Bastard pop is a musical genre which, in its purest form, consists of the combination (usually by digital means) of the music from one song with the a cappella from another. Typically, the music and vocals belong to completely different genres. At their best, bastard pop songs strive for musical epiphanies that add up to considerably more than the sum of their parts. Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. ...

The first flyer for Bastard, a regular bastard pop night held at the Asylum club in London. Image courtesy of Douglas Pledger.

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Synonyms

Bastard pop is known by a number of different names, including:

• Bootlegs (AKA Boots or Booties)
• Mashups (or Mash-ups)
• Blends
• Cutups (or Cut-ups)

In addition, more traditional terms such as "edits" or (unauthorized) "remixes" are favored by many "bootleggers" (also known as 'leggers). A bootleg recording is a audio or video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority. ...

History

Though the term "bastard pop" first became popular in 2001, the practice of assembling new songs from purloined elements of other tracks stretches back at least to the '50s, and, if one extends the definition beyond the realm of pop, precursors can be found in Musique concrète, as well as the classical practice of (re-)arranging traditional folk material and the jazz tradition of reinterpreting standards. In addition, many elements of bastard pop culture have antecedents in hip hop and the DIY ethic of punk. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Tape music. ... Jazz standard refers to a tune that is widely known, performed, and recorded among jazz musicians. ... Hip hop music (also referred to as rap or rap music) is a style of popular music. ... DIY stands for do it yourself, as opposed to paying a professional to do it for you. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...

Precursors

Classical

It is difficult to anatomize the practice of musical larceny without undertaking to write the entire history of both classical and popular music, but the appropriation of traditional songs, in particular folk music, has long been a popular pastime among classical composers. Well-known examples include Canteloube's orchestral arrangement of folk songs from the Auvergne region of France, Chants d'Auvergne, and Benjamin Britten's weaving of the ancient round "Sumer is Icumen In" into Spring Symphony. "Variation" (as in "Variations on a theme by ... ") is one of the many names given to this classical form of "remixing", and a popular 20th century example of this is Andrew Lloyd Webber's reinterpretation of a theme by Paganini, Variations. Other modern classical analogues include Gavin Bryars' orchestral embellishment of a "found" impromptu hymn sung by a tramp, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, and Apocalyptica's chamber reinterpretations of the songs of Metallica. While these examples are not always strictly illegitimate, they capture the sense of genre collision (A v B) characteristic of bastard pop. Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (1879 - November 4, 1957), was a French composer. ... Auvergne coat of arms Auvergne (Occitan: Auvèrnha) was the name of an historically independent county in the center of France, as well as later a province of France. ... Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, OM (November 22, 1913 – December 4, 1976) was a British composer, conductor and pianist. ... A round is a musical composition in which two or more voices sing exactly the same melody, beginning at different times. ... Sumer Is Icumen In is a traditional English round, and possibly the oldest such example of counterpoint in existence. ... In music, variation is a formal technique where material is altered during repetition; reiteration with changes. ... Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful British composer of musical theatre. ... Niccolò Paganini Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini, (October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist and composer. ... Richard Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bass player that can be related to experimental music, avant-garde, neoclassicism, and ambient. ... Perttu Kivilaakso, Apocalyptica live 2003 Apocalyptica is a Finnish music band consisting of three (formerly four) classically-trained cellists and, for a couple of years, a drummer. ... Metallica is an American metal band formed in October 1981. ...

"The Flying Saucer"

In 1956, Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman caused a musical sensation by releasing the first mainstream bastard pop single (though they referred to it as a "break-in" song, i.e. material from one song would "break-in" to another), "The Flying Saucer". The track, a reinterpretation of Orson Welles' celebrated War of the Worlds mock-emergency broadcast interspliced with musical snippets comically dramatizing the portentous patter of the announcer, spawned a raft of imitations and quickly became a craze, only to pass into oblivion within the space of a year. Bill Buchanan was a songwriter. ... Dickie Goodman (1934 - 1988) is considered one of the earliest proponents of sampling in music, through a series of break-in records he created from 1956 to 1986. ... Orson Welles in March 1937 George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was a director of film and the theatre, as well as an actor, screenwriter, broadcaster and producer. ... The War of the Worlds, a radio adaptation by Orson Welles based upon H. G. Wells classic novel, was performed by Mercury Theatre on the Air as a Halloween special on October 30, 1938. ... Patter is a glib rapid speech, that accompanies and comments some actions, e. ...

Novelty records

There have been a number of novelty records and one-off hits that have included uncleared samples. The song "Your Woman" by White Town features an uncredited sample from a 1932 song of the same name taken from the soundrack of the Dennis Potter series Pennies From Heaven. [1] Other notable one-off bootlegs include DNA's dance remix of Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner" (1990) and "You Got The Love" by The Source featuring Candi Staton (1991). White Town is a techno-pop act (actually only one man, Jyoti Mishra, born in Rourkela, India, on July 30, 1966; Mishra has lived in England since the age of three), often regarded as a one-hit wonder for its 1997 song Your Woman, which sampled a 1930s song called... Liber Amoris Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935—7 June 1994) was a controversial British dramatist who is best known for several widely acclaimed television dramas which mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. ... Pennies From Heaven is a 1978 BBC Television drama serial by the highly-regarded television playwright Dennis Potter. ... DNA was the pseudonym taken by two British dance producers for a remix of Suzanne Vegas Toms Diner. They have since taken the name The DNA Disciples to avoid confusion with the no wave band, and have produced a second Suzanne Vega remix, Rusted Pipe. ... Suzanne Vega Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American songwriter and singer known for her poetic lyrics and eclectic folk-inspired music. ... The real Toms Restaurant also appeared in Seinfeld. ... See also: 1989 in music, 1990 in British music, other events of 1990, 1991 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 21 - MTVs Unplugged premieres on cable television with musical guest, Squeeze February 6 - Billy Idol is involved in a serious motorcycle... The Source is producer John Truelove. ... Candi Staton (born Canzetta Maria Staton on March 13, 1940, in Hanceville, Alabama) is an American gospel singer. ... See also: 1990 in music, other events of 1991, 1992 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // Events 1991 was the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough. ...

