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04/01/2008, 10:15am, EDT
Tuesday, April 1st
Radiohead sells 'Nude' deconstruction on iTunes
British rock act Radiohead has taken a different approach with its latest single, the band has announced. Rather than commission a series of professional remixes for "Nude," any musician can now buy the song's underlying elements on iTunes (link), and remix them into a new track. Available "stems" include the voice, bass, guitar, drum, and string/FX layers; while shoppers have to buy before April 8th to get free GarageBand project files, the layers can be edited using many other programs, such as Logic.
Completed remixes can then be uploaded to a special Radiohead website, where people can vote on their favorite mixes until May 1st, the best of which will be heard by the band. MySpace and Facebook widgets can be used to simplify voting by friends and strangers.
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Other story tags: iTunes, music, Radiohead, GarageBand, Logic
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Check out http://OpenSourceTrack.com
And the end result? Ooooh, the band might listen to it.
Nothing more thrilling then hearing 200 versions of the same damn song, most not even close as good as the original (although, because its Radiohead, means that even be 1/1000th as good, it still rulez, man! That's how good the head are!)
Coming from someone who has collected indie rock for 20 years, I don't get the appeal. I'm not even curious as to what people could do to improve this song. I also don't get the emasculated singing style. But it sure is popular. Maybe this is just a case of "please make our songs better so we can sell another album with your improvements.".