MASHUP: Beastie Boys vs. Nine Inch Nails - Suckotage

You know the drill.

I had a blast with this one.  It's the NIN version of "Suck" (originally by some band called Pigface) meets the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage".  I knew "Suck" would make a good backing track for something, so I started plugging songs in and when I arrived at this one, it couldn't have been more perfect.  I especially like it because it takes one of the Beasties' rock/rap songs and makes it more straight-up rap, until in the middle everything just sort of comes together.  (You may also notice a Run DMC sample, which is in itself a reference to a different Beastie Boys song.)

The NIN samples are mainly just from the finished song, but with a little help from the remix tracks for the Pigface version.  The Beastie samples are from a certain video game.  Neither are used with any particular permission, but if it gets popular enough for that to be a problem, mission accomplished.

MASHUP: Beastie Boys vs. Nine Inch Nails - 3 MCs and 29 Ghosts

To paraphrase Depeche Mode, it's Mashup Time Again!

Same artists as last time.  They've given the fans a lot to work with.  The instrumental is another one from Ghosts, track 29, but heavily rearranged.  The vocal track is "3 MCs and 1 DJ" (with a few added surprises).  Some of the "3 MCs" percussion bleeds through due to the unavailability of an acapella track, but it actually works.

The NIN track is under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share Alike license.  The Beastie track is under a "I'm sure they would be totally cool with this" license.

MASHUP: Beastie Boys vs. Nine Inch Nails - Ghost Word

To wash the taste of entry-level political commentary out of your mouth, here's one of the mash-ups I've been working on.

The generosity of the Beastie Boys and Trent Reznor with regard to their multitracks -- proportional to the lack of other artists' multitracks in general -- dictates much of my output.  But hey, you work with what you've got.  This one uses the vocal track of the Beastie Boys' "Oh Word?" (from To The 5 Boroughs) and NIN's "7 Ghosts I" (from Ghosts -- they're all titled like that).  The instrumental track has been rearranged in various ways for structure and length.

The NIN track is under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share Alike license. The Beastie acapella track falls under what appears to be a less formal "just don't sell it" dealie.