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2/A What was your first mashup experience and how did it effect you?
2/B What was the title of your first Mashup/Bootleg you produced and how did
you come about picking the tracks to mix?

prologue by Simon Iddol

I've been involved in music now for about 20 years.
Before becoming Simon Iddol I was Djing in clubs, playing in bands,
creating and producing radio and television, managing artists and working
in the record business. I got fed up with the business and quit – disgusted at
what it had become – I'd lost my faith in it.
But for some reason the Bootleg and Mashup scene gave me back my faith.
I think it is pretty good as a first experience:)))

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Adrian & the Mysterious D
The first mashup we ever heard was either 2manyDJs' "Smells Like Booty" or
Freelance Hellraiser's "Stroke of Genius" -- both were on a CD called
"The Best Bootlegs In The World Ever," which was reviewed in Entertainment
Weekly magazine back in May 2002 --


Once I read this, I immediately Google'd it and found it for sale via import
through the Rough Trade web site. At the time, we had just started DJing, and
mashups (or bootlegs, as they were called then) fit in perfectly with our very
eclectic, all-over-the-map DJ style. It was love at first listen!

After a couple years of collecting mashups and spinning them out at our club
Bootie and other parties, we finally set out to craft our own. It was an idea
that had just come to us out of the blue, but we immediately knew it would work.
For both of us, The Cure had always been one of our favorite bands, so it seemed
appropriate that they should provide the backing track for our first mashup.

Someone once said that if you're a beginning mashup artist, you should try working
with either an Eminem or Missy Elliott acapella. Since their rapping styles are so
rhythmic, it's fairly easy to sync their vocals to the music.
The acapella for Missy Elliott's "I'm Really Hot" had just been released and together
with The Cure's "Hot Hot Hot!!!," it just seemed like a perfect conceptual match.
I'm Really Hot Hot Hot!!! became our first mashup

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AGGRO1
My sister asked me to burn her a Justin Timberlake disc back in late
'01/02, I think(kinda' hazy)...anyway, while on Audiogalaxy, I came across
Dsico's glitch-pop remix of "Like I love You". I had never heard any glitch
before...I was blown away. So I Googled Dsico and found his site. I listened
to all his tunes, amazed at hearing the work he had there. The familiarity of
one tune against the familiarity of another just tickled the sh*t outta' me. I
started clicking on link after link, and was introduced to the world of
mashups/bootlegs. Although I visited hundreds of links and sites, I never(for
some reason) clicked on the GYBO links. It wasn't until 2-3 years later I
finally did, and realized there was a whole culture based upon this style of
mixing.

My first actual mash/boot was Marilyn Manson's "Antichrist Superstar" v. Kanye
West's "Jesus Walks". 'Tis the dreaded rap/rock hum-drum, I know. But, it's
the opposites, Jesus taking on Satan, that I thought might be worthwhile.
Looking back now, I cringe everytime I hear it. It's so fcuking raw and
sloppy. But solcofn loved it, and that gave me the confidence to continue. So
blame him.

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Arty Fufkin
2/A
The first time I sst up and took notice was hearing Loo and Placido's
'Safari Love' in a podcast and it got me searching for more. Next
were Party Ben's 'Finding Out Sharona is Blind' and DJ Earworm's
'No-one Takes Your Freedom'. Those three tracks were on repeat for
bloody ages.


2/B
'Close to Me (Close To Me (Don't Stand So)'. I just wanted to have a
go so I started with a solid backing (The Cure 'Close To Me') and
started adding as much 80s music as I could. I was reminiscing,
looking for melodic threads and links between the lyrics and other
things I was just reminded of as I was making it and listening.

