Drop Dead Festival Mash-Up

Grand Prize Winner

 

Grand Prize

Merchandise from the Drop Dead Festival and participating bands.
Merchandise from Sony® valued at more than $1500, including:
Sony VAIO Pocket™ Digital Music Player VGF-AP1L.
ACID Pro Software.
Sound Forge® software.
Vegas®+DVD Software.
Sony Sound Series™ Boxed Set: Chicago Fire™.

About the Contest

In celebration of the third Drop Dead Festival, the ACIDplanet® world of music presents the mash-up to end all mash-ups. It's old school punk meets new school horror punk/psychobilly, and it's your objective to create something brand spanking new.

Here's your roster of artists and songs to mash-up (click to listen):

Nina Hagen: "The Return of the Mother"
Blitzkid: "Let's Go to the Cemetery"
Bloodshot Bill: "After Dark"
Cinema Strange: "Speak, Marauder!"
Coffin Nails: "Hard as Nails"
Frank the Baptist: "Ever"
World/Inferno Friendship Society: "Fiend in Wien"

In keeping with the old/new paradigm, you must mash-up Nina Hagen with at least one other band. The more bands, the better.

About the Artists

Drop Dead Festival III: the biggest horror and deathrock music festival anywhere. It's happening 10/28 - 10/30 at the Knitting Factory, NYC, and 10/31 at the Avalon (old Limelight), NYC.

Launching into its third year, and appropriately timed for Halloween, it is the largest New York festival for dark and experimental music. Drop Dead’s genre-blurring roster of bands is comprised of acts classifiable as Post-Punk, Art Rock, Psychobilly, Deathrock, Horror Punk, Goth, Surf, Cabaret, Gypsy and Carnival music as well as various combinations of the above. Simply put, this is a Horror themed Music Festival to end all festivals.

The festival features exclusive appearances by international headliners such as the legendary German native Nina Hagen, veteran UK Psychobilly band Coffin Nails, Italian Goth Rock originators Bohemién, New York favorites World/Inferno Friendship Society, top American goth/art rock group Cinema Strange, and many others.

In addition to a cast of over 66 bands and DJ’s from all over the world, the festival features an elaborate stage design, vendor bazaar, ghoul discothèque, costume contest and many more activities. Festival attendance is projected to top five thousand music fans, as well as music labels, VIP’s, Vendors, Press and other music industry. Not only is Drop Dead the biggest horror themed music festival in the world, it is also the best Halloween party in New York, if not the whole country.

With the annual Village Halloween Parade ending right at the door of club Avalon on October 31st right before the final day of the Drop Dead Festival, people are flying in from all over the world to spend the best, and spookiest Halloween ever in NYC.

The Drop Dead Festival promises over sixty international acts headlined by the legendary Nina Hagen, the Mother of punk. Here's some info on the artists included in this mash-up event:

Nina Hagen From her first albums with the Nina Hagen band, to her extensive solo recording and TV career, where does one start discussing Nina Hagen? This is a good place. Punk from the beginning, Nina incorporated countless musical styles in her repertoire, effortlessly creating new genres. Known to some as the Mother of Punk, Nina remains an extraordinary talent and a true international star.

Blitzkid    BLITZKID has been lurking in the horror rock underground since early 1997. They have released 4 full length albums, 3 EPs, and 3 live recordings. October 2005 saw the band embark on a month long European tour. At present, BLITZKID are in and out of Manhattan, NY and Trenton, NJ, working on their 5th full length album.

Bloodshot Bill   Rockabilly Trash Barbecue Punk explosion from a Montreal mangler. After getting his nasty message across fronting the hubcaps & The Guilloteens, Bill went the true solo one-man-band route, playing guitar and drums, with vocals. Accurately described as "maniacally distorted . . . with accompanying obscene-phone-call, heavy breather vocals," Bloodshot Bill is an old fashioned one-man-band for the new millennium!

Cinema Strange   The band is infamous in the North American gothic scene for their unique and theatrical stage shows, sometimes involving up to a dozen or more actors and performance artists. Their music, originating in 1994 as a high-tempo post-punk expression, has evolved into a bizarre and exciting species of musical storytelling, breaking new ground and taking over where bands like the Virgin Prunes left off. After two self-released records and two albums with the German label, Trisol, they have left an unidentifiable but very real mark on the world gothic scene, and it's anyone's guess what they'll do, or where they'll be, or who they'll claim to be next.

Coffin Nails   With founder member Humungus, Mad Man Scott (bass player for over 14 years), and their new drummer Clive, the band's line up is settled. The Coffin Nails early albums had brought them gigs all across Europe, but these albums had also sold well in Japan and the USA. Increasingly there were demands for new material, particularly from the growing scene in America. So in 2003, the band went back into the studio and Hard as Nails was recorded and released on Greystone Records. This album saw the band returning somewhat to its roots. The album is in places darker and faster than ever before, whilst retaining the touches of humour that the band has become synonymous with.

Frank the Baptist   Coming out of Southern California, Frank the Baptist made media splashes large enough to dampen the lapels of several Austrian record label mobsters, and before long they were doing musical contract killings for Strobelight Records. That record deal has spawned, to date, two releases that only served to whet the North American scene’s appetite, bringing the Baptist invitations to play in other states and at other festivals. Frank the Baptist has somehow invented a New Rock that everyone wants to hear, is grateful for, but somehow never existed. Frank the Baptist has climbed up and out of the tree fort, and is swaying in the high branches overhead.

World/Inferno Friendship Society   The World/Inferno Friendship Society is a finely organized mischief cult; not a band. The ideal marriage of nihilist gangsters and technophiliac agrophobes. Conceived originally as merely a vehicle to mess stuff up, the Society has gradually reorganized its priorities replacing street pranks with beautiful musical rants, and is, at its core, a song by song backlash against the Entertainment Industrial Complex.


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