{"id":210,"date":"2007-06-13T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/MashuptownMoreMashupMusicThanYouCanShakeAStickAt.aspx"},"modified":"2007-06-13T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T13:37:00","slug":"mashuptown-more-mash-up-music-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/mashuptown-more-mash-up-music-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Mashuptown &#8211; more mash-up music than you can shake a stick at"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mashuptown.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/Mashuptownmoremashupmusicthanyoucanshake_9BC9\/image.png\" alt=\"image\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple years ago I got hooked on music mash-ups when a coworker pointed me to\u00a0the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/partyben.com\/\">Party Ben<\/a>, a DJ who, until recently, had a mash-up show on San Francisco&#8217;s alternative station Live 105.\u00a0 Since then I&#8217;ve been hooked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s a mash-up?<\/strong><br \/>\nMusic mash-ups are the result of a DJ taking two different songs and\u00a0mixing them together into a hybrid of the two, sometimes with fantastic results.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a little like sampling (taking a riff from one song and making a new song around it).\u00a0 Some of the results are total crap&#8230; but sometimes one can find some real gems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why do I enjoy mash-ups so much?\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nWell&#8230; I listen to music\u00a0a lot and find I get sick of what&#8217;s on the radio and what I have in my own collection.\u00a0 Mash-ups are a fun way to listen to music I already like and make it fresh again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where can you find mash-ups?<\/strong><br \/>\nA quick search will net you all sorts of stuff but you can save yourself a lot of legwork by simply going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mashuptown.com\/\">Mashuptown<\/a>, a mash-up review blog which picks out great tracks almost daily. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mashuptown.com\/\">Mashuptown<\/a> will point you to the sites of some great DJs where you can\u00a0find more great tracks on your own.\u00a0 Another good place to start is on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.partyben.com\/downloads\/mixes.html\">the mixes page<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/partyben.com\">Party Ben&#8217;s site<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Party Ben has a collection of tracks all crammed into a single file,\u00a0as\u00a0if you\u00a0were listening to a long set at a club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years ago I got hooked on music mash-ups when a coworker pointed me to\u00a0the work of Party Ben, a DJ who, until recently, had a mash-up show on San Francisco&#8217;s alternative station Live 105.\u00a0 Since then I&#8217;ve been hooked. What&#8217;s a mash-up? Music mash-ups are the result of a DJ taking two different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,105],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idlemusic","tag-freebies","tag-idlemusic"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}