All Mashed Up

I'm so jazzed about getting the new Beatles "Love" album having listened to it online several times - My Amazon version won't arrive until November 30 - December 2, so I just may jump over to Target and pick one up today while I'm out and about picking up Thanksgiving goodies.

I like mashed potatoes and Bobby "Borris" Pickett's "The Monster Mash", but I'm very late to the art form of mashed up music, most likely being that (1) I'm too old to go clubbing and (2) I'm stuck in the sixties and seventies with my musical tastes.

From May 2004 - Wired Magazine: "For some time, DJs -- at first in England and later in the United States and other countries -- have been developing a new style of remix, known as mashups, in which two songs are melded together. Often, the resulting track features the melody of one song and the vocals of another.

Until recently, mashups had been the province of underground DJs, in part because those doing the remixing hardly ever had permission from the original artists to do so. Instead, DJs would produce their mashups, play them at clubs and distribute them freely over the Internet."



Mark Vidler aka Go Home Productions is from my understanding the standard in mashed up music ... "producing Bootleg Mash-Ups and Remixes that have achieved a fair degree of worldwide notoriety."

I like Annie Lenox's music, but this mashed up version is pretty cool:
Annie Lennox / The Beatles
All My Birds Click link to play

The Beatles / The Monkees
PaperBack Beliver Click link to play

Glenn Peoples over at Coolfer - a awesome music industry blog has 4 tracks and more info as well.

From what I've been able to sample in the vast universe of mashed up music, a lot of the stuff is very disco for my tastes; there's a lot of junk to wade through and some good stuff as well.

Great! - something else to grab my attention span. Exactly what I don't need...

Any excellent mashups that I need to be aware of ?