Mash ups/ Bastard pop is a musical genre which, in its purest form, consists of the combination (usually by digital means) of the music from one song with the acapella from another. Typically, the music and vocals belong to completely different genres. At their best, bastard pop songs strive for musical epiphanies that add up to considerably more than the sum of their parts.
This is a tune I've been playing around with for a hour or two. There's a couple of hooks in the Sarah Bareilles 'Love Song' tune that put me in mind of 'My Guy' by Mary Wells so I thought I'd try the mash!! This is the result:
Just another mash up thrown into the 'Disturbia' ring. This tune uses the instrumental of Rihanna's 'Disturbia with main vocals courtesy of Pink's ' Get This Party Started' and a sprinkling from Salt 'n' Pepa's 'Push It'.
I thought I'd done the last Amy Winehouse mash after I put out the Black to Back mash up album but lo.......here is another. Unfortunately this was made too late to make it onto the album.
This tunes turns Amy into a bit of a dancefloor babe. I've cut up Crystal Waters' 'Gypsy Woman' instrumental and laid it under Amy's vocals from 'Back to Black'. It's got plenty of bass and a kickin' beat!
After collating all my Amy Winehouse mashed tunes into one download I thought I'd gather together all my Motown mashes too. These tunes use either instrumentals or acapellas from Motown classics such as The Supremes 'My World is Empty Without You', Jackson 5's 'I'll Be There', Smokey Robinson's 'Tears of a Clown' mashed with contemporary artists such as Jordin Sparks, Leona Lewis, Kanye West and Madonna.
Most of these tunes have been available in the usual places (GYBO, SUSN, ACAS4U, Mashuptown, Mashstix etc) or have been exclusives on Ramdom Thoughts podcast (cheers Scott!).
Click the pic above for a readable tracklist. Download the album here:
The album includes a new mash using Dennis Edwards and Seidah Garrett's vocals from the 80's tune 'Don't Look Any Further' and the instrumental from Mary Mary's cross-over gospel hit 'Shackles' - 80's soul fused with 90's gospel!
It uses The Supremes instrumental 'My World is Empty Without You' and vocals from American Idol winner, Jordin Sparks 'Tattoo'.
The mix of these vocals and the instrumental put me in mind of an 80's Eurovision tune - not sure why tho' - but don't let that put you off having a listen!
A track that just come together in the last couple of hours really! It uses the (overused) instrumetnal from Katy Perry's ' I Kissed a Girl' with vocals from Katy and also from Bob Marley's ' Exodus'. They seem to sit quite nicely - i'm sure you'll let me know otherwise!
A bit of a poppy tune this time 60's pop vs 80's pop. The instrumental is courtesy of Madonna's 'Borderline' with the Marvelettes vocals from 'Please, Mr Postman'.
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