Mashup: Closer To Business Time
In one hypothetical hand, I hold an instrumental version of Trent Reznor’s seminal (ha!) single, Closer. The original is directly sexual and raw. It continues to have one of the most familiar refrains in recent musical history – you know, the one about, er, doing things to people like an animal and feeling them from the inside.
In my other hypothetical hand, I hold the original staged version of *Business Time* by New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk rock parody band, Flight Of The Conchords. Never has the actual process of lovemaking been so accurately described.
You can see where this is going, I’m sure. And certainly the photoshopped feature image gave it away.
I would traditionally use this paragraph to half-heartedly apologize for ruining perfectly good songs in my mashups. Mocking my usual inability to find appropriate loops or sighing about parts where the track trainwreck, I would try to lower expectations.
Not this time. This one came out pretty well.
(For the technically inclined, this was done in a very uncomplicated manner in Ableton Suite 7.)
