lurksalot

well , no time to rest , there's compositions to be composing

...And as if by magic it all comes round again, that seemed very frenetic for February, but boy did it produce some quality. At the top of that most excellent list of tunes, congratulations are due to @NickD with the added bonus of choosing us a pic for March... "I was messing with chiaroscuro style lighting for a photography project last year and asked the Mrs do do her best gangster impression for me. I think it might make for some interesting results." this could be very interesting , but if you are going to go all gangsta rap on us, you'll have to bleep out the rude bits Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and deadline. ✖️ No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on ✖️ Bagpipes. please no bagpipes, the St David's Day truce truce has passed us by . ✖️ No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you.. Deadline wise , we will go for the 24th which means you'll probably have till lunch time on the 25th ....if I'm working on the Saturday morning A line or two of blurb as well for the vote thread will be lovely. Have fun

Well done @NickD a great tune, and has been said, a very competitive month . I’ll post up the March challenge after I have settled myself back home 😁

With a name like that I’d expect to find them in a bedroom draw 😂

That one now sorted , get your last minute decisions made and voted for, not long to go 😁

I managed to swap a Warwick 410 for some studio time , they are lovely cabs

I’ll try some jiggery-pokery tomorrow 😁

Sorted

Doh , I’ll sort that cheers Andy

OK guys , Dive in

This months photo got the creative juices flowing very well... In fact I had to concentrate very hard putting this thread together, I normally listen through again as I am collating it, but I got drawn in to all the tunes far too much The choice of photo was by @Wolfram who, most impressively, took the win with his debut entry. "I created this image with DALL-E, a natural language artificial intelligence image generation system, from the prompt: "a photograph of two convertible red Ferraris racing through a dystopian city at night with lens flare and atmospheric neon lighting". Take inspiration from the subject of the photo, or from the transformational impact AI is about to have across the creative industries - good or bad? " Have a listen through these and some will amaze you, really! As usual , vote for your 3 favourites before midnight on 28th Feb 1 @Dad3353 There are those that praise highly the musicality of the Ferrari exhaust notes; there are even specialists whose sole task is to tune the beggars. I'll let you judge as to the success of their labours... A collection of sound samples, carefully crafted into a short symphony, with some pertinent tyre squeals for good measure. 2 @NickD The picture evoked memories of the computer games of my youth, so I tried to cast my mind back to the kinds of soundtracks those primitive programs would have. 3 @Leonard Smalls When I was a kid in a small village in Cheshire AI meant a chap with a rubber glove impregnating livestock... And if we're talking about gettin' jiggy with the Artificial Insemination Man there's only one choice, Funk! 4 Lurksalot Quite often you hear a song about cars that sounds a bit cheesy. so here is a proper cheesy one, Ferraris with cheese, Italian cheese. 5 @Doctor J Driving Ferraris around a dystopian city cost me a lots of 10p pieces in the 80's. Beating the clock, getting time bonuses and moving to the next stage were all that mattered, accompanied by 8-bit hard rock. 6 @upside downer A late night cruise by two artificial Ferraris through the mean streets of Artificial City to an artificial electro-synthpop soundtrack. No strings were plucked in the making of this melodic, mood music. 7 @Nail Soup I've gone for the boy racer angle, although with a punky sound not traditionally heard from such a vehicle..... so I present "Ford Cortina with a Home Made Flame Job". 8 @SH73 Here is my entry, Instrumental song recorded Tuesday morning, bass recorded Tuesday evening, mixed and mastered Tuesday evening. 9 @Wolfram Two harmonised guitars race bumper to bumper in a high-octane charge, wrapped around a song musing on the imminent demise of this breed of vehicle.... and perhaps their human drivers too? I present "Endangered Species". 10 @AndyTravis A tension between rhythms, like tension between how much technology takes over, a constant push and pull… That is a fantastic set of tunes, you may well find 3 votes insufficient , but that's just the way it rolls Get those 3 votes in before midnight on 28th February folks

Well done 👍 I’ll try and get the link sorted in the morning

I won’t get to post the voting thread till the morning , so if inspiration bites you in the backside at 3AM , you still have a chance 😁

WOW , I just got dropped slap bang into the arcade BIG TIME

Quite often you hear a song about cars that sounds really cheesy. so here is a proper cheesy one, Ferraris with cheese, Italian cheese. EZ drummer did the heavy stuff, with an Ibby 6 string through 2 different effects paths on Waves GTR 3 , bass was my Perry bitsa through a waves bass amp sim and the keys were straight from a patch on a digital keyboard. ed to add a bit more EQ adjusting to give more room for the bass! All in reaper with a hint of Ozone 8 to bring it together The vocal was very well practiced and subtely auto-tuned and whacked right up in the mix, cos I know how you all loves it. Lyrics ...as you probably wont pick them out to easily. testarrosa parmiagiano dino 246 mozzarella toscanello California gorgonzola mondial grana Padano gran tourismo mascarpone berlinetta maranelo pecorino scuderia spider ricotto here comes the fun little darling here comes the fun and I say it’s alright testarrosa parmiagiano toscanello California testarrosa parmiagiano mascarpone berlinetta here comes the fun it’s alright

Just put a banging donk on it 😁

Quite in our village it was the turkey blowers who had the privilege of the AI I shall enjoy the experience of the funk when I’m done on mine

Oh dear I think I’ve gone there 😂

My vocal tones won’t be holding me back 😂 , I just can’t find the words to use with them 😁 everything is sounding so cheesy that that it may as well be about cheese ! ed to add Ferrari Parmesano 🤦‍♂️

This one is getting sticky at the minute. the tunes done , lots of sloppy playing needs re-tracking , but it needs a vocal to make it work , I’m looking for as little as I can to lift the thing, and I can’t get to do the new playing until I’ve can see the way to sort it 😂

Drat, Beat me to it , you won that one 😁

here we go again then .... Have a good one

Congratulations to new entrant @Wolfram who managed a very competent win on his debut! Keen to get the ball rolling for February , he has designed an image and offered the following as an introduction ... "I created this image with DALL-E, a natural language artificial intelligence image generation system, from the prompt: "a photograph of two convertible red Ferraris racing through a dystopian city at night with lens flare and atmospheric neon lighting". Take inspiration from the subject of the photo, or from the transformational impact AI is about to have across the creative industries - good or bad? " So dive in all and put your own take on it , Simple rules ✔️ Entries must be <5 minutes and recorded between now and deadline. X No illegal samples, copyright infringements or other snide goings-on X Bagpipes. please no bagpipes, the midwinter truce has passed us by . X No voting for your own entry. We'll know. And we'll shame you.. Deadline wise , we will go for the 22nd which means you'll probably have till tea time on the 23rd ....but no longer A line or two of blurb as well for the vote thread will be lovely. Have fun

And congratulations @Wolfram a great inaugural tune and a deserved win. please PM me a picture that we can use for the February challenge and I’ll post the thread in due course 👍

Well I loved 5 of them and really liked the others so I absolutely agree. it’s great to see some new voters dipping in as well.