IMSTA Song Competition
In Association with AKON’s HITLAB

The IMSTA Song Competition is an international contest open to anyone with original songs that are recorded as high quality demos or master recordings. All genres of music are welcomed, and there are no limits to the number of songs that each contestant may submit.

Your songs are uploaded as MP3 files and analyzed through HITLAB’s DHS technology. Submitted songs are compared to the hit songs of the past 6 years and given a score based on 78 different variables. The song with the highest score will win the IMSTA Song Competition. First place winner will have a chance to sign with a major Record Company.

Furthermore, your score will determine whether or not your song has the potential to be a hit. A score of 70% or higher means that your song is very appealing and has the potential to be a hit. Therefore, even if you are not a winner, you will still benefit from having your song(s) analyzed and scored. This feedback is priceless and very important to both established and new artists. The contest ends on May 31, 2010. For more info, click here.

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 Angelica Ross (singer-songwriter)

LOCATION: California

WEBSITE: www.angelicaross.com

FAVORITE MUSIC SOFTWARE: Reason 3.0 and Garageband

NAMBA GEAR: Big Namba Studio Backpack

Angelica Ross has been a singer-songwriter since elementary school. She learned piano by ear in the 4th grade, and then went on to learn the guitar as an adult. Angelica now runs her own Multimedia Design Studio, Creating websites, Producing Music, Photography, & Graphic Designs. www.MyZenStudios.com is just what the name implies, her Zen place for creativity.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR LATEST PROJECT?

I’ve been working on my debut recording project, “Journey to Venus”. It’s a collection of songs I’ve written that sort of frame my physical and spritual journey into womanhood. I believe that my songs, my stories, though very unique are very common amongst men and women a like.

WHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST ABOUT YOUR NAMBA GEAR BAG?

What’s best about the Studio Backpack is that it is airport friendly. I was sweating going through security thinking, “NO WAY are they going to let me on the plane with this bag as a carry on. I’m 5′7″, 115lbs, so this bag looks like it weighs just as much as I do. But I got to Chicago and back with all my gear on me in ONE piece, and in ONE bag. Just recently geared it up again for my move out here to Los Angeles.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAVORITE REMOTE RECORDING LOCATION?

I have to say wherever I am feels remote to me. I’ve moved around a lot from Japan to California, when life gives me an opportunity to experience the world, I jump at it. The difference now is I can record the inspiration wherever it happens thanks to my Namba bag.

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As you can imagine, we are getting a lot of international traffic from all over the world on our website. A friend called our attention to the Google Translate application which will translate every page on our site into other languages.

The Google Translate control is on the right sidebar at the end of the column. Just choose your language and voila (a bit of French) the Namba Gear page is translated.

We’ve noticed that even if you don’t speak another language it can still be fun to play around with. The translations may not be 100%, but certainly get close enough to figure out what is being said.

Namba Gear wants to thank all of our friends and supporters around the world. Rock on, dudes! (We just wanted to see how it would translate “dudes”. In Icelandic it’s spjátrungur.)

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