In the '80s, Dutch producer Jaap Eggermont produced a series of records which almost constitute the dictionary definition of "novelty" in the form of the Stars on 45 series. These records attempted to cram as many hits as possible into the space of a three and a half minute pop song, and are perhaps more accurately described as medleys. Though these singles have never received critical plaudits, the medley idea would later resurface in a more respectable form (for instance Coldcut's "Beats and Pieces"), and, moreover, the deliberately humorous tone of the "Stars on 45" singles has not entirely disappeared. Many bastard pop songs have been produced in jest, with the emphasis very firmly on satire, "irresistible" puns, or unadulterated throwaway fun. Stars on 45 were a Dutch novelty pop act that was briefly very popular in the UK, Europe and the US in the very early 1980s. ... Jonathan Moore (left) & Matt Black Coldcut is a duo comprising English DJs Matt Black and Jonathan Moore. ...

Frank Zappa

In the 1970s, Frank Zappa developed a technique he called "xenochrony" in which a guitar solo was extracted from its original context and placed into a completely different song -- essentially bastard pop for guitar rather than vocals. His recording engineer referred to this as "the Ampex guitar". The solo in the title song of his rock opera Joe's Garage (1979) is one of the more obvious examples of Zappa's xenochrony. Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, guitarist, singer, film director, and satirist. ... Xenochrony is a studio-based musical technique developed in the 1970s by Frank Zappa. ... Joes Garage is a 1979 triple LP rock opera by Frank Zappa, featuring such memorably offensive tunes as Catholic Girls, a sequel to Jewish Princess. ...

John Oswald

John Oswald has been devising illegitimate compositions since the late '60s. His 1975 track "Power" married frenetic Led Zeppelin guitars to the impassioned exhortations of a Southern US evangelist at least 10 years before hip hop discovered the potency of the same (and related) ingredients. Similarly, his 1990 track "Vane", which pitted two different versions of the song "You're So Vain" (the Carly Simon original and a cover by Faster Pussycat) against each other, was a blueprint for the contemporary bastard pop subgenre, glitch pop. Oswald coined the term "plunderphonics" to describe his illegitimate craft. In 1993, he released Plexure. Arguably his most ambitious composition to date, it attempted to microsample the history of CD music up to that point (1982 - 1992) in a 20 minute collage of bewildering complexity. The ambition of this piece would later be recalled by the British bootlegger Osymyso, whose "Intro-Inspection" captured the pop-junkie feel of Plexure. Osymyso, who at the time was unaware of Oswald's work, used the same structure of an accelerando (arranging his source material in order from the slowest tempo to the fastest), to link a few bars each of 100 songs, creating a simpler sound than the thousands of overlapping and morphing pop "electroquotations" in Plexure. John Oswald (born May 30, 1953 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, photographer, and dancer. ... Led Zeppelin was a British rock band that became one of the most successful and influential groups in popular music history. ... The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ... Hip hop music (also referred to as rap or rap music) is a style of popular music. ... Youre So Vain is a song written by and performed by Carly Simon in 1972. ... Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945 in New York City) is an American musician who emerged as one of the leading lights of the early 1970s singer-songwriter boom. ... Faster Pussycat. ... Plunderphonics is a term originally coined by John Oswald in 1985 for an essay entitled Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Osymyso is a musician from the United Kingdom who specializes in the bastard pop genre. ... Intro-Inspection is a bastard pop song by Osymyso. ...

Negativland

Though Negativland are seldom acknowledged as musical antecedents of bastard pop, lacking perhaps the "smile factor" (i.e. sense of fun) many contemporary practitioners seek in their craft, their struggle against various forms of "censorship" (in their terms) and legal coercion (for instance, their single "U2" was one of the first pieces of music to be deemed "illegal" for its use of unauthorised samples) has made them poster children for some bastard pop commentators who approach the issue from a more critical perspective, and with an eye to the complicated cultural issues raised by both accidental and deliberate plundering within music and culture generally. Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. ...

