Have you ever listened to a Radiohead song and wished you could give it the Danger Mouse treatment? Maybe combine “Fake Plastic Trees” with DMX’s “Ruff Ryder’s Anthem.” Or “High and Dry with” Afroman’s “Because I Got High.” That’d be sick. You could even call the album The Blends. (rimshot!)

I’m here all night, folks. Please, tip your waitress.

Aaaaanyhoo . . .

The always forward-thinking Radiohead has just taken the next step in band-fanboy interactivity, teaming up with GarageBand and iTunes to offer their new single, “Nude,” as a remixable track. Here’s how it works:

1. Purchase all five “stems” from iTunes. Stems are the individual components of the song — guitar, voice, drums, etc.

2. You’ll be sent an access code to a ready-to-open GarageBand file. Open. Mix. Repeat as necessary.

3. Upload the finished remix to radioheadremix.com where other rabid Yorkephytes will vote on their “favourite” tracks.

4. Kick back, open a PBR tallboy and wait for Brian Eno to call.

Currently, Toronto’s avant noise outfit Holy Fuck — Best. Band name. Ever. — are winning in a landslide.  But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t enter. The contest runs through May 1, so there’s plenty of time. You don’t even need GarageBand to do it as the file works in numerous platforms. You can also download a widget for your Facebook or MySpace profiles so your friends can vote for you. Neat-o.

Anyone else kinda curious to see what Greg Davis could do with this?

Dan Bolles is a culture coeditor at Seven Days. He joined the paper in 2007 as its music editor, covering Vermont's robust music, comedy and nightlife scenes for a decade before deciding he was too old to be going to the Monkey House on weeknights to see rock shows for a living. He became assistant arts editor in 2017 and culture coeditor in 2021. Bolles has received numerous local and national awards for his writing on Vermont arts, sports and the occasional celebrity canine murder mystery. He loves...

19 replies on “My First Re-Mix”

  3. With a few exceptions this thread is really patronizing without much thought going into comments.I don’t think there is any real creativity behind remixing a track within itself that you haven’t created from scratch.

  4. I think getting people to buy your same cheesy song five times over is an excellent idea. In fact, I am willing to sell people individual notes from my songs for much cheaper, say 5 cents a pop. These will be downloadable, or to save wear on the internet and the planet and space on your iPod and so forth, you can simply KNOW the note, or I hope multiple notes, which you purchased, and remix them in your head and give yourself a prize, say a trip to outer space. Now thats forward thinking. Wheres my royalty check?

  8. ex-burlington duders pretty & nice released a remix of their album ‘pink & blue’, entitled ‘blue & blue’ which j referred to as a gay remix album. casey seemed to like it in his seven days review a year ago. you can listen to some of them on theirspace…that was way too many ampersands.

  9. I can never remember what the midget exorcist woman said — go TO the light, or AWAY from the light?

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