Posted March 22Mar 22 Hello to… the 58 nations that have made their way to Darpabrak to complete in the 183rd edition of the Buzzjack Song Contest. Over the next week, you will be competing for a coveted spot in the grand final, however 18 poor unfortunate souls can expect to have their tourist visa swiftly REVOKED, as only 40 of you can make it through. Those of you who do make the final will be joining the Altyrian representative for our historic 150th contest, Natalie Jane.AQ00 // Altyr Muunilinst // Natalie Jane // sabotageSemi Final One01 // Persephonia // Searows // Dearly Missed02 // Cheiron // TOMORA // RING THE ALARM03 // Lotunia // Precious Pepala // Eve04 // Terra Avium // The Walkmen // The Rat05 // Yehesi // Brooklyn Van Zandt // I AM THE MUSIC06 // Bronzil // Cult Of Venus // Sinner07 // POPHub // Emerson Azarian // Lucky Stars08 // Juranabaijan // Ally Salort // I've Never Met Her09 // Scotland 2 // NEW YORK // think of you10 // Ennea // World's First Cinema // Make Me A Monster11 // Baleghde // Emilia // La_Playlist.mpeg12 // Lookylion // NAYEON // ABCD13 // Wholune // Nekrogoblikon // Secret Elephant (feat. Reel Big Fish)14 // Ajanaeda // Eden's Crush // Get Over Yourself15 // Cor Lupus // ena mori // 19 Underground16 // Skall // Two Shell // The Nightmare17 // Taahino // aleksiah // The Hit18 // Deandria // Neuroticfish // We Are Not Safe19 // Pestolia // Antony Szmierek // The Heron20 // Ben's Sanctuary // SCHILLER // Euphoria: Der Traum (Extended Version)21 // N DNTN // Art School Girlfriend // L.Y.A.T.T.22 // FSR Rontvia // Ziyad Al-Samman // Ya Habibi23 // Hendinia // Baby Jane // Starry Eyed24 // Pagasa // This Is Lorelei // Dancing In The Club25 // Zanmatony // Onlynumbers & KLOFAMA // ONLYFAMA26 // Kluminican Republic // Honey Dijon // Slight Werk (Club Mix) (feat. Bree Runway)27 // Freidland // ili // Tears Ago28 // Cumulonimbia // Grace Ives // Stupid Bitches29 // Aelandor // PUPPET SUNSUN // TOTETO If YouTube embed is not working: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_8axeul0ADaXeCAUuC0KROedADWra3gbSemi Final Two01 // Danæviia // Anna Von Hausswolff // Stardust02 // Lentyll // Blood Cultures // Emptylands03 // FARC // sim0ne // freaky04 // Ojnoj // Charlotte Cardin // The Way We Touch05 // Zephyra Continuum // Dino And Terry // Fall Apart (feat. Kali Mija)06 // East Rukahavian // lùisa // Stay The Night07 // Jadakissnia // edeprss & Brinettte // BENGRAMO (feat. Tedzkril)08 // Jupiterdonia // Morcheeba // Molten09 // Mothertopia // horsegiirL // only the best10 // Greenfroze // Hayato Sumino // frostline11 // Dalisska // NoGood Boyo // Just A G.O.A.T12 // Neliönoir // frutiger dillon // big chemistry ♡13 // Dobago // Sasha & Because Of Art // Fused14 // Hushkanukia // MANSA // Midnight On My Mind15 // Séyetana // The Warning // Kerosene16 // The Spodic Empire // HALLOWS // Catalyst17 // Land of DW // David Löhlein & VELA // Traum18 // Sovarasma // Gina Dirawi // NOT ALL LOVE IS DEATH19 // Aeroche // KREZUS & Surreal_dvd // Skins20 // Summericia // Izzy Camina & Angrybaby // Seven Seas21 // A-Konohagakure // Yugo Kanno // Dance With STEEL BALL RUN22 // Fljótavík // Joshua Idehen // Mum Does The Washing23 // Abeltesfayeton // Nujabes // Lady Brown (feat. Cise Starr)24 // Trifoski // Crippling Alcoholism // LADIES' NIGHT (feat. Luxury Skin)25 // Elëdan // Weval & KILIMANJARO // OPEN UP THAT DOOR26 // New Lexico // Channel Tres // Medicine27 // Bøtanikkä // Yseult // FREAK28 // République d'Áskorza // Ditonellapiaga // Che Fastidio!29 // Flynnonda // Tsatsamis // Recreational If YouTube embed is not working: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_8axeul0ADbIkKqiGeCTsWzb2TAe09g_You will be voting for your 10 favourite songs in your semi final using the tried and tested Eurovision scoring format below. As hosts, we will be voting in both semi finals. 12100807060504030201 · Please send your votes to Qween via PM.· As I am old and out of touch, please include your country name within your message.· The deadline for voting is 23:59 (BST) on Sunday 29th March.· If you vote after this time, but before 11:59 (BST) on Monday 30th March you will receive a deduction of 15%.· If you fail to vote, or vote after the late voting deadline, you will receive a deduction of 33%.· Results will be presented on Monday 30th March from 19:30 (BST).Votes (as of 09:00 30th March)Semi 1 (28/30)Altyr MuunilinstLookylionFSR RontviaBaleghdePOPHubEnneaAjanaedaDeandriaBen's SanctuaryTerra AviumPestoliaCumulonimbiaN DNTNTaahinoLotuniaCheironKluminican RepublicJuranabaijanZanmatonyCor LupusAelandorPersephoniaFreidlandSkallYehesiScotland 2BronzilHendiniaNon-voters (2/30)Wholune (33% deduction)Pagasa (33% deduction)Semi 2 (30/30)Altyr MuunilinstA-KonohagakureZephyra ContinuumEast RukahavianLentyllDobagoHushkanukiaDalisskaMothertopiaFARCOjnojSeyetanaJadakissniaFlynnondaAbeltesfaytonLand of DWDanaeviiaNelionoirFljotavikJupiterdoniaThe Spodic EmpireBotanikkaEledanTrifoskiAerocheGreenfrozeSummericiaRepublique d'AskorzaSovarasmaNew Lexico (15% deduction)
March 22Mar 22 INTERESTING!So it was Bronzil that wanted my original entry and Ojnoj had the entry I intended to swap to. And I spy a Cheiron recycle with a reappearance from The Warning (I was actually thinking of self-recycling with this as well lol).
