The Dismemberment Plan made tracks available to the public via their website, giving the criteria of "use what you find, embellish, edit, and rematerialize as you see fit, and if we like it, we'll put it on the record" as the only guidelines for the project. After about a year the band sifted through the submitted remixes and selected 12 tracks for the final album.
The Dismemberment Plan made their music available online, allowing fans to remix it freely using any methods they desired. The band's only stipulation was that if they liked the result, they would release it as a track on the album. After about a year of collecting submissions, the band reviewed and selected 12 tracks for the final album.