As you all know (or should), we here at digivation love all things open and wonderful. And that makes me happy to note that while surfing the ‘net I ran across a new NIN remix CD, Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D (Year Zero Remixed). The album itself is actually quite enjoyable, but the most fantastic part of the deal is found at the bottom of the page:

Incudes CD with same track listing as digital download (see above). Also includes a DVD ROM (not a movie) that contains every track from Year Zero in multitrack format for you to do with what you please. Mac or PC.

We’ve included:
Pre-formatted for Apple GarageBand
Pre-formatted for Ableton Live (Mac or PC)
Demo version of Ableton Live (Mac or PC)
Generic WAVE files at 16 bit 44K that can be loaded into any audio editor

Soon you will be able to share your custom remixes online, and listen to others, at remix.nin.com.

I love that bands are embracing their fans in such fantastic ways (see also the new Radiohead CD, In Rainbows). Sure, the music industry is light years behind on almost everything, but that doesn’t mean that the bands are as well. Bravo to those who stand up.

It’s also worthy to note that this is not the first time that NIN has done something like this (they have released multi-track masters to the public for a couple several songs), but I’m pretty sure this is the first time anything of this magnitude has been done perhaps not, see previous link…

Let the creation begin! And thank you NIN!