also - brilliant turnout!

Posted by: Dobbo 26th April 2020, 09:54 AM

I just want to know to ~~stole~~ beat me to Scherzo

Posted by: Jade 🐠 26th April 2020, 10:31 AM

Bump as a final reminder for Leww and Michael!

Posted by: Hauspital* 26th April 2020, 11:07 AM

When are results scheduled for Jade?

Posted by: Jade 🐠 26th April 2020, 11:16 AM

QUOTE(Hauspital* @ Apr 26 2020, 12:07 PM)