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Score each track on a scale from 1 (no good and isn't of the genre) to 5 (good and represents the genre). Voting will be open through the night of Saturday the 2nd.
This round's imaginary genre was Synthetic Cinema-Gaze:
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
Submitted November 27, 2017 at 03:46PM by mark-henry https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/7fxdv2/submissions_are_in_for_fictitious_genre/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Monday, November 27, 2017