“To make remixing easy, the separate ’stems’* from the song are available to purchase from iTunes _here_. The ’stems’ available are bass, voice, guitar, strings/fx and drums. You can mix them in any way you like, either by adding your own beats and instrumentation, or just remixing the original parts.”
Wow. They’re selling pieces of songs, [...]

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Continuing my occasional remix highlight feature, here’s Bryan Hyde’s reworking of my favorite TV On The Radio track, Staring at the Sun.
tv-on-the-radio-staring-at-the-sun-bryan-hyde-remix.mp3

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Lily Allen recently introduced me to The Whip. Gotta love that girl.
The track has already received the remix treatment from a variety of folks, including labelmates, Crookers.
The Whip - Trash (Crookers remix)

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Yes, it is pretty close to blasphemy to touch a Gang of Four track, especially one as beloved as Outside The Trains Don’t Run On Time, but Death Row Archie does an honorable remixing of this classic track.
Outside The Trains Don’t Run On Time (Death Row Archie)

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In honor of Feist’s Grammy Nominations, here is K-Os’s reworking of her hit “Mushaboom” from the album Let It Die. (yes, I know the grammy nods are for her recent album, The Reminder.)
Mushaboom - (K-Os mix)

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Via the blog Pasta Primavera comes this reworking of Lekman’s “I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love You” by Chicago’s Spoolwork. The original can be found on Lekman’s 2007 release Night Falls Over Kortedala (which just so happened to be my favorite record of ‘07).
Jens Lekman - I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love [...]

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It’s not too often that Merritt’s work gets the remix treatment. A shame, actually, as his tunes are often so solidly constructed that they work acoustic as well as synthed out. Proving the point, here are two great tastes that go great together; Mark Robinson’s remix of Merritt’s Smoke and Mirrors from the [...]

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