The JAMs and The KLF

In the wake of these somewhat academic explorations, two British pranksters, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, entered the arena in 1987 with an album of plunderphony which, while still serving as a critical reflection on the nature of pop music and the power and potential of the sampler, upped the ante by being (almost) music one could dance to as well as think about. Their debut album, released under the name The JAMs, 1987 (What The Fuck Is Going On?), was banned (thanks to its raft of uncleared samples, most notably the bulk of ABBA's "Dancing Queen"), and a number of the songs have the same "laptop punk" "anyone can do it" attitude that characterizes bastard pop today. The JAMs morphed into The KLF in 1988 and continued to pursue the same art-prankster agenda, most notably with their number 1 hit (under the name The Timelords), "Doctorin' The Tardis". William E. Drummond (Bill Drummond) (born April 29, 1953, Butterworth, Cape Town, South Africa[1]) is a Scottish musician, music industry figure, writer and artist. ... James Cauty, Jimmy or Jimi, also known as Rockman Rock, was born in Devon, England in 1956 and not much is known about him until, as a 17-year old artist, he painted a popular Lord of the Rings poster (and later, a counterpart based on The Hobbit) for Athena. ... The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu is one of the two protagonist secret societies in the Illuminatus! series of books by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. ... 1987 (What The Fuck Is Going On?) was the debut album by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs) and a landmark release in the early history of sampling. ... Look up Abba in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The KLF - also known by various other names including The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords, The K Foundation, and 2K - were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Doctorin the Tardis The Timelords was the name used by UK sampling outfit The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu for their 1988 novelty pop single Doctorin the Tardis, a No. ...

Double Dee and Steinski

Though the JAMs grazed the charts and The KLF, for a while at least, practically dominated them, illegitimate pop had remained largely an underground affair since the original "break-in" craze swept the US in 1956.

Working under the name Steinski, New York copywriter, DJ and self-confessed record junkie Steve Stein began (in conjunction with engineer and fellow studio boffin Doug "Double Dee" DiFranco) the next chapter in the evolution of illicit pop by producing a trio of underground 12" singles (entitled "Lesson 1" (1983), "Lesson 2" (1984) and "Lesson 3" (1985)) which exerted a powerful influence on an entire generation of "samplists" and continues to be cited to this day as a landmark in the history of "sampledelica". Indeed one can trace a line from Double Dee and Steinski through Coldcut's "Say Kids What Time Is It?" (which begat Bomb The Bass' "Beat Dis", which, in turn, begat LA Mix's "Check This Out") to DJ Shadow (who paid his dues on a track entitled "Lesson 4") and The Avalanches - and (through M/A/R/R/S' "Pump Up The Volume") to Black Box, whose "Ride on Time" spread the gospel of uncleared sample wizardry far and wide, from the depths of the underground to the top of the charts. Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq. ... A copywriter is a person who writes text, or copy, for clients. ... DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ... Jonathan Moore (left) & Matt Black Coldcut is a duo comprising English DJs Matt Black and Jonathan Moore. ... Bomb the Bass was the creation of the British musician Tim Simenon. ... Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow, (born January 1, 1973 in Hayward, CA) is a turntablist musician. ... The Avalanches are an electronic music collective from Melbourne, Australia. ... MARRS (or M/A/R/R/S) was a one-off recording act from 1987 whose sole release was the single Pump Up The Volume, which was a UK number one hit and a significant milestone in the development of British house music and sampling culture. ... Black Box was an Italian house music group popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...

DJ subscription services

In the 1970s, Disconet established the first DJ-only remix service. By the '80s, this had blossomed into a thriving underground scene, and a number of remixers, working for DJ-only subscription services such as X-MiX, Hottracks, Razormaid, Wicked Mix, Mixx-It, Ultimixx, and the DMC (Disco Mix Club), produced a string of white label remixes that layered samples of other songs - and even whole acapellas - over contemporary hits. White label records are 12 vinyl records with plain white label stickers. ...

Emergency Broadcast Network

In 1995, Emergency Broadcast Network released "3:7:8", the first exclusively video sample based song. Emergency Broadcast Network is the name of a multimedia performance group. ...

The three Rhode Island School of Design graduates - Joshua Pearson, Gardner Post and Ron O'Donnell - released their self-titled video on TVT Records. It combined video and audio samples of politicians and celebrities in such an artful way that U2, despite their earlier skirmish with Negativland, invited them to accompany them on their Zoo TV Tour as video artists. The Rhode Island School of Design (commonly abbreviated RISD and pronounced RIZ-dee) is one of the premier fine arts institutions in the United States. ... U2 are an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals, rhythm guitar, and occasionally harmonica; The Edge (David Howell Evans) on lead guitar, keyboards and backing vocals; Adam Clayton on bass guitar; and Larry Mullen, Jr. ... Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. ... Zoo TV was a massive, elaborate, innovative, postmodern, multifaceted and multimedia, and very commercially successful world concert tour by the rock band U2 that took place in arenas and stadiums during 1992 and 1993. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Evolution Control Committee

In 1996, the experimental band Evolution Control Committee produced what are widely credited as being the first modern bastard pop tracks. Their "Whipped Cream Mixes" combined a pair of Public Enemy acapellas with instrumentals by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. An experimental music band from Columbus, Ohio founded by Mark Gunderson in the 1980s, the Evolution Control Committee (ECC) typically uses uncleared and illegal samples from various sources as a form of protest against copyright law. ... Public Enemy, also known as PE, is a seminal hip hop group known for their politically charged lyrics, criticism of the media and active interest in the concerns of the African American community. ... Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass debut album, The Lonely Bull. ...

The 1999 Eminem album The Slim Shady LP served as an early inspiration for the burgeoning bastard pop movement, as the acapella vocals from the track "My Name Is" were combined with the music of many other artists, including "Back in Black" by AC/DC and "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Upon joining Aftermath Entertainment, Eminem released The Slim Shady LP, which would eventually be certified 4x platinum. ... AC/DC is a hard rock band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973 by rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young and his brother, lead guitarist Angus Young. ... Robert Matthew Vanilla Ice Van Winkle (born October 31, 1968 in Dallas, Texas) is an American rapper, known today for the single Ice Ice Baby that topped the charts beginning in the early-1990s (see 1990s in music). ...

