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8 posts tagged one minute wonders
One Minute Wonders LIVE! Friday 27th January @ Take 5 + 7” vinyl album launch
More info at the One Minute Wonders site here: 1mw.co.uk
One Minute Wonder Winners
We still couldn’t include all 19 we wanted, but by slowing it down to 33 RPM we have managed to squeeze a couple more on to the One Minute Wonder 7”, taking it to 14 tracks.
The Single/Album hybrid will go out on the Ham, Spam and Jam label for as little as we are able to do it for… this is SUCH a grand selection of tunes, creatively more adventurous (and certainly less boring) than a load of that 3.5 minute nonsense, we just want to get people spinning it.
And so, featured are:
Valvetronix : The Beelips
Killing Time : Dan Foden
Sticky Bongo : sonofsamsounds
At Sea : Lowery
The Ballad Of Peach : Mark Thorby
Quadrahick : Mike Jackson
The Dell : Red Cassette
Helicopter Gunship : James Leeds
I Dreamt About Dying: PhilCivilian
The Travelling Knife : Emily Sargasso
Standard, as standard : danieljharvey
A hinge : Transept
When’s the right time to stop : davidpye
Sticky Situation : Girl in a Thunderbolt
Listen to all the winners (and more) on the One Minute Wonders Soundcloud
OK - so we’ve finally picked the songs for the 1 Minute Wonders 7”. REALLY hard to trim it down, as there’s loads of great tracks.
Pleased that this has led folk to create stuff they normally wouldn’t - which really was the whole point of the exercise. SORRY, SORRY, SORRY if you didn’t make the final selection - we’re going to try and squeeze 12 tracks onto a 7” as it is!
Notable runners up that we wanted to include but couldn’t fit on:
Thief : Graham Barlight
Tiny Tim - Living In the Sunlight : Hostile Hams
Takeaway : Mr Jason
Tormentor : JET
The Dell : Red Cassette
Women Be Organising : Ben Winn
Sticky Situation : Girl in a Thunderbolt
Pianos : ThamesGatewayAudioDept
That was so productive we’re thinking about making it an annual event… hopefully we can squeeze a couple of these on the next one.
Actual Competition - 1 Minute Wonders
Since James Leeds suggested the idea of making songs that lasted around 1 minute in length the 1 Minute Wonder SoundCloud group went a bit mental as people wrote and added all their bestest efforts. There were loads of great ones.
Now, in light of the project’s success, NRONE Records of Norwich have offered to put out a 7” album of 1 Minute Wonders.
10 Tracks will be selected by July 1st, from tracks already submitted, and from whatever else can be submitted by then. So get writing and submit your entries via the SoundCloud group here.
Being a competition there have to be some rules, boring yeah whatever, it’ll stop you crying if you think someone’s cheating!
RULES
1. NO SAMPLES, ALL TRACKS MUST BE 100% COPYRIGHT OF THE ARTIST, UNRELEASED AND UNPUBLISHED.
2. ALL SONGS MUST BE 60 Seconds long. +/- 5 second tolerance.
3. STRICTLY NO EDITS OF LONGER SONGS.
4. THE PRIZE FOR THE COMPETITION WINNERS IS APPEARING ON THE 7” ALBUM, NO ALTERATIVE PRIZES GIVEN.
The winners will be picked by James Leeds with norwichmusic.com and Kingsley Harris
One Minute Wonder 7” being released for Record Store Day
NRONE are celebrating Record Store Day (April 16th - check it) by releasing a 12 track album of 1 minute songs on a single 7” Vinyl.
Based on an original concept by *ahem* NRMU staff, 1 minute contributions haven’t stopped coming in since the idea began 6 months ago, but there aren’t enough Norwich (or Norwich related) artists for the limited edition Vinyl version.
SO… if you’re Norwich based, get off your arse, write and record a one minute song and post it to the Soundcloud group before Weds 16th March. Yep, that’s NEXT WEEK
