your thoughts on ”MASH UPS”
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I think it's the hipster appropriation of the concept that most people object to, and the tendency of that mindset to reduce things that can still be interesting and creative to the level of an ironic joke. People talk about it like it's something new, when any DJ with an acappella on one turntable, an instrumental on the other, and a little imagination has probably tried something similar at some point, and long before anyone ever thought to coin the term "mash-up" either. Difference now is that technology's just made it easier to do more sophisticated (but not always) and more musical (but not always) variations on what were called blends fifteen years ago. There's a lot of shitty mashup-type records out there, but I still hear some inspired efforts now and again.
right- everyones done this before. but the pop novelty has worn off, I suppose, Like reality TV (or maybe that's just my reaction). It's just a format, and no longer instant fire. Bad mashups are equivalent to really bad mixes...
And mashups is a god awful name, as nebulous as the term 'dj'...doesn't speak at all to the quality of the content.
Yeah that Mashup shit is wack. Most of the ones I've heard have some random Hiphop vocals that don't match the sound of the tune they throw behind it. i can't take no more. Some remixes are the same way. The vocals will be slightly off and that shit is nasty.
Yes, mash-ups are nothing new at all - that's my main beef. People flip when they hear a DJ create one like its something never done - when people been doin that shit for years, hell decades. We were doin that shit over 10 years ago. We only had like 2 crates so we would just mix EVERYTHING we could on some stupidness....
Overall - some are good and some are lame, its all personal choice. And now, even reflecting on what I just wrote, to some listeners its the first time they've ever heard a mash-up - so maybe I heard it years and years ago but to them its brand-f*cking-new......
great example, you should do that.
totally
"Mash-up" has this connotation of irony - mixing wacky pop music with a gangster rap acapella, or metal with crunk or whatever - that not everyone wants to be associated with.
Haha sorry, it just gets annoying when there's some beat post and someone says "check out my remix" and you play it and all it is is another instrumental that someone else made under the acapella, i mean hardly a skill really, go through a few records find an instrumental that fits, job done. Not knocking your hustle though cause i know how the hipsters love that sort of thing, it's just not for me...i like to hear stuff that i couldn't imagine making, as opposed to something that i could go and replicate in about 10 seconds...
great example, you should do that.
totally
"Mash-up" has this connotation of irony - mixing wacky pop music with a gangster rap acapella, or metal with crunk or whatever - that not everyone wants to be associated with.
Haha sorry, it just gets annoying when there's some beat post and someone says "check out my remix" and you play it and all it is is another instrumental that someone else made under the acapella, i mean hardly a skill really, go through a few records find an instrumental that fits, job done. Not knocking your hustle though cause i know how the hipsters love that sort of thing, it's just not for me...i like to hear stuff that i couldn't imagine making, as opposed to something that i could go and replicate in about 10 seconds...
ahh, but if you didn't think of it yourself then it is too easy.
I know what you are trying to say but part of being skilled as a producer/DJ is to have the ear to know what works, even if it is perfectly simple.
Remixes (or whatever) are awesome, when done correctly.
I only play a lot of diffrent songs because I can't play 100 CMW or DJ Quik records back to back. I guess I could work in a D.O.C. record once in a while but for real, he only put one album out before his voice got jacked, so that kind of limits that. Maybe a D.O.C. vocal over some Foster Sylvers. Or like MC EIHT over some Detroit Emeralds or Isaac Hayes. Or maybe a mashup of KRS-One over Deep Purple or AC/DC. What do you guys think? I think we might be onto somethin with this new mash up concept. But this is the best yet what if we make a mash up remix with Run DMC and Aerosmith?
