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If you’re a Tap Tap party-person, you are truly living in a golden age. Right this second, you can plug a 1/8th-inch line into your iPhone/Touch, launch Tap Tap Revenge, and literally throw down the sickest dance party while you rock your way to the top of the standings. Can the floorboards survive your Taptastic house-party mega-mix? Let’s see…You can warm it up with some Lady Gaga to get the crowd, roll that into some Jason Derulo, and follow up with that Mike Posner joint. Then kick it back in high with Ke$ha and Flo Rida, and keep it going with Taio Cruz and a little T.I. YIKES, I wanna go to this party!

And now, ladies and gentlemen, we are slipping you the secret weapon. There will come a point when the party reaches its crescendo and achieves full throw-down status, when the crowd will stand with baited breath, waiting to see if you blow the off the mother, or turn into DJ Trainwreck. And that’s the exact moment you drop “EVACUATE THE DANCEFLOOR” by CASCADA. The place will go nuts, guaranteed.

The titular track from Cascada’s third studio album, “Evacuate the Dancefloor” is nothing short of a global phenomenon. It has topped charts all around the world, and helped this German eurodance group sell over 14 million copies of their three records. Formed in 2004 by singer Natalie Horler along with DJ’s Manian and Yanou, Cascada is not resting on their success. They have just released the blazing hot “Pyromania,” another block-rocking jam that is part of the brand-new CASCADA PREMIUM TRACK-PACK, along with “Evacuate the Dancefloor.”

So if you’re ready to get this party started right, and get it started quickly, then you know what to do: Get yourself some Cascada, and get it on!

The Cascada Contest

This week, one Grand Prize winner gets an IPOD TOUCH AND 3 CASCADA ALBUMS! Five runner up winners get their own signed copy of Evacuate the Dancefloor on CD!

How to win: Download and play Cascada’s “Evacuate the Dancefloor” in Tap Tap Revenge 3. Each score you submit above 100,000 points gets you one entry into the contest. You can play on any difficulty you want — as long as your final score is OVER 100,000 points. At the end of the contest, we’ll throw all the entries into a hat and draw the winner.

The contest runs from Friday, July 23rd at 12:01 AM until Sunday, July 25th at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. You must play “Evacuate the Dancefloor” in Tap Tap Revenge 3, during the contest period for entry. To make sure scores submit, play on a solid internet connection. For more details click here. Apple is not a sponsor of this contest.

Alright Tap Tap fans, it’s a fresh new week, which means we’ve got another fresh new FREE featured track to bend your fingers and blow your mind. We’ve traveled right up to the cutting-edge to grab SUPERBAD (11:34) by Travie McCoy, and we’re absolutely certain you’re going to dig it.

How’s your summer going? Because no matter how good, chances are it’s not quite up to par with Travie’s. He’s decided to take a break from kicking butt as the lead singer of the Gym Class Heroes to release his own solo joint, and evidently he knows exactly what he’s doing. To prove that point, we give you SUPERBAD (11:34), a song so wildly original and sonically unique they’re having to invent new genres just to classify it, like emo-hop and trip-rock.

From the immediate hook of the opening delayed guitar line through the stuttering beats and lush choruses, Superbad (11:34) stuns you like a surreal dream, taking you on an epic aural journey into your own mind. It’s as if Robert Smith from the Cure’s son grew up listening to Linkin Park and A Tribe Called Quest, became a superhero, and recorded his own theme song.

You’ve gotta be loving Travie McCoy RIGHT NOW!  I mean c’mon, the guy changes names more often than most people change socks, from Travis to Shleprok and now Travie. In honor of his position as featured artist of the week, we are now officially Tap Tap Rebango.

In fact, we’re so psyched on him that we’re adding a Travie McCoy premium 2-pack to the Tap Tap Store, featuring “Need You” and the red-hot “Billionaire,” the song that’s launched a million YouTube tributes. Download it today, and enjoy the summer of Travie.

The Travie McCoy Contest

UPDATE: Congrats to the winners! Grand prize winner: goobadoop. Runner-up winners: Pinky1999, tapper6845041, zjad, R0bijntje, devin436

This week, one Grand Prize winner gets a signed Lazarus CD, poster and 2 tickets to an upcoming Travie concert!!! Five runner up winners get their own copy of a signed Lazarus CD!!!

