Daniel's Song Race • S08 E03 • Results

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Welcome ladies and gentlemen to Episode 3 of Daniel's Song Race Season 8.

Please welcome our extra special guest judge...

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Anja Veterova (alex(a)bg)!

Daniel: Eooo Eooo, it's Miss Anja Veterova!
Anja: Stream Eooo, Eooo on Spotify!

This week, we asked our queens to create and present their very own rave.dj mixes.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines, and may the best song win!

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JUDGES

Dimitris / ClassifiedCat / alexeh

COMPETITORS

Tufkai / Sylwia / Jens / Wysteria / James / Syr / CHAE WITH A C / MaRtIn / jara / αndreas / Josh's Tattoo (Inactive) / agni / Ste / George J.

VIEWERS

✨ Forrest ✨ / Ｊａｋｕｂ / Niklas / ROBERT 💙 / Aglan / jstårsz / ~Rethnas~ / Sel / Oisín / Matt / Callum / Dylan / Alper / Argüello / Lᴇꜰ / alex(a)bg / Eke / Julian / 𝐴𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑎̀ / ough / Chante™ / Ｂ３ＳＴＢＥＡＴＳ / 𝚂𝚌𝚘𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚛✌︎

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Dolls, this week I will not announce any safe queens.

It is now time to start with the judges' critiques.
Starting with Team Indarta Garta (Syr / CHAE WITH A C )!

Neda:
I was a bit sceptical of this at the start, but wow that drop had me SOLD. What a whopper for the modern age. As a complete product, it's a little rough around the edges, and it's a bit of a safe pick, but I can't deny how GOOD the good parts of this are. Great job dolls.

Anja:
YOU ATE!!! What else can I say? Asian excellence. Yup yup yup! Your goal this week was to create and absolute banger and the execution of this task. This is my personal favourite for this week and you two should absolutely feel flattered because I am a Berklee student and I know a thing or two about music.

Ika:


A better Rave.dj mix representing ASIA
rave.dj/-fPLEUCAGvFD9A

Thank you, Indarta Garta.
Up next is Team Agent Tcheps!

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Moving on to Team Agent Tcheps (Sylwia / Tufkai)!

Vicky:
It was not the best this week, if I'm being honest. But also not the worst. You faded kind of into the background with your mix. There were some parts that worked, but overall it's a miss for me. I need you both to give your full potential in the future, dolls.

Anja:
Good effort. But that’s it. I can’t really say any superlatives. I think you two should’ve taken a bigger risk but you stuck to something safe. It’s almost as if you went to Suicide Sheep YouTube channel and picked up the first two random EDM tracks, mashed them together and called it a day. Well, it’s not gonna cut it. I had to listen to the two tracks separately and the two compositions just don’t mix together. That ‘WTF’ song is absolute dirge. I had to cleanse my ears with my international acclaimed hit Eoo Eoo afterwards. However, ‘On’ is spectacular and you two didn’t do it justice by pairing it with this horrendous excuse of a song.

Neda:
I could see what you were going for with this one, but I'm not sure it completely worked. It had some good moments and I liked that you paid attention to the beat behind it, in that way it made for a really cohesive listen the whole way through, which can be difficult to achieve with mashups. The actual mashup grew on me as it went on, it got better, and the part at the minute mark is really nice. I think in parts it sounded so cohesive that the actual songs underneath it got a bit lost and it was just nice beats instead of a rounded mashup, but a decent effort for sure.

Ika:


A better Rave.DJ mix representing SOUTH AMERICA
rave.dj/KTL7-5uWy4NtSQ

Thank you, Agent Tcheps.
Up next is Team Antonia & Reed Acted!

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Hello dear Team Antonia & Reed Acted (Wysteria / αndreas)!

Vicky:
An absolute banger girls. This mix could literally be released as its own song, that is how well you did this week. For me this works out perfectly. Give Hard is quaking.

Neda:
I... am lost for words. Two songs that really have no business working together but holy shit this SLAPPED the whole way through. It's definitely a bit messy but I think that adds to the whole experience. I was living for this the whole way through and it just kept getting better and better. This was EXCELLENCE, you both snapped this week.


Anja:
Who thought it would be a good idea to mix those two? ‘Zenit’ kinda gets lost in this. It’s a shame because objectively it is the better song. I don’t know why my fellow judges are eating this up. Antifa Dance was already aged on arrival when it won FC.

Ika:


A better Rave.DJ mix representing EUROPE
rave.dj/EMJpvlkiN4nWrw

Daniel:
I must say, you were my absolute favourites this week, you're both on your absolute A-game. A WHOPPER.



Thank you, Antonia and Reed Acted.
Up next is team Potchina!

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We're moving on to team Potchina (MaRtIn / jara)!

Anja:
A wonderful mix of Slovenian and Brazilian culture. When I first listened to the song, I thought to myself.. hmmm.. this sounds like a full on song, not something that you’ve mashed! And a little special shoutout to my biggest Anjanator, the one and only Potissa!

