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Important announcement!

Hey everyone, as you may have noticed I haven't been as active lately and the competition's fallen a bit by the wayside, but that's because I've been working on some important things! (hope you didn't think I'd abandoned you!)

First of all, I've decided to make some pretty big changes to the battle, including the basic concept and rules! Here they are:

The competition will no longer be sample-based, and with no time limit! There are a few reasons behind this; first, people have work to do, and making a whole song in a week takes a lot of time (honestly, more time than I feel comfortable asking of anyone). I'd rather people have more time to work on something completely for themselves. Secondly, I want to give people as much creative freedom as possible, including people who make music outside of a sample-based format; I want to hear and showcase your specific, unique styles! Thirdly, a week isn't a lot of time to make a song! This change will allow people to take as much time as they need, with no limits.

The name will be changing! Something that I noticed recently is that the acronym of "Sal's Tape Deck" is rather unfortunate ( ...yeah). The name of the compilation will be changing to Airlifts! This means that I will also be changing this account's URL from salstapedeck to fauxparachute-airlifts.

I'll update this as I think of more things, and post the new guidelines soon! Submissions will be open again this Saturday at 12AM (you can use the same link from the past few battles)! Send as many tracks as you want!

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Sal's Tape Deck Week 2 is out now!

You can find it here! Reblog, tell yer friends, get the word out!

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Hey everyone, sorry for disappearing, I’ve been pretty busy lately! I’ll have the second battle up by the end of the day, as for the third one I’ve decided to extend the deadline (I haven’t gotten too many entries, so I’ll upload a more versatile sample next week!)

Best, Sal

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Changed the link for Sal's Tape Deck 1!

Hey everyone, just wanted to notify you that I changed my Bandcamp URL from hugothemonk.bandcamp.com to fauxparachute.bandcamp.com, hopefully it's a permanent change! If there's anything weird going on with you not being able to find Sal's Tape Deck 1 that's probably the reason.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

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Sal's Tape Deck Weekly Beat Compilation #3 is now open for submissions!

Find the directions here

Get the sample here

Submit your instrumental here

Submit a new sample for a future battle here

Listen to the week 1 compilation here

You'll have until March 12th at 12AM EST to submit your beats, odds are your music will get placed on the final compilation tape! Really excited to hear what everyone comes up with!

Thank you so much to everyone who submitted a beat for last week's cypher!

I'll have the compilation up on Bandcamp as soon as possible.

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Sal's Tape Deck Week 1 is out now!

Sorry for the wait everyone, I know I said by the end of the day but I came home from a punk show super late!

You can find it here! Reblog, tell yer friends, get the word out!

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Update on Sal's Tape Deck 1 Release!

Hey everyone, sorry for running late on this one! It's the first release so I'm still kind of trying to figure out all of the details, whether I want to take some time to master it or not, which Bandcamp to post it on, etc.

I'll have it up by the end of the day, and make an announcement post with the Bandcamp details. Thanks for your patience!

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Sal's Tape Deck Weekly Beat Compilation #2 is now CLOSED

You can check out the "keep reading" link to see the original post for reference (idk, just in case??)

Sal's Tape Deck Weekly Beat Compilation #2 is now open for submissions!

Find the directions here

Get the sample here

Submit your beat here

Submit a new sample for a future battle here

You'll have until March 5th at 12AM EST to submit your beats, odds are your music will get placed on the final compilation tape! Really excited to hear what everyone comes up with!

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Just got the first entry, so exciting!! Thanks so much for participating, these are some really amazing sounds!

Glad the sample was apparently fun to work with, I'll try to find an even better one for next week!

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Sal's Tape Deck Weekly Beat Compilation #1 is now CLOSED

You can check out the "keep reading" link to see the original post for reference (idk, just in case??)

Sal's Tape Deck Weekly Beat Compilation #1 is now open for submissions!

Find the directions here

Get the sample here

Submit your beat here

Submit a new sample for a future battle here

Happy music making! You'll have until this exact time next week to submit your beats! Since it's the first one odds are your music will get placed on the final compilation tape! Really excited to hear what everyone comes up with!

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Just uploaded this week's sample (hasn't been made public yet though)... So excited for this! I thought it was Friday for a second lol

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Hey, you! Beatmaker! Producer! Musician!

Strength in numbers!

Let's support each other, and create a unified space for new music to be heard-- it'll bring all of us up (a high tide raises all ships-- in this case, you're the ships and the space is the tide)!

I'm trying to get this going with a weekly beat cypher/compilation!

First compilation starts 12 AM Saturday, Feb 19th (more info in the pinned post on this account!)

ALL GENRES WELCOME

You can watch this video to see the inspiration for the concept:

If you believe in the cause, feel free to reblog, tell your friends, etc, pm me and ask questions, whatever you need!

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Calling all producers, beatmakers, experimental musicians and music-makers of any kind!

I cordially invite you to participate in Tumblr’s very own weekly beat cypher, in the spirit of the weekly Kenny Beats/D.o.t.s. Beat Battle, Andrew Huang's 4 Producers 1 Sample series, and the unfortunately now-defunct Team Supreme Beat Cypher. First sample will be posted at 12 AM EST on Saturday, Feb. 19th!

Reblog, tell yer friends, get the word out!

For more information and guidelines, read on!

Format

User-submitted beat cypher sample is announced

Participants will have one week to make a beat incorporating the sample

The beats will be compiled into a tape and released on Bandcamp as soon as possible (everyone featured will be credited!)

It starts all over again the next week!

Guidelines

All genres are welcome! Honestly, you can submit something no one has ever even conceived of before. The tape will be all the better for it!

Beats should use the sample provided! (the sample will be available via a Dropbox link in the cypher announcement post; beats should incorporate it in a recognizable manner. Of course, please feel free to use the sample in any way that you want-- I just have to be able to hear that the sample is in the beat!)

No pre-made beats, please! (of course there's no way of verifying this, so we'll have to go by the honor system)

All beat submissions can be made through the Dropbox link in the weekly cypher announcement post. Please be sure to title the file in this format: BC [Cypher number] Entry [Artist name] [Beat name]. Also feel free to throw in your socials in the "submissions" section of the website if you want me to advertise them!

Each person gets only one entry a week! Again, honor system.

No material you don't have the rights to! I'm not rich enough to handle a copyright infringement lawsuit!

Other Info

For now, I'll do my best to organize this weekly, but that may be subject to change depending on holidays, extenuating circumstances, popular demand, etc

I may need extra help deciding which beats to put on the tape! There won't be any fixed rankings, but depending on how many entries I get, I might not have room for all of them. If you want to help, just PM me!

Should the tape be a free download, or have a pay-what-you-want option? I'll only implement this once I figure out a way to pay everyone equally (I'll look into the mechanics of compilations on Bandcamp and see if it's possible). I only want to build community by doing this, provide a platform for artists, and hear some fresh and amazing sounds, so I would feel horrible taking any money that I didn't earn; I want to find a way for a trusted third-party service to split the earnings so that it's out of my hands and all fair and square (it would be unfair to expect you to trust me, I'm just a random person on the internet, I wouldn't trust myself either!)

Peace,

Sal

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Sal's Tape Deck (Ish. #1!) 2/2/22