Mashup, or bootleg, is a musical genre which, in its purest form, consists of the combination of the music from one song with the a cappella from another. Ideally, the music and vocals belong to completely different styles/genres generally considered to incompatible, yet skillfully and artfully combined into a pleasurably euphonic hybrid. 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. ...

Flyer for Bootie, the first bootleg mashup club in the United States, launched in San Francisco in 2003.

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

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Synonyms

Mashups are known by a number of different names, including:

• Bootlegs (mostly in Europe)
• Boots (but not Booty which is a branch of Electro)
• Mash-ups
• Smashups (or Smash-Ups)
• Bastard pop
• Blends
• Cutups (or Cut-ups)
• Powermixing (Usually the pace has to be sped up to allow for more song to be played and thus cannot play any single blend for the full length of the song)

In addition, more traditional terms such as "edits" or (unauthorized) "remixes" are favored by many "bootleggers" (also known as 'leggers). An assortment of bootleg recordings A bootleg recording (or simply bootleg or boot) is an audio and/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 to the beginnings of recorded music. 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. Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... // Much like electroacoustic music, Musique concrète (French; literally, concrete music), has been subject to conflicting perceptions about its character. ... Folk can refer to a number of different things: It can be short for folk music, or, for folksong, or, for folklore; it may be a word for a specific people, tribe, or nation, especially one of the Germanic peoples; it might even be a calque on the related German... Jazz standard refers to a tune that is widely known, performed, and recorded among jazz musicians. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... The DIY ethic (do it yourself ethic) refers to the ethic of being self-reliance as opposed relying on professional to do it. ... 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. ...

The 1999 Eminem album The Slim Shady LP with acapella vocals from the track "My Name Is" combined with the music of many other artists, including "Back in Black" by AC/DC, "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice, and "This Charming Man" by The Smiths served as an early inspiration for the British bastard pop movement. Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known as Eminem or Slim Shady, is a Grammy and Academy Award-winning American rapper, record producer and actor from the Detroit, Michigan area. ... Special Edition cover Upon joining Aftermath Entertainment, Eminem and Dr.Dre recorded tracks for his major label debut. ... AC/DC are a hard rock band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. ... Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1968), better known as Vanilla Ice, is a Grammy Award nominated, American Music Award winning American rapper and actor known mostly for the 1990 single Ice Ice Baby. ... The Smiths were an English rock group active from 1982 to 1987. ...

In the mid-1990s, bastard pop was not yet a distinct genre, but formed a significant portion of the output of a few North American experimental artists such as John Oswald, Negativland, the Evolution Control Committee, and the Emergency Broadcast Network. At that time the tracks, when they were referred to at all, were often just considered "remixes", though some other terms were used, such as tape manipulations, cut-ups, and mashups. John Oswald is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, photographer, and dancer. ... Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. ... 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. ... Emergency Broadcast Network is the name of a multimedia performance group that took its name from the Emergency Broadcast System. ...

Precursors

Classical

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. "Quodlibet" and "Variation" (as in "Variations on a theme by ... ") are two 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, OM CH (November 22, 1913 Lowestoft, Suffolk - December 4, 1976 Aldeburgh, Suffolk) was a British composer, conductor, and pianist. ... A round is a musical composition in which two or more voices sing exactly the same melody over and over again, but with each voice beginning at different times. ... Sumer Is Icumen In is a traditional English round, and possibly the oldest such example of counterpoint in existence. ... A quodlibet is a piece of music which combines several different melodies in counterpoint, usually popular tunes, and often in a light-hearted manner. ... 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 English composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of Julian Lloyd Webber. ... 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 bassist. ... A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a god or other religiously significant figure. ... Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet is a piece of music composed by Gavin Bryars in 1971. ... Apocalyptica is a Finnish musical group consisting of three, formerly four, classically trained cellists and, since 2005, a drummer. ... Metallica is a Grammy Award-winning American heavy metal/thrash metal band formed in 1981[1] and has become one of the most commercially successful musical acts of recent decades. ...

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue

The popular BBC Radio 4 panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue features a section known as "One Song To The Tune Of Another" where the panellists have to, quite literally, sing the words of one song to the tune of another one, usually in the form of piano accompaniment. BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Im Sorry I Havent a Clue, sometimes abbreviated to ISIHAC, or simply Clue, is a BBC radio comedy which has run since 11 April 1972. ... 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. ...

