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MusicTiles app lets you remix Peter Gabriel's music
English singer, musician and songwriter Peter Gabriel expanded his music repertioire to include an iOS app called MusicTiles. Gabriel follows in the footsteps of other musicians like Neil Young and David Gilmour who have embraced Apple's platform as a way to promote their music. MusicTiles is a music-mixing app filled with tracks from Gabriel's So album. The app lets you remix these songs using a simple tile-based interface. Each tile represents a different track (guitar, vocal, etc.) in the song and it lets you add and remove them at will. The latest version of the app adds support for the iPad. You can check out a demo of the app in the video below. MusicTiles is available for US$2.99 from the iOS App Store. [Via Engadget]
So, Tesco buys Peter Gabriel's WE7 music service for $16.7 million
British Supermarket behemoth Tesco has snapped up WE7, a streaming music service co-founded by Peter Gabriel that offers personalized radio stations to users, for £10.8 million ($16.7 million). The UK's biggest supermarket has purchased 91 percent of the company, with the remaining stake set to be transferred over shortly. It looks like the chain will use WE7's infrastructure and resources as the spine for a beefier music service as British supermarkets look to diversify into the entertainment market following its purchase of Blinkbox last year.
Activision files trademark for 'Sledgehammer Games'
Skilled internet sleuth supererogatory has uncovered an intriguing trademark filing from Activision, who recently reserved the name "Sledgehammer Games" for an unspecified purpose. Now, this could simply be the moniker of Activision's rumored San Mateo-based studio (whose help wanted ads were also uncovered by supererogatory) -- but we're optimistically holding out hope that the company is working on a Peter Gabriel-inspired minigame collection. We've contacted Activision to see if our wildest, stop-motion animated fantasies are about to come true.
Peter Gabriel wants to be your DJ
As if he wasn't already busy, what with being the music legend and all... Peter Gabriel's playlist construction kit The Filter, already available free for iTunes for Windows, is now entering 2.0 alpha test for Mac users. The Filter automatically loads your iPod with custom, mood-relevant playlists and explores your music collection for those gems gathering dust in the corners.Registration for the alpha test is by invitation for now, so you can either send an email from the download page or go straight to the alpha registration and wait to hear back. May I suggest queuing up Plays Live while you wait?Thanks, Shaun!
