Remix culture
Standard listening procedure here at Chez Ahlan denotes treading carefully to find songs that fit within categories that what we already know we like (the time-suck of listening to songs you don’t end up enjoying is that much more painful) and once a winner is found, playing said winner into a mp3 pulp. I’ve got to branch out more in my music discovery.
The latest to go through this spin-until-drop-dead repeat cycle is a mashup from the Hood Internet, which Alyssa Rosenberg’s blog turned me on to. THI remixes and mashes prolifically, releasing individual tracks once a week, and then compilation volumes that turn into nifty (and automatic) party mixes.
Good Ol’Fashioned Rump Shaker is a mix up the Beastie Boys and Matt & Kim. To show you how single-oriented minded I am, I mistook the Matt & Kim song in the backgroundfor “Daylight” (seen in that Bacardi commercial) instead of “Good Ol’ Fashioned Nightmare”.
The song shows why in hip-hop, the sample is make-or-break. Beastie Boys are a few years too old for my music background, but put a sample that sounds familiar, just enough to catch my ear, and I’m newly impressed by the Beastie Boys.
1. How are we friends, and yet you are only now discovering the Hood Internet? I have failed thee.
1a. Personal matyr cause – dear Hood Internet, mash-up Britney Spear’s “Toxic” with Florence + the Machine’s “Howl.” Do it! Do it! Do it!
2. Paul’s Boutique is a masterpiece of sampling, first because you listen to “Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun” only to realize that’s the sample Massive Attack uses in “Angel,” second because overall it sounds a lot like what tons of Brooklyn et al DJs are trying to replicate now, and third because it’s from 19-fucking-89.
3. I love sampling. I could write epic treatises on the subject.
(Can I delete my first comment in favor of this one, now with actual facts and correct spellings of words? *grovels*?)
1. How are we friends, and yet you are only now discovering the Hood Internet? I have failed thee.
1a. Personal martyr cause – dear Hood Internet, mash up Britney Spear’s “Toxic” with Florence + the Machine’s “Howl.” Do it! Do it! Do it!
2. Paul’s Boutique is a masterpiece of sampling: first, because when you listen to “Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun” you realize that that’s the same sample Massive Attack uses in (among others) “Angel” and “Teardrop”; second, because overall it sounds a lot like what tons of Brooklyn et al DJs are trying to replicate now; and third, because it’s from 19-fucking-89.
3. I love sampling. I could write epic treatises on the subject. Like how when I found out that my favorite track on the Skins soundtrack, by Tricky, used the sample from Portishead’s “Glory Box” with is – surprise! actually a Marvin Gaye song? Amazing.
2. I’m taking this as a straight up rec, considering the Hood Internet oversight. It should be noted most of my mashup-knowledge at all comes in some way from the combination of you + internet