phanan
Blue Crack Addict
While we are in between Desert Islands (our fifth edition will most likely arrive in about a month or so), I'm thinking it's time for another mini-tournament. So far, we've had Prog Island and Symphonic Island. I'd like to see how much interest there would be in a Retro Island competition.
Retro certainly is a broad term when it comes to music, but for the purpose of this tournament, we would be focusing on the mid 1970's-mid 1980's time frame, when punk rock came out of nowhere and eventually evolved into new wave. From wiki:
The basis of this competition would be to come up with your best Retro compilation that is no longer than 80 minutes - no concepts necessary, no artwork required (although definitely permitted), just a jam packed playlist of your favorite music from this genre (or subgenres, more specifically, like punk rock, post-punk, new wave, etc.). I would think that at least 8 people would be needed for this to work, and if there was more interest than that, we could possibly increase the number. I know KhanadaRhodes and Screwtape2 expressed an interest when I previously floated the idea.
Let me know your thoughts.
Retro certainly is a broad term when it comes to music, but for the purpose of this tournament, we would be focusing on the mid 1970's-mid 1980's time frame, when punk rock came out of nowhere and eventually evolved into new wave. From wiki:
Retro, during the 1980s, referred to a new genre of music, particularly dance music, popular in the U.S. at the time and originally termed New Wave music which was in part an outgrowth of the Punk rock genre of the late 1970s and early '80s and Psychedelic genre of the late 1960s and 70's. Many of the songs and albums termed retro at the time came about during great advancement in the development of generating music electronically (that is, with computers and electronic equipment - or Electronic music - rather than with either traditional or electromechanical instruments) and the popularization of this type of music in the mainstream. Ideas as to how broad and inclusive the Retro category of music is vary; nonetheless, not all music - not even all dance music - from the decades of the 1980s were considered Retro music.
The basis of this competition would be to come up with your best Retro compilation that is no longer than 80 minutes - no concepts necessary, no artwork required (although definitely permitted), just a jam packed playlist of your favorite music from this genre (or subgenres, more specifically, like punk rock, post-punk, new wave, etc.). I would think that at least 8 people would be needed for this to work, and if there was more interest than that, we could possibly increase the number. I know KhanadaRhodes and Screwtape2 expressed an interest when I previously floated the idea.
Let me know your thoughts.