Battle 51 – One-Minute Wonders - VOTING

Time to vote! You can vote for 3 tracks. We are voting for individual tracks this time, not the artists. As always, It's nice to share some feedback, but there are a lot of tracks this time - so do whatever feels right. Voting will close on Jan 15th. Thanks for participating everybody!

The Dolphin
https://soundcloud.com/dj_kln/the-dolphin

Starship Fiesta
https://soundcloud.com/quarantequatre/starship-fiesta

MO//NE/YY
https://soundcloud.com/mlbstrd/moneyy

Now With More Icing
https://soundcloud.com/dj_kln/now-with-more-icing

Here's The Thing
https://soundcloud.com/user-388190003/heres-the-thing-hurried-version

Who Has It Turned Up Too High
https://soundcloud.com/yoof-1/who-has-it-turned-up-too-high

The Crows Witnessed
https://soundcloud.com/yoof-1/the-crows-witnessed

H-Oh-Oh-OP1-1
https://soundcloud.com/ghostly606/h-oh-oh-op1-1

Meet Her At The Cantina
https://soundcloud.com/quarantequatre/meet-her-at-the-cantina

Speed of Light
https://soundcloud.com/quarantequatre/speed-of-light

Brussel Sprouts
https://soundcloud.com/yoof-1/brussel-sprouts

Four Left Feet
https://soundcloud.com/user-388190003/four-left-feet-expedited-version

Why
https://soundcloud.com/dj_kln/why

Wait A Minute
https://soundcloud.com/lying-dalai/wait-a-minute

There's An Animal You Really Want To Be
https://soundcloud.com/monk-e-hatte/theres-an-animal-that-you-really-want-to-be

CWO Tipping
https://soundcloud.com/user-388190003/cwo-tipping-fell-swoop-version-1

s-xSlxP
https://soundcloud.com/tedermusic/one-minute-wonder/s-xSIxP

OP's Choice
https://soundcloud.com/dj_kln/ops-choice

Spinning Bird Kick
https://soundcloud.com/yoof-1/spinning-bird-kick

Concrete Hangover
https://soundcloud.com/user-64982283/one-minute-wonder-5

All Is Lost
https://soundcloud.com/bradthedesigner/all-is-lost

First Dream Of The New Year
https://soundcloud.com/user-64982283/one-minute-wonder-7

Looping Cans
https://soundcloud.com/user-64982283/one-minute-wonder-4

Yesterday's Groove
https://soundcloud.com/user-64982283/one-minute-wonder-6

Griits
https://soundcloud.com/mlbstrd/griits

After the Party
https://soundcloud.com/user-64982283/minutejam-3

80's Vaporwave
https://soundcloud.com/mireko/1min-beat-80s-vaporwave

Mellow
https://soundcloud.com/mireko/1min-beat-mellow

Summertime
https://soundcloud.com/mireko/1min-beat-summertime

Experiment-N2
https://soundcloud.com/rudolph-rapid/experiment-n2

Iterlive-R
https://soundcloud.com/sunhil/jshell-operator1battle51entry01-iterlive-r

Osiris
https://soundcloud.com/quarantequatre/osiris

Almost Never
https://soundcloud.com/user-388190003/almost-never-going-too-fast-version

Uke - Schnuke
https://soundcloud.com/raimund/uke-schnuke

Outer-Lude
https://soundcloud.com/dj_kln/outer-lude

Experiment N3
https://soundcloud.com/rudolph-rapid/experiment-n3

Left Right
https://soundcloud.com/yoof-1/left-right

Playlist of all Battle Entries!
https://soundcloud.com/edzillamusic/sets/battle-51-one-minute-wonders

This was fun. Not sure I’m doing this right…but do we just post our votes in this thread? Here are mine:


1. <a href=“https://www.operator-1.com/index.php?p=/profile/MirEko” style=“margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: “lucida grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, tahoma, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(1, 115, 198); background-color: rgb(252, 252, 255);”>@MirEko<span style=“background-color: rgb(252, 252, 255); color: rgb(37, 38, 30); font-family: “lucida grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;”> - Summertime
2. <a href=“https://www.operator-1.com/index.php?p=/profile/QuaranteQuatre” style=“margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: “lucida grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, tahoma, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(1, 115, 198); background-color: rgb(252, 252, 255);”>@QuaranteQuatre<span style=“color: rgb(37, 38, 30); font-family: “lucida grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 255);”> - Starship Fiesta
3. <a href=“https://www.operator-1.com/index.php?p=/profile/QuaranteQuatre” style=“margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: “lucida grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, tahoma, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(1, 115, 198); background-color: rgb(252, 252, 255);”>@QuaranteQuatre - Meet Her At The Cantina
Really was a toss up between Quarantequatre and MirEko’s tracks for me. Was digging Quarantequatre’s synth grooves and melodies, and MirEko’s spaced-out chilled-out vibes. Cool stuff.
Ok, I've listened a few times... think I've decided.

