Wednesday, February 14
“I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.”
—Naguib Mahfouz
Eric Prydz vs Pink Floyd - Proper Education (thanks, weezie)
Eric Prydz vs Pink Floyd - Proper Education (thanks, weezie)
Labels: mashup, music, quote, video
Tuesday, October 3
mashed beatles != bug paté
And not just Beatles; don’t worry, this isn’t some Grey Album strokefest, despite the props due to Ob-La-Teeth (Beatles vs. Obie Trice). And it’s not all rap-mash, either. Check out Comfortable Holiday (Scissor Sisters vs. Madonna) for a complete pop music mental breakdown; at BASS 211 DOT COM & DJ Tripp: 99 Boots But A Bitch Ain’t One! (thanks, sean, who recommends She Wants Animals: Ace of Base vs. NIN)
Labels: mashup
Sunday, February 12
a different kind of “mash-up”
These tunnel accidents appear to be non-fatal (or I’d not post them), and are hopefully only injurious to the pride of the at-fault drivers despite their dramatic nature. Ignore the music in this clip; in fact, put on the theme to The Benny Hill Show; it’s more appropriate. (thanks, timk)
Labels: mashup
Monday, June 13
music: pet sounds
Hippocamp’s “Pet Sounds” now be on Banned Music. It is a mash-up style project of the Beach Boys’s Pet Sounds with a reconsidered electronic setting.
Labels: mashup
Tuesday, May 31
i don’t disagree, as a generality
the problem with mash-ups... is that once you get past both “oh, that’s unexpected” and “that must have been difficult,” what you”re left with is a dj with really fucking terrible taste in music.Wikipedia on Mash-ups.
— jwz blog entry
Labels: mashup
Wednesday, November 17
gybo
If you need even more bastardpoppybits, check DJ Riko’s offerings. Riko gets a bit more oldschool than most mixes; right now I'm enjoying bits of Leave It mixed with heavy scratching. (.mp3) (via waxy)
Monday, May 24
reviews of international in-flight movies
JAL offers a personal entertainment screen with a bunch of crap games and a number of movies and TV shows for the long flight across the Pacific. It's about 10 hours from Japan to the US, and 11 hours returning. I don't sleep on airplanes at all, so I watched a lot of movies. ANA plays one set of movies going east, and a different set going west; JAL doesn't. I forgot this tiny fact, which means I watched most of the movies during the most tolerably short leg of the journey. (Note: All "title links" go to the IMDB listing)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Yeah, you know, I actually want to enjoy this movie when I eventually see it, so I didn't watch it on a 5-inch LED screen with poor contrast. It's in theaters now in Japan, so I'll check it there.
Something's Gotta Give: Better than I would have expected; plenty of witty dialog, not too many implausible situations, and reasonably thought provoking. Keanu almost holds his own against Diane Keaton playing herself and Jack Nicholson playing the standard Jack Nicholson character. Am I damning the movie with faint praise?
The Haunted Mansion: Hey, did I mention I just finished localizing the videogame, which is based on the ride, not the movie, and the movie is also based on the ride, so it's mainly a synergistically pleasing coincidence that the game benefits from the movie's release? Did I? Excepting Terence Stamp, Eddie Murphy is the BEST ACTOR in it. It's a horror movie for the whole family. Yeah.
Gothika: Total crap. I'm tempted to leave it there, but in fairness to the curiosity that this may cause in some, further explanation to advise against viewing is in order. This movie is a poorly organized, style-over-substance mish-mash of a half dozen other, better horror movies of recent years. I like Robert Downey, Jr. and Halle Berry, but their interaction is so forced and hard to believe, it undermines even the red-herring attempts the movie makes to throw at the viewer. Despite a number of non-sequitirs and unrealistic plot points, after an overwhelming amount of stilted dialog presented through a blue-tinged shot, the movie stumbles through to a completely predictable ending. Avoid this movie, as well as anyone who has anything positive to say about it.
Shattered Glass: This was the second-best in-flight movie of the bunch. I had heard about a reporter who had been caught fabricating his stories, but hadn't remembered the name, so what was likely no surprise to anyone who'd paid to see the movie was a complete stunner for me. The same thing happened to me when watching "A Beautiful Mind."
Kisarazu Cat's Eye Japan Series: Go Major: after seeing Ping Pong on a previous flight, I've been happy whenever I can watch a Japanese movie with subtitles, because professional translators frequently provide a more thorough translation than my limited language skills can. However even with English subtitles, this movie was hard to follow. Take a made-up rock band (at least I think they're less made up than Kishidan, who also appear in this movie), throw in Yakuza with racoon-dog statue time-bombs, Gomingo (a giant monster made of garbage that has been illegally dumped into the ocean), bikini-clad amazons who fish for crustaceans on their otherwise deserted island, then trade them for sex with the marooned Cat's Eye band, and a heavy dose of Japanese Maturi-damashi (Festival SOUL!), put it in a blender, and hit "frappé."