How to win: Download and play Travie McCoy’s “Superbad (11:34)” in Tap Tap Revenge 3. Each score you submit above 100,000 points gets you one entry into the contest. You can play on any difficulty you want — as long as your final score is OVER 100,000 points. At the end of the contest, we’ll throw all the entries into a hat and draw the winner.

The contest runs from Friday, July 2nd at 12:01 AM until Sunday, July 4th at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. You must play “Superbad (11:34)” in Tap Tap Revenge 3, during the contest period for entry. To make sure scores submit, play on a solid internet connection. For more details click here. Apple is not a sponsor of this contest.

The Band: Neon Trees

The Jam: Animal from the album “Habits”

There is nothing more beautiful than belief. And there is nothing more exciting and rewarding than to join in that belief. So this week, let’s all believe in Neon Trees, and elevate our joyous selves with their self-described brand of Post Punk Soul. When you watch the videos and hear the music, you find a band that believes they have written one of the most infectious pop songs of the decade, and we agree that they just might have done it.

Animal rocks in all the right places, and grabs you with its undeniable hooks. For this four piece from Provo Utah, it all seems so perfectly, pop-fully natural, you can’t help but join in the rock and roll celebration. It’s no wonder they’ve been tapped to open for bands such as The Killers, 30 Seconds To Mars, Muse, and others: They deliver the goods.

Play the pop-punk perfection of Animal from Neon Trees now for Tap Tap Revenge 3, Tap Tap Revenge 2, and Tap Tap Radiation. Once finished, head over to fameisdead.com and check out the killer Animal video, tour dates, and tons more!

The Neon Trees Contest

Our initial idea for the contest was: First person to send in a picture of himself/herself with the same haircut as the lead singer of Neon Trees wins. But some of you are so photoshop savvy, we were afraid we might get duped. Plus Ed already cut his hair and employees can’t win the contest.

Now it’s time to get tapping like an animal in the Neon Trees Contest, for a chance to win a portable music player! In addition, the big winner and five runners-up will get a glow-in-the-dark poster, and a copy of the Neon Trees album “Habits” on CD.

How to Win:

Download and play Animal by Neon Trees in Tap Tap Revenge 3. Each score you submit above 100,000 points gets you one entry into the contest. You can play on any difficulty you want, just make sure your score is above 100,000 points! At the end of the contest, we’ll throw all the entries into the giant Tapulous contest hat and draw the winners.

Contest begins on Friday, April 16th at 12:01 AM PST and runs until Sunday, April 18th at 11:59PM PST. Scores must be submitted in Tap Tap Revenge 3, while online, during the contest period, for entry.

So get tappin’!

For the official rules, click here.Apple is not a sponsor of this contest.

Who: MASSIVE ATTACK

What: PARADISE CIRCUS (Breakage’s Tight Rope Remix) from the just-released album “Heligoland” and the NEW Massive Attack 2-pack in Tap Tap Revenge 3!

**Check out the new Premium Pack from Massive Attack featuring “Paradise Circus” and “Teardrop” in the Tap Tap Store now!**

Between Justin Bieber Revenge and Metal Blade Records, things got pretty wild last week. So right now, how about this: Let’s chill. Let’s turn up the subwoofer, and get into some serious beats. And to do that, let’s go to the source: the legendary MASSIVE ATTACK! For over 20 years, these guys have been laying it down, and producing some of the most progressive, groundbreaking electronica and trip hop of all time. PARADISE CIRCUS shows the group in top form, as the vocals of Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval explore and color the song’s deeply infectious groove. Plus, we’re hooking you up with this special remix by rising drum n’ bass producer BREAKAGE!

THIS IS A LIMITED TIME FREE DOWNLOAD, SO DON’T DELAY! Get PARADISE CIRCUS for free right now! Download it now for TTR3 and or for TTR2. You must be on your iDevice with with our taptastic game installed. And check out massiveattack.com, the band’s amazing website full of video, music, and cool community features.

