Jan 082010
Your assignment for the weekend: download Uptime and Downtime, The Kleptones’ latest two latest collections of mashups. I’ve been a fan of The Kleptones’ sonic alchemy ever since A Night at the Hip-Hopera and their latest offerings contain some surprising combinations that somehow work. Like Aretha Franklin and Metallica, Genesis and M.I.A., and Nirvana and Blur. Some may still argue that mashups are nothing more than novelties, but I find the best ones to be elegant deconstructions of disparate musical styles.
