The Untz Challenge VII: Turn Your Dreams into a Reality

TheUntz.com gives electronic music producers the chance to perform at major U.S. music festivals this summer





For all you hustling producers, making beats in your bedroom and playing house parties for your friends—this one’s for you. TheUntz.com is bringing back The Untz Challenge, but this time the stakes are higher than ever and are guaranteed to change your electronic music career forever.

Our prize package includes the opportunity to perform at the biggest and best summer music festivals taking place across the United States--and this year, we've picked the cream of the crop. The two winners of The Untz Challenge VII will be playing at SEVEN major music festivals across five months.



Our two winning acts will hit Summer Camp Music Festival (May 27-29 - Chillicothe, IL), The Untz Festival (June 2-4 - Mariposa, CA), SONIC BLOOM (June 16-19 - TBA, CO), Electric Forest (June 23-26 - Rothbury, MI), ARISE Festival (August 5-7 - Loveland, CO), Imagine Music Festival (August 26-28 - Atlanta, GA), and Backwoods Music Festival (September 2-4 - Agra, OK).

Beginning February 29th continuing until March 18th, The Untz will accept submissions for the competition via SoundCloud. During the month of April, fans will vote on their favorite tracks via TheUntz.com.

A total of 2 slots will be given away to the winners of this contest. The grand prize, which includes a performance slot at each of the participating festivals, will be won through the fan voting process. The second place winner is chosen by the staff of TheUntz.com, and will have the opportunity to perform at the same dates along the run.



Important Dates for The Untz Challenge VII

February 29 – Track submission begins

March 18 – Track submission ends 11:59pm PST

March 28 – Voting begins

April 8 – Voting ends 11:59pm PST

April 12 – First and second place winners announced

Now then, here are the rules and regulations of the competition:

ORIGINAL tracks can be submitted beginning February 29 th , and we will continue to accept submissions until March 18 th at 11:59 pm PST . ( DO NOT SUBMIT TRACKS BEFORE 2/29/16 )

Submitted tracks must be UNRELEASED prior to the contest start date, which covers singles, EPs, LPs, and compilations on major and independent labels, free/paid releases via Bandcamp, and free downloads/streams on SoundCloud.

The Untz Challenge VII SoundCloud Group at this link: https://soundcloud.com/ groups/the-untz-challenge-vii JoinSoundCloud Group at this link: Upload your track to your SoundCloud account. Navigate to your track and click the Add to Group button and then select The Untz Challenge VII group.

Tracks must REMAIN UNRELEASED (except on SoundCloud) until the contest is over ( April 12 ).

Artists retain the rights of ownership of their work.

Please submit only ONE track per DJ/producer. If you submit more than one, only your first entry will be considered—and it will annoy us to no end, which is not a good thing.

This is strictly a contest for PRODUCERS . No live bands, please. There are other contests for that. This is not one of them.

DO NOT submit MIXES , REMIXES , or STOLEN WORK . (Yes, we understand DJs create mixes, but we want ORIGINAL, SINGLE tracks for this particular competition.)

Each track may contain samples licensed, royalty free samples, but no unauthorized proprietary samples. All submitted tracks MUST NOT infringe US copyright law. Any track removed by SoundCloud for potential copyright infringment will also be disqualified from this contest.

The Untz staff will compile a list of the best submissions.

Only votes originating from verified email providers (i.e. Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Live, AOL, university emails, etc.) will be counted. Blatant use of unverified emails/spam accounts will result in disqualification.

Voting by the public will take place from March 28 - April 8 NO bot voting NO voting incentives (i.e. "each voter gets a free iPad") NO voting raffles (i.e. "we'll take one lucky voter to each festival with us")

