Perth Music

In exciting news for Eskimo Joe, their award winning album, ‘Black Fingernails, Red Wine‘ has been certified Double Platinum, selling in excess of 140,000 copies. The band is currently in New York filming the clip for their forthcoming single, ‘New York‘. The video is set in Central Park and directed by Bart Borghesi, the man behind the ARIA-nominated, ‘Black Fingernails, Red Wine‘ clip and the bands current single, ‘Sarah‘.

And in a first for the Australian music industry, Digidesign Pro Tools users have the opportunity to get their hands on raw audio files of Eskimo Joe’s ‘New York‘ and remix the recordings in their own style and submit their mix to be in the running to feature on the ‘New York‘ single and win up to $5000AUS in Digidesign products.

When asked why the band are offering the chance to get a track remixed, Eskimo Joe guitarist, Joel Quartermain said: “It is something that we have talked about for a long time and this record has a few songs which really lend themselves to remixing. Also, I think that it’s a really cool way to share music. It’s going to be really exciting to see what people do with the track.”

Digidesign Marketing Manager for South East Asia, Stephen Bruel is delighted to be a part of such a unique concept, “It provides a fantastic opportunity for audio engineers, musicians, DJs, fans of the band, students and anyone with an interest in audio recording and mixing to get up close and personal with Eskimo Joe,” says Stephen. “It’s the next best thing to being in the studio with this ARIA award-winning band.”

The competition will run from December 1 2006 until February 1 2007. During this time competition entrants will be able to download for free a Digidesign Pro Tools session of ‘New York‘ from www.eskimojoe.net/protools. Entrants will then have until February 10 to remix the song and submit their final mix as an mp3 to myeskimojoemix@warnermusic.com. The best mix as judged by the band will be included as a B-side on the next Eskimo Joe single release and the winner will also receive $5000AUS worth of Digidesign products.

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