Legitmix was a Canadian company that offered services to artists who create
remix
A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, video, poem, or photograph can all be remixes. The o ...
es.
The company launched in 2011 and had offices in
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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and
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
.
Legitmix sold files that rebuild a remixed song on a user's hard drive using the listener's copies of the sampled tracks.
Remixers received 70% of the price of their Legitmix files,
while copyright holders got paid for the purchase of the original tracks used in the remix.
Music files used to construct remixes had to be exact matches to the ones legally sold through Legitmix.
Because listeners were required to purchase or already own the original tracks used in a remix, the recreated remix might have been several times more expensive than the cost of an individual song.
The Hood Internet
The Hood Internet is an American record production duo based in Chicago, Illinois, specializing in mashups. It is composed of Aaron Brink (ABX) and Steve Reidell (STV SLV).
History
In 2007, the Hood Internet started posting the mashup tracks to ...
and
El-P
Jaime Meline (born March 2, 1975), better known by the stage name El-P (shortened from his previous stage name El Producto), is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Starting his career as a member of Company Flow, he has been a ...
had used the product.
In 2016, it was announced that the company had shut down.
References
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External links
How Legitmix Sells Sample-Based Music Legitimately
Audio mixing
Companies established in 2011
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