remixes

Yoko Ono has announced a new remix competition.

Download the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band’s The Sun Is Down! Sample Pack containing the a capella tracks of Yoko’s vocal, vocal effects, and loops of bass, drums, efx and Tenori On.

Create your own remix of The Sun Is Down!, using as many or few of the samples from the pack and any original audio you wish to add.

When you have finished your mix, make an MP3 copy that’s as high quality as possible, but still under 10MB in size. Email the MP3 of your mix, along with its name and your name, address, email and phone number to remix@YOPOB.com before 12 December 2009.

The Top Ten mixes will be decided by Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band.

The winners will receive special signed Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band prizes and will be featured on Ono’s site over the Xmas and New Year period.

Whether or not you want to enter the YOPOB remix competition – check out the 17mb  sample pack for some free, Creative Commons-licensed Ono weirdness.

Free Music: Yesterday marked the closing date for Röyksopp’s Tricky Tricky remix competition.

The band announced it via SoundCloud about a month ago and they received 849 tracks.

You can check and download the US entries below.

See the contest site for entries from the UK. Australia, Germany, France and more.

The winners will be announced the week of October 26th on Röyksopp’s website. Read more…

Röyksopp has announced a new remix contest:

You can download their latest track, Tricky, Tricky, for free using the SoundCloud player above. You can also download the parts, remix the track and enter their remix contest, which offers copies of Ableton Live as the prize.

Details on the contest are available at the Röyksopp site. Make sure you check out the contest rules for the legal low-down; while you can download the track and its parts for free, Röyksopp retains distribution rights for Tricky, Tricky and remixes based on the track.

The Crystal Method, Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland, have announced a remix contest with Indaba Music.

Remix their track Come Back Clean, and you could win a microKorg XL and get your mix featured on TCM’s site.

Come Back Clean, from their new album Divided By Night, features Metric vocalist Emily Haines and drummer Samantha Maloney (Hole, Motley Crue, Peaches, Chelsea Girls). Check out the video above to get an inside look at Crystalwerks studio and get a glimpse of how the song was created.

Remix submissions are due by September 15th. Read more…

“Non-music fuckhead” DJ Steve Porter probably “dicked around on a Macintosh” to come up with this remix of Henry Rollins’ rant against Jungle Trance Hip Hop Fuckin’ Shit Music.

Henry Rollins makes a colorful case against over-produced popular electronic music.

But Steve Porter totally turns Rollins’ rant inside out, turning it into a track ready to be put on a white label and sent to the clubs.

Think we have to chalk this battle up to Porter.

Let me know what you think in the comments! Read more…