Category: Mashup History
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Bruce Haack and his sampling electronic suitcase
Long time listeners and readers of this blog would know my eternal love for Bruce Haack – the electronic genius who sadly still doesn’t get the love he deserves. I’ve seen other clips from his stints on US TV – in fact I think I have posted them with his ‘touch synthesizer’ including Mr Rogers…
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Pachelbel pwns the world
When comes to Pachelbel’s Canon in D Minor it’s easier to say which songs WEREN’T influenced by it…Streets of London, Let It Be, Go West, I Should Be So Lucky (which I think rips another classical piece too), Don’t Look Back In Anger, Puff The Magic Dragon, No Woman No Cry, Men At Work –…
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Steinski and the art of the cut-up
Didn’t know there was a video for ‘We’ll Be Right Back’? This song along with Arthur Baker’s Criminal Element Orchestra – Put The Needle To The Record, Bomb The Bass – Beat Dis, S’Express and Coldcut’s mix of Eric B & Rakim’s Paid in Full were my introduction to the world of the cut-up –…
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Music theory of mashups
Via SpareElbowSkin, this is a fascinating video – I had heard of Quodlibet, it’s all over the Wikipedia Mashup page like a Radio 3 rash – but the idea of stacking mashups til basically madness is fun. The thing is, I never studied any of this stuff – sometimes it shows, LOL – but I…
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Cassetteboy: The Lecture
Saw them at Glastonbury, which was very good (or was it them? The London gig where they were in Australia mentioned in the video I think was at Bangface, which I also saw, but apparently only saw DJ Rubbish :-/)…now Cassetteboy does a TED-style lecture into their history, with some unheard tracks. Shame these have…
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The Pre-History of Mashups – Medleys and Mixes
I suspect the public at large think that mashups are fairly new phenomenon, or at most 15 years old. [QI voice] This is not in fact true. Although sampling as a technology didn’t become widespread until the late 80’s (the likes of Art of Noise allowing, a band who also took parts of songs and…