your thoughts on ”MASH UPS”
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I really dont understand the hate. Part of being a dj is having the newest and dj only shit. Everybody loves remixes, everybody loves different takes on familiar songs. This is what this shit has always been about as far back as I can remember. Its just a case of "oh now that it blew up, its corny."
OK here you go. This is all totally subjective, but to me, here are the diffences between Mash-ups, blends and remixes.
"Mash-up" is usually two unlikely songs put together, usually with production/editing to make it work. 2 Many DJs, Danger Mouse, Satanik Mashups, Hollertronix, Uneasy Listening (even though Z-Trip and DJ P would object to that), etc. I also associate mash-up with one of the songs being white music, like putting Rhinestone Cowboy over Africa Bambatta or Britney Speats over The Clipse or whatever. In Europe they call it "Bootlegs" just to make it more confusing.
"Blends" are what you do live on 2 or 3 turntables when you put a beat under a different song or acapella. I don't think of the term "blend" as having any sort of connotation as far as what type of music is being played. But a blend isn't edited in a computer or produced on a sampler or anything.
"Remix" to me is a totally vague all-encompassing word. When DJ Premier is commisioned to make an original beat to go with D'Angelo's acapella, that is a remix. When Busta Rhymes does a verse on your song and you rerelease it, that is a remix, even if it is on the same exact beat. When Puffy takes a Biggy acapella and pays a ghost producer to loop up White Lines under it, that is a remix. When Danny Krivit re-edits an R&B song and funks up the drums, extends the intro and puts in breakdowns, that is a remix.
Mash-up is a made-up term that is used to describe something that has been going on forever. To a lot of people (myself included) it is a pejorative. It is like "electronica" - nobody who made dance music or downtempo in the early 90s would have said "I make electronica" but rock critics who weren't previously up on dance music decided it was the new thing and lumped everything without guitars into this broad, useless term.
OK here you go. This is all totally subjective, but to me, here are the diffences between Mash-ups, blends and remixes.
"Mash-up" is usually two unlikely songs put together, usually with production/editing to make it work. 2 Many DJs, Danger Mouse, Satanik Mashups, Hollertronix, Uneasy Listening (even though Z-Trip and DJ P would object to that), etc. I also mash-up with one of the songs being white music, like putting Rhinestone Cowboy over Africa Bambatta or Britney Speats over The Clipse or whatever. In Europe they call it "Bootlegs" just to make it more confusing.
"Blends" are what you do live on 2 or 3 turntables when you put a beat under a different song or acapella. I don't think of the term "blend" as having any sort of connotation as far as what type of music is being played. But a blend isn't edited in a computer or produced on a sampler or anything.
"Remix" to me is a totally vague all-encompassing word. When DJ Premier is commisioned to make an original beat to go with D'Angelo's acapella, that is a remix. When Busta Rhymes does a verse on your song and you rerelease it, that is a remix, even if it is on the same exact beat. When Danny Krivit re-edits an R&B song and funks up the drums, extends the intro and puts in breakdowns, that is a remix.
Mash-up is a made-up term that is used to describe something that has been going on forever. To a lot of people (myself included) it is a pejorative. It is like "electronica" - nobody who made dance music or downtempo in the early 90s would have said "I make electronica" but rock critics who weren't previously up on dance music decided it was the new thing and lumped everything without guitars into this broad, useless term.
way to break it down...
This conversation is weak.
I heard Clark Kent mixing Phil Collins "In The Air Tonight" over a hip hop beat the other day on NY radio.
"MASH UP"
Same type of shit has been done for ages.
Fuck, hip-hop in general is a fucking MASH-UP. Grandmaster Flash on some "Let me mash-up this James Brown drums with a fucking Talking Heads music" shit. Whatever. It's all rehash.
Suspect as fuck.
"Mashup" is a term that white journalists use to describe this shit in way so that they can kind of LAY CLAIM to something, call it theirs or appropriate that shit to whatever "forward thinking artist" or whatever type shit.
You can HATE ME NOW.
I didn't start this shit. The Rub didn't start this. Hollertronix didn't start this shit. Z-Trip and them dudes didn't start this shit. DJ Ran didn't start this when he was playing Wham "Everything She Wants" beat with a Mase Acapella on BLACK RADIO 10 years ago. DJ Storm didn't start this when he was playing Gap Band "Outstanding" over the DWYCK Horny Instrumental in a BLACK CLUB 12 years ago.
MOtherfuckers need to get over themselves.
I'm not about to play the race card, but motherfuckers know what the fuck I mean.
As for me, if it's good it's good. I will play a funky ass record. But if a record is ass then I will not play it.
A lot of you fucking people need to get off the internet and get out into the real world and see what actually happens.
Peace to Ron G, Brucie B, Kid Capri, Funkmaster Flex, Love Bug Starski.
I heard Clark Kent mixing Phil Collins "In The Air Tonight" over a hip hop beat the other day on NY radio.
"MASH UP"
Same type of shit has been done for ages.
Fuck, hip-hop in general is a fucking MASH-UP. Grandmaster Flash on some "Let me mash-up this James Brown drums with a fucking Talking Heads music" shit. Whatever. It's all rehash.
Suspect as fuck.
"Mashup" is a term that white journalists use to describe this shit in way so that they can kind of LAY CLAIM to something, call it theirs or appropriate that shit to whatever "forward thinking artist" or whatever type shit.
You can HATE ME NOW.
I didn't start this shit. The Rub didn't start this. Hollertronix didn't start this shit. Z-Trip and them dudes didn't start this shit. DJ Ran didn't start this when he was playing Wham "Everything She Wants" beat with a Mase Acapella on BLACK RADIO 10 years ago. DJ Storm didn't start this when he was playing Gap Band "Outstanding" over the DWYCK Horny Instrumental in a BLACK CLUB 12 years ago.
MOtherfuckers need to get over themselves.
I'm not about to play the race card, but motherfuckers know what the fuck I mean.
As for me, if it's good it's good. I will play a funky ass record. But if a record is ass then I will not play it.
A lot of you fucking people need to get off the internet and get out into the real world and see what actually happens.
Peace to Ron G, Brucie B, Kid Capri, Funkmaster Flex, Love Bug Starski.
