If you’re looking for cowbell sounds to complete your masterpiece entry for the MORE COWBELL contest, don’t forget that you can always look in search to find cool cowbell sounds that other users have uploaded. If you’ve uploaded some of your own, be sure to tag them with COWBELL so that others can find them, too!
Ever wonder how guys like Rig make all those cool loops in their profiles? Well, wonder no more! Rig himself was kind enough to write up a tutorial on how to make your own loops - for free! Come by the blog to read about it, and be sure to pop over and say thanks to Rig!
So you’ve been browsing around splicemusic.com for a while now, and you’ve been mixing cool loops into songs. You want to try your hand at making your OWN loops now, but everyone you talk to says you need roughly two zillion dollars worth of equipment. Never fear!
(more…)
Ahhh… the illustrious cowbell. You have to appreciate an instrument that has such a long and varied history. Originally used to track various animals as they wandered in herds, the cowbell can be found in all kinds of music, from classical to latin to rock. In the 80s, when the Roland TR-808 drum machine put in it’s less-than-realistic cowbell sound, the instrument became widely used in pop and hip-hop songs. And naturally, most people have seen the Saturday Night Live skit that makes fun of the Blue Oyster Cult.
We love the cowbell, and we know you do, too. So, this week, we want MORE.
1. Make a song in Splice that uses a cowbell sample. (There are a lot of good samples in Splice already, but you are naturally welcome to bring your own cowbell.)
2. Tag your song with MORECOWBELL to be automatically entered to win.
Entries are due by Midnight CST on May 27th, 2007.
Normally when I blog contest winners, I tell you that I had a really hard time deciding who won. But in the case of the Dance Off, I hardly had to think about it at all. I mean, I listened to all of the songs and some of them were pretty good, but there was one that was muy muy bien and nothing really compared to it. This should come as no suprise, as this person never fails to make dance songs that get you moving and bouncing around.
This guy has been a neverending fount of help, patience and inspiration since we very first started here, and he does it out of the goodness of his heart and his love of people and music. He’s the real heart and soul of this site, so I know that everybody here will be happy to join me in congratulating none other than Riggy McRiggerton himself, as we proclaim him this week’s winner and an all around great musician. The prize this week, a rocking set of FX5051 Speakers from our lovely sponsors, Altec Lansing, will be sent shortly.
Now, listen to this and tell me it doesn’t make you boogie:
Great work, Rig! Thanks for everything!!!!
Purge is such a great song that every entry in the contest was really good. I know you’ve all been waiting to hear who won, and so, without further ado, here we go:
Lotusfae is an extra cool Splicer. Her musical ambitions, in her own words are “To get it all out. To show people the fantastic music I hear in my mind but I have yet to find a way to tap into. To be EXACTLY like Laura Veirs. To quit trying to write songs with the pretext that people have to like them.”
And you know what? I can get behind that. I can also get behind her remix. The use of the chanting in there is really effective. So, congratulations! Altec Lansing will be sending you some wireless headphones shortly. (Fartlord tells me his are really awesome, by the way.) A big thanks to JordanEspionage and his band Common Man Down for volunteering their music. Be sure to go listen to the runners up, too. They were all really excellent.
Jack Black had some things to say about pirating copyrighted music recently. Come check it out in the blog.
Want to get in on this week’s contest? It’s not too late! Just Splice together a song using any three loops from your friendly neighbor thettpproject (be sure to stop in and tell him thanks while you’re there!) and tag it with remixTTP. Read more about it in our blog.