5 posts tagged “mashup”
However, there is a unknown artist "Poster Boy" who is shaking things up a little bit underground with mashups like the awesome one here, combining ads for Star Wars on TV, Murakami's art exhibit, and what I think might be Taco Bell. When new ads are posted, they are often simply pasted over the old ones. If you cut through or peel the away at it, you get weird juxtapositions. Part of his art seems to be these cutaways. Others are simple cut and paste jobs from other posters in the ads.
His "gallery" is here. A lot of the ads are not that special - elaborately executed but somewhat empty toilet humor, but the ones that are good are very good indeed. Particularly the Star Wars pieces.
I've covered DJ Earworm's spectacular mashups before, but I must inform you that he has a new song up on his site called "Together As One". Take a listen. It involves U2, The Beatles, Diana Ross, and Mariah Carey. In my opinion this is one of the only ways (besides the mute button) to make Mariah tolerable. That sums up the quality of this track.
Secondly, there is a super secret (or not) cache of youtube videos by what seems to be a small group of French bloggers called La Blogotheque. Their videos have low production values but tend toward the awesome. Filmed mostly in Paris, but sometimes elsewhere, they feature global indie bands big and small including REM, Of Montreal, Beirut, and the Shins. Unlike other music videos, these have an interesting twist - such as performing in public to unsuspecting French people, singing in an apartment bathroom, or shoving the entire Arcade Fire into an elevator. Why? On ne sait pas.
Here are two of my favorite Blogotheque videos. Cold War Kids singing "St. John" while being pushed on a cart through a factory, and Grizzly Bear singing "The Knife" a capella while strolling through Paris. The a capella version is as good or better than the album version.
On his website is a new song called The United State of Pop which combines the top 25 songs of 2007 from the Billboard Charts. This sounds like it would be a terrible idea, but it's pretty good.
On the site you can listen to a ton of other stuff too - and it includes a list of the source songs for each composition.
My favorite piece is this one which combines Scissor Sisters, the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, and George Michael into a sonic wonderland. You will not be disappointed or your money back.
I feel like this video may have already made the rounds of the internets, but it rates very high on the awesome scale.
This is a mashup of a 1960s Bob Fosse routine and the song "Walk It Out", followed by the original dance and music. Despite big sleeves and what appears to be a cruel and unusual amount of polyester, it ends up being sexier than you could have hoped.
Bob Fosse was among the most influential choreographers in mass culture in the 20th century with his signature sexy but sophisticated jazz style seen in hits like Chicago and Cabaret. One of his trademarks was body isolations in which only a single part of the body moves while the rest was still, creating a sexy, dramatic focal point. To a greater and lesser extent this technique is heavily used in hip hop and much modern and popular dancing - and it has always been a part of dance in many other cultures.
Here we have:
1. We know and love our favorite DJs' mashups - but what about audiovisual mashups? Here is some old school Charleston dancing with a Daft Punk soundtrack. You can even see the foundations of modern hip hop here.
2. I don't think this is an advertisement per se, but it is definitely produced by the international clothing store Uniqlo from Japan. Normally I think the robot dance is a little bit lame, but I liked this one. Slow like tai chi.
3. And of course the famous Ake Blomquist from Finland who will teach YOU how to disco dance! Oh god it's strange.
