Jamglue: A Retrospective, 2006–2010
You're looking back in time: Jamglue ran from 2006 to 2010. This page is a retrospective built from the public record.
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Your mother always said you had talent.
Hot music and cool people (or vice versa).
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With your mouse out.
The welcome icons and slogans, exactly as they read in December 2006.
TRY THE ORIGINAL<br>SWF MIXER<br>TRY THE WEB AUDIO<br>RECREATION
The Flash mixer in full, November 2007: "Spongebob’s F.U.N. Song" mid-mix: per-track volume, pan, and solo/mute with automation, tempo sync across sources. Audio streamed from Amazon S3. Both mixers run today with the recovered T-Pain stems: the recreation, or the original, emulated.
TRY THE ORIGINAL SWF MIXER<br>TRY THE WEB AUDIO RECREATION
Press
AVC (Fred Wilson)<br>"So I woke up this morning with an urge to remix something myself. And the perfect tool is a new service called Jamglue." Oct 2006
Wired<br>"Simple, streamlined and easy to use interface." Nov 2006
Mashable<br>"Incredibly easy for talentless people like me to create a mix that actually sounds pretty good." Nov 9, 2006
TechCrunch<br>"The board is a lot slicker than its Splicemusic counterpart." Dec 15, 2006
NPR<br>"Anyone who fancies themselves a musician can go in, press a 'remix' button, and add their own tracks." May 14, 2007
The Seattle Times<br>"Jamglue takes advantage of teenagers' penchant to personalize everything." Jun 2007
Creative Commons<br>"Combining some seriously cool remix contests with an exemplary online music collaboration platform." Nov 2, 2007
Remix Contests
Artists released real studio stems under Creative Commons licenses, and fans traded verses with the stars, rapping and singing over the originals. All 31 recovered contests, in order; dates are each contest’s first appearance in the Wayback Machine.
The Submarines · Dec 2006: "Peace and Hate," the launch contest, with Nettwerk.
MC Lars · Apr 2007: “White Kids Aren't Hyphy”; Lars picked the winner himself.
Coldcut · May 2007: Remix Showcase.
R. Kelly · Jul 2007: “Double Up”: a duet on “I'm a Flirt,” presented with Jive.
T-Pain · Aug 2007: remix or rhyme along with “Bartender.”
Blue Scholars · Sep 2007
Public Enemy · Oct 2007: remix “Amerikan Gangster”; grand prize picked by Chuck D.
Jars of Clay · Oct 2007: “Love Came Down at Christmas,” with Nettwerk.
The Perishers · Oct 2007
Hi-Tek · Jan 2008: guest-verse contest for “My Piano.”
JR Writer · Jan 2008
Tigarah · Jan 2008
Dolla · Apr 2008: “Who the F* is That?” remix contest.
“Your Week” · May 2008: TV theme-song contest with WETA and reddit.
Tyga · May 2008
Kidz in the Hall · Jul 2008
Natasha Bedingfield · Oct 2008
Shontelle · Oct 2008
Mirror's Edge · Nov 2008: EA game-soundtrack tie-in.
B-Real · Feb 2009
Charlie Wilson · Apr 2009
UGK · Apr 2009
Grand Puba · Jun 2009
U-God · Jun 2009
J-Kwon · Jun 2009
Jah · Jun 2009
GS Boyz · Jul 2009
Mams Taylor · Sep 2009
Hopsin · Sep 2009
Wiz Khalifa · Nov 2009
Bamboo Shoots · Mar 2010
Plus the site-wide events: “Best of Jamglue” remix rounds and the Valentine’s Day remix-card campaign.
The Community
What people said while it was live, and when it went dark. Verbatim, spelling and emoticons preserved; each row links to its source, live or archived.
TechCrunch comments · Dec 15, 2006<br>"Y Combinator has another winner at hand!" – SupportMagic
TechCrunch comments · Dec 15, 2006<br>"The JamGlue tool is very useful and would provide an alternative to apples garageband. Hopefully the online tracks library will become more comprehensive over time. The flash interface is cutting edge. Keep up the great work." – wayne lambright
Hacker News · Nov 16, 2007<br>"Alive: Weebly, Virtualmin, Jamglue, Scribd, Pairwise […] anywhere.fm, Xobni, i'm in like with you, Justin.tv" – usurper, on which YC companies were still going
Ask MetaFilter · Feb 27, 2008<br>"i first heard of jamglue on a random NPR piece eons ago, and as far as interface and mix-ability goes, it rocks. but the user-base seems to be 99.7% rap oriented […]" – garfy3
IllMuzik forum · Apr 29, 2008<br>"wow, that site is crazy!" – Chrono
FriendFeed · May 5, 2010<br>"So sad :(" – Bret Taylor
FriendFeed · May 5, 2010<br>"I shall wear my t-shirt tomorrow in memoriam." – Jonathan Le Plastrier
Nairaland · May 21, 2010<br>"Jamglue is one of ma fave sites mehn. I...