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In june 2003, around the time that Hail to the Thief was released, Radiohead started an internet competition called The Loophole, where they provided samples for fans to create music and send it in. For this purpose the website www.digitallandfill.co.uk was created, a link to this website was prominently featured in radiohead.com. These were the instructions:
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The winners would be selected by the band. 20 mp3s would be made available for free download every month from august 2003 until january 2004. All in all 100 winning tracks were selected this way from countless contributions over a period of six months. Here's a list of the winners. The time frames indicate when the files were available for download:
August 11th - September 9th 2003pomme de terre - francis geigh iiiSteef van Winkel - close to 40 seconds (declicked) Angels Mend Us - Talking Backwards for No Reason joga - egoism and communism Greenjeans Studios Production Team - Damned Chinamen Dreams kid n - black static ktelfunk - To Dream In Manilla longsleeves - Quick Fade Edges to Prevent Clicks UNCLEJOHNNY - disturbing asian fantasy earthsimulator - after the storm oneline - I'm Stuck To You Television Robbers - Noctourniquet Watchman Blue - Bleed Good Blood Jeff Boardman - Have You? spaceiinvadr - cloud are snowing squares jflora222 - 222 Chris Rawlings - Paperstaken The Other Leading Brand - Just Like Thom Yorke's Blues Paulgood30 - Thier Their hexxon - anachronistic chronology September 9th - October 7th 2003sonic fruit - appearing sixteenthPROFESSOR 3 - SPIRIT INSIDE Fabien P. - Radiographie Cr?nienne. earthsimulator - apocalypse14 Michal Zlotkowski - Late In The Day airfoil - stowaway luggage Dane Jacobs - Untitled(loophole track) Anthony - Meadow Stomper Nick Sherman - Nowhere left to Hide jcatchpole - reiterate again goodhands team - the loophole daniel johnson - fruit bats dtrenz - capillaries Mikrogram - Yes Sir! Askai - Barotrauma Helios - Virnelle Lyder scutopus - SAMO pa_screech - eggs the starling precept - formula 6-4 Lost Requiem ronevans22@hotmail.com - Rise October 8th 2003audiocide - manual retrybeak - bird voiced frog C. Lisinski - Chewing on Skin CIRCUIT SCARECROW - HUNG LIKE A RABBIT FUCK LIKE A HORSE darcin - stay in school DAS - MarsWalk Digital Dada - What a Child Knows doof - Everybody's Dead Jon Richards - Nightmare Matthew Davis - Previous owner megachoir - elongated monkies Micropyll - Nightshadows and Wooden Monsters Notbremse - Werduryne OkClave - T-Jo RTS Paul de Lange - 3,14 Plantage - Under Math Equals Richard J. Dingus - hobbyism 88 TaigaBear - L'etoffe du chef Thomas W - I am Flying and Floating On Wind Trolleymusic - Nightmare (loophole) November 11th? - December 16thOrphan Inc - Sullen Vicewe||cky - Video Connection 2025 muzzle - scream express inhaler - CBS The Orange Frequency - Unravel heidemann - c'mon kids! Bucket - Vmod triptikon - au fin du couloir le soleil brille mr special - labotomy ffeW - ...als wij maar dan het wil. monteau - libra the balance libra the scales Greatjoshofegypt - C'est Impossible Merteao Kor - 3:42 AM fabio fonda - osdi PeteJ - Electrodes urizen2000 - Children of the Stars QBall - My Loop Hole Shape2 - Blue Loops of Manhattan J.E. - Une Petite Chienne faded reality - matter January 6th 2004Debris - hereinthemiddleofaboxevolume - dirty dice Experimental please - Looplucidity i am tv - no escape jp_shiima - Wherever you want lichen-dating - as I am the infidel m.white - D3vc Matias Coduri - 2 Vidas Para Tirar Todo A La Mierda Mekong Delta Funk - a frozen footprint Monchhichi Jazz Ensemble - World Series mononomo - climb and fall mwave - T295 Paul de Lange - Boneyard stu - bad dream in america tauboo - uitvlucht telemekis - rent The Kid In Half - Dazephonic Theadore - This is the Final Radio tor johnson - primal electronik X. Astolfo Gomez - Drunken Giant Robot (Mazinger Z) |
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In april 2004 the competition officially ended with this message:
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