stoooooked. not the best one to remix but i can’t wait! i’ve been the biggest tamborello fan for so long and i’ve always tried to find vocal tracks from his songs but can’t even get luck from the man himself :[

only question – [and anyone should (please) feel free to answer this..fans and everything, whoever]
...
what is the bpm rate or tempo for the vocal track?
the answer would be really great.
PLEASE DO THIS TYPE OF CONTEST MORE OFTEN!!!!
[to subpop and mr. tamborello]

keep the art in music!

peace<3
steve
17
fl, us

www.myspace.com/whoad727

it is very difficult to produce a remix sans the acapella and other parts (preferably lossless). i’d be interested if these could become available.

the acapella (vocals only, right?) version is linked up there in #1 with the text “right here”. the three things linked in #1 are the original song, the album page, and the original vocals.

i’ve been toying this for a little bit and the closest i can guess to bpm is somewhere around 110 and 111. i’m trying 110.5 for now. you can always slice up the vocals to play nice with whatever bpm you want. jimmy has a tendancy to not be “right. on. each. beat.” with his vocals, which is interesting and works well for him. i did notice that with the second part of the song (with the guitar) seems to be more on beat with the vocals. as far as ‘other parts’ i think they want you to just work with the vocals and create the rest with what you have.

as far as lossless, converting the mp3 into wav came up with a 48MB file for me, and that seems a bit much to host for everyone to download. the mp3 file isn’t of terrible quality or anything as it is.

is it d major?
bpm is 110. that’s simple.

for the life of me, i can’t figure out what key is the vocal.

It’s definetly in D. The progression is D-A-Bmin.-F#min.
The BPM is 110.5 for sure.

The vocal is just in a low register so it might throw you off at first.

jimmy posted a blog on his myspace with confirmation, bpm is 110.5. awesome.

a very good idea.

Does anyone have one made or know where we can go to listen to these remixes for the contest?

thanks for the info about the key. i started working on it tonight. i am almost done. thanks again.

i am finished. i hope i am the first one.
i forgot to sleep last night.
now, time to go to work.

if we let this track stream, are we disqualifying ourselves from winning? do we wait till May 29th?

thanks

It says in the rules that we can stream it. Mine should be done this then I’ll post it on Myspace. Everybody should put up their links.

I know, but it also says…
“We will, however, solely own and control all rights to the winning entry. We can use and sell it in any way we like (including the Dntel remix release) without payment other than the $500 paid to the winner.” That means the winner’s submission is controlled by SPR. Since the winner won’t be announced until May 29th, don’t we lose the permission until that time? Also, does it mean we can stream it until May 29th, then they can determine what to do with it? I am going to assume the answer is number two. I will upload it now since the rule wasn’t very clear.

here you go… it should be the first track.
http://www.myspace.com/mixtureremix
the url above is only for the recent remixes i did.
here are my original music
www.myspace.com/pswk
www.myspace.com/grep
www.myspace.com/youngjoon
www.myspace.com/requiemnoise

I hope some shitty club remix doesn’t win, that would be a shame, but most likely will be the case.

Ok so I just tried downloading the song and Im having no luck. When I click on the “here” it brings me to another page which just plays the track with no way of downloading. SO I tried right clickign and all I get is “open in new page” or some other stuff that doesnt apply. SO, is there an alternative to getting the vocals?

Hi there:

I was excited to see a Sub Pop remix contest, until I got to the part that says all submissions belong to Sub Pop.

In this Creative Commons age, I suggest that if you instead released the a capella BY NC, then
remixers could gain the right to post their remixes on their own sites without causing you the concern that they will misappropriate the ‘pella for commercial reasons.

The “sub pop owns all submissions” really defeats the spirit of remixing. It also deprives you of a
chance to virally market the artist through the remix process.

