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How I fell in love with song mashups | Tiger Webb

For close to a decade, I’ve been constantly listening to the same DJ set
Friends of mine are somehow able to bend audio’s secondary nature towards constant self-improvement: podcasts during knowledge economy jobs, new music at the gym, breaking news during the commute. Photograph: Zefrog/Alamy Stock Photo/Alamy Stock Photo

“What is this?” I asked Simon, who was driving. “Can you turn it up?” The artist in question seemed to be Basement Jaxx but it quickly shifted, chameleon-like, to something else. I felt like the proverbial snail who’s just been mugged: it had all happened so fast. “It’s some guys I know,” Simon said, ejecting a burnt CD that said YACHT CLUB DJS. Ballarat locals, he explained. He knew them from high school. It was a mashup, and I was hooked.

For those who don’t know, or refuse to infer from the name: mashups

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