Neda:
This was a really interesting mashup! Maybe it benefits from being two songs I'm not majorly familiar with, but to me this sounded like it could've been one (slightly messy in places) song. I love that you mashed up one song from each of you, it made for a really eclectic and unique mix. Like I said, it's a little messy in places, but I do think this worked well. Good job this week!


Vicky:
For me you did really well this week. For my taste it was missing a little something for me to rank it a bit higher, but still a good job and a good listen!

Ika:


You do not get a continent because of your perfection.

Thank you, Team Potchina.
Up next is team D. Lux Chins!

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We're moving on to Team D. Lux Chins (Josh's Tattoo (Inactive) / Ste)!

Neda:
I think this kinda worked? I was honestly left a little confused and taken aback by this whole experience, but I do think I actually enjoyed it? It did exactly what it was meant to do - it's something fun, something for the Halloween time, something for the girls to get ready and sacrifice a goat to. The chorus part at around 50 seconds was great, as a mashup I think it worked. I think it'll divide opinion for sure but I'm on board. I appreciate the risk dolls!

Anja:
What is this torture? I feel like if I had listened to this in full, I would’ve went insane. I stopped listening after the 1:30 but then I went back and relistened the whole thing in full. No, this is absolute dirge. This reeks of pretentiousness. And what the hell is that video? Incredibly disturbing and not suitable for the young viewers. You fucked it up tonight. Step up your game. I’m done.


Ika:


A better Rave.DJ mix representing the cross-cultural exchange between AFRICA and OCEANIA
rave.dj/7bXaKPZDN6cA2w

Thank you, Team D. Lux Chins.
Last but not least will be Team Cariva Tardhams!

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And next is our last team, Cariva Tardhams (George J. / agni )!

Anja:
The instrumental of People I Don't Like compliments nice with the soft, feminine vocals of Victoria Monét. The finished product is good although at some parts Victoria’s voice gets lost in the heavy instrumentation of the UPSAHL song.

Vicky:
Girls what happened? The songs don't compliment each other in anyway and it's pretty messy overall. I can't really find a lot of redeeming qualities to this mix if I'm being honest. There are very few passages in this that I thought were fine.

Neda:
Girls... I'm honestly just confused at all of this. Based on your description I think you were listening to a different mashup. I LOVE both of these songs, two great releases from this year (especially Victoria Monét, stream Jaguar etc.) but when I saw that you put them together, I was VERY hesitant, and it looks like I was right to be because this was a mess. And you'd think after what happened to poor Potissa last week that you'd try to avoid sweeping statements like "this is EVEN better than the original songs" but no! This was not it! There was a part at around 1:24 that was kinda cool I guess? But as a whole I don't think these songs complemented each other at all.

Ika:










A better Rave.DJ mashup representing VICTORIA MONÉT
rave.dj/tF6nN7XrZqAuVg
And now I've got to go back to court

Thank you, Team Cariva Tardhams!

Dolls, there is one more thing I'd like to know from you all before we move on to the results.
Which team do you think deserves the win tonight and which team deserves to bottom?

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Team Indarta Garta, who do you think should win and who deserves to be in the bottom?

Marta:
Potchina or Indica and me win. We have whopper, we make rave.dj mix good.

Agentina and Alinka, Reed and Antonia make bad mix not good. My 2 year old not listen to this. Very bad.

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Daniel:
Team Agent Tcheps, what do you think?

Alinka:
Potissa and Mei Din China deserve to win this challange. The mix so so perfect and realistic, well done girls.
The worst? hmmm. Sorry but Antonia and Reed Acted. Mix sounds so randomly and doesn't fit in my opinion. Rip girls.

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Daniel:
Antonia & Reed, what do you say about that?

Reed:
If not us, Indarta should win. Agent Tcheps should go home.

Antonia:
I think Alinka and Argentina just aren't on pair with the rest of us. For a person who should win, I think I deserve a win after being fucked over last challenge. That's just my point of view.

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Potchina, what say you?

Potissa:
My personal stance on this issue is that me and miss Mei Din China very much deserve a win in this particular challenge as we came up with an original and distinct entry that none of the other dolls could have thought of. I think that Agentina and Alinka are the clear bottom 2.

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Daniel:
Team D. Lux Chins, what is your opinion?

Sapphire:
The team that we think will top this week is team Indarta as overall they have a great mash song and delivered it well.
The team we think will bottom is team Agent Tcheps as out of everyone we think it's the lowest of all the songs.

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Daniel:
Cariva Grahams, who would you nominate?

Carrot:
Well, Indarta Garta, were the best this week Antacted as well, but because of Antacted consisting of “the one we don’t call her name anymore”, Indarta should win. As for who should be going home, honestly Agent Tcheps really did not manage to excite me at all, and to be honest, both of Alinka and Agentina, haven’t done anything outstanding so far. If you fade and be average, then it’s your time.. Thank you.

Daniel:
Alright, thank you for the honesty girls. I have made some decisions.

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Welcome back ladies, I have made some decisions.

Team Indarta Garta (Syr / CHAE WITH A C )

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You are safe.

You may step to the back of the stage.