It’s your contest, of course, and the rights are to do with as you choose. But whereas I was about to run over to ccmixterblog to tell everyone to enter, I now am here registering this note.

best to you, and thanks for all the great sub pop artists…

robert, who records as gurdonark
http://www.negativesoundinstitute.com

http://www.myspace.com/allegedartist

apparently, mr.superjames started posting around the web that i write garbage, so i wrote a new one. it took around 3hrs total. mr.superjames, bring it on! i can write a 3rd one. i love a good competition. i can’t wait till hear yours.

Tony from Sub Pop here. You are all free to post your remixes anywhere you like for free. The ownership stipulations are there for legal reasons that are too boring and a little too confusing for me to try and explain here. We absolutely want and encourage you to freely post your remixes far and wide. If you are chosen as the winner we will not ask you to remove your remix from any websites you might have made it freely available on. Sorry for any confusion in the rules. Bear with us, we’re new at this sort of thing.

Hi all. We have no intention to keep you from sharing your remixes, in fact, we want to encourage you to share them! The reason (from my understanding) that our legal department wanted Sub Pop to “own all submissions” mainly had to due with them being extra, positively, triple-sure that folks couldn’t sue Jimmy if he wrote a song later on that someone decided sounded like their remix. We have a long, sorted past with being sued for all sorts of things that seemed innocent enough to us to the time.

That said, we don’t have any interest in stopping anyone from doing anything with their remix short of selling it and/or trying to sue us or Jimmy over it… Share it! Remix each others remixes! Have fun!

Tony owes me a Coke.

your vocal track was hilarious.

I don’t want to start a war with you, I posted about this contest on a message board that you’re apparently trolling. Good luck heh.

BRING IT ON. Current score
NI 2 SUPERJAMES 0
I want to hear your fischerprice fruityloops programming.

aww…. sad…
he is too emo to compete. where is your spirit? cry when it is over.

Like I said on the board that you troll, this obviously isn’t the place for you to take up your issues with my opinions on your shitty remixes, do it there. Don’t be mad because everyone agrees that you’re living in the early 90’s. Your random insults are almost as hilarious as your “it isn’t eeeaasy” vocal track, considering you don’t know anything about me or what I do. Also, messaging a 16 year old girl on myspace saying her music is a joke is really classy. As far as I’m concerned, you’re in the negatives, Ni -2 SuperJames 0 I’m sorry I haven’t posted remixes yet, I’m looking for just the right pair of parachute pants and a barber that will give me a sweet fade so I can match your boy band remix styles. Seriously, just stop posting.

I don’t where are you getting your acquisition. What do you mean troll? You publicly insulted me around the web and you never even met me. You have the right to speak and so do I. This is the net. That’s the beauty of digital information. Also, I would like to make a point about which random insult are you indicating? I am not even on the forums you have insulted me. A very kind fellow remixer here has pointed out. In order to accuse a person, it has to come with a prove of evidence. Imagination through internet isn’t form of action.
We really do not care about the imaginary world you have create for yourself. This isn’t RPG game or imaginary myspace world, so I have no idea to get inside your head to understand your imagination. Please, share your work with us. Music is heard by the ears, not by the intention. So far, you haven’t provide anything worth while to claim your super status.
We are waiting. Let’s have fun with this competition. I am already having fun. Let us hear with our ears not with the eyes. This is how you do your do a remix competition. Next time, I hope Subpop does it little differently like other remix competitions from different labels. Let’s all have fun. Competition is very healthy. We are waiting James.

Once again, your insults are baseless and hilarious. I’m not going to make this escalate any further, stop contaminating this contest page.

So we get the vocal, that’s cool, but no samples from the rest of the song. Would I be totally disqualified if I sampled bits from the full track and used them in the remix?

how does this sound.
http://www.myspace.com/thetremulance

The_tremulance. Yeah, sounds good. I like the arrangement; nice and dry and organic. The vocal gets a little buried in the 2nd verse. I had the same problem with mine for a while. The vocal track for this is really all over the place dynamically so it’s hard to work with.

thank you. i listened through it again yesterday, and i agree with you on the vocals. i think i’ll fix that.

djabducted’s toy symphany remix is posted on www.myspace.com/seschicago

the_tremulance, your remix is gorgeous. not overbearing like others posted here—complements the vox track really well, lets it shine. props.

hey. thanks for the kind words.

