MetaFilter posts tagged with mashups

Uptime/Downtime

flatluigi — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:48:49 -0800

The Kleptones, mashup artists behind previously-posted albums such as A Night At The Hip-Hopera and 24 Hours, have just released their newest entitled Uptime/Downtime. In a word, it rocks.

Did you know Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?

klangklangston — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:26:42 -0800

The Beatles never broke up.

Metamania will run wild over you

ollyollyoxenfree — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:56:49 -0800

Botchamania is a series of fan-created, professional wrestling video mashups that showcases the physical slip ups, bad commentary and interviews, and bizarre aspects of wrestling.

Twelve minutes, 101 songs.

flatluigi — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:59:19 -0800

Osymyso - "Intro-Inspection" (mp3) Also under Osymyso's long history of music-making: "Pat n' Peg" (mp3), made up of bits and pieces of Eastenders; "Fiver to Bigwig" (mp3), consisting of various pieces of rabbits; and "John's Not Mad" (no mp3), from the documentary of the same name.

shipping nerds, rejoice

lalex — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:41:17 -0800

"Now this is cool. Hellenic Shipping has a Google Maps mashup showing interactive, live data on the global shipping fleet." [via]

"I change the video... I change the music... I can do a lot of things."

Grimp0teuthis — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:42:57 -0800

Metafilter is certainly no stranger to music mashups, or even live music mashups, but a few artists are taking things a step further with live music and video mashups. Not prerecorded mashups of live music and video, but live performances of DJs (often calling themselves "VJs") mashing up music and video together on the fly. Here's the roster of artists I've found so far: Eclectic Method* - Live at NYCWTF 2009 DJ Le Clown Video Circus - Live at Transmusicales 2008 [long-loading, easily navigable flash interface] Mike Relm - At Youtube Live VJ Hi-Grade Thriftshop XL DVDJs Wanna catch these guys live? Most of the artists have tour dates listed in the above-linked websites, but you can also find info at Bootie [see left sidebar for more cities] and Node.London. Got skillz? Here are two introductory videos that explain what's going on. You might also want to brush up on your fair use. It seems like there are two ways these artists are doing it. The first is to keep the video and audio linked together, instead of mixing 2+ audio tracks and 2+ video tracks separately. For example, if you mix two music videos together, you're essentially dealing with two audio/video tracks instead of A + A + V + V, since the video part of a music video is already synced to the music on the DVDs you're using. The second way is to manage four totally separate streams of media, so that the VJ has to beatmatch the music as well as sync it with video, on the fly. This is more than just pre-show cutting and syncing videoclips together, though: one of the Eclectic Method folks mentioned that they often do it in near-real-time, taking just-aired TV and cutting and mixing it at their live shows. That second introductory video, above, also gives a sense of everything this method requires the VJ to manage. Inspiration for this post comes from Flatluigi's post on live looping. I wrote this as a separate post since it seemed like it would have been a derail. *Full disclosure: I've done some work for Eclectic Method, but it was pro bono and I am not a member of the group.

Mountain Blew Your Own Adventure

defenestration — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:45:38 -0800

Do Your Own Adventure with Sue Teller: Customizing Your Kicks & Making Mash-Ups. [Warning: Extremely Obvious Product Placement.] A bit elderly-say-the-darndest-things with viral ad written all over it, but I still chuckled. "I'm going to do a little design that I came up with when I was in the bathroom."

Viva La Pop

flatluigi — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:42:55 -0800

DJ Earworm does it again - Like last year, he's made a year-end mashup and accompanying video featuring the top 25 hits of the year (as calculated by Billboard). Can you name most of the songs included? Are you more or less hip than last year? Previously: last year's FPP, song, and video.

One Chants Out Between Two Worlds

Artifice_Eternity — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:33:19 -0800

Let's Rock Mashed In Plastic is a double album of mashups featuring music and audio from David Lynch's filmed work. Standouts, for me: "The Voice of Love Is Crying" and "The Elephant Connection".

Poetry mashups: These are not the beats you were looking for

mosk — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:22:03 -0800

I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after. See hover text for link descriptions. Acknowledgement/Mea Culpa: The T.S. Eliot/Portishead mashup was a previous FPP in its own right, (props, hypersloth!) but it fit so well with the other links that I included it in this FPP anyway.

