Sunday, October 21, 2007

Thoughts?

Sigur Ros/Mobb Deep - Untitled Shook Ones (Emancipator Mash-up)

2 comments:

hemanzero said...

I love this track, though indeed I think this is a pretty safe form of a "mash-up." Take a pleasant, somewhat deep song that is not especially downbeat driven and place downbeat heavy (and dope) lyrics over the top. It is almost a sure fire winner (think Eminem and Dido for a poppy, old example). However, to revisit an old he-question which wasn't really fleshed out appropriately, I don't think that this song would appropriately be called a mash-up. It is certainly a remix of the Mobb song, but does the fact that the underlying "beat" is made by another group of musicians and indeed can be heard on its own make it a mash-up? I think not, and I take this stance because I think that what has been created here is a hip hop song, and Sigur Ros' part in that project is basically that of any other sampled artist whose work is integrated via sampling.

Will this bring Victor out of hiding?

Jbell said...

one of the songs i'm contributing to volume IV of the podcast will add a relevant data point and i think it will help you make the distinction. don't ask me what song, it's a surprise.