Beyonce Announces International Judging Panel to Choose Winner for "End Of Time" Remix Competition

NEW YORK, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Today global superstar Beyonce reveals the judging panel for the "End Of Time" Remix Competition. Ongoing now for over two weeks, the competition seeks to find the best remix of the #1Urban and Pop Club single from the singer's critically acclaimed album, "4." The grand prize winner will take home $4,000 USD and the opportunity to have his/her remix appear on an upcoming Beyonce release.

Over two thousand entries have been uploaded to SoundCloud, the leading social sound platform with over 10 million registered users, since the competition was announced on February 8. The competition is opened to 25 countries including, Australia, Brazil, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. A complete list of rules can be found at www.beyonceonline.com .

The judges joining Beyonce represent some the music industry's most influential producers, performers and DJs. The international panel of judges: British musician Isabella Summers of Florence & The Machine, Dutch music producer and DJ Afrojack, the duo DJ and producing team from Poland, WAWA, New York premier DJ Jus-Ske and Oscar-winning producer and composer Giorgio Moroder.

The SoundCloud community will vote on entries and the top 50 ranked eligible remixes will be reviewed by this newly announced panel of judges, including Beyonce. Fans can still vote for their favorites remixes to make it into the Top 50. All eligible entries will be judged on the basis of originality, creativity and musicality. The entrant with the highest overall score will be the grand prizewinner. The competition closes at midnight (US EDT) on March 8, 2012.

The International Judging Panel:

Isabella Summers is a British songwriter/producer/remixer and the keyboardist for the band Florence & The Machine. Away from touring with the band she spends her time writing, producing and remixing tracks for a number of talented artists.

Afrojack is a Grammy-winning, Dutch music producer and DJ. Last year he was voted #7 on DJ Magazine's top 100 DJs list. He runs his own label, Wall Recordings, which is one of the most prominent imprints on the EDM scene. Afrojack has had major hits Stateside both as a solo artist and for his collaborations with major artists.

DJ Jus-Ske is a world-renown, elite celebrity open format DJ. Based in New York City, he is the owner of the premiere DJ management company, 4AM. Jus-Ske is the go-to DJ for some of music's biggest stars. In addition to his presence at top venues, he is also at the center of major fashion, art and music events.

WAWA consists of the Polish duo Vic and Bojan. As soon as house music arrived in Warsaw they knew they had found their calling. Over the past six years WAWA has built a solid reputation as top notch DJs and producers. Now based in the UK, they produced the #1 club remixes on "End Of Time."

Giorgio Moroder is one of the world's best known, most active and innovative composers of film, dance, and other popular musical forms. He was recently inducted in the "Dance Music Hall of Fame," and is the winner of three Oscars. He has also been honored with four Golden Globes, and three Grammy Awards.

Here is a complete list of the 25 countries participating in the "End Of Time" Remix Competition:

Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States.

www.beyonceonline.com

Isa Collaborates With Dia Frampton

Another new colleague is Florence + the Machine's Isabella Summers. "She's such a mad-scientist writer. I started playing guitar and we kept it simple," Frampton says of their collaboration, "Bullseye." "She really allowed me to be what I wanted to be and just go for it."

Source

F+TM's 2011

January

Florence is nominated for a BRIT Award in the Best Single category, we discover F+TM will perform on Gossip Girl, Florence sings with Drake during his London gig and Florence was number 8 in Company's cool list.

February

Florence performs "If I Rise" at the Oscars , the Ivan Ink 'n' Isa EP is released, Florence performs with Yolanda Adams, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson and Martina McBride for a Franklin tribute at the Grammys, Isa is featured in Wonderland magazine and we discover that F+TM will start recording their second album at Abbey Road Studios.

March

The F+TM Facebook page passes 1 million likes, we see Tom and Chris will feature on DeLooze's debut album and Florence starts recording with Paul Epworth.

April

Florence designs a label for a limited edition Kiehl's body cream with some of the proceeds going towards Teenage Cancer Trust and we hear about Chipmunk's desire to collaborate with Florence.

May

Florence attends a star-studded private Lady Gaga gig in London.

June

Florence is a part of a Buddy Holly tribute album in which she covers Not Fade Away, Florence is announced as Gucci's new muse and that Florence's US tour costumes will be designed by Gucci, we find out that Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) was the 8th most played song of 2010, Florence covers Nylon magazine and F+TM debut What The Water Gave Me and Bedroom Hymns during their US tour.

July

Florence is a part of Liberty's Liberty Rocks collection, F+TM perform on So You Think You Can Dance and Florence is featured in German Vogue.

August

We see possible tracks for an as of yet untitled album, Florence covers Japanese Vogue, F+TM release What The Water Gave Me, a teaser track and video for the new album and we hear that the new album will be released on the 7th of November.

September

The album release date is brought foward by a week and we discover that it will be called Ceremonials and we see it's artwork and tracklisting, we hear the first single from Ceremonials, Shake It Out, Florence covers Interview magazine and F+TM is nominated for an EMA.

October

We hear F+TM preview some of their new album tracks at a LuvLuvLuv party and at the Creator's Project, Amazon releases 30 second clips of the entire album, the Shake It Out video is released and F+TM perform an intimate show at Hackney Empire playing songs from Ceremonials including a collaboration with Kid Harpoon.

November

F+TM perform on the X Factor, the No Light, No Light video is released, F+TM announce various live dates around the world including an EU, AUS/NZ and UK tour, Florence was nominated for Best Female at the Virgin Media Music Awards, Florence and Isa takeover Annie Mac's Radio 1 show and Florence co-hosts Steve Lamacq's Radio 2 show.

December

Florence covers her first UK Vogue. F+TM are featured in both Amazon's Top 100 Albums and Songs of 2011. F+TM play Spectrum for the first time on TV on X Factor USA. Florence sings the Amy Winehouse song 'Back To Black' alongside Wanda Jackson as part of VH1's Divas.

New Possible Tracks for LP2

Breaking Down
Songwriter: Florence Welch & Paul Epworth

No Light, No Light
Songwriter: Florence Welch & Isabella Summers

 All This and Heaven Too
Songwriter: Florence Welch & Isabella Summers

Gram of Life
Songwriter: Florence Welch & Isabella Summers

Oh Eden
Songwriter: Florence Welch & Isabella Summers

 Remain Nameless
 Songwriter: Florence Welch & Isabella Summers