tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29158416087947990782011-09-27T21:48:41.345-06:00A showcase of music mashups produced by Qubic.QUBIChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113806672798169551noreply@blogger.comBlogger311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2915841608794799078.post-82805071691997976202011-05-09T00:08:00.000-06:002011-05-16T23:33:49.643-06:00

Dark sinister clowns have stolen the country music from Johnny Cash, which has made Johnny very very sad. But with the energetic help of some old Yello, and a few additional funky loops/stems I found lying around (including some sounds from an old pinball machine), Johnny's Cry Cry Cry can be heard in a whole different funktronic light. Night Cry (Early Bird Edition) was originally released on

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The 3rd World Annual Genre-Smashed Compilation mash-up album, compiled and presented by Envision, was officially released earlier today, containing 44 tracks from 29 DJ's and mash-up producers. The theme... Smash the genre and bring the track(s) into a new world of sound. What is the real meaning of the theme? The idea is to take two or more original songs and combine them into a mash-up

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It's been a couple of years since I posted my yearly favourite music picks. I'm not sure why I didn't post one last year, but here's my favourite picks of songs and albums that were released in 2010... Favourite Mash-up Songs LeeDM101 - Roxanne's Tainted Fly [link] [MMM] MadMixMustang - You Rock My Rock [link ] DJ Lobsterdust - Steady Romance [link] DJ Clive$ter - Mas Que Amor [link

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Oíche Suaimhneach, Fir Caoin HD from BorisB High Def on Vimeo. BorisB is working on a new-ish video project these days... He's taking his best mash-up videos of all time and reproducing them in stunning HD video. The first video out of the gate, and just in time for Xmas, is the video for the Xmas mash-up I had produced a couple of years ago, Oíche Suaimhneach, Fir Caoin. (Note: You'll have to

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Sound Unsound just released an awesome mash-up compilation digital album, World's Greatest Pop Mashups. If you love pop tunes, there's 18 pop mashups on this album with pop tunes spanning the 80's, 90's, and the last decade. You'll also find a track produced by me containing a little something from the 80's and a little something from this past decade... You can also visit Sound Unsound to

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Sound Unsound just released the awesome mash-up compilation digital album, Chillax, Come Down..... As the title suggests, it's filled with music that you can chill and relax with. Containing 23 chill tunes produced by various mash-up/remix producers, you will also find one chill tune produced by me... Northern Half Life Imogen Heap - Half Life Enigma - Northern Lights Running Time: 5:24 You

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Continuum 08 is a collection of remastered mashup singles and mixes that I had originally produced in 2008, plus a collection of mashup videos produced by myself and a few other producers. It commemorates my commitment to continuously trying to improve my production skills as well as my continuously growing interest in music mashup production (and now mashup video production as well). I spent

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Continuum 08: the Videos is a collection of mashup videos produced by myself and a few other producers based on my mashup singles from 2008. My original intent was to have this project completed by April 2009, but a few personal situations delayed the project. My sincere apologies go to the other producers (BorisB, Guv'nor, and The Reborn Identity), who produced videos for this project back in

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Last year, I had produced a mashup song for Halloween, but only managed to release it the day before Halloween, so it didn't get much exposure. If you've never heard it, this mashup has a distinct Tim Burton movie style to it - a whimsical, slightly corny, high energy rock sound. Now it's Halloween time again and I thought I'd promote the mashup once again for those of you who missed it. But I

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It's been a long time (over 4 months actually) since I've posted anything here, which means it's been quite a while since I've released any music production material. And I've been very quiet on the mashup/remix forums, too. That's because, since January this year, I've been quite busy working on a project geared towards improving some of my production skills. But I didn't want to be the only one

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DJ Useo just released the Beautiful Boots compilation mashup album containing 18 tracks from the following 5 mashup producers: DJ Useo Sfreeman Qubic (that's me!) Alpha1999 DJ Newlight Although there's only 5 producers contributing to this 18-track album, I think you'll find an interesting selection of diverse styles throughout. Download the album from Groovy Time with DJ Useo.

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I have a chance to win a brand new Nissan cube®. Nissan Canada is giving away 50 of them, and hundreds (maybe thousands) of everyday people will need to compete for them. There's a tall order to win, and I'll need to jump through some techno-social hoops to have a chance at winning. So please follow me on my long and winding Road 2 Cubism. It's a dedicated blog so people can follow me and leave

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L'Éternel Enfant Roi Noir Désir - L'Enfant Roi Yello - Eternal Legs 6:33 UPDATE: Preview and download now available here... You won't find a play button or download link here for this mashup track because L'Éternel Enfant Roi (aka: The Eternal Child King) was included as an exclusive mashup track in the Ramdom Thoughts podcast show #138 released this weekend. It's a pre-release track to the

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TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an invitation-only annual event where the world's leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration. What does TED have to do with music, or music have to do with TED? Quite a bit, actually. Last year, Thomas Dolby described his TED experience on his blog. He mentioned that playing music between the TED sessions was important to providing a means

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I realize we're already into February, but I've finally got around to jotting down my favourite music for 2008. I tried to keep the lists to the top 10, but when it came to jotting down my favourites for the bootleg songs, I honestly couldn't chop it down to 10... So that ended up being a list of 14. When I was going through my iTunes lists to write down my favourites, I noticed something very

