during november-december 2008, join the

(click here to jump to the winners list)

Everybody knows that GForce’s Minimonsta:Melohman is the best Minimoog reincarnation ever, a kind of Minimoog on steroids evolution from the classic instrument. But could you imagine that it would powerful enough to save the world from this decade end’s darkness?

(read the story + make music + try some nice plug-ins! instructions below)

(if you want to read the illustrated novel in its original big size, click here)

How to participate?
You compose/produce a track/song (just one) to be the original soundtrack of the illustrated novel above and you send it to contact@ohmforce.com before November 30th Sunday December 7th (as we’ve experienced some problems with our mail server last days, you’ll have one more week to prepare things). No need to send us big MP3’s by mail, you can host it somewhere and only send us the download link. Feel free to use Minimonsta:Melohman’s demo version or the demo versions of any Ohm Force plug-in!

Additional guidelines?
Yes. Your track must have more than 1 minute. And it must follow the “vibe” structure of the comic novel: it begins with a mysterious desolation ambiance, as the world it’s fucked up and in the middle of a huge financial crisis; then it moves to an action part since it’s time for fighting with loud and groovy Minionsta:Melohman basslines; and it ends with moments of pure optimism, as the Minimonsta:Melohman trick seemed to work and all greed people of the world are now focusing their energy on stuff like dancing or even making new music.

Where submissions will be shown and what are the schedule and prizes?
Each submission will be posted here and also as a blog post, so people will be able to comment. There will be a surprise prize to the most commented track. Submissions received after November 30th won’t be considered. All Ohmforcians will listen to each submission, then we’re going to make a secret meeting to decide what are the 3 best tracks. Final results will be announced here December 5th 2008.

 

Index

Adda
Alberto Toribio
Alex
Alexandre Borcic
Anterroir
Anton
Apeskinny
Branisla
Dado Dzihan
Dan W.
Elektrick Shaker
Elxicano
Gothick
Hideki Takimoto
Hunger Ghost
José
Kylo Alexander
Lefrançaismoyen
Madlab
Milan Simovski
Miro Krizaj
Near Death Experience
Olaf Krautwurst
Paul Raisbeck
Poordream
Robin Harrison
Romey Boy
Rupert Lally
Slaslars
Stephen Römer
Steve T.
Stranger K. & Melida T.
Stuart Fox
Veit Winkler
Will Copps

Olaf Krautwurst

First submission is a nice song from Olaf Krautwurst from Germany, with some futuristic landscapes, some IDM flavors, well… click here and judge by yourself.

Rupert Lally

second submission comes from Switzerland, and this time we get closer from the cohmpetition guidelines: Rupert Lally brings us an intro that smells like global crisis, and when we could think that there would be no more hope, an infectious groove starts to scream.. click here to listen..

Romey Boy

yet another subscription from Switzerland! It seems that this little country well reputed by its banks and cheese is also land for a lot of music producers: guys like Romey Boy, who seems propose a near future where – thanks to the Minimonsta – the whole world have been transformed in a huge Ibiza nightclub, with naked gogo girls reminding us that life is not more than a big party…. click here to listen..

Alberto Toribio

Hola amigos Españoles! From now on you’re represented in this Minimonsta:Melohman cohmpetition: Alberto Toribio aka Musicvisions 2047 is from Seville, and brings us a spacey soundtrack for the “How the Minimonsta saved the world” illustrated novel, somehow with some vintage-ish warmness, sometimes with pure cold digital spices.. click here to listen…

Will Copps

First submission from the American continent: Will Coop from USA brings us a song called “Crohm” that begins with a dark-almost-gothic ambiance, then moves towards a melodic synth part and….. when we think that the music producers army would finally spread their Minimonsta waves to save the world, Coop’s soundtrack ends suddenly….! Click here to listen..! So we don’t know if the world was saved in a quieter way, or if he’s suggesting a new end to the story, in which maybe the musicians army was exterminated by biological weapons, in a fast reaction from the men in black.. Here is his own submission disclaimer: “I thought I’d use the Melohman to do a desolate-feeling military theme (robots always seem militaristic to me) at first and then when the human element is added I kinda freed it up. ChrOhm, of course, because they’re robots. I tried to parallel the change on the kit too, from what a drum machine could do to what only a human could!”…

Gothick

“No more fiscal solutions” prays the first submission from the UK! To finish with prophetic “Melohmaaaaaaaaannn brings us Karma, Love, and Peace…”. “Karma, Love and Peace” is actually the name of the song, one of the most political submissions for instance, indeed! Sean aka Gothick has chosen a dark way to soundtrack the human salvation, maybe just fueled by some cynicism, maybe because he thinks that problems were actually only beginning…. click here to listen with you own dark ears..!