1. @MirEko - Summertime - My absolute favourite from this battle. Loved the beats, loved the bass, loved the leads, the wobbliness, proper cool track! And just right for beating all the cold weather in the northern hemisphere!

2. @kln - Outer-lude - this was really dreamy. Great start with the "You're about to hear" sample - reminds me of the kind of chilled out Ninja Tune beats of the 90's. The melodies and samples weave in and out of each other in a really nice way. Great work! (All your other tracks were super ace too!)

3. @Kohlberg - Four Left Feet. Really masterful this. Loads of cool elements in the track and flows really nicely. It really reminds me of the output from @Lymtronics from past battles (he was like a Jedi Master of battles).

Honourable mentions:

@bradthedesigner - All Is Lost - Energetic, optimistic and engaging sounds with some nice different sections... dead good!
@QuaranteQuatre - Speed of Light - Really loved all the detuned wobbliness on this one.
@MillionBurstsOfRed - GRIITS - loved the whole blown speaker house party vibe.
@jshell - sunhil - liked the experimental vibes.

@<a href=“https://operator-1.com/index.php?p=/profile/3500/bradthedesigner” class=“Username” style=“font-family: “lucida grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(66, 157, 168); background-color: rgb(252, 252, 255);”>bradthedesigner<span style=“font-family: “lucida grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(37, 38, 30); background-color: rgb(252, 252, 255);”> yes indeed. Please just edit your post and give the authors as well as the names of the tracks, makes it easier for the one that has to count the votes :wink:

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36 tracks ! This was a very successful brief, congratulations @Edzilla !!

My votes in no particular order :

  • track 11 : - yoof - — Brussel Sprouts
    I love your d'n'b vibe, it's so well put, automatic vote :)
  • track 17 : Teder — one minute wonder
    This vibrato reminds me a bit of E.M.M.A's "Dream Phone" track. There is something in your track that really touches me.
  • track 9 : Quarantequatre — Meet Her At The Cantina
    Of all your track I choose this one cause it has this little silly cheap Sexy Sushi vibe.
    Even the crazy sample rings like "Forêt Mystique"
    I don't know if you know this band, but if not you should definitely check it, mon bon :D
    Your track are really cool, I like it when you drop tracks like this man ! You seem to enjoy your last toy, I'm quite glad I push you a bit to get it ;)

The following could have figured in my top 3 cause they are quite good as well...
track 28 : MirEko — 1MIN Beat - Summertime
track 33 : dinraum — Uke - Schnuke
track 21 : bradthedesigner — All Is Lost
track 10 : QuarantequatreSpeed Of Light
track 30 : sunhil — jshell - operator1.battle51.entry01 - iterlive R
I love your FM (Monomachine ?) sounds ! Reminds me of another track of yours that I really like ;)
track 23 : onidon — Looping cans

There is so much choice, tracks are pretty good and numerous !
Congratulations everyone !!!!
I did have fun myself and am very glad to have been participating to this awesome Battle !
  1. @yoof “Spinning Bird Kick” is just perfect. Clever use of samples and plenty of dnb intensity dripping with 16 bit nostalgia makes it a favorite for sure. The breakdown at the end was a nice surprise too.

    2. @Quarantequatre “Meet Her at the Cantina” is so different from what I would make but I love it. I’m also imagining the star wars band from your track image playing your song and it brings me great joy.

    3. @millionburstsofred “MO//NE//YY” is too heavy of a banger to not get a vote. Probably the banger-iest of all. There’s also a ton of subtle variety in it. I think in music, you can be anything but boring and you’ve done a good job of keeping it interesting and full of mangling surprise (something I probably need to work on).

    This is my first battle, but it seems like a pretty high turnout (not sure if it’s always like this?). Cheers to THAT!

    @bradthedesigner “All Is Lost”
    @dj_KLN “OP’s choice”
    @mirEko "Mellow"
    You all could have just as easily been there. All great tracks!!!