I know this is all for fun, but I got to thinking, what happens if a remix of a remix actually wins? doesn’t that raise certain moral issues about what goes to whom? Is it a tie?

feel free to listen, download, and remix my remix, since it’s largely organic it should be pretty easy to do so, but if your remix of my remix wins, the only thing I ask is that you buy me a beer if you’re ever here in Seattle.

-Shane
myspace.com/shanecurry

Yo homies,

Go check out my remix:

www.myspace.com/rybeatsbiotch

Let me know what you think.

first off, this remix idea was a very good one and im glad to participate

secondly, ive been checkin out all the submissions and damn, their all so good. i just want this contest to end so i know who the winner is, until then – trying to forget i submited so i dont get my hopes up haha

Artilect
www.myspace.com/artilect

Can you enter more than one remix?

yeah, I’m pretty sure several people have, gathering what I read from above.

I know I’ll undoubtedly submit at least one more before the contest is over, I’ve already begun laying down tracks I recorded of typewriters and rotary phones for beats…

i don’t stand a chance. everyone’s remix is so great.

check it out anyway.

www.myspace.com/weechoinmexico

is here: www.myspace.com/freemanlowell if anyone would like to check it out…

Best

I think it sounds great. naive?

attempt at a remix:

http://www.myspace.com/declanswell

Here is my remix

http://www.myspace.com/thekinziehousechicago

Jason

here is our rework of the track:

http://www.myspace.com/augustaugust

best from berlin,
jan and arnulf

Hi! It’s Ruffle here…
I’d like you to listen up my version of Dumb Luck.

http://www.myspace.com/ruffleone

This is not exactly remix.
This is Ruffle’s vision of how Dumb Luck may sounds like.

Hey guys good luck to everyone!And to Sub Pop,well done on a great idea!Please do more of this type of thing!

Here’s my remix…pls let me know what you think!

www.myspace.com/theelectricghost

i somehow forgot to post this here, too…
my try is up at http://www.myspace.com/thisdamnckid

sub pop: please do more of these open contests! it was a lot of fun.

kind of last minute, but here’s my remix:

http://www.myspace.com/projectilesprojectiles

it’s made entirely from the vocal track—no additional samples/loops/instruments.

It’s Don’t Eat Sky’s remix! Twelve people have described it as ‘the best remix I’ve ever heard!’. Ten of these may or may not have been deaf.

http://www.myspace.com/donteatsky

Mine’s up on the ol’ myspace page, too. I thought I’d go dark with the music to match the incredibly negative and depressing lyrics. Fun!

http://www.myspace.com/grandbrother

Enjoy!

Well, here goes nothin’...

I apologize for any runaway frequencies…my monitoring situation is far from ideal.

I enjoyed the reworking the track… hopefully there will be more contests like this one to follow.

...lots of interesting ideas out there…

http://www.myspace.com/jphillipsmusic

later
J

http://www.myspace.com/jphillipsmusic

add another to the list!! lol

just uploaded this mix to myspace page – track 4

http://www.myspace.com/soloaudioable

hope you find it amusing!!

big kudos to all that I’ve heard, very fun

So I had fun doing this.

Probably put in more time than necessary to get the results I did. But whatever, we’ll consider this a learning curve since it’s the first time even attempting a remix.

Tell me what you think.

http://www.myspace.com/110328227

Oh I’m also looking for a pirated copy of reason since I don’t own reason as of yet. So if anyone could help me out with that that’d be awesome… or suggestions to programs you might like that are better than reason or just as good.

Thanks.

