Mashup (music)

See also: Mashup

The mashup , also called bootleg or Bastard Pop is generally a hybrid musical genre since it consists of association, in the same piece, of two or several existing titles, the vocal parts of a piece on the music of another.

This association can be made by musicians or DJ who will mix the original titles (has cappella and instrumental) in fixing the " tempos" (certain artists propose indeed their pieces in version " cappella" has; generally on individual CD promotion whose diffusion, initially reserved for the DJ of the radio operator FM, widened considerably thanks to Internet, this type of individual concerns especially the artists Rap and R' B. The instrumental versions are more current, especially on the individual ones and sometimes on the albums. One can also use a karaoké Logiciel " vocal remover " to attenuate the voice) and there exist other means diverted to find airs has cappella and of instrumental (sometimes it is simply enough to ask the artist politely).

The mashup finds its origin in the capacity and leaning it of certain musicians to recycle any form of music, in particular through the sampling in the Hip-hop or simply the recovery at certain groups. One finds also practices such as the medley, especially practiced during the Eighties by the DJ of radio, which consists in compiling several pieces of the same artist (or not), an good example being Jive Bunny which had attacked the beginnings of the rock'n'roll “roll.

In the few feats of arms of the mashup or related to the mashup, one can quote:

Pink Project (group Italo Disco music formed of Stefano Pulga, Luciano Ninzatti, Matteo Bonsanto and Massimo Noah) - Disco music Project : words and solo of guitar of Another Brig in the Wall (Share II) of the Pink Floyd on the music of Mammagamma (and Sirius for the intro) of The Alan Parsons Project (in 1982, already; regarded as the first mashup of the History).
Club House - C It Again (in 1983; words of C It Again of Steely daN on the music of Billie Jean of Michael Jackson) (Bide card & Music)
Manu Chao - Bongo Bong (on the album Clandestino : words of King off The Bongo of his old group the Mano Negra, on his music of I do not love you any more )
Madonna - Music inferno (words of Music on the music Disco Inferno of The Trammps of the original soundtrack of the fever of Saturday evening ) and Into The Hollywood Groove (words of Hollywood on the music of Into The Groove ).
Harvey Milk: Hollywood express train , a mashup between Hollywood (words) and Midnight Express train of Giorgio Moroder (music)
Dannii Minogue - Don' T wanna loose this groove (words of Don' T wanna loose this feeling on the music of Into The Groove of Madonna)
Foam T vs Dandy Warhols - Horny ace has dandy : words of Horny' 98 of " Foam T vs Hot' Juicy" on the music of Bohemian Like You of the " Dandy Warhols ".
Tom Jones - Black Betty (words of RAM Jam on the music of Last night has DJ saved my life of Indeep)
2 Many DJ' S: As Heard one Radio operator Soulwax leaves 2, first true album of mashups officially left, which required 4 years for " clearer" completely right of all the implied pieces. Since, Girl Talk with Night Ripper or Mark Vidler a.k.a. GoHome Productions with Mashed succeeded in leaving an album in a officelle way.
Danger Foams: on the Grey Album , words of Jay-Z on musics of the Beatles
Dean Gray: in fact consisted Party Ben and TEAM 9 with the album American Edit who diverted American Idiot Green Day.
Beatallica : words of the Beatles on musics of Metallica
Delpech Mode: words of Michel Delpech on the music of Depeche Mode (site: DelpechMode.com)
Bong-Ra, Shitmat, Enduser, Toecutter, Rotator…: among mobilities Turnip or breakcore.

Very often, the title of the mashups (remixs) combines the name of the various implied artists, separated by the abbreviation vs ( versus , employed in English in sporting confrontations inter alia) or a mixture from the various names (for example first name of the one and family name of the other), followed by a mixture of the two original titles which holds sometimes of the Word game.

Side of the DJ, some remixs left into individual (often in the form of White label S):

Stuntmasterz - The Lady Servant boy Is undermines (the words of The Boy Is Mine Brandy & Monica on the music of Modjo - Lady (hear me tonight).

LMC vs U2 - Take Me to the Clouds Above ( Sample of part of the words of I Will I Know of Whitney Houston on the music of With gold Without you of U2).

Mylo vs Miami Sound Machine: Dr. Pressure (voice of Doctor Beat of Miami Sound Machine (sung by Gloria Estefan) on the music of " Drop The Pressure" of Mylo).

David Guetta vs The Egg - Don' T let me go (Walking away))

Mason vs Princess Superstar : Perfect Exceeder (words of Perfect of Princess Superstar on the music Exceeder de Mason)

One can also quote excel it " The Mash Up Mix 2007" by the DJ Marpol, which is a true masterpiece on the matter. It gathers two complete albums, and exhibe titles such as " Dirty Cash & Every Word" , " Walking One The Moon & Ghet' S Nocht".

DJ Cysy also proposes some titles: " DJ Cysy vs Dj Khaled - We taking looser " or " DJ Cysy - Big Orgus remix " and well of others…

However, these mashups and remixs not-official are seldom diffused officially, and one speaks for these (of any type, mashup or not) about Bootleg S because of the fact that they are diffused out of the trade-circuit (mainly by Internet or on " white label"). The expression bootleg which has other directions, by indicating for example the pirate recordings of lives. The term bootleg is used often more than mashup which is more one definition of a musical nature whereas bootleg can also indicate a nonofficial remix.

An emission on NRJ (Saturday of 20:00 to 21:00) of Loo & Placido is dedicated to the mashups, as well as the emission Zebramix on Oui FM by DJ Zebra (the week of 20:00 to 21:00 and saturdays of Minuit to 1:00).

1st Webradio 100% Bootlegs was launched on October 1st, 2007, with programming made up with 100% of Mashup, Bootlegs, it is entitled Maxxhits Bootlegs

Today, very little DJ launches out in this particular style.

See too

Remix
has cappella
Reprise again

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