About the Contest
In celebration of the third Drop Dead Festival, the ACIDplanet®
world of music presents the mash-up to end all mash-ups.
It's old school punk meets new school horror punk/psychobilly,
and it's your objective to create something brand spanking
new.
Here's your roster of artists and
songs to mash-up (click to listen):
Nina Hagen: "The Return of
the Mother"
Blitzkid: "Let's Go to the Cemetery"
Bloodshot Bill: "After Dark"
Cinema Strange: "Speak, Marauder!"
Coffin Nails: "Hard as Nails"
Frank the Baptist: "Ever"
World/Inferno Friendship Society: "Fiend in Wien"
In keeping with the old/new paradigm,
you must mash-up Nina Hagen with at least one other band.
The more bands, the better.
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About the Artists
Drop Dead Festival III: the biggest horror and deathrock
music festival anywhere. It's happening 10/28 - 10/30
at the Knitting Factory, NYC, and 10/31 at the Avalon
(old Limelight), NYC.
Launching into its third year,
and appropriately timed for Halloween, it is the largest
New York festival for dark and experimental music. Drop
Dead’s genre-blurring roster of bands is comprised
of acts classifiable as Post-Punk, Art Rock, Psychobilly,
Deathrock, Horror Punk, Goth, Surf, Cabaret, Gypsy and
Carnival music as well as various combinations of the
above. Simply put, this is a Horror themed Music Festival
to end all festivals.
The festival features exclusive
appearances by international headliners such as the legendary
German native Nina Hagen, veteran UK Psychobilly band
Coffin Nails, Italian Goth Rock originators Bohemién,
New York favorites World/Inferno Friendship Society, top
American goth/art rock group Cinema Strange, and many
others.
In addition to a cast of over 66
bands and DJ’s from all over the world, the festival
features an elaborate stage design, vendor bazaar, ghoul
discothèque, costume contest and many more activities.
Festival attendance is projected to top five thousand
music fans, as well as music labels, VIP’s, Vendors,
Press and other music industry. Not only is Drop Dead
the biggest horror themed music festival in the world,
it is also the best Halloween party in New York, if not
the whole country.
With the annual Village Halloween
Parade ending right at the door of club Avalon on October
31st right before the final day of the Drop Dead Festival,
people are flying in from all over the world to spend
the best, and spookiest Halloween ever in NYC.
The Drop Dead Festival promises
over sixty international acts headlined by the legendary
Nina Hagen, the Mother of punk. Here's
some info on the artists included in this mash-up event:
Nina Hagen From her first albums
with the Nina Hagen band, to her extensive solo recording
and TV career, where does one start discussing Nina Hagen?
This is a good place. Punk from the beginning, Nina incorporated
countless musical styles in her repertoire, effortlessly
creating new genres. Known to some as the Mother of Punk,
Nina remains an extraordinary talent and a true international
star.
Blitzkid
BLITZKID has been lurking in the horror rock underground
since early 1997. They have released 4 full length albums,
3 EPs, and 3 live recordings. October 2005 saw the band
embark on a month long European tour. At present, BLITZKID
are in and out of Manhattan, NY and Trenton, NJ, working
on their 5th full length album.
Bloodshot
Bill Rockabilly Trash Barbecue Punk explosion from a Montreal
mangler. After getting his nasty message across fronting
the hubcaps & The Guilloteens, Bill went the true
solo one-man-band route, playing guitar and drums, with
vocals. Accurately described as "maniacally distorted
. . . with accompanying obscene-phone-call, heavy breather
vocals," Bloodshot Bill is an old fashioned one-man-band
for the new millennium!
Cinema
Strange The band is infamous in the North American gothic
scene for their unique and theatrical stage shows, sometimes
involving up to a dozen or more actors and performance
artists. Their music, originating in 1994 as a high-tempo
post-punk expression, has evolved into a bizarre and exciting
species of musical storytelling, breaking new ground and
taking over where bands like the Virgin Prunes left off.
After two self-released records and two albums with the
German label, Trisol, they have left an unidentifiable
but very real mark on the world gothic scene, and it's
anyone's guess what they'll do, or where they'll be, or
who they'll claim to be next.
