Holiday Beat Battle with Zaytoven

1. Make a beat by sampling ‘Angels We Have Heard on High’ by David Ian & Acaci
2. Please note that your entry doesn’t have to be a Christmas track. You can make any type of beat!
3. Upload a video of your beat to Instagram (max 60 seconds) or other social channels on or before Monday 31st December 2018. The winner will be announced January 10th.
4. Tag the video with #tracklibbeatbattle
5. Tag at least two producer friends in your post.

1st prize:
An Elektron Digitakt drum machine/sampler (worth $900)
+ 1 Sample License + 50 Tracklib download credits

2nd prize:
25 Tracklib download credits

3rd prize:
10 Tracklib download credits

“Angels We Have Heard on High” is part of David Ian’s Vintage Christmas series. The jazz pianist is known for his laid-back, holiday-themed albums on Prescott Records, including Vintage Christmas Wonderland, Vintage Christmas Trio, and Valentine’s Day. The track selected for this Beat Battle features the beautiful voice of Nashville-based singer Acacia.

According to umbrella label Naxos, Prescott Records “fosters a youthful lift to classic sound.” This ranges from jazz standards to holiday music with a modern take. That fits in well with its distributor, Naxos, which is the world’s largest distributor of classical, jazz and world music.

Acclaimed Atlanta-based producer Zaytoven has produced for the likes of Usher, Migos, Nicki Minaj, Future, Gucci Mane, and Waka Flocka Flame. Notably, earlier this year he released the collaborative album “A” together with Usher, as well as the second edition of “Beast Mode” together with Future.

To stay in the holiday spirit: earlier this month, Zaytoven released Christmas album “Greatest Gift” together with singer Deitrick Haddon (Spotify / Apple Music), heading into the holidays in a trappy and soulful way.

Your Instagram profile needs to be public for us to be able to see your post. Only entries using the #tracklibbeatbattle tag with at least two friends are tagged, will be entering the competition.

Your music is still yours. We do not own any of the entries to this competition and will not use them for any other advertising purposes. We will, however, repost your tracks to promote the competition itself.

The first prize will be awarded a full sample license to monetize their work for free. The winner will, however, still have to pay the original rightsholders their share (5, 10 or 20% depending on sample time) of any eventual revenue earned on the new song.

No purchase is necessary to participate, but the samples need to be downloaded using a personal account on Tracklib. The prize is as stated and no cash or other alternatives will be offered. The prizes are not transferable and will be added to the winners Tracklib account.

If you have any further questions about the rules of this competition - just ask us at support@tracklib.com.