MELODY KLYMAN REMIX CONTEST

Following their contest for Melody Klyman's track 'Sparkle' in 2008, UK based label Blackwing Records started a new remix competition last week. This time the remix track is ‘Calico’ which is the 3′rd and final single from Melody’s new album ‘Bending The Knotted Oak’.

Klyman is a Canadian born musician, trained classically from the age of six, who fell in love with rave and club culture during her early twenties. While Melody’s writing exploits in the dance arena were not unsuccessful, her true musical inspiration is reflected in her diverse love of artists from the more alternative and song-based genres. Wanting to make music that bore all of her influences she made a home in the UK in 2005, reinvented herself and stamped it with her own personality and her highly distinctive voice. The result - her 2008 avant garde electronic album, ‘Sovereign’ brought her early acclaim from The Guardian, Clash, Time Out, and beyond.

The new album ‘Bending The Knotted Oak’ is more live, more organic and more representative of the myriad of music styles Melody grew up with as a teenager. Think Kate Bush, Cocteau Twins to Killing Joke, Nina Hagen and Siouxsie & The Banshees. She does however cite her true influences for the new album as Edward Gorey, Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss.

Blackwing are especially looking for alternative/indie/electronic remixes and possibly a dubstep version of ‘Calico’. This excludes house, breakbeat and trance remixes! The contest winner will receive a worldwide digital release on the single, which is scheduled for release on June 28. To keep up with this schedule, submissions must be in by Thursday June 3rd. The winner also gets free mastering for five of their own tracks by Funk Vault Mastering UK plus Blackwing's back catalogue digitally.

  blackwingrecords.com