DJ BC is my favorite mashup artist right now. He deserves the nod just for Snoop’s Nu Shooz:
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Also tagged bangles, beatles, brian eno, danger mouse, dj bc, hip-hop, jay-z, linkedin, mashups, mia, nu shooz, pop, Sampling, snoop dogg, soundcloud, wu-tang
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Couple of exciting memetic hybrids circulating around the web right now. First, here’s a techno track using samples of Pixar’s Up, which is one of the best and saddest movies ever. Thanks Mike for alerting me to the remix’s existence. Remixing songs is all well and good, but remixing movies, that’s where it’s at.
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Also tagged america, animation, audio editing, chris isaak, electronica, kevin kelly, lady gaga, memes, movies, pixar, pop, remixes, revival revival, Sampling, up, video editing
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Back in 1966, Glenn Gould predicted that recorded music would become an interactive conversation between musician and listener. He described dial twiddling as “an interpretive act.” He was wrong about the dials, but right about the main point, that technology would make listening to music more like making music. Anybody with iTunes instantly becomes a [...]
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Also tagged dave brubeck, digging the crates, dj, django reinhardt, double dee and steinski, electronica, fan art, fugees, funk, girl talk, glenn gould, grandmaster flash, green lantern, hip-hop, jonathan lethem, kelis, ludacris, mashups, memes, michael jackson, mixtapes, mozart, nas, paul simon, pop, pro tools, radiohead, recursion, remixes, sample maps, Sampling, sasha frere-jones, wayne marshall, youtube
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