[Dixielandjazz] Who Done The Eminem Rag? - A Digital Two-step

[Richard Donelan]

Bill/Andy:

According to the link provided by Kurt, the piece is what is known in 
trendy digital circles as a "mash-up":  the digital 
tracking/overdubbing of two radically different musical elements to 
create a hybrid recording--a  digital audio heffalump, so to speak.

This ragged number appears to have been made c. 2002 by eminent 
digerato Matt Haughey, (website at http://a.wholelottanothing.org/), a 
well-known Internet website designer and site administrator from 
California.  Matt runs a most interesting international "community 
weblog" of 17,000+ members called MetaFilter 
(http://www.metafilter.com), which is well worth visiting and of which 
I am fortunate to be a member.   Matt is a music hound with a strong 
sense of the absurd, as the cut amply demonstrates.

Richard Donelan	
Tallahassee


On Jan 9, 2004, at 4:21 PM, Bill Haesler wrote:

> on 9/1/04 10:00 PM, Andy.Ling at Quantel.Com at Andy.Ling at Quantel.Com 
> wrote:
>
>> This suggests it is probably the work of an amateur as I can't
>> imagine Eminem would have "borrowed" the BBC's recording
>> of the tune.
>> Regards
>> Andy Ling
>>
> Dear Andy,
> I believe I also correctly indentified the source.
> Winifred Atwell's English Decca 78 from June 1951.
> Now out of copyright for the UK (Europe and Oz).
> Kind regards,
> Bill.