From the sounds of the Ars Technica review, Steve Knopper’s new book, Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age, sounds fantastic. What music lover won’t appreciate a nice simile comparing big music to a boil that needs cleaning?
“I realized that as an industry we’d kind of been smoking [...]
Read and learn.
I get email on a regular basis from readers wanting me to mashup song xyz with zyx. Thomas Irvin doesn’t bother to write me, however. Instead, he catalogs his ideas on his web site.
Ever notice a song whose melody sounds remarkably similar to some other song? I seem to be afflicted by a birth defect [...]
Imagine all the girls,
Ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
And the boys,
Ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
And the strings,
Eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee, eee.
And the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums
The next generation of mashup sampling has arrived.
Weird. But clever!