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Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by weinzierl »

eLobato wrote: post #31
janerik wrote: post #13

And again: "Unfortunately, this UMG-music-content is not available in Germany because GEMA has not granted the respective music publishing rights." Good to have a proxy around.

Honestly I don't get the deal with Germany forbidding access to so many youtube videos. I've been there on vacation a few times and it was nearly impossible to find some (legitimate uploaded) songs in youtube, even from the VEVO channel. Big thumbs down for GEMA. Their policy (verbatim): "Whoever wants to playback or perform music in public in Germany will become, as a rule by doing this, a customer of GEMA." Transla…

Yes, especially with a population of over one fourth of the US and internet penetration of roughly 80% (most of it broadband) one might think Germany is a big enough advertising market for the right holders to pressure the GEMA.

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Post by ladon86 »

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 computer science.

The power of creating something resonant and putting it on the internet is huge, and it's still totally possible today.

I believe that consumer startups in the early stages are no different. You need to find a way of presenting yourself that resonates emotionally with your desired audience, to the extent that they want to share that feeling with others.

Congrats on the viral success! It's a really fun experience.

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Post by cwp »

stevestreza wrote: post #18
bradddd wrote: post #5

A great candid story of his experience going viral. Could be a little more concise, but still congrats to the guy for stepping up to the plate and crushing it out of the park. So what if it wasn't a technical masterpiece. If he was only intending for this to be a learning experience, I think he should be totally satisfied.

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 dancing to "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" is going to matter a lot more.

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Post by SoftwareMaven »

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…

I wish this comment could be higher. The next iteration shouldn't be about technical excellence (that will come naturally), but rather about audience and artistic desires (it's a mix with art; with business, it would be all customer)..

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Post by sharkbot »

Vivtek wrote: post #35
stevestreza wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I prefer Logic Pro because it's (to me) the most straightforward, but you can use Ableton or Reason or whatever; all the DAW (digital audio workstation) apps are basically the same. Of all the EDM I've tried to make - dubstep, drum/bass, house, trance, chillwave - mashups seem to be the easiest, because you start out with all the ingredients. Find some instrumental tracks and a few a capellas. You'll want them to hav…

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.

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Post by redler »

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…

One of the secrets is Rock Band et al. These games often have the original music remixed with isolated tracks for the various "instruments," vocals included. There are ways to set up a Rock Band session so the end result is just a single track playing in isolation, which can then be captured as source material for tools like Ableton.

Re: So I Made A Mashup, And Then…

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Post by driverdan »

Cushman wrote: post #33
stevestreza wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I went through YouTube's copyright dispute process, and said it was a fair use derivative work. YouTube's response is apparently to ask the copyright owner if they feel it's fair use. Which, of course, they didn't. Ironically, it was LMFAO's label that had the problem, and yet LMFAO posted the song to their Facebook and Twitter profiles. C'est la vie.

Out of curiosity, what do you feel qualifies it as fair use? That's a fairly specific doctrine (in the US, at least).

Courts have ruled remixes/mashups like this one are fair use.
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