As those who follow my blog at all have noticed, I'm all about the mashups, and so I am back with a double feature.
First up is a mix by DJ Bling and the Urban Expedition Project (UEP) titled King of Rock. True to the title, it features a lot of hip-hop, rap, and R&B mashed with rock from the '60s to '90s, as well as a lot of '80s electronic pop hits. It's also likely to be true to mashup's general "bastard pop" genre label; I can imagine a lot of purists and hardcore rock fans being very pissed off about hearing their favorite rock anthems being mashed with contemporary hip-hop/rap artists! But if you're really into a nice chocolate-vanilla swirl flavor of rock and rap, I would highly recommend giving King of Rock a listen.
The mix can be found at DJ Illa's site here. It's long and continuous-- perfect for a nightclub or dance hall setting, but you can download it as a zip file with separate tracks, which is easier for burning a CD copy.
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Mick Boogie's Adele 1988 is a decidedly different approach, although it has some similar mixtures of sound. It's a mashup of the album 19 by 4-time Grammy nominated British soul singer Adele, with a late '80s hip-hop sound. U.S. audiences may be familiar with her musical guest appearance on Saturday Night Live on October 18, 2008, which prominently featured then-Republican Vice President candidate Sarah Palin. (Indeed, it's the first place I saw her as well.)
That said, I wouldn't call it a mashup in the strictest sense of the word, since mashups usually encompass two or more complete works that are independently whole. Furthermore, this doesn't feature all of the tracks of the original album, although I would say it's fairly representative in what is used. The Mick Boogie site calls it a complete reinterpretation-- and since most of the tracks are listed as remixes (without listing the artists sampled/mashed specifically), I would say it's more accurately called a remix. Then again, mashups and bastard pop have been called forms of the remix, so the distinction is academic.
This download is also available for free, along with further details concerning Adele 1988 here at the Mick Boogie website.
Links: djilla.com mickboogie.com
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