VOTE DIRTY: Dirty Beatport Remix Submissions: voting period is 2nd-16th November

[Lx_Nen]

Sadly, comments are disabled for individual mixes. The only place to connect with other remixers is in the discussion on the competition rules, here: http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/...remix-contest/ - I think I've picked up a few spins that way already :-)

[BrotherLovesDub]

Originally Posted by Dunwho

Oh actually i just thought of something....

We should all start commenting on our songs on the actual site... be real active... if we have comments we will stand out.. so i am going to start leaving comments on everyones songs and hopefully drive some new interest... itd be great if everyone else here does the same!

I thought the same thing!

edit: hmm, can't find the comment entry field once i click Comment.

[Dunwho]

Originally Posted by Lx_Nen

Sadly, comments are disabled for individual mixes. The only place to connect with other remixers is in the discussion on the competition rules, here: http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/...remix-contest/ - I think I've picked up a few spins that way already :-)

Yea i just resorted to that.. its a good way to get some convo going on the tracks..

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

I thought the same thing!

edit: hmm, can't find the comment entry field once i click Comment.

Guess will just have to make do with the above comments area..

[reactorstudios]

Thanks to everyone who spun my mix: I am on the main page!
When my 'Bird 1' fatigue wears off (tomorrow?) I'll be back on the site spinning the stellar dirty mixes.
If you haven't checked it out yet, please do, and PM or leave me your remarks. Thanks.

http://www.beatportal.com/remix/deta...-invasion-mix/

Reactor.

[reactorstudios]

...and I couldn't agree more with the sentiment about what constitutes a remix.
Some of the tracks (in the top 10, even) are clearly original productions that someone pasted the Bird 1 vocal hook over. I guess its a nice way to draw a little attention to an original artist work that might not otherwise get any. While a few are indeed nice productions, I am disappointed to hear these kinds of tracks passed as remixes. I want the flavor, the groove, something of the original...
...and, please, tempo match/sync your loops.

They can't all be great, i suppose, but I sure hope the cream floats to the top before the 16th.

Please excuse my minor ranting. The dirty mixes are killer, and I am disappointed that they aren't yet taking the top spots.

I'll do my part with the "Spin it" button.

reactor.

http://www.beatportal.com/remix/deta...-invasion-mix/

[BrotherLovesDub]

I doubt very seriously any dirts are going to even come close to winning. The top picks all have massive amounts of spins. Maybe we should create 10 gmail accounts each, register 10 diff. accts to beatport and use those to increase the spins on the dirty submissions. That's the only way anyone from here will get close. The gap is too big already to close. Your casual friends will click a link to press play but they're not going to register on the website just to click play again.

[Lx_Nen]

It's not as bad as it looks, the ones that get judged are the top 10 most spins after 2 weeks, plus 10 picked by the staff. I think Beatport know they have a problem with 'ballot-stuffing' (actually, it's bleedin' obvious when someone has 41 spins but the track has only been played 27 times!), which is why the 3 big prizes are not awarded on number of spins, there's just a small $50 prize for that.

If you look through the other contests that have closed, they nearly always say that the top prize winner wasn't the one with the most spins, so I think we just have to aim for the front page, where we stand a decent chance of spicking up votes from in dependent people, and of being picked by the editorial team on quality... because having heard about 50 or 60 so far, I can say that the Dirty mixes do stand out on quality!

[reactorstudios]

It looks like the guy that won the Kaskade competition had only a single spin and was plucked from the bottom of the list by the Beatport editors for inclusion in the twenty that went on to Kaskade for review.
While it's great to be at the top of the list, I think talent will stand out in the end.

There is just a lot of talent in the pool. I think I counted 318 mixes submitted.


reactor.

[reactorstudios]

...and LX_Nen beat me to the post by a few seconds. Sorry that mine now seems redundant.

[undarrenworld]

Originally Posted by Professor

Yup peeps, today is the voting day.... if you've already got an account, it's easy, just hit "spin" ....


http://www.beatportal.com/remix/deta...-watson-remix/

Your awesome remix got my vote
So "the spin" works that you can spin more tracks, so I would spin other dirty remixes as well...