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Due to popular demand Ultimate Unknown Pleasures is back for 2011.

This year we had four competitions - UP 4 to 7 which were bountiful with new and old music from the fringes. Because of the amount of participants in these type of competitions the rush to absorb and assess 30 new songs by mostly unfamiliar artists can sometimes leave no room for slow-burners or growers. Ultimate Unknown Pleasures is a chance for them to make their mark.

For anyone who does not have one or more of the folders of tracks and would like them please send me a PM with the ones you need. I will reply with the download links by midnight for anyone who sends their message this evening and by mid-day tomorrow for anyone who sends it over night.

As it's NYE tomorrow I wont be near my computer from 3pm until about 3pm on Sunday afternoon. So if you don't get your required links by then I will get them to you on Sunday afternoon.

Voting

Please vote for your favourite 20 tracks (from any of the four competitions) in the following manner - two digits, one space, artist name, dash, track name. It would be great if you could order them - best at the top.

...like so....

01 Anathema - Dreaming Light

Please send your votes to me by PM to maintain some sort of secrecy and anticipation of the results. Discussion in the thread is left at your discretion. Entrants cannot vote for their own entries.

Voting will close on Sunday 8th Jan at 23.47 pm. Results will commence on Monday evening in a countdown or rate type fashion and not in the usual Unknown Pleasures style. I will present the Top 30.

If the timings don't suit with the upcoming Unknown Pleasures VIII then can the organiser of that let me know.

Any question please ask and if anyone has spotted a huge oversight on my part feel free to bring it up and we'll discuss it in this thread.


Full list (at least I think so) of all four sets - for discussion purposes.


4

Airplane ft. Sky Ferreira 'Without Lies'
Anathema 'Dreaming Light'
Anika Moa 'Standing In This Fire'
Autre Ne Veut 'Two Days of Rain'
Awolnation 'Sail'
Chromatics 'Baby'
Colder 'To the Music'
El Guincho 'Bombay'
Eva and the Heartmaker 'Signals'
Fenech-Soler 'Stop and Stare'
Frost 'The Magician'
Gallops 'Miami Spider'
Glasser 'Mirrorage'
Grouplove 'Colours'
Iamamiwhoami 'T'
Immortal Technique 'Dance With the Devil'
Krause 'I Want a Pony'
Magenta Skycode 'Open Air'
Myléne Farmer 'Toi L'amour'
Not Squares 'Release the Bees'
Paris Angels 'Perfume'
Sissel 'Lær Meg Å Kjenne'
Strange Talk 'Climbing Walls'
Swing Kids 'Nonsense'
The Creepshow 'Take My Hand'
The Yellow Moon Band 'Chimney'
Ultramariini 'Sydämet'
Young Galaxy 'Cover Your Tracks'

5

Active Child - I'm In Your Church At Night
Adam Tensta - Like a Punk
Bellowhead - New York Girls
Blue Hawaii - Blue Gowns
Crocodiles - Mirrors
Crystal Fighters - At Home
First Aid Kit - Ghost Town
Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks
Games (feat. Laurel Halo) - Strawberry Skies
Girls - Lust For Life
John Murphy - Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)
Lia Ices - Daphne
LaKroix - Autumn Leaf
Mimicry - The Storm
Moi Caprice - Wish You Were Her
Mr Little Jeans - Angel
Mr Little Jeans - Rescue Song (RAC Remix)
Oh Land - White Nights (Twin Shadow Remix)
Phantogram - When I'm Small
Rebecca & Fiona - Bullets
Rollerskate Skinny - Speed To My Side
Stroke 9 - Washin' & Wonderin'
The Auteurs - Show Girl
The Guilty Hands - Gregory
The Skints - Roanna's Song
Turboweekend - Trouble Is
Two Wounded Birds - Summer Dream
When Saints Go Machine - Fail Forever

