If I like Girl Talk, what else might I like? (mashup mix stuff)

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Bathroompants: Aug 19, 2002

baberaham lincoln posted:

If you like Easter Egg (and Girl Talk, but that is probably a granted by this point) you will probably love E-603.

Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/e603
Free album:
http://www.e-603.com/DISCOGRAPHY.html

Seriously, Something for Everyone is suburb. And free to boot.

Seconding E-603. I found it recently after getting Feed The Animals, and while they use a lot of the same samples in the two albums, I got the feeling that E-603's craft was much more polished than Girl Talk's. Although there wasn't a "holy poo poo" moment like on FTA's mashup of Lil Wayne and RHCP for me.

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Bathroompants: Aug 19, 2002

Brown Moses posted:

I'd really encourage anyone who enjoys mash-up music to give it a shot themselves. Acid Pro 6 has a 30 day trial, and it's pretty straight forward to use with a little direction. I've only been doing it a couple of months, and I've found it to be an extremely enjoyable hobby, especially as I'm teaching myself along the way, so there's a nice sense of exploration and discovery there.

My technique is probably a bit inefficent though, I stick a bunch of music on my iPod, and while I'm travelling to work I rate any songs that might be good for sampling with 5 stars, and when I get home I open iTunes and work my way through the top rated songs, beatmapping and chopping them up into little pieces. Then I'll listen through my big list of samples until I find something good, then start seeing which samples compliment it and start building up the track from their.
Then I try to figure out a transition that doesn't suck, and find a nice acapella sample to layer on top of the first section, and repeat the same process for the next section.
Once I've got a few sections done I'll see if I can add any other background samples to make things more interesting.

I'm guessing felipebacon has a better method, especially as I taught myself how to use Acid
Pro, but if you really like mashup music then I think you would find it very enjoyable to do it yourself, even if you aren't quite up to Girl Talk's level.

I've tried a few times, but I can't seem to figure out how to get the vocals separated from the original music. Are you guys just using acapella tracks or am I missing something completely obvious?

# ¿ Nov 21, 2008 09:14

Bathroompants: Aug 19, 2002

ManoliIsFat posted:

They're usually on the 12" single or sometimes the cd single of a song. You can't seperate the vocals out of a mixdown song. Once in a blue moon, you can add an inverted left signal to the right signal, and sometimes you'll get some destructive interference and all you'll be left with is some vocals in a messed up phase, but 95% of the time this stuff comes from a record.

I figured that was the case, but I can never find any when I look for them online. I just sort of had a feeling that there was this underground group I didn't know about that had acapella tracks that I wasn't cool enough to be a part of.

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