Mashup and Dzak

"Mashups" are a brand of music for those indecisive people who just can't settle on one song. If you've ever heard a live dj; you will hopefully know what song blending is, imagine that 30 seconds between tracks, and apply it to an entire song (which will be comprised of at least two tracks). A lot of people will create mashups by just putting a track on top of another one and pretending they go together well (usually it doesn't). Then we have people like todays "artist" who use programs like ableton and pour hours into creating their album.

Today's artist is Adam Dzak, a network engineer that I met at my college. While he has almost no musical background, he has managed to produce an album comprised of 27 mashups; a "mega mix" as it were. I'll admit a lot of these tracks are not pairs that I would have expected, but a lot of them work surprisingly well.

Taken Best: Driving to a club or party or playing Metal Slug 3 (as Adam is doing while we listen to the album)

Now before you hop on Itunes to try and find some samples, he hasn't hit it that big (i'll leave out a yet, he has no interest in a musical career). You can stream this album and others by Adam Dzak at adamdzak.com, it is also available for download on the same page. WARNING: Turn down your volume before you go to the page, 4 different streams start playing at once.

Hope you enjoy it, if you find any great mashups you want to share I'd love to hear them.

Sherwood