Tag: The Beatles
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Future
I’ve been listening to Douglas Adams at the BBC which has clips from various series he was involved with, and it pointed out how much of a futurist and technologist he was (although one that realised the down side of technology – as he quotes Bran Ferren “”Technology is a word that describes something that…
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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…
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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…
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Enjoy the Science – 8-bit Operators tribute to Depeche Mode
It was last year that I first heard Bacalao’s version of Depeche Mode’s But Not Tonight and it’s become one of my favourite covers OF ALL TIME. It’s great, honestly. So I’ve been waiting for the full compilation since then – it was going to be ‘coming soon’, and that seems to have stretched out…
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Trippy Beatles disco medley
It’s descriptive laziness in the highest to say something looks like an acid trip, but with my limited knowledge (it never worked for me) this does seem pretty bizarre and lysergic. Beatles goes disco and oh-so-70’s via Raffaella Carra on Italian TV in 1978. Love the disco version of Hey Jude, and the proto mashup…
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Cease and Desist Mark 2: Beastles gets pulled by the blue meanies
Years ago, on a different host and a different URL I got a Cease and Desist from EMI via the MCPS-PRS for a mashup I did…interestingly I haven’t been hassled since then, til now. I’m mirroring the Beastles ‘Ill Submarine’ and it seems the RIAA & Universal is leading an attack on it, despite the…