Mysterious D stumbled across this interesting bit of news — apparently MTV is producing a pilot for a mash-up themed show! We’re scratching our heads, wondering if this went anywhere …
Thanks to Party Ben for forwarding this press release on to me. This is great news for the San Francisco bay area … LIVE 105, the first major commercial station in the country to recognize the international music phenomenon known as “mash-ups” or “bootlegs” has taken another step forward by creating an entire playlist category [...]
Much like we saw with the Grey Album, the press machine has started their engines. EMI, again the victim of cruel & unusual remixing treatment (like … the Beatles) by the world’s most creative DJs (like … Danger Mouse), is raising the ‘cease-and-desist’ volume over the Kleptones’ Queen project. You’ve got to break the rules [...]
Hailed as a “breakthrough into electronica,” Prodigy’s Fat of the Land album delivered more than punk-infused breaks. With their single Smack My Bitch Up followed scandals in connection with the lyrics, including blacklisting by many US and Canadian radio stations along with the album being pulled from shelves at chain superstores Wal-Mart and K-Mart. In [...]
The Grey Album is certainly getting young producer Danger Mouse into the big time. He’s teaming up with Blur’s Albarn to produce the next Gorillaz album. Read about it at MTV News.
The CR3 is an interesting tripod-like stand made especially for laptops. Instand has a number of other models for those who need to prop their laptop in the perfect position. They are a little expensive, so I’d love to hear from anyone who has other solutions they’ve stumbled across. What other creative stand solutions exist [...]
To protest the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Case No. 01-00412, Downhill Battle is sponsoring a remix contest in which entries must use only the designated two seconds of the intro to Funkadelic’s “Get off Your Ass and Jam.”
Here’s an interesting press release that hit my email this morning. Congrats to Reset! Beck, Pharrell Williams and Jay-Z have teamed up with New York City based DJ/Producer DJ Reset for the forthcoming “Frontin’ on Debra (DJ Reset Mash-Up)”. “Frontin’ on Debra (DJ Reset Mash-Up)” marks the first American mash-up to be released by a [...]
Another absolutely brilliant mash-up full-length from the Kleptones is now available. This time they’re reworking Queen. Get it via BitTorrent. Direct links to the audio is available on their web site. Trust me, this is the most amazing mash-up album I’ve ever heard. Surpasses Kev.
It was bound to happen — the Dan Rather mash-ups are surfacing.