Assignment AVT 280: Audio Mash-up

My first thought was to mash something you might not expect together. Initially Mos Def and Metallica came to mind but I was having issues getting rid of sound that wasn't Mos Def's Voice. I don't know enough about it to knock it out easily. I fell back to two tracks I had that were instrumental and acapella.

That is the first track, Eminem's vocals from "Without Me" and the music from Xzibit's "X". It was working but was still messy. Em's singing style is really slick and his songs are often complex (Thanks Dre). Xzibit's track in comparison was easier to work with for what I knew at the time.

Audio Mash-up #1

The second track grew from my desire to do something with more meaning. If I was going to spending time on it, why not make it something interesting to me. I was having a hard time cutting Martin Luther King Jr's speech. I got the speech from 17 minutes edited down to 4 minutes, including taking out his normal speaking cadence to truncate length. and seem more like a rap song.

Audio Mash-up #2 (Martin Luther King Jr)