Michel Vaillant: For a French-language movie that I watched through reading the Japanese subtitles, this was a surprisingly engaging movie. I think my head was filling in a lot of gaps with story that may have been more interesting than what was actually happening though, so if you can find it dubbed in Bulgarian or East Elbonian, I recommend it.
One Piece: The Cursed Sword: (link goes to TV series' page) I couldn't deal with more than five minutes of this thing. Good grief. I remember when I was a kid, I'd have given my milk money to see more anime than was available then. Now I can't be bothered to watch it for free.
Enter the Dragon: The best movie of the flight; it suffered only from age and budget issues. Bruce Lee's undeniable charisma somehow couldn't prevent him from sharing equal billing with John Saxon in this excellent movie. Writing this, I have just now become overwhelmed with dread that it is most likely in the remake pipe in Hollywood.
Notting Hill: Richard Curtis has been a personal hero in humor for me since Blackadder and the best Dr. Who, EVAR. I'll watch just about anything he's done, but hadn't realized that he'd written this movie until seeing it. It isn't nearly as charming as "Love Actually," but overcoming the hollywood nature of Julia Roberts is nearly enough of a recommendation for any movie. Side note: I picked up Blackadder co-writer Ben Elton's "Blast from the Past" at a used-bookstore on this trip.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Yeah, you know, I actually want to enjoy this movie when I eventually see it, so I didn't watch it on a 5-inch LED screen with poor contrast. It's in theaters now in Japan, so I'll check it there.
Something's Gotta Give: Better than I would have expected; plenty of witty dialog, not too many implausible situations, and reasonably thought provoking. Keanu almost holds his own against Diane Keaton playing herself and Jack Nicholson playing the standard Jack Nicholson character. Am I damning the movie with faint praise?
The Haunted Mansion: Hey, did I mention I just finished localizing the videogame, which is based on the ride, not the movie, and the movie is also based on the ride, so it's mainly a synergistically pleasing coincidence that the game benefits from the movie's release? Did I? Excepting Terence Stamp, Eddie Murphy is the BEST ACTOR in it. It's a horror movie for the whole family. Yeah.
Gothika: Total crap. I'm tempted to leave it there, but in fairness to the curiosity that this may cause in some, further explanation to advise against viewing is in order. This movie is a poorly organized, style-over-substance mish-mash of a half dozen other, better horror movies of recent years. I like Robert Downey, Jr. and Halle Berry, but their interaction is so forced and hard to believe, it undermines even the red-herring attempts the movie makes to throw at the viewer. Despite a number of non-sequitirs and unrealistic plot points, after an overwhelming amount of stilted dialog presented through a blue-tinged shot, the movie stumbles through to a completely predictable ending. Avoid this movie, as well as anyone who has anything positive to say about it.
Shattered Glass: This was the second-best in-flight movie of the bunch. I had heard about a reporter who had been caught fabricating his stories, but hadn't remembered the name, so what was likely no surprise to anyone who'd paid to see the movie was a complete stunner for me. The same thing happened to me when watching "A Beautiful Mind."
Kisarazu Cat's Eye Japan Series: Go Major: after seeing Ping Pong on a previous flight, I've been happy whenever I can watch a Japanese movie with subtitles, because professional translators frequently provide a more thorough translation than my limited language skills can. However even with English subtitles, this movie was hard to follow. Take a made-up rock band (at least I think they're less made up than Kishidan, who also appear in this movie), throw in Yakuza with racoon-dog statue time-bombs, Gomingo (a giant monster made of garbage that has been illegally dumped into the ocean), bikini-clad amazons who fish for crustaceans on their otherwise deserted island, then trade them for sex with the marooned Cat's Eye band, and a heavy dose of Japanese Maturi-damashi (Festival SOUL!), put it in a blender, and hit "frappé."
Michel Vaillant: For a French-language movie that I watched through reading the Japanese subtitles, this was a surprisingly engaging movie. I think my head was filling in a lot of gaps with story that may have been more interesting than what was actually happening though, so if you can find it dubbed in Bulgarian or East Elbonian, I recommend it.
One Piece: The Cursed Sword: (link goes to TV series' page) I couldn't deal with more than five minutes of this thing. Good grief. I remember when I was a kid, I'd have given my milk money to see more anime than was available then. Now I can't be bothered to watch it for free.
