Radiohead
» Published by szola on Oct 12, 2008
The following email was sent out to people subscribing to news from the Radiohead site.
“To coincide with asking radio stations to think about playing Reckoner we are breaking up the tune into pieces for you to remix. After the insane response we got from the Nude remix stems and the site that was dedicated to your remixes…
Unique visitors: 6,193,776, Page Views: 29,090,134, Hits: 58,340,512, Bandwidth: 10.666 Terabytes, Number of mixes: 2,252, Number of votes: 461,090, Number of track listens: 1,745,304
...we thought it only fair to do the same with a tune that at least is in 4/4. You can get the stems (the different instruments/elements) from here
Sample, cut, take the sounds, whatever. Play it in a club. Or your room. Then if you want you can upload your finished mixes to http://www.radioheadremix.com and be judged by everyone else. You can create a widget allowing votes from your own site, Facebook or MySpace to be sent through too. To start things off we asked James Holden and Diplo to do their versions.
Oh, and by the way, if you weren’t lucky enough to get your hands on one of our recycled plastic bottle shirts at a show this summer, you’ll be glad to hear we’ve made some more and they are available at the w.a.s.t.e. shop here
All at w.a.s.t.e x”
The debate on how it is possible to alleviate some of the pain the music industry is going through is often controlled by the same forces that have vested interest in preserving the status quo.
Focusing on downloads, adding music to other transactions or inspiring the end users in addition to letting them take an active approach, as Radiohead has done, are possible routes out of the quagmire that the music industry is in.