There's more than one way to skin an app.

I get promotional emails all the time. For this blog in particular, though, I'm not really into poo-pooing whomever sends something to my inbox. You'd be shocked at what I either ignore, pass up on, or laugh to myself about. My relationship with you, my audience, is important to me. I'm not going to lie to you for online "props" This, however, is different. And it's not different because my friend Spree is involved. He's been involved with other "promotions" I didn't tell y'all about because...well, I thought they were kind of tired. *shrugs* I've played with this app myself and it is actually fun to fool around with a bit. When Spree was shooting his commercial for this Sprite. It was right before he left for NYC and it's when I made this piece about his leaving Atlanta for Creative Loafing:

Spree Wilson taking a chance in move to NYC from FireBrand on Vimeo.

Here's the lowdown on the app: anyone can create an original track by mixing beats with a simple tap, shake and tilt on their iPhone or iPod touch devices. It's that simple.


download the app for free at the iTunes store: http://bit.ly/5Mr636. You’ll automatically get one track (The Spark) but you’ll be able to unlock more tracks, including Dallas Austin’s exclusive song, by simply texting ZOOZ + the code found under any 20oz Sprite cap to 777483 (SPRITE).

The good people at sprite have blessed this humble blog with a key to more songs to play with on the app...

Via K. over at Sprite:

..But for you, I’m leaking a “cheat” code that will get your readers one free beat – enter SPRITE as the code and you’ll get Dallas Austin’s exclusive track for free!

I think this is interesting because artists need to find indirect models to getting paid for their content. This is just one more way.

So...check out the ZoozBeat jawn and tell me what you think. Are there other good free beat making apps I need to be aware of? A guy at the radio station has a REALLY cool one for his Droid. I need a Nexus One BADLY. I'm on Tmobile and plan to get one. Y'all know I'm a Google and Apple Geek.