Enter the Dragon: The best movie of the flight; it suffered only from age and budget issues. Bruce Lee's undeniable charisma somehow couldn't prevent him from sharing equal billing with John Saxon in this excellent movie. Writing this, I have just now become overwhelmed with dread that it is most likely in the remake pipe in Hollywood.
Notting Hill: Richard Curtis has been a personal hero in humor for me since Blackadder and the best Dr. Who, EVAR. I'll watch just about anything he's done, but hadn't realized that he'd written this movie until seeing it. It isn't nearly as charming as "Love Actually," but overcoming the hollywood nature of Julia Roberts is nearly enough of a recommendation for any movie. Side note: I picked up Blackadder co-writer Ben Elton's "Blast from the Past" at a used-bookstore on this trip.
Labels: mashup
Wednesday, May 5
rebel never gets old
Killer Bowie mash-up (iTunes Music store link) by Go Home Productions, available "legitimately" through iTMS.
Plus: Reset Music, another mashup site. (via Thousand-faced Moon)
Update: Wired article on bootleg backlash against bowie's co-opting of the form for self-promotion. (via futurismic)
Plus: Reset Music, another mashup site. (via Thousand-faced Moon)
Update: Wired article on bootleg backlash against bowie's co-opting of the form for self-promotion. (via futurismic)
Wednesday, April 28
a long time ago, in a frontier... no, wait
Wednesday, April 14
bwana requests that you go
Monday, March 29
more mash-up
Jay-Z and Metallica: Black on Black (DJ Halfred): "Announcing the release of Black On Black, a full-length reinterpretation of Jay-Z's Black Album, as seen through the lense of Metallica's Black Album." I'm happy to see so much copyright-protest art happening, but I'm getting a little sick of Jay-Z. Well, not quite as sick as I became of mash-ups using Missy Elliot's "Work It," but close.
Labels: mashup
Saturday, March 6
i'm just sharing the pain
William Shatner's cover of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, mash-up-videotized via Star Trek meets Terry Gilliam meets Yellow Submarine. And Lucille Ball.
Terror Alert Level has been upped to "Shatner"
Terror Alert Level has been upped to "Shatner"
Labels: mashup
Wednesday, February 18
bootie: psa
Bastard Pop is the mixing of two or more songs with each other, and/or adding new content to the mix. This is still just catching on in the US, from what I hear, as opposed to Europe where it is old news. The recent, oppressive activities on the part of copyright industry are likely to blame. Or maybe there are just so many versions of Missy Elliot's "Work It" that the average human can hear on the road to finding gems like Freelance Hellraiser's "Just Can't Get Enough Pills," Dsico's "Block Rockin' Woman," or the anonymous, joyful Eminem vs. Magnum P.I. mashup "Without Magnum." To those humans, I feel their pain, but say unto them keep digging long enough, and you will find gold.
Friends in San Francisco have been able to attend BOOTIE! (photos, photos, photos) - a club event championing this outlaw music form. The last one was on Feb. 10th, and the next one will be Wednesday, March 10, Cherry Bar & Lounge. There's also a new club thing starting (from the maillist): "And for those of you looking for a little mash-up fix before our next BOOTIE party on , be sure to come to the GRAND OPENING of our new club, GUILTY. GUILTY is happening this FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 -- and every Friday after that -- at the STUD, at 9th & Harrison in San Francisco. It's being presented by ourselves, along with Suppositori Spelling, and it's gonna be a "bastard pop rock electro hiphop whatever" party. Mr. Anthony from Glama-Rama will also be spinning. Adrian and the Mysterious D will be sure to throw quite a few mash-ups into their sets!"
I'd go if I could, but I'm not even on the right continent. (thanks, astra)
Friends in San Francisco have been able to attend BOOTIE! (photos, photos, photos) - a club event championing this outlaw music form. The last one was on Feb. 10th, and the next one will be Wednesday, March 10, Cherry Bar & Lounge. There's also a new club thing starting (from the maillist): "And for those of you looking for a little mash-up fix before our next BOOTIE party on , be sure to come to the GRAND OPENING of our new club, GUILTY. GUILTY is happening this FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 -- and every Friday after that -- at the STUD, at 9th & Harrison in San Francisco. It's being presented by ourselves, along with Suppositori Spelling, and it's gonna be a "bastard pop rock electro hiphop whatever" party. Mr. Anthony from Glama-Rama will also be spinning. Adrian and the Mysterious D will be sure to throw quite a few mash-ups into their sets!"
I'd go if I could, but I'm not even on the right continent. (thanks, astra)
Monday, January 26
dsico sux
My very favorite mash-up/bootie deejay, DSICO (that no talent hack) says his whole Bootie of Choice and I'm Not a Retard albums are available for download.
Labels: mashup
