Hah! Suffer through *this* spot of evil...
Muzak Covers
You hear it in elevators, office waiting rooms, and on hold on the telephone. Music that's sickeningly sweet, overly pretty, and ultimately maddening.
It's called "muzak" in common parlance, and much of it is based upon the music of yesterday, done up it a "light" instrumental style such as to remain under the level of your subconscious yet stick in your head all day.
So here's the theme: recreate any cover (not just light stuff: metal, punk, everything is fair game so long as it has melody!) in the form of muzak. Leave out any vocals from the original and do the music in a slickly produced too-too precious style: smooth jazz, acoustic folk jangle, light orchestral, or easy-to-swallow electronica.
You know the stuff. Now get out there and pump up the irony...
xander wrote a great translation of this:
1 - Submissions MUST follow these rules:*Muzac is not a *genre*, it is literally the complete and total perversion, degradation and disintegration of ANY piece of music from ANY genre into a noxious, hurl-inducing bit of mindless happy-pap used to psycho-tickle the motor reflexes of the general human mind in accompaniment to that mind's distraction while it is focused on what brand of BBQ sauce to purchase, what floor to get off on, etc.
(a) encoded in either .mp3 (128kbps or lower if fixed rate ... average of 128kbps or lower if VBR) or .ogg format (quality level 4.00 or lower)
(b) A STRICT MAXIMUM of TWO MINUTES in length. Starting in 2006 I'm going to be SERIOUS about this rule. If it shows up as 2:01 in my player, then I'll allow it for reasons of rounding in different players. But you shouldn't take that chance! Any longer gets a DISQUALIFICATION. That said, if a submitted track is over length, all contestants should feel free to mock the offending entrant mercilessly into getting permission to enter a new version of correct length.
(c) entered into the contest by posting a DIRECT LINK in this RULES & SUBMISSIONS thread (use the GOSSIP thread for everything else)
(d) submitted before 11:59 PM Wednesday May 24th
2 - Your track SHOULD also ...
(a) be composed specifically for this contest
(b) be created using at least some audio plugins, virtual synths, or software studio
(c) have the FILE named in a format of "yearmonth_artistname_tracktitle" (ie - "06_05_artistname_tracktitle.mp3") or something similar bearing this info.
(d) have AT LEAST the REAL artist and title fields of the file's ID tag completed (help us out, okay? it's easier to sift through labelled entries)
3 - Only one entry per person - no resubmissions without permission from the moderator, INCLUDING for time-overage correction. PM me for permission!
4 - Any tracks not adhering to these guidelines will be very naughty indeed. Possibly disqualified upon peer review. And at least mocked for all to point and giggle.
5 - Voting (members must have at least 20 posts to vote ... although contest entrants are exempt from this ruling) will run from the submission deadline until 11:59 PM Wednesday May 31st - anyone voting for themselves will find ALL their votes disqualified - any entrants not voting will also be disqualified
PRIZES
George from discoDSP has been so kind as to donate a prize of their FX Bundle (a $99 value) for EVERY month this year.
Ben from Camel Audio has been so kind as to donate a prize of ANY of their products this month (and later months until further notice).
Tony/sosayweall of Kong Audio has offered up one license per month to any of their plugins through the July contest. High-quality traditional Chinese instrument sounds in a modern plugin! Great stuff.
There may be other prizes.
dont forget ... you can also check out all this months tracks in one easy process over on MARKLEFORD RADIO ...
... and download them all using garret's handy DOWNLOAD TOOL
Tx mate !
). 
