Damn! The deadline’s closing in!
Click here to go directly to the Week 44 post >>
UPDATE: We’re 3 weeks into the competition by now – so hurry up with your damn entries…the deadline is Sunday, November 8th! We’ve just updated the competition page below with links to the entry previews, the grand jury and last but not least, the damn prizes available!
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Welcome to the 4BB/Damn! Remix Competition 2009 – in collaboration with Pope Records, Universal Music, BeatBattle, Calisoulbrother, Music Super Circus and some more, we’re gonna have some real fun!
WHAT: The competition is all about remixing one or two songs taken from Damn!’s “Let’s Zoom In” album – choose between the cuts “Get Your Grown Man On” and “Headstone”…or get your freak on with both!
Listen closely and choose wisely:
HOW: The rules are simple – have as much fun as possible with the Damn! songs. Outside drums, keys and bass are cool…samples, sound bites and scratches, no problem. The only BIG no-no is beat biting – stay original, do your own thing…upfront beat jacking might lead to disqualification! All contestants are allowed to send in two competition entries – one for each song…but if you choose to focus on just one of the songs, that’s OK too!
Send your Damn! remix to this address (or rather a link to your entry…could become hard to handle size wise). All entries must be MP3 encoded at 320 kbps!
WHEN: Deadline is Sunday, November 8th! The Sunday after that, November 15th, the jury will be presenting the finalists…and finally, the Remix Champion will be crowned on Sunday, November 22nd!
ENTRY PREVIEW PAGE: Click here!
GRAND PRIZE PAGE: Click here!
JURY PAGE: Click here!
DOWNLOAD REMIX KIT: Click here (or here)!
And if you haven’t already, go check out the 4BB exclusive Damn! “The Headstone EP” right here!
GREAT NEWS: Damn!’s “Let’s Zoom In” album is finally available on CD over at Dustygroove.com! Do yourself a favour – go get it…right now!
Good luck – and may the best damn remixer win!
(Ps. While the Remix Competition is running we’re still keeping up with our weekly routine – click here to go straight to the new Week 44 post and a healthy dose of Joe Thomas’ funky flute, and the rest of the regular weekly blog!)
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Let’s do this! Looking forward to getting my mouse dirty!
Looking forward to your entry already! Damn, let’s get this party started!
/L
CIAO
i would love to take part, the original tracks are really soulful and inspiring pieces!!!
but there must be an error: i’ve dowloaded the remix kit, and it seems a compilations of soul music in mp3, where are the separate track of each songs ? (i mean vocals, beats, basses, keys etc.) … at least i only need the acapella!
and please, make available WAV files for a proper quality remix!
thanks for your attention,
all the very best from italy
tommy/suonho
Ooops, sorry! The link is now corrected and replaced!
Will see what we can do about WAV-files…but the MP3’s will have to do for right now!
Thanks for the heads up, Tommy!
/L
no problem !
thanks for fixing, now i’ve got it correctly.
count me in, i like the song too much : )
will send my entry for sure,
i love to put on rework all the care it deserve,
so expect my remix a few days before the deadline…
thank you!
soulful regards
tommy/suonho
Looking forward to it already (especially after checking out your Tony Allen rework)!
/L
Count me in
Just one thing: what does “The only BIG no-no is beat biting – stay original, do your own thing…upfront beat jacking might lead to disqualification!” means, clearly.
Bro!
If you simply nick someone else’s beat (another producers beat – not sampling in general)…that could be considered unoriginal, and kinda sloppy!
Which doesn’t mean that you can’t use the drums from Tribe’s “Bonita Applebum”, that would be considered an old school tribute…just don’t use it too much…like seasoning, not the main course…just enough so people recognise it! Get the difference?
Another fine example: Remember the Black Spade vs. Charles Hamilton incident? Make sure to read the hilarious comments (there’s 397 of them) here!
Damn! I’ve been waiting for this one!
G-box
THIS is what the internet is for! I’m on it!
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This time I won’t dodge jury duty! This will be sweet!
Yep, you’d better come correct!
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Good luck to all the contestants! Enjoy!
Peace and blessings.