The Massively Huge Massive Attack Contest

In our ongoing series of contest-winning tips, we received an email from Excruck22: “I taught my dog how to guide me down the street while I tap, so I don’t walk into fire hydrants and street signs. I just need to get him to stop chasing after ducks. iPods are not at all water proof!”

Great tip! Get out those leashes and maximize your tapping time to win the Massive Attack contest! The Grand Prize Winner will get THE ENTIRE MASSIVE ATTACK VIDEO AND DISCOGRAPHY, and runners up will get a copy of the brand-new album HELIGOLAND!

How to Win: Download, play and beat Paradise Circus and submit a score above 100,000 points for an entry into the contest. One randomly selected entry will win the grand prize of the Massive Attack Collected CD/DVD Deluxe Set. Five randomly selected runner up winners will receive a copy of Massive Attack’s latest CD – Heligoland. Scores must be sent while online, during the contest period, for entry in Tap Tap Revenge 3.

Contest runs from now until April 30, 2010 at 11:59PM PST so get the tappin’!

The Band: LADYTRON

The Jam: GHOSTS from the album “Velocifero”

There is a fast-spreading, ultra-contagious virus infecting the vast labyrinth of hallways at Tapulous World Headquarters. Once you begin working here, you are completely infected, with no known antidote or cure. The resulting disease? GENRE BLINDNESS!

See, we at Tap Tap HQ don’t hear music in terms of musical style. People tell us, “I only want to hear black metal! Or alt country! Or dubstep, nintendocore, or throat singing!” To which we say, “Hey baby, it’s all good! We love music, period. If it’s got a nice beat, and you can tap to it, we’ll get it in the game!” Just free your mind, and your fingers will follow.

A great example of that philosophy is this week’s track “GHOSTS” from UK electronic-rock trendsetters LADYTRON. Since their influential 2001 debut album “604,” this pristine foursome has used their museum-quality collection of vintage synthesizers to create sweeping pop narratives, and earned themselves a worldwide cult following. This week’s free feature track “Ghosts” immediately launches you into a hypnotic zone of bouncing tribal beats and slyly layered sonics. Lush with secretive vocals, tense harmonies, and skyrocketing vintage synth sounds, the track takes you on an ecstatically relentless ride you’ll never want to get off.

Get this week’s free track “Ghosts” by Ladytron NOW! Click HERE for TTR3 and HERE for TTR2. You must have our killer app installed, and be on your iPhone / iPod touch. Once you’re feeling sufficiently Ladytronic, tap on over to Ladytron.com, and get your groove on.

Be sure to give Anoesj a big shout out for assisting Ernest with his programming expertise in the Ladytron theme!

The Ladytrontest

“Why aren’t I winning the contests?” That is the question we get the most, besides “When is the Tap Tap Revenge breakfast cereal coming out, because I’m starving.”

First, the cereal is in Beta; as for the other question, the answer is, “Too much competition.” There are literally millions of people playing TTR now. The trick is to start disrupting other peoples’ games. Anytime you see anyone, anywhere, tapping a touch screen, give a tap on it yourself. If they’re playing TTR, it will surely mess up their perfect game. If they’re not playing, well…better safe than sorry.

Follow that tip, and the prize will be in the bag. Literally! This week’s LADYTRONTEST prizes are red Ladytron “Velocifero” cloth tote bags, stuffed with goodies like a “Ghosts” vinyl 7″ and Ladytron button packs. The Grand Prize winner will get all that plus the entire Ladytron catalog!

Here’s how to win:

It doesn’t get any easier than this. Download and play Ladytron’s “Ghosts” in Tap Tap Revenge 3. Each score you submit to the global scoreboard is added to your contest total. The player with the most total points at the end of the contest wins the grand prize. The next five players with the highest total are the runner up winners. You can play it as much as you want, on any difficulty, just remember – scores are only submitted on completed games!

The contest begins on Friday, February 19th at 12:01 AM and runs until Monday, February 22nd at 11:59 PM, Pacific Time. You must submit your scores in Tap Tap Revenge 3, while online, during the contest period for entry.

