Today's music, brought to you by Clivester

[drwex]

I've never had a single post with three entries by one artist before now, but this guy is bloody awesome.

Clivester is the administrator of the site Mashup Industries (http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php). I found him and this site off Mashuptown and I was just blown away by the first mix.

http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=200&Itemid=36
This is one with a must-watch video. You can just play the mp3 but you'd be losing some amazing visual imagery. The track mashes up REM's well-known "Losing My Religion" and its video with David Guetta's "Just A Little More Love" and its video, which is just awesome and hot. You can see the original of the latter video on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWy8y4mE55w) and it's worth seeing. I would pay serious money for the technology depicted there (and no I'm not going to spoil by telling you what it is). The REM video is also famously disturbing, using imagery from famous Medieval and Renaissance art brought to life and video mixer CjR knows how to use the material to full effect.

http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=201&Itemid=36
This is a brilliant mash-up of five main tracks, including both Moby and Chemical Brothers who themselves sampled other artists heavily to create the tracks that went into this production. I seem to be gravitating toward mixes that sound more like covers and this one sounds like one of those multi-guest tracks you sometimes hear where an artist invites one or more friends to "sit in" on a reworking of a well-known hit.

http://www.mashup-industries.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=196&Itemid=36
I hate to close on the weakest of the three. This one is "only" good. Compared to the usual mix or mash-up I listen to this is above average. It's just not the stand-out that I think the first two are.

Comments

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

wow. just wow. where do you find all these (without spending most of the day sifting thru junk)?

Actually most of the day I do sift through junk

[drwex]

I spend most of the day with headphones on and some kind of Web radio playing. When I hear a track I think is good I open it in a new tab either directly from the source or by finding a playable version through Google searching. Posting becomes a matter of closing out some of those tabs and if I have time checking for a few follow-up links. Most bands and DJs these days try to have MySpace pages or their own sites, which are usually pretty easy to find. Last.fm and YouTube are also good places to look.