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The Akai APC40, shown above getting a workout with a Freestylers/Noisia/BustaRhymes/Dillinja remix/mashup, has gotten a lot of people psyched about hardware controllers for Ableton Live.

To help showcase what people are doing with the APC40, Akai Professional has announced the European APC40 Video Contest, starting November, 1st and ending December, 31st 2009. Prizes include your choice of any product from the current Akai Professional product range, the Akai Pro LPK25 and the Akai LPD8.

Heres what to do:

• Go to http://www.youtube.com/group/apc40contest;
• Register to YouTube and become a member of the APC40 Video Contest Group;
• Tag your video with APC40 and add it to the APC40 Video Contest Group;

Performances will be judged by a panel of artist who are APC40 users.

In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls.

It’s made up of a collection of YouTube videos, all featuring musicians playing something in Bb major. The videos can be played simultaneously and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.

Anyone can participate. Here are some guidelines:

• Sing or play an instrument, in Bb major. Simple, floating textures work best, with no tempo or groove. Leave lots of silence between phrases.
• Record in a quiet environment, with as little background noise as possible.
• Wait about 5-10 seconds to start playing.
• Total length should be between 1-2 minutes.
• Thick chords or low instruments don’t work very well.
• Record at a low volume to match the other videos.
• You can listen to this mix on headphones while you record.
• After you upload to YouTube, play your video along with the other videos on this page to make sure the volume matches.

The concept of In Bb lends itself to ambient music, because of the lack of sychronization between the videos, but it’s open-ended enough that you could add a drum and bass track to the mix and it could work just as well.

Check out In Bb and leave a comment with your thought!

Need some more of that Kutiman YouTube funkiness?

Here’s Kutiman’s complete collection of YouTube remixes, followed by a short video in which Kutiman explains how he does what he does.

Enjoy!

Kutiman

Stephen Hill introduces Steve Roach on his ambient radio show Hearts of Space.

Bizarre, but fun parody of Stephen Hill, who has done more for ambient electronic space music in the US than just about anyone.

via arntard:

Alesis has announced a new YouTube contest, the Show Your Rig Video Competition. 

This sounds a bit like a single entendre – but if you’ve got Alesis equipment and you show your rig on YouTube, you could win a big package and upgrade your gear. 

Here are the details:

Do you love your Alesis gear? Tell the world about it and you could win a DM5 Pro Kit with SURGE Cymbals! Just fill out the form below and upload a video of a performance (solo or group) or demonstration of you using your Alesis gear to YouTube between now and January 11, 2008 to enter the contest. Videos must cover current (not legacy) Alesis products to win, preferably from the new products page. 

The lucky winner will receive an Alesis DM5 Pro Kit with SURGE Cymbals for their entry!

You can enter as many times as you like, but please submit only one video per piece of Alesis gear you own so enter early and often! We will notify the winner via email live from the Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA on January 15, 2009. 

Details here.