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  • noun music Any of several forms of popular music based on strongly contrasting elements
  • noun music A Jamaican musical contest at which the audience reaction is used to choose the best DJ

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Examples

  • This amazing soundclash is all made with live drums, live bass, toy keyboards and other gadgets, looping pedals and crazy old FX units, AND, the piéce de résistance, a 35mm film synchronizer thingy that band leader Brian Borcherdt (sounds like Orchard) scratches with ... no, seriously, its like he's scratching old film-strips and movies that have a magnetic sound track on them, and it sounds like a turntable.

    Holy What Now? (Music (For Robots)) 2005

  • This amazing soundclash is all made with live drums, live bass, toy keyboards and other gadgets, looping pedals and crazy old FX units, AND, the piéce de résistance, a 35mm film synchronizer thingy that band leader Brian Borcherdt (sounds like Orchard) scratches with ... no, seriously, its like he's scratching old film-strips and movies that have a magnetic sound track on them, and it sounds like a turntable.

    Music (For Robots): August 2005 Archives 2005

  • * The soundclash is a musical competition in which rival sound systems pit their deejay and selecting skills against one another in a test of sonic strength.

    The Pirate’s Dilemma Matt Mason 2008

  • The club frequently features "soundclash" events that merge contrasting genres of music into one show: One recent event paired an Afro-funk band - which featured a group of acrobats - and a roster of Brazilian D. J.'s.

    NYT > Home Page By JOEL WEICKGENANT 2010

  • So gimme hardcore veterans D.R.I. and Bad Brains frontman H.R. Gimme highly unlikely rap reunions from D4L, EPMD and N.W.A. Flash me back into a mind-bending 1978 soundclash between DNA and ELO.

    Taking sides: Who's missing from FreeFest? 2010

  • Sample a whole buffet of beats at Bohemian Caverns during Attack of the Beat Machines, where local producers will be rocking their creations soundclash-style to determine who knocks the hardest.

    Nightlife Agenda 2010

  • Sound systems evolved from mobile record stores into trucks loaded with huge bass bins and earsplitting amplifiers, endlessly touring Jamaican towns and cities battling one another sonically through another great Jamaican innovation, the soundclash.

    The Pirate’s Dilemma Matt Mason 2008

  • Philogynist friday i battled the snot deluge to take the ferry over to the island for a booze company-sponsored bedouin soundclash show. it was held at the derelict-looking bar that always seems to welcome us with a sense of abandoned-amusement-park-ness when we arrive at the adjacent ferry dock.

    Philogynist 2008

  • Redwood was intrigued by the mistake, and took the instrumental with him to a soundclash he was playing at that night.

    The Pirate’s Dilemma Matt Mason 2008

  • The closer Distant Relatives comes to actually seeing the light of day, the clearer it becomes that I'd rather hear a mixtape of Damian Marley spitting solo over classic soundclash and

    Passion of the Weiss Passion of the Weiss 2010

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