Elektronauts Hiphop Beat Battle #13 Shostakovich Edition

Hello everyone, it’s time for a new beat battle.

Here are the basic rules:

  1. You must submit one song for everyone else to sample by posting a link in this thread.
  2. Your beat cannot include any samples from the song that you post.
  3. Your beat must include samples from at least 3 songs posted in this thread.
  4. Additionally, your beat must include at least 1 sample from Shostakovich’s Symphony #13 shared below.
  5. Your beat can be a maximum of 3 minutes long.
  6. Acapellas and vocals are encouraged.
  7. There are no sample time limits, use as many samples as you want from as many sources as you want, the more the merrier.
  8. You may use a maximum of 2 virtual instruments.

The deadline for submitting your song for everyone to sample is Tuesday August 23rd by midnight Pacific Time.

Submitting your beat:

The deadline for submitting your beat is Wednesday September 7th by midnight Pacific Time.

To submit, send me a PM that includes:

  1. Your beat as either a wav or mp3
  2. A clip of the samples that you used. You only need to include the portions that are actually in your beat. Send this as an mp3.
  3. A list of the songs that you sampled.

Please don’t send anything to me until everyone has had a chance to submit a sample.

Symphony 13 by Dimitri Shostakovich:

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Great!

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Alright we’re back! I’m excited to make another one :partying_face:

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Right I’m gonna try and get something in this time…:+1:heres my sample submission

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Sounds like a brilliant idea for a contest, but unfortunately I’m on holiday this week and won’t be able to participate.

Im in, I hope I can get all these rules straight lol

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I have a strong suspicion that some of you might destroy this one:

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Another one! Awesome! I have to sit this one out though, not enough time at hands right now.

Good luck everyone!

I have a two day window when I’ll be home this week, so I’ll try my best to get in on this one.

Here you go:

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Seriously decent track .:+1:

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Your tracks are dope, here is mine !

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Thanks for running, polarfox! Here is my song:

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Ooh

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In.

Now with audio as some people haven’t got video access for some reason.

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I’ll try to join!

Here’s my sample, might be good for some drums/fx:

Some early 80’s dutch rapping starting at 1.50 :joy:

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FYI, this is giving me a “Video unavailable” error

yes, okay. here’s something.

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There’s lots of versions on youtube :slight_smile:

This work?

I will have to post my version in thw hip hop thread after the competition, because I posted this as a joke but realisef how fire that vocoder sample is haha

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