In response to the cease & desist order from Warner lawyers, supporters of the American Edit project are organizing Dean Gray Tuesday, an online protest modeled after Danger Mouse’s Grey Tuesday. Their plan is to organize volunteer web sites to donate bandwidth and distribute the album on December 13th, 2005 in an act of protest. [...]
Mash-up art — kind of like a Where’s Waldo album cover.
(via The Digital Music Weblog)
Rumor has it that Party Ben and Team9’s American Edit Green Day mash-up project got the cease-and-desist smack down from Warner after only 7 days online. No worries, though. It appears to be alive and well on BitTorrent.
Radiohead fans will certainly enjoy Me and This Army, a Radiohead remix and mash-up album produced by DJ Panzah Zandahz (say that 10 times fast!). Although he seems to be trying to sell it on his web site, there are plenty of other places to download it as detailed in this Boing Boing posting.
I think DRM sucks, and I applaud any attempt to thwart it. It has to make you wonder, though, when one provider pledges to break another’s DRM scheme. That’s right — DRM provider Navio “has pledged to hack Apple’s FairPlay digital rights management technology, and provide that hack to online music retailers.” Gosh, even the [...]
Here’s an interesting twist on the tried-and-true DJ turntable: special buttons which pitch a record up and down the right number of semitones to allow the precise “playing” of the 12 note western music scale. DJs have been doing this for years with a careful ear and the standard pitch slider, but it is kind [...]
Web blog Gagged Truth has posted information on scouring MP3 content from hosting services like megaupload.com. Another great trick to add to your Google scouring arsenal!
“The time has come to shut down this site,” says Mashuptown.com site operator. Mashuptown was a great music blog and podcast that featured 100% bootlegs and mashups. I’m not certain the reasons for abandoning the project, but I can only hope that they have nothing to do with legal troubles. In any case, you’ll be [...]
Mixxx is a digital DJ system that works on all major desktop operating system, including Windows XP, OS X, and Linux. The open source software includes features such as beat estimation, parallel visual displays, and support for DJ input controllers. It can handle MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Wave and Aiff sound formats. For controller automation, Mixxx [...]
I was wondering why I was hearing so much Green Day on tonight’s Sixx Mixx — turns out the entire hour was devoted to American Edit, a new Green Day mash-up album released by “Dean Gray.” It’s pretty obvious though that the Dean Gray moniker is a collaboration between team9 and Party Ben. Hope that [...]