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didn't really alter them in any way whatsoever. Maybe those were the rules

They were created using a flash page.

I believe http://www.portraitofdecay.net had the player itself archived, but it looks like that's gone.

The wayback machine has the index is there: http://web.archive.org/web/201708170...tnik.com/emix/

But doesn't have doesn't have a backup of portraitofdecay's backup.: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...nin/index.html

And doesn't have a backup itself: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://.../emix_nin.html

RIP portraitofdecay.

It looks like the ninremixes.com multitracks page is messed up, but here's a direct download link: http://ninremixes.com/downloads/Unof...0(Samples).zip

From the readme accompanying the mp3s:

These audio layers were from some online shockwave-based to remix The
Big Come Down. The song was broken into 5 layers for different
instruments, which you could turn on and off. I don't believe there was
much additional opportunity to edit anything.

Seeing the limitations of the program, I realized I had to capture the
audio before the Beatnik web application was taken down. However, the
way in which I did this was less than ideal. I turned on a layer at a
time, and used sndrec32 in windows to capture it. There was no way to
restart the loop to the beginning, even with all layers off. So I would
record and keep recording until I heard it loop, and I would end the
file for that layer. So these 5 loop files do not start and stop at any
well defined points. They may also be longer or *shorter* than a full
loop. I did my best, but I may have cut some of them prematurely.
Then, I compressed the files into 128Kbps mp3, using whatever
application I had at the time. My best guess is that this was 2000,
*possibly* 2001.

Had I had enough forsight, I would have simply saved the shockwave
files, and found some method to extract the raw audio from them, and
leave them in that format. Hopefully someone out there has done this.

Either way, these files could be cleaned up and imported into a *real*
audio program to make better remixes than Beatnik provided.

Also included in this zip is Trent's own Beatnik remix, which was a
preset you could click on in the program. There was a contest for the
best fan remix, and the winner's mix was available, but I have not
included it in this zip. I didn't view it as important.

-Chonine