Renaissance

2 many dj's and "A Stroke of Genie-us"

Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle", from her debut album Christina Aguilera, provided the vocals for Freelance Hellraiser's "A Stroke of Genie-us" bootleg in 2001.

The name Pop Will Eat Itself was shamelessly stolen 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. Hence, Pop Will Eat Itself. [2]

The movement gained momentum again in 2001 with the release of two seminal landmarks: the 2 many dj's album, by Soulwax's Dewaele brothers, which combined 45 different tracks in a frenzied vindication of the "pop will eat itself" prophesy, and a remix by Freelance Hellraiser of Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle" which coupled the (then) demure pop princess with the raucous guitars of New York's The Strokes in an infectious concoction entitled "A Stroke of Genie-us". This track became one of the most talked about underground hits of 2001, and was featured in many "best of" lists at the end of the year. This is an album cover. ... This is an album cover. ... Christina Maria Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is a Grammy Award winning, American, singer-songwriter, pop, R&B, megastar. ... Christina Aguilera is the self-titled debut album of pop singer Christina Aguilera. ... The Freelance Hellraiser (née Roy Kerr) is one of the most respected creators of the UK bootleg scene. ... See also: 2000 in music, 2001 in music (UK), other events of 2001, 2002 in music, 2000s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 1 - Comeback of Guns N Roses in House of Blues January 1 - Hum disbands. ... Pop Will Eat Itself (also known as PWEI or the Poppies) was a band formed in Stourbridge, England with band members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. ... The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a music magazine in the UK which has been published weekly since March 1952. ... Jamie Wednesday was a British 80s jangle-pop band that released eight songs on three records between 1985 and 1987. ... David Quantick (born 1961, Wortley, South Yorkshire) is a freelance journalist, writer and critic who specialises in music and comedy. ... Soulwax, headed by David and Stephen Dewaele, is an alternative rock band hailing from Ghent, Belgium. ... The Freelance Hellraiser (née Roy Kerr) is one of the most respected creators of the UK bootleg scene. ... Christina Maria Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is a Grammy Award winning, American, singer-songwriter, pop, R&B, megastar. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq. ... The Strokes are an American rock band that rose to fame in the early 2000s. ...

2manydjs is the "nom-de-turntable" of two Belgian brothers, David and Stephen Dewaele, who spent two years clearing the samples for their album, so their landmark was not entirely illegitimate, though they continued to work in the shadowy interzone between legitimacy and copyright "felony".

The Freelance Hellraiser track, in contrast, was never officially released, and indeed most bastard pop songs are only made available (for free) online (i.e. not commercially) in a not-always-successful attempt to avoid "cease and desist" notices from the copyright holders. Cease-and-desist is a legal term meaning essentially stop: It is used in demands for a person or organization to stop doing something (to cease and desist from doing it). ...

Occasionally, however, a song gains so much underground momentum that a commercial release becomes inevitable. The earliest example of this was Richard X (working under the name Girls On Top), whose 2002 track "We Don't Give a Damn About Our Friends" grafted an old Adina Howard acapella onto the music of Tubeway Army's "Are 'Friends' Electric?". The song became so popular that it was released with re-recorded vocals by Sugababes (under the title "Freak Like Me"), though their version was, by design, almost indistinguishable from the "original". The single went straight to number one in the UK charts, making it the first bastard pop crossover hit. Richard X Richard X, real name Richard Philips, started out as a pioneer of the bootleg craze, releasing limited edition singles under the artist name of Girls On Top between 2001 and 2002. ... The sleeve to Girls On Tops I Wanna Dance With Numbers, January 2001 Girls On Top was the pseudonym used by music producer Richard X between 2001 and 2002. ... Adina Howard (born 1975 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a singer and rapper. ... Tubeway Army (1977–1979) were a London-based punk and New Wave band formed by Gary Webb. ... Sugababes are a UK girl group formed in London, UK, in 1998. ...

More recently, Go Home Productions has released "Ray of Gob", which splices together Madonna's "Ray of Light" and the Sex Pistols' "Pretty Vacant" and "God Save The Queen". The single, which was voted "Bootleg of the Year" in 2003 [3], was cleared by the representatives of both parties and the track even earned the approbation of the Pistols' guitarist Steve Jones. Go Home Productions is the alter ego of Mark Vidler, a producer/remixer/DJ based in Watford, United Kingdom. ... The Sex Pistols were, despite their short existence, a very influential British punk band. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

2001 also saw the release of DJ Z-Trip's mashup project Uneasy Listening Volume 1, an eclectic mix of rock, hip hop, electro, and pop from the '60s to the '90s that melded Metallica to Midnight Oil, Naked Eye to Public Enemy, and AC/DC to DJ Red Alert. DJ Z-Trip had made earlier excursions into the genre with live performances such as 1998's Live at the Future Primitive Soundsession: Vol 2 and Future Primitive 45 Night. DJ Z-Trip (born Zach Sciacca) hails from the mashup school of hip hop, yet is fluent in many types of DJing, such as techno. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Hip hop music (also referred to as rap or rap music) is a style of popular music. ... Electro is either (a) a prefix used to indicate a relationship to electricity, as in electro-mechanical, or electro-magnet, or (b) a stand-alone word. ... Depending on context, pop music is either an abbreviation of popular music or, more recently, a term for a sub-genre of it. ... Metallica is an American metal band formed in October 1981. ... Midnight Oil was an Australian rock band known for their driving hard rock sound, intense live performances and their overt left-wing political activism. ... Public Enemy, also known as PE, is a seminal hip hop group known for their politically charged lyrics, criticism of the media and active interest in the concerns of the African American community. ... AC/DC is a hard rock band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973 by rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young and his brother, lead guitarist Angus Young. ...

