Mashed-Up Music

An unnamed reader submits: "The New York Times is running this article (also available here) about "mash-ups:" songs created by digitally synchronizing instrumental tracks with vocal tracks from two (or more) existing songs. Often the source songs are wildly disparate, and the result is frequently better sounding than you might first expect. Who knew that Christina Aguilera mixes well with The Strokes or that Nirvana and Destiny's Child make a good combo?" This is an interesting answer to arguments that online music sharing is nothing but theft.

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Penguin Power

[floppy ears]

I'd like to see a mashup of Bill Gates singing the kids song Penguin Power. It goes something like this:

Penguin power, penguin power
We've got penguin pow-er
You can waddle when you walk
And hold your head one side when you talk
For standing still for over one hour
You've got a touch of penguin power
Penguin power, penguin power
We've got penguin pow-er

I sense a disturbance in the force...

[Anonymous Coward]

...as if millions of webmasters cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...

Christina Aguilera and The Strokes

[GafTheHorseInTears]

Yeah, Christina Aquilera mixes well with my Strokes, if you know what I mean...

Re:Artistic and Theft are not mutually exclusive

[Duncan3]

Fear not, Slashdot will make sure those sites are taken down :)

RIAA's secret weapon

[ThunderCow]

This could be the RIAA's secret weapon, post mp3 sites on the /. and get them /.'ed. Muhahahaha!

Re:Uh Oh

[plone]

Here is a great bootleg, although you may be violating the dmca if you do download it ;)

works with literature too!

[Dr. Awktagon]

Ladies and gentlemen, courtesy of Project Gutenburg and a short Perl script I just threw together, I give you the first paragraph from my latest novel:

A Moby Tale of Two Dick Cities

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Christina and the Strokes....

[DeionXxX]

I believe every geek in the world has mixed "Christina" with some "strokes" atleast once.