What is a mashup?

The Urban Dictionary defines a mash up as:

v. To take elements of two or more pre-existing pieces of music and combine them to make a new song.
n. A song comprised of elements of two or more pre-existing pieces of music.

2. I’m in the middle of mashing-up songs by Tom Jones and Michael Jackson. (verb usage)

1. I’ll play my mash-up of Tom Jones and Michael Jackson at the club tomorrow night. (noun usage)

http://www.urbandictionary.com

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia defines a mash up or bastardpop as:

Bastard pop is a musical genre which, in its purest form, consists of the combination (usually by digital means) of the music from one song with the acapella from another. Typically, the music and vocals belong to completely different genres. At their best, bastard pop songs strive for musical epiphanies that add up to considerably more than the sum of their parts.

also of interest from Wikipeda a little known fact about Frank Zappa(one of my favorite composers and guitar player).

Frank Zappa

In the 1970s, Frank Zappa developed a technique he called “xenochrony” in which a guitar solo was extracted from its original context and placed into a completely different song — essentially bastard pop for guitar rather than vocals. His recording engineer referred to this as “the Ampex guitar”. The solo in the title song of his rock opera Joe’s Garage (1979) is one of the more obvious examples of Zappa’s xenochrony.

Just thought this was interesting.

Cool I have just made my 200th post

The Cutter

no, essentially there will need to be an acapella of one song over an instrumental of another song. I don’t think it works too well having a pella ‘over’ another pella and having an instrumental over another instrumental does work but i don’t think it’s considered a mash-up/bootleg per say. There are many other possibilities as you’re not just limited to one instrumental and pella. you can mix loads just as long as it works and doesn’t become one huge thrown-together type mess…
thecutter pretty much got it, me thinks

[quote quote="thecutter":i7fc0lif]The Urban Dictionary defines a mash up as:

v. To take elements of two or more pre-existing pieces of music and combine them to make a new song.
n. A song comprised of elements of two or more pre-existing pieces of music.

2. I’m in the middle of mashing-up songs by Tom Jones and Michael Jackson. (verb usage)

1. I’ll play my mash-up of Tom Jones and Michael Jackson at the club tomorrow night. (noun usage)

http://www.urbandictionary.com

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia defines a mash up or bastardpop as:

Bastard pop is a musical genre which, in its purest form, consists of the combination (usually by digital means) of the music from one song with the acapella from another. Typically, the music and vocals belong to completely different genres. At their best, bastard pop songs strive for musical epiphanies that add up to considerably more than the sum of their parts.

also of interest from Wikipeda a little known fact about Frank Zappa(one of my favorite composers and guitar player).

Frank Zappa

In the 1970s, Frank Zappa developed a technique he called “xenochrony” in which a guitar solo was extracted from its original context and placed into a completely different song — essentially bastard pop for guitar rather than vocals. His recording engineer referred to this as “the Ampex guitar”. The solo in the title song of his rock opera Joe’s Garage (1979) is one of the more obvious examples of Zappa’s xenochrony.

Just thought this was interesting.

Cool I have just made my 200th post

The Cutter[/quote:i7fc0lif]

That’s one of the most interesting things I’ve read on here in ages, especially the Zappa fact.
There really is no such thing as a new idea.