Mash Bros. mix hits
Mash-ups rock a sold-out concert
JT Treadwell
Issue date: 10/9/09 Section: Arts & Entertainment
The work of established mash-up artists inspired the friend's dare. "We were driving around listening to Girl Talk, or maybe it was e-603, and he bet us that we couldn't compete. After that, we started making the beginnings of our first album," Fink said.
They quickly became known in a popular new genre. By layering songs on top of each other, DJs form a compiled "mash." For instance, they play the base track to "Shake That" while overlaying the high dulcet tones of Lil' Wayne. It sounds simple, but Fink and Fenmore spend hours on the couch trying to match up songs with similar rhythms to achieve the best flow in a mash. Once they find two relatively close songs they will then try and add finishing touches to the mash. This can come in the form of other sound clips dubbed in at certain points, or just by slowing down certain parts of one track to achieve a better rhythm. Once everything is all put together the song is ready to be compressed and ready to play.
The result won over students, who sang along to the mashes that Fink and Fenmore blasted.
"Even if you guys didn't know all the mashes, you still loved Aerosmith, so that's all that really matters," Fink said. "We had a great time."
They quickly became known in a popular new genre. By layering songs on top of each other, DJs form a compiled "mash." For instance, they play the base track to "Shake That" while overlaying the high dulcet tones of Lil' Wayne. It sounds simple, but Fink and Fenmore spend hours on the couch trying to match up songs with similar rhythms to achieve the best flow in a mash. Once they find two relatively close songs they will then try and add finishing touches to the mash. This can come in the form of other sound clips dubbed in at certain points, or just by slowing down certain parts of one track to achieve a better rhythm. Once everything is all put together the song is ready to be compressed and ready to play.
The result won over students, who sang along to the mashes that Fink and Fenmore blasted.
"Even if you guys didn't know all the mashes, you still loved Aerosmith, so that's all that really matters," Fink said. "We had a great time."
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