In the same year, Kylie Minogue lent her support to the burgeoning genre by performing Erol Alkan's mashup of New Order's "Blue Monday" and her own hit "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" entitled "Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head" at the Brit Awards. Kylie Ann Minogue (born May 28, 1968) is an Australian singer-songwriter and occasional actress. ... New Order are an English rock group formed in 1980 by the surviving members of Joy Division following the suicide of singer Ian Curtis. ... Cant Get You out of My Head is a dance-pop song, released as the first single from Kylie Minogues 2001 album Fever. ... Cant Get You out of My Head is a dance-pop song, released as the first single from Kylie Minogues 2001 album Fever. ... Kaiser Chiefs collecting one of their three Brit Awards, 2006 with Vic Reeves. ...

Napster and Audiogalaxy

In the wake of these developments, hundreds of bedroom DJs and songwriters were inspired to make their own "bastard pop" confections. The demise of Napster and Audiogalaxy, while initially making it harder for amateurs to acquire the precious raw materials (i.e. acapellas and instrumentals) cheaply (i.e. for free), quickly led to the birth and meteoric rise of alternative P2P networks such as Kazaa, Limewire, and, more recently, BitTorrent (although the latter is more commonly used to distribute entire albums, rather than individual tracks). Where once music aficionados could trade only MP3s, it now became possible to acquire not only music, but the technology to manipulate that music freely and easily. Second version (revised 2001) of Napster logo: Cat wearing headphones. ... Audiogalaxy Satellite 0. ... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... Kazaa Media Desktop (once capitalized as KaZaA, but now usually left as Kazaa) is a controversial peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol. ... LimeWire is a free and open source peer-to-peer file sharing client for the Gnutella network. ... The (new) BitTorrent logo BitTorrent is both the name of a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution client application and also the name of the file sharing protocol itself, both of which were created by programmer Bram Cohen. ... MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format, designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most listeners. ...

Software tools

As a result of this, industry standard tools such as the digital audio workstation Cubase and the sound editors Wavelab, Soundforge and Cool Edit Pro quickly became ubiquitous. Moreover, new tools such as Ableton Live and, most popular of all, Sonic Foundry's (now Sony's) ACID Pro were tweaked to accommodate the needs of this new "scene". Most notably, such features as beat-mapping (a technique which simplifies the synchronization of samples of different tempos) and online previewing (allowing the composer to audition a sample, playing at the right pitch and tempo, alongside their existing composition) made it easy for many people with musical ability but little professional studio experience to knock together new combinations in a fraction of the time it would take with traditional tools, such as the magnetic tape John Oswald (and even Coldcut) slaved over in their early days. A Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) is a system designed to record, edit, and play back digital audio. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Adobe Audition is a digital audio editor computer program from Adobe Systems. ... Ableton Live is a loop-based software music sequencer for Macintosh and Windows. ... Sonic Foundry is a computer software creator noted for its quality audio and video editing programs. ... Sony Corporation ) is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates founded in Tokyo, Japan. ...

Boomselection and Get Your Bootleg On

Every new scene must have its "water cooler" and its journal, and in the case of bastard pop, Get Your Bootleg On established itself as the former while Boomselection took on the role of "blog of record". Not merely reflecting the scene, Boomselection publicised various challenges which resulted in hundreds, if not thousands, of new bootlegs being uploaded to sites around the world (while the scene was and still remains a primarily British phenomenon, there are notable bootleggers to be found in practically every corner of the globe - wherever an Internet connection and a record collection is to be found - including Australia, the USA, Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland).

The name "Get Your Bootleg On" comes from the Missy Elliott track "Get Ur Freak On", which alongside Eminem's "Without Me" remains perhaps the most bootlegged, manipulated, remixed and reinterpreted song of the genre. Other popular artists include Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, and Beyoncé. Missy Elliott (born Melissa Arnette Elliott on July 1, 1971) is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is a Grammy-winning American pop singer, dancer, occasional actress, and author. ... Christina Maria Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is a Grammy Award winning, American, singer-songwriter, pop, R&B, megastar. ... Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American pop singer, dancer, songwriter, producer, actress, and author. ... Beyoncé in 2004 with her five Grammys. ...

The Get Your Bootleg On site (affectionately abbreviated to GYBO) is the main launchpad for new bastard pop tunes, and is the home of a lively community of bootleggers who offer critiques of new songs, tips for newbies, pointers on where to find acapellas, legal advice, publicity for bastard pop events and general discussion of issues surrounding the bastard pop phenomenon.

