Ernesto Remix Competition

Exceptional Records are excited to announce that, in celebration of the forthcoming Ernesto single 'Bassline', we are giving all of you talented producers out there the chance to remix and rework the song.

Have a listen here: http://soundcloud.com/exceptionalrecords/ernesto-bassline-out-june-29th

Ernesto himself will pick our glorious winner who will be sent an exceptional goody pack which will include a signed copy of the new Ernesto single 'Bass Line', a goody bag of CDs from the Exceptional back catalogue, plus of courseglowing respect from your peers. In addition your mix will be put up as a streamable track on the exceptional web pages with link back to your own website. What better way to show people what you can do?

So...

1. Just download the zip file from here... http://www.mediafire.com/?4jyyy1jonzy
2. Get your creative juices flowing
3. Email your finished work to info@exceptionalrecords.co.uk as a low res MP3 by 6 July, with the subject line 'Ernesto Remix comp'. Include your name, contact number and website address (if any)

Best of luck and enjoy!
From: The good guys at exceptional

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Ernesto "Bassline" EP is released on digital download on iTunes from June 29th.

Jonatan Bäckelie aka Ernesto is a 27-year old swedish soul singer from Gothenburg Sweden. He was last seen in action on exceptional records with the mind-bending, jaw-dropping album "A New Blues". When his last album ”Find The Form” was released in Sweden it was hailed by the leading music magazine as ”everything that is good with modern Swedish soul” and ”in his biggest moments, Ernesto makes the listeners pinch their arms”.

Since 2002 he’s been frequently played and supported by Gilles Peterson, Jazzanova, Mr Scruff and girls all over the world. Jonatan has lent his disarmingly soulful vocals and collaborated with numerous producers including Seiji (Bugz In The Attic), Swell Session, Jori Hulkkonen, Beanfield, Plej, Atjazz, Drumagick, Blu Mar Ten, Nu:Tone, Logistics, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Motorcitysoul and Stateless.

The single preceeds his new album ‘Ernesto Sings’, which is due for release on exceptional later this year.

The Nobody Hole Video Contest Launches!

Hip hop artist Sumkid and I have been feverishly working on a video contest to promote his incredible hip hop opera, The Nobody Hole. The theme is perfect for the Halloween season! Get out your video tools and be prepared for some awesome music and the possibility of winning some fantastic prizes. The grand prize is worth $2,800, including prizes by Noise Industries, Digieffects, Red Giant, CHV Plug-ins, Professional Video Templates, Toolfarm, plus some music and magazines. We've never done a contest like this before but tell all of your friends!

Press Release - For Immediate Release

Dunn Deal Artist Sumkid Launches Video Contest for Pioneering Hip-Hop Opera, THE NOBODY HOLE

The Nobody Hole Video Contest Winner Receives Thousands of Dollars in video software, applications, music, magazine subscriptions and more!

Los Angeles, CA –Over three years ago in Brooklyn, NY, rising MC and songsmith SUMKID architected an album that was so wildly ambitious it spilled over into film, visual art and theater. This album, a Halloween hip-hop opera called The Nobody Hole, is what LA-based and Southern-bred Sum describes as "a crazy adventure of epic proportions and a tribute to the influences on my imagination; from The Wizard of Oz, and John Carpenter's Halloween to R.A. Salvatore's The Dark Elf Trilogy and Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street." For the past three years, Sumkid has been gathering a cult following for the project, due largely to his Rocky Horror Pictureshow-esque Halloween event, The Nobody Ball, which combines live performance and visual art, a screening of The Nobody Hole's "moving storyboard", DJ sets, gift giveaways and food. However, Sum's biggest dream has been to one day breathe life into The Nobody Hole via motion graphics or animation…..

Now, in collaboration with The Good Look, Toolfarm and MaxBumps.net, Sum is announcing a video contest that will challenge the world of designers and animators to give life to one vast imagination and help push the bounds of what hip-hop culture can achieve. The mission is easy: pick one of three song choices from the album, and make the best animated video you can (the choices are all under 2 min long). The grand prize winner will win thousands of dollars worth of prizes, including a mega-bundle of top-notch effects and post-production applications for the video nuts out there, music prizes courtesy of Dunn Deal and Sumkid, and magazine subscriptions courtesy of culture impresarios Swindle and Frank151.

"I like to think that The Nobody Hole is a brand that's going to be as huge as Star Wars, The Matrix or The Lord of The Rings one day…and I'm looking forward to finding hungry and talented artists out there that can see that and be part of history with this contest. And hell, even if it doesn't get that big, we'll still have a damn revolutionary project on our hands," says Sumkid, creator and writer of The Nobody Hole.

Sum, The Good Look and Toolfarm want to see what these graphics designers are made of. The Web site TheNobodyHole.com is loaded with details and a full version of the album for fans to listen to. It houses all of The Nobody Hole Video Contest official rules, prize information, and instructions on submitting and viewing videos. The contest begins today and submissions will be received until October 24th, 2008.

No purchase is necessary to participate and the contest is void where prohibited.

