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January 25, 2008

Continuing my Friday night music theme...

A few years ago, on my drives home from the gallery, I used to hear these new songs on the local alternative station, 94.7 KNRK in Portland, called mash ups. Mixing music has been around for quite a while, obviously. In fact today, you can hardly hear a hip hop or rap song that doesn't borrow heavily from some other well known song. But, in these cases they were taking two, three or four well known songs and 'mashing' them up. They brought together very disparate styles of music to blend them together making some very interesting combinations. Most of them were local DJ's creatively mixing on their own. I always wondered how they were allowed to do this with the strict music rights laws out there. I thought I would share a few interesting ones.

One of the early mash ups that made got a lot of run, was "Boulevard of Broken Songs".

In this version it took Green Day's popular song and mixed in Oasis, Travis and even Eminem.

"Stayin Alive in Da Club" 50 Cent vs. Bee Gees

"Digital love love baby" Daft Punk vs. Vanilla Ice

"Crushingly Close" Nine Inch Nails vs. Garbage

"Sweet Home Country Grammar" Nelly vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd

The last of tonights selection, "A Stroke of Genie-us" The Strokes vs. Christina Aquilera

Entry Tags: the, and, they, music, them, song

Jan 25, 08 23:49:27

Zimbles I think you'll dig this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE-ULokD51E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHWApa70pJk

RodeoBlue

Jan 26, 08 01:28:22

"In fact today, you can hardly hear a hip hop or rap song that doesn't borrow heavily from some other well known song."

Rap ALWAYS has borrowed heavily from other, well-known songs.

dhdell

Jan 26, 08 09:28:23

Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote Sweet Home Alabama, not Alabama. GET INFORMED!

basspoet

Jan 26, 08 14:22:21

Thanks for pointing out my typo, bass. It's corrected. And dhdell, my recollection of very early rap and hip hop was that they didn't sample and borrow from other music to the level they do today (but i'm old, so maybe my recollection from 25 years ago isn't so good).

Zimba