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Glitch Town Road

Make your own Old Town Road remix

We all love Lil Nas X for gifting us with one of the biggest hits of all time: Old Town Road. But you might not know that you can learn from what he and Youngkio did and make your own version of the song (sort of!).

See, the main loop behind the song is a slightly edited sample from the song "34" off of Nine Inch Nails' album Ghosts IV, part of the 4-part Ghosts set released in 2008. And that album was released under a Creative Commons license which means you've got permission to use a sample as long as you give Nine Inch Nails credit, don't use the sample for a commercial work, and release anything that you create with it under the same terms so that others can remix it, too.

This app is a simple drum machine that's got that sample loaded up in it, along with some key samples from an 808 drum machine. What that means: You can make your own remixes right in your web browser. And if you want to get fancy? Check out the code, which you can edit right here on Glitch. You can remix this whole app, add in your own sounds, change the visuals — whatever you want!

All the code for this app is open source, too, with extra special thanks to Cassie Tarakajian for making the drum machine code. If you make your own remix, tweet it out to us at @Glitch and we'll share it with everybody! (And since my code here is not great, if you find bugs or make improvements to the app, tweet me at @anildash and I'll try to make fixes.)

Check out the app page on Glitch