Online Artists Collective Offers Track for Remix Contest - Voting Now Open
Released on = September 1, 2006, 11:50 am
Press Release Author = Fake Science LLC
Industry = Media
Press Release Summary = In early June, Fake Science, LLC - an online music store and artist collective, offered a track by UK electronic artist, Roberiff, for an open source remix contest. Fake Science has just opened the vote for the best mix to the general public.
Press Release Body = FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATTENTION MUSIC & TECHNOLOGY EDITORS
8/31/06
Online Artists Collective Offers Track for Remix Contest - Voting Now Open
In early June, Fake Science, LLC - an online music store and artist collective, offered a track by UK electronic artist, Roberiff, for an open source remix contest. For two months Fake Science allowed anyone to download the song "Stringing Away Revisited", a sublime mix of classical string instruments combined with a hip-hop breakbeat. Artists were invited to cut, mash, splice and remix the track in any way they saw fit. The Fake Scientists narrowed the mixes down to 9 candidates and are now allowing all of their patrons to vote for their favorites. At the end of the contest, the artist with the most votes will win an iPod Nano and all of the mixes will be offered as a free download to patrons of the store.
More About Fake Science.
A revolutionary music distribution channel has been unveiled in San Francisco. Fake Science, a new online mp3 download site is breaking new ground by reducing the price of digital music while major labels and portals march the other way. $5 for a full-length album, $2 for an extended play single of up to 5 songs and 60% of the profit goes to the artist or label. All music sold is DRM free. Fake Science is offering free access to unsigned artists and independent labels, as well as being the first to provide free, real-time reporting of sales. Geographical data about where the artist sells the most, and a way to pinpoint email communications to customers in geographical regions will enable a never-before-available direct link between artists and their MP3 customers (called Patrons by Fake Science).
Fake Science is already turning heads. Read the San Francisco Chronicle's article about Fake Science: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f
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