Some of the humour derives from the incongruity caused by differences between the songs involved. They may differ wildly in genre, structure, tempo, and time signature, but unlikely combinations have sometimes worked surprisingly well. Examples include:

• Willie Rushton singing "My Old Man's a Dustman" to the tune of "The Girl from Ipanema", and "Maresy-doats and dozy-doats" to the tune of "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover".
• Barry Cryer singing ""Love Me Tender"" to the theme tune from ""The Archers"", and ""Imagine"" to the tune of "The Sun Has Got His Hat On"
• Graeme Garden singing "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" to the tune of "'O Sole Mio"
• Tim Brooke-Taylor singing "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" to the "Dance of the Hours" from "La Gioconda" by Amilcare Ponchielli.
• Bill Bailey singing "Run Rabbit Run" to the tune of "Stormy Weather"

A contribution to the effectiveness of the rendition is made by the pianist Colin Sell who, given the poor vocal skill of the panelists, often has a much more difficult task than is usually required. If you are looking for the lyrics of the traditional pub song My Old Mans a Dustman, click this external link. ... The Girl from Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema) is a well known bossa nova song, and was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s. ... Mairzy Doats is a novelty song composed in 1943 by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston. ... (Therell Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover was a popular wartime song made famous by Vera Lynn in her 1942 recording of the song, written by Walter Kent and Nat Burton in 1941. ... Love Me Tender was the first film made by singer Elvis Presley and was released in 1956. ... The Archers is a British radio soap opera broadcast on the BBCs main spoken-word channel, Radio 4. ... Imagine is a utopian-themed song performed by John Lennon, which appears on his 1971 album, Imagine. ... The Sun Has Got His Hat The Sun Has Got His Hat On is one of the main songs in the stage production of Me and My GirlThis song is sung by The Hon. ... Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick is a 1978 single by Ian Drury & The Blockheads, written by Ian Drury and Chas Jankel. ... O sole mio is a universally famous Neapolitan song written in 1898. ... Mother Jones is believed to be the inspiration behind the song lyrics. ... Dance of the Hours is a song from La Gioconda composed by Amilcare Ponchielli. ... La Gioconda can refer to: A famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, better known as Mona Lisa; An opera by Amilcare Ponchielli. ... Amilcare Ponchielli (August 31, 1834 – January 17, 1886) was an Italian composer, largely of operas. ... Words by Noel Gay & Ralph Butler. ... Stormy Weather is a 1933 song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. ... Colin Sell is a British pianist who has appeared on the radio panel games Whose Line Is It Anyway and Im Sorry I Havent A Clue. ...

"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 (April 19, 1934 - November 6, 1989) is considered one of the earliest proponents of sampling in music, through a series of break-in records he created from 1956 to 1986. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. ... 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 soundtrack 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). Vega received quite a few unsolicited mixes of her (a capella) song, and eventually issued an entire c.d. of "Tom's Diner" mixes, one notable example being "Jeannie's Diner", in which a resung verse based on Vega's composition describes the premise of the situation comedy "I Dream of Jeannie". "Tom's Diner" is likely to be the first song that was "mash mixed" as we now know the process. Your Woman is a 1997 music single released by British one-man band White Town, also known as Jyoti Mishra. ... White Town is a techno-pop act from the United Kingdom, and is the work of one man, Jyoti Mishra (TOO FUNNY!!). Mishra was born in Rourkela, India, on July 30, 1966, and has lived in England since the age of three. ... 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. ... The opening title sequence to the first episode of Pennies from Heaven. ... DNA was the pseudonym taken by two British dance music producers for issuing a remix of Suzanne Vegas Toms Diner in 1990. ... Suzanne Vega (born Suzanne Nadine Vega, 11 July 1959, Santa Monica, California) is an American songwriter and singer known for her highly literate lyrics and eclectic folk-inspired music. ... The real Toms Restaurant also appeared in Seinfeld. ... See also: 1990 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1990 Record labels established in 1990 list of years in music // January 21 - MTVs Unplugged premieres on cable television with musical guest, Squeeze February 6 - Billy Idol is involved in a serious motorcycle accident, resulting in several broken bones. ... The Source is producer John Truelove. ... Candi Staton (pron. ... See also: 1991 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1991 Record labels established in 1991 other events of 1991 list of years in music 1990s in music // 1991 was the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough. ...

