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I got the music in me
Mar. 18th, 2005 11:32 amSo I downloaded a bunch of music yesterday, mostly mashups but some other stuff, too. For those of you who are still living in the 20th Century, a mashup is two incongruous songs edited together, usually in a humorous or ironic way, hopefully with interesting, listenable results. A friend of mine was saying the other night that he hadn't gotten into downloading music and he wouldn't know where to start, so I thought that I might post some resources. Not that I'm an expert - I'm actually coming into all this relatively late in the game.
So, mashups. My current favorite is Brat, whose mashups are some of the most musical and smooth that I've heard. Favorites include "This Tour", a Maroon 5/Tribe Called Quest mashup, and "Dreaming In Your Sleep", an amazing Romantics/Depeche Mode mashup.
Go Home Productions, most famous for "Ray of Gob", a Madonna vs. Sex Pistols mashup. But there's some other good stuff here as well, like the fantastic "Sexual High", a Radiohead vs. Marvin Gaye mashup.
Team 9 have some good stuff, including "Lovetax" just in time for tax season, a Beatles vs. Cure.
Speaking of taxes, check out "To The Taxmobile!", a Beatles vs. Batman Theme, at Culture Deluxe. There's a whole bunch of other stuff there, too; another particular favorite is "James Brown Can Work It Out".
And speaking of Beatles, CCC did an entire album of Revolver mashups. And there's some other good stuff here, too, including "Puppetrock", a Queen vs. 5th Dimension.
DJ Zebra has some really amusing stuff, including "Are You Gonna Be My Motherfucker", a Jet vs. Prince/Sam & Dave.
Mashmix is a site with tons of stuff of varying quality. This is where I got the "Boulevard of Broken Songs" mashup by PartyBen, which I really love. You can spend a lot of time digging around at Mashmix.
For more general listening, i.e. not mashups, Aurgasm features some really good obscure stuff. Salon's Audiofile is reporting from Austin's SXSW this week - this is where I make my obligatory Old Austin Scenester comments about how I used to go to the festival before it got all fucked up and when the bands (and their hangers on) still got free beer. The Audiofile guy's taste doesn't intersect with mine much, but there's still some interesting stuff there sometimes, and hey, free legal downloads, assuming you subscribe or are willing to watch an ad and get a daypass.
For a fairly comprehensive mainstream informational resource, try mp3.com, which provides lists of the legal (i.e. for pay) mp3 sources for tracks, discographies and reviews.
If I were pirating, which of course you know I wouldn't, I would use Win MX. It doesn't have the multitude of users that Kazaa does, but it's not riddled with spyware, and you don't have the problem of people mislabling files so you think you're getting Radiohead and you end up with the overture from Annie. And the fact that it's lower profile is a bonus if you're paranoid about legality.
So, mashups. My current favorite is Brat, whose mashups are some of the most musical and smooth that I've heard. Favorites include "This Tour", a Maroon 5/Tribe Called Quest mashup, and "Dreaming In Your Sleep", an amazing Romantics/Depeche Mode mashup.
Go Home Productions, most famous for "Ray of Gob", a Madonna vs. Sex Pistols mashup. But there's some other good stuff here as well, like the fantastic "Sexual High", a Radiohead vs. Marvin Gaye mashup.
Team 9 have some good stuff, including "Lovetax" just in time for tax season, a Beatles vs. Cure.
Speaking of taxes, check out "To The Taxmobile!", a Beatles vs. Batman Theme, at Culture Deluxe. There's a whole bunch of other stuff there, too; another particular favorite is "James Brown Can Work It Out".
And speaking of Beatles, CCC did an entire album of Revolver mashups. And there's some other good stuff here, too, including "Puppetrock", a Queen vs. 5th Dimension.
DJ Zebra has some really amusing stuff, including "Are You Gonna Be My Motherfucker", a Jet vs. Prince/Sam & Dave.
Mashmix is a site with tons of stuff of varying quality. This is where I got the "Boulevard of Broken Songs" mashup by PartyBen, which I really love. You can spend a lot of time digging around at Mashmix.
For more general listening, i.e. not mashups, Aurgasm features some really good obscure stuff. Salon's Audiofile is reporting from Austin's SXSW this week - this is where I make my obligatory Old Austin Scenester comments about how I used to go to the festival before it got all fucked up and when the bands (and their hangers on) still got free beer. The Audiofile guy's taste doesn't intersect with mine much, but there's still some interesting stuff there sometimes, and hey, free legal downloads, assuming you subscribe or are willing to watch an ad and get a daypass.
For a fairly comprehensive mainstream informational resource, try mp3.com, which provides lists of the legal (i.e. for pay) mp3 sources for tracks, discographies and reviews.
If I were pirating, which of course you know I wouldn't, I would use Win MX. It doesn't have the multitude of users that Kazaa does, but it's not riddled with spyware, and you don't have the problem of people mislabling files so you think you're getting Radiohead and you end up with the overture from Annie. And the fact that it's lower profile is a bonus if you're paranoid about legality.
