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Build-an-Album II, R2(P1): Believe in Patterns

After a slight delay, we move onwards! Who scored the highest, and who walked away with goose eggs? Let's dive into the breakdown of beakbeat...
1The Prodigy
The Fat of the Land

Last time on Build-an-Album: the genre was BREAKS/BREAKBEAT, the theme was SATURDAY NIGHT VIBES, and competitors were required to make 10-track records. The “dumb rule” prevent anyone from using an artist or band based in the United States, which apparently meant everyone raided the U.K. for assistance. This was a round that already tested genre knowledge and enforced some touch restrictions. How did everyone fare? Let’s check in and see…
2Venetian Snares
Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett

bg's album: As you'll see throughout, I tried to judge these not necessarily on my personal biases alone, but also if the album could be danced to or not. Bg's record nailed the mark for the most part, providing a series of tunes that were varied and provided plenty of energy for a club. You need those vibes to keep people moving and dancing. Although dipping in quality at times, this possessed a lot of fun highlights that kept me engaged and tapping my feet. Nailed the prompt! 4.0
3Special Request
Belief System

Mort's album: A big issue with this record is that tracks either contained little zest to them or failed to do much of interest. If the intent was for these more to be background music, then I understand the intent, but a lot of these cuts just didn't prompt much movement. Some seemed far too minimalistic or calm for a night out, as far as I'm concerned. Not bad, but also not really on par. 3.4
4Dream Dolphin
The Seventh Dream

Johnny's album: Whatever club you dreamt up, I want in. This was absolute rave insanity and I loved every moment of this. The creativity, the bass lines, the balance between chaos and melody... this was perfect. I can picture ANYONE getting down to this at a bustling city party. And they all fit together so well. 4.5
5Apollo 440
Gettin' High On Your Own Supply

Slothcore's album: A common complaint I had, as was the case with other records, was that this needed more to it. If it was supposed to just blend into the noise of a party and not do too much, then that's fine, but it doesn't really catch my interest. Repetition also hurt this a lot, with certain tracks taking a beat and beating it into the ground. Again, not bad, but also below what I'd be hoping for. 3.55
6bye2
霊体ミミズ (GHOST_WORM)

Steak's album: Although faltering slightly in its second half, Steak's disc managed to not only maintain a good energy level at the start, but consistently build upon it in every track. It was a very enjoyable experience, especially with the general aesthetic of the collected tunes; they all felt like they were based on a video game and gave the album more of a retro atmosphere. It was a neat choice, and one that no one else really replicated. 4.1
7Hybrid (UK)
Wide Angle

David's album: The variety here was a ton of fun! There were parts of this that were either too glitchy or too hazy to ever fit a proper night out setting, but what surrounded it was aces. Most of the tracks did a fine job at executing transitions and adding on more intrigue as they progressed, including the large closing track. This kept me engaged and kept me dancing. Can't ask for too much more. 4.05
8Pendulum
In Silico

Shemson's album: I'm gonna repeat this throughout (did I already mention that? Oh dear...), but this was *gasp* inconsistent. There were vocal samples that seemed unnecessary, as well as points where tracks tried to mix in adjacent pop elements to mixed results. I was impressed by many tracks here though, and I found that there was a healthy supply of bangers here. Well played for the most part. 3.8
9Meat Beat Manifesto
99%

Pangea's album: This was... good! I wish I had more to say, but it was really just solid as a whole. The quality definitely dipped at certain key points, which inevitably held the final score back. Even an appearance by the famous Punks of Daft could not offer assistance. It really was the inconsistency that hurt this, since I genuinely enjoyed quite a few cuts off of this. Close, but no cigar. 3.5
10The Chemical Brothers
Dig Your Own Hole

Rock's album: At one point, Rock dipped dangerously into electronic music far too glitchy and chaotic to appreciate at a club. However, despite that step over the edge, the album before and after was entertaining. Much like Pangea's record and others, I can't say it was bad on the whole, nor can I say it really wowed me. It just never really hit its groove like it might have if it focused itself more. A generally good effort, however! 3.77
11Propellerheads
Decksandrumsandrockandroll

Uzu's album: I think I've learned throughout this exercise that I prefer my breakbeat without vocals, if I have a choice. They CAN be good, but far too often do I feel like they're intrusive and unnecessary. The real issue here though, was that the tracks failed to evolve; they found their beat and they mostly stuck to it. I wish there was more going on there, as it left me wanting more. The tone was on point, but it needed more to impress me. 3.65
12Kaizo Slumber
The Kaizo Manifesto

tyman's album: The middle of this record fell into a deep abyss, but the front and back of it contained some great hits, which helped to salvage the experience. I've learned that The Prodigy are very cool throughout this whole experience... what a fantastic opening song! Good energy throughout, but that pestering flaw of inconsistency strikes another record, albeit not fatally. 3.76
132 Bad Mice
4 Bad Remixes