The Man: TIËSTO

The Jam: “KNOCK YOU OUT (FEAT. EMILY HAINES)“

OK people, this is not a drill. This is go time. We are now less than a week away from the launch of our brand-spanking new game, RIDDIM RIBBON, on February 8th!

Are you ready? Have you been eating your carrots, to improve your eyesight? Cleaning out your ears, to hear those beats? We hope so. To get you extra pumped up, we’ve completely redesigned this week’s featured Tiësto track “Knock You Out” with a SUPER-FRESH RIDDIM RIBBON THEME! That’s right, two powerhouse games, come together for one glorious song! It’s like King Kong and Godzilla having a dance off!

And no other DJ could handle the soundtrack to this massively magnificent mash-up but TIËSTO! If you’ve ever emerged from one of his sets, sweaty and squinting into the sunrise, then you know that he is a true innovator and master of mixology. Named “World’s #1 DJ” for 3 consecutive years by DJ Magazine, Tiësto is the unofficial muse of the Tapulous crew. His epic runs of house and trance music seem engineered specifically for tapping, and now for RIDING!

After your mind has been blown by the triple play of TTR, Riddim Ribbon, and Tiësto, check out the Tiësto 6-pack premium bundle in the Tap Track store, featuring the original theme for “Knock You Out,” “Ten Seconds To Sunrise,” and more!

The Tiësto Contest

Just north of Tapulous HQ, up in San Francisco, there is a billboard towering over SOMA. It features a giant picture of TIËSTO, watching over the cars as they come careening off the Bay Bridge, and advertises his concert at the Cow Palace this past November 2009. Seeing as it is now February 2010, and he long since rocked the house, we figured no one would miss this sign, and it would make an awesome grand prize this week. So we sent Ed up on a little stealth mission, to score that sweet pic.

24 hours in jail and $7500 in bail later, we decided to change the prizes. But they’re just as awesome, and can be yours in THE TIËSTO CONTEST!

The loot: One grand prize winner gets a pair of DJ-style headphones and a free copy of Riddim Ribbon! Five runner-up winners get a Tiësto album.

How to win: Challenge your friends on Tiësto’s Knock You Out (feat. Emily Haines). Each challenge you send with a score OVER 300,000 points counts as one contest entry. The player with the most entries at the end of the contest is the grand prize winner, the next five players are the runner-up winners.

The contest runs from Friday, February 5th at 12:01 AM PST until Monday, February 8th at 11:59 PM PST. You must send the challenge while online, during the contest period for entry into the contest. Sending the same challenge to multiple players only counts as a single entry!

The Band: DATAROCK

The Jam: Fa-Fa-Fa from the album “Datarock Datarock”

Did you know that Tap Tap Revenge has built in GPS capabilities? No, no…not THAT kind of GPS, the global positioning system. We pack in our own type of GPS, the Guaranteed Party Starter. TTR doesn’t have to be something you do by yourself, headphones on, slumped in the corner. Here’s a quick guide to using your TTR GPS:

1. Download this week’s block-rockin’ featured track from DATAROCK
2. Crank up those teeny-tiny iPhone / iPod speakers, or better yet, plug into your boombox’s line in. (Note: all cool people carry a boombox wherever they go)
3. Go to a public place and start tapping.
4. Get your head noddin’, your booty shakin’, and your feet stompin’. If you can, occasionally moonwalk.
5. Watch the party form around you!

There it is, the magic of Tap Tap Revenge GPS. However, it doesn’t work without the crazy-fresh electro-rock of Datarock’s Fa-Fa-Fa. So it’s lucky we have it FREE this week!

Hailing from Bergen, Norway, a mountainous town known as “The City of Rain,” Datarock members Fredrik Saroea and Ket-Ill came together with a simple goal: To alter the face of contemporary music as we know it, by transforming themselves into what they call “the peak of pop evolution.” Or, as Saroea once explained their formation, “We fell in love. He became pregnant and gave birth to a small Casio watch. As our love grew, the Casio watch grew to become a Casio keyboard. And that’s how we became Datarock.”

Now you will experience Datarock. Once you’re plugged into the Datarock machine, tap over to datarockmusic.com, and check out all their videos, albums, and remixes.

