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QUENTIN TARANTINO
MASH-UP

by  Jason
Burleson

Anytime you go
to see a film by Quentin Tarantino, whether you like the film
or not, one thing always stays in your head – the music.
Tarantino uses songs as if they were characters.  From then on out, when
you hear a song from one of his movies, you may not remember
the name of the artist who made the song, but you definitely
remember the name of the film you heard it in.

Would Pulp
Fiction be the same without Urge Overkill’s Neil Diamond cover
of “Girl, You’ll be a Woman Soon,” or what about Kill Bill
without Nancy Sinatra’s “Bang Bang?” True the films would
still be quality, but Tarantino’s music selection adds so much
more to the cinematic experience which only further adds to
his status as a cultural icon.

That said,
let’s get to business. James Hyman’s Quentin Tarantino
Mash-Up
takes the best tracks from all of Tarantino’s films and
mixes them with a few suitable non-Tarantino tracks (Kanye
West’s “Jesus Walks,” Nas’s “Bridging the Gap,” and Johnny
Cash covering the Depeche Mode classic “Personal Jesus”).  Then he freaks them
every possible way. If the term “mash-up” makes you cringe,
please remember Hyman’s show on
London’s XFM, The
Rinse, pretty much started the mash-up craze that’s currently
making the rounds. Hyman also takes dialogue from all the
films and mixes it in perfectly, and I mean perfectly, with
the music. I’ve never heard a mix where someone has put as
much thought into something as Hyman has done
here.

But to the main
question: Is it dope?

Without a
doubt.

The energy
level drops a little after the first twenty minutes, but it
would’ve been impossible for Hyman to keep up that level of
intensity for the whole mix.

Check this out:
the accapella from West’s “Jesus Walks” floats over the
“Battle Without Honor” (Kill Bill’s unofficial theme song)
before reverting back to Kanye’s original, which is then mixed
together with the guitar licks from Dusty Springfield’s “Son
of a Preacher Man” (Pulp Fiction). Shortly after, Sinatra’s
“Bang Bang” rides Dizzee Rascal’s “Fix Up Look Sharp” beat
mixed with a little snippet from Nas’s “Made You Look” and
closes out with a piece from Grandmaster Flash’s “The
Message.”

I wish I could
be more articulate, but I can’t. The sh*t sounds
crazy.

Tarantino
couldn’t find a better person to pick, choose, place, and mix
all the best music and dialogue from his films. If he ever
gets the chance to hear this I guarantee a phone call will be
made to Mr. Hyman - and it won’t be from Quentin’s
lawyers.

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