October 2008
6 posts
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Rehab (Winehouse) vs Sidewinder (Sample)
Rehab (Musicina Blender Sidewinder Mashup)
Here’s Ms. Amy Winehouse, fronting Joe Sample’s “Soul Committee” band, layering her hooky hit on top of The Sidewinder, a classic jazz tune, originally done by Lee Morgan in 1965. Sample’s recording comes from the awesome 1994 disc Did You Feel That?, which was the most “Crusader-like” effort since the...
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Peter Gabriel vs. Derek Trucks
Lovetown/Volunteered Slavery (Musicina Blender mashup)
I was wallowing for a while with a bunch of song combinations that just didn’t seem to come together. It was nice to finally stumble into these two songs, which click together really well (for reasons all its own). Once I began the mix, I fell way deep into the rabbit hole.
This cool Peter Gabriel tune was initially released on the...
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Elvis the Queen
Elvis Presley / Queen / Louis Jordan - Crazy Little Cruel Thing Called Caldonia
I once won a karaoke contest a few years ago, singing Crazy Little Thing Called Love. I picked the tune because I had just visited Graceland in Memphis and was in a real “Elvis” mood. The tune by Queen always reminded me of something that Elvis would’ve done. And it also seems remarkably similar to...
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Finally Together - Steely Dan and Horace Silver
Song For My Father/Ricki Don’t Lose That Number (with guest star Rickie Lee Jones)
This remix has been on my mind for a while; I finally got down to it and “put it in the blender”. Steely Dan’s biggest hit single was a blatant “expropriation” of Horace Silver’s Song For My Father. Both songs are now classics in their respective genres. It just seemed...