on & on - summer in sydney (vocal) (mp3)

following on from a previous, more controversial post, i thought i would try and keep the mash-up/cut and paste debate alive...

it would seem, like most people, that the mention of those evil words is enough to run shivers down your spine, enough to make you go trample on your grandma’s precious flower bed, enough to - as chris beautifully put it - ‘stomp on fluffy animals’. i agree. in fact, i agree so much it hurts, it hurts bad. so why, you might ask, have i posted up just that – a dirty, stinky, nasty bootleg?

well, its for no other reason, than the fact that this particular bootleg is nothing beyond implausible. it takes quincy jones’s perpetually sublime track ‘summer in the city’, and exquisitely blends it (yep, that’s ‘blends it’) with the acapella of erykah badu’s ‘on & on’...

lets not lie, the guys who did this had a pretty easy job - take two already faultless records, and make, errrrmm…...another faultless record - its not nuclear physics (or fashion marketing for that matter), but it’s a bloody good record...

conclusion. mash-ups are bad. blends are good.