Thursday, May 26, 2005

Music: Mash-ups

Mashup of the Week Podcast is a fairly new site. I just discovered it today , and now have some great new songs to add to my Beastles and the Grey Album collection (also check out Dj BC's mashups, fantastic stuff). The sad part is that most mash-ups are illegal. How can we expect society and culture to evolve if we continue to stifle creation and re-creation?

As new artists start to license their material with Creative Commons, this issue will only exist for past property. Trent Reznor did the unthinkable in RIAA terms: he released "The Hand That Feeds" free for anyone to edit in an original pro tools package for garageband. Wow. I get goosebumps just thinking of how this will evolve. Just...wow.

What's your favorite mash-up? Who's your favorite forward thinking musician?

"All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

p.s. Welcome to my mind.

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