Tag: 2pac
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Party Like it’s 2003: Part 1
“Well, Daddy, don’t you know that things go in cycles?Way that Bobby Brown is just amping like Michael” Very true, and seemingly very true in the world of mashups which was called Bastard Pop back then, Must say I wasn’t expecting the return of the Hampster Dance [sic] so soon in this WAP mashup by…
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Mutant Pop 5 – Got the Glitch remix cutup bug
By volume 5 of the Mutant Pop series I was starting to theme them, becoming more like my sets at the time, with a beginning and end and themes between the tracks. As the title says this volume covers the rise of glitch, the mashup originators started branching out towards original tracks and remixing. Cutups…
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The rise of the holographic pop star
Twitter, blogosphere and the press is buzzing about 2Pac rising from the dead as a hologram at Coachella, but it’s not a new phenomenon. In Japan they have totally virtual stars now touring as holograms – here’s Hatsune Miku in 2010 performing in front of a massive crowd. She’ll never stop being 16, she’ll never…
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30 years of Hip Hop; 1 hour; 538 tunes
The ‘how many tunes can you cram into a mini?’ challenge continues – well this went out earlier in the year but I missed it – Jaguar Skills mixing 30 years of hiphop in one hour…it’s a total nostalgia fest for me, especially as my interest in bootlegs coincided with hiphop & RnB getting it’s…