Storm's album: This relied far too much on vocal samples that didn't do much of anything for me. In fact, for some tracks, it hindered my enjoyment. Others either came across as boring or oddly out of place for the intended breakbeat category. I'm no expert, but this was a bit too uneven of an experience, both due to its poor use of its tools and the annoying repetition used in specific songs. Ehhh... 3.2
14Amon Tobin
Permutation

Phero's album: This had potential in its aesthetic, but the beats just didn't BOP enough. This was supposed to be more for a night out dancing and such, and these beats just didn't speak loudly enough at times. Either because of being underdeveloped or too relaxed/stripped back, these tracks never reached grander heights. I also think the Amon Tobin tracks, while enjoyable to me, became a touch too schizophrenic to be accurately danced to. Great moments and songs, but could've been more overall. 3.7
15D'Cruze
Control

Sint's album: I appreciated what was attempted here: a more relaxed, intimate experience. However, I was really more in the mood/looking for something a la Track 4 and the energy it brought. Too many of these were just lacking in their staying power to where I felt bored at the club. You can't be getting bored at the club, yo. C'mon son. Like I said though, the relaxed demeanor of some of these was rather charming, and this wasn't too bad. It was just kinda solid. 3.6
16Nothing
The Great Dismal

Slex submitted nothing... :^(
17The Prodigy
The Fat of the Land

Very few of these were bad. Congratulations! You've successfully made it through one week of this super prestigious competition. As you know, nobody is going home yet, and your goal is score as many points as possible to avoid elimination. Who was able to snag the most?
FIRST PLACE: Johnny (4.5)
SECOND PLACE: Steak (4.1)
THIRD PLACE: David (4.05)
Some close calls were made due to the bloated middle this round created. So many of these records hovered around the same score, and I had to get petty/flip a coin to determine the fates of each. Read on an you'll see the current point breakdown on our fancy new LEADERBOARD!
18Genghis Tron
Board Up the House

LEADERBOARD:
1. Johnny >>> 18 pts
2. Steak >>> 16 pts
3. David >>> 14 pts
4. bg >>> 12 pts
5. Shemson >>> 10 pts
6. Rock >>> 8 pts
7. tyman >>> 6 pts
8. Phero >>> 5 pts
9. Uzu >>> 4 pts
10. Sint >>> 3 pts
19Genghis Tron
Board Up the House

LEADERBOARD (cont):
11. Sloth >>> 2 pts
12. Pangea >>> 1 pts
13. Mort >>> 0 pts
14. Storm >>> 0 pts
15. Slex >>> 0 pts
20Macho Man Randy Savage
Be A Man

And thus, we have concluded our first round! Nobody is eliminated… no, not yet. The torture must endure, my friends. Such is the ultimate goal of the genre wheel: to claim the souls of all that encounter it. That’s a painful experience, innit? Having your happiness wiped away, creating a perpetual rain cloud over your head, invading every part of your existence. Did I get carried away, or is the next genre dramatic enough to cause such potential reactions?
21I Would Set Myself On Fire For You
Believes In Patterns

Welcome one and all to the land of EMO. What luck that is! We travel from one rather vast category to one equally as malleable, especially at its boundaries. This will require some care in order to stay reasonably within the category—I’m much more in-tune with this genre than I am with breakbeat. Retrieve those teenage-years diaries, cue the tears, and get sad!
22Macho Man Randy Savage
Be A Man

I’ll give you the requirement first, since it will be tied into the theme. For this go-around, you are required to supply 8 tracks. You’re also going to have to contend with a duration ceiling: the record cannot clock in at or over 40 minutes. Get at least one second below that mark, you’re golden! Get exactly 40 or one second above? Start prayin’.

The theme is set to Hidden Gems. Emo is a classification replete with one-and-done bands or groups that otherwise failed to gather a significant following. When selecting your eight tracks, at least half must be from records that have 25 or fewer votes on Sputnik. Get obscure with it!
23Macho Man Randy Savage
Be A Man

Quite a high bar for this round! That’s the sort of stuff that can really drag proceedings down. A recent survey I conducted with myself and a random man on the street[1] demonstrated that superfluous restrictions normalize depressive symptoms consequential to diminishing serotonin surpluses. So what we need are puns! Using data from a recent experiment in which I raided a local hospital[2], I’ve found that a good joke can erase the oncoming presence of death itself. When you submit your album, you must provide a pun with it! How, you ask? It’s up to interpretation. Give it your best shot.
24Macho Man Randy Savage
Be A Man

SUMMARY:
Genre = Emo
Theme = Hidden Gems
Requirement = 8 tracks; must be shorter than 40 minutes
“dumb rule”: provide a pun when you submit