Near Death Experience

Finally! A french submission for the cohmpetition! We were asking ourselves: there will be no french compatriots in this Minimonsta army that will save the world? The “Near Death Experience” is the answer. It’s a nice artist name, indeed, and it seems that they haven’t chosen it because of recent crisis, as their website shows that they’re producing indie albums since 1993. But in 93 world already used to be in crisis….. Shit ! Well… the soundtrack they propose is called “Right Here”, starts with some “à la Depeche Mode” keys and ambiances, and then we have some digital action and punkerism. Click here to listen…

Anterroir

David Enterlein aka Anterroir, from Germany, brings a nice soundtrack to “How the Minimonsta saved the world” illustrated novel. He used 12 Minimonsta different sounds, then a little bit of Stylus and some “Livedrums” here and there. The song starts with expected tension, and demo-like and ‘portamento-heavy’ sounds of the ‘action’ part reminded us demoscene good times, click here to listen. Maybe he’s still using Fast Tracker, ModTracker or some other oldschool weapon, who knows?

Alex

A submission came from Slovenia: Alex proposes a soundtrack that begins with an industrial digital beat – that made us think on Warm Leatherette by Trent Reznor and co – and finishes with a nice bass sound and some optimistic melodies. We won’t tell the end of the track, it should be a surprise. Click here to listen, and if you like it, go take a look at his works as a musician and producer, and also as a former member of the dance-pop act Neurobic…

Kylo Alexander

“I wanted the track to follow along with the structure of the novel’s narrative if it is read at a fluently paced standard and also complement the image aspects in great detail. I wanted to take you on a sound-walk through the images starting in a state of robotic mind control where we are then imprisoned in a so called “credit crunch” caused by human greed; debt entrapment and inexplicable governing techniques resulting from corruption and back-seat puppet masters whispering in the background; while their puppet people stand around being photographed and making a mockery of the world. The track starts to gradually build into a great big explosion of deep minimonsta:melohman bass (probably from a top secret beer friendly location) and the rehabilitation of all greed struck peoples of the world who are everted by the ultra low frequencies of the globally resonating minimonsta:melohman waves. Eventually they start to be free and play there own sounds and the world is amass with minimonsta:melohman frequencies circulating through the airwaves and renewing humankind’s creative and innovative characters. The people of the rejuvenated world dance and cheer and minimonsta:melohman frequencies ring until the end of time.” Kylo Alexander from UK started his career with the right foot, as he told us that it’s the first time he shows his music to a public audience. Well Kylo…. I’m afraid our blog is not exactly what we could call “massive audience site”, but if a half dozen guys come to know your work, it’s already a “debut”, isn’t it ?

Hideki Takimoto

Being the second world economy, Japan is indeed already suffering the consequences of the global crisis. So nothing more natural that a japanese guy had joined our Minimonsta salvation army. When it starts, we think that it will be a Daft Punk influenced track, but not at all: with a puzzle of little sonic pieces, Hideki Takimoto goes in the IDM path, sometimes reminding us Akufen, but with a psychedelic middle part that leaves no doubt that we’re talking about his own original style. Click here to listen…

Dado Dzihan

Balkans are back, this time with a submission from Bosnia And Herzegovina. It starts with an ambiance that seems come from a foggy David Linch movie, and when it passes to the action, a samba-batucada beat with some really stylish moogy melodies – click here to listen. Dado is not a beginner: we’re talking about one of the founders of the“new primitivism” movement that has shaken Sarajevo’s art and music scene during the 80’s. He’s also an actor, and is based in London working mostly as a studio musician, having already recorded with some little names such as David Gilmour…

Robin Harrison

Harrison’s track begins with a terrific dark industrial ambiance, that made us think on Matrix’s dominated-by-machines world, when the creepy robots fly surveilling humans-being-use as energy production cells. Then it cuts to a groovy breakbeat with gritty distorted melodies: “Via a series of your machines i have made a little ditty to accompany your story of the world today. I’ve broken it down into “early dark days”, “attacking monsta times” finished with “happy dance moments” – clearly the way out of global crisis.”, explains Robin with his own words.Click here to listen…