In the 1970s and early 1980s, during the disco boom, DJ pools would sometimes issue medley discs to their members. While not technically featuring a sample, one such record that achieved moderate chart and club success in the U.S. was Club House's 1983 medley of Steely Dan's "Do It Again" with Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean". This medley hit both the Pop and R&B charts in August/September 1983. Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Steely Dan is a Grammy-Award winning American rock band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. ... Do It Again was a single which was released by The Beach Boys in 1968 on Capitol Records. ... Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the King of Pop, is an American musician, entertainer, and pop icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for the last three decades. ... Michael Jacksons Visionary chronology Rock with You (2006) Billie Jean (2006) Beat It (2006) Thriller track listing Beat It (5) Billie Jean (6) Human Nature (7) Audio sample Billie Jean is a 1983 hit single from Michael Jacksons Thriller album. ...

One series (and probably the first) was John Morales' (later one half of M and M productions) "Deadly Medley"s, in which he mixed-up disco hits of the moment to form beat-consistent collages. In the 1980s, 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. One must also remember the huge successes of "Weird Al" Yankovic's lyrical perversion of pop hits, which earned him a seemingly tenured spot on MTV during the channel's heyday. Many bastard pop songs have been produced in jest, with the emphasis very firmly on satire, "irresistible" puns, or simple throwaway fun. Cover of Greatest Stars on 45 Stars on 45 (known in some countries as Starsound) were a Dutch novelty pop act that was briefly very popular in the UK, Europe and the U.S. in the very early 1980s. ... Coldcut: Jonathan More (left) & Matt Black Coldcut is a duo comprising English DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More. ... This article is about the musician himself. ...

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[1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. ... Xenochrony is a studio-based musical technique developed in the 1970s by Frank Zappa. ... Joes Garage: Acts I, II & III is a 1979 rock opera by Frank Zappa. ...

"Rubber Shirt" from the album Sheik Yerbouti consists of a bass track and a drum track taken from two different live performances melded together in the studio. Sheik Yerbouti is a double vinyl live album by Frank Zappa featuring material recorded in 1977 and 1978, released on March 3, 1979 (see 1979 in music) and re-issued on May 9, 1995 (see 1995 in music). ...

John Oswald

John Oswald has been devising illegitimate compositions since the late 1960s. His 1975 track "Power" married frenetic Led Zeppelin guitars to the impassioned exhortations of a Southern US evangelist at the same time that hip hop was discovering the potency of the same (and related) kinds of 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 were an English rock band who formed in 1968. ... Motto: (traditional) In God We Trust (official, 1956–present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at the federal level; English de facto Government Federal Republic  - President George W. Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence - Declared - Recognized... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... Youre So Vain is a song written and performed by Carly Simon in 1972. ... Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945 in New York City) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy Award winning American musician who emerged as one of the leading lights of the early 1970s singer-songwriter movement. ... Faster Pussycat is a hard rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1986 named after the 1965 film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. The group was most successful during the late 1980s with their albums Faster Pussycat and 1989 gold album Wake Me When Its Over that sold 500... Plunderphonics is a term coined by John Oswald in 1985 in an essay entitled Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... 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 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 withdrawn 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 (rumoured to be short for "Kopyright Liberation Front") 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 Ernest Drummond[1] (Bill Drummond) (born April 29, 1953, Butterworth, South Africa)[2][3] 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. ... 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. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... The KLF (also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs), The Timelords and other names) were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 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. ... Doctorin the Tardis was a 1988 electronic novelty pop single by The Timelords (Time Boy and Lord Rock, aliases of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, now better known as The KLF). ...

Double Dee and Steinski

Though the JAMMs 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 "The Payoff Mix" (1983), "Lesson 2 (The James Brown Mix)" (1984) and "Lesson 3 (History of Hiphop)" (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 sample wizardry far and wide, from the depths of the underground to the top of the charts. Black Box proved to the major labels that a legitimate (and more appealingly to a corporation) profitable market was springing up from bedroom turntables. After an initial white label period, Black Box sought (and received) legal clearance for their usage of Dan Hartman's song "Love Sensation" and samples of the Salsoul Records recording of such by Loleatta Holloway. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... NY redirects here. ... 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. ... Doug DeFranco and Steve Stein were Hip-Hop producers who achieved notoriety in the early 1980s for a series of sample-based collages known as the Lessons, which are still well-regarded today as early underground Hip-Hop classics. ... Coldcut: Jonathan More (left) & Matt Black Coldcut is a duo comprising English DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More. ... Bomb the Bass was the creation of the British musician Tim Simenon. ... DJ Shadow (born Josh Davis on January 1, 1973) is a United States DJ, turntablist, music producer and songwriter. ... The Avalanches is an electronic music group from Melbourne, Australia, best known for its live DJ sets and debut album Since I Left You, which was assembled from approximately 3,500 vinyl samples. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Black Box (later Blackbox) was an Italo-house music group popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for their hit Everybody, Everybody. ... Dan Hartman (December 8, 1950 - March 22, 1994) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer. ... Salsoul Records is a New York based record label who from 1974 to 1985, released about 300 disco 12-inch singles and a string of albums. ... Loleatta Holloway (born November 5, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American singer known for classic disco songs such as Dreamin and Love Sensation (the latter which has been sampled greatly). ...

