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Crammed Discs Remix Contest
Creative Commons weblog and Crammed Discs anounced the Crammed Discs Remix Contest.
The Creative Commons remix contest is organised in conjunction with Crammed Discs over at the Creative Commons community remix site, ccMixter. Crammed artists Cibelle, DJ Dolores, and Apollo Nove—some of Brazil’s most innovative contemporary musicians—are offering new sounds online under a Creative Commons BY-NC license, so people throughout the world can legally use them in remixes, mash-ups, and new compositions. Nine winning remixes will appear on a Crammed/ccMixter EP project to be sold online through digital music stores.
Participating is easy: read the official rules of the contest. (Also available for download as a PDF), download the audio sources, make your remix and upload your mix to ccMixter under a CC BY-NC license between April 26, 2006 and May 24, 2006.
Go to the Crammed Discs Remix Contest pages for all details and separated audio elements downloads of Cibelle’s “Noite de Carnaval,” DJ Dolores’s “Sanidade,” and Apollo Nove’s “Yage Cameras”.
Check the artists view on remixing content on the Crammed Discs Remix Contest pages:
“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
“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
“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
The nine winning remixes will appear on a Crammed/ccMixter remix compilation, to be sold online through digital music stores. Your chance to engage in a creative dialogue with Crammed Discs artists Cibelle, DJ Dolores, and Apollo Nove and get your mix of their work on the Crammed/ccMixter remix EP!
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Cibelle at MuLiMob Event
Cibelle has come a long way since the release of her 2003 debut album, which had established her as one of the most imaginative and original young artists to come out of Brazil. Deeply involved in sound research, and true to the motto of the Anthropophagists (the 1920s arts movement which inspired several generations of artists in her native country - Tropicalia to name but one), she’s been absorbing sounds and ideas from all over to create her own, even more personal brew. Cibelle likes to use her life as a lab, and claims to be the hamster and the scientist all at once…
Now based in London, Cibelle is currently producing her new album (due out in April 2006), along with a couple of co-producers including Mike Lindsay (from UK folktronica act Tunng), Apollo Nove, and guests such as Seu Jorge (of ‘City Of God’ and ‘The Life Aquatic’ fame) and CocoRosie collaborator Spleen. The album features acoustic instrumentation and electronic processing, noise guitars and children’s toys, textural soundscapes and pure melodies carried by her unmistakable voice.
This Wednesday at the MuLiMob Event in London, Cibelle will be showing us yet another aspect of her multi-faceted personality, as she’ll be playing an eclectic DJ set of exotica, swing, cabaret & assorted oddities.
Meanwhile you may watch this video extracted from Cibelle‘s “About A Girl EP” Dualdisc, which includes 4 new songs on the audio side and 4 videos on the DVD side.
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Konono Nº1 nomination for BBC Awards
Konono Nº1 has been nominated for the BBC World Music Awards.
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CRAMMED is the N°1 world music label in Europe for 2005
One year after receiving the 2004 Womex Award (*) “for 25 years of pioneering label work in the field of world music”, Brussels-based eclectic label CRAMMED tops the 2005 World Music Charts Europe, an airplay chart compiled by the World Music Workshop of the European Broadcasting Union which, according to the Womex press release, is “the leading reference point for artistic impact and commercial success alike”.
The Top 30 of the 525 labels which appear in the World Music Charts Europe for the year 2005 are the following:
1 Crammed/Ziriguiboom (B)
2 World Music Network/Riverboat (UK)
3 Network Medien (D)
4 Six Degrees (USA)
5 World Circuit (UK)
6 Piranha (D)
7 Because Records (F)
8 Wrasse (UK)
9 Lusafrica (F)
10 Doublemoon (TR)
11 EMI (Intl.)
12 Universal (Intl.)
13 World Connection (NL)
14 Galileo Music (D)
15 Syllart/Cantos (UK/USA)
16 Asphalt Tango (D)
17 Tradition &Moderne (D)
18 Virgin/Realworld (UK)
19 Triloka (USA)
20 Cantini (GR)
21 Essay Recordings (D)
22 V2 (Intl.)
23 Nonesuch (USA)
24 Putumayo (USA)
25 Westpark (D)
26 Ether Music (UK)
27 Kirkelig Kulturverksted (NO)
28 Indigo (D)
29 Indies Records (CZ)
30 Forrest Hill (I)
The main world/electronic/ rock artists signed to Crammed and its Ziriguiboom and SSR divisions are Bebel Gilberto, Zuco 103, Taraf de Haïdouks, Konono N°1, Tuxedomoon, Cibelle, Celso Fonseca & more.
(* Womex : “World Music Expo”, the world’s premier annual trade fair for world music)
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ARTE Television teams up with Crammed to celebrate Brazil at the Cannes Film Festival
To celebrate the Year of Brazil in France, the Cannes Film Festival is organising a special screening of the mythical Marcel Camus film Orfeu Negro (which was awarded the Palme d’Or in 1959), followed by a cocktail party on the boat which hosts Franco-German TV channel ARTE, during which a documentary entitled Searching For Orfeu Negro will be shown in the presence of Brazil’s Minister Of Culture (and megastar) Gilberto Gil and of ARTE president Jérome Clément. This event takes place on May 18.
On this occasion, ARTE Television has teamed up with the CRAMMED DISCS label to produce a limited-edition DVD containing excerpts from a documentary by Simon Brook (Magical Jungle), an interactive map of Brazil, music videos by Bebel Gilberto and Zuco 103, and six audio tracks by Cibelle, Bebel Gilberto, DJ Dolores, Zuco 103, Celso Fonseca and Suba (*), who rank among the best exponents of the new wave of Brazilian music, and who have all been discovered and released by Crammed on its Ziriguiboom imprint.
(*) The Suba track happens to be “Felicidade”, a modernist version of a song taken from the Orfeu Negro soundtrack.
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Konono N°1 Reviews
Reviews from The Telegraphm Stylus Magazine, The Wire, The Beat, Dusted, Word, Pitchfork, The Guardian, Les Inrockuptibles, RFI, Le Journal and others are now available at Crammed website.
The album is available through Amazon.com here
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Mahala Rai Banda
CD out now
Mahala Rai Banda are a sensational new band from the Gypsy ghetto of Bucharest, formed by two people closely related to the Taraf de Haïdouks (violonist / arranger Aurel Ionita and Taraf musical director Stéphane Karo). Their debut album was mixed in collaboration with electrogypsy whiz Shantel, and is out now.
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