your thoughts on ”MASH UPS”
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anyone remember the simpsons episode where homer teaches at community college?
he shows marge his leather coat with tweed patches sewn on the elbows. she tells him, 'that's supposed to be leather patches on a tweed jacket. you ruined a pefectly good jacket!'
homer holds up a tweed jacket he cut up to make the patches. 'ah ah, marge; TWO pefectly good jackets.'
my only issue is when kids take a couple songs and put them together just for some kind of ironic result, rather than for funky or dance-able results. too many people just use the logic "this le tigre song is good, and this missy ellott song is good, ergo, they should be forced together in an unholy MASH UP."
if the keys clash, if i can't dance to it, if it's not CLEVER, then i don't want to hear it. you're ruining two perfectly good songs!
and please, no more mixes with:
AC/DC
Missy
The Cure
he shows marge his leather coat with tweed patches sewn on the elbows. she tells him, 'that's supposed to be leather patches on a tweed jacket. you ruined a pefectly good jacket!'
homer holds up a tweed jacket he cut up to make the patches. 'ah ah, marge; TWO pefectly good jackets.'
my only issue is when kids take a couple songs and put them together just for some kind of ironic result, rather than for funky or dance-able results. too many people just use the logic "this le tigre song is good, and this missy ellott song is good, ergo, they should be forced together in an unholy MASH UP."
if the keys clash, if i can't dance to it, if it's not CLEVER, then i don't want to hear it. you're ruining two perfectly good songs!
and please, no more mixes with:
AC/DC
Missy
The Cure
Yeah, I'm over here in SF.
I looked at your blog, so you DJ at KALX?
You must know Matt Africa (also on this board)...
I sometimes get down with Rob and them over at Beatsauce.
B-Cause
planet= gets my approval
now I expect of a flurry of little dudes and their spit ball-esque "zings".
now I expect of a flurry of little dudes and their spit ball-esque "zings".
Yeah, I'm over here in SF.
I looked at your blog, so you DJ at KALX?
You must know Matt Africa (also on this board)...
I sometimes get down with Rob and them over at Beatsauce.
B-Cause
Yeah I know Matt Africa and Beni B and O-Dub. Africa is the only one still at KALX besides myself.
this sounds like you're spitting game, hombre. take that schitt to the P.M.'s so you can *ahem* "man-up".
I don't think so. 'Bootleg' is just a term used for illegally pressed records. Which most 'mash-ups' were.
Mash-ups were popular in the UK about 4/5 years ago, until Kylie Minogue sang one of her hits over New Order's blue monday at 'the brits' (the incredibly lame Uk versions of the Grammys) Then became part of the mainstream consciousness and soon died out.
Its true that this 'idea' of playing two records together is nothing new, and dj's have been doing it for years. But I think that when you take it that one step further and have a whole set of 'mash ups' and you have dj'd who played nothing else, it needed a name.
As for it being in some way race related that???s just you Americans putting your favourite hang-up on another mildly related topic.
When coldcut played 'One blood - Reid, Junior' over 'Street beats vol.2 - Truper' or 'Bridge is over - BDP' over 'Into the 90's - Photek' were they thinking about the juxtaposing irony of the racial mix they were creating. Or maybe, hey these 2 records sound fresh together.
i dont think ayres was referring to the "irony of the racial mix", rather that, for some, the "mash-up" concept makes rap music palatable where it was not before. ie, people who didn't/couldn't respect jay-z as an artist/lyricist until he was paired up with the beatles.
