MPC Sample Challenge “Back of The Bus” Beat Battle Cookup by Big Noise
Big Noise Radio and affiliates are hosting a Beat Battle MPC Sample Challenge! 1st Prize Knock Boxx MPHC1 Gold API style stereo pre-amp. 2nd Prize custom black Roland SP-404SX sampler. 3rd Prize Tactical Army Bag by Big Noise loaded with drum & sample packs, Merch and bonus music. We’re extending the deadline of the contest till the end of summer, util we get a decent amount of participants. In 2010 and 2016 we hosted giveaways and got amazing engagement. Now in 2026 the Social Media corporations have throttled back our engagement. We’re gonna run this until we get proper participation. About 250 entries, we need your help! Please spread the word about the “Back of The Bus” Beat Battle Cook-up!
Going back to our “All City” roots music producers from around the world are invited to submit beats. “Back of The Bus” is the ticket to this beat battle competition, sonic salute to the global transit line of hip-hop music and culture. The “Back of The Bus” is where the cool kids sit, where the music gets turned up, where neighborhood transactions go down, a place you lean back on the late night ride home. The Back of The Bus has always been the place where style and influence are discussed. “All aboard ya’ll, all-city lets go!”
Grand Prize Giveaway “Back of The Bus” Beat Battle Cookup
To enter all you have to do is cop one of the Tuned Drum kits to make your beat. Follow @bignoiseradio on Instagram and submit your beat before the contest deadline. Beats should be no longer than 2 minutes and 30 seconds (2:30). Sample chops, instruments, sample stem packs, it’s all good. Just use the “Back of The Bus” Tuned Drums to make your drum beat.
I’m excited to announce it’s official! We’re launching the event we’ve been working on for more than a year. With all ten toes in we’re giving away some amazing gifts for the beat maker community. Grand prize giveaway items shown in the picture above. Beat battle judges are Noiseman, Shawn J. Period and Bonafide Beatz from the Bandcamp “Back of The Bus” Beat Cookup Demo project. Including: B4Lasers, Invizible Handz, Billy NoJokes, Nag Champion, Roving Jewel, DJ Lord Ron, Champxpagne, Love Drums N Soul and 2S.Beatz Productions. Featured on the “Back of The Bus” Beat Cookup project Bandcamp page. We all cooked up a few demo beats to show some for the possibilities using Tuned Drum Sample Kits.
Enter Now • Top 3 Win | January 23 to Fall TBD 2026
The “Back of The Bus” Beat Battle / Sample Challenge officially starts on January 23rd, 2026. The competition officially ends TBD end of summer 2026. Participants must cop at least one “Back of The Bus” Tuned Drum Kit to qualify for entry. Anyone submitting beats after the TBD 2026 deadline will be notified. Contestants please cop at least one “Tuned Drum Kit” and provide your full name and contact info during checkout. You can mention BOTB Beat Battle in the checkout notes. Register for the Beat Battle and provide your “order number” when you submit your beat. Top 3 finalists will be determined within 30 days of Fall TBD 2026.
To Enter The “Back of The Bus” Beat Battle: Submit your beats and order number to bignoisempc…at…gmail for the time being. We’re working on a contest email address or upload portal. We’ll let everybody know as soon as we come up with something. In the event a finalist is not able to complete the contest due to unforeseen reasons or contest rule discrepancies, a runner up will be chosen in their place. Prizes will be shipped to the top 3 Back of The Bus beat battle contest winners, within 25 business days of announcement.
Participants mush maintain a standard of community respect and cooperation. Foul, disrespectful, confrontational language and/or conduct will get you disqualified from the contest immediately. This is a respectful community, pleases respect everyone attending the event. Concerns and/or complaints will be directed to Big Noise for attention or mediation. Thank you and good luck!
MPC Sample Challenge “Back of The Bus” Tuned Drum Beat Battle Giveaway | YouTube
Released on May 11, 2026: MPC Sample Challenge “Back of The Bus” Tuned Drum Beat Battle Giveaway Cookup. Video, lighting and sound by Big Noise Audio. Music track produced by B4Lasers | GCS Sessions Vol.1 | Images and products by Big Noise.
All City “Back of The Bus” Beat Cookup Demo
This is a compilation of Beat Cook-ups using drum samples from the “Back of The Bus” Tuned Drum Library. We wanted people to hear for themselves, the possibilities for making music tracks with tuned drum-kits. You can make any type of music genera or beat with these drum kits. These are music producers from the community who will help to select the winners of the beat battle.
Twenty one underground hip-hop-beats produced by Shawn J. Period, Bonafide Beatz, Billy NoJokes, Noiseman, Nag Champion, Champxpagne, Invizible Handz, Love Drums N Soul, 2S.Beatz Productions, Roving Jewel, DJ Lord Ron & B4Lasers. No matter the style you prefer, underground hip-hop, trap / rap, chill lofi beats, boom-bap-beats, up-tempo & hip-hop-soul music. Drum samples Tuned In Key add a cohesive professional sound to your beat making and hip-hop music production.
Producers & Judges "Back of The Bus" Beat Battle Cookup Demo | Bandcamp
Released on March 23, 2024: “Back of The Bus” Beat Cookup Produced by Shawn J. Period, Bonafide Beatz, Billy NoJokes, Noiseman, Nag Champion, Champxpagne, Invizible Handz, Love Drums N Soul, 2S.Beatz Productions, Roving Jewel, DJ Lord Ron & B4Lasers.
Tuned Drum Samples | Musical Harmonics
Question: if you could tune your drums to a note within the scale of your track, what would that do for your music? As it turns out, it creates tonal harmony between your drums and instruments. The relationship between the kick-drum and the bass support each other. The harmonics of all the drum sounds mesh with the scale of the composition in a way that is extremely pleasing to the ear.
When you layer tuned drum-sample-kits tuned-in-key… You are able to control the timbre of the drums in a way only human drummers can. Selecting different combinations of drum sound layers i.e the snare, rim, and/or kick drums, delivers sonic dynamics in drum pattern timbre and feel. Layer more drums to create thick soupy break-drum style tracks. Add layer variations across the drum pattern to create sonic dynamics. Deliver human drummer feel, including timing, Flam and spatial dynamics.
