Mashtival: A Live Mashup Music Festival On Turntable.fm
MashupFM is hosting a live mashup music festival on Turntable.fm called Mashtival taking place this Wednesday, December 7th, from 7 pm till 1 am EST. Starting at 7, five up and coming artists will open in each of three Turntable.fm mashup rooms and at 8 headliners will take the stage. Considering the potential popularity of such an event, it may be yet another sign that Turntable's 200 capacity limit per room needs to be rethought.
Though it's neither the first "online music festival" nor the first "music festival on Turntable.fm," MashupFM's Mashtival may well be the "first online mashup music festival." But why don't we just settle on it being a cool development on Turntable.fm and leave it at that?
Three of Turntable.fm's room will provide the stages:
Headliners – 3LAU, D.veloped, DiBella
Other Acts – Mitch-Mash, Dotcom, DJ Bahler, DJ Rudy, Bruneaux
Special Appearance By Acetronik
Headliners – Yoni Einhorn, DJ Trademark, Wick-It The Instigator
Other Acts – Desler, DJ Strongarm, Nammo, The Airport District, DJ abSRD
Headliners – Kap Slap, Basic Physics, DOSVEC
Other Acts – Manila Killa, DJ Change, DJ Graycat, Torpeedoh, DJ i6
Mashtival Rules:
All 5 DJ spots, in each room, will be occupied by the artists named above. Each room will have 2 or 3 "Special Guest/VIP" artists DJ-ing, as well as a couple of "Up-and-coming" artists DJ-ing alongside them. This ensures that not one room will be maxed out, while the other rooms are empty. Up-and-coming artists will rotate out, while Special Guest/VIP artists will get extended playtime (unless otherwise noted).
Keep in mind that if you're not on the bill and try to take the stage, you will be "warned not to step up." If you try it twice, ye shall get the boot!
There may still be room for "alternate" dj's and, if that interests you and you're a Mashup artist, "email Gutz (Nicolas Gutierrez) at nicolas@earmilk.com or SoSimpull (Aaron Ho) at sosimpull@gmail.com with links to your music so we can take a listen."
The Kollection
SoSimpull.com
DML.fm (Dirty Mexican Lemonade)
Mashtival sounds like a fun event. If you check it out, please come back and let us know in the comments how it went!
Hypebot contributor Clyde Smith maintains his freelance writing hub at Flux Research and blogs at All World Dance and This Business of Blogging. To suggest topics for Hypebot, contact: clyde(at)fluxresearch(dot)com.
This sounds like such an awesome event. Is it to late to be booked as a DJ? 😉
I must admit this sounds cool. However, maybe I’m just especially lo-fi, but instead of Turntable.fm I’ve been using the Rounds shared-YouTube feature (http://apps.facebook.com/chatrounds/conv/?publisherid=elena&campaignid=BC&bannerid=0 ) on Facebook to discover new music. My friends and I go on there and wend our way through songs on YouTube — I have that playing all the time in the background — and when the song ends, we each take turns loading up another one.