From david turgeon Sent Thu, Sep 9th 1999, 16:30
> > and yes, the original idm remix chain nearly fell apart several times, > > not because of any lack of organization from multsy, but because > > we all tend to be a bunch of assholes when you put us together in > > one place and try to decide in some democratic and fair way how > > to put it all together. > Why if we put it another way? Not a chain, but an open project. Every > participant may remix anything that's been contributed. This implies > setting up a repository somewhere on the net, where every participant > might store his version/add-ons/updates. After some time, when it's > become enough stuff, items for the release will be selected by some > democratic procedure. sorry to burst your bubble, but _that_ sounds like the ultimate recipe for disaster. people will procrastinate when you tell them what to do. imagine if they have to _choose_ what they want to remix on top of it. (not only that, but a few songs may be left unremixed, not because they're not good, but because the chain members aren't familiar with the artists involved & won't bother downloading the file. so you'll end up with 10 remixes of the same song, & 10 unremixed songs. might as well just make it an open compilation & that's it.) -- david