In early 2005, Boomselection retired itself after a long period of inactivity. The year also marked a series of cease and desist orders brought against a number of bootleg sites, and in early 2006 GYBO received its first such notice. To survive, the site prohibited the posting of direct links to copyrighted material within the forums, but allowed users to post links to their own sites containing such material, the defense being that now GYBO was no more in violation of copyright law than Google. For the most part, the community has rallied around the site, and continues to support it in its new form.

In addition, the scene has a number of other sites which provide downloads, links, podcasts, forums and news.

Subgenres

A vs B

Pitting an acapella against a completely different backing track in order to make a "third song" is the original "mission" of bastard pop, and it is no surprise that, in the wake of "A Stroke of Genie-us", the genre has continued to focus on this basic premise.

Notable "versus" songs include:

• Soulwax: "Dreadlock Child" (10CC's "Dreadlock Holiday" v Destiny's Child's "Independent Woman")
• McSleazy: "Don't Call Me Song 2" (Blur's "Song 2" v Madison Avenue's "Don't Call Me Baby")
• Loo and Placido: "My Favourite Name" (The Cardigans' "My Favourite Game" v Destiny's Child's "Say My Name")
• Richard X vs Liberty X: "Being Nobody" (Chaka Khan's "Ain't Nobody" v Human League's "Being Boiled")
• Hotei vs Rip Slyme: "Battle Funkastic" (Tomoyasu Hotei's "Battle Without Honor Or Humanity" v Rip Slyme's "Funkastic")

In addition, Lionel Vinyl, Soundhog, Go Home Productions, and Party Ben, amongst many others, have produced a number of critically acclaimed songs in this vein, and in some instances have secured record deals on the back of these exercises, which arguably serve as "demo MP3s" of their songwriting and production skills. Soulwax, headed by David and Stephen Dewaele, is an alternative rock band hailing from Ghent, Belgium. ... 10cc is a British rock music group who achieved their greatest commercial success during the 1970s. ... Destinys Child was an American R&B group. ... Blur is an English rock band. ... Madison Avenue is an Australian dance music and pop duo. ... The Cardigans is a Swedish band formed in the town of Jönköping in 1992. ... Destinys Child was an American R&B group. ... Richard X Richard X, real name Richard Philips, started out as a pioneer of the bootleg craze, releasing limited edition singles under the artist name of Girls On Top between 2001 and 2002. ... Liberty X (originally called Liberty) are a pop group formed from five contestants from the 2001 UK TV show Popstars. ... Album cover of What Cha Gonna Do For Me? Best known for her superb 1984 cover of Princes I Feel for You, R&B singer Chaka Khan enjoyed solo success as well as popularity as a member of the funk band Rufus. ... The Human League are an English synthpop band formed in 1977, who, after several changes in line up, achieved great popularity in the 1980s and a limited comeback in the mid-1990s. ... Tomoyasu Hotei (布袋寅泰 Hotei Tomoyasu, born on February 1, 1962 in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture) is a Korean Japanese musician, guitarist and actor. ... Rip Slyme is a Japanese hip hop group. ... Lionel Vinyl (nee Ian Davenport) is one of the most prolific creators of bootleg or mash up mixes, where two or more radically different tunes are combined, most often using the acapella of one track over the instrumental of another track. ... Soundhog (nee Ben Hayes) is a DJ, producer and composer of a number of acclaimed Bastard Pop songs. ... Go Home Productions is the alter ego of Mark Vidler, a producer/remixer/DJ based in Watford, United Kingdom. ... Party Ben (Ben Gill) is a DJ, mash-up artist and music producer based in San Francisco. ...

Glitch pop

Glitch pop is a subgenre of the bastard pop scene which marries the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) wizardry associated with Kid 606 and Tigerbeat6 records to the ostensibly familiar contours of pop. Sometimes this is done in a spirit of homage; sometimes it serves merely as a form of ridicule and even vilification; often it is both at the same time. Digital signal processing (DSP) is the study of signals in a digital representation and the processing methods of these signals. ... Kid606 is the stage name of Miguel Trost Depedro, an electronic musician who was born 1979 July 27 in Caracas, Venezuela, raised in San Diego and later moved to San Francisco. ... Tigerbeat6 is a San Francisco based record label run by Kid 606. ...

An example of the "double science" at play in glitch pop is Skkatter's "Dirty Pop", which takes a song that is already an epic of carefully constructed digital micro-malfunctions (BT's deconstruction of *NSYNC's "Pop") and pushes it even further out to the margins of musical mayhem. Similarly, Australian bootlegger and glitch pop co-conspirator Dsico has reworked a number of R'n'B tunes by such artists as The Neptunes and (again) *NSYNC in a spirit that is at once both satirical and steeped in fanboydom. In most cases these remixes render ostensibly mainstream songs avant garde and fresh, sometimes by working against the spirit of the original, but often by leveraging the sugar rush at the heart of much of the best contemporary pop, and adding sonic CGI to its emotional armoury. BT holding a M-Audio Ozonic keyboard Brian Transeau (born Brian Wayne Transeau on October 4, 1971 in Rockville, Maryland) is an electronica musician who records under the stage name BT. When recording with other artists he has used the aliases Kaistar, Libra Dharma, Prana, Elastic Reality, Elastic Chakra, GTB... The term deconstruction was coined by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in the 1960s and is used in contemporary humanities and social sciences to denote a philosophy of meaning that deals with the ways that meaning is constructed and understood by writers, texts, and readers. ... *NSYNC is a five-part pop music vocal group, sometimes referred to as a boy band, formed in Orlando, Florida, USA. The group members are Lance Bass, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Justin Timberlake. ... Australian DJ known for producing Bastard Pop and Electro music. ... Rhythm and blues (or R&B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... The Neptunes are Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, a duo of record producers based in their hometown of Virginia Beach, Virginia who created the sound for some of the most successful hip-hop and R&B artists. ... *NSYNC is a five-part pop music vocal group, sometimes referred to as a boy band, formed in Orlando, Florida, USA. The group members are Lance Bass, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Justin Timberlake. ... Fans of Janet Jackson, at Much Music in Toronto The word fan refers to someone who has an intense, occasionally overwhelming liking of a person, group of persons, work of art, idea, or trend. ... The pseudopod in The Abyss marked CGIs acceptance in the visual effects industry. ...

