“Yellow laser beam funk. I sampled a song by Frida from Abba. It's a song that I have heard in the back of my head from my childhood, but I have no clue where I heard it first, it's just always been there. So this is my version with Becky from a band called ‘You Say Party, We Say Die’.”
K-OS on Eye Know Some Thing
Compete for a spot on the companion disc to K-OS’s upcoming album Yes! by signing up for the "Eye Know Something" Contest below. Download the stems to mix, re-imagine, and augment them however you choose. This is just one of the 11 contests in the K-OS Studio Access Program - sign up for all 11!
Click on "How Do I Participate?" below for more details. And check out K-OS's website for music, tour dates, and more!
The winner of this contest will have their submission included on K-OS’s companion album set to be distributed by Universal in the spring of 2009!
Winners were announced on February 20, 2009 at 8:00 PM EST
See the Contest Winners
Source Files
Prize
Winner (selected by judges from all entries)
The winning entry will be included on the companion album to Yes! and will receive $1,000! Voting will not decide the ultimate winner - the judges will.
Honorable Mentions (selected by voting)
The top 10 entries will receive signed copies of K-OS's upcoming album.
Judges
The judges for this contest will select winners from each of the 11 K-OS Studio Access contests!
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| Charles Beck K-OS - Eye Know (Ch... | 5 | |
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a shameless shameless plug but only for honest feedback not for votes
http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/5725
THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO VOTED!!!!! I DON'T NORMALLY DO THESE TYPE OF BEATS BUT IT WAS FUN ANYWAY...
GOO LUCK TO EVERYONE ON THE REAL PRIZE!!!
PEACE!!!!!
Sephira, when i uploaded my mix it was rank 39th
i get one vote and it jumps to 29th. so what are you talkin about 1000's votes
u make no sense. ur telling me that only people from calgary vote for my mix? iam confused
leave me alone and just dont be jelous
i seen an article in the calgary herald bout this website, so i upload my mix, i have alot of friend on myspace, i dont know what ur talkin bout 20, i never knew making music was such a shock to some people
Dear Harm Productions,
If you take some time to google 'harm productions,' you will find a flicker post by an artist who is accusing you of stealing his artwork. You were forced to remove this by Myspace after the artist flagged the picture, thereby drawing attention to myspace administration. This forced removal shows that you actually stole it, and by stating that it happened 3-4 months ago you have even admitted that you are a thief.
FURTHERMORE, in a private message you sent to my indaba account, you then claim that you stole the artwork 5 months ago, that is inconsistent with your public claim on this board and further illustrates your ability to twist logic and memory to make yourself comfortable with your past mis-action.
I MUST ADD that your contest entry has risen very quickly to the first place position. Actually much much faster than any other entry in several of these contests. When I logged on one morning to see how the contest progressed I found that you had managed, in under a day, what others could not do in weeks. At that time it was 8:30AM EST, and you are near Calgary placing you sometime after 5:30AM. Since your entry was only in the top 10 twelve hours previous to that, this would tell us that you had managed to secure what may be thousands of votes within just 12 hours.. DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.
So who votes for your mix in the middle of the night? No one, would you really be bothered to vote for your generic swill at 4am? If we take a moment to check out your myspace, facebook group etc. You only have around 20 friends in each, so that wouldn't make sense. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
I don't think humans vote at that time, humans are asleep at that time..
Once I met a Hindu prince who told me about a baron who once asked him to build a computer program which repeatedly generates website hits through a loop command in the programming. I laughed when I remember this because I thought that you would make the perfect software algorithm, just one brown kid in suburban calgary generating email addresses through the wee hours of the night.
Your whole get up smells fishy, even your name looks like someone wrote cheat on your face.
ONE LOVE.
[K-OS]Eye Know Something[Sevan-O Remix]
http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/5637
Hey! it's a very interesting point of view you got here Tassili and I agree.If Indaba is ment to be the place for serious discussion about music people have to learn that beatifull words is not necessesary the words of truth and the truth is not necesserary beatifull.All people on the earth,here the same sound.It's simple,because we have the same sounds in the nature as we use in music.If you hit the door with your hand-you will hear a deep tone and the same tone,just higher.and a 1/4 tone (forgot the word in english).If you hear some tones that doesn't match-your ears will tell you that you hear disharmony(disharmonic?)-So,if someone make a mix and yell:check this out!-they ask(IMO) for critism.First:is it harmonic? and second:you ask for peoples subjective taste.This is what a discussionboard is for.Else it will be,as Tassili says:a kiosk for people,who's here for that succes,they will never get because their mom never told them that they have to work for it to be better.. We love you guys-peace /FLOYBOX
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hhahahahahaha. Harm hahahaahah. Sephira puts together a whole long intelligent hit on you, and you reply "leave me alone"? hahah amazing! I'm pretty convinced of what Sephira said. Regardless of getting into musical taste, your levels are all over the place. If you do have "many old friend" on myspace who vote at 4:30am they don't have good ears... Still love it. I want you to write on the board more!!