1st Place

 All in all I wish (we) could have chosen a top 100, as everyone did a wonderful job, and thanks to everyone who took part in this remix contest. -Richard Devine and Josh Kay

2nd Place

 

3rd Place

 

Grand Prize Winner

Kore 2 Next-Generation Workstation
Kore Soundpacks
Sony PSP
ACID Pro software
Vegas Pro software
Pulse: Pure Analog Forms
Devine Manuscript
1 Year of ACIDplanet Prozone

2nd Place

Pulse: Pure Analog Forms
Devine Manuscript
1 Year of ACIDplanet Prozone

Runners Up

1 Year of ACIDplanet Prozone




Richard Devine and Josh Kay are guys who know things, secret things, the kind of things that record labels, movie studios, and video game production companies need. Now they’re sharing some of their secrets with you in their two loop libraries: Devine Manuscript and Pulse: Pure Analogue Lifeforms. Listen carefully and you might pick up a trick or two; like the ones that landed them sound design gigs with NIN, Nike, Xbox and PS3.


Richard and Josh have collaborated on the Original Track, "Pulse," for this Composition contest using loops from our new Pulse library, plus a bunch of new and exclusive content found only in this download package! Give the track a good listen, and then take the provided contest download and show these two stellar artists that you’ve got the skills to create an amazing mix of your own. Where could the music take you?

About the Artists

Richard Devine
During the past three years, Richard Devine has remixed top Warp artists like Aphex Twin and Mike Patton (Faith No More). He has released four full-length albums on Schematic, Warp, Asphodel, and Sublight records, and has performed his own ear-tearing music mayhem worldwide. Based in Atlanta, Georgia he has done film score work for Touchstone Pictures (with John Hues & Kyle Cooper). He has also collaborated with BT (Brian Transeau) on the Adam Rifkin directed Surveillance, Wieden & Kennedy, AKQA Inc., and has done sound mangling/programming for Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, composed and designed commercials for the Nike Shoe Company, and worked with various companies doing sound design for Audi, BMW, Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Scion, Coke, Land Rover, Lexus, Peugeot, Dodge, HBO, Nestle, Nike Japan, McDonalds, Sprite, Sony, Spike Television network and XBOX. He has also worked with Konami gaming division for the Dance-Dance Revolution game. And currently now for Sony Playstation PS3 (Infected) for Dawn of the Dead. He has also recently completed all the sound design for Forza, and Massive Effects websites. In conjunction with TV and film work, Richard also has done programming and sound design work with major audio companies. His work has been featured on new software and hardware titles from many innovative companies such as Native Instruments, Izotope, WayOutware Softare, Eventide Effects Company, GRM tools, Korg, Clavia Nord, Alesis, Akai, Ableton Live, Apple Computers, Access Virus, DigiDesign, Openlabs, Universal Audio, Hartmann Neuron synthesizers, Stanton Magnetics DJ Company, Roland, Propellerheads, Yamaha and M-Audio Division.

Josh Kay
In 1995 Josh Kay, and his band-mate released a series of records for the US major label Astralwerks under the name Soul Oddity, completely unaware that he was helping to put experimental music back on the map in America. In 1997 after a successful release as Phoenecia on Warp Records, the duo founded Schematic Music Company, the infamous record label which would go on to irrevocably change the landscape of modern music by debuting artists such as Richard Devine, Scott Herren (Prefuse73, Savath & Savalas), Otto Von Schirach, Push Button Objects, and collaborating with the likes of Matmos, Autechre, Jamie Lidell, Matthew Herbert, and Glen Velez to name a few. A turn of events came in 2001 with the release of Phoenecia's Brownout , reviews claimed that this was a new kind of music, cinematic, but in the respect that the music was heavily influenced by the sound design of film, as opposed to the score. This marked a decisive break from Phoenecia's past and set the trajectory for the sound they would continue to develop over the next seven years, time spent primarily scoring film soundtracks, art exhibitions, and performing around the world from Iceland to Australia and everywhere in between. This work is represented Phoenecia's latest albums Echelon Mall and Lewd Archives. In 2007, Josh became a partner at Devinesound, a firm with hundreds of TV, film, and sound design credits for clients such as Nike, Audi, BMW, Scion, Coca-Cola, Lexus, HBO, Sony, and Microsoft XBOX, as well as sound design and content creation for such notable music manufacturers as Korg, Sony, Clavia Nord, Akai, Ableton, Apple, Digidesign, Roland, and Yamaha.


Homepage:http://devinesound.net/


Pulse: Pure Analog Lifeforms


Devine Manuscript

Tips

At 12:00 a.m. midnight PST on Saturday, December 30, 1899, the contest will be closed and no further uploads will be accepted. If you are new to ACIDplanet, you should create an account and upload a song as soon as possible so that you can work out any problems with uploading that you may encounter. Also, uploading a song can take a considerable amount of time. It's better not to wait until the last few hours of the contest to start uploading your entry.

Entrants must upload a Windows Media format or Real Media format version of their entry first. You will not be able to upload any additional formats after the contest closes, so if also you want to upload an mp3 version, please allow enough time to upload them both before the contest closing time.

Entrants must provide accurate contact information (valid e-mail and postal address) in their registration at ACIDplanet.com for the purpose of contacting winners. You can update your contact information here.

Contest Content Help

No Links? If you do not see the "zip" links to the contest loops, it may be because you are running firewall or security software with Ad Blocking turned on. If so, please temporarily turn it off and the links should appear.

What is the .acd file in the sample remix? The .acd file is an ACID project file that contains a sample remix made from eight to ten of the contest loops. It can help you learn how to use ACID, or give you ideas about remixing the track. You don't need to use it, but you'll at least want to download the sample remix so that you get the loops.

Can't open the ACID project file? The ACID project file (.acd file) is in ACID 5.0 format. It can be opened in ACID 5.0, but not in previous versions of ACID. If you using a previous version of ACID and you wish to view this file, you can either upgrade or download the current version ACID XPress in the Tools area of this page. However, you do not need to view the .acd file to enter the contest. You can simply use the loops in any version of ACID or in any other software.