This came up in conversation last night and these kinds of notions tickle the pee outa me. I think this means I should have taken more sociology and/or anthropology in school.

Anyway… We’ve been digging mash-ups for a few years now… Chad’s addicted to the hunt involved in finding and knowing all the best bootleg sites to download these things.

So… while we started wondering what the next DJ / Electronic / Dance music craze is going to be – we started really pondering *what* these mash-ups represented…

Is it a trend? An audio parlor trick facilitated by new technology to fade in popularity like the use of a wah-wah peddle or something else?

or…

Considering that technology is only going to continue to develop and make it easier for our little pattern-finding human brains to find new meaning by uniting different songs, sounds, pictures, .. (whatever)… – will the “Mash-Up” become it’s own genre from here on out? For example – imagine browsing the iTunes Omnimedia Store in twenty years and you’ll be given a choice to browse for kinds of music… “Instrumental”… “Jazz”…. “Classical”…. “Rock”…. “Mash-Up”…

I dunno… guess neither do you… but it’s fun to talk about this kinda stuff isn’t it?

wuduYAthink?

(*insert clever serial ending here*)