Thank you so much @bradthedesigner, @yoof for the mention :), my pal @LyingDalai and @KOHLBERG. I really appreciate ! It means a lot to me

@LyingDalai, I don’t regret the SH :wink: TY for pushed my GAS :wink:
I’m glad you find a vibe from Sexy Sushi ! These tracks are not the kind of music I’m usually making

@KOHLBERG Usually, I’m not making EDM or IDM, but I don’t know why, it came like this lol. That’s totally the Cantina Band from Star Wars, I got the same vision and I found it funny.

Thanks again guys

I’ve got to listen again and again the playlist, there is so much good tracks and vibes in this Battle ! That’s simply awesome

Very hard to choose 3 tracks ! Here is my votes :

@yoof - Who Has It Turned Up Too High > Awesome DnB, I love it !
@KOHLBERG - Four Left Feet (get to the point version) > Very nice Trip-Hop side, and very good mixing and the samples are perfect !
@bradthedesigner - All Is Lost > I really love the melodies you made. Great stuff dude !

I really like the other tracks too, that was very hard to pick only 3 out of there.
There’s such different styles and approach, this battle should be an entire Album !

Thanks <a href=“https://www.operator-1.com/index.php?p=/profile/Quarantequatre” style=“margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: “lucida grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, tahoma, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(1, 115, 198); background-color: rgb(252, 252, 255);”>@Quarantequatre and everyone that mentioned my track! I’m stoked that y’all liked it. This was my first battle and it was a great experience. I’ve made music for years (indie-rock, americana, etc), but find that pure electronic music is very hard for me to finish, so this one-minute song challenge was perfect. I’ve been listening to everyone’s tracks and trying to use them as reference as I explore using samples, beats and arranging. Arrangements and track progressions are the most difficult thing for me to be satisfied with my decisions. I have tons of fun creating music and jamming by myself, but that doesn’t always turn into something that is fun for others to listen to.

What a batch of great tracks in this battle :) Really enjoyed to go through the whole list. It's a difficult choice to vote only three :)

The Crows Witnessed by @yoof - Really amazing atmosphere made with OP-1.
CWO Tipping by @kohlberg - Genious :)
All is Lost by @bradthedesigner - Very well arranged classic vibe.

Congrats to all :)

Thanks to all entries. I’m learning a lot from you all!

My Votes Are:
1) “MO//NE//YY” by @millionburstsofred
2) The Crows Witnessed by @yoof
3) The Dolphin by @dj_KLN



voting, in no particular order, which has been tough, by the way, due to the abundance of bonafide entries.


- Uke - Schnuke
- Mellow
- Almost Never

many others caught massive enjoyment in my ear. of course Yoof is always top shelf material. Bradthedesigner dropped some quality tracks, as did Quarantequatre. I could just name everyone, really, as having posted something f’n fantastic.

honored to be in contest with all involved.

thanks host edzilla!

Smashing selection folks, in no order:


@yoof - the crows witnessed (creepy!)
@quarantquatre - speed of light
@mirEko - mellow

Terrific brief for this battle.

Do we need any more time to vote? I know there are a lot of tracks to listen to, but I want to wrap this up and name a winner before the weekend. Does a couple more days work?

We have a winner!

the crows witnessed by YOOF!

Great work everybody! Looking forward to the next battle.

Here is the math:


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Awesome! But can we get a recount on “Meet Her At The Cantina”? I think we might be joint winners :wink:

Thanks for checking @yoof, I totally missed someone’s votes!


We have 2 winners:

Congrats to both <a href=“https://operator-1.com/index.php?p=/profile/Quarantequatre” style=“margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: “lucida grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, tahoma, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(1, 115, 198); background-color: rgb(252, 252, 255);”>@Quarantequatre<span style=“color: rgb(37, 38, 30); font-family: “lucida grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 255);”> with Meet Her at the Cantina, and @yoof with the crows witnessed!




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Woohoo!! Super happy to have got joint first place with my creepy horror soundtrack. Hope I didn’t creep you all out. My wife and son refuse to listen to it, hehe.


Thanks @Edzilla - that was a great brief. Cool battle everyone.

@quarantequatre, let’s catch up and dream up the next battle :slight_smile:

Yeah, congratulations @yoof and @quarantequatre !!!
And thanks again @Edzilla for such an inspiring brief :slight_smile:
Can’t wait for the next one :smiley:

Yeah ! Very happy too ! And more than happy to make a battle rules with @yoof !