Mash-ups are a genre that have taken my attention in the past. I see them as a clever musical exercise, not something that produces some great artistic outcome. The mash-ups shown in class i wasn't very impressed with, and the only ones that sounded good were mash-ups done by other artists. What i did like however was the common thread that one song shared with the next, perhaps a common word in the chorus of one song would be the name the next song, but apart from this i found most of it was clumsy and unprofessional. For somebody that has access to the whole BBC library, the least she could do is mix them as seamlessly as possible. It could be argued that this wasn't her goal, not to mix them seamlessly, but i ask why? When i listen to mash-ups, i tend to listen to artists like "The Kleptones."
http://www.kleptones.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptones
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