sounds by: 48oooooooooo, Certifiedsick, Coronium, D.L.I.D, Dastie, Drop The Lime, Flex Rock, Greg Shin, Hayashi, jhk, Jumping Jack Flash, Kim Moyes, L33ch, MAMM, Memorex, Nina Lou, Noize Generation, Pablo Decoder, Plastique de Reve, Brodinski, Prozac Polka, Randee Bugga, Shir Khan, Smashsnap, Solar Explosion, Springboard , Swam, Textbreak, The Model, Tocadisco, Uboot, uπit, Was, Yibn

artwork was sent by hannes at freieradikale.at
song name “the mind of many” was proposed by Stephanie Nazywalskyj

One cold day in December I had a brainwave. An idea for internet democratic music, made as a collaboration with my boys and girls on Facebook and Twitter. If you’re reading this you probably already know that it is my declared passion to mash samples together on my MPC, so the logical first step was to issue the callout: “send me your sounds!”

In the week that followed, my dropbox was inundated with whistles, basses and burps.

The next step was to split the sounds into categories and present them in 10 polls, and then open the voting up to the world. I created loops from the most popular sounds, and then opened them up to another popularity contest. The people spoke, once again, and chose their favourite five loops.

In the following weeks, between sessions taking my beloved MPC all over the world, I worked out an arrangement. A song! Part of this work was done streaming video from the studio, with about three hundred people watching and contributing to the decision making process. After a final round of feedback on the arrangement through Soundcloud, the song was finalised. Tada!

The last step was to make the parts available to the public, so anyone could have a bash and submit a remix. We selected the six most interesting and unique remixes, and included them in the package.

Now only one thing was missing – a name! This was one element of the project that was beyond the capabilities of online democracy. The polling system hit its technical limits. So I decided to discuss the name with my new studio buddies, the people behind the original sounds submitted! And then att last, we had reached the end of the road.

This project was not an attempt to make a logical song, a marketable piece of music, or even one that would appeal to most. Rather, the idea was to produce a democratic piece of music; one in which anyone could take part, and influence the outcome. And I am happy to say that it worked out great!

DOWNLOAD LINK: http://www.zombienation.com/themindofmany.zip

ENJOY IT, PLAY IT, SPREAD IT !

Yes, this thursday “The mind of Many” will be available on zombienation.com for free full quality download !

Artist name vote result: “and Friends” (48%) won over “and the Facetwit Gang” (35%). Take it easy – this is Democracy. 11 Remixes of the Song have already dropped in Today: last vote before Zombie will rule alone again!  vote on SONG NAME here (4 Hour Shower / Pizza / The Mind Of Many / The Song We Made / Nein / Technojorch / I have cards for the Ballet / Hangover Fucked My Wife / Mettwurcht)

CHEATERS !!! the average name received between 0 and 10 votes. Except “Technojorch” had 2,202 votes and “lots of friends” with 5,071 (!) votes. Hahaha! what´s that about? ok, let´s skip the names for a day: REMIXERS WANTED !!!! These are the single tracks for you to download. (260 MB) we will VOTE again – of course and I will master the winners personally and they will be included in the final package. 2 weeks deadline. Send the track to dropsound@zombienation.com

so, on facebook we have 62% yes and 38% no. Here on zombienation.com it´s a bit closer: 52% yes to 48% no. Is it a question of taste? Are there any specific points that you would like to see changed? comment on Facebook please – or get me a widget that I can put in here