DJ subscription services

In the 1970s, Disconet established the first DJ-only remix service. By the 1980s, this had blossomed into a thriving underground scene, and a number of remixers, working for DJ-only subscription services such as X-MiX, Hot Tracks, Razormaid, Wicked Mix, Mixx-It, Ultimix, Music Factory's "Mastermix" 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. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Promotional recording. ...

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 that took its name from the Emergency Broadcast System. ...

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 (RISD, pronounced /RIZ-dee/) is one of the premier fine arts institutions in the United States. ... U2 are a rock band from Dublin, Ireland. ... Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. ... For the fan club-exclusive album released from this tour, see Zoo TV Live. ... Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and is comprised of video and/or audio data. ...

Evolution Control Committee

In 1994, the experimental band Evolution Control Committee released what are widely credited as being the first modern bastard pop tracks on their hand-made cassette album, Gunderphonic. These "Whipped Cream Mixes" combined a pair of Public Enemy acapellas with instrumentals by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Pressed on 7" vinyl, and distributed by Eerie Materials in the mid 1990s, the tracks gained some degree of notoriety on college radio stations in the United States[2]. On the heels of this release, the band gained a larger following with tours in the United States, Europe, and Australia, and has since released several well-known mashups while continuing the pursuit of other experimental styles. 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 hip hop group from Long Island, New York, known for their politically charged lyrics, criticism of the media, and active interest in the concerns of the African American community. ... Herbert Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician most associated with the Tijuana Brass, a now-defunct brass band of which he was the leader. ... Eerie Materials was an independent record label started in the early 1990s, first based in Richmond, Virginia and later in San Francisco, California. ... College radio (also known as university radio, campus radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college or university. ...

Renaissance

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

The name Pop Will Eat Itself was unabashedly "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. [3] Pop Will Eat Itself (also known as PWEI or the Poppies) were an English band formed in Stourbridge, with band members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. ... Not to be confused with the Canadian music magazine Music Express The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a Popular music magazine in the United Kingdom 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. ...

The movement gained momentum again in 2001 with the release of two seminal landmarks: the 2 Many DJs album, by Soulwax's Dewaele brothers (As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. 2), 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. Soulwax, headed by David and Stephen Dewaele, is an alternative rock band hailing from Ghent, Belgium. ... As Heard On Radio Soulwax Pt. ... The Freelance Hellraiser (née Roy Kerr) is one of the most respected creators of the UK bootleg scene. ... Christina María Aguilera (a Spanish surname, pronounced (IPA) , anglicized to [1]), born December 18, 1980, is an American pop singer and songwriter. ... NY redirects here. ... The Strokes are an American rock band formed in 1998 that rose to fame in the early 2000s as a leading group in the garage rock revival. ...

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. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 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 (b. ... Tubeway Army (1977–1979) were a London-based punk and New Wave band led by Gary Webb. ... The Sugababes are a BRIT Award-winning female pop group trio from London, England. ...

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, was cleared by the representatives of both parties and the track even earned the approbation of the Pistols' guitarist Steve Jones. Go Home Productions (also known as GHP) is the alter ego of Mark Vidler, a producer/remixer/DJ based in Watford, England. ... The Sex Pistols were an iconic and highly influential English punk rock band, formed in London in 1975. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 2003 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

2001 also saw the release of DJ Z-Trip and DJ P's mashup project Uneasy Listening Volume 1, an eclectic mix of rock, hip hop, electro, and pop from the 1960s to the 1990s 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 P won the DMC Midwest Championship and in the 1999 DMC finals in San Francisco received the nights only standing ovation with his innovative style. DJ Z-Trip spinning DJ Z-Trip (born Zach Sciacca) hails from the mashup school of hip hop, yet is well-versed in many different genres of music. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... 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 is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... Electro, short for electro funk (also known as robot hip hop and Electro hop) is an electronic style of hip hop directly influenced by Kraftwerk and funk records (unlike earlier rap records which were closer to disco). ... 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 a Grammy Award-winning American heavy metal/thrash metal band formed in 1981[1] and has become one of the most commercially successful musical acts of recent decades. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Public Enemy, also known as PE, is a hip hop group from Long Island, New York, known for their politically charged lyrics, criticism of the media, and active interest in the concerns of the African American community. ... AC/DC are a hard rock band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. ...

