I think this would be a cool idea

[Skyline609]

I dont know if it had already been done or not, but wouldnt it be cool if you could get the original unmixed multitracked versions of your favorite bands studio albums so you could remix and add effects to create a totally different sound, and pracitce your mixing at the same time. Maybe the record company could sell the unmixed tapes to music retailers in the format that people would like like. I think maybe 50-100 bucks would be a good price for an album. Id pay 100 because i know i would spend hours with this!! Most of all it would be alot of fun and kinda cool to see what people can come up with. what do you ya think ?

[PannyDeters]

Good idea, but I wouldn't pay that much. How about just being able to download it off the net.

I bet for the most part, the bands and producers would hate the idea, because of the possability of you dubbing off YOUR mix of THEIR art.

The cool bands that are into HomeRecording might allow it. Ween, Guided By Voices, and Beck would probably be Gung Ho. I doubt Creed or Cher would really be into it.

[Nate]

Moby actually did this a few years back- he had remixed some songs for somebody (sorry, I should look this up, but...) and the last track of the CD was the breakdown of all the parts ..pretty cool. Its kind of interesting, but when you listen to the isolated vocals, you can hear the other tracks in the background (sounds kind of like the other tracks may have been picked up by the microphone). Anyway, he did this as a promotion, and the winners were included on a compilation CD. Cool idea

[relliker]

Actually it IS a cool idea except that it's being done everyday by the owners of the original multi-track recordings to squeeze more money out of old recordings by "re-mixing" them and supposedly giving a new lease of life to the "old" songs/albums etc. Sometimes the results are worthwhile but most of the time remixed albums are basically crappy attempts to entice people to buy the old stuff (which was probably better and made famous that way) in a repackaged format. One last thing, probably no studio will let go of the original multi-tracks for the same money-squeezing-chance of a reason even if copyright has expired!

[squeezieboy]

Todd Rundgren did something like this in 1993 when he released an interactive audio-only CDROM called No World Order. As I recall, it allowed the consumer to mix the seperate tracks any way he/she desired. It ran under Windows 3.x. I've not had any first-hand experience with it, though. I understand it's still available thru some sites.