For close to a decade, I’ve been constantly listening to the same DJ set
“What is this?” I asked Simon, who was driving. “Can you turn it up?” The artist in question seemed to be Basement Jaxx but it quickly shifted, chameleon-like, to something else. I felt like the proverbial snail who’s just been mugged: it had all happened so fast. “It’s some guys I know,” Simon said, ejecting a burnt CD that said YACHT CLUB DJS. Ballarat locals, he explained. He knew them from high school. It was a mashup, and I was hooked.
For those who don’t know, or refuse to infer from the name: mashups are a musical genre where, generally, one song is played over another. Incongruity is a key feature of the form and is often exploited for laughs: think the guitar hook from Sweet Home Alabama as a backing beat for an early Shaggy single, or early 00s emo lyrics layered over a Weeknd club hit.
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