Alexandre Borcic

A third swiss submission: Alexandre Borcic aka Krakatau made a tune called “World Music” as the soundtrack for the illustrated novel. Expect a little of everything: it starts with a cold and windy ambiance, then we have some 80’s synths, as other different instruments show off, each one making its ’solo’ moment. At the second half of the track we’ve some 70’s synths, so we’re not only talking about ‘world music’, but also about some kind of ‘trough the decades’ music.. At the end we feel as if we are in a sunny spring garden, close your eyes and you’ll see it… Click here to listen..

Miro Krizaj

Miro aka PC Sam from Slovenia brings us a jazzy soundtrack for Minimonsta’s world salvation, called “Gray GForce”, with a slap bass that immediately made us think on some 80’s movie soundtrack (or even the Seinfield theme), and with organic sounds such as a the drumkit and the brass-like sound that quickly takes the song in a freestyle psychedelic jazz solo, click here to listen and then checkout his MySpace profile…

Hunger Ghost

Huger Ghost, from SF, USA, brings us a nice tech-house track, with some phat electro spices. Click here to listen, while the ghost explains himself: “it starts out with drones, kind of the masses, being oppressed by a mean flat crunchy cutoff lfo’d sqaure bass representing the government. Tried to keep it relatively sparse so when the “aha” swedish moment comes in, at 1:02, it’s a welcome surprise. Then the drones sweep up and the main minimonsta base comes along with his fellow sidekick (another gforce product I lurv imposcar) stab coming in and handily owns the square base, then unifies the paddy drone thing into a fun positive electro banger. hooray!”. Attached at his submission mail, he sent us a picture of “what i’d imagine the minimonsta bass to look like”. WTF !!!

Madlab

Second french submission at the cohmpetition! Madlab aka Penguins On Fire comes with a soundtrack called “cOhm to us”, wich is, by their own words, “the definitive solution to all the crap going on around the world !”. Intro is digital, its IDM and it’s dry and cold, as if Ellen Allien had woke up a little bit sad on a rainy wednesday. Then there are some cool cynical dialog excerpts (french just love that!) talking about the fail of the peace conference (we won’t translate everything, it will be a good opportunity for you to practice your french skills). The psychedelic delay effect on the voice…. it smells like OhmBoyz, don’t it? Melodies from the middle to end are also nice, you’d better click here to listen…

Elektrick Shaker

Ora pois, Portugal está a participar da cohmpetição! Elektric Shaker aka Luis Antonio is a guy who likes 909-ish drum sounds and techno ambiences. Intro is kind of melodic, and than it grows with some 4/4 beats and a few minor chords, what makes the tension of the beginning go along the whole track, which has actually been called “Novel” by its author. Maybe some 90’s techno influece? Click here to listen and make your own judgement…

Apeskinny

Another nice submission from the UK: the intro is windy, and makes us see all those corporate slaves working as stock traders 29 hours a day, digging more and more earth resources meanwhile; then suddenly action starts with some big beats, somehow reminding recent Timbaland drum style, with fat synths over it, in a very danceable soundtrack for this world salvation. Click here to listen, and if you like it check out his “Blind Polka” project’s profile at MySpace…

Milan Simovski

Simovski brings the guitars! Three days from the cohmpetition deadline, comes from Macedonia the first distortion-heavy-guitar-track submission of this cohmpetition. The soundtrack is called “Club Malkavian” and we couldn’t be able to label track’s style: electro-rock hardcore? industrial break core? You’ll help us in that task leaving some comments. Click here to listen, and if you want to give some direct feedback to Milan, visit his MySpace profile and leave him a message…

