Monthly Music Challenge 2023 Awards - Best of MMC1 2023 GOLD AWARDS

Here it is peeps, the Monthly Music Challenge 2023 Awards - GOLD EDITION with your hosts Cosmic Bos

2023 has been one helluva ride for the Monthly Music Challenge podcast, when we started this back in Jan 2023 (ahh memories) with the help of Music Weeklies and the support of our awesome partners in musical business (Andrew Hartshorn & Al Warren), we had no idea how it would go, but here we are at the tail end of 23 and we are doing an Awards show, 2 of them no less (SPOILER ALERT! there will be a Silver Awards show too).

Welcome to the first annual Monthly Music Challenge Awards, 2023, with your hosts Cosmic Bos

We have handed out awards to go with each of the themes of MMC1, and using the album that we made ourselves for the challenge (which you can buy on CD and Download from bandcamp right now! follow the link - https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album

So as not to reveal the winners in this here bit of text, all the nominees will be written out in no particular order, and you will have to listen to find out the Gold Award winner.

New Beginnings Award

• New Beginnings - A Sea Warren
• In the Beginning - Tonal Drift
• A New Beginning - Chemical Shift/Broken Nomads
• Phoenix Rising - Andrew Hartshorn
• Starting Over - Third Echo Sounds

Escape Award

• Breakout - Trench Gun
• How to Stop Time - Stefan Bohacek
• Escapist - Notehead
• Escape - Peter Hawkey
• Dance (escape the week) - Mijimo

Ignorance Award

• Without Your Love - A Sea Warren
• Ignorance - Peter Hawkey
• I is for Ignorance - Hellwaddler
• Ignorance - Mobidextrous
• Eden - Andrew Hartshorn
• The Size of the Stars - Notehead

Winning Award

• Smell Defeat - Notehead
• Winning isn't Everything - Man of Arun
• Slow and Steady Wins the Race - Andrew Hartshorn
• You Can't be a Winner (if you're a Sinner) - A Sea Warren
• Winning (deep fried mix) - Mobidextrous

Razzmajazz Award

• Razzmajazz - Tonal Drift
• This is Fine - Notehead
• The Jazzman's Trumpet - Andrew Hartshorn
• Razzmajazz - Scowsh Molosh
• Just Make it Up - Hellwaddler

Artificial Intelligence Award

• Ghost in the Machine - J Peck
• Dichotomy - Natalie Williams Calhoun
• Clouds Dissolve - Texmex Shaman and TRC
• Era Oeuvre - Voltage Poetry Project
• Techno Sapiens - Tonal Drift

Mother Earth Award

• Price to be Paid - Aye Nevo
• Gaias Moonshine Merriment - Hellwaddler
• The Assassination of Mother Earth - Man of Arun
• Mother Nature - Taylor Lidstone
• They Lied to Me - J Peck

Dreams Award

• Princess in the Snow - Hellwaddler
• Lonely in Lucidity - Notehead
• Impossible Perks - Mobidextrous
• Dreamscape Promises - Taylor Lidstone
• Polarsken - Chemical Shift
• Crisp - John Serrano
• Unsettled Sleep - Tonal Drift

Super Spectacular Award

• Super - Texmex Shaman
• Can't Get You Out of My Head - John Serrano and Raul Lupianez
• Atlantis (Tringle) - Andrew Hartshorn
• Mecha Funk - Mario Marino
• Super-Spectacular - Above the Snow Line
• Epiphany - Hellwaddler

Finale Award

• Feed Me the Finale - Notehead
• Lost - Only the Host
• Once Stowaway - Voltage Poetry Project
• Finale - Taylor Lidstone
• Noot and Carnage - Hellwaddler
• I Want to Run Away - A Sea Warren
• Finale - Above the Snow Line ft. John Serrano

There you have it, all these songs have picked up an award, but only one from each list gets the GOLD Award. Massive THANK YOU to everyone that submitted a song to the MMC in 2023, we had 167 songs made for the challenge by you! that's so awesome sauce.

In between each of the award winning songs, you get to hear Cosmic Bos submission to the MMC for that month, which you can buy on CD from Bandcamp here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album

And you can get Andrew Hartshorn's MMC album on bandcamp too

https://andrewhartshorn.bandcamp.com/album/mythos-unveiled-album

And you can buy the pair of them together for a lovely little discount, please consider supporting us by buying our music, we do this all for love, but it would be nice to see some money pwease too.

Anyway, the Cosmic Bos songs that you will hear scattered across the award show are as follows

• Nude Beginnings
• Make Good Our Escape
• Idiots
• We Are All in This Together
• Razzmajazz
• There's No A.I in Team
• Earth's Children
• Could This All be a Dream?
• Super Spectacular
• Grand Theft Autotune (live)

All the tracks on our album that Monochrome Motif have put out on CD! and you can grab a copy right here https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album

Also also, right at the end of the podcast we gave a cheeky extra GOLD Award to Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren for the song 'Barbenheimer', as it was originally an MMC sub by Hartshorn that got bigged up into a HJJW track, so that Nick and Andy (the Jackson's) could get a Gold award too.

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See you soon for the SILVER AWARD show

Peace and infinite love

Cosmic Bos

Oh yeah, go buy the album https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-1-2023-album