Waxy.org and Boing Boing are reporting that the mash-up police are out in full-force, sending cease-and-desist letters to web sites linking to the Kleptones album. Who are these mash-up police you ask? None other than Walt Disney, the company which holds the rights to Queen’s music and trademarks. Just protecting their assets, right?
Thanks to Adrian from Bootie for tipping me off to this great Ableton Live “warping” tutorial. If you use Ableton and find yourself dealing with long segments of audio containing bad edits or sloppy drummers, then this is definitely a must read for you.
Danger Mouse takes it one step further with The Grey Video. Cute idea.
Music Biz News has a short blurb on the Music for the Bootleg Generation mash-up album. Interesting to see more mainstream press taking notice.
Oh, yes, it’s that time again — Bootie time! If you’re in San Francisco or in the vicinity, get your arse/booty down to Cherry Bar tomorrow night — Saturday, November 13th — for a guaranteed great evening of 100% mash-up madness. This month’s guest is Santa Cruz’s DJ Tripp who has [...]
I’d previously held off on publicly announcing this, but it appears that Victor is letting the cat out of the bag on his own blog. Hard at work the past few weeks putting together a new site called CC Mixter, Victor is now actively soliciting beta testers for this ambitious project. In conjunction with Creative [...]
I stumbled across a great webjay page with a number of amazing Bush remixes this morning. Enjoy!
There’s a bit of buzz going on about the new MTV show Ultimate Mash-ups — mostly positive. One man calls it a "quasi fuck you to [the] RIAA" while another viewer was relieved to find it wasn’t another "crappy reality shows about 20 year olds who can’t help but throw tantrums." I’m still convinced they [...]
Slate is running a great article on the rise of the remix, tracing its origins back to Depeche Mode and discotheques of yesteryear.
This is quite possibly the most absurd and undeniably unique portable record player I’ve ever seen. The web site seems to suggest that it can be used to preview records while shopping at second-hand stores, but I suspect that running a mini-VW camper van over a record isn’t considered appropriate handling — even in [...]