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I made an hour long mix of pleasant songs from Weekly Beats. I tried my best to follow along throughout the year after I stopped participating, but I'm sure there are some things I've missed. Weekly Beats was a very fun project for me and I'm happy to have participated (and congrats to those that made it the entire year).

Here's the mix:
http://www.mixcloud.com/alpinesounds/weekly-beats/

Tracklisting:
Kedromelon - I Pray Thee...
Balloonbear - Blue Shift
Slunchy - Humgry (Sinn Shepp Stereolab)
Ryan - Well...
Chroma - In The Woods
Euphoric Noise - One Thousand Years From Now
Dot.AY - Drag Your Feet
Parallelis - Soul Incandescence
Mooninite - Uncertain Season (W/ RS2090)
Orinoco - Knifey Spooney
Ozda - Prime
Joe Galen - Box Clever
Minikomi - Take Your Time
Oceans Universum Amazonas - Repeating Numbers
Moxie - Temple
Gify - The 4th Dream
Lien - 2 Note Blue
little-scale - Amputation Fantasy Land
Drumurboy - Drop It Cat
Spaceman Fantastiques - Inner Tranquility (Delayed Sea)
BTS - 06-17-12
BlondieBrunetti - Lightning Roll

So after an afternoon of recording, I have a new performance of Hiding Mint Pairs (week 18), check it out if interested: http://duomalarkey.bandcamp.com

I've been talking to some people who are interested in doing the weekly beats challenge for 2013 but i havent been able to find confirmation if it is happening or not.  anyone?

https://www.facebook.com/events/3801998 … ext=create

It's kinda like official and stuff now. Again, if the date conflicts with too many people it can be changed, but at this stage it looks like it is set to be the 5th of January. If you are unable to see the event add me as a friend on Facebook.

Weekly Beats 2012 (21GB)

12 EPs is a monthly EP challenge/event that will be running as of now-ish. There's no stress though. You know why there's no stress? Because it's 2013, bitches. We left stress behind. There's so little stress I haven't even made the 12 EPs website yet!

...Which is why I'm making this topic. It officially started today, being the first of the month, but the community website hasn't been made yet. I don't know when it will be made either because I'm tired as fuck today and I have to go back to work this week before making it to Melbourne for the WB PARTY.

It will happen though.

For now however, just enjoy your New Year holiday and maybe start thinking about what your first EP might be about/what style you want to aim for. All of your amazing releases will be hosted on BandCamp* and then using the BandCamp API I will just embed all of the releases onto the 12 EPs homepage on the first of every month. The 12 EPs website I'm making** will serve as a digest / collection point for all of our releases to make them easily accessible and will have a forum for communique.

There's only 5 rules I can think of for now that I want to impose:
1) No copyrighted material (BandCamp will pwn you for this, not so much me).
2) Try write original songs. Covers and remixes that don't come with permission will make me cry.
3) Start and finish the EP within the calendar month. Have it uploaded by the 31st so I can embed them all on the site on the 1st. (communication techniques will be figured out)
4) We are loosely defining an EP as "at least 3 songs and not longer than 30 minutes" (this one mostly applies to me :3).
5) Be nice to people.

This first month might be a bit of a rough ride because this is a very last minute idea, but again it's only the 1st right now so it doesn't even matter.

Oh, and join Phil's FB group he made for us:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/516885678344591/

* If you want to host on something other than BandCamp and that alternative does not allow embedding then you can't be on the 12 EPs front page. This isn't an exclusive deal with BandCamp, it's just their player+API are easy as fuck.

** Browsing through WordPress themes is classed as making a website right?

If you havent already.. go and join the weeklybeats 2012 facebook group!

http://www.facebook.com/groups/516885678344591/

Big congrats to all who made it! And also all those who uploaded anything! I really enjoyed listening to stuff throughout the year and totally slacked on listening the second half so I know I have some great tresures to discover! For me Weekly Beats 2013 will be LISTENING to ALL the 2012 tracks! WOOOOOO!

Using the Ruby script that sinewave made, I made a bash script that uses the program ploticus to make some nice graphs

These will be automatically updated every week.

So...the nights are drawing in (erm, at least in my hemisphere!), the end of the year will be upon us before you know it...so is anybody else wondering - what next?

Don't think I could do another weekly thing next year, but something like it maybe.

Opine!

I did!

http://pocaille.bandcamp.com/

I totally slacked off on listening to people's tracks during 2012. So, post your best song of WB 2012 so we can all go listen to it.

Mine was Week 35 - Geometry (http://weeklybeats.com/#/dwight+davis/music/geometry)

Since resolving my tech issues from weeks 1 & 2, I have been diligently uploading a track every week. I have also done my best to stay out of trouble on the Forum the last month. As such I would really appreciate it if you could please address the issue I wrote you in week 9 concerning my track which failed to upload.

Thank you kindly, Poppi. xXx

I figure, as an active member of Weekly Beats, I hold the right to post about my new Christmas album/EP thing, titled "A Really Awesome Christmas Album" (A bit of an ambitious name, lol). It includes the past six weeks worth of Christmas songs I have done on here, and it's been a lot of fun to make. It's not the greatest music ever, and it's super duper late in the season (two days before Christmas), but I still put a lot of effort into this. If you've enjoyed my music, check it out. You can listen to and download all of the tracks for free here:
http://dwightdavis.bandcamp.com/album/a … -christmas
By the way, if you feel like being helpful, feel free to critique my music on this thread. Criticism is a good thing for people who make sucky music like me