Music competition for the Xbox

 

Unsigned bands, bedroom DJs and singers will be given the chance to make it to stardom after Microsoft Xbox announced a national campaign to find Britain's undiscovered music talent.

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The company is looking for up and coming artists to create their own music to fit the visuals of Xbox 360 game trailers.
 
Entrants to the ‘Soundtracks’ competition will be able to download a range of trailers from xbox.com/music to produce tracks for.
 
Aspiring musicians then have to upload their track and video back to the site where anyone can view and rate their efforts.
 
The winner will win time in a state-of-the-art recording studio to lay down their track for real with the help of a professional production team, and walk away with a demo tape.
 
The competition was launched by English band Enter Shikari, who created an exclusive track crafted by the band’s frontman Rou Reynolds and inspired by the trailer for the Xbox 360 title Blue Dragon.
 
Commenting on the new track, lead singer Roughton Reynolds said: "Having just got back from a tour of Japan we were completely taken by Japanese culture, so when I saw the trailer for Blue Dragon it made perfect sense to write a track to fit it.
 
"I’m excited by the results – the visuals work so well with the music and fit our sound really well. Hopefully, other musicians out there will feel inspired by games too and want to get involved." 

Big names for big games

The Xbox Soundtracks programme will see artists across Europe remixing tracks to promote the competition.
 
It was launched in Europe in February by the Scissor Sisters who produced an exclusive remix of their single ‘She’s My Man’ to fit the game trailer for Halo Wars.
 
Stephen McGill, Microsoft Head of Gaming and Entertainment, added: "The fact that music artists are being inspired by video games to make new music is a major turning point in the industry.
 
"With the quality and realism of games now better than ever, the emotional engagement can now, for the first time ever, be compared with film, theatre or other arts, and this is being reflected in how people are reacting to them.
 
"We’re delighted to have a band as innovative and exciting as Enter Shikari on board and we hope that it will inspire other people to get creative too," he concluded.
 
Full details, including registration information and closing dates, are available on www.xbox.com/music.
 
 

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