Digital Digest: Nick Cave, The Rapture, deadmau5 and more

An impressive cast of musicians ranging from Nick Cave to Massive Attack and Scarlett Johansson have contributed music to Days of Grace - a new Mexican thriller which recently screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Everardo Valerio Gout, it weaves multiple storylines around the last three football World Cups, with different composers for each part.



Nick Cave and Warren Ellis team up, while Atticus Ross - the How to Destroy Angels man who also scored the Oscar winning soundtrack for The Social Network with Trent Reznor - hooks up with Shigeru Umebayashi for another part of the score. While the film's theme is a version of the George Gershwin classic Summertime by Scarlett Johansson and Massive Attack. More at Pitchfolk.



New Yorkers The Rapture have just announced details of a new album. The disco-rockers will also be going out on tour – more details on In the Grace of Your Love including a tracklist can be found on Drowned in Sound.



Dance music producer deadmau5 has released the deadmau5 touch remix app – the first of its kind which allows users to remix his album by pulling in loops, manipulate and add effects rather than just listen.



I House U declare we are now in the age of the ‘prosumer’ – where the lines between people who consume / listen to music are becoming blurred with that of the producers – and they have all the details.



Radio 1Xtra’s Tim Westwood Tweeted that he is considering turning the new Celebrity Big Brother house into the Dawg House, if Snoop Dogg goes in with him. Both are supposedly in talks with the programme, which has a new home with Channel 5, with Charlie Sheen and Mohammed Al-Fayed also rumoured to be on the wish list.



The Prophet Blog are reporting Lady Gaga’s album Born This Way could sell high of a million copies in its first week, and break digital records in the process. This has been helped with a deal brokered between the Interscope and Amazon who have been offering the digital album for just $0.99 and ties in with their new cloud service.



While, Contact Music say Gaga’s monsters in fact crashed Amazon in trying to get hold of the album.



Public Enemy’s Chuck D has narrated a documentary on the Untold Story of Detroit Hip Hop. More information on the tale of the motor city which has seen the likes of Eminem, Kid Rock and White Stripes emerge can be found on Myspace’s blog, which also has a link to the trailer.