Mozart [Un]Rapped Competition

Your chance to Remix Mozart! – Introducing Mozart [Un]Rapped

If you or any of your friends are rappers, vocalists or even producers, then prove your versatility by entering a competition to urbanize Mozarts Music- trust me you won’t get an opportunity like this very often!

There are a bunch of samples available of the Aurora Orchestra playing Mozart for you to mix, mash-up and rap over…. The 3 best freestyles from the under and over 18′s will be chosen and announced on stage by a talented panel of judges at the Grand Finale 24th July 2011 held at  Kings Place.

Some top prizes are at stake including a half day at Shure UK HQ, where the winner can test a range of Shure microphones; then select their own prizes!

You have until 20th July 2011 to create and submit your track to enter the competition! This is not for the faint hearted. If you think you’ve got what it takes, get involved!

Click here for more information and to enter  http://www.kingsplace-unwrapped.co.uk/

Everything Everything to Judge the Institutes Shure Songwriting Award 2011

Shure UK and The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) collaboration is back!

First prize give away is the fantastic opportunity to attend, free of charge, a one year Professional Diploma in Songwriting course at the Institute worthover £5,000 and some Shure goodies!

Nurturing talent is something Shure take seriously and were glad to be in our third year of the Songwriting award.

This award has previously been judged by some well recognised performers, K.T. Tunstall and Paloma Faith. This year the judges are Everything Everything who have been nominated for the XFM New Music Award. Singer/Songwriters can grab this opportunity to be noticed by some of the industry’s most influential people.

“We’re thrilled to be judging the Shure Songwriting Award and work with the Institute this year. Competitions such ast his are vital for discovering and encouraging new musical talent and we can’twait to hear the entries.”

To enter,all you have to do is upload an original song to the award website before April 8th 2011.

A combination of an expert panel of judges plus public voting will select a top 8 and then Everything Everything will be making their selection for this year’s winner!

You have nothing to lose so why not get involved and enter this competition! 2 Runners up also win some amazing Shure gear to help with thier future career.

To find out more about this competition visit Shure.co.uk/songwritingaward

Visit Shure Songwriting Award official website

Get involved and Good Luck!

Music Producers Guild Awards 2011 Winners

We’d like to say a huge congratulations to all of the winners of this  years  MPG Awards.  A great night was had by all.  It was wonderful to  see artists such as Chris Martin of Coldplay, Plan B, Gary Numan, The  Coral  and Alison Goldfrapp in attendance to pay their respects to the  unsung  heroes of music – producers, engineers,  masterers; and let’s  not forget the studios themselves.