The Science Museum (of London) wants you to remix the sounds of electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram and have your track judged by Brian Eno, DJ Spooky and The Wire. Here’s what they have to say about the OraMIX contest: In the 1960s, Daphne Oram developed a ground-breaking music technique she called ‘Oramics’. With her… Read More Daphne Oram Remix Contest – Get Your Oramics On!
Mixmag reports that Justice is taking a ‘Just Say No’ attitude towards remixing Johnny Cash. The duo was recently approached to remix a classic Cash track. “We were asked to do a Johnny Cash remix,” says Justice’s Gaspard Augé. “But it doesn’t make any sense.” “When the song is already good, we can only make it… Read More Justice Just Says No To Remixing Johnny Cash
The Everything Is A Remix series takes a look at The Matrix, highlighting how the movie, highlighting how the Wachowski Brothers drew inspiration from a wide variety of sources and transformed them into something new.
Developer Sound Trends has released meta.DJ – a new iPad app described as the ‘love child’ of DJing and remixing. meta.DJ is targeted at modern DJ-style performances and lets you blend iTunes music tracks with drum machine beats, sound fx, synthesized instrument parts, mix effects like delays, stutters, filters and more. Features: QUAD DEVICE SUPPORT… Read More New App, Meta.DJ, Combines DJing & Remixing
The Blade Runner SoundCloud group is dedicated to anything related to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, including songs inspired by Vangelis‘ soundtrack, music that that samples it and attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. You can preview the latest tracks uploaded above.
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MiniMash (App Store link) is a new music app for iOS designed for creating mashups. MiniMash syncs with your iTunes playlists and uses a highly developed analysis algorithm to scan each track’s beat information. With MiniMash, you can play tracks in rhythmic unison with one another, change the overall tempo, set loop points, change the… Read More New Mashup App For iOS, MiniMash
Part 3 of Kirby Ferguson‘s excellent Everything Is A Remix series, how innovations truly happen. This part doesn’t focus on music specifically, but indirectly addresses one of the fundamental issues of modern electronic music – the role of sampling and copying, in general.
Oliver Chesler, aka The Horrorist, is a busy guy. But between holding down a job, jetting to Berlin to perform at techno shows and maintaining an active website, he’s spending his time doing free remixes – trading them for remixes of his own tracks. Why? Chesler offers three reasons: You don’t have to shell out… Read More Three Reasons You Should Remix Other People’s Music For Free
KROQ radio has released a selection of 46 free Charlie Sheen samples for your techno tracking/remixing pleasure: Ever since his first interview, everything that has come out of Charlie Sheen’s mouth has been magic. So we collected all of his best phrases for you to enjoy. Download these clips, remix them, then upload them to… Read More Charlie Sheen Samples For Remixing
