Tribute to Mycorrhizae

The winner of this year's MOST IDM tournament is Mycorrhizae!

As is the custom of our people, we should put together a tribute album for Mycorrhizae. So let's get those knobs a'twiddlin' and make some sweet sweet music about those sweet symbiotic fungii.

The deadline for submitting tracks is June 30thJULY 3RDCLOSED

Instructions for submitting a track (please follow these):

1. Write track(s)

2. Send tracks to cytoplantastic [at] gmail [dot] com. I prefer email to PMs, because it's easier for me to keep track of all the submissions. Use dropbox or something because the files will probably be too big to attach.

3. In the email, please include your artist name and the track title. Also, please indicate which is the artist name and which is the track title, because it's sometimes hard to tell.

Rules about the tracks (please also follow these):

1. These must be unreleased original tracks. No previously released material please. We want the album to be fresssshhhhh.

2. Please send uncompressed audio (AIF or WAV files). No mp3s. Also avoid flacs, but if you absolutely have to it's not a deal-breaker.

3. Please send unmastered tracks. The winning tracks will get mastered together so that they blend.

4. You can submit as many tracks as you like. I like to be flexible about including multiple tracks by the same person. I don't want one person to dominate the album (it's a compilation after all) but I don't want to turn down awesome fungus related material because of a strict arbitrary rule. So don't be shy. Send as many as you like.

5. Collaborations are encouraged.

Other stuff you should know about how this process works (read this if you're new):

1. The tracks will be judged by a panel of judges, some watmmers, some non-watmmers. The judging will be reasonably anonymous, meaning that I won't include your artist names in the judging process. Please abstain from showing your tracks to other watmmers before the comp is out. Also, do NOT post your tracks in this thread!

2. The tracks will be judged based on their relevance to the theme as well as how much the judges like your tracks. If you submit a really good track, but it's obviously about caves or broken GIFs, it probably won't make it. Make the tracks sound like fungal internets.

3. You can make the tracks of any length. But, a 12 minute jam session might not work well on a compilation album so keep this in mind.

4. The winning tracks will go on an album up on bandcamp. The album will be under a creative commons attribution license and free to download.

Album art stuff

Every year a different watmmer volunteers to do album art. If you'd like to do album art, send me an email or post in this thread. I encourage you to come up with an example of the type of thing you'd do. Past albums have had excellent album and track art, and it's really contributed to the experience.

A brief history of IDM:

7th MOST IDM winner: The rogue planet named CFBDSIR_2149-0403 freely drifting in outer space after being ejected from orbit

6th MOST IDM winner: Incomplete Skyscrapers

5th MOST IDM winner: Nikola Tesla

4th MOST IDM winner: The Large Hadron Collider

3rd MOST IDM winner: Antarctica

2nd MOST IDM winner: Black Holes

1st MOST IDM winner: Beards (but Deep Sea Creatures wound up getting more attention for some reason)

Cool, I'll try to submit something.

Going to get writing soon!

gettin more of a psychedelic folk vibe from this

i'll see if i can get ahold of an acoustic guitar & some flange pedals in time

I have ideas.

  On 3/29/2014 at 3:23 PM, Cryptowen said:

gettin more of a psychedelic folk vibe from this

i'll see if i can get ahold of an acoustic guitar & some flange pedals in time

Mmm.. mellotron vsts..

Awesome stuff guys. Can't wait to here the music.

Also, a friendly reminder: The deadline is far away, but it sneaks up. Get started now!

  On 3/29/2014 at 3:23 PM, Cryptowen said:

gettin more of a psychedelic folk vibe from this

i'll see if i can get ahold of an acoustic guitar & some flange pedals in time

looking forwards to it

  On 3/29/2014 at 4:30 PM, mokz said:

 

  On 3/29/2014 at 3:23 PM, Cryptowen said:

gettin more of a psychedelic folk vibe from this

i'll see if i can get ahold of an acoustic guitar & some flange pedals in time

 

Mmm.. mellotron vsts..

 

I'm very fond of tweakbench's tapeworm: http://www.tweakbench.com/tapeworm

  On 3/29/2014 at 4:26 PM, mokz said:

I have ideas.

about symbiotic onychomycosis?

  On 3/29/2014 at 7:52 PM, xox said:

 

  On 3/29/2014 at 4:26 PM, mokz said:

I have ideas.

 

about symbiotic onychomycosis?

 

Yes, combined with the general idea of the X-Files episode the Field Trip.

This is a great theme for a comp, will start experimenting right away.

  On 3/29/2014 at 7:56 PM, mokz said:

 

  On 3/29/2014 at 7:52 PM, xox said:

 

  On 3/29/2014 at 4:26 PM, mokz said:

I have ideas.

 

about symbiotic onychomycosis?

 

 

Yes, combined with the general idea of the X-Files episode the Field Trip.

 

just don't walk barefoot near to it

yes, i could make somezthing myself. i hope...

Going to compose a track about Myco-heterotrophic plants; the somewhat creepy achlorophyllus plants that parasitise Mycorrhizae:

I'm in! Going to go for physical sounds, maybe will do a bit of field recording in Epping Forest

  On 3/29/2014 at 9:28 PM, hoggy said:

.. maybe will do a bit of field recording..

+1

I'm getting started on a duet between two polysynths. Romance is coming from my headphones.

  On 3/30/2014 at 6:16 AM, Root5 said:

I'm getting started on a duet between two polysynths. Romance is coming from my headphones.

Love is in the air, and soil.

This comp is going to rule. Thanks Root5 for doing this! And the deadline is my birthday (= pretty sweet.

I'm gonna make a sick psy trance hardstyle track. MUSHROOMS!

  On 3/29/2014 at 3:23 PM, Cryptowen said:

gettin more of a psychedelic folk vibe from this

i'll see if i can get ahold of an acoustic guitar & some flange pedals in time

  On 3/29/2014 at 4:30 PM, mokz said:

Mmm.. mellotron vsts..

  On 3/29/2014 at 8:41 PM, Goiter Sanchez said:

Going to compose a track about Myco-heterotrophic plants; the somewhat creepy achlorophyllus plants that parasitise Mycorrhizae

  On 3/29/2014 at 9:28 PM, hoggy said:

I'm in! Going to go for physical sounds, maybe will do a bit of field recording in Epping Forest

  On 3/30/2014 at 4:50 PM, Squee said:

I'm gonna make a sick psy trance hardstyle track. MUSHROOMS!

Dig all of that

thinking about doing a generative thing, something with networks and trees. something with a mushy sound.

Ya I'm in too. :) Have some stuff already cooking. :D

i'm gonna keep my mouth shut for now but when you hear my track you'll immediately scream (loud, over 90 dB) and say:

''My God! Mycorrhizae! He's so right; spot on!''

are there any sample restrictions? like if i wanted to sample fungus among us, would that be ok?