Welcome to the permanent running thread for the Novus Compo! I figure opening up one of these beats the hell out of the ubiquitous monthly threads I was opening for the compo.

What IS the Novus Compo?
The Novus Compo is a monthly online music competition based on public voting. Each month is split up into two parts. During the first half of the month, there are 3 genre-based rounds (Pop/Rock, Dance/Electronica and Fantasy/Ambient), and each round has 5 songs competing against each other for your votes. The second half of the month is the Overall Round, where the 3 genre-winners plus 2 wild-card songs compete for your votes to become the overall winner for the month. And to enter your own song, all you have to do is vote!

Why should I enter?
Because it's fun, and because it'll expose your music to a wider audience. I guarantee, there will be people who download the compo entries who have never visited Trax In Space before, who have never heard of you before, and who will likely never hear of you in the future... unless you enter your song in the Novus Compo. No, it's not a massively huge number of people (not yet, anyway), but why turn up your nose at a chance to increase your audience?

Why should I vote?
So you can hear some great music! I pre-screen all of the compo entries ahead of time, so only the 5 best songs in each genre get to compete in the Genre Rounds each month. And then from there, only 5 songs advance to the Overall Round (the 3 genre winners and 2 wild card songs), which means the quality of the songs in the Overall Round each month is even higher! Plus, if you want to enter, you have to cast a vote first.

What if I don't have a song to enter?
That's okay... if you vote, you're also allowed to nominate someone else's song, maybe a song from a good friend of yours, or a family member, or just someone whose music you're a big fan of. That way, everyone has an incentive to vote.

All of the rules are up at the compo website, along with the current votepack, ballots, and previous results, so check it out! I hope to see you at the Novus Compo, and feel free to come back to this thread to discuss the entries and the results.

http://www.novusmusic.org/compo
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The Novus Compo
New MP3 music competition. Cast your vote and enter today!

Pardon me while I brutally jab your post with a thumb tack.

If anyone else has a regular compo going on, please post and I'll sticky those too.
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-roncli
"The only thing music has to have to be music is elasped time - everything else is up for grabs" -clones

Heh, you didn't need to sticky this, but thank you Ron!

3 days left to vote on April's genre rounds, peepz!
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The Novus Compo
New MP3 music competition. Cast your vote and enter today!

I was just brutally jabbing the heck out of the thread with the thumb tack. The fact that it got pinned was a side effect.
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-roncli
"The only thing music has to have to be music is elasped time - everything else is up for grabs" -clones

April's Overall Round opens for voting!

Well, this is interesting... Nikolay Suslov, C-Loud, Vaisnava, Klikaso, and Barry van Oudtshoorn have advanced from the genre rounds to April's Overall Round in the Novus Compo. 4 of those 5 have never been in the Overall Round before, and the 5th (Barry) has only been there once before. That just shows how much new blood the compo has been getting lately, and just how good these newcomers are.

Hit the compo website to see the full results from the genre rounds, and then download the songs that advanced to the Overall Round and cast your vote today! Voting is open through April 26th.

The Fantasy/Ambient results were particularly interesting...

http://www.novusmusic.org/compo
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The Novus Compo
New MP3 music competition. Cast your vote and enter today!

Wow, 8 points each... Weird...

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Now, everyone vote for me!
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Wow. Funny results on ambient/fantasy %)

I know, Louigi! Fantasy/Ambient was crazy.

I think that was mainly a result of the low voting totals this month. If more votes had come in, there probably would've been at least a little bit of spread there.
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The Novus Compo
New MP3 music competition. Cast your vote and enter today!

One week left to vote in April's overall round... and only 3 votes so far for some reason. Don't miss your chance to crown the best song for the month of April!

http://www.novusmusic.org/compo
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The Novus Compo
New MP3 music competition. Cast your vote and enter today!

24 hours 'til deadline, and May's compo could still use more entries... hint, hint...
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The Novus Compo
New MP3 music competition. Cast your vote and enter today!

I am sorry to see the interest to the compo decline. I myself am less motivated to enter too. Just because I know I won't win anyway - that's one (not a loser's attitude, I just know my style is for limited number of listeners anyway), and even if I do win, what will it give me - that's two.

I think the real thing is the two.

bragging rights? excuse to compose?

what else is a compo good for?
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Louigi Verona said:
and even if I do win, what will it give me - that's two.

I think the real thing is the two.
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"What I learned from the Beatles is that you can be the Walrus if you think hard enough" - Emily

I'm sad to see the compo go. I had good fun and I enjoyed my time. Thanks Novus
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Crimson Limit!
Trax in Space on Last.fm!

Fortunately, I don't need any additional excuse to compose )
But I am sure something can be done to revive the interest to the Novus Compo.



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clones said:

bragging rights? excuse to compose?

what else is a compo good for?
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Louigi Verona said:
and even if I do win, what will it give me - that's two.

I think the real thing is the two.
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"What I learned from the Beatles is that you can be the Walrus if you think hard enough" - Emily