The Yamaha International Music Production Contest has announced their selections for
semi-finalists for 2005. There were over 1000 songs entered in the contest and 45 were chosen as semi-finalists. Pretend was
chosen in the rock category and Real was chosen in the category of Film Scoring/Orchestra/World. The judges included
Randy Jackson (American Idol & 1000 gold albums), producer Don Davis (the Matrix, Titanic), producer Justin Stanley, DJ Rap &
Fourplay (Grammy Award winning jazz group). Liquid Blue was the only group to have 2 songs chosen.
