Some bloggers just go bonkers over a nifty mash-up. Something about the idea of taking two seemingly disparate, great songs (or better still, crap songs) and molding them together into a a whole new animal, well it just gets them all a twitter.
SS, on the other hand, has never really touched on the mash up scene. Sure, we dug the illustrious Grey Album, considered by many to be the gold standard in the genre. But for our money, too often they just seem like a novelty rather than a real song worth blogging about. Cramming Right Said Fred up with Two Live Crew isn't art, it's just sampling at its lowest form...or so we thought.
Begrudgingly, we finally dipped out toes into some musical gene splicing, and found ourselves actually having a lot of fun. Sure most of the tracks will never make it past a third spin on our iPods, but the joy, for us, has been in the discovery. Like finding that upside down airplane stamp, or a Honus Wagner baseball card...though we'd imagine a lot less lucrative for now. Either way, here's our first pick, courtesy of EW's PopWatch. Combine one part U2's "Vertigo," and one part Patrick Hernandez's "Born to Be Alive" (so THAT's who sang that) and you get this almost club-worthy joint. Enjoy.
Download: Steve Lima - "Born to Vertigo"
PS - Nobody better steal our mash up. "I'm Too Horny" is gonna be huge yo!
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