Duncan Sheik gives tracks away for re-mixing with his new record

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I just read that the new Duncan Sheik record, "White Limousine", comes packaged with a DVD containing the individual tracks for each song on the record, as well as try out verisions of software for doing the re-mixing. You are not restricted just using the software that comes with the DVD, as the tracks are WAV files.

For some, this might be an excellent oppurtunity to work with the kind of high quality recordings they might not otherwise have access to, allowing you to mix and master over and over again from materials that are recorded in a fairly well constructed and outfitted studio. You may not like the music he makes, so I would suggest you check it out before buying, but it's the kind of thing that presents an interesting oppurtunity. Anyway, thought some of you might be interested.
 
Projbalance said:
I just read that the new Duncan Sheik record, "White Limousine", comes packaged with a DVD containing the individual tracks for each song on the record, as well as try out verisions of software for doing the re-mixing. You are not restricted just using the software that comes with the DVD, as the tracks are WAV files.

For some, this might be an excellent oppurtunity to work with the kind of high quality recordings they might not otherwise have access to, allowing you to mix and master over and over again from materials that are recorded in a fairly well constructed and outfitted studio. You may not like the music he makes, so I would suggest you check it out before buying, but it's the kind of thing that presents an interesting oppurtunity. Anyway, thought some of you might be interested.
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Bet there is a contest later after the release :p in a few months :eek:

But it is interesting to be able to play with the tracks and try to eather copy the sound they have or create something different :cool:
 
That's cool man. It would be fun to destroy a professional tracking session for once instead of my usual loopy home studio efforts.
 
I have the CD/DVD. I haven't had a chance to check out the unmixed stems on the DVD yet, but I may toss them up this weekend just for fun.
 
I think I liked some songs I heard by him in the past but never considered buying any of his cd's. I think I would pick this one up though. It would be cool to mess around with. This is a very cool idea.
 
I have been musing much of the day on how, in this time of copyright cases and intellectual property rights blah blah blah, this guy would do something like this. I doubt theres much of a chance of people ripping hsi stuff and claiming it as their own, but he's possibly giving away thousands of dollars in licensing fees for the sounds. Who knows what applications someone could find for a guitar lick, or a drum fill, or a bass line. Very brave and strange choice, but I applaud him for it. It's takes a person with confidance to do something like that.
 
you mean his music could inspire creativity instead of just make money?
 
Projbalance said:
I have been musing much of the day on how, in this time of copyright cases and intellectual property rights blah blah blah, this guy would do something like this. I doubt theres much of a chance of people ripping hsi stuff and claiming it as their own, but he's possibly giving away thousands of dollars in licensing fees for the sounds. Who knows what applications someone could find for a guitar lick, or a drum fill, or a bass line. Very brave and strange choice, but I applaud him for it. It's takes a person with confidance to do something like that.
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I have this album and have tinkered with it for a while. The tracks are all .wav files, so yeah, you can use whatever software you like. The tracks seem to be post mixed, pre mastered (like they mixed the album, then muted all tracks but one and dumped those files). So drums are summed to a mono track, vocals have all effects, etc.

Duncan wanted to have a trial version of Live on the DVD, but that fell through at the last minute, I guess. Something about licensing issues. So there are Live files included on the DVD which are project files or whatever, but you've got to download a trial of Live to use them.

Duncan's on a small label now, so that probably makes a huge difference with this kind of idea. I can't imagine someone like Sony agreeing to this...

In terms of licensing, wouldn't it all be the same? It's all copyrighted. If there weren't individual tracks available, it wouldn't be that hard to re-record a little bit to steal it, if one were motivated to do such a thing.

I think that this is a great promotional tool. After listening to other people's remixes, I get really interested in the original versions of the songs.

I was kind of hoping to get totally raw tracks just to hear what they sound like, but I can see why they are mixed already. I suck at mixing drums, so if I had 8+ non-mixed drum tracks, any new mix that I make would have crappy sounding drums!
 
thrice did something like this for the release of their latest cd... cept they just had their files online, and i think some of them were stems... i like the idea and its cool artists are doing this sort of stuff!
 
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thrice did something like this for the release of their latest cd... cept they just had their files online, and i think some of them were stems... i like the idea and its cool artists are doing this sort of stuff!
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I heard that their latest cd is crap though
 
the thrice cd is actually recorded amazingly. i haven't even listened to those guys since identity crisis but i was pretty impressed with how absolutely huge that album sounded
 
Its probably cos i heard it from narrow minded people that cant handle change then
 
Didn't Todd Rungren do something like this a few years ago?
 
[momentary thread hijack:]

The new thrice album is amazing--but if youre a thrice fan because of ic/ios then chances are you might not like it. It is a lot more 'chill' at least in comparison with their older stuff. I will always go back to IOS and love it (not playing favorites, theyre totally different...) but I can appreciate that bands change (in this case i would say mature) and vheisu (however the heck you spell it) is an amazing record. The style and grace, especially the quality of dustins vocals are approaching, is more appreciated to me now then another record of cool riffs and parts that sounds like a would-be IOS 2. (though i dont deny i would love that too... ;) ) And yes, the album does sound absolutely HUGE--ridiculously more 'organic' sounding than aita....

k, back to the original topic...
 
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