March 22Mar 22 immediately: terra avium's is a f***ing classic, a banger, screamer, stomper, etc and a HALF sorry everyone else. absolutely love that song
March 22Mar 22 Heh. Blood Cultures in BJSC as well. 😆(I confirmed before the Club Bizarre voting thread was opened BTW.)
March 22Mar 22 9 minutes ago, Scene said:INTERESTING!So it was Bronzil that wanted my original entry and Ojnoj had the entry I intended to swap to. And I spy a Cheiron recycle with a reappearance from The Warning (I was actually thinking of self-recycling with this as well lol). The month after a recycling between us went the other way with Pixel Grip, how coincidental I spy a Jojo reference.
March 22Mar 22 scans down all of the songs in orderOh wow I actually know a Persephonia entry in advance of the semis for once 😮 I remember Bjork making a thread about Searows, so that put them on my radar, pretty sure this was the best of the songs I've heard by them. The TOMORA project was put in my Release Radar playlist due to AURORA's involvement and their material has been lovely so far.Reel Big Fish is a name I haven't seen in a while Eden's Crush... that's Nicole Scherzinger's old girl-group right? I don't think I've actually heard anything by them, so consider me intrigued.Skall hype and HENDINIA hype!!! I've paid closer attention to Baby Jane since her amazing collab with akiaura last year.I've been meaning to check out Grace Ives so Cumulonimbia shall fast track that for me Mothertopia hype as I checked out the new horsegiirL songs over the weekend, the one you picked is lush <3I recognise plenty of other artists but not 100% sure about the songs.This semi looks potentially disastrous for me but we'll see. I can go down on an inspired note as this song has 168 views at the time of typing.
March 22Mar 22 2 minutes ago, Jade said:The TOMORA project was put in my Release Radar playlist due to AURORA's involvement and their material has been lovely so far.I momentarily got hyped by this then realised you're in the other semi.
March 22Mar 22 5 minutes ago, Cody Rozanov said:BROOKLYN FROM DREAM ACADEMY??? 🥰🥰🥰Yes miss guuurl, recognize ha talent
March 22Mar 22 I thought TOMORA would show up eventually and I was actually considering sending another song from them (The Thing) but thought it might be a bit too cheap...it didn't even get discussed in the end so I was clearly too cautious there! This is admittedly my least favourite of the ones I've heard, but it's still a fun, repetitive banger xI have really been struggling with finding an entry from 2026 this year, so have another one from the 2000s, Need my cult indie crew gathering round me x
March 22Mar 22 Ooft that is not a kind semi draw, there's maybe like 5 or 6 countries that my entry may appeal to 😅 don't think I know anything else except The Warning though
March 22Mar 22 Just now, dandy* said:Darn. Spoken word entries deserve to have FSR Rontvia in the same semi as them.I love this oneOne of my favourites from last year 🖤
March 22Mar 22 8 minutes ago, Chez Wombat said:Need my cult indie crew gathering round me xliterally phone banking and canvassing and door-knocking all the alt hags for you <333
March 22Mar 22 5 minutes ago, blacksquare said:I love this oneOne of my favourites from last year 🖤This makes me very happy!It passed me by entirely last year but I heard it whilst giving the album a try and was absolutely mesmerised by it, at first I was like WTF but then I realised how clever and well humoured it is... it's going to be one of those entries that I'm really nervous about all contest because I absolutely love it (and the video)
March 22Mar 22 Me being the last country to confirm before the deadline and then opening semi 1 so yeah I know a good few of you will already know Searows but hopefully he'll be new to at least a few potential fans x Discovered him from the song 'Dirt' earlier this year which immediately caught my attention as a pretty beautiful slow burner, ended up deciding to go back and check out the previous singles and then the whole of his new album, this song came out last year and is a lot more ~explosive~ than most of the rest of the album which I hope will help out with making a stronger first impression. (It is also my favourite song on the album anyway). I believe he has been a tour opener for Ethel Cain and that makes sense xA fair few here I've heard already of which my favourite is Hendinia's which I expect will be landing them quite near the top of the scoreboard once again x Neat to see Nujabes (RIP x) being entered, I haven't dug into his music too much so haven't heard this song but I did come across one of his songs a long time ago which I considered sending myself, I'm actually not 100% sure which song it was oops but it was something off the Samurai Champloo soundtrack, might have been 'aruarian dance'?I also discovered during research for this contest (after missing it the last time she was entered) that Art School Girlfriend is a Persephonia alumnus of sorts - apparently she was a member of Deaf Club who I sent all the way back in BJSC 49 (2012) with the rather underrated and sadly still missing from Spotify 'Moving Still'!! Shook at this revelation. (TOMORA is a sorta-kinda Persephonia recycle too via Tom Rowlands as I've sent The Chemical Brothers to a spinoff before, I'll claim any tangential connection I can xo)
March 22Mar 22 Damn right it’s Channel season babyNew Lexico taking a one month associate membership of the dancebloc.
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