April
2007
dj bakasan - mashy mashy
Various Artists - Everybody Move (Break) Justin Timberlake vs Europe - Final Love (Break) Nelly Furtado vs Pet Shop Boys - Westend P Girls (DJ Krayz) Ying Yang Twinz - Dangerous Coolio - 1234 (Sumpin New) Gwen Stefani vs Madonna - Hollaback Holiday Girl (Untouchable Blendz) Justin Timberlake - Sexyback Timbaland - Give It To Me Timbaland ft Fatman Scoop - Drop (Break) Journey vs Michael Jackson - Journey W/ Jean (DJ Sizzahandz) Sisqo vs Michael Jackson - Jump In A Thong With Jean (DJ Frankie P) Petey Pablo vs Blur - Girls And Boys On Fire (DJ NASA) Lady Sovereign - Love Me Or Hate Me (Instrumental)
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Since I’ve been asked several times now, if you know me (or even if you don’t), if you’d like to get a high bit rate version of these mixes (i.e. to burn to listen in the car, etc), please leave a comment or contact me and I’ll hook ya up. To save bandwidth and disk space though, I simply can’t leave all my mixes in high bitrate versions on the podbean servers.
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Thoughts One of the biggest fads lately, particularly on the west coast, has been the usage of mashups in the mix. A mashup is basically taking two unlike tracks and mixing them together–using the vocals of one over the instrumentals of another. The concept isn’t new, in fact it’s been around for pretty much for as long as DJs have been around. The latest iteration of the fad however is very embracing of taking the concept cross genre–dirty south hip hop over an 80s beat, mainstream pop over punk rock, etc etc.
I originally was going to just do a set of only mashups but realized quickly as I started the mix that it would sound like shit. So I added some filler songs here and there to carry the melody and vibe better–as I’m wont to do though, I got a little distracted and ended up on a tangent I wholly did not set out to go on. It started innocently enough w/ blend using Nelly Furtado (produced by and featuring Timbaland) over a Pet Shop Boys beat. Then a Justin Timberlake track (produced by Timbaland). Then it was a Timbaland track featuring Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado. And quickly followed by a Timbaland and Fatman Scoop party break. I had to break the cycle before it spiraled out of control.. 
And that’s how I ended back to straight mashup after mashup to end it out…
For the programming curious (programming being the song selection a DJ may make through the course of an event or evening), this set would *probably* be best suited in a Hollywood or similar type night club toward the very end of the evening. By this point, most of the very very popular songs (i.e. “the heat”) has been spent, and you just want to keep the crowd dancing and ending their night on a high note and enjoyably dancing away.
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