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Yoko Ono has announced a new remix competition.
Download the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band’s The Sun Is Down! Sample Pack containing the a capella tracks of Yoko’s vocal, vocal effects, and loops of bass, drums, efx and Tenori On.
Create your own remix of The Sun Is Down!, using as many or few of the samples from the pack and any original audio you wish to add.
When you have finished your mix, make an MP3 copy that’s as high quality as possible, but still under 10MB in size. Email the MP3 of your mix, along with its name and your name, address, email and phone number to remix@YOPOB.com before 12 December 2009.
The Top Ten mixes will be decided by Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band.
The winners will receive special signed Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band prizes and will be featured on Ono’s site over the Xmas and New Year period.
Whether or not you want to enter the YOPOB remix competition – check out the 17mb sample pack for some free, Creative Commons-licensed Ono weirdness.
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! by Burnkit2600k comes from the new 8-Bit Operators 2009 Beatles tribute compilation Wanna Hld Yr Handheld. Read more…
It’s been a while since we heard from Goldfrapp – but they haven’t been sitting on their laurels or dancing with the dog-headed bikini-madchen.
Alison Goldfrapp writes that they have been working on the soundtrack for a John Lennon biopic:
we have finally emerged from an intense period of work and i’m pleased i can now tell you about it (as it is official). we have written the score for a film called “Nowhere boy”. it’s about John Lennon as a boy and stars Aaron Johnson, Kristen Scott-Thomas and Anne Marie Duff. it’s Sam Taylor-Wood’s first feature film and it’s truly amazing that they gave us the oppotunity to do this.
we are all really excited about going to abbey road studios soon to record the strings with the full orchestra. the film is closing the london film festival and is premiered on 29th october at odeon leicester square. now our work on the film is almost finished, we will carry on writing the Goldfrapp album.
Goldfrapp could be a really interesting choice for the soundtrack – their Felt Mountain was especially cinematic.
What do you think? Can Goldfrapp do John Lennon justice?
The Beatles have updated their site, to coincide with the release of The Beatles: Remastered, – a new release of their original catalog, remastered – and The Beatles: Rock Band.
The site is all that – as much a reflection of how we view our own history as it is a history of the band.
The photo above, of The Beatles meeting the Moog synthesizer, is just one of many gems in their photo archive. The Moog made appearances on Abbey Road’s Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Here Comes The Sun, & Because.
Mike Vickers (formerly of Manfred Mann) was employed to program to Moog during the Abbey Road recording sessions.
Other treats at the site include video from Magical Mystery Tour and other seldom seen footage, a historical timeline and an interactive discography.
The site isn’t obsessively deep, but expect to loose track of time if you visit.
Switched On Beatles, From 1969
This is beyond cheesy – but typical of the “switched on” Moog music craze of the first wave of synth pop: Eleanor Rigby, from Marty Gold’s Moog Plays The Beatles.
Featuring fashion from 1969! Read more…