6

Air France - June Evenings
Austra - The Choke
Azure Ray - Larraine
Big Surr - Gone
Blouse - Into Black
Burning Hearts - Night Animal
Capital Cities - Safe And Sound
Cars Are Crashing - Turning The Wind Against Us
Dom - Living In America
Ellie And The Oscars - Dancing In The Rain
Grimes - Crystal Ball
Hooray For Earth - No Love
Islands - Rough Gem
K.flay - Less Than Zero
Karl X Johan - Flames
Other Lives - Tamer Animals
Pansy Division - Bill & Ted's Homosexual Adventure
Peter Vronsky - Reprise
Philter - Revolver
Rebecca & Fiona - If She Was Away
Rubik - Laws Of Gravity
Saharan Gazelle Boy - Amy Needs a Vacation (with Sea Change)
SingerSen - Drunk
Syntax - Bliss
Teengirl Fantasy - Hoop Dreams
The Church - The Unguarded Moment
The Rumour Said Fire - The Balcony
The Storm - Lost In The Fire
Tonight - When Galaxies Form
Urban Cone - Photograph
Walk The Moon - Anna Sun

7

77 Bombay Street ‘Up in the Sky’
Amidships ‘The One’
Apparat ‘Arcadia’
Asobi Seksu ‘Strawberries’
Bastille ‘Laura Palmer’
Caotico ‘Brains Out (Featuring. Tove Styrke)’
Chrome Sparks ‘Still Sleeping (Featuring. Steffaloo)’
Class Actress ‘Weekend’
Covenant ‘Monochrome’
Dum Dum Girls ‘Coming Down’
Fatty Gets a Stylist ‘The Tiger Inside Will Eat the Child’
Handsome Furs ‘What About Us’
Kite ‘Stand Back’
Matt and Kim ‘Ice Melts’
Mikael Simspon ‘Lad Det Staa’
Pale Mountains ‘Thank You’
Purity Ring ‘Bellispeak’
Real Estate ‘Out of Tune’
Rustie ‘Ultra Thizz’
Saint Saviour ‘Red Sun’
School of Seven Bells ‘I L U’
Summer Camp 'Better Off Without You’
Tegan and Sara ‘Walking With a Ghost’
The Sweater Set ‘Needed’
The Vision Bleak ‘A Shadow Arose’
The Weeknd ‘Initiation’
The Xcerts ‘Crisis in the Slow Lane’
Twin Shadow ‘When We’re Dancing’
Vindahl ‘The Question (Featuring. Jenny Wilson)’
Watersider ‘Constellation’
YAS ‘Get it Right’



oh......I want a pony.

Edited January 8, 201213 yr by tonyttt31

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I can just SEE Ryan being PROUD :D

^LOVE IT

 

Will the voting be closed 6th (FRIDAY) or Sunday the 8th?

Edited December 30, 201113 yr by SKOB

^LOVE IT

 

Will the voting be closed 6th (FRIDAY) or Sunday the 8th?

Oops....Sun 8th

This may be a silly question, but can we vote for our own tracks entered in the competitions?

This may be a silly question, but can we vote for our own tracks entered in the competitions?

 

 

It would not be in the spirit of the competition to do so.

Could anybody send me a link to UP4? I don't have it.

 

Tony to the rescue!

Edited December 30, 201113 yr by Horatio

Sent now.

 

All the old links are most likely dead at this stage so I've uploaded all 4 again. If anyone needs one or more let me know.

Maybe it would be a better idea to post votes in the thread. It did't do any harm last year. What do others think?

It wouldn't be much of a surprise if the votes are posted in here...

True but it didnt seem to matter last year and it kept the thread active.

Agree with Dandy*, I quite like the mystery.

Mystery it is so.

 

 

I've narrowed it down to 26. I'll send my votes to the third person who sends me their votes to ensure I don't cheat for the benefit of my faves.

I only entered two of these! How odd. Neither of my entries were too successful either.

 

My 20 favourite entries were distributed accordingly:

4 - 5 entries

5 - 6 entries

6 - 5 entries

7 - 4 entries

 

I didn't even enter UP5, but it certainly seems that I should've done from the quality of those I've heard.

Mine were

 

4 - 4 entries

5 - 3 entries

6 - 7 entries

7 - 6 entries

 

5 seemed to be the weakest for me too

4 - 5 entries

5 - 4 entries

6 - 6 entries (obviously, it was a contest I hosted after all)

7 - 5 entries

 

<3

I hope we were allowed to vote for songs we entered ourselves?

I hope we were allowed to vote for songs we entered ourselves?

 

 

Not really. Did you?

I hope we were allowed to vote for songs we entered ourselves?

 

Cheeky! I don't think the rules should change otherwise we'd all be voting for ourselves.

Edited January 3, 201213 yr by ▲▲▲