Comments: Mashups and Quodlibets Have Driven Us Apart - BBC in Hot Water for Huh?

This is a great post Jeff - and thanks for the DJ Earworm link. I like that a lot! I've heard people criticise mashups as 'just an editing trick', which in a sense they are - but then the same charge (greater complexity notwithstanding) could be levelled at Bach who was perfectly happy to bend a familiar tune to fit against the musical accompaniment he wanted to give it. On one level, that's still 'just an editing trick'.

Posted by Tim Rutherford-Johnson at July 14, 2005 06:15 AM

Thanks post. I arrive to mashup from plunderphonic stuff, and i really enjoy it, not only as editing trick, but as a great artistic expression and a new form of folk music.

Posted by rebuscador at July 14, 2005 08:22 AM

Ha! Great post title! And the post wasn't so bad itself, especially the part about popularizing a dying art form. Think the music industry will ever stop shooting itself in the foot?

Thanks also for the song link ... !

Posted by brykmantra at July 14, 2005 11:06 PM

Jeff-
A really astonishing piece! Thanks for making it available to us.

Posted by Robert Jordahl at July 15, 2005 07:18 AM

Glad to be of service, Robert... Some of his other mashups are equally interesting, but of a smaller scale.

Posted by jeff at July 15, 2005 05:48 PM