Wax Audio / The Beatles : Come Together

At its most basic, the mashup is slapping one song's lyrics on another song's music.  But at its most creative, the mashup is a full-on remix, taking elements of both songs and creating something truly new, unique and interesting.

The Beatles have been done to death, by radio, by covers and certainly by mashups.  The most famous is probably Danger Mouse's mash of Jay-Z's The Black Album with The Beatles' self-titled 'white album' and there are a couple other entries worth checking into, another one of which will likely make its way to these pages in the next week or so.  But this one is by far the best.

Wax Audio has taken a great piece of rocking electronica, Justice's "Waters of Nazareth" and laid it underneath one of the best rock songs of all time, "Come Together" by the Beatles.  But, in doing so, he's altered the pacing and flow of Lennon's masterpiece, cutting it apart and repiecing it together, reinventing both songs.  At first, the interplay is pretty straightforward, but towards the end, Wax Audio plays with the dynamics, adding some echo and a nifty breakdown.  Notice also how he introduces the organ from "Nazareth" into the second part of the song.  And I especially love at the end when he gets John to throw down the shout-outs, a sort of digest version of the whole song.  This thing is composed, folks.

Unfortunately the only version he's got up on his site is the cheesy one where he added samples from Barack Obama and Martin Luther King Jr. speeches.  Fortunately, I'm here for you kiddies, bringing you the unadulterated version.  You can't buy this mash anywhere, but you can get the original "Come Together" on the Beatles' classic Abbey Road and the backing track was generated from Justice's excellent LP, Cross.

[You can listen to Wax Audio's mash of The Beatles' "Come Together" by navigating to the post "Song083" and clicking or right-clicking on the title or the link.]

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