If I like Girl Talk, what else might I like? (mashup mix stuff)

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overtone: Jul 26, 2001; t(o_ot)

Brown Moses posted:

I'd really encourage anyone who enjoys mash-up music to give it a shot themselves. Acid Pro 6 has a 30 day trial, and it's pretty straight forward to use with a little direction. I've only been doing it a couple of months, and I've found it to be an extremely enjoyable hobby, especially as I'm teaching myself along the way, so there's a nice sense of exploration and discovery there.

My technique is probably a bit inefficent though, I stick a bunch of music on my iPod, and while I'm travelling to work I rate any songs that might be good for sampling with 5 stars, and when I get home I open iTunes and work my way through the top rated songs, beatmapping and chopping them up into little pieces. Then I'll listen through my big list of samples until I find something good, then start seeing which samples compliment it and start building up the track from their.
Then I try to figure out a transition that doesn't suck, and find a nice acapella sample to layer on top of the first section, and repeat the same process for the next section.
Once I've got a few sections done I'll see if I can add any other background samples to make things more interesting.

I'm guessing felipebacon has a better method, especially as I taught myself how to use Acid
Pro, but if you really like mashup music then I think you would find it very enjoyable to do it yourself, even if you aren't quite up to Girl Talk's level.

I'd love to get more information on creating mash-ups. Does anyone have any more tips or tricks? Maybe we could get a list of software and tutorial websites going.

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overtone: Jul 26, 2001; t(o_ot)

Brown Moses posted:

I'd be happy to give any advice, as limited as my knowledge is. It's just fun to make your own mashups, and I find I listen to my own alot more then any others just because it's music I like anyway, and if I didn't think it sounded cool I wouldn't have made it into an mp3 in the first place.

I've found it's also really opened my eyes to music I wouldn't have really listened to, stuff like early electro music, European early 80's disco, and alot of other genre's that are new to me.

Personally I've found the most difficult thing to do is to create decent transitions between the different parts of my songs. I've got lots of interesting and fun ideas that I've put together, but because I can't get them to transistion nicely into each other they aren't really much use, but when I figure out how to actually make it work it's very satisfying. I listened to alot of Girl Talk to figure out how he did it, then tried to replicate some of the techniques in my own music, to varying degrees of success.

I know you mentioned Acid Pro, is there any other software you use or would recommend?

# ¿ Nov 26, 2008 15:36

overtone: Jul 26, 2001; t(o_ot)

Brown Moses posted:

Well with my limited experience of this sort of thing I've really only used Acid Pro, so my exclusion of other software isn't a judgement on them, just a reflection of my lack of experience. It's very nice though, the beatmapping tool makes things ALOT easier.

I didn't know Acid Pro had a feature like that. Definitely checking this software out, thanks!

# ¿ Nov 26, 2008 17:20

overtone: Jul 26, 2001; t(o_ot)

Does anyone have a link to a Ludachrist - Talk Is Cheap sample list? There is one before AC/DC - Thunderstruck, and it's bothering me because I can't remember what it's from.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2010 14:45

overtone: Jul 26, 2001; t(o_ot)

Does anyone know who is behind Ludachrist, and why there hasn't been any new material?

# ¿ Apr 7, 2013 06:59

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