One Hour Compo - Round 396 (OHC396)

Votes (6)

May 12, 2016 Shitbird
  1. Contemplation
    Random-storykeeper
  2. OHC 396 The Willing Way
    Patashu
  3. Another Night Of Boredom
    Misael.K
gninosaer
May 12, 2016 Arcana
  1. Mein Teil ist Copter
    Stuff of Legends
  2. uniform
    NickC
  3. Contemplation
    Random-storykeeper
Yes
May 12, 2016 Patashu
  1. Obligatory Minor Key Song
    Shitbird
  2. Another Night Of Boredom
    Misael.K
  3. Contemplation
    Random-storykeeper
good OHC!
May 17, 2016 Random-storykeeper
  1. uniform
    NickC
  2. Obligatory Minor Key Song
    Shitbird
  3. Sillouette
    GLL
Very interesting week. I found the theme rather difficult to interpret, and it seems as though everyone had different approaches, which is nice, but makes voting a bit tough.

1) "uniform" - Atmospheric and unsettling. It actually reminds me a little bit of one of the mining tracks from OFF - at least before the chorus comes in. The additions are interesting and keep the piece moving forward, but aren't so drastic as to change the overall mood.

2) "Obligatory Minor Key Song" - This grooves so smoothly. Even though it is repetitive and lacks some form a melody, it manages to be catchy and chill overall. And this is another entry that makes great use of a chorus, which here, really brings the beat and the continuum together.

3) "Sillouette" - Really like the instrumental stuff here, especially that awesome piano solo at the end. The vocals seem alright; a bit flat at parts but the "yeah"s seem to mostly be in tune and it wasn't too distracting. This entry doesn't really convey "the theme" to me, but I mean, the music is good overall. And like I said earlier, this seemed like a hard theme to interpret.

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A couple of honourable mentions:

- "Another Night Of Boredom" - I like the introduction to this and its minor key sort of gives this whole tragic "There's nothing to do!" tone. I find some of the instruments a bit questionable though; they don't seem to fit in well with the piano and other percussion.

- "Open Yourself" - I like the guitar and the progression. I guess the only thing that really bothered me was that it sounded pretty much exactly like your entry last week, and also the fact that it doesn't really conclude solidly.
May 19, 2016 TinyCastleGuy
  1. Obligatory Minor Key Song
    Shitbird
  2. Open Yourself
    Arcana
  3. Another Night Of Boredom
    Misael.K
Kudos for all three of my personal picks for sounding awesome the whole way through! It takes a certain type of skill to capture the kind of feel they brought to me, and I think this week's entries in general really worked with that mood. There's a couple more I would have liked to include in my votes, but I think this is a good enough selection.
May 19, 2016 Misael.K
  1. Obligatory Minor Key Song
    Shitbird
  2. uniform
    NickC
  3. Contemplation
    Random-storykeeper
Shitbird: Excellent. Great keys, great beat, great guitar, great everything!

NickC: with such a difficult theme, I think you ended up really close to what I imagined. Good job!

Random-storykeeper: pretty entry, a lot of good stuff going on here.

 

awesum: NickC, Random-storykeeper, Shitbird, Stuff of Legends.
good: Acuity, Arcana, AshBob5000, GLL, jarski, Patashu, TinyCastleGuy.