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WHO WANTS TO BE AUX RAUS?

Aux Raus are a couple of friends of us who make their own distinctive brand of dance music that is basically gabber but funnier. Here's one of their songs:

They recently decided that they want to make more money and meet some new friends, so they started franchising their band.

People from anywhere that isn't in the Netherlands are welcome to submit audition tapes to be their country's Aux Raus. Anyone who passes the audition will receive a CD with live-versions of the song to either learn or lip-sync with, and a contract allowing them to play shows as Aux Raus, release albums, sell merch--the whole magilla. The only thing the new Aux Rauses have to do is send the original Aux Raus documentation of their careers like photos and write-ups and whatnot, and stay the hell off the other Aus Rauxes' turf. Oh and also Aux Raux I gets a 20% cut--ANYWAYS, so far the only auditioneers to make the grade are a pair of Belgians named Pieter Nolf and Stijn Vandenbussche, who sent in this video.

That means there are still 191 slots available (even more if you include weirdo states like Sealand, Transnistria, and Taiwan), so if you've got an interest in dealing largely with the non-creative sides of being a musical group and reaping the benefits of/blame for somebody else's music, head over to auxraus.com to sign up. Better hurry if you're from France or Singapore--the competition is already pretty fierce.

JAN VAN TIENEN