The music industry is a bizarre mess of music and if you switch on the radio these days you usually get the same old crap playing over and over. Our journey to college last year consisted of the same 6 songs - Titanium, anyone? - playing repeatedly no matter what time of day it was and no matter what radio station we were on, hence why my iPod may as well of been surgically attached to me. The music floating through the airwaves nowadays tends to be 'new music' that has actually existed for a fair amount of time its just taken the radio DJ's ages to jump on the band wagon. Well, its that or they lack severe amounts of honest talent. There's actually one DJ in particular who i've heard 'introduce a brand new band' that has been a band for several years. Finding decent, truly talented musicians takes its time but it is so well worth it. One of the artists that has stolen my heart with his incredible talent is Arthur Walwin.
If you haven't read my previous blog about him go and do that now by clicking on the link, as this post is not going to be dedicated to his incredible solo EP music or the bands he has played in but the sheer genius-ness of his 'Walwin Mash-Ups'
Writing an amazing song is one thing, combining two songs from other artists with the original vocals is also a pretty cool talent but Arthur combines songs perfectly and sings them himself.
The way he has achieved this is to such a high standard and so well thought of that I honestly believe if you weren't previously aware they were 2 different songs you wouldn't even be able to tell. He clearly has a skill in picking songs that gel so fluently but which you never thought would. In fact they are so amazing I love them just as much as the original songs.
He is the kind of musician that deserves to be noticed.
Without further ado I would like to introduce you to the perfection:
Starry Eyed Bricks is obviously the combination of Ellie Goulding's Starry Eyed and Paramore's Brick By Boring Brick. Two songs that I never would have put together and yet Arthur does that with style.
All I Wanted Was To Fix You - the gorgeous baby of Paramore's All I Wanted and Coldplay's Fix You - is simply mesmerizing.
Beech Like The Kill comprises of Lower Than Atlantis' Beech Like The Tree and 30 Seconds To Mars' The Kill and comes together with such perfection.
I Write Ignorance, Not Tragedies is the last in the series of mash-ups but by no means the least. Paramore's Ignorance and Panic! At The Disco's I Write Sins, Not Tragedies sounds as though it was always meant to be this way.
But I can't let you go without having heard this piece of musical perfection:
Not technically one of the Walwin Mash-Ups but it does have a cheekily beautiful combination. The main cover is of Go Radio's Goodnight Moon, but ever the heart breaker Arthur has included not only parts of Letters And Love Notes but also of Mayday Parade's Walk On Water Or Drown from Go Radio's Jason Lancaster's days in the band. When I first heard his cover I didn't read the part where he said there's a "cheeky mash-up at the end" and when I heard the "I'll be ok, I'll be just fine" of LALN I teared up a little and then in came the "And everybody knows this is the part" of WOWOD and the next thing I knew I was all out bawling.
It was actually this cover that happened to make my Mum insist that we order his EP "For One More Night" as soon as it goes on sale and talk about how fantastic he is non-stop for a few days.
Clearly he's doing something right.
All of the downloads to these are available in the video description on YouTube.
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