radiohead selling stems for a remix of new single "Nude'

[tragicurlyhip]

hey check this out..anyone planning to buy the stems and do a remix?

Radiohead is using the Internet for another initiative built around its chart-topping album, "In Rainbows."

The UK rock act has teamed with iTunes and GarageBand for an interactive project that allows fans to rework the album's second single, "Nude."

Wannabe remixers can buy five separate tracks from the recording -- bass, voice, guitar, strings/effects and drums -- from iTunes Plus. On purchasing all five elements, the customer will be sent an access code to complete the task via the GarageBand or Logic music production software.

Finished mixes can be uploaded to Radioheadremix.com, where fans have until May 1 to listen and vote for their favorite. Bedroom remixers can also create a widget for their personal Web profile that will tally votes toward the competition. - Yahoo news

 

[AgingYouth]

Not me...

Stems should be made free like this. Badly Drawn Boy, NIN, etc. have all done it b4. For free or as part of another physical product.

This is in bad taste if u ask me.

-10 points, Thom.

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

heh, thats another way to push them up to further cult-est status!

 

[ac]

This is of course pure bullshit. It's just a marketing ploy on so many levels. First you buy the stems. Big hoorrah. You've effectively paid 0.99*5 cents to feed their greedy pigfaces. Anecdotally, they sold 1.5million copies of in rainbows on their first day. Even if 20 percent of that first day buyers go out and do this, they would've made a million bucks. You upload on their site. And, here's the greatest one, you use a link to that site, and have to spam any other site to promote your remix. In essence you pay to remix other people's music and do your own promotion for their remix.

Good for you radiohead. You can kiss my ass.

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

people who like, will like it even more, people who dont will hate it much more

 

[dir]

Nothing wrong with marketing ploys. as long as they still make good music, I say.

 

[pedialite]

this is why our scene is so small, and not 'getting anywhere'

its because the industry in foreign lands are profit driven, the corporations anyway. This in turn pushes the artistes up further.

 

[dir]

this is why our scene is so small, and not 'getting anywhere'

its because the industry in foreign lands are profit driven, the corporations anyway. This in turn pushes the artistes up further.

so are you saying the industry in Singapore aren't profit-driven?

 

[visa]

This is of course pure bullshit. It's just a marketing ploy on so many levels. First you buy the stems. Big hoorrah. You've effectively paid 0.99*5 cents to feed their greedy pigfaces. Anecdotally, they sold 1.5million copies of in rainbows on their first day. Even if 20 percent of that first day buyers go out and do this, they would've made a million bucks. You upload on their site. And, here's the greatest one, you use a link to that site, and have to spam any other site to promote your remix. In essence you pay to remix other people's music and do your own promotion for their remix.

And what is wrong with that, if fans are happy to do it?

 

[ac]

This is of course pure bullshit. It's just a marketing ploy on so many levels. First you buy the stems. Big hoorrah. You've effectively paid 0.99*5 cents to feed their greedy pigfaces. Anecdotally, they sold 1.5million copies of in rainbows on their first day. Even if 20 percent of that first day buyers go out and do this, they would've made a million bucks. You upload on their site. And, here's the greatest one, you use a link to that site, and have to spam any other site to promote your remix. In essence you pay to remix other people's music and do your own promotion for their remix.

And what is wrong with that, if fans are happy to do it?

And the reverse is true: what is right with that, if fans are unhappy about it?

 

[tragicurlyhip]

i think it works for fans who just want a bit of fun...but i guess a bit too much to put serious work into it.

where's all the radiohead fans

 

[FluxUs]

i'm a fan but i wouldn't bother to pay to download indiv tracks just so i can remix them myself........and when so many other artistes have made such things free i jus don't think this cuts it........

this is like a step backwards given what they did for In Rainbows.

if i had paid more money and got to visit their studio in UK now that'll be worth shelling out.........

 

[shaneypants]

I really don't see why this is so wrong. I would buy the stems if I could work Garageband as efficiently as I wanted to.

If it's reasonably priced, why not?

 

[ac]

Such a nice bright sunday today.

This little divide on this thread is a great example of the differing attitudes of 2 generations of music listeners, those born in the 70s vs the 80s. In the late 80s early 90s, with the incoming of grunge and the wane of metal, radiohead didn't quite fit the mold of the seattle sound or the loved up ravey shoegazing brit rock of the time. "Hailing" from britain, and with a more introspective twist, they were the underdogs and didn't quite fit in To most people then, music from the underground, had a certain kind of purity untainted by corporate greed or creative asphyxiation, and this band exemplified it.

In a way they were also the harbinger of the dismantling of the notion of the seminal band. In the early 90s, you still could safely identify albums that were considered to be great, or at least capturing the zeitgeist if not, just the attention of a wide majority of people. But with the advent of globalisation, internet, 21st century eclecticisms, the fragmentation of the attention span is such that things pass by and we're not willing to view music as something above ordinary consumables.

So it's the generation born into the free music, available everywhere, that doesn't view this as disappointing, especially given radiohead's act of being the first mainstream band giving the major labels the purple finger.