This ones great, love the tune and the sync with the video is spot on. nice.

Formidable!

nicely done Monsieur French. Quality beats. T x

Original and classy! Easily gets my vote

This is amazing. Using only the sounds of the car create a brilliant and catchy track and you would be forgiven for thinking additional electronic instruments were used. Top class!

this ones the bestest.

tight!

Great stuff ! Merci.

mrrr tasty

This is the best one, and i am not a friend of any of the entrants. It just is.

It is quality this…stands out of the crowd by some margin.

The fact you have used just the car sounds to make the music is amazing. The music fits perfectly with the video.

Superguay!!!!!
Sinceramente es el mejor… y yo lo sé mejor que nadie.

Very smooth. When you here what people can do with just car sounds it inspires.

Slick Nikky… good job jobbed! Eily x

cool Nicky not sure how 2 vote tho. xx

ssssssssssmmmmmmmmoooootttthhhhhhhhhh!

amazing, almost makes me want a Hyundai!

loving your work! N x

Sounds good Mr French! Looking forward to the concept album created entirely from sounds a la ex AA van!

Wicked track nikky! Very sexy, professional and slick… A spot pretty much ready for broadcast in my opinion. The best of luck xy

This is seriously slick. I like some of the others but this is the real deal.

One of the only top remixers who has used his imagination. Great!!!

Can’t fault this one. Lovely tune, has only used the car sounds and one of the only videos.

Quality tunes. You so got it. T x

Superb!

Wow! anyone who hasn’t listened to this before out of proper hi-fi speakers, should do so. So much more little layers than previously heard. The way the engine has been used for bass.

Oh so very original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui-iBK08BRw

Lovely work. If it doesn’t win I’ll eat the car!

Llllllllllllike it. A slick mother trucker.

Reminds me a bit of Timber by Coldcut – no mean feat – Ace! x

cheers ben9. He has managed to make a shit advert look good. Anything wrong with that?

Easily outclasses the opposition.

Come on, this is more like it. Well done

ben9,
That track you’ve posted is nothing like this one. What’s your point, that this fella has blended his own original work with an existing Hyundai vid? It’s a top track, timed to a video and deserves to be up there at the end I’d say……right, off to listen to more of the tunes now….

ben9 – so people were supposed to spend their time creating a fully featured video production as well for free in the hope they might win something ? have you any idea what it takes to make something like that ? bit of a liberty to expect that someone should write a whole tune *and* a professionally produced original video. if theres the possibility that it would all get thrown away i know i wouldnt bother.

YEAH! Love it, cracking fratured beats, lush little melody, interesting direction. This is the one. NICE!!!!!!

the best …slick and pure genius

This is best out the top3, if not all of em

Go go Frenchy! You’re right up there. Good luck sunshine.

glad you came round and got us all into your cause. Hope you win it.

Yes indeed hmmm nice

pure quality from start to finish. Good luck with it!

a quality piece.

come on. now this is more like it. been disappointed in the level of a lot of these. someone who actually knows how to put sounds together

A bit behind at the moment mister, but we’re gonna keep on fighting for ya brother!

Has my vote. =0

Very very, very cool! The tightest and most well thought out entry on here. Did i mention it was cool?

nice job……….

We will ( I hope, really do) take you to the first place… …X

fantastic nik, hope you win x x

Brilliant! I love it man!

just wanted to say halo to my mother and father

You have fans here at Auto faktory in Germany. We give you good wishes. Fantastic sound.

primo bro. u’ve come a long way. best of the tracks for sure

Nikky,
Congratulations on another excellent composition.
Will be voting daily !

brilliant!

if this ends up winning, the right one would have done it. It’s just car sounds, it’s got a video, it’s smart and it ROCKS! well done sir.

Very catchy track, and clearly the beat for 2009

TURBO-NUTTAH-MUSIC-POWER!

Cheers Lord

This is delicious genius…xxx

Oh why is this not winning for F@&£ sake. Clearly the best for the job.

Win Win Win! I am willing it. It’s not too late i can Feeeeel it.

is this joke? as i say ‘once a cheater always a cheater’. keep the good work (cheating) up.

you’s is clearly the best by a long way, but there appear to be some cheats at work and so it looks like they might win. :-C
Either way you’s deserves to win!

love the track! the best by far!

Saw you in the paper today. Hope it gets you loads more votes. Great article.

OOOH washer. A friend of Thomas perhaps. I know you are not a friend of Vantage, as we all know he has none.

This track has rightfully been in the top 3 right from the start. And i noticed that everyone had points taken off for one reason or another. So your point is?

Amazing job mate, where are the real voters?

Without doubt the best one of the lot. You use your imagination to great depth and skill. Deserves to the winner……

nice one nikkyx

Yep, definitely so. [Considering the epic review he made on Thomas' page] Anyway, at least his friend actually produced a decent song. I can’t believe the other piece of S^*%T is about to win, this competition is insane!!!

Love the rack Nikky!

never heard a tune like that on the radio going to work before. You have earned a strangers vote. Good luck and hope you win.

cool cool cool! Nothing comes close! Music of today and the future! Love it!

Liked the radio interview Nik. Sounded like you just got up, ha ha. Good luck. Aint over yet. x

Thanks so much to everyone for voting for me. The gap is just a bit too far to close in the time remaining. We did ourselves proud though. And hopefully you did actually like the tune a bit.

Nikky

Hey, sounds good.

superb!

Top one anyway!!!!!!

cool tune! hope you win you certainly deserve it )

very impressive…..

quality love how you synched the video.
good luck

Extremely suspicious how all of a sudden you’re managing to gain over 200 votes right at the end of the competition, whereas in previous weeks you’ve struggled to hit the 150 mark.
That’s all I’ve noticed this past few hours!

Where are all these votes coming from?!

