Trent Reznor is offering pre-formatted GarageBand and Ableton Live files for each track contained on the band's recently released album "Y33RZ3R0R3MIX3D", which he's distributing on dvd.
The dvd includes every track from the album in the correct format for GarageBand and Ableton Live. The dvd will also have a demo of Ableton Live on it.
Years ago Trent started releasing master tracks on NIN.com to see what kind of user-generated remixes would materialize from his fans. This spawned a host of remixes with websites and online communities getting involved. The band liked the results and are now releasing a remix album that includes some of this fan-created material as well as the actual multitrack master files for every song from their latest album, Year Zero.
The bands next move is (or was) setting up a site through which fans can share their remixes of their music. That is up in the air at the moment because his former record label feels that if they host a remix site they will be opening themselves up to the accusation that they are sponsoring the same technical violation of copyright they are suing other sites for.
Universal is still allowing them to release the masters which I think is pretty cool since most everyone these days seem to spend more time suing than producing. It nice to see a company chill a little.
Anyway, I'm sure whether its NIN's website or "Joe Anyone's" website we will still start seeing some really cool remixes of the songs off the new album start to surface online in the near future. I think its a great idea. We will get to hear remixes from all different kinds of musicians all with different ideas which will result in a wide variety of remixes all sounding different since it wont be one person doing them all. Who knows, we might get a whole new sound that creates a whole new genre of music.
In the meantime if you like NIN and like remixing music go get the new album and start making your own remixes, I'm sure the masses will find a way to get the remixes out there whether its on an official NIN remix site or not. I think it's a great idea myself and hope they go ahead with it.
The dvd includes every track from the album in the correct format for GarageBand and Ableton Live. The dvd will also have a demo of Ableton Live on it.
Years ago Trent started releasing master tracks on NIN.com to see what kind of user-generated remixes would materialize from his fans. This spawned a host of remixes with websites and online communities getting involved. The band liked the results and are now releasing a remix album that includes some of this fan-created material as well as the actual multitrack master files for every song from their latest album, Year Zero.
The bands next move is (or was) setting up a site through which fans can share their remixes of their music. That is up in the air at the moment because his former record label feels that if they host a remix site they will be opening themselves up to the accusation that they are sponsoring the same technical violation of copyright they are suing other sites for.
Universal is still allowing them to release the masters which I think is pretty cool since most everyone these days seem to spend more time suing than producing. It nice to see a company chill a little.
Anyway, I'm sure whether its NIN's website or "Joe Anyone's" website we will still start seeing some really cool remixes of the songs off the new album start to surface online in the near future. I think its a great idea. We will get to hear remixes from all different kinds of musicians all with different ideas which will result in a wide variety of remixes all sounding different since it wont be one person doing them all. Who knows, we might get a whole new sound that creates a whole new genre of music.
In the meantime if you like NIN and like remixing music go get the new album and start making your own remixes, I'm sure the masses will find a way to get the remixes out there whether its on an official NIN remix site or not. I think it's a great idea myself and hope they go ahead with it.
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Like I said, it would not be long. Heres a remix site http://www.ninremixes.com/
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