Crammed Discs Remix Contest
Cibelle photo © Kevin Westenberg / Crammed Discs. Apollo Nove photo © Raphael Gianelli—Meriano. DJ Dolores photo © Renato Filho / Crammed Discs.
All photos used with permission.
Creative Commons and Crammed Discs are pleased to present the Crammed Discs Remix Contest. Crammed artists Cibelle, DJ Dolores, and Apollo Nove — some of Brazil's most creative musical innovators — are offering new music online under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license, so that producers worldwide can use the tracks in remixes and new compositions.
To enter the contest, create a remix of Cibelle's "Noite de Carnaval," DJ Dolores's "Sanidade," or Apollo Nove's "Yage Cameras" (audio sources offered here ) and upload your track to ccMixter between April 26, 2006 and May 24, 2006. All entries must be licensed to the public under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 license. After all eligible entries have been received, Cibelle, DJ Dolores, and Apollo Nove will each select the three best remixes of their respective songs; these nine winning remixes will be included on a Crammed/ccMixter remix compilation, which will be sold online through digital music stores.
You can listen to the original versions of the songs by visiting the Crammed Discs Web site (RealPlayer required).
Note: You are free to use other music licensed under CC BY or CC BY-NC, audio in the public domain, and your own original sounds in your remix. Submissions that include music that you don't have permission to use will become ineligible.
How to Participate
Source Materials
Download the separated audio elements of Cibelle's "Noite de Carnaval," DJ Dolores's "Sanidade," and Apollo Nove's "Yage Cameras" here.
Prize
The nine winning remixes will appear on a Crammed/ccMixter remix compilation, to be sold online through digital music stores.
Scoring
Entries will be judged based on the following criteria:
- Creativity (70% of overall score)
- Production quality (30% of overall score)
Official Rules
Read the Official Rules. (Or download them as a PDF file).
Cibelle
"The whole process of making music has changed. The very concept of composition now extends to the creation of sounds and textures. I'm very curious to see how other people will use and manipulate my sounds and how they will use them as tools to create new music."— Cibelle
Apollo Nove
"I like the idea of giving people the opportunity to hear what I hear when I'm producing — a separate candomblé percussion track or some painstakingly constructed soundscape. If mixing is part of the compositional process, it's only natural that I try sharing the compositional responsibilities with anyone interested in taking them on."— Apollo Nove
DJ Dolores
"This is what every intelligent musician should do. The idea is to share and allow one's work to be cut up, reinvented and — who knows — transformed into something even better than the original. This isn't about generosity; it's about inventing new ways of creating musical products that go well beyond the world of physical carriers like vinyl and CDs."— DJ Dolores
