5 months ago
3.11.2009
Kinky Beatles Soundsystem
Anyone who knows me well knows my affinity towards mash-ups. Despite some early hang-ups (I remember specifically making fun of a friend in high school for a Shania Twain/ The Verve mash-up he downloaded. With Napster probably.), I've grown to appreciate the amount of work it takes for an artist to layer the sounds, synch the harmonies, and still produce a track that sounds good.
Mash-ups have come a long way since the "You're Still The One"/ "Bitter Sweet Symphony" catastrophe, and this is a fine example of that. Beatles songs are great for mash-ups, partly because of the abundance of hooks the DJ can loop. Likewise, dance artists like LCD Soundsystem are also perfect, because, well, dance music is supposed to be fiddled with.
The track kind of fades when The Kinks song kicks in, but an otherwise solid tune.
Word to Popped Culture for this; the artist is FAROFF
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Finally, someone who shares my perverse love of mashups.
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All downloadable for free...make mix tapes for your loved ones!
My all time fave was a mashup of a Thievery Corp. song with a Bugsby Berkeley dance numbers from the 1930s. Being the coolest thing ever, it was of course taken down for copyright violation.
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oh gaaaaah how i love a good mashup
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