Hi @Sleepyhead, I created an account especially for this challenge, I guess i’m not allowed to send dm’s yet? Any chance i can still participate?
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Good to hear guys! I’m looking forward to putting the playlist together and listening to everything you made!
@flipinfantile: Youre a bit on the late side haha, but if you manage to cook something up before tomorrow morning you can still join!
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Hah, I made something quick and pretty dirty in the last hour and a half or so. The forum software just doesn’t let me send it to you yet? I’ll try again in the morning, thanks a lot!
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Don’t worry, we’ll find a way! If you still can’t dm next morning, just share a download link in this thread, the rest will just have to promise not to check it…
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Appreciate it, will do!
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I promise nothing 
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Ha - this is such a perfect comment. Sometimes the timing of the loops is so far off, especially when he pitches them down to make variations in the melody, that it probably ought to be frustrating in theory but it just adds to the beauty
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Hi guys! I tried to do something last week but I wasn’t happy with my beat…and finally I didn’t find time to try again.
I will not be with you on this one, I regret it because I’m a big wu fan… can’t wait to ear what u all did !
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Are you one of the two clicks on the counter mate? 
I managed to get something in for this one. It’s been a while! Super rushed and messy and prob sounds like shit but fun making something new again. I’m sure I was seeing Wu ‘W’s’ in the waveforms.
Looking forward to hearing everyone’s!
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Nah I was a good boy and kept my curiosity in check…
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Haha I didn’t download it yet so someone’s cheating here 
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da mystery of threadboxin
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This is where the secret sauce is with hip hop production. It’s all about the lyrics. I remember how hyped up I was when Pete Rock released an album of just instrumentals, and got so bored listening to it because I realized without the message it’s just a beat on repeat
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I intended to put an acapella on mine for this reason. Beats designed to be instrumental are obviously, by necessity, not the same as beats for emcees. Ultimately I didn’t manage to find as much time as I hoped to so making it last minute on Koala meant that I had no chance of making an acapella work, alas. Might still do it for fun when I find the time
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what?? Petestrumentals is up there with my favorite albums of all time 
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Haha Petestrumentals is one of my favs too, but I get the point about hiphop instrumentals often being made as a (repetative) framework for mc’s.
RZA made some great soundtracks which very much work on their own though. Ghost Dog has one of my favorite soundtracks ever:
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In many ways that Ghostdog score is one of my favourite things RZA has done. It’s definitely (comfortably) my favourite thing he’s done solo.
Edit: and while I’m here I have to admit I wasn’t a fan of Petestrumentals either. Some tracks work really nicely in mix sets but there’s just not enough going on for me without emcees on top of it
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It’s an awesome soundtrack and fits the film perfectly.
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Winds me up a bit that it was Japan only and the regular release was a pretty tepid rap compilation instead.
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If you haven’t watched Hulu’s Wu-Tang an American Saga, you are in for a treat. It’s not flawless, but it’s pretty entertaining. One of the best episodes is described in the youtube video below. I’m pretty sure everyone on this thread would appreciate this episode in its entirety. It is perhaps my favorites of the series.
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