After their initial release as part of the 3-cd package “Almighty Presents “We Love Matt Pop“ earlier this year, you can now get your hands on the 12″collection of some of Matt Pop’s best loved Almighty mixes through iTunes! Including the full-length Abbacadabra tracks Knowing Me, Knowing You and Fernando and the 8:18 minute version of Male Stripper. Come on – you know you want them: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/album/almighty-presents-we-love/id656941213 Remember: you can still order the 2-cd or 3-cd-set (or MP3 / WAV download) directly from the Almighty website as well: http://www.almightyrecords.com/product/ALMYCDR089/

Now that I got my little Eurovision grievance off my chest, it is time for some good Matt Pop news again. Because the string of new releases is far from over! Matt Fishel’s When Boy Meets Boy will be released June 3rd 2013, including the Matt Pop Cartoon Club Mix ,and I am very happy to report that my mixes of Number One by Mark Tara will also hit the airwaves very soon. A great track by a fairly unknown artist – I am hoping to give you a taster before too long. And finally: a new Matt Pop mix for RuPaul will be out within weeks! Keep checking this page for updates.

A few words about the Eurovision Song Contest. My favourite entry this year, as you probably know by now, was from Belgium. My unofficial club mix of Love Kills is doing very well and I am glad that many of you share my opinion that it was simply a great song and that it deserved an extended club mix. http://youtu.be/GBHvLCdPj0o I thought the Danish winner was much weaker, but – hey: Europe has spoken 🙂 The one thing that I find unbelievable is that nobody complains about the Big Five; the countries who are in the finals, no matter what, simply because they are the biggest financial sponsors of the festival (Spain, France, UK, Germany, Italy). Any contest where you can buy a place in the finals is not a fair one. Engelbert Humperdinck received just 12 points last year, yet the UK performed during the final, effectively taking the place of one of the countries that didn’t make it throuhg the semi-finals. If you compare it to any other sports competition or talent show it becomes apparent just how absurd this construction is. Imagine if at Wimbledon a country sent a  tennis player, along with a large bag of money, and the organisers said: oh: that’s a lot of money – don’t you worry about those semi-finals; we’ll see you for the big match in three weeks time. It’s ludicrous! And the argument: “well, without those sponsors, there wouldn’t be a festival” that I sometimes hear, is irrelevant. If you can’t organise a  contest where all participants get the same chance, without bribes (what else do you call getting a guaranteed place in the finals, in exchange for money?), than the contest shouldn’t take place. As long as the Big Five principle is in place, Eurovision will never have a fair winner.

Almighty have picked the 5 lucky winners in the Matt Pop competition. To see if you have won one of the 5 signed copies of the We Love Matt Pop album, go here: http://www.almightyrecords.com/news/label/2013-05-07/winners-of-aprils-we-love-matt-pop-competition-announced

You may also want to pay the MattPopOfficial Facebook page a visit for the free  mix give-away. Don’t wait too long because the download link expires May 19th 2013! https://www.facebook.com/MattPopOfficial