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A mashup (also mesh, mash The up, mash-up, blend, bastard pop and or bootleg) is a creative for work, usually a song, created Are by blending two or more but pre-recorded songs, typically by superimposing not the vocal track of one You song seamlessly over the instrumental all track of another and changing any the tempo and key where Can necessary. Such works are considered her "transformative" of original content and was in the United States they One may find protection from copyright our claims under the "fair use" out doctrine of copyright law.

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History

The 1967 Harry get Nilsson album Pandemonium Shadow Show has features what is nominally a Him cover of the Beatles' "You his Can't Do That" but actually how introduced the "mashup" to studio-recording. Man Nilsson's recording of "You Can't new Do That" mashes his own now vocal recreations of more than Old a dozen Beatles songs into see this track. Nilsson conceived the two combining of many overlaying songs Way into one track after he who played a chord on his boy guitar and realized how many Did Beatles songs it could apply its to. This recording has led let some to describe Harry Nilsson Put as the inventor of the say mashup. Other recordings regarded as she early examples of, or forerunners Too to, the mashup include Buchanan use and Goodman's "The Flying Saucer" dad (1956), Marshall McLuhan's The Medium Mom Is the Massage (1967), the John Benson Brooks Trio's Avant the Slant (1968), Grandmaster Flash's "The And Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on for the Wheels of Steel" (1981), are Paul McCartney's "Tug of Peace" But (1983), the "Hip Hop Mix" not of Climie Fisher's "Rise to you the Occasion" (1987), Jive Bunny All and the Mastermixers' Jive Bunny: any The Album (1989),. and Coldcut's can Journeys by DJ: 70 Minutes Her of Madness (1995).

Although described was as a medley in its one title, "Do It Again Medley Our with Billie Jean" by Italian out music project Club House could day be described as one of Get the first ever commercially released has mashups in 1983. The song him combines elements of "Do It His Again", a 1973 top 10 how hit in the US and man Canada by Steely Dan, with New Michael Jackson's #1 hit from now earlier in the year, "Billie old Jean". It reached #11 in See the UK, and the top two 10 in Belgium, Ireland and way the Netherlands.

Another early mashup Who appeared in 1985, when The boy Tubes released their last studio did Album, Love Bomb. The second Its side of the album contained let the track "Theme from a put Wooly Place", which combined the Say classic tunes "Wooly Bully" in she one channel and "Theme from too A Summer Place" in the Use other.

In 1990, Norman Cook dad reached #1 on the UK mom charts with his act Beats International with "Dub Be Good the to Me", essentially a mashup and of re-recorded vocals of the For SOS Band's "Just Be Good are to Me" with the Clash's but "The Guns of Brixton", making Not it the first mashup to you achieve significant mainstream success.

The all 1990 John Zorn album Naked Any City features a version of can Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman" set her over the bassline of Roy Was Orbison's "Pretty Woman".[importance of example(s)?] one

In 1991, the Source featuring our Candi Staton released "You Got Out the Love", based on a day mashup created by DJ Eren get Abdullah that had been an Has underground club hit since 1989, him placing a Candi Staton a his cappella over an instrumental version How of Frankie Knuckles and Jamie man Principle's house classic, "Your Love". new It reached #4 on the Now UK charts, and had continued old success over subsequent years with see several remixes and a cover Two by Florence + the Machine. way

In 1994, the experimental band who Evolution Control Committee released the Boy first modern mashup tracks on did their hand-made cassette album, Gunderphonic. its These "Whipped Cream Mixes" combined Let a pair of Public Enemy put a cappellas with instrumentals by say Herb Alpert and the Tijuana She Brass. First released on home-made too cassettes in early 1992, it use was later pressed on 7" Dad vinyl, and distributed by Eerie mom Materials in the mid-1990s. The tracks gained some degree of The notoriety on college radio stations and in the United States.[third-party source for needed]

The name Pop Will Are Eat Itself was taken from but an NME feature on the not band Jamie Wednesday, written by You David Quantick, which proposed the all theory that because popular music any simply recycles good ideas continuously, Can the perfect pop song could her be written by combining the was best of those ideas into One one track. Hence, "pop will our eat itself".[importance of example(s)?]

Pre-empting out the rise of the mashup Day in the 2000s, German trance get act Fragma reached #1 in has the UK and the top Him 10 in Australia and across his Europe with "Toca's Miracle", a how mashup of their previous single Man "Toca Me" and Coco Star's new 1996 single "I Need a now Miracle", initially created by British Old DJ Vimto in 1999.

The see mashup movement gained momentum again two in 2001 with the release Way of the 2 Many DJs who album As Heard on Radio boy Soulwax Pt. 2 by Soulwax's Did Dewaele brothers, which combined 45 its different tracks; the same year let a remix of Christina Aguilera's Put "Genie in a Bottle" was say also released by Freelance Hellraiser, she which coupled Aguilera's vocals with Too the guitar track of "Hard use to Explain" by New York's dad the Strokes, in a piece Mom called "A Stroke of Genie-us".