I ended up a two-minute track featuring The Cure vs The Police vs ACDC
vs Wham! vs Bobby McFerrin vs Katrina and the Waves vs David Bowie vs
Cold Chisel vs Corey Hart vs Prince vs Paul McCartney. Here's a link


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ComaR
2A / As far as I can remember, my first mashup experience is Fatboy
Slim's Satisfaction Skank, mixing The Rolling Stones Satisfaction with
his Rockafeller Skank mega hit back in 1999.
This one is really brilliant but I think what amazed me the most is
the fact I thought he did it live with his turntables...
I know, I was so naive.
Few monthes later, I discovered 2 Soulwax mashups on Napster and I was
like "Where can I hear more of that !!!".
Finally, Rubin Steiner and Placido's Dancing Music Show and Osysmyso's
Breezeblock mixes transformed me on a real mashup addict... never been
clean since then.

2B / My first one is a mash between Eminem's Encore and Outkast's Mrs
Jackson. Hip Hop over Hip Hop is not really interesting but it's
easyer for a start.
I had to do this one cause when I heard Eminem's track, I thought it
was exactly the same track as Outkast one. This is one of the things I
like to do when I mash 2 tracks : showing similarities. Here is the link

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DJ Earworm
2/A
The first mashup I heard was As Heard on Radio Soulwax Vol. 2, which I
thought was pretty cool at the time, though I didn't know about
acapellas at the time, so I couldn't figure out how they made them. I
didn't get into mashup production until a few years later

2/B
The first mashup I made was "Get Invisibly Paid" with Beck's "Get Real
Paid" and Fischerspooner's "Invisible".
It started as a electro mixtape I was making for a friend in ACID, and I
started cutting and editing until all of the sudden it was a mashup

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DJ Zebra
I started composing with a sampler in 1994. It was a way to do mash-ups,
without knowing it, inspired by the megamixs of the 80's, and then by the big
beat movement. Then it changed in 2001, from the "hide the samples" thing to
the "let it full" thing. I must admit that the 2 Many DJs album opened my
mind. The first real A+B mash-up that i did was Shaggy vs. Rage against the
machine Killing Boombastic in november 2002. I didn't know where to find
acapellas, so i needed a track with space in it (the Shaggy song had only
elecronic drums, low bass and voice), then i could add heavy drums and guitars
(the RATM riff), without equalizing it. It sounded good, i still play it, and
it has become a hit of the bootlegs parties.

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Eve Massacre
My first bootleg mix was "I Hate Lovebills" and I made it in July 2002.
It used Console's wonderful take on "Freiburg" by Tocotronic as
instrumental and had PIL and Destinys Child as vocals on top. Ha, I even
still like it! I picked Console and PIL cause I really like their music
and Destinys Child cause the "Bills Bills Bills" lyrics worked fine with
"This Is Not A Love Song". To rearrange lyrics has been an important
part of a mash up, not just making a new tune melody-wise.
Before my first mash up I had played in a couple of bands and djed a
couple of times. The longest lasting band was The Flamingo Massacres:
1997 - 2002. We split at the end of our final six weeks long tour
through Europe and that wasn't a nice experience. At that time a friend
had told me about Boomselection and then I found the first GYBO version
and soon I made my first efforts with music software. That really helped
filling the deep hole the split of my band had left in my heart. It was
a challenging and fun and consoling way to dip into the electronic way
of making music. I don't think I would have taken to making electronic
music if I hadn't discovered bootleg mixes at that time.

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Go Home Productions
2/A
Probably ‘A Stroke of Genius’ by Freelance Hellraiser and the Soulwax / 2
Many DJ’s XFM sessions around 2001.
I was suitably impressed at the time. Had been doing similar things myself
back in the late 80’s / early nineties on a Portastudio after being influenced
by the sample based stuff by Coldcut / Steinski and The Justified Ancients of
Mu Mu. The Hellraiser / 2 Many DJ’s stuff inspired me to get back into it again.
It was almost a religious experience… I saw the second coming… It was heart
shaped.

