Chemical Brothers Remix Contest

Winner

 

1st Runner Up

 

Honorable Mention

 

Prizes: Grand Prize Winner

Merchandise from Astralwerks and the Chemical Brothers.
ACID Pro 5 software.
Vegas 5 software.
Sony Pictures Sound Effects Series Volumes 1 - 5.

About the Contest

ACIDplanet.com is offering the a cappella from "Galvanize" from the Chemical Brothers' forthcoming release "Push The Button" for remixing. The track features Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest.

The Chemical Brothers build beats that become lead sounds and which battle with noises that pile in from how they imagine pop history to be, what they believe pop to be, a thing you dance to, a thing you get in the way of, a thing that happens abruptly, a thing that happens to itself, a thing that drives you into the future.

Drive your own creation into the future with this vocal track and your collection of loops. Create something new and build your own beats using this sample from electronica's legendary duo.

The winning remix will receive ACID Pro 5 software, Vegas 5 software, and the Sony Pictures Sound Effects Series.

Winners will also receive extremely limited edition Chemical Brothers iSkins that debut the first-ever click wheel protectors from iSkin and the first blue screen to come with an actual skin. Be sure to also go to http://www.astralwerks.com/chemical/contest/default.asp for other chances to win the iSkins and a grand prize home recording studio with all the gear approved by Tom and Ed!

About the Artist

History:
1989. Tom and Ed, mixed by Manchester, studying history where things happen because all sorts of things meet in the middle of where they happen to be, looked up at the DJ's like Mike Pickering and Paul Oakenfold. They heard the DJ's bringing music into the capital of the world from over there, out there, somewhere, bringing in music that had European energy.

1990. Ed and Tom sort of formed a sort of group, a partnership interested in an intense mixture of sounds and noises that they wanted the rest of the world to hear, and this group was as influenced by the Hacienda DJ playing records as it was by Cabaret Voltaire making records.

Between then and now:

Ed and Tom played gigs, formed as the Dust Brothers, disbanded the Dust Brothers, reemerged as The Chemical Brothers, although they're not really brothers, but it was no matter.

Using a random collection of basic technology in the bedroom that became a recording studio, they built up their own sound imagining a looped place where one different thing had something in common with another different thing, which created a third different thing which had something in common etc. There was the industrial, there was the ethereal, and in the gap between the two, at the edges around where they met, there was a chemical reaction where one thing led to another. The Chemical Brothers sound came to life.

The damned irresistible thing that the Chemicals had concocted, out of tradition and modernity, energy and tranquility, volume and tension, hooks and pile driving fury, got christened - Big Beat - and an instant faithful following.

2005. The new Chemical Brothers album "Push The Button" on Astralwerks is, as it should be, the same as all their others, and totally different. It's a follow up to their first album, and a follow up to their last album, and a follow up to the ones in between. One or two of their previous albums are a follow up to this one.

2005. Where a lot of music sounds like The Chemical Brothers, because The Chemical Brothers sound like The Chemical Brothers.

More information on The Chemical Brothers to be found at:

Official : http://www.thechemicalbrothers.com
U.S.: http://www.astralwerks.com/chemical/
U.K.: http://the-raft.com/chemicalbros/