From Wired.com:
When Beck Hansen’s website relaunches in July, one of the new features will be a Record Club wherein the plugged-in sonic chameleon gathers musical pals, covers a classic album in one day, then offers tracks for download.
Which is, well, pretty cool.
“An album will be chosen to be reinterpreted and used as a framework,” says a statement on Beck.com. “Nothing rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track will be uploaded once a week on beck.com as well as through the web sites of those involved in the project.”
Musical cohorts will include folks like Devendra Banhart, Jamie Lidell, Nigel Godrich and MGMT. The once-named Bek David Campbell and his posse will tackle The Velvet Underground & Nico first. One can only imagine what the surreal “Sunday Morning” or destabilizing “Heroin” will sound like after this crew gets done with them.
Andy Warhol, a repurposing icon, would be proud. Now all this thing needs is an iPhone app and a Twitter feed and it’s mellow gold, baby.
5 comments:
How cool! I wonder what other albums are in their sites.
I can't wait to hear his version of Odelay.
They should do John Travolta's album from the '70s! Seriously, though, I would love to hear the whole VU session.
Turns out, it's all on the site. I guess I know what I'll be doing at work tomorrow.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that. Heh heh.
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