This month's genre was created by FGC11 winner /u/Goodfunhuh (Good Fun Huh? on SoundCloud).
This month's imaginary genre: Synthetic Cinema-Gaze
Description
Characteristics: An electronic film score with a heavy dose of gritty psychedelia and degraded production. Swirling, heady and often coarse sound design, building in intensity, usually starting with a small melodic idea and ending in a climactic or intense section. The music should be heavily influenced by the essence of shoegaze music, which, if you're not familiar with, is heavy on the reverb and has intentionally lo-fi production. Think one foot in the living room, one foot on the dancefloor.
The skill will be in balancing the grainy, warped nature of the lo-fi elements with the cinematic, epic characteristics of a film score. Ideally we'd like to hear some repetitive beats as well to keep the whole thing driving forward. It should be hypnotic and otherworldly.
Features: Vocals won't feature prominently in this. Certainly string or orchestral sections will have a place here, either synthesised or sampled. Tempo isn't too important, a house or breakbeat feel could work amongst other things. There should be a reliance on synthetic sounds, that clearly are not natural.
Things to be influenced by: Hans Zimmer, Tim Hecker, My Bloody Valentine, Rezzett
How To Submit
Upload your submission to SoundCloud or Clyp and send the link in a private message to reddit user /u/mark-henry. You can make the track private, if you wish—just be sure to send the secret link if you're using SoundCloud.
Deadline and Voting
Shortly after November 26, a voting page (example) containing this month's submissions will be posted to the subreddit. The voting period will last for at least four days. Results will be posted once the voting period has ended.
Prize
The winner gets to invent next month's genre. Also, the winner's SoundCloud (or another page they wish feature) will be linked in the sidebar for the next month.
Have fun!
Submitted October 28, 2017 at 05:24PM by mark-henry https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/79cd55/redmproduction_fictitious_genre_competition_12/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Saturday, October 28, 2017