Mashuptown
Contributions made to the mashup/bootleg/bastard pop music blog Mashuptown.
- Lindstrøm vs. Jim Jones mashed by The Hood Internet’s ABX ()
The Hood Internet have long since been two of my favorite bootleggers, and it kind of feels like they were finally accepted into mashup culture (if there is such a thing) around the end of 2008. After A plus D teamed up with the duo to host the first ever Bootie Chicago in late-October I was lead […]
- Gloria Jones vs. Soft Cell mashed by Copycat ()
While being one of the most obvious approached to mashups, combining multiple renditions of the same song is so rarely used, let alone used and done well. In 2006 when A plus D combined Nelly Furtado’s cover of “Crazy” with Gnarls Barkley’s original, the song blew me away–it worked so well, I couldn’t believe that […]
- The Police vs. Duffy mashed by Mighty Mike ()
With “Mercy for Roxanne” French bootlegger Mighty Mike takes two songs which have been greatly over-mashed on their own, and perfectly combines them into flowing track that puts Duffy’s “Mercy” into a more fitting context of 1978. The producer has been on a tear the past few months, with one of his best mashups, “Beggin’ […]
- New MTown Producer Alert! DJ STV SLV ()
As the internet grows it continues to develop its own unique sects, niches and cliques. Two such groups that have sprung up within the broad music blogosphere include sites dedicated towards the ever-vague terms indie rock and hip hop. One site, The Hood Internet, has found equal ground between the cultures using the atypical bootleg model […]
- Clive$ter’s “Together Undone” ()
Though far from a stranger to Mashuptown DJ Clive$ter is a fresh name to me, and fresh is the truth when speaking of his “Together Undone” boot which was released last month. For the better part of the song there’s little inclusion of Eric B & Rakim’s “Paid in Full” but when the classic rhyme […]