Another awesome demo of Echo Nest Remix: Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name Of,” shuffled so that each segment is replaced with one from a different part of the song that sounds like it. This version starts to fall apart towards the end, because there are no repetitions allowed; Paul does an analysis of this error and shows off a few other versions over at his blog.

(via Music Machinery)

From the always-stimulating Music Machinery comes this computational remix of the Nickelback song “Burn it to the Ground” (that one that was nominated for a Grammy).

Because, as we know, all Nickelback songs sound the same, he used the Echo Nest Analyze API to take the song and compare it to itself, replacing each little segment of it with the most similar-sounding segment from elsewhere in the song. The video is re-arranged to match, and it is surprisingly listenable (whereby I mean it doesn’t sound like computer-thrashed samples—it still sounds like Nickelback).

(via Music Machinery)