Paul Raisbeck

Paul’s own words (read while listening): “Apart from the drums (which were BFD and Ultrabeat – no loops were used), a bit of Indian bamboo flute I played in the intro, and a bit of vocal I did in the last section, the only instrument used was Minimonsta. I tried to make the three parts have their own distinct characters, especially the optimistic part that was so necessary at the end after what had gone before. After hearing how great the other entries were, I wasn’t sure if I should send mine in – I haven’t played my music to people before – but I spent a long time on it, so here goes…It begins with the low thrum of impending despair, as military snares rattle-tat their hollow martial beat on the pauper’s echoing ribcage, and a gritty digital beat representing the oppressive and heartless machinery of the state grinds and whirs relentlessly, the cold wind of desolation whistling and curling through its chilly mechanical parts. This ill wind triggers the thought-sparks of the good professor, who immediately sets to bassline construction deep in his underground lab. Before long, it is ready to pulse throughout the world. Wailing sirens – as ever, representing the cries of the wounded political state – do battle with jackhammer minimonsta bass, but the phatness of the lo-freq pulses places enough pressure on the system that it is cracked by its own internal weaknesses. The siren soon screams its last. As the dust clears, a phat and warm minimonsta leads a sleepy-eyed chorus of the world’s children into the slow glow of a new dawn. In the early morning, they stand around the minimonsta’s glowing oscillators as they warm the air. Stimulated by the pulses, grass pushes its way through concrete, blue little flowers bloom from the bloodstained earth, and all is garden again.”

Steve T

Steve T aka SARcazm aka MidiGlitch aka Hardware Abstraction Layer (H.A.L.) explains his master plan (read while listening): “In keeping with the theme as an illustration it is separated into 4 parts : Melancholy – SOS – Eureka, Bass! – In Eye of the Storm. It could have been longer overall, but I wanted to keep the whole thing under four minutes. Note at the end the reappearance of the starting bass drone, implying we need even more BASS riffs! I primarily used Symptohm Melohman, Ohmicide and z3ta+. There is one instance of MiniMonsta and I guess you’ll be able to figure out where seeing as it’s a barely altered preset! I apologize for not offering a perfect mix, but I was up against a dead line and dearly want a chance to win the MM and Ohmboyz, both of which I have coveted for awhile but not had the means to purchase (yet). Anyway, enough sucking up, and I hope you enjoy my effort. As for myself, I am living in Hong Kong (yup, the same guy who helped you out with the Ohmicide and SM docs), and this is my first offering for public listening. Please list the artist as MidiGlitch.”

Lefrançaismoyen

France attacks again! Bob “Lefrançaismoyent” (which means “the average french”) aka Bob Dupont follows the french tradition to just ‘luv’ making cool electronica over speeches excerpts, and this one is particularly well done, with some Bush words (there are no Bush words, rather the speakers are McCain followed by Hitler followed by Obama followed by German cheers—the idea being that it’s all the same blabla, and that “none of the plans could save the day”), thriller ambiance, strings… click here to listen and judge by yourself; the only mystery is that the “artist” field in the track ID says “Jack McOck”, who’s actually a swiss guy and an good ohmfriend, who made this superb tutorial for the Symptohm:Melohman. Are Bob and Jack the same person? Are/Is they/he trying to fool us? To be continued… It’s actually Jack “the tricky guy” McOck, but it seems he’s tired of his swiss identity and is focusing on his new frenchy war name. Who are we to disagree?

Dan W.

Dan aka IIRs gives his contribution to the cohmpetition (read while listening): “I started it on a tour bus somewhere in eastern europe, using a laptop and headphones, then finished it off at home today (in Sheffield, UK). I earn my living mixing live sound, but make tunes for my own amusement using Tracktion or more recently Reaper. This one was done in Reaper, using 4 or 5 instances of the Minimonsta demo, plus a Chameleon, a couple of Synth 1’s and a synth I made myself with Synthedit. The drums were all programmed with Microtonic, except the crash cymbal which was a sample loaded into Reaper’s included sample player.”

Poordream

“Poordream is a project of a Greek music producer who has made productions so far for other musicians and, this soundtrack, called “Immaterial Monarch”, happens to be my very first own production – created for the purpose of “Minimosta Saved the World” competition, click here to listen. The preparation and finally the completion of Immaterial Monarch was a race against time due to the pressure exerted by the deadline of the competition. Yet in order to save the world Poordream had to push himself to his limits working many hours day and night so as to complete this track…”

Adda

“All sounds of the soundtrack were made with minimonsta and at the end of the piece a little shaker sound is added”. Adda’s submission comes from Germany and has a long intro, with some proggy elements that guides the soundtrack to the moment where a warm and fat Minimonsta bass sound enters, click here to listen…

