50+ bands engaging fans with mixmatchmusic's remix wizard

(I-Newswire) May 13, 2009 - SAN FRANCISCO – May 13, 2008 – MixMatchMusic (www.mixmatchmusic.com) announced today it has achieved an important milestone in the adoption of its Remix Wizard by musical artists with more than 50 bands hosting fan engagement promotions since October.

Artists including Pepper, Zion I and Julien-K are among the bands using the MixMatchMusic Remix Wizard to power remix contests for their fans. Each of the bands have loaded guitar, bass, keys, drums and/or other music stems into personalized versions of the Remix Wizard, and invited their fans to remix, mash up and create new sounds with them.

The MixMatchMusic Remix Wizard is a lightweight widget bands install on their sites to engage fans in their music.

Pepper and Zion I recently wrapped up contests for fans to remix popular tracks from their respective newly released albums. The response was tremendous, with Pepper receiving 50 remixes, 2,000 votes and 22,000 plays of Freeze. Zion I's contest around its track "DJ DJ" received 35 remixes, 1,900 votes and close to 11,000 plays.

"The response way exceeded our expectations and it was super gratifying seeing all these fans putting their own flavor on our song… one guy even paid to 'liven' a sample from another band and use it in his version," said drummist/ vocalist Yesod Williams of the band, Pepper. "Getting the fans as involved as possible was the goal and we accomplished that tenfold with MixMatchMusic!"

MixMatchMusic's Remix Wizard is a solution for the masses. By comparison the remix promotions pioneered by seminal bands, Radiohead and NIN, were limited to the relative handful of fans with Digital Audio Workstation software. The Remix Wizard is available to every band with a song and every fan with a browser and broadband connection.

"The chance to remix Zion I's track 'DJ DJ' was an opportunity for me to show off my producing chops to the Zion I crew, Amplive and Zumbi, and to my own fans," said artist/producer Stinj-e. "Remixing tracks from bands I admire gives me a different level of interaction with their music than if I'm catching Zion I at one of their live shows. It lets me tap into my creativity."

MixMatchMusic enables musicians to collaborate on, profit from and engage fans with their music.


About MixMatchMusic
MixMatchMusic was founded to serve the needs of millions of independent and semi-professional musicians. Its services, technologies and community enable musicians to collaborate on, profit from and engage fans with their music.

MixMatchMusic is based in Silicon Valley and is angel-backed.


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