In the UK, the most notable exponent of the genre is Poj Masta, a teenage schoolboy whose work has been keenly supported by DJs such as Eddy Temple-Morris and James Hyman of London's Xfm radio station. Their weekly show, The Remix, has played a major role in nurturing new bootleggers and bringing them to the attention of a wide audience. The logo used by Xfm from launch in 1997 until the takeover in 1998. ...

Notable glitch pop tunes include:

• Skkatter: "Madonna Is A Filthy Slut"
• Dsico: "Flash In Herre", "Fuckin Girlfriend"
• DJ Lance Lockarm: "Bladderwaul"
• Poj Masta: "Crazy In Love"

Remixes

Technically, all bastard pop songs are remixes. But while most are made up entirely of plundered material, some bootleggers have fused old acapellas with completely new compositions of their own devising. A remix is an alternate mix of a song different from the original version, made using the techniques of audio editing. ...

The most popular example of this phenomenon is the Björk Remix Web, which contained hundreds of remixes of Björk tunes (for which the acapellas are rarely, if ever, available - the vocals are typically extracted by the application of clever EQing or "phase inversion"). However, the site is currently undergoing "reconstruction" and has been unavailable for several years. (A partial archive is available at the Björk Remix Web Archive.) Björk Guðmundsdóttir (IPA: ), (born November 21, 1965 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer (formerly the lead singer of post-punk band The Sugarcubes), with a great expressive range and an interest in many kinds of music including pop, trip hop, alternative rock...

Another popular example with fans of Japanese pop is Evil Morning, an album which combines vocal tracks from Morning Musume and their associated artists with new instrumental tracks that rearrange or replay the original music in the style of hard rock or heavy metal. J-pop is an abbreviation of Japanese pop. ... Evil Morning is an internet-circulated bootleg album of fan-created remixes of songs by Morning Musume and their side groups, solo projects, and associated bands within the Hello! Project umbrella. ... Morning Musume ) is an ultra-commercialized all-girl J-pop group from Japan that often changes its members. ... Hard rock is a form of rock and roll music which finds its closest roots in early 1960s garage rock and psychedelic rock. ... Heavy metal is a form of rock music characterized by aggressive, driving rhythms and highly amplified distorted guitars, generally with grandiose lyrics and virtuosic instrumentation. ...

Bootleg albums

DJ Danger Mouse's critically acclaimed remix project The Grey Album effectively launched a new bastard pop subgenre: the bootleg album. While The Beatles had made appearances on bootleg tracks prior to this album (for instance PPM's "A Life In The Day" and JPL's "Let It Be Missy Elliott (Beatlesmix)"), The Grey Album distinguished itself by being made up entirely of samples from The Beatles' White Album and vocals from Jay-Z's smash hit The Black Album. Reminiscent of Georges Perec's constrained writing exercises (a novel written without the letter 'e'; a 5000 word palindrome), this project has aroused considerable publicity as a result of the apparently heavy-handed way in which it has been suppressed. Many who have listened to it have lobbied for an official release, but EMI has resisted this tide of opinion, insisting on maintaining the sanctity of copyright in a way which some aficionados see as contrary to the spirit of The Beatles, Jay-Z (who presumably sanctioned, if not actively encouraged, the release of the acapellas) and musical expression in general. The Who Boys have also received notoriety for their 2004 album Tales of Townshend & Wilson and 2006 effort For Mash Get Smashed. Danger Mouse Brian Burton, better known under his stage name Danger Mouse, is a producer and DJ who came to prominence in 2004 by remixing The Beatles White Album and rapper Jay-Zs Black Album to make The Grey Album. ... The Grey Album was a controversial album by Danger Mouse released in 2004 (see 2004 in music). ... The Beatles were a pop and rock music group from Liverpool, England, who continue to be held in the very highest regard for their artistic achievements, their huge commercial success, and their ground-breaking role in the history of popular music. ... The White Album redirects here. ... Jay-Z (aka the Jigga, HOV and Hova, born Shawn Carter on December 4, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American rapper/hip hop artist and record label executive; one of the most popular and successful rappers of the late 1990s and early 2000s. ... The Black Album was a 2003 hip hop music album by rapper Jay-Z. It is supposedly his last studio album and has generally been well received by the critics. ... Image of artist Georges Perec (March 7, 1936 - March 3, 1982) was a 20th century French novelist, filmmaker and essayist, a member of the Oulipo group and considered by many to be one of the most important post-WWII authors. ... Constrained writing is a literary technique in which the writer is bound by some condition that forbids certain things or imposes a pattern. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Kensington in London, in the United Kingdom. ... Legal Disclaimer: this page contains legal information for reference and education, but it is not legal advice–the application of law to an individuals specific circumstances. ...

