[DrBenway]

I found a link to this on one of the music blogs. I was initially skeptical, becase I find nearly all mashups to be clever at best, and usually not even that. The best I had previously heard was Danger Mouse's astonishing conflation of Jay-Z's Black Album and the Beatles's White Album. The vid below is just one track, not an entire album, obviously, but it is absolutely astounding. I tried to count the edits, and gave up with a laugh within 30 seconds.

The track is called "The Mother of all Funk Chords." Maybe the best thing I could say about this is that, like the DMouse Gray Album, the music stands completely on its own. Absolutely amazing.

+ "The Mother of All Funk Chords" via YouTube​

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I may be late to the party on this one; please let me know if there are other threads. I did search on the title and came up empty.

 

[shubhangam]

Brilliant ;D

 

[Joelby]

that was great

 

[Signal2Noise]

Me likey!

 

[Afro_Rebel]

The guy with the harmonica was playing/singing at a much slower rhythm than the other musicians, and it was rather annoying. Other than that, it was very good.

 

[DrBenway]

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Originally Posted by Afro_Rebel /img/forum/go_quote.gif The guy with the harmonica was playing/singing at a much slower rhythm than the other musicians, and it was rather annoying. Other than that, it was very good.

I've heard a couple of other people point that out as well. Definitely a flaw. Still, an amazing piece of work overall.

Edit: I wonder if that was just exhaustion on the producer's part. He could have cut samples of the harp player and synched them to the audio and video track. You can see how he did that with both the set drummer (Bernard Purdy!) and the conga player, and, I think, the bass player.

 

[Lamenthe]

Amazing. Thanks for sharing!

 

[dBs]

For some good mash-ups check out The Legion of Doom. this CS:S frag video has 2 songs by them:

YouTube - CSS: Devour the Movie

Also some amazing CS:S playing by Devour.

 

[vampire666]

Wow...that was impressive!

 

[nor_spoon]

Really nice!

 

[rich1122]

+ YouTube Video​

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[DrBenway]

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Originally Posted by rich1122 /img/forum/go_quote.gif YouTube - Alice

You know, I always did wonder what our girl was drinking at that tea party...obviously something good. Heehee. But the synching of the animation to the audio is excellent. All of these sorts of mashups make me want to know what software was used for the edits!!

 

[chadbang]

Cool video. But I have to say I find just about all mashups (I haven't found one yet, actually) extremely unpleasant. Something about them makes me physically queasy, especially with songs that you know that are diced up and skewed. I find listening to them distracting. I had the "Gray Album" and hated it. Someone made a great video from one track which I thought was amazing and I thought the album would be, too. But the album was awful. Maybe mashups just work better as videos, since musically they're just disorienting. And I don't think the music from this video would stand on its own as anything impressive.

 

[asher7323]

Haha, this video is the bomb. But I agree without the visual the music is not really that amazing.

 

[DrBenway]

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Originally Posted by chadbang /img/forum/go_quote.gif Cool video. But I have to say I find just about all mashups (I haven't found one yet, actually) extremely unpleasant. Something about them makes me physically queasy, especially with songs that you know that are diced up and skewed. I find listening to them distracting. I had the "Gray Album" and hated it. Someone made a great video from one track which I thought was amazing and I thought the album would be, too. But the album was awful. Maybe mashups just work better as videos, since musically they're just disorienting. And I don't think the music from this video would stand on its own as anything impressive.

I differ with you on the Gray Album; maybe I can't separate my amazement at the technical accomplishment from my assessment of it as music, but I do enjoy it (especially what DM did with "While My Guitar..."). But I definitely see your point about the disorienting effect of mashups in general. I don't find this unpleasant, but I certainly recognize the effect.

I wonder if this is more generally related to paradigm shifts or innovations in music. I well remember the reactions to punk of listeners and musicians raised on rock or jazz. It wasn't so much that they didn't like it; it was more that they couldn't even really hear the music in something so different from what they were accustomed to. They were looking for the Beatles in the Sex Pistols, and, well, that's a futile search from the jump. Because they were looking for reference points that were familiar to them, they couldn't hear what was new and different, and ultimately valuable in the new sound. I could have easily written those same words about the reaction of traditional musicians/listeners to hip-hop or techno.