Mixing it up

After Wednesday's lecture on Music in the Digital Age I was reminded of a remixed track I heard on the radio the week before. This particular track was a mix of the 'Rolling Stones' music and the 'All Saints' lyrics/voices. I do not know who recorded this mix or whether any permission to do so was sought/granted but regardless, as an unlikely a combination this sounds like, it actually worked very very well. I'm not usually a huge 'All Saints' fan (or necessarily a 'Rolling Stones' one at that although I do think their music is classic) but I did like this! I tried and tried to find a copy of the song on a URL to put with this post but was unfortunate, however, take the lyrics out of a 'Rolling Stones' song (which one was played in this particular case is unknown) and the background music from the 'All Saints' song "Beaches", put them together and you can get the drift. The slowish music composition with the strong guitar and piano influence and the smooth, easy-going sound of the 'All Saints' voices all really complemented each other in my opinion! I will continue to search for a copy of this as it is nice easy-listening music.

Another example of the music mixes demonstrated in the lecture on Wednesday the 13th of September is one a friend of mine downloaded on Limewire a few days ago which consists of music from the Spice Girls, Britney Spears, the Sugababes and other various girl bands (goodness help us!). Not liking any of the individual bands or artists in the first place aside, this was an example of a mix NOT done well! I think that I could honestly have done a better job of mixing up a piece of "music" myself, having had no experience in the field what-so-ever. Usually, if placed together well, anything can sound half-decent. This sounded like someone had just randomly picked bits from the pop songs, in an attempt to make a hip dance beat, and thrown them together in no particular order and failed to make it flow in any way! Again, I will try and get hold of a copy of this music, if one permits to call it that, as the mix just really does not work - as a dance mix or anything else!

Both examples show how even within this mix of different genre music, it seems there is almost separate genres we didn't really categorize before - I wonder if this will be the genres the next generation totally grow up with as it is already such a big part of our sound today!