You have been found GUILTY.
Guilty of using 4/4 time signature for the bulk of your work!
Your punishment: DOING TIME. An odd time. that is...
This month your entry must entirely avoid 4/4 time (and don't cheat and use 2/4 or other essentially cut or common division!). There is a world of alternate time signatures for you to draw upon: isn't it time you paid your debt to society?
1 - Submissions MUST follow these rules:
(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 Sunday 23rd April
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_02_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 Sunday 30th April - 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).
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
N E Ways, do enjoy! 
