Wired on Nettwerk
Wired runs a piece on Nettwerk and Terry McBride. Words you will not often hear coming from a label: “”This one’s a real wingdinger,” he says, leaning into the speakerphone so New York, Denver, and Los Angeles won’t miss a word. “Let’s give away the ProTools files on MySpace. Vocals, guitars, drums, and bass. We’ll let the fans make their own mixes.” The room falls quiet. Musicians usually record their instruments and vocals on separate tracks; the producer and mixer combine those tracks into a finished product. McBride wants to make the individual files available so that amateur DJs can use them like Lego bricks to create something all their own. The record industry likes control. McBride is proposing unfettered chaos.”
Related Posts
Throwing Mud Against the Wall
Bush Administration Warns Health Care Industry to Computerize
McGill Scholar Proposes New Music Distribution System
The Fiction of Clips as Advertising
Virus Attacks MS AntiSpyware
And They Say Money Can’t Buy Happiness
“File-sharing is good for Big Music”
This is the Trackback URI

/images/rss.jpg)
This is not really a new idea of course. I have a Moby 12″ from about 10 years ago where they had all the individual tracks so you could remix it at home. The best remixes sent to the record company were released on a seperate single.
See http://www.discogs.com/release/195268 for a bit more detail.
-adam