remixing

Duncan Sheik has done an interesting thing  with his new album, White Limousine. It comes on two disks, labelled 'Yours' and 'Mine'. 'Mine' is the album, and if you don't know Duncan Sheik, think an American Aqualung and you're mostly there. 'Yours' is where it gets interesting. This is a DVD-Rom of all the various guitar, piano, drum and vocal parts that make up the album, all as separate files, so you arrange them however you like and make your own version. You can then post your remixes to limoremix.com. I had a go last night, reconstructing one of the songs in Garageband and then breaking it back down again into an electronica version. You can hear it in my audio section. It's a great experiment in involving your listeners, and it could keep me happily entertained for weeks as well, seeing just how far from the original I can take his tunes.
For those with heavier tastes, Nine Inch Nails have done something similar with a couple of their tracks. The first person there was Brian Eno though, who has re-issued his 1981 album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts under a Creative Commons license for anyone to play with.