In keeping with the spirit of collaboration, exploration, and sonic mangling fostered by those infamous yet highly revered Abletonians, we at the blackSoil project have decided to open up the vaults and make all the acapellas from our most recent album available for your remixing pleasure!
In order to gauge your production skills, we will also be hosting a remix contest. We will be accepting remixes of every song on our album (excluding the instrumentals) for the contest, the best of which will be included on a new fully remixed record to be released this year.
The contest will proceed as follows:
1. Email Rahlo ([email protected]) or level ([email protected]) and request entry into the contest. We will link you to the acapellas, which you can download at your leisure.
2. Remix one (or more) of our songs with the freshest beat you can muster. Use any samples or sounds you would like (no biting please!).
3. Send us a copy of your final mix.
4. We will listen to it and say either, "this is bananas!", or "this is horrible!"
5. The top three remixes of each song will be recognized, and the very best mixes will be featured on an upcoming remix album. Those lucky finalists will receive a free copy of said album, and maybe something else, I havent decided yet!
If you dont have our album, you can navigate to
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/blacksoil2 and listen to it. Or you can buy it so I can buy my wife more ice.
The contest starts today. You may remix as many songs as you like and enter as many times as you can. Entries will be judged on creativity, skill, hotness and more creativity. Happy remixing!
By the way, the response has already been dope--close to 30 cats have signed up and downloaded an aca pella or two. One guy has even turned in a really, really DOPE entry--in less than 12 hours! If you have any questions not answered above, feel free to get at me!