Craigstistics

Korou — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:50:42 -0800

Craigslistindex graphs data pulled from Craigslist listings. On the front page you can compare the costs of different regions. Listed in further detail are: rental, real estate, auto, and overall pricings; as well as personal and job listings. (via Mashup Awards, more Craigslist Mashups)

"Every idea I ever had is based on the fact that it's 2:30 and there's a production meeting at 3:00."

not_on_display — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:32:01 -0800

In the introduction to his close friend's "Best of" DVD, Jack Lemmon says, "Ernie Kovacs was the funniest, wildest, zaniest man I ever knew. Ernie thought so, too, and so did millions of happy people. Ernie was all over television on one network or another from 1950 until he died in 1962. He had an unpredictable and illogical view of the world. He played with the medium of television in a way no one ever had before. And he created a batch of cockeyed characters that have become classics. So, slow down your internal clock; it was a more leisurely time, you know. Here's Ernie Kovacs." • Kovacsland Online and ErnieKovacs.net are great fansites. • So's The Ernie Kovacs Blog, which features scans of Ernie's contributions to MAD Magazine. • Here's another good web article. • A loving tribute page on OnlineNJ. (He was raised in Trenton.) Ernie would most likely have loved the advent of YouTube, so here are more clips from one of TIME magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All Time": • The famous Nairobi Trio sketch. • Milkos Molnar hosts The Howdee Deedee Show • Wolfgang Von Sauerbraten, DJ • News report from the Aesop Broadcasting Company • He did a series of groundbreaking commercials for Dutch Masters Cigars - 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 • Jolene's Weather Report (Hot and steamy, in case you were wondering.) • Here's our man singing a song with a few other stars on Dinah Shore's show • Ernie's epic fails as a What's My Line panelist: [Julie London; all panelists stumped] [Danny Thomas; Bennet Cerf FTW!] • Closing Credits • Youtuber terminusj likes to mash-up Kovacs' longer wordless or pantomime montages with whatever he can find, with awesome results. Here are a few examples: - Go Down Gambling (Blood Sweat & Tears) - I Believe in You (Talk Talk) - Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads) Bonus: more of Percy Dovetonsils' poetry! Frank Sinatra served as pallbearer Ernie Kovacs' funeral, the same day he recorded this Irving Berlin song, "When I Lost You".

Meant to be seen and heard, I say

flatluigi — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:00:30 -0800

You've listened, but have you watched? (note for the feedbeat sites: right-click anywhere for the menu.)

Seven!

Astro Zombie — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:23:09 -0800

You all remember the song from Sesame Street, but you've never heard it like this: one two three FOUR FIIIVE six seven EIGHT NIIINE TEN eleven TWELVE! (via). Se7en!

Is the whole better than the sum of its parts?

flatluigi — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:54:24 -0800

The 25 Most Popular Tracks of 2007, as calculated by Billboard and interpreted by DJ Earworm. I make no implications as to the quality of the best of 2007.

Double the songs for half the space!

flatluigi — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:19:18 -0800

Mashups are a genre of music in which one or more songs by other artists are mixed together into a (hopefully) better whole.

Music Blog Round-up

empath — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:16:29 -0800

Like free music? Like Blogs? Try putting them together: To start, search Hype Machine and Elbo.ws to find music you like. Then start following the links and blog-rolls, and before you know it, you'll have dozens of blogs just begging to give you songs to download. If you like indy dance music like I do, here are some blogs to get you started: Digital Eargasm, Missing Toof, Palms Out Sounds, These Rocks Pop, Kiss Atlanta, Resonator Magazine, Fluo Kids, Discobelle, Disconap

The Trouble with Tribbles, A Television Adaptation by Edward Gorey

Slithy_Tove — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:21:48 -0800

The Trouble with Tribbles, A Television Adaptation by Edward Gorey

Mash-ups that Rock

growabrain — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:02:00 -0800

Put Your Hands Up For Detroit - Silent film Dirty Dancing with music by Fedde La Grand (Slightly NSFW) and other successful mash-ups, including 8 1/2 Mile, an excellent Fellini’s / Eminem combo. (From a blog by "Mefi’s own" Ajit AP)

Flickrvision

psmealey — Mon, 14 May 2007 06:36:42 -0800

Flickervision (beta). Also, Twittervision.

Top 10 Mashups Hispanos de Google Maps

jlori — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:14:29 -0800

Top 10 Spanish Mashups of Google Maps Found on a great blog about maps: Tecnomaps.

You are thirsty. You want a beverage and you want it cheap.

mrgrimm — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:43:28 -0800

MappyHour is a Google Maps and happy-hour mashup. It includes mostly US cities, with decent Australian representation ... plus Paris, France and Windsor, Ontario. Sorry, direct city links don't seem to work.

bonk!

BrodieShadeTree — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:40:07 -0800

The web moves in wonderful ways. Case in point, must see mashups WeatherBonk.com and SkiBonk.com . If you are ski freak or weather geek, you will really find these pages useful. There's even a golfbonk in beta, if you are into it!

Coudal | Booking Bands

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:29:46 -0800

Coudal (you know) gets clever with book and band names.

Kill Harry

Gator — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:40:38 -0800

Kill Bill + Harry Potter = Kill Harry, featuring cameo appearances by Bender the robot, Bruce Campbell, and Zombie Rick James, bitch.