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Just a quick note to say that BlackPlastic has been checking out a new short-form music TV show SonyEricsson are hostingover at YouTube. It's early days and the show covers a fairly wide range of pop and dance music, meaning they end up talking to a few artists BlackPlastic would politely consider 'toss' (Chipmunk anyone?) but there is also some interesting content...

Check it out by clicking the badge - last week there was an interesting citizen journalist interview with Pop Justice founder Peter Robinson on the future of music journalism and the piece on the Friendly Fires recent blackout gig from a few weeks ago is cool.

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News / Competition: Hostel Bookers Get Loaded giveaway

Just a quick note as travel website Hostel Bookers have dropped BlackPlastic a note to let us know that they are giving away tickets to this summer's Get Loaded In The Park event in London. All you have to do is watch the video below and name the five bands and songs that Hotel Bookers have 're-imagined' - they all played at Get Loaded in 2008 so that may help you work it out, these are actually quite tricky so if you figure it out BlackPlastic would guess you would have a fair shot at winning.

First prize is two tickets to the festival plus accommodation in one of London's hostels, Entries should be sent to competitions@hostelbookers.com by 15 July. One runner up will receive a ticket to the festival and three more runners up will win a bottle of champagne at nearby bar, Clapham's Gigalum.

For the festival lineup visit the Get Loaded website.

Full terms and conditions can be found on the Hostel Bookers website.

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News: A couple of cool remix competitions

Okay - two remix contests for the price. Admittedly that's, erm, free... but you get the point. BlackPlastic thought it made sense to double up.

First up is Ernesto's forthcoming single, 'Bassline', due for release on 29 June on Exceptional Records. Hailing from Sweden Ernesto makes soulful electro - imagine the clean considered music of Junior Boys but with added funk or just check it out in the player below:

 

Ernesto - Bassline (out June 29th) by exceptionalrecords

 

You can download the zip file containing the tracks components here and the winner, chosen by Ernesto, will receive an Exceptional Records goody bag including a signed copy of the single plus their track will be streamable from the Exceptional website with a link back to your own site. To enter the competition email your entry to [competition closed] as a low res MP3 by 6 July with the subject line ‘Ernesto Remix comp’. Include your name, contact number and website address if you have one.

The next competition is in celebration of Tim Sheridan and his notorious veryverywrongindeed night coming to Fabric's sister club Matter on Saturday 27 June.  It's set to be an interesting night and Tim will be joined by Spektre and Jesper Dahlback on the decks.  Most of the tracks Tim plays are from his VVWI record label, picked up from wherever he finds them on his travels and his determination to avoid the majors is evident in this competition, where he is inviting budding bedroom producers to remix the forthcoming single 'Villain'.

The winners will get invited along as VIPs to the night at Matter and Tim will play the track out on the night.  Head over to the VVWI website for details.  The closing date is 25 June.

News: Diesel launching online music radio station

Over the summer Diesel's online online radio station, first launched last year, has returned, broadcasting 24/7 for two six weeks over the summer.  It's online now and will be broadcasting until 24 June, returning for another six weeks on 18 September.  Have a listen in the player above - the schedule has included turns from DJ Hell, Zombie Nation, Matt Walsh, the Mystery Jets and Erol Alkan and Richard Norris' Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve project.

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News: Free MP3 download to celebrate Animal Collective's next single

Animal Collective are releasing the next single from their rather glorious Merriweather Post Pavillion album on June 29.  The sunny psychedelia of 'Summertime Clothes' is undoubtably a highlight from an already pretty damn awesome album so if, for whatever reason, you are yet to check out the album then make sure you have a listen.  The band recently performed the song live on Letterman, check it out:

The single comes backed with a collection of remixes (one of which is by current retro whizz kid Zomby).  If you can't wait or just fancy a free download then the band's label Domino are giving away one of the mixes for free (well, in exchange for the usual personal data) over at the Domino website.  You'll get the Dam-Funk Remix there - is a warm, dubby affair - BlackPlastic has a temptation to feel that remixes of material this good are kind of pointless but this mix does a pretty good job of putting a nice spin on the original.

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