From the assignment bank I chose to do a song mashup. For this assignment titled “Take any two songs (similar or not) and create a mash-up” I decided to take the song Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood and Too Late To Apologize by Coldplay and overlap them. This assignment was a little more challenging for me because I haven’t had experience with overlapping music but I found it to be simple after I watched a few videos on GarageBand. If you are using garage band you may record your audio and then select “File” “New Track” and record overtop of the original audio. Enjoy!

For one of this weeks audio assignments, I chose to do Take Any Two Songs (Similar or Not) and Make A Mashup/Remix. I chose to do this assignment because song remixes and mashups are some of my favorite types of songs. I listen to remixes and mashups all the time on Youtube.

In accordance with our DS106 theme, I found two royalty-free 1980s-themed songs on youtube and used a website called rave.dj to mashup the two songs. After entering both links to the videos, the website rendered and completed the mashup. Here is my Twitter link to the website to listen to the mashup.

This assignment was a lot of fun. The fact that a computer program can use AI to perfectly mashup two songs is amazing. The knowledge I gained about computer music programs this assignment, I will remember for a very long time.

This assignment is similar to ones I have done in the past, but this particular one was much more interesting to create. It asked us to mashup two completely different songs. I decided to hit shuffle on my Spotify songs and I got Bob Marley, and a spanish song featuring Demi Lavato. These two songs are both uplifting and positivity and the collaboration creates an overall positive listen. I used the mashup website called mix.dj and then used an online link converter to make it accessible to listen to. It was really fun to mess around with the fade and balance for these two songs to make it clear what two songs are present.

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For this assignment I decided to put “Like A prayer” by Madonna with a cover I found on Youtube. I used Audacity to record both the song and the cover. I picked this song because it fits well with my part of “Around The World: 80’s Style.” My country is Australia and “Like A prayer” by Madonna, was the hit song in 1989. The hardest part about doing this assignment was picking the cover song, who knew there could be so many different covers for this song!

Can anyone pinpoint when the original song stops and the cover begins? I think there is a big difference because the cover is a hard metal version.