I think you hit on something really powerful here. Most web-based players don't seem to have it, but yes, at the time I remember even players that weren't expli

I think you hit on something really powerful here. Most web-based players don't seem to have it, but yes, at the time I remember even players that weren't explicitly editors, would let you turn individual channels or instruments on and off. That made it incredibly easy to strip the music down to an individual track or sample, and understand how the parts came together to make the whole. The notion of a "remix" didn't even apply; this was default functionality of the interface and the form. I've sometimes wondered, what if commercial music came like that? Like if instead of a 2-track mp3, I (or anyone) could get a 40-track studio master for any random song, and mix it myself. Vocals over here, drums over there, turn off the guitar for a minute and let's see what it's like.... That'd be huge. People would do such crazy things with it. And we did, back in this little forgotten eddy of music that the main stream completely forgot.