Mashups - Cop out?
Recently found a great mashup artist called 3lau and played a couple of his tracks in recent sets. In your opinion, is playing a mashup -that isn’t yours- during a set a cop out?
Not at all!
In my opinion, yes, of course, but if you think they’re really good and you wanna play it - play it! Just don’t take the credit.
Exactly!
What credit is there to be taken?
Someone may think it’s a live mix that you’ve done…
So when does the chance to deny the credit come?
i drop 3LAU’s “beat it barbara” all the time. great track.
hes somewhere on the forums too…
just dont act like your twisting ur knobs and shit during the track hahaha
I make my own mashups so my opinion is biased
i really dont see a problem with it…play it if you like it…
and why would you ever take credit for someone elses work?
like others said just dont take credit, i drop 3lau’s mashups weekly, some of them are awesome!!
justin is a great guy, a lot of people just assume that whatever youre playing is all your work, its their ignorance not yours sometimes
This is why, every time I put a record on, I go round the venue and explain to every single person that although I’m playing it, I didn’t actually write and record it
Haha, exactly. In seriousness though, if the mashup is made available by a soundcloud download or similar then I assume the creator wants others to play it out.
Ive been playing an awesome mashup of superstition and remember me by some guy called Allegro, someone comes up and asks me about it nearly every time I play and of course I tell them who dunnit.
never been a big fan of mashups but some are pretty awesome. pretty hit and miss tho.
Last week during a practice set at home, my girlfriend sneaks up behind and puts her hand on the record and stops music. I asked whats she was doing and how long was she standing behind me. Her reply was she wanted to see if I wasnt actually playing something and how I remixed the song on the fly with just the records, knobs, and fader. After a couple minutes of explaining she thought every track I put on was a “on the fly remix”. She didn’t understand that most djing is playing one song and just transitioning to another.
I like mash ups. I do my own as well. Its essential nowadays. Everyone is ADD and needs to hear EVERY genre created to be happy.(mostly top40 spots). Its almost impossible to create a perfect mash back to back, one after the other. After talking to my Girlfriend I get a better understanding on how the average Joe Blow sees djing. I can understand where the confusion of taking credit for others work might happen.
Like many have said - as long as you don’t take credit it’s no biggie.
I am however a little bored of the number of mashups I hear - i suppose
a) it’s a consequence of the hiphop/funk/nufunk/ghettofunk/breakbeat styles I play that a lot of tracks are reboots of old stuff ( or at least to my ears, use really fucking obvious samples)
b) it’s massively easy to play out and get a crowd to go along with you - they know the hook they’ve just never heard it quite played that way before …
I don’t quite know the point I’m making - it’s just idle musing …
Mashups - Cop out?
I don’t like playing mashups others made only because I feel like as a Dj the whole point is to make your set unique. If I make my own mashup, transition track, what have you, I will play that, but I feel that a lot of the time mashups will just kill a lot of the songs I wanted to play and I’m just going to sound like (insert mashup artist here). Some of them are talented guys and I don’t in any way want to take credit for their work. Plus I don’t like a lot of mashups and the ones I do like typically have the songs I like playing on their own. It’s all personal preference though. I’m sure plenty of working djs drop mashes which is fine with me. As long as the crowd is feeling it.