Two Spins Round The Record (Garbage Mix) - Jessica Simpson Vs. Danzel (feat. Dead or Alive)

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"Garbage Mix"

A lot of mashup artists use clean instrumentals and clean vocals to mix their songs; either they have the mixing tools to make the clean versions or they find them. I was not able to do either in this case. Since I was mixing cover versions of the same song I thought I would be able to make it work even though I was using full mixes of all versions. I took a few clean measures of Dead or Alive's original song and looped it to provide a backbeat but also to give me a track to sync everything else with. I cut in Jessica Simpson's verses and Danzel's verses where I wanted them, and retimed them to match the DOA beat. That by itself left a jarring transition each time it switched from one to the other, since their instrumentation was pretty different. I tried my best to find clean measures from each other's song to loop over their counterpart's verse to minimize the difference in instrumentation. I crossfaded the transitions and usually tried to add some kind of drum flourish during the transitions to help cover the difference. I think it turned out pretty well considering, but I'm calling it the "garbage mix" because there's a lot of extra garbage in there, sometimes as many as 5 or 6 tracks overlayed at a time. If I ever get a hold of acapella vocals or instrumental music for any of the versions I might try to make a cleaner mix. (P.S. my "Ice Under Pressure" mashup was also a "garbage mix")

For the video I thought I would do something different and show you the timeline/workspace of my editor Magix Music Maker 2005 Deluxe. This is essentially what I'm seeing when I edit, though I overlayed the bottom left corner display from elsewhere on the Magix screen. This gives you an idea of the number of tracks I was working with and the number of cuts and fades I had to make even for this fairly simple edit.

Track 1 & 2 are DOA. Track 1 is generally the looped beat, Track 2 is where I put the alternate measure for the chorus and later Pete Burns' small section of vocal I used. There's really no reason to have this on 2 tracks other than it made it easier for me to remember which section of waveform was which. Track 3 is Jessica Simpson, Track 5 is Danzel. Track 4 is where I put most of the drum flourishes or techno beats during the transitions, although extras wound up on Track 6 & 7.

Send me a message if you want me to send the MP3.

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• Jessica
• Simpson
• Danzel
• Pete
• Burns
• Dead
• Alive
• You
• Spin
• Me
• Round
• Like
• Record
• Two
• vs.
• mashup
• remix
• fanboy
• films
• magix

[DemonRecordS]

i love it.

[FanboyFilms]

Thanks! Hey, I think you were my first subscriber, now you're the first comment on this vid. Glad you hung around for the next vid, it's been a while, been sitting on a dozen half-finished projects for the last year, figured it was time to finish one of 'em (and hopefully more soon!)

[bhupeshrox101]

woah, is that your real vocals??

if yes, i have one word "AMAZINGGG"

5/5 for this great vid :)

[12IIIMIII23]

That' realy GREAT I like it! But can you tell the programme's name? :)

[zorro94306]

Good job , good explanations!

[DoctorChibi740]

Idea- Blondie vs. Dead Or Alive similar to this. Call Me Right Round?

[SurgeSounds]

I still don't know why this hasn't got more views.

[anzati15]

now just add Dope and Flo Rida in there and the masterpiece is done! lol

[LtSurge659]

Great mashup.

Now if only Pete Burns would release an original, full Acapella, a super mashup could be formed.

Either way, you better anticipate a challenger in your midst!~

[Ienkorvajuusto]

oh man this is so great!

[lilb8nk]

do you make your own instrumentals?,, where can i get magix music maker deluxe 04?

[tideoftime]

Very good... I have to say how club-worthy this is -- thought it was going to sound crappy, but I am pleasantly surprised....