Elxicano

Josiah C. C. aka Elxicano own words, read while listening: “The subject of the competition is one that I have a bit of personal attachment to, as it concerns the economic crisis and over the past 6 months my financial situation has taken a huge hit leading up to a very uncertain December along with a very dismal (if not painful) looking 2009. Well… about the soundtrack: it was created with Ableton Live, and for synths I used Minimonsta:Melohman demo version, Schwa Olga (demo), Analog Factory LE, Synplant, Operator, Analog and Sampler. The drums were created using Sonnicourture’s Konkrete volumes 1 and 2, TrackteamAudio’s DrumCrate and an instance of microtonic. For FX I used liberal amounts Mobilohm, Ohmicide, Ohmboys and Predatohm (owned licenses). Hopefully you guys can enjoy this despite the onslaught of entries… please be nice as I’m only a hobby musician… actually you can be brutal, I got a pair and can take it (I think) “

Stuart Fox

He’s a pro of movie and TV soundtracks, but it seems that making a graphic novel soundtrack could be as exciting for Stuart Fox, from UK, specially if it’s for a noble cause, such as…… well…. saving the world. We’re talking here about a complex piece of music, which has found a (nice) way to illustrate the scenery: ambiances, action moments, well done transitions, perfectly equalized sounds and reverbs, his clients will be glad to realize that his site’s domain name is not all all pretentious. It’s almost unfair with other guys who are just beginning… but if today he’s a pro, it’s because one day he started from scratch as everybody, and worked/studied hard. So click here to listen and if you like it leave him a message…

José

Jose submission comes from France and brings some italo and space-disco vibes, with some influence from the psychedelic side of recent Prins Thomas works. All melodies were done with Minimonsta:Melohman. Click here to listen…

Stranger K & Melida

Submission is actually from a guy, Kutsal K. Bilgin aka Stranger K, but the cool distorted and highly processed vocals are done by his music partner Melida T. Soundtrack’s name is “The Great Recession” and is its ambiances will really take you away. The piano break and the transition that follows, with the army claps and yelling is just great, click here to listen. “I’m applying from Istanbul and I’ve used most of the OhmForce demo plug-ins, plus the Minimonsta of course, for the bassline at the end. The song is a one-to-one soundtrack to the illustrated novel, more like 3 songs together: (00:00 – 01:44 Crisis), (01:44 – 02:34 G-42), (02:34 – 03:00 Hope), (03:00 – 04:38 The Gathering), (04:38 – 05:23 Aftermath).

Stephen Römer

Pros are in the house, indeed. Stephen Römer is a sound designer and media engineer from Germany and explains his submission by himself, read while listening: “I tried to compose very close to the comic/guideline. The initial mood is introduced by an cold, empty and desperate sounding soundscape. It symbolizes the hopeless future of mankind. Next, the melody parts come in. A sad pad underlines the mood of the soundscape in a harmonic way and some robotic arpeggio is added. The whole first part is very mechanical and industrial (hence the robot picture with the people listening to cold synthetic music). It grows from sadness and despair to robotic and quantized movements (drumloop and bass). The drumbeat I use, was mangled though different plugins to sound very broken, bit reduced and industrial (I think the intention is clear). At first I wanted to put the bass in the background, because I wanted the first part being clearly distinguished from the second part (hero bass part as described in the swissguy picture of the comic). But I solved it in a different way. Whereas the bass from the first part is very bright an “sawy” the bass of the second part consists of 2 warm and resonant basses with a bunch of chorus make it even bigger. When I read “…very loud and groovy basslines..” I immediately thought of some funky 70’s stuff. Pictures of “Captain Future” and the Daft Punk Anime Videos came into my mind. For me, this seemed to work perfectly as a hero theme, since the comic had some similar impression on me. The hero theme is divided in 2 subparts. Immediately after the “desperate and robotic feeling” there is a break which leads to the beginning of the groovy and loud basslines. The first subpart develops towards the “busy and action feeling”, meaning there is a change happening in the world. Then the whole theme raises up to a positive climax and ends up with a harmonic “happy end pad” to make clear that the world got saved! I hope the explaination is somehow understandable “

Anton

Somehow Anton’s track makes us think on Depeche Mode’s “Rush” bass sound, maybe because of the industrial/synthpop side of this soundtrack, which stats pure digital and ends with some wark distorted guitars. “Here are some electro vibes from Bremen, Germany. My cohmpetition song is called “Krise” (crisis in German). Greetz, and keep it up!”