2/B
‘A Slim McShady’ - Eminem ‘Without Me’ / Wings ‘Silly Love Songs’ May 2002.
I put it together for the Boomselection ‘Without Me’ thing that was running at
the time, so it was just a case of finding a track to go with the acapella.
Judging by the responses it did the trick. Playlisted on major New Zealand and
Australian radio stations.
Nearly five years later new people are hearing it for the first time and
flipping over it, much to my amusement. (I recommend a trip to their GP)
It’s a hideous 3 minutes of tear-induction…what’s your pain threshold?

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Loo & Placido
2/A
It's not realy a mash-up, but the 1st time I heard "The magic number" from
De La Soul, I was realy amazed about the production because I loved the
original track they sampled and this made me want to buy a sampler which only
happened a few years later unfortunatly.
A few years later, I saw Fatboy Slim live, and when I heard that Rolling
Stones mash, it was a real revelation for me.

2/B
The 1st mash-up I made was Ol dirty Bastard vs Mr Oizo.
I didn't have internet at that time and only a few acapellas on vinyl, and Ol'
Dirty Bastard was one of them, then I searched for a track with a vibe that
could fit that crazy voice, and I found that 'Analog worm attacks' by Mr Oizo
was perfect.

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Party Ben
I look at my fascination with mashups as evolving from my fascination with
remixes and dj segues. My favorite parts of DJ mixes I got ahold of were
always the crossfades. So I'd say some mix between a random early euro-dance
song and Bizarre Love Triangle on some mix tape my friend Ed got when I was
like 14.

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I think the first real mashup (not counting sampling in Hip Hop) was "Oops! The real Slim Shady did it again" (Eminem vs. Britney) by DJ Gauffie back in 2000. I heard it on national radio (!) & then got it from Napster ;) along with some other mashes which were available at that time (...although I don't remember one of them, I guess they were all bad ::)
djschmolli

I must be an exception as the first mashup I've ever heard was mine, back in oct. 2003. I think I may have heard about mashup before but I never heard any, well I can't remember. I made this mashup because I thought that Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson was very inspired by Personal Jesus.
ToToM

me and a friend did a mashup of sorts back in 1986...
it was Blancmange/Living On The Ceiling and Depeche Mode/Flexible, as part of a mixtape we were making
I remember the crossfade sounded real nice so I said 'we gotta let this thing ride for at least 2 minutes'
so after about 8 attempts on the technics we nailed it and when people heard the tape they were flippin' out. it was that reaction that made me realize that the longer the blend the better.
lobsterdust

Right , the first "mashup" i ever heard must have been Whitney Houston , I wanna dance with somebody and Leftfields Not Forgotten ,Which was more of a live mix than a mashup but with the same effect.It was on a mixtape from Shelly's in Stoke mixed by Sacha back in '91 approx...
from that point i started to mix accapellas over all my house sets,coming up with a lot of good mixes if i do say so myself.Seriously though it has stuck with me ever since.
differentstrokes

... I noticed a link to mashups. I didn’t know what they were, so I ignored them for a few weeks, and then one day feeling a bit more adventurous I clicked on it and found a load of mashups. The first one I clicked on was Partybens Boulevard of broken songs. You can imagine my elation on discovering the most exciting thing I’d heard since my first acid house track in the late 80’s
boris

... I remember the Inhumanz one blew me away - simple but effective. Heard it in an alt/rock club that I used to frequent and the crowd loved it too. Then I heard 'A Stroke Of Genie-us' from Freelance Hellraiser and was sold on the whole scene. For a few months I think I spent most of my free time doing google searches for mashups, as well as P2P searches.
lock3down

My first mashup experience was coming across one of Party Ben's SixxMixxes. Boulevard of Broken Songs comes to mind. Forget where/why I heard it but once I did, I immediately downloaded that song and every sixxmixx I could find. No seriously.. every sixxmixx.
djmaxentropy

... i was doing bootlegs live on my turntables way before i had internet. First because i was allergic to computers till '98 & also because i didn't know the term "mashup/bootleg" before...
... few years later i was googling around for bootlegs/mashups when i found Dj BC's site which drove me to GYBO & i understood there was a scene i didn't even know...
zamali

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