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Dan Wood Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Thu, 10 Mar 2005

Mashups: Musical Photoshopping

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Lately, I've discovered mashups — for the uninitiated, it's digitally combining two (or more) songs into a (hopefully) pleasing new composition, an unintended duet. It's the musical equivalent of taking two completely different works of art and blending elements of one into another using PhotoShop; imagine inserting Marilyn Monroe into a Boticelli painting, for instance. Usually they juxtapose a currrently popular artist with a classic song from the 70s or 80s.

You can find mashup mp3 files all over the web; some of the ones that I like the most come from Go Home Productions. It helps when I actually know one or all of the songs involved, so mixing two songs on today's pop charts doesn't do much for me. A particular favorite is GHP's Rapture Riders, mixing Blondie's "Rapture" with the Doors' "Riders On The Storm."

Any favorites you'd like to recommend, in the comments?