[1] Mars, et. al.; How to Properly Prank Your Average Stranger
[2] Mars, et. al.; That Time I Got Arrested for Streaking
25City of Caterpillar
Driving Spain Up A Wall

Johnny's album:
City of Caterpillar - Driving Spain Up A Wall
Marnero - Non sono più il ghepardo di una volta
Direwolves - Relief
Trophy Scars - Jerry's The Name, Sociology's My Game
Circle Takes the Square - Houdini Logic
Orchid - Destination: Blood!
Moreru - Soshite, Seieki
yourboyfriendsucks! - 波兰首都是上海

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0lk4AElXuL3VjO9YxuU6a3?si=737768e4af7c4ffd
26Free Throw
Those Days Are Gone

bg's album:
1. Free throw- pallet town (from Those Days Are Gone, 182 votes)
2. Prawn- settled (t/t, 18 votes)
3. Strictly ballroom- elevator action (from Hide Here Forever, 29 votes)
4. Leiah- preset station (from The Tigra Songs, 3 votes)
5. Secret Stuff- you make me touch your hands for stupid reasons (from Learning Not To Care, 12 votes)
6. Tawny Peaks- Bring Back the Mountain (from s/t, 27 votes)
7. Edaline- this fabricated town (from I Wrote The Last Chapter For You, 31 votes)
8. One Hundred Year Ocean- Magnetic Curses (from Where Were You While We Were Getting High, 18 votes before I rated it today)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hxTjMC8opru3RV80Alcym?si=3d0d0a6d0aab4887
27Captain, Your Ship is Sinking
Cross Your Fingers For The Epilogue

mort's album:
1. captain, your ship is sinking - let the blood of the martyrs command you
2. wow, owls! - lets get the fuck out of racoon city
3. wayne szalinski - sweetness ep version
4. drowningman - the unbearable burden of always being right
5. daniel striped tiger - no reverse
6. ampere - the old world is behind us
7. the spirit of versailles - pranks for the memories
8. five minute ride - comparing objects in a group

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE45QzVYpWWBJ-oUkJg0psnjXyrFMW5ST
28Canadian Softball
Awkward and Depressed

Sloth's album:
1. Canadian Softball- Ohio is for Emo Kids (64 ratings) parody 3rd wave emo
2. STOMACH BOOK-Animals (10 ratings) 5th wave emo
3. The Hated- Words Come Back (2 ratings) emocore/ 1st wave emo
4. Swing Kids - Line #1 (13 ratings) early screamo
5. Pg. 99- Comedy of Christ (3 ratings) early emoviolence
6. Raccoon City featuring Renee Munro- The Abyss (8 ratings) Screamo/emotive post hardcore
7. Casavettes- With People in Mind (3 ratings) Midwest (Ireland) emo/emotive post hardcore.
8. Blueline Medic- Making the Nouveau Riche (5 ratings) 2nd wave emo
30 minutes

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20rehsQoUgVJoBx5RpCzBu?si=zrUvewLaTZ62ZQmV44iuwg&utm_source=copy-link
29Jimmy Eat World
Clarity

David's album:
1. Jimmy Eat World - Lucky Mint Denver (1362 votes)
2. Ogbert the Nerd - Do It for Elio (4 votes)
3. Mock Orange - Mind is Not Brain (21 votes)
4. Sunny Day Real Estate - 100 Million (630 votes)
5. Bloodthirsty Butchers - 6月 (あめ,アメ,雨) (29 votes)
6. Paerish - Albert Suffers (13 votes)
7. The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up - Breakdown Championship (21 votes)
8. Origami Angel - Skeleton Key (180 votes)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdbV0-YdRPrVbYCkYcyU923JTsEpO4P6e
30Examination of the...
Lady In The Radiator

Uzu's album:
Examination of the… - Lelani Ulaluma Part One (The Making of Prosaic)
49 Morphines - Running On Empty
The Count - As Scene On TV (time stamp 1:10)
Arsen AKA König der Monster - Einsam, Wenn Man Die Wahrheit Weiss
Early Grace - A Fictional Serialkiller (time stamp 4:47)
One Eyed God Prophecy - Fields of Separate Realities
Neverending… - In Full Swing
Sans Visage - Barricade

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBaS8ZeoZ_XBxCl8Ojl_Lt34ecBq5gtUl
31Ogbert the Nerd
I Don't Hate You

Steak's album:
1. Ogbert the Nerd - Get In The Robot (4 votes)
2. Dependence - Losing Your Exit (2 votes)
3. State Faults - Ultima (388 votes)
4. Shin Guard - Carabosse (20 votes)
5. Departures - Broken (139 votes)
6. Casey - Fade (36 votes)
7. Pianos Become The Teeth - Such Confidence (1105 votes)
8. The Moirai - Empathy for Your Enemy/Hostile to the Helpless (19 votes)

