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The Takeaway

Your Picks for the Best and Worst Holiday Music

Monday, December 24, 2012

What's the best holiday song? Ryan Roche picks Put the Lights on the Tree by Sufjan Stevens. Bobby Birch nominates Josh Groban's Oh Holy Night. The worst? Well, we'll just say that Paul McCartney made the list.

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Soundcheck ®

Song Premiere: Nils Frahm Reworks The Presets 'Promises'

Monday, December 03, 2012

A remix is a remix is a remix. Unless it’s the German composer Nils Frahm reworking the Australian dance music duo The Presets. Listen to the premiere of the track "Promises."

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The Takeaway

Kirby Ferguson: Creating is Stealing

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Think about the last time you did something creative. Did you have help? If the answer is no… the answer is still yes.

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Radiolab

Radiolab Remix Winners

Monday, July 02, 2012

Thanks to everybody who entered our first-ever remix competition! The results are in--check out all the winners and runners up here.

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Radiolab

Radiolab Remixed

Monday, July 02, 2012

Turning ideas into radio is one of the most exciting, frustrating, rewarding, and insanely fun things there is. Which got us thinking--why not ask you to join in on the fun? So we teamed up with Indaba for our first-ever remix competition. And now we get to play the winners.

 

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WQXR Blog

Maestro, the DJ is Ready for his Concerto

Tuesday, June 05, 2012

A number of orchestras are betting on the idea that electronic sounds can coexist in an acoustic format, and theatrical young DJs can attract audiences otherwise put off by concert hall formality.

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Spinning on Air

Beatlestretch

Sunday, April 01, 2012

David Garland presents three Beatles classics stretched to fit an hour.

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Soundcheck ®

Eroica, Remixed

Friday, March 09, 2012

Thumping beats, sweeping high-pitched melodies, and a dramatic climax – from this description, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (also known as the Eroica) sounds like it could be the next hot dance mix even before it's been remixed. Conductor Alan Pierson of the Brooklyn Philharmonic joins us to talk about the ensemble’s “Beethoven Remix Project” – and what it plans to do with five electronic remixes of the famous symphony.

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Soundcheck ®

Meredith Monk: Re-Mixed

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Composer, vocalist, filmmaker and MacArthur Fellow Meredith Monk has created a unique body of work that uses the voice as an instrument. Now, her songs have been covered and remixed by a wide array of musicians, from Bjork to Caetano Veloso to DJ Spooky. Monk joins us to share her reaction to the surprising results on “Monk Mix.”

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Studio 360

Cuteness gets remixed

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Don't be fooled by the first 20 seconds of this video-- it's is not just another cute toddler Youtube sensation. Prepare to be impressed and a little freaked out by some very slick video editing. The toddler noises and mugging for the camera get transformed into what could quite possibly be the next dance hall hit. If Kidz Bop were to cover Crystal Castles' "Vanished", it would sound something like this.

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Studio 360

Timeblind

Saturday, March 01, 2003

DJ Timeblind improvises a miniature remix of the hour of Studio 360 you just heard.

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