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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-Devendra Banhart duet
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These barely listenable, lo-fi 3gp snippets (filmed with a mobile phone from the side of the stage) only give a very vague idea of what happened when Cibelle joined Devendra Banhart on the stage of the Paris Olympia to perform a version of Caetano Veloso’s « Lost In Paradise ». This was during the Inrockuptibles Festival, in front of a packed hall. Antony & The Johnsons and Arctic Monkeys also performed that night. On clip #2 you can just about see Cib & Dev sitting on the same chair, to the left of the bass amp. A very sweet & inspired performance….
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.
Tags: Cibelle Folktronica Tunng MuLiMob Crammed Discs Apollo Nove Seu Jorge
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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New Zuco 103 Video
“Na Mangueira”, the video for the new single by Zuco 103, has just been completed.
The single is extracted from the band’s latest album “Whaa!“.
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APOLLO NOVE
‘RES INEXPLICATA VOLANS’
The amazing young producer/musician/singer from São Paulo who produced Cibelle‘s first record has come up with an exquisite album: modern yet retro, electronic yet folk, and definitively Brazilian, groovy and sexy. He has invited some seductive voices to sing with him: Cibelle, Céu, Tita Lima and Seu Jorge.
More information soon.
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Preview of new Bebel Gilberto video
After her successful Brazilian tour, Bebel Gilberto is touring the USA in September. Tour dates here below:
08/09 - SAN DIEGO, CA - HOUSE OF BLUES
09/09 - LOS ANGELES, CA - HOLLYWOOD BOWL
10/09 - LOS ANGELES, CA - HOLLYWOOD BOWL
29/09 - NEW YORK - BLUE NOTE
30/09 - NEW YORK - BLUE NOTE
01/10 - NEW YORK - BLUE NOTE
Check also the exclusive preview of her new video of the fine remix of Winter by Finland’s Nuspirit Helsinki.
For more details on "Bebel Gilberto Remixed", go to the Crammed website
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INDIAN SUMMER
While you’re still enjoying diving, climbing, walking, escaping and doing other exciting summer things, the little bees at Crammed are preparing a beautiful Indian Summer for you…
APOLLO NOVE, the amazing young producer/musician/singer from São Paulo, the man who produced Cibelle’s first record, has come up with an exquisite album: modern yet retro, electronic yet folk, and definitively Brazilian, groovy and sexy. He has invited some seductive voices to sing with him: Cibelle, Céu, Tita Lima and Seu Jorge. His album is called “Res Inexplicata Volans”.
We will also release THE NOW SOUND OF BRAZIL 2 , the new Ziriguiboom compilation. Great songs, unreleased tracks & exclusive mixes from our adored Brazilian artists incuding Cibelle, Zuco 103, Celso Fonseca, Bossacucanova, Bebel Gilberto, DJ Dolores and more… and last but not least the compilation will be sold at a nice price.
Ahhh! HUGO and his album "La nuit des balançoires" : if you don’t understand French, you will miss some of the content of his Twin-Peaks-meets-Conan-Doyle-on-a-surnatural-sarcastic-tip stories, but then again you’ll feel it simply by hearing the atmosphere of his arrangements (ranging from limpid to quirky), his high-pitched voice and his wonderful melodies....
TARAF DE HAÏDOUKS: you were probably wondering when we were going to make a DVD with our lovely honourable brigands? Well, it’s almost done! 2 young directors are working on it. It will include a program with the Tarafs in concert in the UK, when Neacsu was still alive, very touching, and Johnny Depp telling the world why he loves them so much, filmed by UK director Marc Allen. Also, a documentary about the Band of Gypsies playing in their country, Romania, for the first time on their 10th anniversary, shot by Elsa Dahmani. There will also be several bonuses, interviews, video postcards of the Tarafs playing around the world etc.
CONGOTRONICS 2: “BUZZ’N’RUMBLE FROM THE URB’N’JUNGLE” : after the explosive KONONO N°1, professor Vincent Kenis will present us 5 other stupendous electro-traditional bands from the suburbs of Kinshasa, including Kasai Allstars, Masanka Sankayi & Basokin. More heavily-distorted sounds, more DIY amplification… but also a whole array of different rhythms, buzzing drums, swirling guitars and hypnotic balafons. A DVD will be included to show it all.
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NOW SOUND OF BRAZIL 2
Soon to be released…
Ziriguiboom/Crammed is widely recognized as one of the major sources of new Brazilian music, having signed and developed artists such as Cibelle, Suba, Zuco 103, Trio Mocotó, Celso Fonseca, Bossacucanova and of course Bebel Gilberto, whose debut album "Tanto Tempo" has become a worldwide success.
This second volume of the NOW Sound Of Brazil series showcases Ziriguiboom’s latest exciting signings Apollo Nove and DJ Dolores, and comprises album tracks and exclusive remixes by all the artists currently on the Ziriguiboom roster.
More info soon here.
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4 Crammed albums in iTunes USA Top 10 World!
This week 4 Crammed/Ziriguiboom albums appear in the iTunes USA Top 10 World Music chart.
3 Bebel Gilberto albums ("Bebel Gilberto”, “Tanto Tempo” and her latest, “Bebel Gilberto Remixed") and “Uma Batida Diferente” by Bossacucanova.
More info on the albums and artist availble at Crammed website.
Direct iTunes links here below, you can also connect to your local iTunes store if needed:
Bebel Gilberto Remixed
Tanto Tempo
Bebel Gilberto
Uma Batida Diferent
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Direct iTunes links to new Crammed releases
From today on we will integrate direct iTunes links to the Crammedblog with automatic links to iTunes online shop where you can preview and buy Crammed Discs songs.
Check the link (iTunes icon) below for direct iTunes acces to the new “Bebel Gilberto Remixed” album.
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Interview DJ Dolores on ArteTV
A video interview including live concert excerpts with DJ DOLORES is available on ARTE TV website
DJ Dolores summer tour dates can be found at Crammed website.
“Aparelhagem" CD on iTunes
(click iTunes icon for direct acces)
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Zuco 103 in Spain
Zuco 103 will present their new album in Sala Apolo in Barcelona tonight.
Tomorrow they will be present at the MetroRock Festival in Madrid.
Check also the fantastic “le cool" magazine to stay updated on interesting stuff happening in Spain.
More Zuco 103 tour dates can be found at Crammed website.
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Bossacucanova in Paris
Bossacucanova & Roberto Menescal will perform at the Copacabaret Festival in Cabaret Sauvage in Paris. They will perform several gigs between 23/6 and 10/7.
Check for more tour dates at Crammed website
Info on tickets and reservations, you will find here.
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