Created: 30 August 2015/29 October 2015
Now, that creation date might be a bit surprising. I started working on this video 2 months before it fell into it’s final form (or rather, I started working on the mashup for this video). Back in August, I thought it would be funny to combine the DK Rap with Son of Man from the Tarzan OST. But it didn’t work at all, and I couldn’t figure out why. I tried some other alternate tracks, like the Thomas the Tank Engine Theme and even We Didn’t Start The Fire, but I couldn’t get anything to work with Son of Man.
So I gave up… Until, in late October, I listened to Mouth Sounds by Neil Cicierega. Blew my mind. I didn’t know mashups could be anything besides Space Jam memes! I explored Soundcloud further, and found this masterful Undertale mashup, back when it only had a couple thousand plays.
I started to understand what I’d been doing wrong. You need isolated vocals, and song stems! I had been
using this, when I should have been using this. It was a revelation! I knew what I had to do. I downloaded a couple tracks, and made Tem Eastwood, quick and dirty. Look at how simple it was to make:
Pictured: Track 1 (Blue) = Vocals. Track 2 (Red) = Drums. Track 3 (Cyan) = Tem Shop. Easy stuff.
With that practice, I felt confident enough to give my previous idea another shot. The night of 29 October quickly bled into the 30th.
Because there was no instrumental version of Son of Man, I had to manually loop a part of the song to use throughout the mashup. Then I had to respace the vocals of the DK Rap to fit in time to the music. It was an order of magnitude more complex, and I ended up pulling an all-nighter:
Pictured: Track 1 (Blue) = Son of Man. Track 2 (Purple) = DK Rap. Track 3 (Red) = He- He- Here we go!
And once that was finished. I decided I needed to put this on my Youtube channel too! WHICH BRINGS US BACK TO THE ACTUAL VIDEO.
I freakin’ nailed it huh? I’m honestly not the biggest fan of the mashup at this point, despite how much work it took. But who cares, the end result was this video, and this video is perfect. All the footage is from the actual scene in Tarzan that uses Son of Man, with NO footage left over. It all just fit into place.
So in the end, this idea survived 2 months of development, led up to this whole ordeal, and ended up launching my lucrative mashup career. By which I mean only Tem Eastwood was lucrative.