The Belettes won the Spring contest!
May 3rd, 2011
Thounds

And finally we are announcing who won our first and much followed Spring contest: congratulations to the Belettes from Lille in France!

This is the winning track!
Visit The Belettes page on Thounds

Some random quotes from the jury about the winning track:
“The guitar riffs are great, reminds of Foals. Nice and tight.”
“A great potential player, I’d say.”
“Spring Break is a remarkably confident, often troubling debut that excels at both forward-thinking and good old-fashioned music.”

The full line up for the wonderful jury was:

Aaron Bogucki, Polydor (UK)
http://www.polydor.co.uk

Jack Fryer, Frukt Communications (UK)
http://www.fruktcomms.com

Christoph Sobel, New Yorker (Germany)
http://www.newyorker.de

Wil Padley, BandCentral (UK)
http://bandcentral.com

David Casalini, Cond´ Nast (Italy)
http://www.wired.it and http://ps.glamour.it

Gerardo Gascon, PIAS (Spain)
http://twitter.com/#!/promopiasspain

Lior Shamir, VibeDeck (USA)
http://vibedeck.com

Paul Dando, Starfield Road Management (UK)
http://www.starfieldroad.com

Virginie Berger, Don’t Believe The Hype (France)
http://virginieberger.com

Andrea Schipani, Audiocoop (Italy)
http://www.audiocoop.it

See more details and who got to 2nd and 3rd places too on:
http://thounds.com/contest

Meet the fantastic jury
April 21st, 2011
Thounds

Meet the Jury Panel

And here is the jury panel, that will eventually elect the winner of the fender Stratocaster for our first Spring Contest:

Aaron Bogucki
Polydor (UK)
He is Senior Digital Campaign Manager and thus loves connecting artists with fans. If he can push the boundaries of digital content and the music experience at the same time then even better!
http://www.polydor.co.uk

Jack Fryer
Frukt Communications (UK)
http://www.fruktcomms.com

Christoph Sobel
New Yorker (Germany)
Head of music cooperation for the fashion company New Yorker, with more than 850 stores in 32 countries is making it one of Europe’s largest fashion businesses.
http://www.newyorker.de

Wil Padley
BandCentral (UK)
http://bandcentral.com

David Casalini
Cond´ Nast (Italy)
Head of Multimedia Design and Development at Wired and Glamour magazines.
Lives with Chiara and daughter Giulia in the countryside just outside Milan and goes back to his homeland in Tuscany as soon as possibile. Loves reading, running, playing with daughter and writing for his blog.
http://www.wired.it and http://ps.glamour.it

Gerardo Gascon
PIAS (Spain)

Lior Shamir
We Are Listening (USA)
http://www.wearelistening.org

Paul Dando
Starfield Road Management (UK)
Paul heads up London-based Starfield Road Management and is currently responsible for artists including Fei Comodo and Calories amongst others.
http://www.starfieldroad.com

Virginie Berger
Don’t Believe The Hype (France)
http://virginieberger.com

Andrea Schipani
Audiocoop (Italy)
Web Communication manager and press officer for Audiocoop and MEI event, the biggest Italian even for independent record labels, artists and music professionals.
http://www.audiocoop.it/

http://thounds.com/contest

Finals

The first phase of the contest is now closed and it has been a success with lots good tracks submitted!
Now we need your help to shortlist the five finalists that will be subject to the jury verdict, vote for your favourite track by just leaving a comment by April the 27th.
The more comments a track gets the more chance to go into the five finalists.

The jury is made of ten professionals from international record labels, popular tech and music magazines, blogs, communication agencies, etc and it will officially announced later today.

http://thounds.com/contest