Notable bootleg albums include:

• The Kleptones: A Night At The Hip-Hopera (Queen)
• Various Artists: Always Outsiders, Never Outdone (Prodigy)
• Various Artists: Flip The Switch (The Chemical Brothers)
• Dean Gray: American Edit (Green Day)
• DJ Z-Trip: Uneasy Listening
• The Who Boys: Tales of Townshend & Wilson and For Mash Get Smashed (The Who vs The Beach Boys (TTW) and various bands (FMGS))

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Cut-ups

While there is some overlap between the terms "cut up" and "mash up", the former has increasingly come to refer to pieces that rely on the humour (or pathos) of reconstructed spoken word and video material.

The best known cutups remix political speeches and rallies to satirical effect. Johan Söderberg's "Endless Love", in which George W. Bush and Tony Blair appear to serenade each other like lovebirds, and Chris Morris' "Bushwhacked", a détournement of Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address, are two popular examples. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States and a former governor of Texas. ... Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service, and MP for Sedgefield. ... Chris Morris in Brass Eye Chris Morris (born June 15, 1962) is an English comedy writer, satirist and radio DJ. Morris was born in Cambridgeshire; both his parents were doctors. ... The Bushwhacked MP3 files are satirical speeches created from parts of United States president George W. Bushs orations. ... In detournement, an artist reuses elements of well-known media to create a new work with a different message, often one opposed to the original. ... 2003 State of the Union address given by U.S. President George W. Bush The State of the Union Address is an annual event in which the President of the United States reports on the status of the country, normally to a joint session of the U.S. Congress (the...

Notable cut up artists include Cassetteboy, Osymyso, Cartel Communique and Evolution Control Committee. Cassetteboy are two musicians from the UK - Mark Cassette and Steve Boy. ... An experimental music band from Columbus, Ohio founded by Mark Gunderson in the 1980s, the Evolution Control Committee (ECC) typically uses uncleared and illegal samples from various sources as a form of protest against copyright law. ...

Video Art

Visual artists involved with installation art and performance art closely related to music production have recently taken up the concept of bastard pop in their work. Installation art is art that, through the use of sculptural materials and other media, seeks to modify the way we experience a particular space. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ...

A noted example is Belgian artist Danny Devos, who mashed up Gordon Matta-Clark's "Descending Steps for Batan" and Dan Flavin's "Icon IV" in his own piece "Diggin' for Gordon". Danny Devos (born in Vilvoorde, 1959) is a Belgian artist whose work involves body art and performance art and a fascination with true crime. ... Gordon Matta-Clark (June 22, 1943 to August 27, 1978) was an American artist who is best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. ... Ohne Titel (to Bob and Pat Rohm), 1970. ...

See also

• Glitch
• Sampling
• Grey Tuesday
• One Song To The Tune Of Another
• Quodlibet
• Dark Side of the Rainbow

Glitch (also known as Clicks and Cuts from a representative compilation series by the German record label Mille Plateaux) is a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers. ... In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion of one sound recording, the sample, and reusing it as an instrument or element of a new recording. ... Grey Tuesday was a day of coordinated electronic civil disobedience on February 24, 2004. ... One Song to the Tune of Another was the first game played on the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game Im Sorry I Havent A Clue and is still almost always played every other episode. ... A quodlibet is a piece of music which combines several different melodies in counterpoint, usually popular tunes, and often in a light-hearted manner. ... The Dark Side of the Rainbow is a perceived effect created by playing the 1973 Pink Floyd concept album Dark Side of the Moon simultaneously with the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. ...

References

• Paul Morley (2003). Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City. Bloomsbury. ISBN 0747557780.
• Jeremy J. Beadle (1993). Will Pop Eat Itself? Faber & Faber. ISBN 057116241X.

Paul Morley Paul Morley (born March 26, 1957 in Stockport, Cheshire) is an English music journalist, who wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983, during one of its most successful and relatively notorious periods, and has since written for a wide number of publications. ...

External links

Bootleggers

• Dean Gray
• DJ Danger Mouse
• DJ Lance Lockarm
• Dsico
• Evolution Control Committee
• Go Home Productions
• The Kleptones
• Loo and Placido
• McSleazy
• Osymyso
• Party Ben
• Poj Masta
• PPM
• Skkatter
• Soulwax
• Soundhog
• Lionel Vinyl
• The Who Boys

Cut-ups

• Bushwhacked
• Endless Love

Visual Art

• Dan Flavin is Descending Steps for Gordon into Hell

Websites

• Banned Music
• Björk Remix Web archive
• Boomselection
• Get Your Bootleg On (GYBO)
• Illegal Art

Articles

• Backlash as EMI Hunts Down the Grey Album
• Boomselection: Top 11 Bootlegs of 2001
• Boot Camp: Mash Up Tutorial for Beginners
• Bootleg culture
• Bootlegs And Why I Love Them
• Copyright and Music: A History Told in MP3s
• Double Dee and Steinski's "The Lesson"
• Down by Law: Great Dance Records You Can't Buy
• Goodman and Buchanan's original pirate material, "The Flying Saucer"
• The New Yorker: The new math of mashups
• Pop Will Eat Itself: Guardian article on Richard X