In the same year, Kylie Minogue lent her support to the burgeoning genre by performing Soulwax'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 28 May 1968) is an Australian dance-pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. ... Soulwax, headed by David and Stephen Dewaele, is an alternative rock band hailing from Ghent, Belgium. ... New Order are an English rock group formed in 1980 from the remaining members of Joy Division—Bernard Sumner (vocals, guitars, synthesizers), Peter Hook (bass, electronic drums), and Stephen Morris (drums, synthesizers). ... Cant Get You Out of My Head is a pop dance song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue and written by Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis. ... Cant Get You Out of My Head is a pop dance song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue and written by Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis. ... The Brit Awards are the annual United Kingdom pop music awards founded by the British Phonographic Industry. ...

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. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 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 peer-to-peer file sharing application using the FastTrack protocol. ... LimeWire is a peer-to-peer file sharing client for the Java Platform, which uses the Gnutella network to locate and transfer files. ... BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. ... MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is an audio encoding format. ...

Software tools

As a result of this, industry standard tools such as the digital audio workstation Cubase and the sound editors Wavelab, Soundforge, WavePad and Cool Edit Pro quickly became ubiquitous. Moreover, new tools such as Ableton Live, MixPad 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. ... Sony Sound Forge, formerly known as Sonic Foundrys Sound Forge, is a famous computer audio editing suite. ... 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 by Ableton. ... Sonic Foundry is a computer software creator noted for its quality audio and video editing programs. ... Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $68. ...

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. Melissa Arnette Elliott (born July 1, 1971 in Portsmouth, Virginia), better known as Missy Elliott, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, MC, and record producer. ... Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known as Eminem or Slim Shady, is a Grammy and Academy Award-winning American rapper, record producer and actor from the Detroit, Michigan area. ... Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is a Grammy Award-winning[1] American pop singer, dancer, actress, author and songwriter. ... Christina María Aguilera (a Spanish surname, pronounced (IPA) , anglicized to [1]), born December 18, 1980, is an American pop singer and songwriter. ... Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16, 1958), better known as simply Madonna, is a six-time Grammy[1] and one-time Golden Globe award winning American pop singer, songwriter, record and film producer, dancer, actress, author and fashion icon. ... Beyoncé Chantelle Knowles (born September 4, 1981) is an R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, fashion designer and model. ...

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, previews, user vote based rankings such as Mashstix.com, forums and news.

Bonna Music and Enjoy The Sheket

Legal mashups are hard to find, but in some relatively small music markets, publishers have understood the potential of clearing the rights of major international artist to be combined with local repertoires, to create a wider consumption for both artists on a given track.

In Israel for example, a group called Bonna Music remixed the Depeche Mode song Enjoy the Silence with Balagan's Sheket (which means silence in Hebrew). The mashup was approved by Martin Gore and released officially a month before Depeche Mode's new album Playing the Angel in 2005. It was a major hit locally and when Depeche Mode's first single was released they were more welcome in a market where the local repertoire is dominant. Depeche Mode are a band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex, England. ... Enjoy the Silence is Depeche Modes twenty-fourth UK single, released on February 5, 1990, and the second single from the album Violator. ... “Hebrew” redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Depeche Mode are a band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex, England. ... Playing the Angel is the eleventh full-length album by Depeche Mode and was released 17 October 2005. ...

Subgenres

A vs B

See also: List of Mash-Up songs

Putting 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. This article lists songs of the A vs B mash-up genre that are commercially available (as opposed to amateur bootlegs and remixes). ...

Later 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")
• DJ WyZz: "Everybody Gossip Now" (Missy Elliot & Ludacris' "Gossip Folks" v C & C Music Factory's "Everybody Dance Now")
• Richard X vs Liberty X: "Being Nobody" (Chaka Khan's "Ain't Nobody" v Human League's "Being Boiled")
• Zombie Nation vs Goblin: "Zombi - Zombie Nation" (Zombie Nation's "Kernkraft 400" v Goblin's "Zombi") [As Featured on Shaun of the Dead Soundtrack].

