Partyslammer
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With Bruce Springsteen joining the cavalcade of artists making songs available for rock music video games, I can't imagine U2 will wait long to pass up what is quickly becoming *the* popular outlet for artists to promote themselves and attract a new generation of fans. A band like U2 is almost perfectly suited for this sort of thing. I guess the question would be, *if* they decide to become involved in this sort of thing, is would they make the entire new album avialable as a package or a sort of "Greatest Hits" collection of a dozen or so of their best known (and most GuitarHero/Rock Band friendly) songs. "Pride" or "Streets" would be ideal. "MLK" and "Love and Peace" would not be.
However, what's actually much more interesting than the fact these songs (and perhaps U2's at some point) are being made available for these games, is the fact that there's a fast growing niche hobby of music fans who are decoding these kind of tracks into actual multi-track recordings depending on the game's track which are essentially vocals, guitar(s), bass, several drum tracks and even keyboards and backing vocals depending on the complexity of the multi-track "file." While most of these decoded tracks are composed of 5 - 6 files at about 7MB total, some tracks have been broken down to up to 24 tracks and of course, are monster files ranging near 300MB such as the Queen track I linked below. All this means is people can take these multi-track files into a sound editing program like say, Sound Forge and tinker with sampling parts of the individual musicians/instruments or making their own mix or adding their own instrumentation or vocals or whatever to create either new mixes or completely new songs using part or all of the original music. Basically, this enables almost anyone with a pc and basic sound editing software to do what most rap artists have been doing for the past couple decades. At the very least, they offer fascinating glimpses how artists recorded their music via being able to isolate various instruments often revealing previously unheard music buried in the final 2 track stereo mix that showed up on the
original album release.
This is quickly being realized by a lot of bands/record labels as a significant promotion and revenue stream and many major bands are jumping on the bandwagon and making multi-track songs available for downloading off the game websites. Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor kind of pioneered this "hobby" a couple years ago by making multi-track files available for whole recent albums downloadable on their official website and even as a cd release (for the "Year Zero" album). But I think when Metallica released their entire "Death Magnetic" album in this fashion for Guitar Hero which enabled fans to come up with a sonically better sounding album than the officially released cd (which was slammed for being mixed so hot, the audio "clipped") is what caught a lot of mainstream attention and has turned out to be a big turning point for this sort of "remixing" hobby. In the past few months, a lot of big name bands have made whole packages of songs available for purchase/download or as store-bought titles like Aerosmith has and AC/DC just did and within days of their release, fans decode them and post the multi-track files on various boards devoted to this hobby.
The downside is artists lose further control of their work in it's most basic form via free file sharing as well as people sampling and "remixing" their tracks as seen by the literally hundreds of variations of mashups like the Van Halen/David Lee Roth "Runnin' With The Devil" with everything from rap to classical tunes.
I've included a few links to songs I personally like and tinkered with as examples of what this fairly new genre offers. All are pretty interesting to at least listen to even if you don't care much for the artist. There's about 400+ songs from several hundred artists out there that have been broken down thus far. There are also literally thousands of remixes and isolated instrumental tracks posted on YouTube from the game tracks. Here's a few decoded multi-track songs to check out to get an idea what to expect:
Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song (GHWT Wii Rip).rar
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher (GHWT Wii Rip).rar
The Cult - Love Removal Machine
The Cult - Love Removal Machine.rar
Motorhead - Overkill
Motorhead - Overkill.rar
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (big - 295+MB)
http://www..com/?d=PQGUA5VL
T.B.
However, what's actually much more interesting than the fact these songs (and perhaps U2's at some point) are being made available for these games, is the fact that there's a fast growing niche hobby of music fans who are decoding these kind of tracks into actual multi-track recordings depending on the game's track which are essentially vocals, guitar(s), bass, several drum tracks and even keyboards and backing vocals depending on the complexity of the multi-track "file." While most of these decoded tracks are composed of 5 - 6 files at about 7MB total, some tracks have been broken down to up to 24 tracks and of course, are monster files ranging near 300MB such as the Queen track I linked below. All this means is people can take these multi-track files into a sound editing program like say, Sound Forge and tinker with sampling parts of the individual musicians/instruments or making their own mix or adding their own instrumentation or vocals or whatever to create either new mixes or completely new songs using part or all of the original music. Basically, this enables almost anyone with a pc and basic sound editing software to do what most rap artists have been doing for the past couple decades. At the very least, they offer fascinating glimpses how artists recorded their music via being able to isolate various instruments often revealing previously unheard music buried in the final 2 track stereo mix that showed up on the
original album release.
This is quickly being realized by a lot of bands/record labels as a significant promotion and revenue stream and many major bands are jumping on the bandwagon and making multi-track songs available for downloading off the game websites. Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor kind of pioneered this "hobby" a couple years ago by making multi-track files available for whole recent albums downloadable on their official website and even as a cd release (for the "Year Zero" album). But I think when Metallica released their entire "Death Magnetic" album in this fashion for Guitar Hero which enabled fans to come up with a sonically better sounding album than the officially released cd (which was slammed for being mixed so hot, the audio "clipped") is what caught a lot of mainstream attention and has turned out to be a big turning point for this sort of "remixing" hobby. In the past few months, a lot of big name bands have made whole packages of songs available for purchase/download or as store-bought titles like Aerosmith has and AC/DC just did and within days of their release, fans decode them and post the multi-track files on various boards devoted to this hobby.
The downside is artists lose further control of their work in it's most basic form via free file sharing as well as people sampling and "remixing" their tracks as seen by the literally hundreds of variations of mashups like the Van Halen/David Lee Roth "Runnin' With The Devil" with everything from rap to classical tunes.
I've included a few links to songs I personally like and tinkered with as examples of what this fairly new genre offers. All are pretty interesting to at least listen to even if you don't care much for the artist. There's about 400+ songs from several hundred artists out there that have been broken down thus far. There are also literally thousands of remixes and isolated instrumental tracks posted on YouTube from the game tracks. Here's a few decoded multi-track songs to check out to get an idea what to expect:
Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song (GHWT Wii Rip).rar
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher (GHWT Wii Rip).rar
The Cult - Love Removal Machine
The Cult - Love Removal Machine.rar
Motorhead - Overkill
Motorhead - Overkill.rar
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (big - 295+MB)
http://www..com/?d=PQGUA5VL
T.B.
