I've been asked a few times by people interested in sound if I knew where they could get tracks to practice mixing with...and ususally not been able to give an answer.

However I've recently found THIS SITE which lets you download all the constituent parts for several known songs then see what you can do in terms of remixing them. I'm in the process of playing with Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey" but there are a few other tracks as well.

You have to register with them to get to the downloads but this is quick and free.

Have fun!

Bob

Bob,

what an interesting site! I've had a quick play with some of the wav files, and it's great fun!

A slight pity that the files are already mixed with FX etc., but a useful tool nonetheless.

Good work!

Simon

There is also this site:
myvirtualband.com

hundreds of uncopyrighted songs, you can download all the tracks dry.