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...shotgun marriages are known, are the real road to success for today's harmonically challenged pop wannabes. The expertise required would make Beethoven blush. If you have ever listened to a mash-up and thought, I could do that, you're absolutely right. The necessary equipment: a PC, your CD collection and a pair of ears. No cash required, at least not until you're ready to unleash your motley mix upon an unsuspecting world...
...finesse. You need to interlace the lyrics judiciously and learn subtleties like crossfades. But it's hard to go wrong mixing the a capella version of one song and the instrumental of another. It doesn't hurt that for years the music industry has been creating instrumental tracks on CD singles for the DJ market. If you can't find them, there's a piece of free software called Vocal Remover (at analogx.com that achieves the same effect; it's also great for making karaoke...
...finishing touches. Both Plasma and Acid Music will let you layer on drum loops, synthesizer sounds and even your voice. When you're done, the full-price versions will let you burn your masterpiece onto a CD...
...Dion, Dad wants Placido and Johnny demands Ja Rule, it used to take three stereos to satisfy all. Now comes the Yamaha MusicCast, a wireless, digital home music system, out in June. MusicCast is based on the same Wi-Fi technology that powers many PC networks, using a server, CD player/recorder and hard drive to store hundreds of hours of music. Once downloaded from your CDs, music is sent to as many as seven small receivers, or clients. Five can be wireless, and each can power a pair of wired speakers. MusicCast can simultaneously transmit different music...
...saucepan. When Cindy, his old high-school sweetheart commissions him to paint a mural in one of the "Dairy Freez" stores she manages, Paul flies from Toronto to Georgia to oblige. Since both of them are single, they begin flirting, with Paul teasing her about her Dan Fogelberg CD. But when Cindy sends Paul, who is black, on an after-hours errand to the closed Dairy Freez he gets picked up by a pair of racist cops. This unexpected change-up highlights both Ollmann's admirable ambitions and his difficulties. The cliched depiction of the southern cops seems as equally...