April 12, 2010
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Monday Morning Mash-Up Madness 4/12/10
I am happy to bring back this feature but I haven’t really had a chance to dive into the world of mash-ups. I have been catching up everywhere else but in the music world. Oh well, it will happen. I found some of the old websites that I haunted so within a week or two, I’ll post some actual mp3s. This week I’m going to post some videos from youtube.
A few weeks ago I caught a new show on the FX network. It’s called Justified and stars Timothy Olyphant. It’s about a U.S. marshal who is fast on the draw. I really enjoy the show because it seems like it is a modern day Western plus it has Olyphant who was in one of my favorite shows, Deadwood, and the character he plays in Justified could be a great grandson of his Deadwood character.
The theme songs for Justified are unique. It’s hard to put a label on the music but it’s a mash-up of styles. It contains two forms of music that are uniquely American: rap and bluegrass. Rench and TONEZ got together to form a band called Gangstagrass and here are two examples of their work:
Opening credits
End credits
This music…I love it.
The quality is poor but it is a great mash-up.That’s it for this week, next week will be better.
Comments (10)
yeah, i’ve heard of that Justified… but haven’t seen it… is it a total guy show… er… ?
and i love that name… Gangstagrass…
This is good mash ups
I don’t think I get the concept . . .
I created my own mash up when I played both the opening and ending credit videos as the same time. Pretty cool.
@Peridot21 -
I don’t know if Justified is a total guy show. Hmmm…I guess it is like The Shield but with a country twang.
I am desperately trying to find mp3s for the band but because I didn’t get my computer fast enough I missed the free ones on Gangstagrass’s website.
@Dennis1979 -
Thanks…I love how people can combine one song with another song. That is amazing stuff.
@jacksoncroons -
I think it is more or less a mash-up of two styles that at first thought wouldn’t go well together but I have to say they did a good combination of bluegrass and rap.
@karila -
When I was trying to make my own mash-ups, I would have 3 or 4 of my cd players going at the same time in hopes of find songs that went good together. There were other times when I would find myself singing another song while listening to one on the stereo. I love how music can do that.
Those were hilarious. I especially liked the Sgt.Pepper/GnR one.
@UR_MUSE -
I wish it were a better quality bootie but it still is good.