The first in what may be a series of mashup pictures (suitable for framing mind you) that are neither Motivators or Demotivators, but merely Observation.
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Just because the fine folks at waxaudio.com.au decided to do a fine mashup, and it's late, and I'm digging it, here's Floyd and the Gibbs. Should be a fun Saturday escapade.
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Just found this short clip on Vimeo of someone zipping around eastern Toronto. In itself, such a driving clip is nothing special, but I really dug the picture quality and some of the great perspective shots up the Don Valley Parkway.
Also, I thought this video clip was ripe for a soundtrack, so I'd suggest pressing play on the YouTube clip below a couple of seconds before [or buffering the entire thing]. I chose Highway Star. Any other clips we could do a "poor surfer's" mashup with?
from wikipedia... Gregg Michael Gillis (born October 26, 1981 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), better known by his stage name Girl Talk, is an American musician specializing in mashups and digital sampling. Gillis has released four LPs on the record label Illegal Art and EPs on 333 and 12 Apostles.
I know I came late to the party with Girl Talk, but here's a shout to all of you who've never heard of this master of the mashup.
I'm really not into DJs or DJ culture, but when I heard Feed The Animals by Girl Talk, I was won over. This was the first time I ever "got it" with regards to DJ skills. While I never claimed that DJs lacked talent, for years I was left without a clear sensibility about artistic nature of the performance. I often thought, "well that's pretty cool, but doesn't do much for me."
In listening to Girl Talk's release, which I purchased through his website, I found that recognition of the artistic in the choices of samples, and more importantly, the amazing juxtaposition of genre, rhythm and tone. In the first track alone, he successfully mashes up the following:
"Play Your Part (Pt. 1)" - 4:45
0:00 - 0:41 Roy Orbison - "Oh, Pretty Woman"
0:01 - 0:41 UGK featuring OutKast - "International Player's Anthem"
0:01 - 2:11 The Spencer Davis Group - "Gimme Some Lovin'"
0:03 - 0:39 TTC - "J'ai Pas Sommeil"
0:42 - 1:07 DJ Funk - "Pump That Shit Up"
0:55 - 1:20 Cupid - "Cupid Shuffle"
1:08 - 1:56 Pete Townshend - "Let My Love Open the Door"
1:18 - 2:10 Unk - "Walk It Out"
1:59 - 2:37 Twisted Sister - "We're Not Gonna Take It"
2:04 - 2:10 Huey Lewis and the News - "The Heart of Rock & Roll"
2:13 - 2:37 Lil Mama - "G-Slide (Tour Bus)"
2:29 - 3:01 Ludacris featuring Shawnna - "What's Your Fantasy"
2:36 - 3:01 Temple of the Dog - "Hunger Strike"
2:48 - 3:01 Birdman featuring Lil Wayne - "Pop Bottles"
3:01 - 3:15 Rage Against the Machine - "Freedom"
3:02 - 4:05 Aaliyah featuring Timbaland - "We Need a Resolution"
3:02 - 4:06 Birdman and Lil Wayne - "Stuntin' Like My Daddy"
3:05 - 4:25 T.I. - "What You Know"
3:17 - 3:38 Edwin Starr - "War"
3:41 - 4:31 Sinéad O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U"
4:13 - 4:43 Shawnna - "Gettin' Some"
4:32 - 4:45 Jay-Z featuring UGK - "Big Pimpin'"
4:33 - 4:41 Kelis featuring Too $hort - "Bossy"
4:34 - 4:44 Young Jeezy featuring Bone Crusher - "Take It to the Floor"
4:37 - 4:45 Rare Earth - "I Just Want to Celebrate"
And while I have also not been a traditional fan of contemporary rap (and am still not) the mashup combinations won me over.
What can I say? Girl Talk and I listen.
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A little mashup I made from the Creative Commons copyright-free Prelinger Archive at archive.org and some Rage Against the Machine. There's something to be said about a good juxtaposition: kickass music and mass destruction.
EDIT: Thanks to YouTube's copyright snitch algorithms, this video is not viewable in Germany. May I suggest my German friends watch this instead.
Who said a modern band had to be guitar, bass and drums with the occasional keyboard player thrown in? Let's diversify and throw together instrument combinations that would be able to challenge the establishment. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of mainstream music.
My Instrumash Band would include: Theremin, Conch, Tubular Bell and Timpani - I'm ready to ROCK!
What's your best instrumash? Plug in below. And just in case you think it can't sound good while being weird, check this out.
Alice - Jersey girl -
Red shoes by the drugstore.
Step right up.
Come on up to the house 'til the money runs out.
Anywhere I lay my head, please wake me up.
Please call me, baby.
T'ain't no sin.
Lie to me.
Poor Edward - telephone call from Istanbul...
Better off without a wife.
Fumblin' with the blues, bad liver and a broken heart.
The piano has been drinking:
Drunk on the moon.
Annie's back in town... Hang on St. Christopher!
Pasties and a g-string (at the two o'clock club) -
Watch her disappear way down in the hole: Johnsburg, Illinois.
Danny says Annie's back in town.
So it goes.
Chained together for life, the wages of love, drunk on the moon,
This one's from the heart.
Watch her disappear.
A good man is hard to find.
Buzz Fledderjohn - in shades - 9th & Hennepin.
Oily night.
In between love.
Gin-soaked boy.
Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis,
Nighthawk postcards (from easy street),
16 shells from a 30-ought-six,
$29.00,
A sweet little bullet from a pretty blue gun,
Old shoes:
A sight for sore eyes.
I'm still here Lucinda, Bride of Rain Dog, Big Black Mariah, all you zombies,
This one's from the heart.
Misery is the river of the world;
God's away on business;
Everything goes to hell - cemetery polka.
The ocean doesn't want me.
I want you.
Picking up after you, I wish I was in New Orleans.
No one knows I'm gone.
We're all mad here.
Closing time.
Hang me in the bottle.
So long I'll see ya.
Looks like I'm up shit creek again.