Hopefully by now you’ve been hipped to the hottest new dance music craze: Mash-ups! AKA smashups, bootlegs, booties, bastard pop, blends, or cutups. OMG, these things are totally nuts! You take the vocals of one song (say, “Genie in a Bottle”) and put it on top of the instrumental version of another song (preferably a rock song with a very recognizable riff—“Back in Black,” perhaps?) and voila! You’ve got yourself a kooky “mash-up” that’s sure to be a dance floor smash!
ExtremeTech’s new how-to guide, Mashup Construction Kit, couldn’t be more timely. Written by DJ Earworm, composer of last year’s Scissor Sisters/Beatles/Aretha/George Michael hit mash-up, “No One Takes Your freedom,” the book details the step-by-step process of how to create successful mash-ups. In only 338 pages, you’ll get a step-by-step guide from how to choose clever song titles to the ethical considerations of copyright laws. Let the electronic wizardry begin!
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Posted by: Lucy van Pelt | 07/02/2007 at 22:59
there's no denying the hilarity of the "careless whisper/wanted dead or alive" mash-up.
Posted by: darby | 07/02/2007 at 23:29
Is this some of that "irony" I hear so much about?
Posted by: poprocksandsoda | 08/02/2007 at 02:25
the only good mashup i heard was biggie smalls and frank sinatra. it blew my fucking mind away.
Posted by: tommy two times | 08/02/2007 at 03:23
Welcome to a Hip-Hop, House, or any other DJ-driven music mixtape from 1980. This goes back to disco DJs even. Hardly anything new.
Posted by: | 08/02/2007 at 05:53
People who think DJs are musicians deserve the music they get.
Posted by: Mad Daego | 12/02/2007 at 17:50
is girl talk cool still?
Posted by: ascap | 14/02/2007 at 05:53
Posted by: tommy two times | Feb 08, 2007 at 03:23 AM
Welcome to a Hip-Hop, House, or any other DJ-driven music mixtape from 1980. This goes back to disco DJs even. Hardly anything new.
fuck off you cunt.that was mixing from the end of one song into another,not two tracks running parallel to create a brand new one
Posted by: my wooden leg | 19/02/2007 at 20:54
I did a mash up of Phil Collins and Cool Herc. Unfortunatly, I didn't have that book, so it was shit.
Posted by: Judas Beast | 21/02/2007 at 00:06