A Night at the Hip-Hopera
Posted by Daniel Stout on Tue 21 Sep 2004 at 6:04 AM
If you’re a fan of mash-ups as they call them, then you’ll like this. It’s a 78 minute (fits on one CD) hip hop opera by the Kleptones. Pretty interesting and worth a bunch of listens. Check it out. The Kleptones homepage for the album is over here, but waxy.org is hosting a mirror of the downloads. Be sure to grab the full 109MB zip file and get the whole thing at once. Right over here.
I’m still enjoying the 2 Many DJs mixes I picked up in Los Angeles last year. Good stuff from England Belgium. As a personal aside, I tend to associate these mash-ups with techno culture since that’s where I really first heard them in the early 90s, but really the mash-up goes back much further. Basically since the arrival of tape recorders people have been doing this sort of thing. I remember a friend of mine in Minneapolis used to send me these sound collage tapes with bits of songs and spoken word and random stuff thrown together.
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Actually 2 Many DJs are from Belgium.
Hip-Hopera rocks though :)
2 Many DJs’ As Heard On Radio Soulwax Part 9, The Kleptones’ Yoshimi Battles The Hip Hop Robots, and other fine things can be found at
http://klepshimi.blogspot.com/.