Music Mashups

I have always been one to enjoy a remix of a song. Hearing the variations and layers mixed in with the familiar song is a sure way to listening enjoyment.
A relatively new mix item called the mashup is king of the remix, blending two or sometimes more songs together. I first learned of this about 3 years ago (2005) from an instructor I had in grad school, from a blog post of his. Ted Gracyk teaches Philosophy for MSUM and does scholarly work related to art and music (yeah...cool) author of Listening to Music (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Led Zeppelin) and others.
(Check Ted's What I'm Listening To blog..always wished it had samples)
Since then the mash up has Taken off!
A couple of favorites:
Combine Star Wars music and DANCE music by DJ PartyBen



And Funky Goes to Hollywood by Dj Earworm

ITC E-Learning 2008

Best conference I have attended to date, got me in gear with Flickr, Twitter, Del.icio.us, and mashups.

Plus being on the beach while it was 20 below in MN was not all bad either. Check out the pics at Flickr And please look me up and say hi on http://twitter.com/ (microblogging/networking) my username is Goamick. Or connect with what is good on the web at my http://del.icio.us/goamick