Shooting so quickly up the leaderboard in a matter of hours. This has to be investigated!!

Aw give it a rest Nikky………275 votes today………I don’t think so some how. Are you sure Vantage and Eugene haven’t come around your house to help!!!….

I guess Vantages mates are now voting for this. What a joke.

Great little track…nicely pieced together Nikky French!!!

300 votes in 24hours……270 since 5pm today??? You’re highest daily score throughout the competition has been 139 votes!! Now that just doesn’t ring true.

I like it!

Something seems a little fishy. Impossible number of votes in the last few hours.

Thank god for the great British pub. Yes i agree. i haven’t had numbers like that before. but i have had a consistent number of friends votes. And as soon as vantage was out, i thought the gap was attainable. So instead of partying on Halloween, me and a few of my friends have been scouring the pubs of Brighton getting loads of extra votes from total strangers.

sounds like alot of bitterness too me … I guess Nikky’s just got lots more lovely mates.

bollocks to that…

wow. that was a full on 6 hours work. great fun though. met some right nutters.

and what is so strange about 4 people getting 270 votes in 5 hours.

270/4 = 67.5 67.5/ 5 hours = 13.5 does 13.5 votes in one hour in a crowded pub seem impossible to you. I would say think again. We had to turn people away. Not just to avoid beer and fake blood on the laptop.

A big Thank you to Andrea at Juice FM for the shout out. All friends, family and my hit squad team in the last few hours. I was on the edge of giving up at 4.30pm.

“270/4 = 67.5 67.5/ 5 hours = 13.5 does 13.5
votes in one hour in a crowded pub seem impossible to you. I would say think
again ”

Ok, thinking again lets consider the whole process of registering new voters
in a crowded pub, asking them to divulge their personal email details and
then waiting while they open up their personal email account on a strangers
laptop. Then waiting until they have recieved the confirmation email from
30 Beats! Before being able to vote. Yep I think that stretches the
imagination a bit far – don’t you?
In fact some of TJ’s new voters reported that they did not receive
confirmation emails and could not vote.

” sounds like a lot of bitterness too
me … I guess Nikky’s just got lots more lovely mates”

Its nothing to do with Bitterness, its all to do with Fairplay and the most
deserving being rewarded. Regarding Nikky’s lovely mates, I thought these
were Random Strangers piling on the votes!

Hmm. 4 Laptops = 4 IP addresses + an elaborate distortion of the
facts = 270 very odd votes!!!…

What a complicated web you weave when at first you plan to deceive……

One way of checking would be to see if these extra votes were done on free email addresses like yahoo, hotmail or gmail. Emails that could be easily set up etc… If they were done on email addressess that could be verified, like @sky.com or @btinternet.com, the story may be true.

what a complicated web you can weave when you dont want to believe the truth and have to make up some rubbish to replace it. ockhams razor should be applied here.

That’s a nice bit of poetry there at the end of your comment Mr. Mask, but I’m afraid that’s all it is.

I sent out 200 emails saying i needed just one vote from them, and asked if they could forward to their email list.

I had a friend at a radio station say about it live on air.

plus all my usual daily votes. So that may have left potentially 100-150 votes needed in pubs, between 4 people in 6 or so hours. Does that really sound impossible to you? And no, not 4 IP adresses. I would presume that a laptop using a pubs wi-fi, would have it’s own IP address. I am not sure. Anyway, this is something 30 beats can check.

I could never have done it with my friends alone, the strangers vote without any doubt swung it. 30 beats said that was cool. I just didn’t stop until midnight. Something that cannot be said for thomas’s friends who may have been partying and booking their lift in his new car.

You will forgive me for being suspicious of someone who had 2000 points removed halfway through the competition which you seemed to recover from rather rapidly. Which pretty much speaks for itself. and yeah I hear you say TJ had points removed as did others. But you cannot refute the fact that you had 300% more points removed which means that your track record is far from saintly!

Just a remark. I don’t know why so much fuss about IP addresses since it is a basic hacking info that simply unplugging the internet cable renews one’s IP address. Should have mentioned that earlier, oops. At least that crappy song got out of the way. And now there is the sexy one and the boring one left. Let’s see…

“One way of checking would be to see if these extra votes were done on free email addresses like yahoo, hotmail or gmail. Emails that could be easily set up etc… If they were done on email addressess that could be verified, like @sky.com or @btinternet.com, the story may be true.”

if they banned yahoo and gmail they would have banned half of the internet.

“…..it is a basic hacking info that simply unplugging the internet cable renews one’s IP address. ….”

allow me to explain. perhaps you are talking about your class C private address which is irrelevant to this point. if you have a dynamic ip it is unlikely it will change like that and even if it does you are restricted to whatever range of ips that ISP has reserved which would be fairly obvious with a simple whois search on that block, usually though the ip changes every couple of weeks on most dynamic things ive seen. i know that nikky and friends worked hard up until the end of the contest without cheating! seems thomas’ friends are quite bad sports!

The overall winner of 30beats will be announced shortly so watch this space.

We can confirm that all votes have now been adjudicated and verified as legitimate, leading us to firmly conclude the outright 30beats winner. Please note that any speculation of cheating will have been quashed prior to the announcement, with in-depth tracking analysis and direct entrant questioning taking place.

30beats

Congratulations Nikky. Well done on the win.. Hope you enjoy the car!

Woohoo! Thanks for all the support everyone. And cheers for the comment Thomas.

Congrats Nikky, all the best.

Well all I can say after all the bickering is that 30 beats have determined the winner and have stated that Nikky is the rightful outright winner. and that they have verified the voting. I also think it was very sporting of Thomas and Col (who I think may be Colin Millard) who have been very gracious in defeat.

‘Tis me indeed.

I would have won if I had been bothered to enter

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