Have you ever wanted to create your own music but were too lazy to do so? Fret not dear reader, help is at hand. Thanks to beatbuilder.ie, you too can get behind the mixing desk, or in this case the internet as accessed from your laptop keyboard. 15 Irish-based musicians appear on screen like an episode of TV game show Celebrity Squares but instead of being asked vexing trivia questions, the musicians who vary from drummers to beat boxers and er, dancers perform a looped sequence of music and it’s up to you to decide who is worthy of your mixing skills.

Venerable geek bible Wired recently had a similar attempt in crowdsourced music - http://bit.ly/wiredsong. Provided with a bass, drum and guitar track, readers and the community at Indabamusic.com – an online remix and collaboration site, were given the month of May to record the best song they could with the materials provided. Many artists collaborated and the results are interesting, if a tad bit generic. Wired plans to extend the crowdsourcing concept by asking readers to pick a winner, which will then be remixed too, which may answer the age old question – can you turn dung into dollars, or more accurately, a few thousand online streams?
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