Five Dollar Thrift Store DJ RemixMashup Challenge - 2008/03/08 02:26a small departure for us perhaps, but i decided to do this in my community and to share it with all you guys too as somthing to do this month.
the facebook group it is started as is by the same name and should be easy to find.
The Challenge is this:
three tracks or five minutes of music mixed entirely from old obscure music by April 10th.
Explore strange, old, terrible and poor quality music, discover a seventies disco album with a funky beat, a kid's violin lessons cd, and an obscure folk tape with chilling vocals. Mash it all together. Make the Franken-track your own and explore sound. The challenge is it's own reward.
Rules: 1. Music must be bought from a thrift store. actually, this is being changed. It can be from anywhere as long as it's old/obscure/bargain bin/etc. 2. you may spend no more than five (5) dollars in total on the source material 3. material can be cds, tapes, or vinyl. CDs recomended because they are easiest to work with, but if you've got the means to work with vinyl or tape more power to you. 4. Track must be edited entirely with the purchased source material. Filtering, looping, cutting and mixing only. NO other loops, NO original instrumentation or lyrics of any kind. This is an exercise in minimalism. 5. If you pick it up and recognize the artist or know that they are well known avoid using it. Half the point of this is to Discover new/old things you normally would not be listening too, much less trying to edit.
Any thrift store is fair game as long as it is a real thrift store. Goodwill, YMCA, Salvation Army, etc. Support the local community folks.
Any editing software is fair game. The only problem is that the better your software the more tempted you will be to add tracks to your song not from the source material. Resist! No one is going to be looking over your shoulder and reviewing all your source material waiting to catch you, do it to show yourself you can and for the exploration experience.
Audacity is a good, free, open source and multi-platform, audio tracker and editing program that has all the tools you will need: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Any Questions can be posted here, or sent to me by email or facebook. Anyone who wants to help organize some sort of board for sharing of finished tracks would be welcome.
Get out There! Discover! Mangle! mix.
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Re:Five Dollar Thrift Store DJ RemixMashup Challen - 2008/03/08 05:32I just figured this out.. it's an EVENT not a Group.. I am attending virtually I hope! I just may be able to get something cool done for April 10th... I need to go shopping this weekend!!
I GOT $5!
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I gave it to april tenth so it'll be a little more laid back for the rpm crowd, and not too difficult to those not experienced in this. five minutes in over a month with re-mixing should be easier than half an hour in less than a month of original content. and I put it out to my local scene to try to get more people interested in this kind of thing. maybe get them recruited for rpm '09.
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Re:Five Dollar Thrift Store DJ RemixMashup Challen - 2008/03/13 05:20I think I need to do this. I bought two 4-packs of CDs for $5 ea as a secret santa gift a while back and never got around to sending them. So I have $5 of music ALREADY PACKAGED ON MY SHELF. It's fate. I think I'll throw a couple weekends at this and if it's going well I'll finish it up towards the end. Cool idea!
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if not.. We're sure i can find some suitable material at my local thrift store haunts (stil lookign for more drum drops btw!)
Will you send us an email april 1st to remind me that we'd said i'd participate in this challenge? hehe jk (sorta)
seriously - this wiil be a nice challenge to what we just endured
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Re:Five Dollar Thrift Store DJ RemixMashup Challen - 2008/03/13 09:00I'm down. Not long ago I bought a handful of 78's and my record player can play them, all I have to do is change the needle. One of the records is the children's stoory of cinderella, told in about 8 minutes. I also have some foxtrots and some jewish music. Should be intersting.
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three tracks or five minutes of music mixed entirely from second-hand music by April 10th.
Explore strange, old, terrible and poor quality music, discover an old disco album with a funky beat, a kid's violin lessons cd, and an obscure folk tape with chilling vocals. Mash it all together. Sample the hell out it. Make the Franken-track your own and explore sound. The challenge is it's own reward.
Rules: 1. All material must be second-hand and/or used, Being bought from a thrift store, yard-sale, or sellers of used music.
1.01 Material bought prior to the challenge is fair game as long as it meets the prior criteria and you know how much you paid for it originally. (if for some reason you took off the sticker or rubbed off the sharpie, make as accurate a guess as possible based on what you know of where you got it.)
2. you may spend no more than five (5) dollars in total on the source material. Round prices to the nearest five cents and don't include tax.
3. material can be cds, tapes, or vinyl. CDs recomended because they are easiest to work with, but if you've got the means to work with vinyl or tape more power to you. Tapes and vinyl have their advantages because they are often cheap. The more material you can get for your five, the more you have to work with.
4. Track must be edited entirely with the purchased source material. Filtering, looping, cutting and mixing only. NO samples from things not listed under your five dollars, NO original instrumentation or lyrics of any kind. This is an exercise in minimalism and ingenuity. The challenge is to discover how much you CAN do with just a little bit. any beat can be cut into another and any melody can be made into another with the same notes. Test stuff out.
5. If you pick it up and recognize the artist or know that they are well known avoid using it. Half the point of this is to Discover new/old things you normally would not be listening too, much less trying to edit. Kudos may be awarded for oddity. I will admit though that I am so sorely tempted to use the "stargate: original soundtrack" cassette tape I found for the novelty and orchestration, or the Fiona Apple Cassette for the awesomeness and good clean beat.
6. Any editing software is fair game. The only problem is that the better your software the more tempted you will be to add tracks to your song not from the source material. Resist! No one is going to be looking over your shoulder and reviewing all your source material waiting to catch you, do it to show yourself you can and for the exploration experience.
Any thrift store is fair game as long as it is a real thrift store. Goodwill, YMCA, Salvation Army, etc. Support the local community folks. Any Yard-sale is fair game. Any music from a record store (such as cross roads) that is in the "Used" section and is obviously used is fair game.
The Game.
Audacity is a good, free, open source and multi-platform, audio tracker and editing program that has all the tools you will need: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Hopefully as we draw toward April we'll be posting some updates, tips and tutorials. If anyone has any questions or things they would like help or input on ask here or shoot me a message. If you something you want to share or make a tutorial of please post it!
Any Questions can be posted here, or sent to me by email or facebook. Anyone who wants to help organize some sort of board for sharing of finished tracks would be welcome.
Get out There! Discover! Mangle! Mix! Create.
Glad to see you guys getting into this. we've already got fifteen on the even confirmed and thirty some maybes. Please invite as many people from your networks as possible, there's still more than enough time for new people to join.
Another thing is tutorials. We've got a lot of eager but inexperienced people joining it, so If anyone has some useful knowledge or tricks on beat slicing, sequencing or mash-ups in general how-to's would be greatly appreciated. I'm working on one myself right now just on how to rip from cassette tapes.
oh, and it would be cool to know who's who, so if you could when joining the event, just leave a comment checking in with you're RPM names.
~the left of The Governors
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Re:Five Dollar Thrift Store DJ RemixMashup Challen - 2008/03/15 17:51Oh wow. That is going awesome. Wish my turn table wasn't broken so i could use some of my crazy old stuff. I'm not even going to ask what's on that last one. Can't wait to hear the mix though.
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I am attending virtually I hope! I just may be able to get something cool done for April 10th... I need to go shopping this weekend!!
