{"id":3248,"date":"2012-12-26T08:56:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T13:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2012-12-26T08:56:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T13:56:53","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-393-21st-century-mash-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/12\/26\/my-musical-evolution-part-393-21st-century-mash-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 393 21st Century Mash-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blondie<\/a>I can’t quite remember how I stumbled across the Mash-Up phenomenon. I am fairly certain it was accidental.\u00a0 I am also reasonably certain that the song that started it was Rapture Riders<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If you are not familiar with what a Mash-Up<\/em> is, I’ll try to describe it for you. A Mash-Up is when somebody takes two or more songs and combines them to make a third song.\u00a0 Actually, as I think about it now, remember me telling you about my Dean Martin dream where he was singing You Shook Me All Night Long<\/em> but to the tune of My Lady Loves To Dance? <\/em>That was a Mash-Up.<\/p>\n

Anyway after the accidental discovery of Rapture Riders, I was briefly intrigued and impressed by Mash-Ups and found more than a few online. A quick search on Mashups<\/em> will get you started. It takes a special talent to make a good Mash-Up. Well talent to visualize the product and then probably some software to enable it to happen. I don’t think you could make a good Mash-Up with just a turntable, CD player and cassette deck. It seems that the Mash-Up guys are able to isolate instruments or vocal components of audio tracks. The artist in me appreciates the skills.<\/p>\n

Adam Sandler appreciates the Mash-Up too. If you have seen his movie Just Go With It<\/em>, you’ll notice that the entire soundtrack is made up of Mash-Ups.<\/p>\n

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Blondie & The Doors – Rapture Riders<\/em>
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