Germany’s Paul van Dyk is looking for producers to remix his track with Giuseppe Ottaviani, Far Away, on Beatport.

The remix competition is open to producers from all genres, as van Dyk is looking for innovative, cutting-edge and thought-provoking mixes of his track.

You can download two of the track’s parts for remixing for free. To get all the parts, it costs $3.99.

I’m ambivalent about these remix contests where you basically have to pay to take part in them. While it may be another opportunity for van Dyk to make a little money, it seems like he’s asking some of his biggest fans to pay to promote his music.

van Dyk would probably get a lot more mileage out of this sort of competition if he’d release the remix parts for free, like NIN has done, and get a lot more people interested in making remixes.

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Up for grabs to winners of the competition will be software packages, with the top winner receiving a prize with a retail value of €900. In conjunction with the competition, the band’s Totem EP will be available for free download.

Auto-Auto is a duo from Gothenburg. The band plays electronic pop with influences from several styles of music, and also with some experimental elements. Auto-Auto is also a multi-art project, with a mission that changes society into something better from the bottom up.

Earlier this year Auto-Auto’s debut album Sounds of a New Generator was released on Substream and it has been well received by both audiences and reviewers around the world.