Through October 24th, all videos submitted during the 4-week promotion will be reviewed by Sum and The Good Look, who will choose the Grand Prize Winner. Viewers and fans will be allowed to vote and choose the 1st and 2nd runners up.

For more information about The Nobody Hole Video Contest, visit TheNobodyHole.com, TheGoodLook.net or shoot an email to thenobodyboard@gmail.com.

Max Bumps Photoshop Contest - Design a new header!

Take a crack at designing a cool new header for this site! Make it creative and inspiring and you could be the lucky winner!

The winners get their header up on the site and might even get the job of admining the forum for a month! Oh, that is so enticing, isn't it :-)

All details are in the forum.

KosmikRay's Wall Crawl is Tonight and other events from Kosmik

KosmikRay runs all sorts of online events at The Sixty One and we're hoping he'll join the blog in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'm reposting from KosmikRay's Wallzine:

Wall Crawl

TIMYJL and KOSMIKRAY invite you to the inaugural WALL CRAWL this Sunday night beginning at 8 pm EASTERN. For two hours we will jump to a dozen listener's walls for great underbumped music, and end with a new music upload party at 10 pm EASTERN. The crawl starts at 8 on Timmy's wall. He will put up 3 great tunes and we'll have three minutes to listen, bump and comment on each. After ten minutes, he'll post a link to the next Wall and off we all go again. Previous events like the Bump & Grind Strategic Bombing Mission and the infamous SCRAMBLE netted lots and lots of new songs posting and zillions of listener points happily used.

If you would like to be considered to be visited by the torch-carrying bumping hordes of the first-ever Wall Crawl, send me a tunebox with the three killer tunes you would have featured ASAP. Only one slot is left.

If you are an artist and would like to join the upload party at the end of the crawl, send me a tunebox with the band and new tune name. The Wall Crawl and Upload Party is open to all, so pass the word. The more the better. So far, noctaluca will put up "Suck Hard" (one of their best and previewable at noctaluca.com), lovespirals "This Truth" (live) (tentative due to scheduling), and newcomer Banjo Drill's "Robot Boy", Laura Marie's "People" (live), and probably more. Puntspeedchuck wants to revisit all the Wall Crawl tunes we visit in his 61 podcast, so additional exposure is assured.

Lovespirals Remix Contest -- Win An Ipod Touch!

Peace Love Productions is holding a remix contest for Lovespirals recent single, 'This Truth". The top 5 finalists will be promoted as podsafe singles on Lovespirals' Podsafe Music Network remix page and considered for inclusion on a new digital remix EP and CD, plus the top 2 finalists will receive all 3 Lovespirals' CDs - personally autographed by Anj Bee and Ryan Lum - and the grand prize winner will also get a year's subscription to the PLP Producer's Vault and an 8 gig iPod Touch! Find out all the details at lovespirals.com!

Bozo Drive!

I STILL don't know if there are enough people who are willing to pay to force me to put up an ugly Bozo photo (instead of my nice blue snow) for all of spring. As you know, here's the bet: Everyone join in and pledge $1,000 in TOTAL donations to Sam and James' t61 enterprise, and I'll kick in $100 and change my pic to Bozo for three months. The top 500 listeners were contacted about this via wall message. That means it could happen with just $2 per person. Post on my wall or in my tunebox your pledge marked BOZO DRIVE, and I'll keep a tally.

Bonus: Any song in a BOZO DRIVE tunebox pledge will get a guaranteed bump if pledge is more than the points cost.
Art Bonus: Graphic Designer timyjl is working up the BOZOFOTO.

Double Bonus: missi will match my $100 when $1k is reached! Sweet!

1. $50 pledge from zagudabuda (additional donation) 2-10
2. $60 pledge from jorunnix 2-10
3. $35 pledge from petiejoe 2-11
4. $50 pledge from kafkajoubert (additional donation) 2-11
5. $75 pledge from anon (jpalf., upped from $50) 2-11
6. $20 from anon (additional pledge) 2-12
7. $20 donation from mrvelvet (just used paypal) 2-12
8. $10 pledge from artist Laura Marie 2-12
9. $10 pledge from rfiedel 2-12
10. $20 pledge from comradinarms (additional donation) 2-12
11. $25 pledge from LMMS 2-12
12. $20 pledge from matttynabib 2-12
13. $20 donation from batface89 (additional donation) 2-12
14. $30 pledge from bloke 2-13
15. $10 pledge from calculatedCHA0S (additional donation) 2-17
16. $20 pledge from blkdiamondlove (additional donation) 2-17
17. $40 pledge from comradeinarms (third donation) 2-18
18. $20 pledge from iWex (additional donation) 2-28
19. $30 pledge from myktoronto (additional pledge) 2-29

Current Pledge Total: $585 (+ $100 kosmik + $100 missi) = $785

That Was Pathetic!

That is the latest playlist from batface89. All the new dogs are to be impounded there. Send your worst finds to her. (Will anything EVER beat Stuggleburger's Stairway to Heaven?)