Another Form of Relief

I don’t like mashups. I have never encountered one that I like, but I don’t really give them much of a chance in the first place. I’m an originialist when it comes to music. I’m barely okay with samples and it’s only recently that I’ve been able to bring myself to listen to remixes. I’ve never understood the appeal of a mashup though. To take two other artists work and combine them seems a little pointless and a tad wrong. That said, I’m absolutely loving the one that I’ve posted below.

Voxtrot are one of my favourite new bands from the past couple of years, and while I don’t really like Massive Attack, ‘Teardrop’ is a pleasant song. To combine it with Voxtrot’s ‘Mothers, Daughters, Sisters & Wives’ seems like an act of lunacy though. Not one to be put off that by that risk, Voxtrot’s Jared Van Fleet (aka Sparrow House) has done exactly that. As he explains:

Massive Mothers” came about because of a Voxtrot remix contest that the spanish site Buffet Libre was hosting. It had been a year since we had mixed, mastered, and released “Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives” and I hadn’t listened to the individual tracks since then. I was curious to see what was there, so I downloaded them, and it was inspiring to hear the song in new ways. Later that night I was listening to “Teardrops” by Massive Attack, and with the remix still on my mind, i couldn’t help but laugh at the idea of a mashup entitled “Massive Mothers”. I stopped laughing long enough to take the two songs apart and start piecing them back together, and this is what i came up with.

All of this means is that we now have the polar opposite of how ‘Mothers’ originally sounded. An upbeat, piano driven song has now been largely stripped down to the basis of ‘Teardrop’ as the backing with Ramesh’s vocal laid over the top of it. The feat here though is how well it all slots together. The vocal times perfectly with the beats in the music, with the words gently guiding the song, but never dominating it. The end result is a song that sounds perfectly crafted. Not bad for something that’s spliced together.

MP3 Voxtrot - Massive Mothers (Voxtrot / Massive Attack mashup) (expired)

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