The Echo Nest Remix API- Literally Music to the Ears »

Every now and then at Apigee we run into an API that is so brilliant, so elegantly inventive; an API that elevates mankind, changes the way we see the world, and renews our obsession with making a better way to API. 

The Echo Nest Remix API is an internet synthesizer API. It lets you do amazing things with music and video, like write remix programs, sync videos to songs, mashup audio tracks and more. It's currently available as an open source SDK for Python- more languages soon- and is easy to install on OSX, Windows and Linux/Source.

We've had some fun this morning playing with different implementations of the API; like cowbell-ifying Led Zeppelin's Babe I'm Gonna Leave You with http://morecowbell.dj/ and listening to samples from "The Swinger", which takes each beat, time-stretching the first half while time-shrinking the second half to make swing from any song you can think of. 

We also like how the Remix API provides a list of example implementations to inspire and help people learn- great best-practice for API providers.

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