/// 2020 DEMO SUBMISSIONS **RESULTS**

Greetings to one and all!

We’ve been through all of the music we got sent in the last submission window with a fine toothed comb.
We received just shy of 90 demo’s in total, all of which finished to either a very high or incredibly high standard. Dear lord there are some heinous talents both present and lurking on this forum!
We’ve been genuinely blown away by the quality of the music that’s been received and in the whole it’s been highly diverse: Neuro and Liquid alike have been absolutely nailed in the most beautiful way.
We can’t say WELL DONE enough to you ALL for taking part.

Getting the final list of tracks down to 10 has been impossible (literally), so we have whittled it down as slim as was humanly possible, with the final head count being 12.
We’ve already had the all clear from: Kasra, Noisia, Rene LaVice, Ed Rush & DIVIDID to receive the tracks ASAP, so a folder will be winging its way to their ears today. Currently just waiting on the go ahead from some others… shouldn’t be long.

THE FINAL 12 [A-Z]

Amante
Aweh
Binary
Dizrupt
Dolexil
Evasion
Fake
Just Mack
Nomen
Rillium
Tuor
Wyste

Under previous rules the folder would have been bigger, and picking this list of just 12 was agony, so we’d like to give a special mention to the following artists’ who sent in wonderful music.

Alien Exposure
BlackPhil
Counter Culture
Faun Dation
Future Shock
Koalition
KRSPY
Minamo
Ransom
Shrike

So rest assured, we’ll be working hard behind the scenes to get the folder of tunes heard by as many key people as we can.
We’ll be in touch should any of the tracks receive interest, plays or offers, and will link the artist up with the enquirer accordingly, should that happen.

We’re unable to offer individual feedback, but being honest there is not much to say, the submissions were incredibly good!
One thing that did jump out on a couple of the tracks was that they have amazing mixes, really strong engineering, but everything was said in the first 32 bars of the drop and the tune didn’t take the listener anywhere after that point. Also a few tracks that also had superb mixes, clean loud etc, but sounded a little too much like tacks that already exist, or they lacked an identity. This is the only criticism possible to leave.

But in summary, this year’s effort has been pretty remarkable and we’d like to thank you ALL for taking part and for writing the music.

Keep. It. Up.

The thought of the next submission window, and what that will hold is too much!

Big respect,

SG