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we were more than surprised when we have seen the headlines
its all over the internet now,  like in Reuters for example
we were and we are trying to reach his team who we work with
but no feedback so far
so we decided to stop the BPA VIP Blogger week, for obvious reasons
and we also close the contest too!!!
and we will get back to you with more info as soon as we can

till then  like we say it in the header
go Norman go! you will win mate
and we are looking forward to meet with you again!!

the APC Team

+++UPDATE+++
just to kill the rumors
yes he blogged with us
and even if Copycat is PRO with whiskey
and Panic Girl wins every drinking contest
and Phil is Irish
and I’m handling Jagermeister pretty well
but now we R innocent ;)

we wish all the best to Norman
and we hope he will get back soon in one piece ‘n healthy!

London – August 1975

Tonites’ first gig wasn’t exactly stellar.

We showed up late and only had time to play “He’s Frank” before the cops showed up and shut down the gig. Charlie Stains (our road manager) got in a brawl with a few locales, but when pressed he couldn’t remember what it was about. As a result of that, a brawl then ensued between Charlie and the band.

However, mid brawl, none of us could remember what we were fighting about either, so we all went for a drink instead.

continued…

As you already noticed, The BPA VIP Blogger Week has started :) Norman Cook wrote us an exclusive mini story series about the secret history of The BPA. While you are waiting for the fresh daily episodes to show up,you can enter to our The BPA Contest and you can win a limited edition The BPA album on vinyl. Here is how you can put your paws on this rarity. Leave a comment (with a valid email of course) in this post and tell us what was the craziest place where you ever danced naked!! You answer doesn’t have to be true ;) This time we are really looking forward the craziest fake naked dancing story!! You can enter more stories if they are different enough.

The contest will end on Sunday evening (March 08. 20:00 CET)
we will pick the craziest story then and…

one lucky winner who sends us the craziest naked dancing story
will win the limited edition We’re Gonna Need A Bigger, Boat vinyl
and we have 5 We’re Gonna Need A Bigger, Boat CDs too
for five more creative fake naked dancing story creators

readers of the International APC and readers of the Hungarian APC can enter to the contest as well, if you wanna comment in English, pls do it here ;)

if you have any questions ask
otherwise go ‘n win!

So go recall your memories or use your fantasy, what was the craziest place where you ever danced naked????

For two decades the secret history of The BPA has been kept under wraps. But with the recent release of “We’re Gonna Need A Bigger, Boat”, further information continues to come to light.

Leading the charge is Dr. Randolph Seal, BPA historian, passive aggressive obsessive, garboligist, bus spotter, and amateur peeping tom. Seal has recently unearthed pages from Norman Cook’s journals that had been “thoughtlessly discarded as trash.”

Despite their poor and incomplete condition, these excerpts offer a rare insight into the evolution of The BPA.

“You have no idea the painstaking work involved here”, Seal assures us from an undisclosed location. “It’s not easy reading torn scraps of paper stained with coffee grinds, liquor, bodily fluids and cigarette burns, but with the will, a microscope and a lot of free time, it can be done.”

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Oh yesssss, the excitement :D This announcement was the biggest and the hottest thing in the short history of APC. Many of you asked about it and it seems like everybody is just as much excited as we are. So we are happy to tell you that the waiting is over. Norman and his friends will start to blog on APC from this Monday. Get ready for The BPA

, get ready for an another round of our VIP Blogger Series. The first post will come out on Monday evening, make sure to check it and share this link with all of your mates! This will be hotttt ;)

Morgan Page AudioPorn Central Trivia Contest
CONTEST CLOSED!!!
Tuesday, November 11th – Tuesday, November 25th

Now that Morgan Page has graced the AudioPorn Central community with a wide variety of blog posts from a behind the scenes look into 'Call My Name' to essential items for travel, APC and Nettwerk Music Group are here to test your Morgan Page knowledge. Below are ten questions about Morgan Page for you to answer. Most of the answers can be found in Morgan's APC blogs. Good luck!

+++UPDATE+++
the contest is over, massive congrats to our grand pize winner Qubic!!

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Making great music is all about teaming up with the right people – singers, players, co-writers – people you have chemistry with and whose ideas you respect. I always look for people that come up with ideas that complement my music, ideas I wouldn’t have thought of on my own – or people that can play an instrument with greater skill. This mix of good ideas and performance is where the magic happens.. that and great gear and tons of coffee. Here’s a short wishlist of collaborators i’d like to team up with.. maybe they’ll stumble on to this blog post and get inspired

Imogen Heap – Amazing vocalist – truly unique ideas, and a great sense for harmony.
Ray Lamontagne – Another great singer who really infuses his song with emotion and powerful delivery.
Rocco Deluca – Great guitar player and songwriter who does some insane stuff with his resonator guitars.
Chris Thile – Formerly of Nickel Creek. Masterful mandolin player that could really do some damage in the electronic world

This Halloween I had the opportunity to DJ with The Crystal Method, Moby, and Paul Van Dyk on the main stage in front of 8,000 people in Seattle. It was a crazy show. Seeing as it was Halloween I wore my viking outfit, but ditched the Viking sheep coat ’cause it was way too hot on stage. Most shows go as planned, but even the most simple technical mishap can catch you off guard. At nearly every gig there is  a Pioneer DJM-800 mixer provided, which are great – I prefer Allen & Heath mixers for their sound quality, but the design of the 800 is nice and fairly straightforward. I plug my Xone 3D into the DJM-800 and it works like a charm. But before I went on we weren’t seeing any incoming audio signal. We tried everything, but the last song from the previous DJ was running out and it looked like there was gonna be dead air. Of course, the guy before had some crazy fx setting on – I think it was a filter, but there was no flashing light or obvious indicator – just the "color" switch turned down. The sound guy managed to catch it in time thankfully and it was smooth sailing after that.

At every gig you have to plan for the unexpected and things rarely go as planned – that nice neat itinerary always goes out the window, and you’re forced to improvise. Here’s a quick list of 5 bizarre things that have happened at gigs

1. Laptop vibrated off the stand or table in the dj booth – and was caught one-handed,
2. Had a bongo player ejected from the venue because he was overpowering the music
3. Viking helmet got in the way of DJ headphones (Halloween)
4.  DJ’d without monitors in Miami in a venue that was basically a hallway
5. Played behind a curtain for 30 minutes at one of LA’s biggest venues, until they sorted out the stage issues – and people came streaming in.

I wrote this song with Tyler James in literally two days. He was in town playing at The Hotel Cafe , another great venue in Hollywood where I saw Lissie for the first time. I immediately liked the sound of his voice – and felt there was some potential for a song. His voice reminded me a lot of Chris Martin from Coldplay.

For the remix package, I selected a lot of my favorite producers of the moment – Thomas Gold, TV Rock, and several others.  I wanted to give the song an extra edge or the dancefloor, so we picked out producers accordingly, and I did my own remix of the song that would work best for my sets. It’s surprisingly fun to remix your own song. All the mixes have their own personality – The Timewriter went deep, Thomas Gold went techy, TV Rock went for an epic clubby vibe with an 80’s flair, and both J Nitti and myself did very melodic mixes that work well for both radio and the club.