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There was a couple of the losers brackets where I was like 'i really don't know where to vote', both beats not meeting the theme, and also being equally poor.
Finding the
themed Warzone interesting --- 'cause you're laying two beats up side by side and going "who sounds more like the theme", before considering whether it's good or not.
It's quite different to voting a Beat This where you just browse through, skipping the non-themed and the poor then seeing what ones left over hit well. This is like "Beat A, Beat B, which hits the theme. Which is good/better."
Find it quite interesting when it's a producer theme, because I think it becomes less subjective; a theme like 'emergency' can be interpreted various ways and depends on the listener too... but a producer theme, you're talking matching rythymic, stylistic, musical, and mix qualities/characteristics.
In this instance "does this sound like DJ Premier made it" "would this fit in a Preemo playlist".
There's a handful in there for me that meet on some or all of the points.
Maybe like 6 that hit a distinguishable DJ Premier element, maybe 3-4 that do it quite well, maybe 2 or 3 that are quite convincing.
Good luck