From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #44 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, February 24 2000 Volume 05 : Number 044 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Beatnik's website for Japan [RThurF@aol.com] Alloy: Thomas quoted in Beatnik/Beyond Music article [RThurF@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 01:40:47 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Beatnik's website for Japan I've just spent some time playing with the title page of the Beatnik site for Japan; if you haven't visited, go to: http://www2.baywell.ne.jp/beatnik/ The page has various sound effects that seem to interact with one another in different ways if you 'touch' them in various sequences... the tones are really beautiful. Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 20:41:07 EST From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: Thomas quoted in Beatnik/Beyond Music article Add Your Own Track to Lucy Pearl's Debut Album as Beatnik and Pookie Records/Beyond Music Launch Revolutionary GrooveGram Contest Through MTV.com Fame, Fortune and Whirlwind VIP Tour Await the Winner of the 'Lucy Pearl Finish the Album Contest' LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Cutting-edge R&B super-group Lucy Pearl, Beatnik Inc., the leader in interactive audio for the Web and Pookie Records/Beyond Music announced today the first-ever "Lucy Pearl Finish the Album Contest" hosted by MTV.com. The Beatnik GrooveGram contest invites fans to remix Lucy Pearl's song "La, La," placing the winning remix as a final track on the group's debut album. In addition, the winner's name will appear on the album, and the winner and a guest will be flown to the opening night of Lucy Pearl's North American tour in grand VIP style. The contest will begin February 23, exclusively at www.MTV.com. To enter the contest, fans simply visit either http://www.mtv.com or http://www.beatnik.com, download the Beatnik Player, and begin remixing Lucy Pearl's "La, La" GrooveGram within minutes. Fans can collaborate on their entry with friends through email. The contest closes March 26, at which time Lucy Pearl will judge the entries and announce the grand-prize winner on March 28. Lucy Pearl, which is the highly anticipated first-time collaboration of Raphael Saadiq of Tony Toni Tone, Dawn Robinson of En Vogue and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest, is slated to release its debut album May 16, 2000, on Pookie Records/Beyond Music. The group's North American tour will kick-off in May 2000. "It's great that Lucy Pearl is using GrooveGrams to embrace the creative feedback of their fans," said Thomas Dolby Robertson, chief Beatnik of Beatnik, Inc. "Like music videos in the 80's and 90's, GrooveGrams intensify the relationship fans have with music -- but Beatnik takes the experience beyond merely listening passively, to where you can truly interact and add your own artistic imprint. GrooveGrams offer a unique promotional vehicle for record labels, as well as for Web sites that want to keep people glued to a page for hours at a time." The Beatnik "Lucy Pearl Finish the Album Contest," hosted by MTV.com, is the first time a recording group will invite a fan to contribute a music track to an album. Beatnik GrooveGrams provide the technology to create a unique bond between musicians and fans by enabling fan/artist collaboration and self-publishing. Artists and music companies began validating fans in a series of contests hosted on Beatnik.com by choosing the winning GrooveGrams based on musical quality. Contests featured songs from Britney Spears, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Yes, Moby, Puff Daddy, Blondie, Jamiroquai and others by rewarding grand-prize winners with tickets to opening performances, invitations to the Grammy Awards, trips to London and a host of personalized prizes. With Lucy Pearl, this is the first time a fan will be immortalized on an album. "At MTV.com we are committed to providing our online music audience with the best possible interactive music experiences," said Rick Holzman, vice president MTV.com. "We are very excited to be working with Beatnik, Pookie Records and Beyond Music to give fans the opportunity to actually help create a track on the much anticipated Lucy Pearl album." Beatnik GrooveGrams are an innovative way to provide fans direct, real-time interaction with music while they remain at a web site, rather than having them merely download a music file, leave and listen offline. Beatnik GrooveGrams enable fans to remix the guitar, vocal, drums and synthesizer elements of a song -- and sound like a professional -- simply by pointing and clicking, and without any previous music expertise. The new GrooveGram can then be sent to friends through email, or entered in contests in which the recording artists themselves choose a winner. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #44 **************************