Is it a Remix?

This lectorial focused on the rise of the remix and the mash up. It even contended that everything is a remix. 

Eduardo Navas in ‘Regressive and reflexive mashups in sampling culture’ explored the mash up as combining two alerting existing music to create new content. Naval also defined remixes “as a global activity consisting of the creative and efficient exchange of information made possible by digital technologies.”

However the remix does not contain itself to only the music industry. Movies are continually adapting, transforming and appropriating existing films, books, tv shows, actual events and games. Most box office hits rely heavily on existing material. Of the highest grossing films from the last ten years, 74/100 were sequels or remixes of earlier films or adaptations of comic books, video games, books and so on. As Kirby Ferguson notes in his video Everything is a Remix Part 2, “transforming the old into the new is hollywood’s greatest talent.”

I’ll finish up with two of my favourite remix’s:

“Is it a Banger“-Remixed into a song from a Tv Show Parks and Recreation and used a few lines one of the characters said.

“Seinfeld by Kinky Karma” -My friend is a DJ and he remixed the theme song of Seinfeld into a pumping tune.