#Best mashup artists pro#

I’ve been seeing success in general now that I never thought was possible, and The Great Patrician Mashup Album was the turning point for me. I also initially had virtually no success on the r/mashups subreddit, but more and more I’ve outdone myself and now one of my mashups is in the all-time top 10 on that subreddit. Videos were always kind of difficult to get off the ground, but once I started marketing the videos more and putting more effort into them, they’ve become the top posts of all time on the page. Also, I’m the main admin of >implying music is good, a music meme page on Facebook.

“This year, in general, has been the best year of my life and the work I’ve put in has finally been paying off. That project made me realise that the sky was the limit for me. Before that, I rushed a lot of my mashups, I didn’t make enough music videos for them, and by the end of 2018, I felt like I was done for unless I made something extremely ambitious. I still watch and listen to that project in its entirety and am amazed that I made a 30+ minute music video to accompany it ( here). The Great Patrician Mashup Album may not have been the most cohesive project I’ve made but it made me realise how much hard work pays off. “The first mashup I made that blew myself away was actually made earlier this year. Was there a specific song you worked on that made you realise you were onto something that could go beyond a hobby? “If I could make 10 mashups a day and upload them all I would, but I don’t want to anger my subscribers on YouTube so I sometimes will just hop on a train or bus to Boston to take breaks and to stop myself from uploading more mashups.”

I finished college last year and have been living with my parents and mostly making music/mashups during this transitional period. YouTube and the music industry as a whole can be really cutthroat. I totally think that I could drive myself totally nuts. How do you find the time to do all this and why haven’t you lost your mind yet? You have a total of 63 albums on your Bandcamp and, on top of that, you review other people’s mashups on Patreon. I usually achieve the most success when I listen to both headphones and various speakers in my house.” I also mix and master my mashups in Logic, two processes which can be a real pain.

#Best mashup artists pro#

I use Logic Pro X which is pretty user-friendly regarding quantizing, and for any notes that don’t quite fit, I use Melodyne to correct them. “To be honest, sometimes I just change the name I release albums under for fun-not really for any specific reason.” Funnels is the name I use for some of my instrumental albums. Alice in 2 Chainz is a name that I’ll probably use for a more comedic album. CoffeeDude was a name I used for only two projects because I was briefly doing coffee reviews. William Maranci: “Dumphop was the name I used initially when I was a rapper. What differentiates the music of these different alter-egos? I arranged a call with William to know more about himself, his process and opinion on mashup culture as well as ask what the chances are of mashups becoming the new vaporwave.įar Out: You’re known as Dumphop, CoffeeDude, Funnels, and Alice in 2 Chainz. The easiness of creation, popular appeal, and chameleonic nature of mashups and memes, however, make the internet the perfect setting for it to flourish. Plunderphonics, the art of taking one or more existing audio recordings and altering them in one way or another to create something new, is not a new phenomenon.