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By Sam Page
|Nov 10, 2009 05:40 PM
In honor of DJ Hero bringing us that much closer to every lame Guitar Hero parody becoming reality, I've compiled a list of the best song mash-ups floating around the internet. YouTube is a great vehicle for the art of the mashup, as hobbyists often take on the extra challenge of mixing the two music videos, in addition to syncing the vocals, usually failing at both. Like YouTube as whole and DJ Hero itself, however, through the dreck, some real gems emerge.
First off, a mix so good Activision stole it and put in the game:
Really, you can mix Gorillaz with anything. This might be the best of the bunch with a little volume tweaking:
"Yeah it was ok, until you spliced in Jay-Z's grunts":
This next one (embedding disabled) seems really incongruous at first, but the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced a Franco-Tennessean super-group is imminent.
Now onto the "No, I don't recognize either of those songs...but that is kind of catchy" division:
The cream of the professionally made crop:
And finally, proof that the best [mayne] YouTube videos are just jokes about other YouTube videos:
Editor:
Jamie Berk is the Editor-in-Chief of The Dartmouth Independent. His first book, Making It: The New Landscape of the Music Business, is due out next summer.
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Writers:
Adam Boardman is the co-founder of Big Green Beats and a junior at Dartmouth.
Joseph Chapman is a freelance photographer and contributor to the UNC Daily Tarheel. His past interviews include Girl Talk, Chuck D, David Byrne, and Yes.
Sarah Grant is a freelance writer for publications like Rollingstone.com, Blurt, and Crawdaddy. She has interviewed the likes of Patti Smith, Les Paul, and Joe Perry.
Andrew Lohse is the Literary Editor of The Dartmouth Independent and co-editor of aposiopesis-!, TDI's literature, arts, and culture channel. He is the drummer for New Jersey-based pop-rock band The Horizontals.
Rahul Malik is a staff writer for The Dartmouth Independent.
David Mainiero is the Managing Editor of The Dartmouth Independent and editor of For The Love Of The Game, TDI's sports channel.
Brian Patrick is a Staff Writer for The Dartmouth Independent and a Master of Liberal Arts student at Dartmouth, focusing on social movements and new media.
Liz Pelly is music director of Boston University's WTBU and a freelance writer for publications like Paste and CMJ.
Peter Stein is the film critic for The Dartmouth Independent, Director of The Dartmouth Independent Film Festival, and co-editor of aposiopesis-!, TDI's literature, arts, and culture channel.
Miles Suter is the co-founder of Big Green Beats and a junior at Dartmouth.
Kobi Tirey is a staff writer for The Dartmouth Independent. He is an outspoken critic of hipsters and Tokio Hotel.
John Vilanova is a contributor to Rolling Stone, Rollingstone.com, and GQ. He is a Research Editor at Niche Media.
Business Unusual, by Jamie Berk:
The music industry is backwards, bloated, and dying, leaving more than a few people wondering: what the hell happened? In 2009, TDI went to the industry’s annual rendezvous in Austin, Texas, to find out.
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