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You can download the program switch for free and use that to switch the mp3 files to wav files if need be………..it’s very easy to do with that program……….takes literally 15 seconds(LOL!!) Thought I’d give the word of advice Lafayette………..it’s a good thing you’re doing here!
Hey, I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say GREAT blog!…..I”ll be checking in on a regularly now….Keep up the good work!
- Marc Shaw
Thank you!
/Lafayette
very cool
can;t wait to get going!!
…& let me also take the opportunity to (again) praise this blog for all the work and love you put into it for our benefit.
Keep it up for 2010 & beyond!
& stay tuned for The MatsBone Connection’s debut album – coming soon!
=shameless plug
Thank you, Mats!
And that’s OK…just make sure to keep us updated on The MatsBone debut!
eh hem (clearing throat) gentlemen I’m in. and thanks for all the awesome music.
I’m trying to dl it but I end up in zshare loop. deleted all cookies.
click download goto wait here now click here to download back to the orginal download page.
any thoughts??
ok I even signed up for a free account still can’t get to the dl. any other links??
Hold on…gimme 20 minutes and I’ll get you another link!
Alternative download link is now up and running, Boodah!
/L
downloading now thank you.
cool… thx for the link
Hi everybody, just confirmed the album Let’s Zoom In is available on dustygroove.com now. Feel free!
Svante/Damn!
Awesome!
Thank you for Introducing this Band to me. When downloaded the Album from i-tunes sweden, i got tears in my eyes. I heard the album 5 times in this night. So i went to bed around 3 o´clock in the morning and stand up for work at 7. I´m too old for that, so please leave next time a message when you promote a band like this…
bless bubblez
Hehehe…we promise, Doc…next time we will issue a special warning!
/Lafayette
Hey, all!
The competition page will be updated at the beginning of next week – with some more information on the prizes, the jury presentation, more about the sponsors and some preview clips of the entries so far!
So stay tuned!
/L
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The deadline is closing in – 2 weeks left to do your thing! Midnight Sunday November 8th is the magic hour!
/L
Hello, i send you my first remix. You’re the best, so keep on.
Greetings from France
http://www.myspace.com/orca193
Thanks, Orca!
Looking forward to the update and the first previews
Curious on the competition, eh?
and even more since my entries are almost finished!
nice…another fake competition like the last Pope remix comp????complete waste of time!!!!!!5 months have gone and no winner announced….i wont waste my time on this again guys…
Fake?
In what way?
I don’t know anything about any previous remix competition, but this is the real shit for sure!
This competition’s just been going on for about two weeks, with almost two weeks left until deadline – so I don’t really see the need for any snide remarks in this forum…not yet any way
All the best,
Lafayette
No, it’s no fake : it’s just for fun.4BB give us good music all the year, and this music is gold for hip hop producer. So if you can make it, make a remix is not wasted time.
It’s just for fun and like cindy lauper sing : ” girls just want to have fun” : LOL
Exactly!
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Aight…Tommy, Boodah, G-Box, Rap, Manyorg and everyone else out there – we’re waiting!
/Laf
What up brothers! Blogger closed my spot this morning so i’m here to ask you some help to spread the word about the new address
http://sanpasqualeent.blogspot.com
Thanks for the love and the support. hope you could help me
Stay up!
HeyCee
Sure thing, HC!
Hey, everybody…two new entries posted on the preview page – check ‘em out! http://4bbweekly.wordpress.com/entries/
Putting the finishing touches on mine. I should have it in tomorrow.
Perfect, Styles! Looking forward to hearing it!:)
Hej!
Jag har ingen webmail tyvärr… kan man sprenda en fil till er eller nåt? Eller måste jag maila den via nån som har en webmail då?
Tusen tack! / Saften
Sure thing, Saften!
Sprenda, zShare, Mediafire…any filehosting service like that would do just fine!
/Lafayette
Grymt! Vart skickar jag den då? Så fort ja klickar på länken här så kommer jag till en webmail och fastnar..? Finns en adress?
Stort tack! : )
Send it to 4brothersbeats(at)gmail.com
Or check your hotmail!
Thanx papi! / Lena
You’re so very welcome!
/L
Aight, peeps! Just 2 days left to finish your Damn! remix!
And yeah…new weekly post up real soon too!
A special treat from our funk provider, Paros!
/L