This post has been a long time coming - this past fall, we sponsored not one, but six amazing contests here on Jamglue! Here are some of the contest winners below - props to all the great MC’s, DJ’s and fans who entered and voted in these contests. Be sure to check them out below, and hit them up on Jamglue with your suggestions and praise.
Grand Prize winners were chosen by the artists themselves - thanks to Chuck D, Gary G-Wiz, JR WRiter, Tigarah, and Hi-Tek for participating in this pioneering creative dialogue with their fans!
Public Enemy “Amerikan Gangster” Grand Prize Winner
Apologies to all the faithful readers of the Jamglue Blog - but no news has been great news! We’ve been really busy building Jamglue into a huge success, and keeping up with some really exciting growth and developments.
Since our last post back in November, the Jamglue community has almost quadrupled! We now have over 330,000 registered members (and growing by thousands per day!), and have over 650,000 people coming through each month.
On the creative side, we’ve had a bunch of wildly successful contests (winners to be announced in the next post), and have several more coming up this spring. Our dedicated users have created over 680,000 mixes, and are rapidly heading toward 7 figures in this category.
There’s been so much excitement, energy and creativity on Jamglue these days, it’s no wonder it’s been so contagious! We’ve got all kinds of artists and fans spending all their free time on the site — chatting, collaborating, and listening to the hottest new mixes. Also, a big shout-out to all our great volunteers on the Jamglue Street Team — they’ve been reppin’ Jamglue like crazy by spreading the word in their schools and communities.
Lastly, Jamglue has been nominated for CNET’s 2008 Webware Awards - voting is open until March 31st, so if you’ve got a minute, vote for us here:
Anyway if you haven’t been to Jamglue lately (or even if you have!) - come through and see what all the hype is about. And stay tuned for some contest winner announcements, new promotions, and other great stuff coming up!
As always, if you’ve got questions, suggestions, or just wanna show us some love, holla@cha girl!
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.
It’s been a busy month here at Jamglue since I last posted, and there’s so much to tell!
Our first order of business: contest winners!
Our R. Kelly “Double Up” contest finally came to an end, with over 360 duets created! Here are the talented MC’s and singers who racked up some great prizes in a few different categories:
Grand Prize (determined by popular vote) went to star Jamglue user Samuel Victor! Not only was his rap fantastic, but he’s injected a lot of postiive creative energy into the Jamglue community! Check out his contest entry here:
The entry was also posted on R. Kelly’s MySpace, where you might still be able to check it out.
Professional’s Pick (hand-picked by Jive Records) goes to THEGHOST, an incredibly talented young MC/producer. His duet is featured on the Jamglue Homepage, or you can listen here:
And last but not least, an honorable mention goes out to our super-talented DJ smx (aka DJ Stray), who made a super hot remix, but was not eligible since it wasn’t technically a duet:
We’re really excited about the high participation in this contest! Thanks again to Jive Records for making it happen, and to all our fantastic users for making it so much fun.
(more news about new features and new contests to come in follow-up posts, stay tuned!)
The Grand Prize Winner was chosen by MC Lars himself. Here’s a direct quote from Lars on how he chose from among so many fantastic entries:
my criteria was: sounds most different from the original, keeps the tempo during the verses, and has a distinctive chorus…. this one got an A+ on all!!
And here are our two honorable mentions - they made fantastic remixes, but since they didn’t use the Jamglue mixer for their remix, their entries had to be disqualified. We just wanted to recognize their talent though, so here they are:
Congratulations to all the winners! Prizes will be sent out soon, and the winning remix will be featured on MC Lars’ Myspace and mclars.com.
Thanks to everyone who entered and voted for making this such a fun and successful remix contest, and thanks again to Nettwerk for sponsoring! We’ve got a few more in the works for this summer, so stay tuned…
As promised, you can now send any mix on Jamglue to your loved (or hated) ones as a Valentine’s Day card! You can either make your own personalized variation of the (Anti-)Valentine’s Choir from the V-day pages (lover/hater), or you can simply send any mix by visiting its mix page and hitting the “Valentine” link near the top.
You can add personal text to the card and send it to anyone as an e-mail, or to a Jamglue user as a private Jamglue message. Here’s an example:
Lastly, I want to wrap up this post with an awesome rap by one of our star users:
I would like to announce the winners of Jamglue’s very first remix competition!
The contest ended on January 6th, and we had a lot of excellent entries. When we called upon our users to vote for their favorites, they spoke up, exhibiting excellent taste! Here are our winners:
Grand Prize:
First Prize Winners:
And of course, here’s the original, so you can compare and appreciate all the creative genius demonstrated by our participants:
Congratulations to our winners, and thanks to everyone who participated in the contest, Nettwerk, and the Submarines for making our first contest a great one.
For all of you with a competitive streak, or who may just be looking for some remixing inspiration, stay tuned for our next competition (coming soon).
Great mixes keep popping up on Jamglue. Here are some recent highlights:
Take Five is a classic jazz piece that’s now in the public domain. That means that talented pianists like akalin can freely distribute recordings of their own performances of it. This is ripe for remixing!
The Fire and Ice Prayer is a poem by Robert Frost that’s now in the public domain. As part of the LibriVox project, many people have submitted public domain recordings of themselves reciting the poem. This remix overlays several of their performances in a clever call-and-answer style.
This mix seems carefully crafted to make me laugh. It bears a simple message, hammered home persistently through slick edits over good background beats. But it’s also mysterious– to whom is this message addressed? What were the circumstances that inspired it? I’m eagerly awaiting a follow-up to this one, though it may raise more new questions than it answers.
Amerikan Gangster - Reasonmix by 
Reason 
JR’s Intro for "Where You At" Remix Winner uploaded by 
JRWriter 
JR Writer - Where You At (Produced by TurreekK) by 
TurreekK 
Prezzo’s 8 bit mix "Color, Culture, Money, Beauty" - Tigarah by 
prezzo 
Color, Culture, Money, Beauty - Contest Mix by Fre Gen Productions by 
roxfontaine 
Bravado - My Piano - Contest Mix by 
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