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Mashing It Up For Your Enjoyment: The Content Wrangler Interview With DJ Clivester

August 24, 2011 Blog No Comments

by Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler I love music. All types of music. But I have a special love for dance music — remixes, white labels and mashups, specifically. DJ Clivester is one of my favorite mashup artists. One part musician one part magician, Clivester creates seamless audio masterpieces by combining snippets of voice recordings and other audio sounds with tracks from various musical artists. The result: A totally new creation, made from recycled audio. And, they’re amazingly addictive to listen to. In this exclusive interview, I chat with the …

Artist Or Criminal? Getting Down With Mashup Aritst DJ Schmolli: The Content Wrangler Interview

July 5, 2011 Blog 2 Comments

By Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler I often use music as a way to illustrate how components of content can be re-purposed or recombined in new ways to create useful derivatives of content. In my work as a blogger, presenter, and content strategy consultant, I borrow concepts from remixing music to make such examples easier to understand. My experiences as a night club dj made the move to creating music — and content — mashpups a natural progression for me. A partial library of my mashups and remixes can be …

The Making of a Mashup Compilation: Aurally Volume 1

February 11, 2010 Blog 1 Comment

By Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler, aka The Audio Wrangler What do you get when you cross Pink Floyd with Christina Aquilera? How about a little Elvis with your Public Enemy? Or some Cher on top of This Mortal Coil? Although it may sound a little frightening, pairing musical groups and vocalists together in unorthodox ways can yield some pretty incredible audio sensations. Known commonly as mashups (or bastards), these bootleg musical creations are user-generated derivative works created by blending two or more songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track …