Garbage Remix Contest

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Prizes

Sonic Foundry will award the winning remixer a copy of ACID PRO 4, Sound Forge 6.0, and Vegas Video 3.0, and five loop libraries. Interscope Records is putting together an impressive prize package consisting of Garbage materials and merchandise and — as of press time — a musical instrument of some sort!

About the Contest

What better music to offer for a remix?

ACIDgarbage presents "Androgyny" for your remixing pleasure. The lead single from beautifulgarbage, the track fittingly defines Garbage's sound: undefinable.

"I think we felt more comfortable in going to both extremes on this record," says Duke Erikson. "In some ways this record may sound like a sharp departure from the first two, but we think we really only expanded the turf we'd established for ourselves and used a simpler, more stark approach in doing so."

Here's your chance to approach Garbage's music like never before. Loops cut from the original tracks of "Androgyny." Create something new. Take Garbage's music in unexpected directions.

About the Artist

beautifulgarbage finds the band changing, exploring new areas and extremes in their music. The album mixes pop, hip-hop, torch songs and bubblegum with Garbage's unique guitar and sonic treatments. It's an expansion of the band's sound, a departure, a mutation.

One of Garbage's most intriguing qualities is that they never rely on the traditional security afforded by a band framework. It lends everything they do a sense of jeopardy, as if everything could destruct at any moment.

"I think that gives something value," Shirley says. "You don't take it for granted and you do realize that this is a passing moment. Making music is vital. You get to that point in your life where you just think, 'If I don't do this, I'm gonna die.' You equate making music with living, and when you can see life without that, then it makes it impossible to stop."

Garbage shows no signs of stopping soon. Their first album, the eponymous Garbage, went on to sell more than four million copies worldwide and received three Grammy nominations. Their second album, Version 2.0, almost equaled the sales of their first and scored yet more Grammy nominations.

beautifulgarbage is poised to continue that success. Its broad span of sounds and styles, its blend of technology and flesh, simplicity and complexity, heavy and dark is, well…Garbage. It's the sound you haven't come to expect from a band that consistently redefines itself.