Mashup Challenge 2006: The Results
The House-Elves have returned from their conclave. Nobody is quite sure what happened during their three days locked away inside their rusty postbox, but they came up with a result, and we're able to reveal the Top Ten Impossible Mashups for 2006:
Derek Bailey vs. Jessica Simpson: A nice tribute to the late Derek Bailey. Jessica Simpson wouldn't even know what she was doing.
Yma Sumac vs Celine Dion & Mariah Carey: Yma Sumac will sing a high note. Mariah will sulk. Celine will ignore it all and take a holiday in her mansion on St Barts.
Sex Pistols vs. Enja: Enja deserves everything she gets. This mash needs to be executed with extreme prejudice.
The White Stripes vs The Carpenters: A celebrity deathmatch between two great musical sibling duos - I like it.
Serge Gainsbourg vs. Whitesnake: Come on, Gainsbourg records were made to be mashed.
Pizzicato 5 vs Accept: P5 sound like a mashup all by themselves. this messy tryst with German Speed Metal could be like flattening a poodle with a steam roller. But Accept were big in Japan, so perhaps this could work...?
Funkadelic ("One Nation Under a Groove") vs. Kate Smith ("God Bless America"): There's a twisted patriotism here that could explain a lot, matt.
Bootsy Collins vs. Frank Sinatra: Dunno how the House-elves let this one through. Wingardium Leviosa indeed.
Klaus Nomi vs Sam Cooke: Classic black masculinity meet high camp East Village theatre? Ouch. You people are sick.
Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" to the music of "Sweet Home Alabama": Another commentary on patriotism and civic duty? Possibly?
Derek Bailey vs. Jessica Simpson: A nice tribute to the late Derek Bailey. Jessica Simpson wouldn't even know what she was doing.
Yma Sumac vs Celine Dion & Mariah Carey: Yma Sumac will sing a high note. Mariah will sulk. Celine will ignore it all and take a holiday in her mansion on St Barts.
Sex Pistols vs. Enja: Enja deserves everything she gets. This mash needs to be executed with extreme prejudice.
The White Stripes vs The Carpenters: A celebrity deathmatch between two great musical sibling duos - I like it.
Serge Gainsbourg vs. Whitesnake: Come on, Gainsbourg records were made to be mashed.
Pizzicato 5 vs Accept: P5 sound like a mashup all by themselves. this messy tryst with German Speed Metal could be like flattening a poodle with a steam roller. But Accept were big in Japan, so perhaps this could work...?
Funkadelic ("One Nation Under a Groove") vs. Kate Smith ("God Bless America"): There's a twisted patriotism here that could explain a lot, matt.
Bootsy Collins vs. Frank Sinatra: Dunno how the House-elves let this one through. Wingardium Leviosa indeed.
Klaus Nomi vs Sam Cooke: Classic black masculinity meet high camp East Village theatre? Ouch. You people are sick.
Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" to the music of "Sweet Home Alabama": Another commentary on patriotism and civic duty? Possibly?
And to keep the music flowing...
Greyboy* vs Melle Mel - It's Got to be a Love/The Message
Thanks to DJ Godzilla for this particular mash. Simple but effective. For those of you who don't live in Auckland, DJ Godzilla plays Walter Matthau to DJ Shagpile's Jack Lemmon as the awesomest funk DJ duo in town, The Natural Disasters (4-6pm Sundays on Base FM). Muchos Respectos.
Derek Bailey is Dobby's favourite, favourite guitarist, sir!
posted by etnobofin @ 19:22
5 Comments:
At 10:10 AM,
Nick said…
too funny...although I don't know half of the artists. The ones I did know though got all the Austrians looking at me wondering why I was laughing in the middle of a class:P
At 5:55 PM,
etnobofin said…
Nick, one of our missions in life is to confuse and bewilder the Austrians. I see you are doing well in this endeavour, young padawan.
I have to admit I had to do some research on some of the artists myself, but they all make (twisted) sense once I found out who they are.
Xanax AND Nick - I'm happy that you found it funny, sometimes I think I've lost my touch. Perhaps there is still hope for me ;-)
At 11:48 PM,
Nick said…
Xanax as in the drug for people with anxiety disorders...?
At 7:04 AM,
etnobofin said…
Sorry Nick, probably not obvious from the context - "Xanax Taxi" is taxi driver's jazzblog (xanaxtaxi.blogspot.com), so occastionally we call him "Xanax" for short. No, it wasn't a suggestion for your prescription requirements :-)
At 7:09 PM,
DJ durutti said…
hearing some of these imaginary mash-ups in one's head could induce a giddy or dreadfull sort of anxiety for which xanax (the drug, or the blog for that matter) could prove extremely helpful.
great job etno!
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