Idolator

yes! another meme meta-nnihilated! now amoeba has to find a new place to put their "mash-up" section... may the cut-out bin? but does this mean we can still play the decent ones in memoriam? or is it just too soon?

The coroner just released the official cause of death: Hollertronix fanboys moving onto "blog house" and faux-Baltimore club remixes.

So much for the GBV/Tupac project I've been slaving over since today's earlier post.

Now,after this "not cool" alert, no one will ever get to hear "Life Goes (On) The Tundra" or "Office of Heartz of Men."

I assume you're starting your timeline with 2001's Uneasy Listening?

I was briefly into a guy earlier this year and then he told me that he was "really getting into mash-ups." I can tell you, I deserve some sort of award for not letting my eyes roll.

um, apparently you have not listened to A-Trak's "Dirty South Dance" which is not only an inspired series of mash-ups, it's also a lot of fun. it's only been out a couple of months, so it's pretty new.

highlight: "Wampercycle" which is a mash-up of Clipse ft. Slim Thug's "Wamp Wamp".

it's not dead, just needed some time to hang out at the club.

How does Evolution Control Committee not get credited? Not popular enough is my guess. Am I correct?

I'd like to see this whole thing move to mash-ups with whole new genres: metal-meets-klezmer; polka-vs.-punk; classic-rock-on-classical...

Couldn't be any worse that what's already come down the pipe...

Who does mashups on Protools? (Seriously!) I thought everyone used Acid since it tempo-matched for you.

Um, I'm sorry, but why suddenly was yesterday the day mash ups died? Because the editors of this site are sick of them?
I'm sorry, but this is a dumb post. Girl Talk is absolutely killing and re-defining what a mash up is, and The Hood Internet is doing crazy mashups that are really good. The mashup is not dead, but shitty mashups will always be shitty mashups, and the ones that are good are good.

Quite right Dick. Most of the people making mash-ups would find Pro Tools 'confusing' & complain of how much work they actually had to do. Maybe that's been the secret all along - just make creating mash-ups require effort and the genre will die permanently.

oh and blake mentioning the word on American Idol didn't help...

It is true...More people seem to be slapping mash-up together than actually trying to match up tempos and choruses...It was fun while it lasted, but maybe there will be a inspired one soon and bring it back again...

Is this idolator's attempt at an Onion article with fake pull quotes and everything? And by the way hating on mash ups is sooo 2005 http://touchthatdial.com/2005/08/26/this-mash-up-shit-has-...

I'm with Aquemini on this one. I think Girltalk took it to the next level. The level of stripping the original form into something really new, not just two songs 'mashed' together.

I also think Mash Ups where a reflection of how we listen to music today, your mp3 player has so many genres the the subconcious theme song is practically a Mash Up.

Last thing I'll say is if you need to listen to a final good mash up, these guys are the shit:
http://www.gohomeproductions.co.uk/history.html

To Jay-C i say, http://www.thehoodinternet.com

Well excuse me if I like listening to a dead genre.

Mashups are not dead - they're just resting.

This must be the third or fourth article I've seen this week proclaiming mash ups are dead. I'm just baffled by it to be honest, but I can understand why the perception is there.

Give a monkey a copy of Pro-Tools and most of them think they can make a masterpiece. Give Kanye West a copy and you get his new single - if you listen to it (go on, I dare you to listen to it all the way through) just ask yourself afterwards has he really put any more effort into putting a new rap over an old Daft Punk song than any monkey would have put in by putting an existing rap over the same Daft Punk song ?

There is a mash up (or bootleg as us Brits call it) "scene" out there still, some people admittedly making a better bootleg than others. Saturation of poor tracks has really driven the scene back to ground however as most of the bootleggers don't want to be associated with the (general) lack of creativity at best, or fundamental lack of understanding of music that is exhibited within the bootleg scene as a whole.

And there's only so many times you can listen to a variation of Eminem over a dance track.

I could create a huge list but that seems to miss the point of finding the music for yourself.

Ach well .. rant over.

Dun Dun The Piper's Son

Aquemini,

Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out

And Cheap Shot is right, GHP are probably the best ones out there, so maybe they're the ones to bring it back...

lol @ 'the hood internet.' and I thought The Fader blog had the market cornered on "omg a white artist and a black artist on the same record, let's photoshop them into a picture together, it'll be hilarious"-type shit.

@Aquemini: yeah, you know what's up.

Mashups are not dead. The number of people who think that any acapella over any instrumental - usually done out of key, and not mixed well - has risen.

Some of us still make quality mashups.

If I even get the publishing cleared, you will sh*t when you hear what I am trying to get officially released. :)

I never know mash up is ever even alive. It's always been some internet curiousity. If electronica is sitll consider non mainstream, what's the chance mash up is "alive"

uh-oh, time to cancel the Bootie mashup parties in SF, LA, NYC and Paris! Glad someone told us...

http://www.BootieUSA.com

mashups are dead - long live bootlegs and bastard pop

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Perhaps if people take mashups one step further beyond what Girltalk is doing we'll get to the point that hiphop was in the 80s! Sampling and making new original compositions from a variety of sources is older than many of its fans.

I don't mean that as a slight. I enjoy clever or boombastic juxtapositions no matter what they're called.