Remember the "Grey Album"? A mash up by DJ Danger Mouse between Jay-Z's Black Album and The Beatles White Album? (Danger Mouse has since then been involved with the last Gorillaz album, and one half of Gnarls Barkley. His big break was his self-produced mash-up!)
Someone else has come by mashed up Jay-Z with.... Radiohead! I personally like Radiohead quite a bit, and I like the swing that Jay-Z has in his delivery, so I find the resulting creation pretty neat. Certainly worth a listen if you like Radiohead or Jay-Z. It's interesting how the songs take on a more sombre, serious, non-bombastic feel because of the Radiohead influence. You can tell the guy who made this is a big fan of both artists.. a lot of these pieces are relatively obscure stuff from their respective repertoires (i.e. Black Swan is from Thom Yorke's solo album....which I guess isn't technically Radiohead, but whatever).
I especially like the tongue-in-cheek shout out at the very end of this "album". "It's only entertainment!" says the Jay-Z soundbite, as if to preemptively respond to the "Cease and Desist" letter that will inevitably be coming from the record companies.
What do you think?
For more information, and to download the whole thing (at least until EMI finds out..), go here!
Jaydiohead.com
Also, while we're at it:
Viva La Hova - The Jay-Z and Coldplay mash up that came out last Fall can be checked out, and downloaded here: Vivalahova.com
OJAYZIS - The Jay-Z and Oasis mash up that came out last Summer can be checked out and downloaded here: OJAYZIS
As you can see, Jay-Z is quite the mash-up star.
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