On November 21st, EMI will release a Beatles project called LOVE. For it, producer George Martin took tracks from all the Beatles tracks he produced and created an all-Beatles mash-up. LOVE is a collaboration between the Beatles and Cirque Du Soleil.

Another mashup album -- one that comes closer to the defintion of a mash-up that we've come to known -- will come in early 2007. EMI will release a mashup album titled Mashed. The songs are produced by Mark Vidler a.k.a. Go Home Productions (pictured). (Check out GHP's MP3 page for a bunch of mash-ups.) I have links to four songs from Mashed (high quality streams) and they're not too shabby. The project comes predictably late in the mash-up game but it does show some newfound flexibility in how major labels approach their catalogs of music. Better late than never.

• "Rapture Riders" is Blondie's "Rapture" versus The Doors' "Riders on the Storm."
• "Passenger Fever" is Peggy Lee's "Fever" versus Iggy Pop's "The Passenger"
• "David X" is Liberty X's "Got To Have Your Love" versus David Bowie's "Let's Dance"
• "Notorious Trick" is Kelis's "Trick Me" versus Duran Duran's "Notorious"

The songs aren't as club-oriented as the usual mashup. These songs are for everyday fans. Could it spark a trend? Pop music could use a new trend right now, so I hope others follow.