Mash up Podcast

Mash up music is a generally new style of music. Mash up music is when an artist takes clips, instrumentals, etc., of a whole bunch of different songs and throws it together into one fluent sounding song. Its rising goes hand and hand with the evolutions of music. In our podcast we talk about DJ Earworm a lot. The reason for that is because he displays perfectly what a mash up can do at its finest. He does this because at the end of every year since 2007, he has released a new “Unites states of Pop” song. It is a mash up of the top 25 songs of the year according to billboard magazine.

Now don’t get me wrong, he isn’t the first and he isn’t the only artist that does mash ups. The philosophy of mash up music has its origins in the cut-up poetry of Jack Kerouac. Early artists used tape splicing and manual editing to create remixes. The remixing of disco was the origin of house music. Soon, though, the hardware available could not match the demand for chopped and rearranged musical elements. Only after computerized software di the art form come into maturity.

Greg Gillis, who goes by “Girl Talk” is greatly accredited for the creation what is now known as mash up. Greg Gillis released his first mash up CD in 2002, called “Secret Diary.” Its very different from what he now puts out because, as a stated before, the change in technology made things a whole lot easier and increased the ability to make mash ups more enjoyable.

Something unique about mash ups is, that if two artists where to take the same handful of songs, the two mash up results that come out would be completely different from each other. This is because the way the mash ups are built. The artists would take different snippets from the same song and find two different places to put it in their track to where they think that it would work better. That is one of the greatest things about mash up music. Beauty is truly in the ears of the creator.