Earlier this week I made the huge mistake of doing mashup assignments instead of remix assignments.. It was embarrassing.  Here is another assignment from the mashups that I finished, but had just not posted.  The assignment – Take clips from different songs and mash them up into something fun. Try to use random effects and cross music genres.

I made two of these.  The first one was a mess, so I tried again but approached it differently.  I give artists like Girl Talk credit for their work, because finding combinations of music that sounds good is not easy, for me at least.  I basically chose songs that I really enjoy, and I went from there.

Here’s my first try:

The songs:

• “The Funeral” – Band of Horses
• “Wash.” – Bon Iver
• “Blood Bank” – Bon Iver
• “You Know What I Mean” – Cults
• “You and I” – Ingrid Michaelson
• “Wanna Be (Ft. Lily Allen)” – Dizzee Rascal
• “Be Ok” – Ingrid Michaelson
• “Favourite Colour” – Tokyo Police Club

For my second try I wanted to tell a story, so I chose my music accordingly. I was kind of inspired by the movie, Greece, but what might more realistically happen.  Girl likes boy, boy not interested, girl tries hard to get boy, boy likes girl, they don’t get along, they fight, they break up.

Songs:

• “Little Bit” – Lykke Li
• “Bunny Ain’t No Kind Of Rider” – Of Montreal
• “We R Who We R” – Ke$ha
• “Dirty Hands” – The Black Lips
• “Foundations” – Kate Nash
• “Kiss with a Fist” – Florence and the Machine
• “Addicted to Love” – Florence and the Machine

When I look back and compare the two projects in garageband, it’s crazy how much more organized my second project was than my first.  There is so much overlap, and adjusting the volume of individual tracks when I could have kept it more elegant by placing the tracks in the order in which they would come in the song, and then trim the rest of the song, instead of just muting it.  Here’s what I’m talking about:

Music Mashup #1 – Overlap and Track Volume Control in Action

Music Mashup #2 – How lovely, everything is trimmed and in the order in which it's presented in the song.

It was so much easier working with the second mashup.  Assignment worth 3 stars.