while i see dirty bass' point in just having a nice friendly little BOA poll (tis nice to see other's opinions on what they liked), i would have to respectfully ask why anyone here feels the need to define what this contest is or is about.

i personally feel like my remix stands on its own, but i ain't gonna front. i sent out emails to my friends and posted on some friendly forums about the contest. i gave them the info to go download the tracks, but i sure as hell pitched for votes for mine. is it because i felt my redo was weak? no. it's called promotion, and every dirty little bastard in this game has done it, so let's not go all purist here.

we can philosophize about techno all day long, and at the end of the day, if you want to be anywhere other than just your bedroom making tunes, you damn well better get out there and push it. i have been djing for ten years, a musician FAR longer, and i have seen plenty of people who were amazingly talented stay stuck in their homes and hometowns because they were either too shy, too unconfident or just too lazy to get out there and make their presence known.

if you truly have confidence in your work, then you want people to hear it. end of story. so i would argue that getting out there and building up your name (even for a remix contest) shows MORE confidence than just letting your tracks sit there.

i spent a lot of years in the "let my work do its own thing" category, and watched people who were willing to push themselves and their name get further and further, while i continued to struggle. you can only stay a starving artist so long before you figure out that you better ****ing move or stay hungry.

this doesn't mean i am advocating stomping on other people or any silly capitalist shite like that, but it does mean that if you wanna get anywhere, you gotta make it happen yourself. and personally, i don't care how people got their votes. it's a contest for crying out loud. nobody's owed anything and nobody's really losing anything.

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