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Public Enemy Solicits Net Artists To Remix Tracks
An anonymous reader wrote in to say that "Public Enemy is asking aspiring mixers/producers/musicians to mix background music for previously released accapella raps for their new album due out this fall. Courtesy of Davey D, here is the press release" I'm a huge PE fan, and while this is mostly a PR move, its a really cool contest. And while its not Open Source Music, its a really cool experiment. I'm gonna try to get CowboyNeal to scratch something up.
...until you have visited the Bjork Remix web.
Or seen a rap single with an acapella version that is there for the sole purpose of allowing DJs to work the vocals seamlessly into their live mix.
Well, ok, this *may* still be a step forward because a website for remixes is actually being hosted by the artist themselves.. and, of course, either way it is still incredibly incredibly cool for the sole reason that, hey, this is Public Enemy.
I was going to make some comments on what is the liscensing on reuse/redistribution of this stuff? But the faq doesn't say anything, and i haven't been able to navigate to the clickthrough liscense for the mp3 itself. So i'll leave that for someone else's post..
Other than that my only comment is that why are they only giving out the vocal tracks? Don't they think that people would come up with something interesting if they had the music to mess with as well? That would, of course, lead to people being unduly influenced by the original music-- as they tend to be on the BRW-- but still. I've always thought instrumental remixes tended to be the most interesting ones anyway..
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My wish list for backing track producers: