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Chillcast #134: CC Asia Band Contest

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Back on The Chillcast #122, I presented a spotlight on the CC Asia Band project that I took part in. At that time, the collection of 21 songs known as CABACA had just been released digitally on the Jamendo and StreetVoice websites. Now the CABACA album has been released as a gorgeous limited edition CD, as well. On top of that, the ccMixter community has been hard at work creating remixes using various files taken from the songs, sometimes a vocal, sometimes an instrument. This episode is a collection of some of those remixes. These songs are all Creative Commons licensed free downloads!

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Download Chillcast #134 CC Asia Band Contest MP3

Playlist:

  1. “Naluwan House (Happiness Mix)” Kou Chou Ching & Anji Bee CABACA song sampled “Naluwan House” (2008) – Free Mp3
  2. “We Are One (CBM Remix – ft. Sonja V)” Charlie Bit Me CABACA song sampled “Naluwan House” (2008) – Free Mp3
  3. “Day & Night (ft. Anji Bee)” Charlie Bit Me CABACA song sampled “Crossing the Pond” (2008) – Free Mp3
  4. “Cooked (ft. Audio Cook Book & Innabar)” Teru CABACA song sampled “Freedom Zen” (2008) – Free Mp3
  5. “Walk and Pop (ft. JenSomeone and the Spaced Out Crew)” Teru CABACA song sampled “Crossing the Pond” (2008) – Free Mp3
  6. “Freedom Zen (Orchestral Mix Demo ft. DJ Ruler)” Jui Chuan CABACA song sampled “Freedom Zen” (2008) – Free Mp3
  7. “Buddz in the Hood (ft. Anji Bee)” Loveshadow CABACA song sampled “Crossing the Pond” (2008) – Free Mp3
  8. “WE R 1 (Sunday Drive Mix ft. Sonja V.) Loveshadow CABACA song sampled “Naluwan House” (2008) – Free Mp3
  9. “Vipasyana (Tell Me How You Feel – ft. Anji Bee & Forensic)” Loveshadow CABACA song sampled “Favor Tweet” (2008) – Free Mp3

CC Asia Band ‘CABACA’ Album Download:

 

CC Asia Band ‘CABACA’ CD Contest:

Enter for a chance to win 1 of 2 copies of the limited edition CC Asia Band CD, ‘CABACA,’ featuring 21 song and 22 ringtones. Plus a cool Creative Commons button! Winners will be selected at random after Nov. 1st, announced on The Chillcast, and will be contacted for their mailing address. Good luck!

 

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Great show Aji!

You should definitely do more shows like this. It demonstrates the richness of the re-mix culture. I had never been to the CC Remix site before There is some incredible work on there.

Please highlight more things like this.

Anji, I have a real problem with the way artists treat their album art. I downloaded all the albums and the supplied art is a postage stamp. Why is it that high-resolution art is never supplied? The artwork is created on a computer and could not possibly start out around 200 x 200 pixels, so why do they compress the hell out of it and reduce it to such a low resolution?

It’s like they don’t realise that once the music is in a media system, it becomes all about quality. Postage stamps are expected and relevant in illustrating the work on a website but you want to see something pleasing in iTunes, your iPod and Apple TV.

Another thing they don’t realise is that the crappy artwork makes them look unprofessional. In comparison, works from net labels such as Alpine Chic and iD.EOLOGY come with thoughtfully formatted artwork, high-resolution, moderate compression which I actually have to downsize to my standard 1000 x 1000 pixels. The whole work is given respect, not just the music.

I think I must be unusual in my passion for the graphical component of music, and that’s where my frustration comes from. I find it extremely difficult to convince any artist that the quality of their album art is important. The one I had the most success with was Chance (www.mynameischance.com). I got him to change from mixed resolutions not greater than 400 x 400 pixels to a standard 1000 x 1000, moderate compression.

I never doubt the quality of the music. It is what it is and I either like or dislike it based on my tastes, but I’ve never found it to be amateurish As someone who has to package and organise the end result, the artwork factor is a neverending source of frustration.

Went to download the supplemental albums and found there is a BitTorrent option. Great, only noone is seeding! This would be the perfect download option otherwise.