Aaron (SexynotSlutty)

Hey everyone.
Here’s my remix. Hope you’ll enjoy!

http://www.garageband.com/artist/mooncar

I cannot send my work before deadline because have some technical
troubles.
I’ve send it today but recieve Delivery Status Notification (Failure).
Help me! How can I send my mix? It is possible?

Sub Pop – are you fixing the email? I’m getting all email sent to your account bouncing back.

Help! Thank you!
/Adam

Of course I’m a couple days late (I wouldn’t expect to be on time for my own funeral).

So, here is my mix. Made a myspace page to host it for people to hear. It’s kinda amateurish but I love the groove I gave it. I did it on Logic Express. The bass is really important to the “chuggyness” so make sure you play it on good speakers.

www.myspace.com/dermanmachine

Btw: I’m totally loving people interpretations on the song. It’s really wonderful!

will the results be posted here?

danke

here’s my version. enjoy !

http://espacelaudanum.free.fr/dntel_dumb_luck_the_laudanum_remix.mp3

so i’m a little late but this was still a lot of fun… i really like all the different interpretations as well.

http://www.myspace.com/awesomepuffs

a remix: www.myspace.com/donnerpartymusic
I love the diversity and creativity of those submitted.

Here is our remix:
myspace.com/thelivelyarts
this contest was amazing.

Hi Sub Pop!
We can’t seem to email you the song, so here’s a link: http://www.robotbreeder.com/Dumb_Luck_AdamandBrie_mix.mp3

We DID send it in before the cutoff!! so hopefully we still get a chance to enter.

Thanks very much!

/Adam and Brie

Great contest!
Have a listen…

www.myspace.com/rumorse

Thanks!
Jorge.

Hey guys. I’m probably really lame for this but I made my remix about a month ago, but didnt want anybody to steal ideas from it, so I kept it more or less on the D/L, but here’s my mix.

http://www.myspace.com/karljohnson

Lemme know what y’all think. Thanks a bunch!

Here is my remix:
http://www.myspace.com/soitgoes777
I wasn’t able to quite finish it in time (the middle part needs more layers), but it was close enough that it was worth entering.

enjoy.
so.it.goes

here’s my lil mix…i hope all will enjoy it…
best of (dumb)luck to everyone

www.myspace.com/thechildstudyteam

-Andrew Nine

I emailed it, but I dunno, w/e

http://www.myspace.com/sportanerd

Yes, I’m well aware of my love of LazyTown.

bandwagons are good times and here is my jump upons it…
http://www.myspace.com/eskimoesque
you all rawk!

Took me forever to say so, but you may visit http://www.myspace.com/djveedz to have a go at my entry…

I just stopped here again by chance, and see that the Creative Commons issue I raised was largely addressed—sadly, though, I did not notice until after the contest deadline. I wrote it off some months ago, but I see I missed the “fix”.

Thanks for taking the effort to make the fix, and I wish I had entered the contest.

best, robert

Just wondering if I missed an announcement somewhere about who won, or if we’re still waiting.

Thanks!

Grandbrother

hey,
any news?

Far far away from the deadline we found this acappella and we loved it.
Just listen our mix….

http://en.qoob.tv/audio/clip_view.asp?id=728

www.myspace.com/mendezdjmuna

If you check out the Dntel myspace blog:
”...oh man i’m sorry i still haven’t announced a winner for the remix contest. there’s so many to choose from and a lot of the holdup has just been trying to figure out exactly what this remix ep is going to consist of because i want the winning remix to fit well with the rest of the release…
jimmy”
(http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=5110189&blogID=297130963)

he hasn’t forgotten us.

Still anxiously awaiting the results…

Later

J

This is my very first remix ever. I did not even start it in time for the contest, it became a last minute entry onto a demo ep i have been working on.

download my dumb luck remix and the rest of my EP here:

www.jonathansproject.com
www.myspace.com/jonpretz

I like it :) Hope you do too. its called the

“Dumb Luck (JAP’s Home Alone Mid-20s Remix)