Tag: dj earworm
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Know Your History Part 4: Bushwhacked
Thanks to Boris B a bit of important cutup/mashup history has been now added to the Bootleg Archive one of the first political mashup compilations, 2004’s Bushwhacked against Bush and the Iraq war. I recently added Twinkleboi who put this together to the Archive and asked him if he still had it – he said…
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The return of Dunproofin
Uvavu! The dove from above has brought us a new mashup from Dunproofin, who recently returned to making mashups, and it’s a belter, Prince vs Donna Summer! And as luck would have it he released it as I was playing the final mashup on the 16th year anniversary podcast! So has to be in the…
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Working Down On Mashup Farm: Microserfs and the New Economy
Something is very much not right in the state of Denmark – well if Denmark was the state of mashups. Recent events have suggested that certain platforms will now welcome mashups, unofficial remixes, unlicensed DJ mixes, podcasts of commercial music and the like. Apple made waves two weeks ago with such an idea of licensing…
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Twang Hero, or how similar pop music has become
Or in this case, how similar country pop has become, but as others have pointed out you can do similar experiments with mainstream chart pop (any current pop multimash), or even EDM as Daleri did with the Beatport top 100. The recent horrible rise of the multi-mash and ‘compilation’ mashups like United States of Pop…