The winners will be personally chosen by Public Enemy frontman Chuck D and longtime producer Gary G-Wiz. The contest runs through October 21st.
The Amerikan Gangster Remix Contest is Public Enemy’s way of bringing their fans directly into their music and the creative process that goes into making it. “The days of the few making music for the multitude are over,” says Gary G-Wiz, former member of the groundbreaking production team the Bomb Squad. “There is a lot of talent out there, and we try to get involved with anything that is showcasing the skills of up and coming music makers.”
As always, chop up the tracks, contribute your own vocals and beats, or add music and sound effects from the Jamglue library. Prizes include a limited edition portable media and DVD player from MediaStreet:
an autographed copy of How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul:
“We’ve done remix contests on past albums, but when I saw Jamglue’s tools and interface, I knew there were great possibilities there,” Gary G-Wiz adds.
As most of you might have noticed by now, we are running a pair of contests with Seattle’s own Blue Scholars, brought to you by Rawkus and MASSLINE! As a huge Scholars fan, I am ridiculously excited to have this opportunity to help promote them here on Jamglue, and get them more of the national attention they deserve!
The song is “Fire for the People” off their recently released album Bayani:
All this amazing music comes from just two super-talented guys: Geologic, the emcee, and Sabzi, the deejay and producer. So to give a nod to this classic hip-hop format, we’ve got an MC Contest, where you add your guest verse to Geologic’s chorus, and a DJ Contest, where you show DJ Sabzi your mixing skills! Geo and Sabzi will be choosing the final winners.
In fact…
At the halfway point of the contest a few weeks ago, they picked their current favorites, just to keep things interesting! Here they are:
And wait - it gets better - we even turned them into ringtones, so that everyone can be ringing fresh this fall! Be sure to check out and download the ringtones, and stay tuned for more as the contest goes on!
The contest closes to entries on September 7th and the voting period will run until September 23rd.
Enter the contests and show your support for some amazing hip-hop, and for Jamglue’s home, the Pacific Northwest!
As promised, we launched a fresh new contest from Jive Records — and none other than everyone’s favorite: T-PAIN with his hit single Bartender!! (and you probably just got it out of your head, right?):
We are so excited about this contest, and have had an overwhelming response from fans so far, with over 450 entries started in just 2 weeks!
For this contest, though it is a standard remix contest, we are encouraging fans to record and include their own vocals in their remixes. After all the excitement of the R. Kelly “Double Up” contest, who can resist contributing a verse of their own?
So get out your microphones, put down your own beat, or chop up the existing tracks - but don’t miss this opportunity to mix your own version of Bartender! T-Pain is picking the winner himself, and in true T-Pain style, the winning remix will be turned into a ringtone by Jive Records, with CD’s and other great prizes for runners up.
Your faithful Jamglue team has been working tirelessly since our invite-only beta back in October to add some new bells and whistles to help enhance the Jamglue experience.
If you haven’t checked us out in awhile, here’s what we’ve been up to:
Looking for a little Jamglue 101? Check out our new and improved tour and help page!
Want to immediately find out what’s been happening with your stuff on Jamglue? Our new message notification system (the envelope icon in the top right of the page) lets you know immediately when exciting things happen (like somebody becoming a fan of yours or using one of their tracks in their mix). If you’re really dedicated to the cause, you can choose to receive these messages by email as well.
Want to tell your friend what your REALLY think of their new remix? We’ve added a private messaging feature that lets you send notes to your friends without embarrassing them in front of that cute guy or girl with the hot mix.
Not ready for the world to hear your musical genius? We’ve added a new “draft mode” that lets you choose exactly when other people can start listening to your mixes.
Can’t wait to spread the Jamglue love? We’ve created an embeddable player for all your blog and MySpace needs. Even better, we also keep track of where your music is embedded (and send you a message immediately when your stuff gets embedded somewhere new)!
Want to share your music with people who don’t have accounts on Jamglue yet? No problem! We now let unregistered users use Jamglue (with the catch that they need to create an account before saving mixes or uploading tracks).
Good enough for ya? Well, there’s even more good news! We’ve partnered with Nettwerk Records to bring you an exclusive remix contest for Jamglue users! Starting today through January 6th, log on to Jamglue to create your own remix of The Submarines track “Peace & Hate.” The acclaimed LA-based band is giving the power to the fans to create their own remix of the group’s new single. If the chance for Jamglue fame and glory doesn’t entice you, maybe the cool prizes will.
We hope you log on to check out the exciting new happenings here at Jamglue, and we really appreciate you being part of the Jamglue community. Keep gluing it to the man!
As you may have seen in Gautam’s recent round-up, we’ve finally turned on our embedded player for everybody!
Unlike YouTube’s monolithic embedded player, we’ve focused on flexibility by exposing the raw elements to people sharing mixes and tracks. This allows you to fully tweak and style our player however you want.
We’ve also been working hard to make sure that the player stays fast and that embedded music in even very popular blogs will not impact the performance of our main site.
We’re still tweaking the default look and coping with different embedding policies (don’t be so scared, FOX Interactive!), but please try it and let us know what you think.
Jamglue is an online community for creating and sharing music and audio. In short, Jamglue is:
A place to upload and share your music with your friends
Slick tools for remixing music and audio from within your browser
A library of music and audio to listen to or mix together
A rich social network for:
sharing your music
discovering hot new artists
finding cool new people who share your musical taste
For those of you already on the friends and family beta, you may have noticed that you now have 5 invites to share! You will notice them as soon as you log in. We’re really excited about taking this step, and hope that you’ll share Jamglue with people who you think would be interested.
Who should you invite? Anyone who you think would be into Jamglue. The groups we are particularly trying to engage are musicians and younger users (read: the MySpace generation), so if you know enthusiastic users in either category, please invite them to Jamglue!
At this stage, we have 3 major goals.
Continue to get valuable feedback from our users
Build up the Jamglue community so that it continues to become more interesting, compelling and connected.
Build up our content library to the point where mixes practically build themselves. Right now, we’ve got a few great loops and tracks, and we’re counting on our beta users to continue this trend.
Anyway, welcome to the Jamglue beta! If you’d like an invite and don’t have one yet, ping the team and we’ll see what we can do.
Fred Wilson just posted a mix he made on Jamglue to his blog. We can’t wait until launch, when he could’ve included a link for his readers to go remix it too! Thanks, Fred!
As we are heading toward a full beta launch within the next few weeks, please expect very infrequent posts to this blog. At the moment, we are busy fixing and finishing the poise and polish of Jamglue as based on the fantastic feedback of our friends and family.
We are excited to widen our audience, so please stay tuned for our public launch! In the mean time, dust off your guitars, hum some scales, rally your killer mixing skills, and get ready to Glue it to the Man.
This last week we’ve aggressively expanded our friends and family beta, so if you’re a friend or family of one of us, and would like an account, please drop us a line!
We appreciate any comments, questions, or criticisms you have, please send it to feedback@jamglue.com, or post a comment here if you see bug testing as public space performance art (I know I do).
Amerikan Gangster - Contest Mix by 
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