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What does it all mean?

2or3whiskeysodas — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:26:37 -0800

What does it all mean? In many ways, today's remix culture kicked off in earnest one weekend in 1983 when two ad men (one a recording engineer) spent a weekend in a studio crafting the first pop record made up entirely of samples in the hopes of winning a $100 remix contest. Although the record became a club hit, there was no way for it to be released commercially as there was no way to clear the 60+ samples within. Nonetheless, two followup records, Lesson 2 (James Brown Mix) and Lesson 3 (History of Hip Hop) were created. Both survived as bootlegs, with Lesson 3 never going out of print despite never being officially released. Until now. Emboldened by Girl Talk's success (and lack of litigation), Illegal Art has released a 2-CD retrospective of Steinski's work. It's amazing how fresh the early stuff sounds today. Bonus material: DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist & Steinski recreating The Lessons live: Part 1, Part 2 Steinski talks about the origins of The Lessons Download all three of The Lessons at waxy's blog Steinski on NPR's Sound Check Tangential bonus bonus material: Z-Trip's excellent Party for Change mix, which owes an obvious debt to Steinski's It's Up to You

Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream

nthdegx — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:53:08 -0800

"Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream is an OverClocked ReMix Album featuring free fan arrangements from the soundtrack to Square's legendary Final Fantasy VII for the Sony Playstation."

Raiding the 20th Century, 2005

mathowie — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:43:33 -0800

If you liked the Kleptones and other posts about mashups, you might have caught "raiding the 20th century" in early 2004. Well, DJ Food has completely updated it for 2005 and now clocks in at a full 59 minutes of monster mashup mix madness. Download the mp3 here and enjoy the eclectic sonic landscape.

mashups galore

mathowie — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:43:43 -0800

You like-a da mashups? Here, I give you mashups (about 40 of them to be exact).

Video game music is teh hotness

knave — Mon, 23 May 2005 15:22:49 -0800

VGMix is a site that hosts MP3s made by video game afficionados who have remixed the tunes from their favorite video games, old and new alike. Check out the releases page and try out a few songs. You can also search for songs by a particular game system, genre, specific game, etc. (Unfortunately, search seems broken for me right now, but it usually works!) The users generally provide extensive reviews that will help you sort out the great from the mediocre before downloading.

13 felony counts 13: we're all 138

mwhybark — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:02:05 -0800

"We wanted to be the store that your mother didn't want you to go to." Cult band leader Dale Lawrence covers the RIAA shutdown of an Indianapolis record store, Berry's Music, for "Selling DJ mix-CDs.". Lawrence has written about mashups for a few years now. Is he also a deejay?