Link to playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2AMkE0uk7H8FEJ5bLdXbaS
32Boys Life
Boys Life

Pangea's album:
1. Boys Life - Breaker Breaker (22 votes)
2. Leiah - Fleur D'interdit (3 votes)
3. La Dispite - Rhodonite & Grief (572 votes)
4. Chamberlain - Yellow Like Gold (18 votes)
5. A Bunny's Caravan - Resolving the Static (301 votes)
6. The Hotelier - Soft Animal (758 votes)
7. Young Jesus - Deterritory (22 votes)
8. Wasted Space - jeff, yr friend who cares. (8 votes)

36 minutes and 9 seconds
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6LqfS71woxaIllyNeY86x8?si=84aed9a810a84c4f
33Ken Burns
Ken Burns

Sint's album:
1. new forms - fortunato (0 votes/not in db)
2. ...and its name was epyon - living dead division (0 votes/not in db)
3. ken burns - untitled (7 votes)
4. eighteen hundred and froze to death - my daily affirmation (0 votes/not in db)
5. kerith ravine - sebastian's arrows (0 votes/not in db)
6. by the end of summer - he forgot how to run (0 votes/not in db)
7. for everest - reasons #2-7 (14 votes)
8. ensslin - intimacy (0 votes/not in db)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Zl3WAmVwzV2rFr9vFwul2?si=789bd5b53b964d70
34Dear and the Headlights
Drunk Like Bible Times

Shemson's album:
1. I Can Make A Mess - The Best Happiness Money Can Buy (not in the database)
2. Dear and The Headlights - I’m Not Crying. You’re Not Crying, Are You?
3. Cursive - The Recluse
4. Mansions - Dig Up The Dead
5. The Anniversary - Sweet Marie (13 Rankings)
6. The Moirai - Last Year For Halloween I Was A Ghost (19 Rankings)
7. The Hotelier - Your Deep Rest
8. Weatherbox - Atoms Smash (7 Rankings)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3nJ0F2DfQO35tvf3xHPENt?si=k7F4kZ_IRzykomAqx1oJDg
35Superheaven
Jar

rock's album:
1. Superheaven - Sponge (273 votes)
2. The Comfort - Everstone (6 votes)
3. Jawbreaker - Accident Prone (548 votes)
4. Sunsleeper - Break or Bury (3 votes)
5. Arrows in Her - Sunlit Hallways (36 votes)
6. Introvert - Mending Breaking (11 votes)
7. Traluma - Chicago Defender (4 votes)
8. Endless Heights - Haunt Me (6 votes)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6WaixtkLXGssR1BEz28P5g?si=d0173fe2565d45ba
36Terry Green
Terry Green

tyman's album:
1. Terry Green - Untitled I
2. Eyelet - A Lesson In Loneliness
3. Gillian Carter - Remembering Her The Way She Was (Alive)
4. Snow Fire Patrol - Mask
5. Elle - Wonder
6. Stormlight - Acute-Care
7. A Continent Named Coma - Discourse
8. Infant Island - Small Differences

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2tPWYKd9UA9AjwikS3P0Za?si=c17341931b8943ca
37125, Rue Montmartre
Self-titled 7"

Phero's album:
1. 125, Rue Montmartre - Disco Hijack
2. The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up - Shark Repellent
3. Seam - Dust and Turpentine
4. Knapsack - Decorate The Spine
5. Penfold - I'll Take You Everwhere
6. Mineral - Parking Lot
7. The Wrens - What's a Girl
8. 125, Rue Montmartre - Safari

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4OyxFASvXY6l6QWIgcjTp9?si=UckqyaXjRPGYaLatBg7YfQ
38Waterdown
Never Kill the Boy on the First Date

Storm's album:
1. Round 2 by Waterdown (less than 25
2. Mars by Mountain Kid (not in d/b)
3. Pearlescent by Svalbard (+25)
4. Streets of Gold by Emery (+25)
5. Sometimes Things Change by Swimming (not in d/b)
6. Vehicle by BoySetsFire (less than 25
7. The Broken Heart of a Traitor by hopesfall. (+25)
8. Stay True by Thursday (+25)

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGOs6nzB_93sAhrp2nbJ_Sj9gj3_jRK-D&feature=share
39I Love Your Lifestyle
No Driver

Slex's album:
1. I Love Your Lifestyle-Car
2. Marietta-Cinco De Mayo Shit Show
3. Short Fiction-Living In Places Like These Is Bad For Your Health (Can't Live Here Anymore)
4. Kali Masi-Trophy Deer
5. ManDancing-Johnny Freshman
6. Billy Cobb- Lost Boys Don't Bivouac Here
7. Freshman Biology-Coast to Coast
8. Greet Death- You're Going To Hate What You've Done

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL14i10eueziy73BVTjNmc888-XPjTuKlI
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