Remix yourself a trip to London courtesy of Channel 4, watch Splice on Attack of the Show and learn the history of the Amen break. Where can you do all of these things and more? Over in the blog, of course! If you’re not reading, you’re missing out!
Skins is a new british comedy premiering on Channel 4 on January 25th. You can get involved by remixing a song for a scene in the show:
We want you to make your mark on the music used in Skins. We’re looking for a tune to accompany a key scene in the show, and the winning track will actually be used in the show.
Sid’s out on the town in Bristol, when he gets confronted by a group of townie girls on the lash who know a victim when they see one. He tries to talk his way out of trouble but still ends up getting beaten up by the girls. To add insult to injury, everytime he gets punched his comedy t-shirt makes a sound…
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to hear what kind of sound Sid’s comedy t-shirt might make. I’m sure you’ll think of something. To enter the contest, go here. The winner is going to get a swank new Zoom MRS-1608 Digital Multitracker and the top three choices will all win a trip to London for the premiere!
We’ve been seeing a lot of new faces around here since Kevin and Olivia took some time to feature Splice on G4’s Attack of the Show recently, and we love the attention! Thanks guys!
If you didn’t see the clip yet, you can catch it here on their site.
Have you seen this?
“This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison’s 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.”
It’s really worth the twenty minutes if you can spare them!
You can remix the Amen Break on Splice. (Thanks to kaneel for the upload!)
Someone just told me that Pete over at Mashable.com has started a social network contest. We have tons of users from Mashable! Come on over there and help vote Splice to the top of the music category! (It’ll keep you off of Santa’s Naughty List.)
Did you know that it’s not ok to upload copyrighted work to Splice? Unless an artist has specifically licensed their works under a Creative Commons license, it doesn’t go here. That means that if you upload an MP3 of your favorite band, you run the risk of having that sound deleted and ending up with holes in your songs! The best way to prevent that is to either only upload sounds you made yourself, or to find some that are CC Licensed. Let’s keep Splice creative!
In case you forgot to mark your calendars, Creative Commons turned four over the weekend. We’re awfully fond of CC licensing here at Splice, so I thought I’d post this video that I found in Lawrence Lessig’s YouTube page:
Everything on Splice currently works with an Attribution License, which means that when you upload your work, you are saying that others can use the it so long as they give you credit. You can read about over here.
We all know I love to extoll the virtues of Creative Commons and what happens when you allow people to embrace and enhance your work. But just in case you suspect I have ulterior motives for doing so, I would like to introduce you to commonsplice. If you go check out his profile, there is a GREAT video in there about his experiences with sharing his music via Creative Commons licenses. You might actually recognize his voice - I uploaded a sample of his ages ago, in which he says, “99% of us is noise”, which has been added to quite a few mixes on Splice. I made this song out of it:
Maybe you’ve got something to add to it? I think that when you have a bevy of creative people actively sharing their creations, you really do get some amazing results from it. Come on in and play!!
Those of you looking for some fun guitar riffs should check out Splice user dicet, who has been supplying us with plenty. Take a listen to his song happy feetz to see what I mean:
spanwayhits has been making some fun songs, too. We especially liked this one, and not just because of it’s awesome title:
If you haven’t had a chance to listen to the stuff coming from october yet, I would have to highly recommend doing so. He’s got some great sounds (even some from freesound) and even blogged us (twice) recently. Thanks for the love! Try this one on for size - it’s awesome: