Jon Nelson
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Jon Nelson is a mashup
artist and a radio show host for Some Assembly Required
. "Jon Nelson, mashes music and found sound — from old movies, laugh tracks, the news — to make what he calls the audio dreamscape of the media age." Jon Nelson started Some Assembly Required
in 1999 and has been championing the genre of mashup music for more than 10 years; the show is now syndicated throughout the United States and Canada.
Mashup (music)
A mashup or bootleg is a song or composition created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another...
artist and a radio show host for Some Assembly Required
Some Assembly Required
Some Assembly Required is a sound collage radio program in the United States, produced in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the first radio show known to focus exclusively on works of sample based music, and appropriation in audio art...
. "Jon Nelson, mashes music and found sound — from old movies, laugh tracks, the news — to make what he calls the audio dreamscape of the media age." Jon Nelson started Some Assembly Required
Some Assembly Required
Some Assembly Required is a sound collage radio program in the United States, produced in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the first radio show known to focus exclusively on works of sample based music, and appropriation in audio art...
in 1999 and has been championing the genre of mashup music for more than 10 years; the show is now syndicated throughout the United States and Canada.
Reviews and Articles
- The Art of Mashups By Tom Asbrook, On Point, February 5, 2009
- Jon Nelson of Escape Mechanism by Katya Tylevich A.V. Club Twin Cities, January 28, 2009
- Some Assembly Required: Mash-Up Pioneer Dreams in Soundbites By Elizabeth Held, Wired Magazine December 22, 2008
- Escape Mechanism promotes recycling! by Max Ross, Secrets of the City, September 16, 2008 - 3:12pm
- Click, shriek, boom! Sonic collage artist Escape Mechanism cuts and pastes while aural trickster Lost in Translation slashes and burns by Michaelangelo MatosCity Pages (Volume 20 - Issue 949 - February 10, 1999)