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The contest banner as it ran across the top of jamglue.com/contests/tigarah, winter 2007 to 2008.
The Tigarah “Color, Culture, Money, Beauty” Remix Contest
On November 27, 2007, Jamglue put up the multitrack session for “Color, Culture, Money, Beauty” by Tigarah, the Tokyo baile-funk MC signed to Universal Music Japan, with Beatstar Music co-sponsoring. Eight stems went online under a Creative Commons license alongside the official contest mix. It was a small contest by Jamglue’s numbers, 130 entries when the voting closed and 170 by the last archived count, and by some distance the most produced one: Tigarah picked both a Grand Prize and a runner-up herself, and then recorded a video announcing the results.
That video is the one piece of this contest that is still playing anywhere. Jamglue posted it to Vimeo in 2008 and it is still there, ninety-four seconds of Tigarah thanking the entrants and reading out the winners.
The Materials
“Here’s what you have to work with.” The contest page listed the official contest mix plus eight separate tracks:
| Color, Culture, Money, Beauty - Contest Mix | mix 1153617 |
| Acapella | track 1153613 |
| Drums | track 1153591 |
| Horns | track 1153589 |
| Guitar | track 1153583 |
| Bass | track 1153581 |
| Siren and Speedsynth | track 1153577 |
| Berimbau | track 1153575 |
| Flysynth | track 1153573 |
What survives: the track list and the track IDs, from the archived contest page. A berimbau stem in a Japanese baile-funk session is the kind of detail worth keeping, but none of the eight files was ever crawled, so there is no audio to play here.
Licensing. The official rules stated that the tracks were “licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 2.5 license (and that all rights that are not expressly granted under this license are reserved by Universal Music Japan),” and that entrants must attribute Tigarah and Universal Music Japan, for example “Remix using elements from Tigarah/Universal Music Japan.” Entries had to be published under the same CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 license.
The Prizes
“Tigarah will pick the Grand Prize winner! The winner will receive a copy of FIFA ’08 plus any Electronic Arts game of their choice, will have their remix featured on Tigarah’s MySpace and Tigarah.net, and will get an autographed Tigarah EP and a limited-edition pin.”
“Tigarah will also pick a Runner-up!” who received FIFA ’08, an autographed EP and a pin; and “You and other Jamglue users will vote for 5 Popular Vote winners!” who each received an autographed EP and a pin.
The official rules put approximate retail values on the three tiers: $138.88 for the Grand Prize, $78.35 for the Runner-up, and $17.98 for each Popular Vote prize. The Grand Prize and Runner-up were the artist’s picks; the five Popular Vote prizes went by “the number of Jamglue users who called the remix ‘A Favorite’.”
The Deadlines
| Nov 27, 2007 | The audio elements go online at 2:00 a.m. PT; the entry period opens. |
| Jan 6, 2008 | Entry deadline, 11:59 p.m. PT. |
| Jan 19, 2008 | First archived capture, a day before voting closes: 130 entries created so far. |
| Jan 20, 2008 | Voting closes. |
| Feb 20, 2008 | Last date to request the winners list by email, per the official rules. |
| By Mar 12, 2008 | The page has been rewritten with the results: “The results are in, and our winners have been chosen!” |
| Mar 20, 2008 | The Jamglue blog rounds up six contests at once and links the Vimeo announcement. |
| Dec 17, 2008 | Last full capture of the results page: 170 entries created in total. |
Winners
“The results are in, and our winners have been chosen!” Seven mixes were named: a Grand Prize and a Runner-up chosen by Tigarah, and five Popular Vote winners chosen by the community. Every name and title below is taken verbatim from the archived results page; each mix links to its own archived page.
Grand Prize
“This was Tigarah’s hand-chosen favorite! The remix will be featured on Tigarah’s web site and MySpace. prezzo will also receive a copy of FIFA ’08 plus the video game of their choice from EA! Congratulations, prezzo!”
Runner-up
“This remix was Tigarah’s pick for 2nd place. roxfontaine will receive a copy of FIFA ’08 from EA, and some other great prizes from Tigarah. Congratulations, roxfontaine!”
The house promo Jamglue ran when the fall 2007 results landed, covering three contests at once.
Popular Vote
“These winners were chosen by popular vote, and will be receiving a Tigarah EP and limited edition Tigarah pin! Congratulations to these winners on their great mixes, as well as the incredible energy that went into promoting their mixes to collect votes!”
What survives: the seven names, the seven titles, an archived mix page for every one of them, and the winner announcement video. The remixes themselves do not. Jamglue put mix downloads behind a sign-in, so no crawler ever reached the audio, and none of these mixes has been found anywhere else.
About Tigarah
The bio that ran on the contest page, quoted from the January 2008 capture:
“After contemplating a career as a politician or ambassador, TIGARAH felt she could best speak her mind if she made music her life. So, shortly after majoring in political science at Tokyo’s renowned Keio University, she started writing lyrics on her own in her tiny room in Tokyo, inspired by the Baile Funk music from Brazil.”
“In several trips to Sao Paulo and Rio, TIGARAH immersed herself in Brazilian culture and recorded music together with local musicians.”
“TIGARAH is all about going against the mainstream in today’s world of mass culture, choosing your own goal in life and going after your dream. TIGARAH’s first album ‘Revolution’ is scheduled for spring 2008... stay tuned!”
The contest page also carried a live clip captioned “Tigarah Live @ Avalon, Roppongi-dori,” embedded from YouTube. That video ID no longer resolves; the caption is all that is left of it.
Sources
jamglue.com/contests/tigarah while voting was still open: the materials list, the prizes, the deadlines, the entry count, the artist bio, and the full official rules.
The same URL after judging, with the Grand Prize, the Runner-up and the five Popular Vote winners. This is the source for every name on this page.
The last full capture, and the source for the final entry count of 170.
Posted by the Jamglue.com account and still live: “Tigarah gives a shoutout to all the participants in the ‘Color, Culture, Money, Beauty’ Remix contest on Jamglue and announces the winners!”
“And the winner is…” by Divya Bhat: the round-up of six fall 2007 contests, with the full titles of the winning mixes and the link to the Vimeo video.
static.jamglue.com
The contest banner and the winners promo, still sitting in Jamglue’s own S3 bucket, mirrored here.
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