The Datarock Contest

OK, so the slick disco beats of Datarock’s “Fa Fa Fa” have got you covered musically. But what if your fashion is lacking? Well, they’ve got you covered there, too. Literally. Part of this week’s grand prize is an official DATAROCK TRACK SUIT! Now you can look as awesome as these guys:

But that’s not all! They’re also throwing in a STEINBERGER GUITAR! Wow, these guys rule! 5 runners-up will also receive an autographed copy of the Datarock CD. Here’s all you have to do:

This one is easy. Download and play Datarock’s Fa-Fa-Fa in Tap Tap Revenge 3. Every score you submit ABOVE 250,000 points counts as one contest point. The player with the most contest points at the end of the contest is the grand prize winner. The next 5 players with the most points get the runner-up prizes. You can play on easy or hard — as long as you get over 250,000 points.

The contest runs from Friday, January 29th at 12:01 AM through Tuesday, February 2nd at 11:59 PM. You must submit your scores in Tap Tap Revenge 3, while online, during the contest period for entry into the contest.

Lunchtime is a very serious affair here at Tapulous. Having employees from all over the world, with a variety of culinary tastes, we found it necessary to “persuade” (definitely not “kidnap”) one of the Bay Area’s surplus rock-star chefs to come set up shop in the Tap Tap Kitchen. He has taught us that between our courses of Torta Espanola and Waterzooi, it is very important to “cleanse our palettes.”

Cleansing the palette is exactly what we’re doing with this week’s FREE featured track. We’ve had ALOT of synth-pop last week between La Roux and Ke$ha, so it’s time for a complete 180. We’re gonna break it way on down, and get back to the basics, the nuts and bolts, AND the brass tacks with the fundamental flow of MOS DEF!

QUIET DOG comes from the Brooklyn freestyle legend’s 2009 release “The Ecstatic,” which landed on numerous critic’s top album lists, and was for many fans a musical throwback to the glory of Mos Def’s breakthrough group, Black Star. “Quiet Dog” is a deceptively stark, intensely rhythmic affair, that initially sounds like a studio jam session gone really right. But don’t be fooled by the sparse instrumentation: once Mos Def effortlessly unleashes his lyrical mayhem, you have a global club-banger on your hands. And when the song is in Tap Tap Revenge, that means literally.

For more Mos Def, check him out at mosdef.com. Or go watch him in a movie, ’cause he’s also an actor (he was Ford Prefect!), or hear him on the Gorillaz album next year. Just make sure you heed his advice, stay cool, and maintain the rock!

The Mos Def Contest

The question was emailed to us, “Can you Tap too much?” The short answer is no, and the long answer is NOOOOOOO! Remember, there’s always some punk right behind you, ready to snatch that global high score, so you’ve got to tap more. And this is no week to slack off, because you’re mos def going to want to win THE MOS DEF IRON MAN CONTEST:

You and your fellow Tapaholics are competing for a Mos Def / Downtown Records GRAND PRIZE: 5 CD’s of your choice from the Downtown Records library, a vinyl copy and digital download of Mos Def’s album “The Ecstatic,” and an Mos Def T-Shirt! Runner’s up will receive a vinyl and CD copy of “The Ecstatic.”

How to win: Submit a score on each day of the contest above 100,000 points on Mos Def’s “Quiet Dog” in Tap Tap Revenge 3. The contest begins at 12:01 AM on Friday, January 14th and runs until Tuesday, January 19th at 11:59 PM PST. That means you need to submit at least 5 scores (one per day) to qualify in the contest! The winners will be chosen from the pool of all players that qualified.

You must submit your scores in Tap Tap Revenge 3, while online, for entry into the contest.

The Band: LA ROUX

The Jam: BULLETPROOF from the smash debut “La Roux“

Welcome to 2010, Tappers. Now let’s immediately look ahead to 2035, because that’s approximately the year when the trends and fashions of the last decade will resurface. Will the the ’00s be lovingly re-embraced, or remembered as complete zeroes? Will we see:

- An *NYSNC reunion tour with a 54 year old Justin Timberlake?
- Grandpa’s pants sagging below his butt, with JUICY written across Grandma’s?
- A robot implanted with Simon Cowell’s brain, presenting Susan Boyle live from the International Space Station?

