I Love Disco And I Hear It's Making A Comeback

Here is the type of mashup that combines more than two songs into a whole; combining two songs into one is difficult enough, I imagine, but multiple songs must be quite the effort. Yet, if done right then it can be especially well-done.

The example I'm putting up now is a track from a guy known as RIAA. No, not the douchepilots known as the Recording Industry Association of America. Rather, it's a mashup artist known as Recording Industries Are Archaic (which I think is true sometimes), and he uses bits and samples of songs or recordings that are far stranger than any other mashup artist I know of. Maybe because of that, I think RIAA is more "miss" than "hit" for me, although if nothing else some songs I download from the site are put on my mashup CD's, even if it's at the very end of a CD, i.e. a song I usually don't listen to on the CD.

This song, though, known as I Love Disco And I Hear It's Making A Comeback, is a big hit with me. The artists used to put together this track were rather eclectic, though. Taken from the page where you can find the song:

Herbie Hancock "Bring Down The Birds,"
Petra Hayden (sic) "I Can See For Miles,"
Deee-Lite "Groove Is In The Heart,"
Vijay Benedict "I Am A Disco Dancer,"
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I know, what a bizarre sounding mashup of different artists, but note that the Hancock song was sampled by Deee-Lite for their one hit wonder song.

Like with most RIAA songs I've heard there's some sloppiness involved, although here it doesn't really have an effect on how good the song turned out. It's a very catchy tune that is one of a kind and yet it's not so strange that you can only listen to it once in awhile. It's not really a "disco" song per se but has different elements of it, in case any of you are scared to download something that sounds like a Bee-Gees or Donna Summer ditty!

Again, the song, I Love Disco And I Hear It's Making A Comeback, can be downloaded here. Track 5 on that page is really good also, and even odder than The Cardigans' version of Iron Man.

I'll be back Monday afternoon with a new mashup, and one less exotic than this one.