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[A Mashup Industries Release] Café del Mash - Volume 1 just took flight via Mashup Industries Airlines... A chillout/lounge mashup album where you can sit back, relax, and let your mind soar. Just before Christmas, Clivester from Mashup Industries invited me to contribute a track to this chillout/lounge mashup compilation album. Although my own mahsup project plate was a little full, I could not

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I had picked up Loreena McKennitt's album, A Midwinter Night's Dream, back in October and enjoyed her renditions of some of the classic Christmas tunes. In particular, I really enjoyed God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, which was actually based on one of her previous songs, Marco Polo. The album was also blessed with a few instrumental versions of some of the songs, including God Rest Ye Merry

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It's not everyday, nor every year for that matter, that I win a contest or lottery, especially one that requires reading, memory, a little Internet digging, and answering more than 1 question correctly. I have enough trouble remembering anything that happened over 3 days ago, so remembering a week's worth of posts by someone is a challenge. ;) Thank goodness I found Morgan Page's VIP Blogger

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Shortly after completing my second mashup back in March 2008, I was at a shopping mall with a couple of colleagues for lunch, and a Rae Stickly tune was being played over the mall speakers. We chuckled about doing a mashup with this song. But then I actually sat down to try to produce one... trying a few different songs with it, but nothing really seemed to work well enough so I put it aside.

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I originally had no intention of producing a Halloween mashup this year... But yet, here's one now. I often drive my son to school on my way to work in the morning if he's ready to leave when I am. And I often let him play his tunes from his iPod on the way to his school. After all, it's a good way to hear what he's listening to, and to hear what teenagers like to listen to these days. It was

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[A Mashup Industries Release] Back in August, Clivester from Mashup Industries approached me about contributing a song to a Dean Martin mashup tribute album they were putting together. How could I say no? Dino was a cool entertainer extraordinaire... he sang, he danced, he acted, he was funny, he had swagger, and much much more. My contribution to the album is a track called Swing 'Till Somebody

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About six weeks ago, Paul Stix, the fine proprietor and operator of MashStix.com, approached me about writing an article regarding the proper labeling of MP3 mashup files. Little did he know that I'm a software developer by profession, and I've reviewed and created my share of programming guidelines, so this was right up my alley. The only difference was that I now had the opportunity to add a

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I had a couple of bad-weather days during my vacation, so I thought I'd pick a small mashup project to work on... Create a new mix of a mashup that I previously produced. When I first released Feedback Inside the Robots back in March, I had received some good constructive feedback from some of my peers on the mashup forums. But I was a bit "done" with working on this particular mashup for the

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deConstruction of a Stigmata on GDJN Radio... one night. two time zones. My first mashup album, deConstruction of a Stigmata, will be aired on the Global DJ Network (GDJN) Internet radio on Thursday, July 31, 2008. It will be played at 2 different times to accommodate evening listeners in Europe/UK, and evening listeners in North America. Here's the play times... 1. Thurs July 31 at 10:00 PM BST

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Whew! This mashup project is finally done. I have to admit... it was quite the undertaking. It was 3 months in the making, if you include the date when I first started working on the Working Class Stigmata mashup, which was April 25, 2008. The Working Class Stigmata mashup had spawned the idea of this opus-style mashup album, and after completing that mashup I had immediately continued to

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It's been a while since I've posted anything here, again... But I've actually been working on that "grander idea" mashup I had mentioned in my last post. It's turned into a bit of an opus, as someone else has pointed out to me, and I'm making decently good progress. I should hopefully have it ready for release within the next couple of weeks.In the meantime, DJ Useo from the Global DJ Network (of

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It's been a while since my last mashup. I had been working on a little vocal extraction project for someone else for a little bit. Then I had started working on a remix and a mashup project, but put those aside for another time in the future since they weren't quite working out as intended. As I worked on this mashup, I was hit by a nifty idea that I could build around this mashup in the form of

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The inspiration for this mashup came to me when I was listening to Come Inside by The Thompson Twins. At the 1:49 mark in the song, I heard the 4-measure sample of the intro from The Robots by Kraftwerk hidden as a faint background layer in the first lull of the song. I scoured the rest of the song for other Kraftwerk samples, and that was the only sample tucked away in the song. The sample was

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I have a list of songs I'd like to mashup, and this was not originally on that list. But when I came across it in my stack of CD singles and gave it a listen, it was an immediate must-do. It turned out to be a bit of a challenge, though... I only had the experience of one mashup under my belt (maybe more like one-and-a-half mashups with the extended version of my first). And I didn't have an

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This was the first mashup I worked on while learning the music production software I had purchased. I included some voice extraction and other sound extraction tasks as well as applied a few other simple effects and techniques (especially working with automation paths) as part of the learning process. I also discovered a bug with one of the VST plug-ins whereby an automation path for any of its

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Although I've been listening to mashups for a few years now (thanks goes to Mr. Sandman for introducing them to me), I just started producing my own mashups recently as of Jan 2008. Two months and two mashups later, I've determined that I do, in fact, enjoy both the artistic and technical aspects of producing mashups. I may not be very good at it right now, but I want to learn from anyone willing

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