Camp Bisco Survival Kit

ACIDPLANET.COM, REMIX MAGAZINE AND MCP PRESENTS HOST REMIX CONTEST FOR CAMP BISCO VIII

3-DAY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL

The Contest Runs May 21 – June 26

Featuring Tracks By Electronica Pioneers, The Orb; One Winner To Receive DJ Performance Opportunity

(Asheville. NC) - May 20, 2009 – MCP Presents, promoter of the annual Camp Bisco music and arts festival, is hosting a four-week multi-artist remix contest, powered by Sony Creative Software’s popular music remixing site ACIDplanet.com and promoted in partnership with Penton Media, publisher of Remix, Mix and Electronic Musician Magazines. The winning entry will receive a prized DJ performance slot during Camp Bisco VIII, the annual three-day music and arts festival taking place in Mariaville, New York July 16-18, 2009.

The contest will start May 21, with tracks from electronica pioneers The Orb, festival hosts Disco Biscuits, progressive reggae stars John Brown’s Body and live-tronica newcomers Telepath. Contestants will be able to download stems for each song and upload their remixes to be streamed, commented on and rated by peers and the general public. Additional tracks by soon-to-be announced surprise artists will be added throughout the contest, which concludes on June 26. A remixer will be chosen on June 29 and offered a one-hour set during Camp Bisco VIII.

“Camp Bisco is always focused on innovative on-stage collaborations and engaging our audience in new ways,” said MCP Presents Jonathan Fordin. “With this remix contest we are excited to honor the traditions and techniques of electronic music that the festival focuses on, and also offer fans a creative opportunity to participate.”

Camp Bisco VIII will once again be held at the picturesque Indian Lookout Country Club in Mariaville, New York. The venue will feature two performance stages and a third late night dance tent. The Indian Lookout Country Club is located approximately 20 minutes travel time from Albany, New York, and sits on 200 acres of rolling, flat grass fields. The grounds come equipped with full bathrooms, which include flush toilets and showers, as well as 24/7 bathroom attendants. Festival goers will have access to a full bar on site and a general store, which sells almost every necessity for a comfortable and care free experience.

Camp Bisco VIII is presented by MCP Presents and hosted by The Disco Biscuits. Visit www.campbisco.net for the most up to date information.

About Remix Magazine

Remix is a Web-first property that serves emerging and established music producers, engineers, artists and DJs through product news, reviews, artist interviews, and video tutorials. Remix also reaches today's innovative music-makers through regional Remix Hotel events and weekly Transmissions e-mail newsletters.

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Sony Creative Software inspires artistic expression with its award-winning line of products for digital video, music, DVD, and audio production. The company develops applications that integrate with and enhance use of Sony cameras and other hardware devices. Sony Creative Software customers span the globe and include seasoned professionals in the film, television, video game, and recording industries, as well as students, educators, hobbyists, and enthusiasts. For more information about professional and consumer products, visit www.sonycreativesoftware.com.

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Here are some mp3's of last years Disco Biscuits set at Camp Bisco. Then go buy them shits
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Color War Teams

Orange - The original champions. New leadership. Gung ho on winning again. Always a force to be reckoned with, they dominate a lot of sleeper events. Nuff Said.
Green - Winners of 2006 Color War, and a close second every other year. TONS of girls on this team. (HINT - They need some guys. Big strong ones so they don't get decimated in tug-of-war.)
Yellow - By far the most team spirit out there. Notorious shit-talkers. Headed up by Yancy "Mr. Color War" Davis and Amber Toot. They haven't won yet, but they always have some tricks up the sleeve. They're due.
Purple - Last year's Champs, and always the LOUDEST. Double the captains of any other team. Returning captains Mike and Tara know the sweet taste of victory, and the bitterness of close defeat. For some reason, they always seem to have a megaphone.

orangemanics@gmail.com
teamdieselgreen@gmail.com
teamyellow08@gmail.com
discopurple@gmail.com

to get involved contact: colorwar@gmail.com

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Here is an article wrote in 2007 on the venue ILCC and though i had one of the official ILCC staff correct me (not educate me thank god!), they let me know i had some facts a little skewed and i though I am too lazy to fix.

Indian Lookout Country Club (site of camp bisco)

