Add Your Own Track to Lucy Pearl's Debut Album as Beatnik and Pookie Records/Beyond Music Launch Revolutionary GrooveGram Contest Through MTV.com Feb. 23.Entertainment Editors LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2000 Fame, Fortune and Whirlwind VIP Tour Await the Winner of the "Lucy Pearl Lucy Pearl was an R&B supergroup formed in 1999 as the brainchild of former Tony! Toni! Toné! member Raphael Saadiq. The other members of Lucy Pearl were Dawn Robinson (En Vogue) and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (A Tribe Called Quest). Finish the Album Contest" Cutting-edge R&B supergroup Lucy Pearl, Beatnik Inc., the leader in interactive audio for the Web and Pookie Records/Beyond Music announced today the first-ever "Lucy Pearl Finish the Album Contest" hosted by MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. .com. The Beatnik GrooveGram contest invites fans to remix Lucy Pearl's song "La, La" placing the winning remix as a final track on the group's debut album. In addition, the winner's name will appear on the album and the winner and a guest will be flown to the opening night of Lucy Pearl's North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. tour in grand VIP style VIP Style or Bippu refers to the modification of Japanese luxury automobiles to make them more fashionable and even more luxurious. VIP Style are typically large, expensive, rear-wheel drive sedans, though automotive enthusiasts use other cars like minivans and Kei cars. . The contest will begin Feb. 23, exclusively at www.MTV.com. To enter the contest, fans simply visit either www.MTV.com or www.beatnik.com, download the Beatnik Player, and begin remixing Lucy Pearl's "La, La" GrooveGram within minutes. Fans can collaborate on their entry with friends through email. The contest closes March 26, at which time Lucy Pearl will judge the entries and announce the grand-prize winner on March 28, 2000. Lucy Pearl, which is the highly anticipated first-time collaboration of Raphael Saadiq of Tony Toni Tone, Dawn Robinson Dawn Robinson (born November 28 1969 in New London, Connecticut) is an African-American R&B/soul/Dance-pop singer mostly best known for her work as a member of hit Urban/Dance-pop group En Vogue. of En Vogue and Ali Shaheed Noun 1. shaheed - Arabic term for holy martyrs; applied by Palestinians to suicide bombers Arabic, Arabic language - the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects martyr, sufferer - one who suffers for the sake of principle Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest A Tribe Called Quest is a critically acclaimed and highly-influential American hip-hop group, formed in 1988. The group is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip (Kamal Fareed), rapper Phife Dawg (Malik Taylor), and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad. , is slated to release its debut album May 16, 2000 on Pookie Records/Beyond Music. The group's North American tour will kick-off in May 2000. "It's great that Lucy Pearl is using GrooveGrams to embrace the creative feedback of their fans," said Thomas Dolby Robertson of Beatnik. "Like music videos in the 80's and 90's, GrooveGrams intensify the relationship fans have with music--but Beatnik takes the experience beyond merely listening passively, to where you can truly interact and add your own artistic imprint. GrooveGrams offer a unique promotional vehicle for record labels, as well as for Web sites that want to keep people glued to a page for hours at a time." The Beatnik "Lucy Pearl Finish the Album Contest," hosted by MTV.com, is the first time a recording group will invite a fan to contribute a music track to an album. Beatnik GrooveGrams provide the technology to create a unique bond between musicians and fans by enabling fan/artist collaboration and self-publishing. Artists and music companies began validating fans in a series of contests hosted on Beatnik.com by choosing the winning GrooveGrams based on musical quality. Contests featured songs from Britney Spears, "Weird Al" Yankovich, Yes, Moby, Puff Daddy, Blondie, Jamiroquai and others by rewarding grand-prize winners with tickets to opening performances, invitations to the Grammy Awards, trips to London and a host of personalized prizes. With Lucy Pearl, this is the first time a fan will be immortalized on an album. "At MTV.com we are committed to providing our online music audience with the best possible interactive music experiences," said Rick Holzman, VP MTV.com. "We are very excited to be working with Beatnik, Pookie Records and Beyond Music to give fans the opportunity to actually help create a track on the much anticipated Lucy Pearl album." Beatnik GrooveGrams are an innovative way to provide fans direct, real-time interaction with music while they remain at a Web site, rather than having them merely download a music file, leave and listen offline. Beatnik GrooveGrams enable fans to remix the guitar, vocal, drums and synthesizer synthesizer Machine that electronically generates and modifies sounds, frequently with the use of a digital computer, for use in the composition of electronic music and in live performance. elements of a song - and sound like a professional - simply by pointing and clicking, and without any previous music expertise. The new GrooveGram can then be sent to friends through email, or entered in contests in which the recording artists themselves choose a winner. Beyond Music is a division of The Left Bank Organization, an operating company operating company A business that engages in transactions with outsiders. designed to market, promote, publicize and distribute entertainment properties on a worldwide basis. For more information visit www.beyondmusic.com. About Beatnik Inc. Beatnik Inc. is a leading technology platform to create, deliver, and experience interactive audio on the Web. The Beatnik Audio Engine for the digital playback of audio has been licensed to an expanding family of strategic partners, including Microsoft's WebTV Networks, Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Intel and Liberate (formerly NCI See Liberate. ). Beatnik's Web authoring tools are used by Web designers in the creation of Web sites such as MTV Online and Yahoo! Digital, and also ship with products from Macromedia and NetObjects. Mixman Technologies Inc., a division of Beatnik, offers remixing performance software for consumers, with the tools and editing capabilities needed to create music on the computer. With Mixman, Beatnik provides a solution for both creating music and integrating music onto Web pages. The Beatnik Player currently allows more than 7 million Web surfers to experience the power of interactive music and audio. Its Rich Music Format (RMF RMF Resource Measurement Facility RMF Rich Music Format RMF René Moawad Foundation (Hazmieh, Lebanon) RMF Rich Map Format (Worldcraft Half-Life mapping tool) RMF Relativistic Mean Field ) is a Web standard for high quality, multi-track music with file sizes that are small enough not to require streaming and are secure per Web site usage. Beatnik's professional technologies are used to incorporate music into Web pages, making them interactive. By coupling expert engineering skills with an expanded catalogue of musical content, Beatnik is dedicated to realizing new possibilities for interactive music and audio on the Internet. Beatnik (formerly Headspace head·space n. The volume left at the top of an almost filled jar, tin, or other container before sealing. Noun 1. headspace - the volume left at the top of a filled container (bottle or jar or tin) before sealing Inc.) was incorporated in 1996 with a team of software innovators and world-renowned visionary, musician and composer Thomas Dolby Robertson. About The MTVi Group MTV.com is a unit of The MTVi Group, the world's leading Internet music content company featuring a comprehensive collection of music destinations on the Internet. The MTVi Group's 18 worldwide destinations include MTV.com, VH1.com, and SonicNet.com. The MTVi Group is a unit of MTV Networks, which is owned by Viacom Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : VIA, VIA.B). Headquartered in downtown New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , The MTVi Group has satellite offices in San Francisco. Liberty Digital (NYSE: LMG LMG Light Machine Gun LMG Laurence M. Gould (Antarctic Research Support Vessel, USAP) LMG Local Marketing Group LMG Loaf's Merry Guild LMG Laboratory Molecular Genetics LMG Liquid Methane Gas .A and LMG.B) holds a minority stake in The MTVi Group. For more information visit The MTVi Group corporate Web site (www.mtvigroup.com). |
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