#YOUTUBE MASHUP PLUS#
The Best of Bootie mashup compilation series is compiled and produced each year by A Plus D, creators of the international mashup club Bootie. Generation" also inspired the creation of "A.D.D", Israel's first mashup-dedicated party. The party's slogan, "Music for the A.D.D. Launched in San Francisco in 2003, Bootie was the first club night in the United States dedicated solely to the burgeoning art form of the bootleg mashup, and now hosts monthly parties in several cities around the globe, including Los Angeles, Paris, Boston, Munich, and New York City. Acts such as DJs from Mars and Mashd N Kutcher would go on to make mashups a huge part of their creative output. Mashups also helped launch the careers of acts such as Girl Talk and Madeon, with the latter’s “ Pop Culture” accruing more than 55 million views. American comedian Neil Cicierega used this method to produce his four mashup albums, Mouth Sounds, Mouth Silence, Mouth Moods and Mouth Dreams.ĭJ Earworm’s annual “ United States of Pop” mashups became season events, with his 2009 edition alone garnering critical acclaim as well as racking up more than 52 million views on YouTube. With the release of Rock Band in 2007 and its sequels later on, numerous mashup artists discovered that every song in the games had each instrument stored on separate tracks to each other, meaning that song instrumentals, acapellas and even individual instruments could easily be sampled and kept uncompressed and clear. The Grey Album, which mashed up recordings by Jay Z and The Beatles, also became notoriously popular. In 2001, Henry Mancini produced a mashup version of Every Breath You Take by The Police for the 27th Episode of The Sopranos ' Mr. Such hits include Linkin Park and Jay Z’s “ Numb/Encore”, Party Ben’s “ Boulevard of Broken Songs”, Alex Gaudino’s “ Destination Calabria”, and Mylo’s “ Doctor Pressure”. The mid-2000s saw a massive surge in popularity for the mashup, including single releases that climbed high into the dance charts and even the mainstream top-40 charts. 2 by Soulwax's Dewaele brothers, which combined 45 different tracks the same year a remix of Christina Aguilera's " Genie in a Bottle" was also released by Freelance Hellraiser, which coupled Aguilera's vocals with the guitar track of " Hard to Explain" by New York's the Strokes, in a piece called "A Stroke of Genie-us". The mashup movement gained momentum again in 2001 with the release of the 2 Many DJs album As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. The name Pop Will Eat Itself was taken from an NME feature on the band Jamie Wednesday, written by David Quantick, which proposed the theory that because popular music simply recycles good ideas continuously, the perfect pop song could be written by combining the best of those ideas into one track. The tracks gained some degree of notoriety on college radio stations in the United States.
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First released on home-made cassettes in early 1992, it was later pressed on 7" vinyl, and distributed by Eerie Materials in the mid-1990s. These "Whipped Cream Mixes" combined a pair of Public Enemy a cappellas with instrumentals by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. In 1994, the experimental band Evolution Control Committee released the first modern mashup tracks on their hand-made cassette album, Gunderphonic. The 1990 John Zorn album Naked City features a version of Ornette Coleman's " Lonely Woman" set over the bassline of Roy Orbison's " Pretty Woman". This recording has led some to describe Harry Nilsson as the inventor of the mashup. Nilsson conceived the combining of many overlaying songs into one track after he played a chord on his guitar and realized how many Beatles songs it could apply to.
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Nilsson's recording of "You Can't Do That" mashes his own vocal recreations of more than a dozen Beatles songs into this track.
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The 1967 Harry Nilsson album Pandemonium Shadow Show features what is nominally a cover of the Beatles' " You Can't Do That" but actually introduced the "mashup" to studio-recording.