That’s why we should be thankful that we’re getting British duo LA ROUX out of the current 80’s revival. The group’s dance-floor-destroying, neon-glowing synthesizers and infectiously fun vocals, reminiscent of Yaz, Depeche Mode, and Erasure, helped “Bulletproof” debut at #1 on the UK Singles Chart. Singer Elly Jackson is bringing back the 80’s goods: the gravity-mocking hair, the androgyny, and the emotionally captivating voice. If Gaga is Madonna, and Katy Perry is Cyndi Lauper, then she is our electro-pop Annie Lennox, the new queen of killer-cool.

When you’re done bouncing around the room to La Roux, take a trip to laroux.co.uk and make plans to see them live immediately.

THE LA ROUX CONTEST

In French, La Roux roughly translates to, “the red-haired one.” Similarly, La Tap basically means, “when a game of TTR overtakes your entire being.” As in, “I didn’t mean to leave you stranded on the airport curb, but I was overtaken with La Tap.”

This week, however, La Tap will be a good thing, and propel you to victory in our massive LA ROUX CONTEST!

The LOOT: One grand prize winner gets to crank up the tunes with a white Beats by Dre headphones! Five runner up winners get the La Roux album autographed by Elly Jackson and Ben Langmaid.

How to win: It’s a MAX POINTS contest! Submit your scores to the global scoreboard — every score you submit on Bulletproof in Tap Tap Revenge 3 is added to your contest total. The player with the most points at the end of the contest wins the grand prize! The next five players are the runner up winners. The contest runs from Friday, January 8th through Tuesday, January 12th. You must submit your scores in Tap Tap Revenge 3 during the contest period for entry into the contest.

The Band: THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

The Jam: WISHING WELL, from their self-titled debut album.

Sometimes playing Tap Tap Revenge is social experience. You’re online, talking trash and dropping bombs, tapping out suckers left and right.

But sometimes, it’s a very intense, passionate affair, and you become Tap Tap Possessed. The song infiltrates your consciousness, and you visualize the music. Your fingers flawlessly find all the Tappers, your score rolls higher, and the fever builds. You decide to let dinner burn, or postpone sleep for another night, or retake the entire semester.

This week’s FREE track WISHING WELL is the perfect soundtrack for that magical game of TTR. Birthed in the Los Feliz area of L.A. in 2006, The Airborne Toxic Event are rapidly becoming indie-rock superstars, due their abundance of unapologetic emotion, undeniable melodies, and unrestrained talent. Moving beyond the rigid verse-chorus song structure, they’ve found a place where the songs create their own life, pulsing, pumping, and climbing to a powerful, cathartic release. In the year since their debut release, they’ve toured the world, taking the stage at Coachella, SXSW, Lollapallooza, and the Fuji Festival. These guys (and girl) are The Goods.

THE AIRBORNE TOXIC CONTEST

UPDATE: Congratulations to the winners! Grand prize: Chris_Liquid. Runner up winners: flipfox, iPANPAN, 2old2tap, griffindoor, dunniehigh.

Believe it or not, some people were upset there was no TTThursday track last week, despite the abundance of new free music available in the game itself. And we’re happy about that. It means the subliminal code in the graphics designed to get you desperately addicted to Tap Tap Revenge is working, and we will soon turn on our Tap Zombie Army.

But before that happens, we’re going to run this week’s give-away, THE AIRBORNE TOXIC CONTEST:

The Loot: Grand Prize: AN AUTOGRAPHED ELECTRIC GUITAR!! Runner up prizes: Five copies of the Airborne Toxic Event’s latest album, signed by the band.

How to win: It’s a battle contest! Send and play battles on Wishing Well by Airborne Toxic Event. Every battle you WIN counts as one contest entry. It doesn’t matter if you sent it or played it off the public battle board — any won battle on the featured track counts in this contest. At the end of the contest, we’ll take the top 50 players with the most entries and draw the winners.

The contest runs from Friday, January 1st at 12:01 AM PST through Tuesday, January 5th at 11:59 PM PST. You must complete all battles while online, during the contest period. Any battles played or sent outside the contest period will not be counted.