What is a mashup? In its most simplest form, a mashup is a combining of two or more songs, the instrumental of one with the a capella of another, to make a new song. That is a pretty basic understanding of what a mashup can be.
There are all kinds of technical definitions and forms of a mashup, but looking at a higher more birds eye perspective, creating a really good and interesting mashup is taking two seemingly un-similar ideas and mashing them together to something that surprisingly does work.
Wikipedia has this to say;
A mashup or blend[1] (also mash up and mash-up) is a song or composition created by blending two or more songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the music track of another.[2] To the extent that such works are ‘transformative‘ of original content, they may find protection from copyright claims under the “fair use” doctrine of copyright law.[3]
That’s a bit of a mouth full but it works. If you interested on how to make a mashup, and really, who isn’t? You can see some helpful videos on how to make a mashup and download some pdf documents here. Or, in the articles section, ‘How to make a mashup video series‘.
