Gene Simmons Remix Contest

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About the Contest

A number of musical luminaries join Gene on ***HOLE. Bob Dylan and Gene co-wrote "Waiting For The Morning Light". Frank Zappa and Gene share co-writing credit on "Black Tongue" and the Zappa Family sing and play on the song. The album also includes Dave Navarro, ex-KISS members Bruce Kulick and Eric Singer, new SIMMONS RECORDS/Sanctuary Music Group signing BAG, as well as Gene's live-in Shannon Tweed and their two children, Sophie and Nicholas.

ACIDplanet.com is exclusively offering Simmons' "Sweet and Dirty Love" for remixing.

Drawing together over three decades of record making, ***HOLE is a grand and swaggering portrait of Simmons in the 21st Century, a brave musical statement from a man unafraid of pressing the envelope and exploring new boundaries.

"Critics be damned, this is me in 2004. In some ways this album connects with my first solo record because I've never been afraid of doing all different types of music. It's the next chapter in Gene Simmons songs."

Contribute to that chapter by remixing "Sweet and Dirty Love."

About the Artist

GENE SIMMONS is a founding member of KISS, America's Number 1 Gold Record Champions of all time (RIAA - Group Category). KISS has rock and rolled all night and partied every day for over 30 years, and is nowhere near hanging up its platform boots. It continues, stronger than ever.

KISS has broken box office attendance records set by Elvis Presley and the Beatles and is the juggernaut of the licensing merchandising world, with over 2,000 KISS toys and games — from KISS Visa Cards, KISS comic books and KISS Kaskets!!!

Gene Simmons is larger than life. He's The Demon of Rock…the God Of Thunder. He's also an artist comfortable in his own skin, an artist who still wields the wicked power to shock, titillate and surprise his followers. His new solo album, ***HOLE, the debut release on the new SIMMONS RECORDS/Sanctuary Music Group imprint, is proof.

***HOLE is a forward thinking, genre splitting effort, straddling cerebral and primal urges. Transcending genres and confounding expectations, the album resounds with a surprise at every turn, drawing together an eclectic swath of styles including hard rock, blues, thrash, neo-psychedelia, Beatlesesque pop, rap, prog-rock and even torch ballads. "My taste is eclectic and all over the place. I love all kinds of artists, from Patsy Cline to the Beatles, Motown to Hoobastank. As for the record's stylistic diversity, I'm a child of The Beatles. They created this sort of hybrid white version of American music. They could do it all — Little Richard, country, pop, soul, psychedelia. They had no rules. That had a major effect on me and that influence comes through on the record. Secretly, the most extreme alternative person is gonna put on an ABBA record when nobody is looking. Everybody has eclectic taste, it's just that sometimes people are afraid to admit to it," SIMMONS said.