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IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:30 pm

SampleScience wrote: Also, I think it would be more fair to liscence only the sounds of the winner, so those who didn't win could release their sounds for free on freesounds.org for example.

Well, presumably you could re-visit your project, change one or two things slightly and export a new version that you could then do whatever you like with..?

Desdicado · Post by **Desdicado** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 7:55 pm

Probably,but it's just 10 samples we are talking about,it's not the end of the world

IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:48 pm

so, who won?

Desdicado · Post by **Desdicado** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:02 pm

Beats me

.This was their last tweet on the subject ,as I recall :

The DJ Mag / S2S SoundSearch competition has been judged. We have a winner. And what a winner. More soon... 1:13 PM Oct 16th, 2009 from HootSuite

IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:32 pm

Is this smelling funny to anyone else?

SampleScience · Post by **SampleScience** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:34 pm

If the participation was nil then it's no surprise. maybe the offer wasn't good enough, Zenhiser's contest was very popular & they offered a contract too though.

IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:45 pm

SampleScience wrote:If the participation was nil then it's no surprise.

I know for a fact that they had at least one entry.

So, if the competition was abandonded, who now owns copyright for the entries..?

Lotuzia · Post by **Lotuzia** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:23 pm

IIRs wrote:
SampleScience wrote:If the participation was nil then it's no surprise.
I know for a fact that they had at least one entry.

So, if the competition was abandonded, who now owns copyright for the entries..?

•You agree that the sounds you enter are freely and exclusively licensed by you to Sounds/To/Sample Ltd and DJ Magazine, and may be offered as free samples as part of future promotions."

So I believe that loosers work will become part of the price for the winner, and part of the cake for S2S, if of course I didnt miss or misread something

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

LtZ

IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:31 pm

Lotuzia wrote: •You agree that the sounds you enter are freely and exclusively licensed by you to Sounds/To/Sample Ltd and DJ Magazine, and may be offered as free samples as part of future promotions."

I fully understand that and had no problem with it... until I realised that actually there is no competition. Now I feel like I have been duped into giving them sample content for free.

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IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:39 pm

shallow wrote: Have you contacted the magazine?

No. Not that bothered to be honest: I didn't expect to win, and had actually forgotten all about it until I found the "S2S competition" folder in my loop library the other day, and remembered that I can't use any of them for (eg) Alchemy presets as I already gave them away...

Desdicado · Post by **Desdicado** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:46 pm

Still,things should not stay this way,I'll send an e-mail to them and let you know what I find out .

samplemagic · Post by **samplemagic** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:43 am

Hey guys -

Further to the questions re the winner / s of the Soundsearch competition, I can confirm that winners were announced through DJ Mag, the official partner, in the December issue (issue 4.80).

Here is the story:

The first ever DJ Mag / Sounds To Sample SoundSearch competition - to find the world's best unsigned sample creators - unearthed a pool of major new talent.

More than 300 producers from as far afield as India and Italy, Belgium and Brazil, sent their ten top samples to the judging panel comprising DJ/producer Sharooz, Sample Magic's Jake Island and DJ's tech editor Mick Wilson.

After an exhausting audition evening the entries were narrowed down to ten. Every genre was considered - with some great hip hop, old school techno and a beautifully conceived soft rock construction kit. And there was the downright weird: an esoteric collection of noises, hiss and clunks taken from vintage tapes.

But the majority of entries were in the minimal / techno category, where the field was so strong the judges found it almost impossible to pick a winner.

In the end they chose Loko from Argentina for his perfectly produced, musically inspired and funky as hell deep house offering. These were song-starter samples: sounds that inspired ideas and crafted with clear talent. He wins £1,000 worth of samples at www.soundstosample.com and a contract with the label.

But such was the standard of the final three, the judges chose to award additional joint runner-up prizes (of three Sample Magic DVDs apiece) to the awesome Marvin Hell, whose filthy electro offerings blew the judges away, and to Josean Fernandes Ferreira, whose tribal techno sounds were bang on the money, alive with soul, sexiness and other sonic superlatives.

***

So in the end there were three winners.

To those who didn't win, the samples remain your copyright, so feel free to pass them onto other companies or enter them into other competitions - we have no interest in hogging people's samples to simply sit on them. We did send out emails to let entrants know this so if you didn't get the email I can only apologise.

And to all those who entered, thanks. It was inspirational to listen to so much great material!

Dave
S2S / SM

IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:34 am

Thanks Dave.

the samples remain your copyright

I wasn't expecting that. Good job I asked...

samplemagic · Post by **samplemagic** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:29 am

Hey IIRs, no worries, and my apologies that you didn't get the email despatch to say so at the time :-/

Dave

Win £1,000 (worth of royalty-free samples) plus a contract - Entries are now closed