Coffin Nails With founder member
Humungus, Mad Man Scott (bass player for over 14 years),
and their new drummer Clive,
the band's line up is settled. The Coffin Nails early
albums had brought them gigs all across Europe, but these
albums had also sold well in Japan and the USA. Increasingly
there were demands for new material, particularly from
the growing scene in America. So in 2003, the band went
back into the studio and Hard as Nails was recorded and
released on Greystone Records. This album saw the band
returning somewhat to its roots. The album is in places
darker and faster than ever before, whilst retaining the
touches of humour that the band has become synonymous
with.
Frank
the Baptist Coming out of Southern California, Frank the
Baptist made media splashes large enough to dampen the
lapels of several Austrian record label mobsters, and
before long they were doing musical contract killings
for Strobelight Records. That record deal has spawned,
to date, two releases that only served to whet the North
American scene’s appetite, bringing the Baptist invitations
to play in other states and at other festivals. Frank
the Baptist has somehow invented a New Rock that everyone
wants to hear, is grateful for, but somehow never existed.
Frank the Baptist has climbed up and out of the tree fort,
and is swaying in the high branches overhead.
World/Inferno
Friendship Society The World/Inferno Friendship Society
is a finely organized mischief cult; not a band. The ideal
marriage of nihilist gangsters and technophiliac agrophobes.
Conceived originally as merely a vehicle to mess stuff
up, the Society has gradually reorganized its priorities
replacing street pranks with beautiful musical rants,
and is, at its core, a song by song backlash against the
Entertainment Industrial Complex.
Here's
some info on the artists included in this mash-up event:
Blitzkid
BLITZKID has been lurking in the horror rock underground
since early 1997. They have released 4 full length albums,
3 EPs, and 3 live recordings. October 2005 saw the band
embark on a month long European tour. At present, BLITZKID
are in and out of Manhattan, NY and Trenton, NJ, working
on their 5th full length album. 
Bloodshot
Bill Rockabilly Trash Barbecue Punk explosion from a Montreal
mangler. After getting his nasty message across fronting
the hubcaps & The Guilloteens, Bill went the true
solo one-man-band route, playing guitar and drums, with
vocals. Accurately described as "maniacally distorted
. . . with accompanying obscene-phone-call, heavy breather
vocals," Bloodshot Bill is an old fashioned one-man-band
for the new millennium!
Cinema
Strange The band is infamous in the North American gothic
scene for their unique and theatrical stage shows, sometimes
involving up to a dozen or more actors and performance
artists. Their music, originating in 1994 as a high-tempo
post-punk expression, has evolved into a bizarre and exciting
species of musical storytelling, breaking new ground and
taking over where bands like the Virgin Prunes left off.
After two self-released records and two albums with the
German label, Trisol, they have left an unidentifiable
but very real mark on the world gothic scene, and it's
anyone's guess what they'll do, or where they'll be, or
who they'll claim to be next.
Clive,
the band's line up is settled. The Coffin Nails early
albums had brought them gigs all across Europe, but these
albums had also sold well in Japan and the USA. Increasingly
there were demands for new material, particularly from
the growing scene in America. So in 2003, the band went
back into the studio and Hard as Nails was recorded and
released on Greystone Records. This album saw the band
returning somewhat to its roots. The album is in places
darker and faster than ever before, whilst retaining the
touches of humour that the band has become synonymous
with.
Frank
the Baptist Coming out of Southern California, Frank the
Baptist made media splashes large enough to dampen the
lapels of several Austrian record label mobsters, and
before long they were doing musical contract killings
for Strobelight Records. That record deal has spawned,
to date, two releases that only served to whet the North
American scene’s appetite, bringing the Baptist invitations
to play in other states and at other festivals. Frank
the Baptist has somehow invented a New Rock that everyone
wants to hear, is grateful for, but somehow never existed.
Frank the Baptist has climbed up and out of the tree fort,
and is swaying in the high branches overhead. 
World/Inferno
Friendship Society The World/Inferno Friendship Society
is a finely organized mischief cult; not a band. The ideal
marriage of nihilist gangsters and technophiliac agrophobes.
Conceived originally as merely a vehicle to mess stuff
up, the Society has gradually reorganized its priorities
replacing street pranks with beautiful musical rants,
and is, at its core, a song by song backlash against the
Entertainment Industrial Complex.