Growing up in New York City, I heard of music festivals that went on upstate at a campground called Indian Lookout Country Club (ILCC). Little did I know this was also home to “The Harley Davidson Rendezvous,” a motorcycle gathering that attracts bikers near and far. In my senior year of high school my friends and I packed our bags to go up to Indian Lookout Country Club to hear some music. Little did we know we were about to enter a different world, an autonomous state within a state, where bikers on ATVs were in charge, rather than the police. It is a place where yuppies and pacifists would look to Bikers and Hell’s Angels for safety. Interestingly enough, there has never been a violent incident involving a weapon, or even a fist fight. Everyone seems too scared of getting tackled by one of the 200 pound Hell’s Angels who have a presence at the campground. Since the 1960’s the Hells Angels have gained a reputation for running security for famous counter culture rock bands. This has lead to the musical “hippy” counterculture becoming engrained with biker culture. The sense of peace felt at the ILCC was stronger than anywhere else I have ever been and contrasted to other festivals such as “Woodstock Two,” where someone got stabbed, or another similar style music festival, where someone got pistol whipped. At ILCC the bikers take the place of the police presence, selectively enforcing security limited to only violent or dangerous crimes. This creates a sense of physical safety and at the same time encourages personal freedom rarely found anywhere else. I did not know at the time that this sense of civil liberties is a deep part of biker culture.
At the gate to the festival the security was tight and the searches thorough. This is an essential part of keeping the festival safe. Word has it staff have found everything from spiked bats to handguns. Though stories circulate of being hassled by bikers on Harley motorcycles or ATV’s, the feeling I got and the general consensus is that as long as you abide by the “law of that land”, which basically states “be peaceful and no glass,” then no one will bother you. The biker motto "Live and let live" is reflected in the feel of the campground in which a sort of peaceful anarchy takes place, where pacifist music fans and bikers coexist in a peaceful symbiosis. This is what one anonymous ILLC staff says about what it means to be a biker:
“Being a biker is a way of life as much as it is riding a bike. You don't stop being a biker when your bike blows up and you spend a year or more rebuilding it. No, you're still you. Happy just to be alive. And we have our priorities straight. We don't dress to impress. We don't care if someone disagrees with our preference of Levis over Dockers or well-worn boots over Gucci’s.”
ILCC is officially a “no-colors zone,” as well as “neutral territory”, this statement is made in many publications put out by ILCC to remind those visiting that it is a place where violence will not be tolerated. One of the phrases at the festival I saw printed on someone’s shirt was: “No one here is a stranger, just a friend you haven’t met.” I enjoyed this phrase and it contrasts sharply to the common notion people think about bikers, that they are rude, aggressively violent, neo-Nazis. I had heard stories of good deeds done by the bikers, helping younger stranded campers find their group or offering work exchanges for someone that had arrived with no money or ticket (imagine that). I participated in the work exchange program at one of these festivals; we were served meals three times a day by a friendly “vegan chef” and intermingled with the biker staff. I was surprised at the vegan food and that all these other biker stereotypes were breaking down all around me.
Numerous music festivals are held at Indian Lookout Country Club touted as “the only country club exclusively for bikers”. The number one event at Indian Lookout Country Club is still the “Harley Davidson Rendezvous” or “the vouz,” as it is endearingly called by the bikers. Founded by Kemp O’Connell, who passed on in 1994, the tradition gets passed on to the younger generation as older bikers inevitably take “that last highway off ramp”. The good times spent in the nation state of ILCC will never be forgotten, a place where libertarian beliefs and basic respect are the foundation of a well functioning society.
some video can be seen HERE

THE DISCO BISCUITS ANNOUNCE DATES FOR CAMP BISCO VIII

3-DAY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL

IN MARIAVILLE, NEW YORK JULY 16-18, 2009

Featuring 3 Nights of The Disco Biscuits

$115 Pre-sale 3-Day Passes

Tickets On Sale Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 10a.m.

Atlanta, Georgia (January 21, 2009) - The Disco Biscuits will continue the tradition of bringing cutting edge acts to Mariaville, New York, when Camp Bisco VIII, the eighth annual three-day music and arts festival, returns this July 16-18, 2009. As hosts of Camp Bisco, one of the country's largest and longest running electronic/rock music festivals, the Disco Biscuits have continued to bring a myriad of talent to the scene in recent years, including: Snoop Dogg, Thievery Corporation, DJ Shadow, MSTRKRFT, The Roots, Infected Mushroom, STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9), Shpongle, Younger Brother, Bassnectar, and !!!. This 2009 lineup will include three full nights of the Disco Biscuits with the full performer lineup to be announced in coming weeks.

Camp Bisco VIII will once again be held at the picturesque Indian Lookout Country Club in Mariaville, New York. The venue is located approximately 20 minutes travel time from Albany, New York, and sits on 200 acres of rolling, grass fields. The grounds come equipped with full bathrooms; which include flush toilets and showers, as well as 24/7 bathroom attendants. Festival goers will have access to a full bar on site and a general store, which sells almost every necessity for a comfortable and care free experience, including alcohol.

Early bird tickets go on sale Thursday, January 29TH at 10am, for a limited time only and begin at $115. Tickets are available online at both www.campbisco.net and 1-800-594-TIXX. VIP packages are available for an additional $225 per ticket purchase.

15 cents of every ticket sold will be donated to Trees For The Future, an organization that has been the steward of planting trees throughout the world since the early 1970s in an effort to remedy the effects of illegal logging and unsustainable land management systems on the world's developing communities. Once again, Camp Bisco will be working with Headcount, a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization devoted to voter registration and participation in democracy. BE-Green ticket upgrades will also be sold for an additional $2.50. Funds raised by the BE-Green upgrades will be used to offset carbon emissions through the use of renewable energy sources.

Camp Bisco VIII is promoted by MCP Presents and hosted by The Disco Biscuits. Greening partners include Green Mountain Energy Company – the nation's leading provider of cleaner electricity and carbon offset products.

Visit www.campbisco.net for the most up to date information.

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