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 was a British pop band which achieved its greatest commercial success during the 1970s. ... Destinys Child was a three-time Grammy Award-winning American R&B girl group. ... Blur are an English rock band formed in Colchester in 1989. ... Madison Avenue is an Australian dance music and pop duo. ... The Cardigans are a Swedish band formed in the town of Jönköping in 1992. ... Destinys Child was a three-time Grammy Award-winning American R&B girl group. ... Missy Elliott on the cover of her album Missy Elliott (born Melissa Arnette Elliott on July 1, 1971 in Portsmouth, Virginia), formerly known as Missy Misdemeanor Elliott, is the first female hip hop superstar, known for a long series of hits including The Rain, Shes A Bitch, Get Ur... This biographical article needs additional references for verification. ... C+C Music Factory was a dance/pop music group distinguished for having seven #1 Dance/Club Play hits in the early to mid 1990s, as well as several pop crossover hits, one of which Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) reached #1 on Billboards Hot 100 Singles... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Liberty X (originally called Liberty) was a pop group formed from five contestants from the 2001 UK TV show Popstars. ... Chaka Khan (born March 23, 1953) is an American singer known for her 1984 cover of Princes I Feel For You, for her smash hit Im Every Woman and as a member of the funk band Rufus, with whom she recorded the legendary soul record Aint Nobody... 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. ... Zombie Nation can refer to: Zombie Nation a 1990 NES video game. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Zombie Nation can refer to: Zombie Nation a 1990 NES video game. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... 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 (also known as GHP) is the alter ego of Mark Vidler, a producer/remixer/DJ based in Watford, England. ... Party Ben is a DJ in the San Francisco area who works at local radio station Live 105 and is one of the more notable figures in the mashup (music) scene. ...

However, not all mash-ups are as simple as A vs B. In some cases, DJs will mash 3, 4, 5, and even 6 songs to form one complete track. Mixing more than two tracks together can be a daunting task, and it requires a great deal of skill. DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ...

Recent notable "multiple mashes" include:

• Dj BC: "Summer in the City" (Harry Belafonte v Ace of Base v Jurassic 5 v The Beach Boys v Third World)
• DJ WyZz: "Satisfaction Megamix" (Benny Benassi v 50 Cent v Black Eyed Peas v Sir Mix-a-Lot)
• DJ John: "Devil Candy Grillz" (Nelly & Paul Wall v 50 Cent v Kid Rock & Joe C v N.W.A)
• DJ Earworm: "Over The Confluence of Giants" (Under the Influence of Giants v Steely Dan v David Bowie v Queen v Steve Miller v Common)

Bob Cronin, known by the monkier dj BC, is a Boston, Massachusetts based mash-up / bastard rap DJ. BCs work has been heard from the radio stations in Boston and New York City to stations in Paris and Athens. ... Harold George Belafonte, Jr. ... Ace of Base is a dance-pop band from Gothenburg, Sweden. ... Jurassic 5 was a six- and then later five-piece hip hop group formed in 1994. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For the Jamaican reggae band, see Third World (band). ... Benny Benassi (born Marco Benassi Geneser July 13, 1967) is an Italian disc jockey and a euro house/electroclash artist, who lives in Reggio Emilia, a town in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. ... For the currency amount, see 50 cents. ... The Black Eyed Peas are an American hip-hop group from Los Angeles, California, who have enjoyed worldwide pop success. ... Anthony Ray (born August 12, 1963), known as Sir Mix-a-Lot, is a Grammy Award-winning rapper and producer, originally from Seattle, Washington, USA. // Sir Mix-a-Lot worked together with Miami bass icon DJ Magic Mike, Mudhoney, Metal Church (on a cover of Black Sabbaths Iron Man... Cornell Haynes Jr. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... For the currency amount, see 50 cents. ... Robert James Ritchie (born January 17, 1971), best known as Kid Rock, is an American rapper, singer and rock musician most notable for his albums Devil Without a Cause and Cocky and his hit singles Bawitdaba and Picture. ... Performing at Woodstock 99 Joseph Calleja (November 9, 1974 – November 16, 2000), better known as Joe C. was an American rapper. ... This article is about the rap group. ... It has been suggested that Home town hero (band) be merged into this article or section. ... Steely Dan is a Grammy-Award winning American rock band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. ... David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ... Queen are an English rock band formed in 1970 in London by Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor, with John Deacon joining the following year. ... The name Steve Miller might refer to: Steve Miller (musician), leader of the eponymous Steve Miller Band Steve Miller (writer), author of science fiction stories and novels including the Liaden universe stories Steve Miller (artist), author of How to Draw Books including Thunder Lizards!: How to Draw Fantastic Dinosaurs Steve... As a noun, common may refer to: An alternate form of commons A common - an area of common land The rapper, Common (formerly known as Common Sense) As an adjective, common may denote: Ordinary or most frequently occurring; prevalent. ...

