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SEGA Music Competition: Win A SMS MIDI Interface!
Post Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:11 pm
It's time to get your chipmusic on! This is your chance to win a SEGA Master System MIDI Interface. Be the coolest musician in your town with this brand new tool that lets you control the sound chip in your SEGA Master System with MIDI data.



The Prize
The prize includes the following:
• brand-new, hand made little-scale-brand SEGA Master System MIDI Interface (SMSM)
• instruction manual
• required cable

Since this product will not be available on the market by the time the competition ends, the winner will be the only member of the public to own this cool piece of retro boutique music hardware!



Competition Details
Submit a SEGA-related music track. This may be:
• chipmusic written for the SEGA Master System / SEGA Mega Drive
• music written within the constraints of the SEGA Master System / SEGA Mega Drive
• music that is covering / remixing a specific SEGA Master System / SEGA Mega Drive tune
• any of the above may include additional instrumentation (whether electronic or more traditional) - however, the focus should be on the SEGA aspects of the work

Music that does not fit into the above categories will be disqualified. If your entry is a cover or a remix of a SEGA Master System / SEGA Mega Drive tune, please be sure to include what it is that you are covering.

Please note that there will only be one winner. The judge(s) decision is final.





Submission Guidelines
• the deadline for this competition is the 17th April, 2010
• limit of one entry per person / group
• the length of your SEGA track should be between 1:30 and 5:00
• submission format is strictly as 192 kbps stereo MP3
• send your submissions to: sega@little-scale.com with the subject line 'SEGA Music Competition'
• the best 10 tracks will be released as a digital archive



Note that this competition is in no way affiliated with SEGA.
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Post Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:50 pm
Cool stuff :) I posted it on the site front page news, if you don't mind.
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Post Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:40 pm
Maxim wrote
Cool stuff :) I posted it on the site front page news, if you don't mind.


Thanks Maxim! Much appreciated :)
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Post Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:51 pm
Im in on this one Seb, for sure!
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Post Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:02 am
Damn, time for a crash course in chipmusic :)
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Post Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:52 pm
Sebastian wrote
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Any of the above may include additional instrumentation (whether electronic or more traditional) - however, the focus should be on the SEGA aspects of the work

Music that does not fit into the above categories will be disqualified
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If I submit a cover which includes lead vocals and self-written lyrics (with several Sega references), would this count as enough focus on the "Sega aspects of the work"?

I guess you'd have to hear the song to make a judgement, but I thought I'd ask anyway...

Seems like a cool competition! I'll probably participate one way or another.
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Post Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:33 am
It's a shame about the 1 entry rule, was thinking of trying a couple if different approaches.
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Post Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:44 am
LieMfB wrote
Sebastian wrote
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Any of the above may include additional instrumentation (whether electronic or more traditional) - however, the focus should be on the SEGA aspects of the work

Music that does not fit into the above categories will be disqualified
...


If I submit a cover which includes lead vocals and self-written lyrics (with several Sega references), would this count as enough focus on the "Sega aspects of the work"?

I guess you'd have to hear the song to make a judgement, but I thought I'd ask anyway...

Seems like a cool competition! I'll probably participate one way or another.



Use your best judgment. If you think that your piece fits into the guidelines for submission, please feel free to enter it. Vocals are allowed. :)
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Post Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:13 pm
Count me in, i've some new gear i've been wanting to try on a full mix.

Just to be sure, guitar arranges of Sega music is okay, right ?
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Post Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:43 pm
tibone wrote
Count me in, i've some new gear i've been wanting to try on a full mix.

Just to be sure, guitar arranges of Sega music is okay, right ?


Yep - that's fine :)

- seb
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Post Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:08 pm
Just a quick note, if anyones wanting some sax stuff in their tracks, let me know!

I may go about this the hard way and use one of Seb's sample packs and write it on my DS. I will have some hours to kill on planes in the next few days :)
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Post Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 1:43 pm
I got my tune near finished :)
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Post Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:42 pm
What if my song is 6:00, will it be disqualified then?
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Post Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:28 pm
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What if my song is 6:00, will it be disqualified then?


Please limit your music to 5:00 :)


Thanks!
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Post Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:53 pm
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LieMfB wrote
What if my song is 6:00, will it be disqualified then?


Please limit your music to 5:00 :)


Thanks!

