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Another underground music movement from the UK is starting to invade North America and the rest of the world. This new invasion is part-tribute, part-digital, part-Internet phenomena and, so far, mostly illegal. David Clements, producer of the Be Connected Series on Technology, sat down in the studio with The Freelance Hellraiser, one of the industry?s innovators.
FYI: Some of the production sounds deceptively simple, but what you probably won't hear are the digital pitch changes, music edits, etc. necessary to make it sound simple.
Oh and one more thing. This is pretty hip. Can public radio deal with it? Perhaps we have to wait until Yo-Yo Ma enters the Bootleg scene.
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Another underground music movement from the UK is starting to invade North America and the rest of the world. This new invasion is part-tribute, part-digital, part-Internet phenomena and, so far, mostly illegal. David Clements, producer of the Be Connected Series on Technology, sat down in the studio with The Freelance Hellraiser, one of the industry?s innovators. FYI: Some of the production sounds deceptively simple, but what you probably won't hear are the digital pitch changes, music edits, etc. necessary to make it sound simple. Oh and one more thing. This is pretty hip. Can public radio deal with it? Perhaps we have to wait until Yo-Yo Ma enters the Bootleg scene.
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Review of UK Bootlegs and MashupsA well-informed look at a music production style emerging from the underground. Musical samples are used to illustrate the technique discussed. Accessible and cutting-edge at the same time. Sonorous dialog between American and English dialect speakers. With an appropriate segue, this piece could air next to a hard news story about intellectual property, file sharing or celebrity image-ownership. Air this now and boost your station's hipness factor. |
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Since this is a piece on Bootlegs, I have a basic idea, but there are so many things thrown in there. Some that I recall are:
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Eminem - Without Me
Skee Lo - I Wish
Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
Christina Aguilara - Genie in a Bottle
Micheal Jackson - Thriller
Oasis - Wonderwall
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Eric Nuzum
Posted on October 17, 2003 at 05:31 AM | Permalink
Review of UK Bootlegs and Mashups
A few editorial notes:
* The piece would be stronger if the reporter would walk through the clear definition of mashups up front. This definition doesn't come until two minutes into the piece. Even then, to someone unfamiliar with mashups, it may not fully explain the concept.
* The piece assumes a knowledge of the source music--which may be a dangerous assumption. How many people know Destiny Child's or Eminem's repertoire well enough to know that what we're hearing is an alteration? Some listeners will get this immediately. Most won't.
* The order of some of the interview cuts could flow a bit better. For example, about 2:30 into the piece, the interviewer asks about any reaction to mashups from record labels. A logical follow-up, about the reaction from artists, doesn't come until several questions later, at 8:15 into the piece. These two questions should have been placed together for a more logical flow.