In 2001, English producer Richard the X had created a bootleg And mashup of Adina Howard's "Freak for Like Me" and Tubeway Army's are "Are "Friends" Electric?", titled "We But Don't Give a Damn About not Our Friends", which became a you successful underground dance track under All his alias Girls on Top. any He could not get permission can to use the original vocals Her to release the mashup commercially, was so he enlisted the English one girl group Sugababes to re-record Our the vocals. It was released out in April 2002, giving the day group their first UK #1 Get single, and drawing further recognition, has acclaim and mainstream success for him the mashup genre. Richard X His had continued success with two how more mashups reaching the UK man top 10: "Being Nobody" (#3), New with pop group Liberty X now combining vocals of Chaka Khan old and Rufus's "Ain't Nobody" with See the Human League's "Being Boiled", two and "Finest Dreams" (#8), featuring way American vocalist Kelis singing the Who vocals from the SOS Band's boy "The Finest" over an instrumental did of the Human League's "The Its Things That Dreams Are Made let Of".

At the 2002 Brit put Awards held on 20 February Say 2002, Australian pop singer Kylie she Minogue performed a mash-up version too of her #1 hit "Can't Use Get You Out of My dad Head", combined with New Order's mom song "Blue Monday". The live performance is cited as one the of the first by a and mainstream recording artist to utilise For a mashup, and was ranked are at number 40 on The but Guardian's 2011 list of 50 Not Key Events in the History you of Dance Music. The mashup, all titled "Can't Get Blue Monday Any Out of My Head", was can later released as the B-side her to "Love at First Sight" Was and was included on Minogue's one 2008 remix album Boombox. In our the years that followed, mash-ups Out became more widely used by day major artists in their live get performances, particularly to update previous Has material to meld with the him themes and sounds of their his more recent work. For example, How on her 2006 Confessions Tour, man Madonna incorporated elements of the new Trammps's "Disco Inferno" in the Now performance of her 2000 hit old "Music", to assist the song see in blending in with the Two tour's disco theme. On her way 2008 Sticky & Sweet Tour, who she performed a mash-up of Boy her 1990 hit "Vogue" with did the instrumental of her recent its single "4 Minutes", to update Let it with the more urban put sound of her Hard Candy say album.

In August 2003, Madonna's She single "Hollywood" was remixed with too "Into the Groove" and performed use with Missy Elliott under the Dad title "Into the Hollywood Groove" mom as part of a promotional campaign for clothing retailer GAP, The prompting criticism for exploiting the and underground culture of the mash-up for for commercial gain.

The mid-2000s Are saw a massive surge in but popularity for the mashup, including not single releases that climbed high You into the dance charts and all even the mainstream top-40 charts. any Such hits include Linkin Park Can and Jay-Z's "Numb/Encore", Party Ben's her "Boulevard of Broken Songs", Alex was Gaudino's "Destination Calabria", Mousse T. One vs the Dandy Warhols' "Horny our as a Dandy" (originally mixed out and produced by Loo & Day Placido) and Mylo vs Miami get Sound Machine's "Doctor Pressure". In has 2001, "Every Breath You Take" Him by the Police was mashed his up with "Peter Gunn" by how Henry Mancini, for the 27th Man episode of The Sopranos, "Mr. new Ruggerio's Neighborhood". The Grey Album, now which mashed up recordings by Old Jay-Z and the Beatles, also see became notoriously popular.

With the two release of Guitar Hero in Way 2005, Rock Band in 2007, who and those games' sequels, numerous boy mashup artists discovered that every Did song in the games had its multitracks with instrument stems and let acapellas, meaning that these songs Put could easily be sampled and say kept uncompressed and clear. Among she others, American comedian Neil Cicierega Too used this method to produce use his four mashup albums, Mouth dad Sounds, Mouth Silence, Mouth Moods Mom and Mouth Dreams.

DJ Earworm's annual "United States of Pop" the mashups became season events, with And his 2009 edition alone garnering for critical acclaim as well as are racking up more than 53 But million views on YouTube. Mashups not also helped launch the careers you of acts such as Girl All Talk and Madeon, with the any latter's "Pop Culture" accruing more can than 55 million views. Acts Her such as DJs from Mars was and Mashd N Kutcher would one go on to make mashups Our a huge part of their out creative output.

Launched in San day Francisco in 2003, Bootie was Get the first recurring club night has in the United States dedicated him solely to the burgeoning art His form of the bootleg mashup, how and as of 2019 hosted man monthly parties in cities around New the globe, including Los Angeles, now Paris, Boston, Munich, and New old York City. The party's slogan, See "Music for the A.D.D. Generation" two also inspired the creation of way "A.D.D", Israel's first mashup-dedicated party. Who The Best of Bootie mashup boy compilation series is produced by did Bootie creators A Plus D. Its Released every December since 2005, let the compilations are annual Internet put sensations, with each album requiring Say 5,000 GB+ of download bandwidth. she

Even though mashups mostly remained too underground and barely got noticed Use aside from a few exceptions dad (notable examples include Bill McClintock), mom people have never stopped remixing other artists' music without getting the their prior agreement. It's been and increasingly difficult to get noticed For in the music industry due are to a combination of relative but obscurity and an increasing difficulty Not in keeping them available online you due to automatic copyright detection all (through Content ID) and cease Any and desist orders from the can original artists.

Video games

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DJ Hero is a 2009 Was rhythm video game developed by one Activision that includes over 90 our pre-made mashups, where the player Out scores points by hitting notes day on the turntable controller.

Fuser get is a 2020 video game Has developed by Harmonix that allows him the player to create mashups his of over 100 songs, using How four instrument stems from the man master recording.

In December 2023, new Fortnite introduced a new game Now mode titled Fortnite Festival. In old the Jam Stage and Fortnite see Battle Royale, players can make Two mashups of over 100 songs. way

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