Veit Winkler

Veit from Germany explains how he figured his soundtrack out (read while listening): “The track is called “Minimonsta Saves The World” and consists of several parts named: 1) Intro: 2008, 2) Part1: Synthopia, 3) Interlude. Research, 4) Part2: Flash Mobs, 5) Part3: Minimonsta Plays The World, 6) Part4: Salvation. So I wanted to really use the Minimonsta as the main device on the track. It should be as it’s the protagonist of the story and the way I made the track I would say I kinda produced a demo track for myself. So I took your advice and used the opportunity to try out the Minimonsta. Unfortunately the demo time ran out long before I got even closed to finishing the track so I had to buy the PlugIn. Totally worth the prize. Since Emagic introduced sculpture, no software instrument fascinated me like this one. As I think 42 is a great number, I used exactly 42 instances of the Minimonsta in the track. It’s the only PlugIn I used for tonal sounds. Apart from drums and sound effects, I used only Minimonsta. I tried to use as few as possible modulating effects to stay pure Minimonsta so on the Minimonsta’s tracks there’s only four processing PlugIns: One Instance of each: Ohmicide, OhmBoyz, U-He Filterscape and Logics internal Rotor Cabinet. Apart from that I just used some equalizers and compressors (both metric halo channel strip), one instance of space designer on a bus, another one on the industrial beat and a biiiiig master limiter on the sum (you can hear that). Ah yes and the filter on the sum in last part is frOHMage of course. The overall sound quality is not really great, my mixmaster didn’t have time, or, better said, I didn’t get finished soon enough so I did some rough adjustments and that’s it. I’m thinking about making a “Minimonsta Saves The World EP” from it with more musically arranged parts and a proper mixdown but who knows if that will ever happen…”

Branislav Pakic

One of the “last last minute” submissions we received during the weekend comes from an already ‘old time friend’, sinceBranislav Pakic from Serbia has already participated in the last cohmpetition – the video tutorial one – for which he made a nice tutorial for the Ohm Boyz delay. Now Pakic is completely confortable with the media – since it’s music we’re talking about, and presents us a track in which we notice, in addition of the Minimonsta:Melohman flavors, several OhmBoyz, Ohmicide:Melohman and OhMyGod! spices… click here to listen…

Slaslars

The last submission of this cohmpetition comes from Sweden and it’s called “Ohm Tag”. Slaslars made an intro that with a high-pitched background sound that makes us think on the noise that mice do, we mean, a massive mice population; maybe all the rats that have been slowly biting the financial system during last decades. Then there’s a warm bass and a distorted filtered lead sound that is powerful enough to kill the rats noise, click here to listen and trip on it you too..

 

Cohmpetition winners

It was REALLY hard to choose. When you have a contest where more than a half of the submissions are fairly well produced and nicely inspired, it becomes about listening to the tracks several and several times, to find the little details that push or pull each one up or down at the ranking. So don’t be depressed if you’re not at the top10, it doesn’t mean at all that your track is bad, but it will show you, instead, that musical production/composition won’t always be  ”painting from scratch with total creative freedom during the whole process”. We have given you some guidelines and directions to be followed, and it’s commonly known that very often some ‘limitations’ help us to stimulate/boost creativity. Winners have followed the guidelines, but with inspired and creative solutions to create good music within the boundaries. So we have ranked the submissions based in, in order of importance: “followed the guidelines + fits well in the novel”, “originality + creativity”, “overal production quality” and “how many positive comments in the blog”. Each ohmforcian has his own creepy musical tastes, so the aspect “music style” was completely ignored. We like music, good music.

1- Kylo

2- Stephen Romer

3- Steve T

4- Veit Winkler

5- Paul Raisbeck

6- Alexandre Borcic

7- Apeskinny

8- Hunger Ghost

9- Stuart Fox

10- Boblefrançaismoyen

It was really great to have 35 (!!!) submissions, and we’d want to celebrate it in a generous way, so we have decided to expand the prizes up to the top5. It means that Veit and Paul will get a free  Minmonsta:Melohman, and since Veit wasn’t able to control his addiction and bought the monsta even before the final result announcement, we’ll offer him an Oddity instead. We couldn’t know if it would please you, but if you guys want us to publish the list up to the top20, just drop a comment and if we see that there’s quorum, we post it. Congratulations to all participants, and thanks for helping save the world! Music could be a powerful weapon, indeed.