Yesterday marked the closing date for Röyksopp’s Tricky Tricky remix competition. The band announced it little over a month ago and wow, what a fantastic turn-out! We’re happy to announce that exactly 849 tracks were submitted to the contest via the SoundCloud Group DropBoxes.

The winners will be announced the week of October 26th on Röyksopp’s website. In the meantime, listen to the submissions below and pick your favorite remix:

United Kingdom:

Röyksopp ‘Tricky Tricky’ remix competition UK

United States:
Röyksopp ‘Tricky Tricky’ remix competition USA

Australia:
Röyksopp ‘Tricky Tricky’ remix competition Australia

Germany:
Röyksopp ‘Tricky Tricky’ remix competition Germany

Norway:
Röyksopp ‘Tricky Tricky’ remix competition Norway

France:
Röyksopp ‘Tricky Tricky’ remix competition France

It’s great to see artists and labels using SoundCloud’s group features and the players for their remix competitions. If you need any assistance while setting up your own remix contest and would like to use SoundCloud, let us know – we’ll be happy to help.

Icke & Er and Bela B. are preparing a charity fundraising festival on the 19th of July 2009 in the Zitadelle Spandau/ Berlin, called „Ein Hartz für Berlin“ – all proceeds going towards „Berliner Tafel“. They wanted to add SoundCloud to the proceedings so have organised a remix competition that we’d like to tell you about.

For more details, listen to the track and download the acapella for remixing head over to their SoundCloud page. The best remixes will be put together on a special remix bundle and there’s some SoundCloud PRO accounts up for grabs too.

Fine Art have opened up a remix competition for Yalla Yalla by Sheharzad. Having been remixed by panOptikum and Henrik Schwarz this is a great opportunity to give the original your own edge. Prizes include a release on Fine Art and a SoundCloud PRO account.

Deadline is 1st of June, submissions will need to be made via the dropbox and there are no genre restrictions whatsoever, so let’s get crackin’.

News has been reaching us of some really exciting contests going on in the Cloud at the moment. It’s great to see lots of users being creative with their SoundCloud players and dropboxes. And for budding producers and SoundCloud users it means the chance to win some fantastic prizes!

Get Physical have a fantastic new concept album due out on 6th February called Final Song #01. It might sound a bit morbid but the album is a collection of records that the artists would like to be played at their funeral or hear before they die: the track that is so important to them it should be played for eternity. And they’re letting SoundCloud users join in the fun. Have you produced a song that you’d like to hear before you die? If so, upload it to the Final Song dropbox and if your track is selected you’ll win some great prizes!

Roll Records have really gone all out and are offering the chance to win a 20” iMac by remixing Reead. Who doesn’t want to win a 20” iMac? Make sure you check out this competition that Roll Records is running in association with DJDownload. Closing date for entries to their dropbox is 15th February.

The Dandy Warhols are also making use of SoundCloud for their remix competition. We only just found out about this one so there’s not much time left to enter a remix. But check out all the stems and more information on their SoundCloud page or get them right here:

Compost are offering you the chance to rework ‘Aurevoir’ a track taken from Alif Tree’s second album ‘Clockwork’ available spring 2009. Prizes include a full release of the remix on Compost Records, a free SoundCloud Pro account and a delightfully put together care-package with 50 vinyls or CD’s picked out from the Compost vaults. The deadline for remix submissions is Sunday 15th March, so get over to Compost’s page and get busy!

If you’re using SoundCloud in a really interesting way then we’d love to hear about it.

You’re all going to have to pull a few late-nighters in the studio this month because those remix competitions are everywhere – quite literally! Hot on the heels of last week’s Jazzanova Remix Competition, we’re pleased to tell you about another opportunity to flex your remixing muscles. This time round the world’s largest online dance music retailer Juno has teamed up with London-based Cr2 Records to give you the chance to re-work John Dahlback’s massive electro-house single ‘Everywhere’.

The parts, including vocal, synths, guitar and vocal are nice and simple so we’ll be keeping a keen ear out for the most interesting interpretations which Cr2 will be posting up on their Cr2 Remixed page. The label will be picking 4 winners, one from each of the following genres: Electro, House/Tech, Techno, Drum & Bass. These will be released on the commercial digital release of ‘Everywhere’ in January 2009. And if this honour wasn’t enough, there’s also some great prizes up for grabs from ourselves, Ableton and Juno.

To enter you’ll need to get the parts from Juno Download, get creative and then submit your remix to the CR2 Remixed DropBox. You’ll find the full details here. And hurry, all entries must be in by December 14th.

We’re really excited to tell you that Jazzanova are doing a remix contest for their new single ‘I Can See’ on SoundCloud. We just had a listen through the parts and it really sounds like a fun remix project to work on. Ben Westbeech does a great job on the vocals and it seems one could do fun stuff with the piano backing track. The original tune is really good as well! Check and download the samples for yourself here:

To start working, just head over to the Jazzanova remix site, register with your email, download the parts and drop your mix in the DropBox. The Jazzanovas will then listen through and comment directly on your track! The deadline is January 15th.

A bunch of nice prizes (including Ableton Live licenses and SoundCloud PRO accounts…) are waiting for the lucky winners- and on top the chance of a digital release on Berlin-based label Sonar Kollektiv. The remixes will be presented on the Jazzanova website and Soundcloud. And the winner of the competition will be picked by the Jazzanovas themselves.

Oh, and here’s the video for ‘I Can See’:

UPDATE: The remix contest has been extended, the deadline is now 15th of January.