...Bippity Boppity Boo
August 7th 2008 05:15
OK – back to that tired old subject of “the familiar…” it never ceases to amaze me how, this century, we seem to want to hear something we already know before we think we can get a handle on something that is trying to pass itself off as something new.
The current fad of mash-up is perhaps not so current as one might like to imagine it is. It appears that yet more DJ/Producers are taking sound bites of old standards and mixing them together to produce something “new”. The process and technology might be somewhat different in 2008 but I think we can all remember much the same thing happening in 1988 when “House” music first made it’s appearance in clubs and we would thrill to the sound of a 70’s disco favourite or two layered over a midi sequenced rhythm track thus giving something that was considered very “old hat”, a bit of a renaissance.
This new genre appears to be a tad cleverer than it’s predecessors.
The “producers” or “bootleggers” (as some label themselves) appear to be having some fun putting together unlikely bedfellows - particularly when vaguely similar musical structure is used as the marrying premise, rather than aesthetic, the end result can be unexpected and amusing.
It’s about time some humour was brought to popular music, the posturing and egocentric self importance associated with everything that’s considered “hip”, has become tedious beyond belief so even if the process itself is not entirely new, it still gets a good mark for giving us a giggle!
The current fad of mash-up is perhaps not so current as one might like to imagine it is. It appears that yet more DJ/Producers are taking sound bites of old standards and mixing them together to produce something “new”. The process and technology might be somewhat different in 2008 but I think we can all remember much the same thing happening in 1988 when “House” music first made it’s appearance in clubs and we would thrill to the sound of a 70’s disco favourite or two layered over a midi sequenced rhythm track thus giving something that was considered very “old hat”, a bit of a renaissance.
The “producers” or “bootleggers” (as some label themselves) appear to be having some fun putting together unlikely bedfellows - particularly when vaguely similar musical structure is used as the marrying premise, rather than aesthetic, the end result can be unexpected and amusing.
It’s about time some humour was brought to popular music, the posturing and egocentric self importance associated with everything that’s considered “hip”, has become tedious beyond belief so even if the process itself is not entirely new, it still gets a good mark for giving us a giggle!
a spoon full of sugar is SO Ra-Sha-Sha
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