Man Recordings and Fairtilizer bring you the 3rd Man Recordings remix contest. This edition
features Ku Bo , the new project by Vienna bass-meister Stereotyp.

“Tsu Bo” features Ghanian-Austrian singer Anbuley on the microphone and presents the sexy and dubbed out tropical-tec for which Ku Bo has become famous for. “Tsu Bo” feat. Anbuley was recently featured on the upcoming  “Fabric Live 49″ Mix-CD by Buraka Som Sistema and is considered one of the hottest Afro tunes of the moment.  Early December we´ll release the Ku Bo Remix EP (Man 043) featuring remixes by DJ Manaia, Batida, Bert On Beats, Lazy Ants, Flore, Robot Koch and Daniel Haaksman. Until the remix EP will be released, you have the chance to remix the original version of “Tsu Bo”.

THE RULES

1. Listen to the orginal here:

2. Download the parts here (the track is 140 BPM) : Ku Bo Remix Contest Folder

3. Remix the song the way you like.

4. Upload your remix on Fairtilzer and name it “Tsu Bo” and your remix name and add “Man Recordings Remix Contest” in the tags. Note: You have to register to Fairtilizer to be able to upload a track (it takes 30 seconds and it’s free).

5. The winner will be selected by Man Recordings.

Prize: The best remix will be released in digital format on Man Recordings + gets bonus goodies package by Man Recordings and Fairtilizer. Bert On Beats, the last winner in the Man Recordings Remix contest for Daniel Haaksman´s “Kid Conga” even scored a record deal with Man Recordings and will release his debut EP on Man in spring 2010!

Submission deadline: Dec 1st, 2009.

Our man João Brasil played a set for the Diesel U Music show, if you missed it, check out his mix here (we´re awaiting tracklist):

Joao Brasil at Diesel Radio by lontramusic

Above is the trailer for “Sonic Outlaws” ( go to UBUWEB to see it in its full one and a half hours glory!) by Craig Baldwin, an excellent mish mash of found footage and different film medias used to discuss sampling and copyright infringement.  This was released back in 1995 and features a great scene with Negativland talking to U2’s The Edge on a radio show about having their ass sued by U2’s own lawyers for their infamous U2 track, a track that before the times of Youtube was nigh on impossible to hear. The Edge’s proclamations of innocence are pretty funny.

In fact in the 90s, this film could only been seen in festivals and I remember that in 1997  I was programming the cinema programme for Sonar Festival in Barcelona and I booked this film so I could actually see it as I had heard so much about it.

If we move on to 10 years later and we still have the same discussion in “Good Copy Bad Copy” another fine documentary from 2007 with lots of people saying sensible things about the future of copyright and some people saying some not so sensible things – guess which ones will have jobs in the near future. Not so sure about using Girl Talk as the best example of cut and paste, but he seems harmless enough as he taps away at his laptop.

The whole film can be viewed here, and in my opinion both films are well worth watching and prove that this discussion needs to be resolved soon.

We just got out Man Recordings Button Bag in – limited edition of 50 pieces, featuring all your favourite Man Recordings artists and releases. Buy it via the Man Rec shop (pull bar above).

Peter Fox is one of the lead singers of Berlin´s dancehall popsters Seed,
who became known with their German dancehall anthem “Dickes B” (”Fat B”) a while ago. When going solo in 20087, Fox became one of the most succesful German pop stars. His song “Haus Am See” (”House At The Lake”) which became Germany´s 2008 summer anthem, even got air play in neighbouring countries such as Netherlands or Belgium with its catchy melody and dope orchestral sounds. Now Munich based Brasilian MC, singer and percussionist Bani Silva sent us his take on Peter Fox´s “Haus Am See” and we absolutely love it – “Casa Do Rio”, e nois!

Peter Fox – Casa Do Rio feat. Bani Silva