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Mashuptown.com: Marc Johnce - Word Up This Way [Lady Gaga vs. Korn vs. Cameo]

Marc Johnce combines Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" with Korn's cover of "Word Up!" and drum samples from Cameo's original "Word Up!" to create a dance-oriented mashup that bridges pop, nu-metal, and funk aesthetics. The track layers Gaga's vocal melody and production over the heavier instrumental elements, creating an unlikely but cohesive blend across multiple genres and eras.

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Mashuptown.com: Best of BOOTIE 2010

Bootie released their 2010 best-of compilation in both continuous and unmixed versions, featuring work from mashup producers Adrian and Mysterious D along with bonus tracks and a Rio-themed CD. The post highlights "We No Speak Americano," a megamashup by Mashup-Germany and Faroff that layers multiple hits including "Everybody," "Ray Charles," and the Backstreet Boys into a single track.

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Google Chrome Shows Off What HTML5 Can Do With Arcade Fire Video | TechCrunch

Google and Arcade Fire created "The Wilderness Downtown," an interactive HTML5 video experience where users enter their childhood home address and watch a music video that incorporates personalized Google Maps and Street View imagery of their neighborhood alongside animated graphics, open windows triggered by the music, and interactive drawing tools. The project showcases HTML5's capabilities for rich browser-based experiences—including birds-eye fly-overs, superimposed animated elements, and custom fonts—though it demands significant processing power and requires closing other applications to run smoothly.

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Simon Collison | Colly | The Celebrated Miscellany

I don't have a saved article to summarize for you. What you've shared is your own creative biography—a poetic timeline tracing your development as a designer, writer, artist and musician from 1973 to 2022, punctuated with musical references and formative moments. If you'd like me to summarize an article you've saved, please share the text or link to it, and I'll provide a concise summary explaining what it argues or reports.

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Tweekly.fm | Last.fm Meets Twitter & Facebook

This promotional article describes FUN79, an online gambling platform based in Singapore, highlighting its backup access links, licensing credentials, game library of over 2,000 titles, and features like live sports betting, lottery, cockfighting, card games, and slot machines. The platform claims rapid user growth to 2 million members in under three years, employs 99.99% accurate RNG technology, and offers deposit/withdrawal processing in 1-5 minutes with 98% success rates, while targeting expansion to 3,500 games and 10 million users by 2026.

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Online Tab Player | Songsterr

I can't summarize this content because it's not an article. This appears to be a screenshot from Songsterr, a guitar tablature website showing a list of popular rock songs and guitar tabs. There's no argumentative piece or reported information to extract — just a catalog of music tracks and their arrangements.

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YouTube - Bella's Lullaby

Plays from YouTube. Nothing is loaded from Google until you press play.

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Jamendo : Home

Jamendo Music is relaunching with a redesigned web and mobile platform to showcase independent music with improved quality and user experience. The announcement includes a curated selection of featured albums and playlists spanning genres from electropop and synth-pop to jazz and electronica, highlighting artists like Neon NiteClub, Lilly Wolf, and Olivier Girardot. The platform's rebranding represents a significant evolution for the music streaming service, inviting user feedback during the beta phase.

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Moving your iTunes Library to a New Hard Drive

This guide explains how to properly move an iTunes library to a new location—whether to an external drive, secondary internal drive, or new computer—by distinguishing between the iTunes library database (the index file) and the iTunes Media folder (the actual content files). The key insight is that iTunes stores full file paths in its database, so manually moving files will break those links; instead, users should use iTunes' "Consolidate Files" feature, which copies files to the new location while updating the database references. The article also covers iTunes' distinction between "managed" files (stored in the iTunes Media folder and controlled by iTunes) and "referenced" files (stored elsewhere and merely pointed to by iTunes), explaining how this affects relocation options and whether users can preserve their own file organization.

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