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. Brian Wayne Transeau (born October 4, 1971 in Rockville, Maryland) is a trance musician, better known by his stage name, BT. He has been called the Father of Trance for his pioneering in the trance genre [1],[2] and Prince of Dance Music for his multi-instrumentalist skills [3], and... Deconstruction is a term in contemporary philosophy, literary criticism, and the social sciences, denoting a process by which the texts and languages of Western philosophy (in particular) appear to shift and complicate in meaning when read in light of the assumptions and absences they reveal within themselves. ... *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. ... Dsico is the project for Sydney musician Luke Collison. ... Rhythm and blues (or R&B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... *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. ... Computer-generated imagery (commonly abbreviated as CGI) is the application of the field of computer graphics (or more specifically, 3D computer graphics) to special effects in films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media. ...

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. There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Eddy Temple-Morris is a radio DJ, producer and TV presenter. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Xfm London is a commercial radio station in the United Kingdom. ...

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 alternative version of a song, different from the original version. ...

The most popular example of this phenomenon is the Björk Remix Web, which contains 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 equalization or "phase inversion"). Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( ) (born November 21, 1965 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is an Icelandic singer-songwriter and composer, as well as an occasional actress. ... For information about computer bandwidth management, see Equalization (computing). ...

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 (or Jpop) is an abbreviation of Japanese pop. ... Morning Musume ) is an all-girl J-pop group from Japan. ... Hard rock is a variation of rock and roll music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage 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. The project received considerable attention following EMI's legal threats towards distributors of the album. 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 is an album by Danger Mouse released in 2004 (see 2004 in music). ... The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ... The Beatles U.S. chronology The Beatles is the ninth official album by The Beatles, a double album released in 1968 (see 1968 in music). ... 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. ... The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is a British music company comprising of the major record company EMI Music which operates several labels, based in Kensington in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York. ...

Notable bootleg albums include:

• The Beastles (created by Dj BC): Let it Beast and dj BC Presents The Beastles (The Beatles and the Beastie Boys)
• The Kleptones: A Night At The Hip-Hopera (Queen)
• Dean Gray (a collaboration between Party Ben and Team9): American Edit (Green Day)
• The Beachles (Clayton Counts): Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles and The Beach Boys)
• DJ Z-Trip & DJ P: Uneasy Listening
• Girl Talk: Night Ripper
• Q-Unit (created by DJ !) Queen v.s. 50 Cent
• Various Bootleggers: Best of Bootie 2005 & 2006

The Beastles is the name of a fictional band created by dj BC. The music is a mashup of music from The Beatles and the Beastie Boys. ... Bob Cronin, known by the monkier dj BC, is a Boston, Massachusetts based mash-up / bastard rap DJ. BCs work has been heard from the radio stations in Boston and New York City to stations in Paris and Athens. ... The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ... The Beastie Boys are a musical group from the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan. ... The Kleptones, aka Eric Kleptone is a DJ from Brighton in the United Kingdom who has produced several internet-only bastard pop or Mash Up albums. ... A Night at the Hip-Hopera was The Kleptones break-through and most highly acclaimed album which fused Queens rock music with rap vocals & many sound bites from movies (such as Ferris Buellers Day Off) and other sources. ... Queen are an English rock band formed in 1970 in London by Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor, with John Deacon joining the following year. ... Dean Gray is the pseudonym for the collaboration between team 9 and Party Ben. ... Party Ben is a DJ in the San Francisco area who works at local radio station Live 105 and is one of the more notable figures in the mashup (music) scene. ... The introduction of this article does not provide enough context for readers unfamiliar with the subject. ... The mash-up album American Edit, whose creators Party Ben and team9 took the shared alias Dean Gray, pays tribute to the acclaimed Green Day album American Idiot, and was acclaimed as a landmark release in its own genre. ... Green Day is an American rock band band comprising three core members: Billie Joe Armstrong (guitar, lead vocals), Mike Dirnt (bass, backing vocals) and Tré Cool (drums). ... The Beachles Sgt. ... Clayton Counts (born August 19, 1973 in Midland, Texas) is an American writer, composer, and musician, best known for a mash-up collection he released under the pseudonym The Beachles, which combined The Beatles Sgt. ... The Beachles is a track-for-track mash-up of The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds with The Beatles’ Sgt. ... The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... DJ Z-Trip spinning DJ Z-Trip (born Zach Sciacca) hails from the mashup school of hip hop, yet is well-versed in many different genres of music. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... It is proposed that this article be deleted, because of the following concern: This album does not appear to meet the notability guidelines for music If you can address this concern by improving, copyediting, sourcing, renaming or merging the page, please edit this page and do so. ... Girl Talk is the stage name of electronic music producer Gregg Gillis. ... Night Ripper is the third album by Gregg Gillis, released on Illegal Art in 2006 under the name Girl Talk. ... Q-Unit : Greatest Hits is another mashup album in the same vein as Danger Mouses The Grey Album. ... Bootie is a slang term for a musical bootleg, which is also popularly known as a mash-up or bastard pop. ...

