Got a CRAZY brand new piece of news for ya..!
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Nashville, TN – (November 14, 2009) – Music technology leaders Beat Kangz Electronics (BKE) and Grammy Award winning producer Rockwilder today announced an innovative strategic partnership that will empower music producers and artists through the promotion and sale of BKE’s desktop music production software Beat Thang Virtual
Rockwilder will promote Beat Thang Virtual on RocBattle.com, the number one beat battle and beat sales website on the internet, where artists and producers meet to buy and sell beats, and producers “battle” by pitting their best tracks against one another with users voting to determine the winner.
All customers who purchase Beat Thang Virtual will receive a free exclusive membership to RocBattle.com, and a copy of Rockwilder’s video Sell More Beats Online: What Every Producer or Beat Seller Should Know About How To Be Successful Selling Beats Online.
“I’m damn near doing all of Method Man’s new record with Beat Thang Virtual,” said Rockwilder (born Dana Stinson). “The preset sounds are so good, I haven’t even loaded my own sounds yet.” In addition to preset sounds, Beat Thang Virtual allows producers to import their pre-existing sound library for use in the desktop software’s intuitive interface.”
“We are excited that someone with such talent and so many classic records is having fun and making hits with our product,” said Aja Emmanuel, president of the Nashville-based Beat Kangz Electronics.
According to Emmanuel, the pairing is a win for customers as well. “Partnering with RocBattle.com will immediately empower our customers,” he said. “They will not only have the tools to create their music, but an outlet through which to sell it.”
Rockwilder agrees. “For the price of the Beat Thang Virtual software and all that it has to offer, I feel it can be a tool to empower artists and producers to make a mark in the music industry without spending thousands of dollars to do it.”
A common mission for both companies is to provide up and coming artists and producers with the professional tools needed to create and promote their music. In that spirit, the partnership also announces the KANG OF ALL BATTLES, a contest where one artist and one producer will win over $30,000 in cash and prizes.
ALL ENTRANTS MUST USE A BEAT THANG or BEAT THANG VIRTUAL to create their tracks so the playing field is level. Producers must only use Beat Thang sounds. Artists may use original Beat Thang beats, presets, or monthly Rockwilder beatz. No one has an advantage because of money or status. Straight Skill, Creativity and Hustle will determine who wins THE KANG OF ALL BATTLES!
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All I can say is CRAZY!!! Never seen a battle like this, over $30k in prices for EACH winner.
http://beatkangzbeatthang.com/contest
matter fact look at the prize list!
The top producer wins:
- $10,000 cash
- A Full page Ad and Promotion in XXL Magazine
- A Custom Shop personalized Beat Thang hardware unit
- Tickets for two to the BET Hip Hop Honors
- A PLAYA THANG iPhone APP loaded with the producer’s songs
- Photo Shoot and image consulting provided by Eye Jammy Productions
- Graphic design package provided by Left Thought Creations
- An all expense paid trip to Nashville for a meeting with industry heavyweights like Bob Ezrin, Rockwilder and The Beat Kangz
- The winning track will appear on an upcoming Beat Kangz mixtape
The top artist wins:
- $10,000 cash
- A Full page Ad and Promotion in XXL Magazine
- A Custom Shop personalized Beat Thang hardware unit
- Tickets for two to the BET Hip Hop Honors
- A PLAYA THANG iPhone APP loaded with the winner’s songs
- Photo Shoot and image consulting provided by Eye Jammy Productions
- Graphic design package provided by Left Thought Creations
- An all expense paid trip to Nashville for a meeting with industry heavyweights like Bob Ezrin, Rock Wilder and The Beat Kangz
- The winning track will appear on an upcoming Beat Kangz mixtape
- A song produced by Rockwilder
Man…if you don’t already have the beat thang virtual, please go cop it, for the price of a nice sample cd you have a chance to win a crazy prize…and you still have the software/sounds regardless…
I had to post this one up…I’ve been buggin them for some info for a while, now I see why they were being so quiet!
If you haven’t got yours yet, go get beat thang virtual asap!
http://beatkangzbeatthang.com/contest
what you think about this yo? leave me a comment
So where is the artist registration at caus all i see is the producers registration?
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saintjoe Reply:
December 1st, 2009 at 11:57 am
From my understanding it’s all the same, you can enter as an artists or producer, for beat kangz customers
artists can use the premade beats on the beat thang, or use roc beats
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what up saintjoe might have to get in on it beatthangs a beast!
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saintjoe Reply:
December 1st, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Crazy contest man lol, now they giving free updates for live, and a year of rocbattle.com access to promote ya stuff lol.
They trying to do something major man, I’m just trying to get the word out!
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Aaaah-man! and yet another reason to go broke over the holidays *lol*. I’m definitely going to try to fit this into the budget after XMas shopping and a new MoBo & RAM. Just out of curiosity…how’s the interactivity w/Maschine when mapped to BT Virt? I ask being the hardware unit is a bit out of reach @ the moment and was wondering about alternative controllers (i.e. Maschine, MPD 18/24/32, Korg Nano/PadKontrol).
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saintjoe Reply:
December 1st, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Maschine can control it like a basic midi controller, it’s def not the same as using the maschine hardware, but that’s to be expected. But I can use the pads to make beats in the virtual
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Good to see some news on Beat Thang, and this is a great promotion. They should have set something like this up from jump, then we could have spent the last year talking about their software/hardware rather than most of the web hatin these dudes for being themselves. I’m gonna try the Virtual demo now and see if I feel it’s worth the $149. Still though, I wanna see Rocawilder walking around with a HARDWARE unit sometime after the new year. Have you heard anything Saintjoe? Last I heard was they will drop at the first trade show in 2010.
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saintjoe Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:33 am
I feel you man lol. I heard the hardware will be ready in Jan, I’m trying to get a beta unit so we’ll see, hopefully it drops in time for winter namm! I’ll be there this year lol
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i think that is dope man to do something like that.thats whats up twain
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saintjoe Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:34 am
yeah, it’s pretty cool.
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so basically you have to purchase the software to enter?????
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saintjoe Reply:
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:36 pm
the contest is for customers so yeah I guess you can say that, if you don’t own the software you can’t enter. It’s part of the whole promo they are doing with Rockwilder for the customers.
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Saint Joe What it dew homie!
Is there a VST plugin mode for the Beat Thang Virtual?
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saintjoe Reply:
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:44 am
Sup homie! Nah, they are workin on that for one of the next updates, vst/rtas and in the future will add rewire.
It’s still a growing app but they have some cool plans for it
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