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Cohmpetition Winners Announcement

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- Stephan Roemer

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.

Some guitar distortion at the cohmpetition

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…

Groovy submission from UK

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…

A jazzy submission for the cohmpetition

Miro 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…

Some ‘world music’ to the world saving soundtrack

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..

Gritty melodies in the cohmpetition

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…

Japan joins the Minimonsta army

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…

Loosing his musical “virginity” showing his soundtrack for the Minimonsta cohmpetition

“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 ?

Slovenia also helped to save the world: today’s first submission

Today’s first submission comes from near the Balkans: Alex from Slovenia 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…