Mastermix Mashed up vol 15

0:00 They're from a company called MasterMix and they're known as the Mashu

Alright folks, this video is all about these guys here. They're from a company called MasterMix and they're known as the Mashup Compilation. Now first of all, what is the Mashup Compilation? Well basically it's a collaboration of mashups and for a lot of people out there I'll explain. What is a mashup? Well let's say for example you have two different tracks, track one and track two. What you do in a mashup is you get the two tracks and you put them together to form one completely new song. Now a lot of people out there think that a mashup should be just say two house tracks, two soul tracks, two hip hop tracks, two R&B tracks, it doesn't matter. Well yes in a sense it can be like that but again you have to open your mind, broaden it a little bit more and realise that a mashup can be two of anything. You could basically mix say an R&B song with something from the 50s. You could mix a house track

With a drum and bass track. But what you've got to do, you've got to make sure they're in time and they sound correctly together. Now I'll give you a couple of examples and a bit of a tip here. Let's say for example, you've got a house track and you think there's an R&B track that will work really well with that house track. Then what you need to do maybe is you need to slow the house track down so it matches the BPM of the hip hop track. Alternatively, or the R&B sorry, or alternatively what you need to do is speed the R&B hip hop track up To match the BPM of the house track. And again, you don't necessarily just have to start them off at the same time and let them work all the way through. You can chop and change them, mix them about. So in other words, you completely, you get this one track, the other track, you just pull them apart, put them back together again to form one new track. Now that's what they've done with these. So what I'm going to do, take a few tracks from this guy here. This is CD number 15, and the first track I'm going to try...

1:54 Track number five, which is a mash-up of Beyonce and Niles Barkley

Track number five, which is a mash-up of Beyonce and Niles Barkley. Now this is a bit of a killer cut. Now straight away what they've done here is taken the beginning of Niles Barkley and lengthened it. Okay, so we've got Beyonce in the background with the melody and bass line of Niles Barkley. Consideration, the key of the track and the structure. Always thinking about the structure of both tracks, working them... That one perfect mashup. Track number seven. Edison finally mixed this one in with Studio B. So we've got Studio B in the background and we've got CeCe, big star with a vocal. These guys, and by the way I've got some competitions so watch this space, practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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