The San Francisco Gate covers DJ Spooky’s performance alongside the Oakland symphony. It sounds like a rare treat and really places the turntable with DJ into a new realm of performance.
Whatever the audience made of the piece — the response was a hearty kind of bemusement — “Devolution” confirmed that the turntable has been reinvented [...]
Now here’s a find — apparently Malcolm McLaren has discovered and video game mash-up and chip music scene. And of course he’s set to capitalize off it. Watch out world. Read about it in the Guardian.
It’s the battle over the Double Black CD! Will the RIAA ever relent? Read about it in Counterpunch.
In The Mix has a review of Destroy All DJs, the mash-up mix released by LA producers BP and Effcee. It’s pretty apparent this mix suffers from the same problems as Keoki’s Kill All DJs. To be honest, I was hoping the record label would learn from past mistakes.
It’s an obviously simple idea: stop distributing unauthorized remixes and instead distribute the “recipe” for the remix (minus the original source material). I like it! Read the ongoing blog conversation at Corante. See also the client side remixing conundrums thread.
Read MTV’s coverage from an interview with Danger Mouse in which he describes how the Grey Album began and the pains of producing it.
A lot of people just assumed I took some Beatles and, you know, threw some Jay-Z on top of it or mixed it up or looped it around, but it’s really a [...]
Andrew Eaton, jokingly admitting that he’s a month behind “every other pop writer in Britian,” gives his Scotsman readers the low-down on the Grey Album. “For me, it has made bastard pop – records with vocals from one pop song, music from another, generally with permission from neither party – exciting again,” Andrew writes.
Says NPR’s Stephen Proffitt,
Garageband is rapidly becoming the latest high-tech living room craze — mostly because it makes it easy for even the most musically challenged among us to make tunes that sound like real music.
Hear his story on NPR’s Day to Day feature.
Read Alexander Payne’s thoughts on the “currency” of bootlegs and their role as forgettable party music. Personally, I believe there is a lot of experimental crap available but also a sizeable catalog of unbelievable work from folks like Go Home Productions.
Like sister Kylie’s New Order mash-up (on the Love at First Sight single), Dannii takes note and releases one built atop Madonna’s “Into the Groove.” Billboard reports:
“Don’t Wanna Lose This Feeling” is the follow-up to Dannii Minogue’s dance smash, “I Begin to Wonder,” which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Radio Airplay chart [...]