Indaba Music, Filter Magazine and OM Records are proud to announce the winners to the Amp Live ‘Turn it Up’ Remix Contest featuring Mickey Factz. With over 300 entires, it was very hard to narrow it down to the final 3. Congratulations to Phlip Broden, Glitch and Vol for their creative work on transforming the original into their own.

1) PHILIP BORDEN – Turn It up Remix

After listening to all the talented & creative remixes that where submitted, hands, down, this was off the hook! This track brings me back to the golden age of hip-hop with a twist of new age sound, a perfect blend that can be easily digested. This remix of Turn It up couldn’t have been done better: whether in a club, iPod, laptop or whatever you got, it makes you want to Turn It Up!

2) GLITCH – Turn Your AMPLive up p p

This track right here is like a perfectly baked cake by Martha Stewart. Full of ingredients that keeps the ears hungry for more. Glitch takes you on a trip through space & time but keeps you from escaping this mortal plane with his choice of today’s hottest glitch tempo samples & synths. Any electronic fan has got to give it to Glitch for his innovative style.

3) VOL. – Turn It Up (VOL Remix)

Vol. starts off wit’ a piano that gets you leaning back right before synths come out from behind bushes to slap your ear drums. This what I’m going to call eclectic-electro funk; a massala of sound full. This track is only in third because there had to be one. Don’t get it twisted folks most definitely a heavy weight contender!

Amp Live Winners’s Profile Songs

Filter Magazine

It’s that time of year when people start compiling top 100 lists of favorite DJs, album and songs. DJMag out of the UK is on it first and has set up their annual poll of the world’s top DJs. Usually dominated by big European names, this is our chance to have a say. Visit DJMag to vote.

It’s your turn to vote on your favorite Amp Live ‘Turn it Up’ Remix on Indaba Music. With over 300 remixes submitted, it took me close to 8 hours to go through them all. Visit the Indaba Music Amp Live Remix page to cast your vote. Stay tuned next week for the announcement of the winners.

Remixers sorted by popularity.

Remixes sorted radomly.

DJ Times is asking fans of DJ culture to help them crown America’s Best DJ (last years winner was Z-Trip). The DJ Times staff has picked the top 100 nominees. A few of of the immediate Om family and extended family are on the list of nominees, including Bassnectar, Mark Farina, Colette, Pezzner, Kaskade, Derrick Carter, Andy Caldwell, Claude Von Stroke, Wolfgang Gartner, King Britt, Miguel Migs, and Seth Troxler.

Each entry gets a chance to win a number of different prizes from DJ Times. Here’s the list of prizes.

Click here to vote now!

To the tune of Amp Live’s love for remixes, spin his latest hit, Turn it Up, in a new direction. Add your own interpretation to this club-inspired hip-hop single for a chance at $500, a spot on an official release, and some cool gear.

Remember the early days of hip-hop, when b-boys and girls rocked the planet over electro grooves and space was the place to be? Amp Live does. The Bay Area-based producer, best known for his work with Zion-I, boldly ventures back to the genre’s Afrofuturist roots on the lead single “Turn it Up” from his new solo album, Murder at the Discotech. Like Marty McFly with an MPC and a DeLorean on 22s, Amp Live brings the perfect beat back in the name of science, elevating hip-hop out of its creative doldrums and restoring innovation to the genre. Besides producing all five of Zion-I’s critically-acclaimed studio albums (and the Grouch collabo Heroes in the City of Dope), Amp Live’s official remix credits include Linkin Park, Radiohead, Tapes ‘n Tapes, Jamie Lidell, MGMT, Jealous Girls, Tokyo Police Club, and Why?.

“Turn it Up” represents bass-infused robotic beats featuring Mickey Factz (featured on the cover of XXL’s Freshman of ’09) with more swag than a college senior. This new electro-inspired banger recalling the glory days of Run-DMC, T La Rock is being remixed left and right, with much potential for innovation.

Murder at the Discotech drops June 15th everywhere!!!

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ON THE CONTEST!

Creative Allies, Urb Magazine and Camp Bisco have teamed up for a once in the lifetime Remix Contest featuring Amorphous Music & Child’s Play Records purveyor of BASS, Bassnectar. Still pumping tunes off his latest album Cozza Frenzy, Bassnectar headlines Camp Bisco along side LCD Soundsystem, Thievery Corperation, Method Man, Ghostface and Raekwon, Ween and more July 15-17th in upstate New York.

Calling all producers and remixers, this is your chance to win an opening slot at the festival by remixing the lead single from Bassnectar ‘Cozza Frenzy.’ Winners are picked by Bassnectar and a core group of judges from Creative Allies, URB and Camp Bisco and the grand prize includes 2 passes to the festival with Artist credentials, a custom MobBase iPhone app and lifetime subscription from MixMatchMusic, $200 for travel expenses, ground transportation from Albany, NY to the festival Site and accommodations during the festival and a one-hour set in front of thousands of festival goers at Camp Bisco 9! This is an oppotunity of a lifetime so don’t not SLEEP! You can download everything you need from the Bassnectar widget below or visit URB.com for more details.

Beatport has just announced the first ever Beatport Music Awards. The Beatport Music Awards aims to recognize electronic music talent. With nominees based solely on Beatport sales data from March 2009 – March 2010, the awards are broken down by music genre.

There are 36 categories altogether: Best Artists (separated into 18 genres), and Best Track (17 genres, with both originals and remixes), with a final open question asking the public to name the ‘most influential, relevant and forward-thinking person in electronic music over the past 12 months’.

Voting closes on May 19th 2010, with the winners announced on or around May 27th.

Click Here to Vote For Your Favorites.

People Under the Stairs have launched a contest off of their fan site in celebration of 5 years of The P forum. They are asking fans to submit original People Under the Stairs inspired sketched or hand drawn art to incorporate in to the new forum being designed now. Besides being featured on the new site, prizes include Brown Stepfather T-Shirt, Thes One ‘Target 10 Single,’ Scrapploc – From Whence Thy Came EP, feat. Double K production, Olde Soul / Double K – “Taking Me Places Split 7” and a Carried Away CD. Click here for more info.

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Om Records is proud to announce an exclusive partnership with the Canadian based AudioAcademy.fm, an electronic music resource center geared towards production and music industry related business. We’ve decided to run a little contest, the Battle of the DJs in which we will fly out the winner to WMC and invite them to play our annual Miami event on Thursday, March 25th 2010. The contest runs from January 11th to March 14th, click here to find out rules and regulations as well as how to enter. “We’re really looking forward to working with Audio Academy for this years Battle of the DJ contest,” says Jonathan McDonald of Om Records. “We believe that it’s very important to help emerging talent gain exposure through such outlets setting the stage for a debut at the largest electronic music conferences in the world.”

For more info on the AudioAcademy and it’s new turntable software audioDJx, please click here. Stay tuned for more announcements regarding the Om: Miami 2010 event.