Damn, that's too bad, because it would be very difficult to shorten the song I'm working on. Oh well... I'll see what I can do. It might be that I'll have to skip the competition altogether.
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Post Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:07 pm
Alright, my music has been sent in!
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Post Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 4:11 pm
So ......... when are we going to listen to the songs ?? I'm ready to vote !
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Post Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:16 pm
Sebastian will do the voting all by himself to my knowledge. I'm quite eager to hear about the results. There was 29 entries IIRC so it will take a bit time to judge all of them.
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Post Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 7:07 pm
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Sebastian will do the voting all by himself to my knowledge. I'm quite eager to hear about the results. There was 29 entries IIRC so it will take a bit time to judge all of them.


Ok ^_^ , go go Sebastian !!
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Post Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 7:18 am
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Sebastian will do the voting all by himself to my knowledge. I'm quite eager to hear about the results. There was 29 entries IIRC so it will take a bit time to judge all of them.


Actually, the judging will be done by a small panel of people from Australia, Sweden and Japan. I am not on the judging panel.
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Post Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:37 am
aha, ok.

Do you have any estimation when things get done ?
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Post Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:27 pm
I would appreciate if all tracks submitted were disclosed to the public, not only the winning one(s).
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Post Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:49 am
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I would appreciate if all tracks submitted were disclosed to the public, not only the winning one(s).


Regardless of how well my song fares in the competition, I will post the mp3 here and probably on my website as well. http://mutherpluckin-b.com
I hope other people here will do the same.
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Post Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 9:43 am
I've published my compo song two days after deadline, it is here.
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Post Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 4:08 pm
Btw will that midi tool also support the FM chip?
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Post Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 4:07 am
If you are wanting to hear the submissions for the SEGA Music Competition entries, whereby participants can win a SEGA Master System MIDI Interface, go to: http://milkcrate.com.au/sega_comp/.

Judging will be finalised and results tallied as soon as possible - thanks for your patience!
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Post Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 9:53 am
I'd prefer to download to listen offline. Here's links, let me know if that's unwanted:

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Post Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 10:13 am
It's not unwanted at all - although I will be posting my favourite 10 picks as a .zip archive once the judging has been completed.

:)
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Post Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 9:07 am
I am happy to announce the winner of this SEGA Music Competition: Rush Coil with the track "Blast Processing"!

Here are some comments from the judges (who were from Australia, Japan and Sweden):

"This track has a couple of things that make it really stand out, firstly its sense of space through the use of panning and reverb is really nice and whilst not purist in a hardware sense it still has incredibly creative uses of the core sounds of the sega consoles. Secondly the song has a nice sense of structure introducing and reworking themes in a way that it is never too repetitive but remains familiar."

"I really like this song"

"Beautifully detailed composition within a restricted medium."

Listen to all of the entries here: http://milkcrate.com.au/sega_comp/

Congratulations once again go out to Rush Coil! I wish him the best, and I hope that he enjoys my SEGA Master System MIDI Interface. Honorary mentions go out to the entries by Rei Yano and Turbo Crash!

Thanks to everyone that participated, and a special thanks to all the judges for the amount of effort and time put into adjudicating the entries.
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Post Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:05 am
The Competition Compilation of 10 tracks is out!

Link: http://tinyurl.com/2dr3kl2
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Post Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:28 am
jawusum :D

Downloading ^^
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Post Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:21 am
Thanks for the competition!
Quite a few interesting contributions there!

Here is my track again if anyone wants to download:
http://www.update.uu.se/~lidbjork/nintendo_slask/MutherpluckinB_-_Devastation.mp3
It's a rock 'n' roll cover with vocals from the SMS game Powerstrike (Aleste). That's me on guitars, bass, keyboards, sampled drums, percussion and vocals.
The song was very inspired by Velvet Underground, Bowie, Rolling Stones and Chuck Berry.

Lyrics can be viewed here:
http://www.update.uu.se/~lidbjork/nintendo_slask/Devastation_lyrics.txt
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Post Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:10 pm
Your tune was the best IMO, or Shiru's... cannot decide :P
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Post Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 2:47 pm
I regret not entering this in the end... Maybe next time. It was good Seb didn't do the voting as we are good friends IRL. Hey Seb :D lets go to the Vegie Garden sometime soon!
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