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. Endless Love is the name of three artistic bodies of work. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency... Chris Morris (b. ... 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, rx, Cartel Communique and Evolution Control Committee. Cassetteboy are two musicians from the UK - Mark Cassette and Steve Boy. ... Osymyso is a musician from the United Kingdom who specializes in the bastard pop genre. ... Look up Rx in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 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, performance art and VJing closely related to music production have recently taken up the concept of bastard pop in their work. Installation art uses sculptural materials and other media to modify the way we experience a particular space. ... This article is about Performance art. ... A video jockey (usually abbreviated to VJ or sometimes veejay) can mean two things: One describes an announcer who introduces and plays videos on commercial music television such as MTV or VH1. ...

Forerunners of the genre include Eclectic Method, a British trio who have created mashups and video remixes for MTV. They released the world's first audiovisual mashup DVD album, We are not VJs, in 2005. MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network based in New York City. ...

Another notable visual artist 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 – August 27, 1978) was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. ... Ohne Titel (to Bob and Pat Rohm), 1970. ...

See also

• Mashup (video)
• Musical montage
• Sound collage
• Remix
• Parody music
• Sampling (music)
• Glitch (music)
• Quodlibet
• One Song to the Tune of Another

A concept design to represent mashups in various places. ... Musical montage (literally putting together) is a technique where sound objects or compositions are created from collage. ... Sound collage is the production of songs, musical compositions, or recordings using portions, or samples, of previously made recordings. ... A remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. ... Parody of Star Wars: Episode 1 Parody music, or musical parody, involves changing or recycling existing musical ideas or lyrics - or copying the peculiar style of a composer or artist, or even a general style of music. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... 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. ... A quodlibet is a piece of music which combines several different melodies in counterpoint, usually popular tunes, and often in a light-hearted manner. ... 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. ...

References

• Paul Morley (2003). Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City. Bloomsbury. ISBN 0-7475-5778-0.
• Jeremy J. Beadle (1993). Will Pop Eat Itself? Faber & Faber. ISBN 0-571-16241-X.

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External links

Cut-ups

• Bushwhacked
• Endless Love

Visual Art

• Dan Flavin is Descending Steps for Gordon into Hell

Websites

• Mashstix.com
• Banned Music
• Boomselection
• Beat-Boot-Ique
• BastardPop.org (formerly known as the Bootie Blog)
• Bootie USA: pioneers of the American mashup movement / Bootie Top Ten
• Bootlegs addict: the french bootleg ressource
• Get Your Bootleg On (GYBO)
• Hip Hop Samples
• Illegal Art
• Laptop Punk Forum
• M-1 sound
• Now That's What I Call Mashup series
• Some Assembly Required Mashups, Cut-ups, Sample Based Music and Audio Art...
• the Island of Misfit Songs
• Very first monthly Bootleg club in Belgium
• Kon-Tempt - First remix artist from the uk to succeed in the u.s mixtape scene
• Mashuptown.com
• Mashups.com
• Mash Ups - Radio show based in Washington, DC
• Mash Culture
• D.J.P's official website
• Soundpedia

Articles

• Backlash as EMI Hunts Down the Grey Album
• Boomselection: Top 11 Bootlegs of 2001
• Bootie Blog: Top 101 Bootlegs of 2006
• Bootlegs agogo
• 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
• The Original Mashup: "The Flying Saucer" (incl. mp3)yu