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Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by stevestreza »

cwp wrote: post #43
stevestreza wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely satisfied with the response. Learned a lot from this, next time around the technicals should be much tighter (I hope).

No! Well, sure, there's nothing wrong with technical excellence. But the thing to do is try to understand why this mashup succeed and do more of that . I know very little about music, but I think the editorial choices are what matter most in a mashup. It was almost like the other artists were debating the merits of this new song. As long as you hit the "technically good enough" threshold, the fact that you've got PSY…

For me, the key parts of its success to emulate are:

- capitalizing on a meme at the peak of its popularity

- combining popular (LMFAO) with nostalgic (Offspring/Bloodhound Gang)

- catchy beat

- using the songs to differentiate the story (Offspring singing about the guy that thinks he has style, while showing the yellow-suited dancer)

- healthy mix of original song and mash-ins (keep the verse to one song intact, but layer the chorus)

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by abailin »

steve8918 wrote: post #9

Very cool! The mashup is really catchy and the author did a great job mixing LMFAO and Psy. The first mashup I remember listening to was the Eminem/Britney Spears mashup ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j98zaF5592c ). It was particularly funny because Eminem had recently dissed Britney Spears, but the ironic thing is that this mashup sounded better than the originals of both songs. The only question I have is how do…

For a lot of songs (and most popular new songs), you can download the "instrumental" version and the "acapella" version, the latter being the isolated vocal track. Most mashup-ers use these, as opposed to doing it themselves (which would lead to muddy/mismatched music).

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by ehsanu1 »

sharkbot wrote: post #47
Vivtek wrote: post #35

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my mashup suffers from this in a few places No. Not to this unexposed ear. I detest bad mashups, but if there are audio flaws in this one, you've concealed them very well indeed. I'm floored. This makes me want to get on with my own back-burner electronic music notions.

Agreed. The end of the Bloodhound Gang section is slightly discordant, but I felt that it had an interesting sound and lead well into the final section. Great work.

The Bloodhound Gang's chorus is probably the worst part of it, and is probably primarily what the OP was referring to, though the rapping verses work reasonably well. That said, it was still great overall.

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by ehsanu1 »

stevestreza wrote: post #20
ivank wrote: post #3

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Yet another reason I block everyone's webfonts. (Designers on OS X: ClearType does not render fonts the same way.)

Is there an easy way to detect when type is rendered with ClearText?

This article explains and provides an implementation to do that: http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2009/11/29/how-to-detect-fo...

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by amirhhz »

mbateman wrote: post #64
ladon86 wrote: post #42

About 10 years ago I did a spoof version of a 50 Cent song and posted it on one forum - it took off in a really big way with people sharing it on forums and via email (this was before YouTube or Facebook), and ended up getting heavy radio play all over Europe and Australia. I signed a management and publishing deal and ended up producing music professionally for a few years before I decided to go to college for compu…

I have to ask, what was the song? Can we have a link?

It was indeed 'In Da Pub' by 50 Pence aka ladon86. Here's a video with lyrics in the desc to help with the British-isms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pioFIcQw2zM

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by ladon86 »

JonnieCache wrote: post #79
ladon86 wrote: post #42

About 10 years ago I did a spoof version of a 50 Cent song and posted it on one forum - it took off in a really big way with people sharing it on forums and via email (this was before YouTube or Facebook), and ended up getting heavy radio play all over Europe and Australia. I signed a management and publishing deal and ended up producing music professionally for a few years before I decided to go to college for compu…

50 pence posts on hacker news. Amazing. Well done my friend, if it is indeed you - that song was and is most amusing. Surely the highlight must've been yoda playing it on radio 1?

It was a big moment! A load of other crazy stuff happened around the same time - the original artists were played the track and approved it for general release, and I was getting about 100 emails a day from random listeners who had tracked me down.

The best advice I ever got was not to associate my real name with the track, so that a relatively crappy 'one hit wonder' didn't define me forever. Now it doesn't matter as much. Suffice to say, I'm firmly in favor of pseudonyms online.

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by enqk »

amirhhz wrote: post #85
mbateman wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to ask, what was the song? Can we have a link?

It was indeed 'In Da Pub' by 50 Pence aka ladon86. Here's a video with lyrics in the desc to help with the British-isms: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pioFIcQw2zM

And GEMA actually blocks it, pretending its the original 50-cents track..

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by tep »

noirman wrote: post #24

"Try something that scares the hell out of you. It just might turn into something wonderful." Wise words, indeed.

The scary part wasn't necessary to experience something wonderful.

I am producing electronic music myself. These days, where the internet is mainstream I don't dare posting anything online.

About 9 years ago, things were different. I was a 15 year old kid and enjoyed producing trance music. My setup was extremely primitive and my music in a way, too.

But I managed to make those tracks sound quite euphoric.

Then (that's how I actually learnt HTML & CSS) I set up my own webpage and put that stuff out there. (later, that project turne into a little net-lable where 4 people were posting their music for free and we started doing remixes for one another)

To my surprise, quite some people were downloading my songs. Some even burnt them onto CDs and listened to them in their cars. (Back then, internet-browsing and recordable discs weren't exactly cheap. So in a way, they were paying for my music!)

The "highlight" was when a DJ from a big Ukrainian radio station played the tracks in his show & on one of his gigs. Some of the listeners posted positive feedback on that station's website.

Perhaps, programming turned me a little paranoid, but today I am quite scared of what could potentially be done with every bit of information you put online. It is true that wonderful things can happen, but (unknown) dangers aren't to be underestimated.

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by heyitsnick »

daniellockard wrote: post #2

I don't know what it is but the font on this site looks really bad in my browser.

This is probably the 4th or 5th link this week that has been barely legible (windows 7/chrome). Note to blog authors who want to use custom webfonts: If you are not testing on non-IE windows, you could be alienating a very large percentage of your potential readerbase.

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by jtheory »

diego wrote: post #61

"Try something that scares the hell out of you. It just might turn into something wonderful." I'd loved the mashup. However, if spending a weekend making a mashup scares the hell out of you, you must be living a very sheltered life. Here are some things that scare the hell out of me (and I have no intention of trying): - Climbing Everest - Wingsuit base jumping - Armed combat I'll leave it at that, you get the point.…

WRT edit: I think the downvote-capable readers are being harsher on belittling or sarcastic comments across the board, lately.

Would you say that's a bad thing, though?

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