Jon Nelson is a

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artist and a radio show host for Some Assembly Required. He "mashes music and found sound — from old movies, laugh tracks, the news — to make what he calls the audio dreamscape of the media age." Jon Nelson has been championing the genre of mashup music for more than 10 years; Some Assembly Required is now syndicated throughout the United States and Canada. 262 episodes were produced from 1999 to 2011.

Reviews and articles

*''The Art of Mashups'' By Tom Asbrook, On Point, February 5, 2009 *''Jon Nelson of Escape Mechanism'' 23007 by Katya Tylevich A.V. Club Twin Cities, January 28, 2009 * ''Some Assembly Required: Mash-Up Pioneer Dreams in Soundbites'' By Elizabeth Held, ''

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'', December 22, 2008 *''Escape Mechanism promotes recycling!''
by Max Ross, Secrets of the City, September 16, 2008 *''Click, shriek, boom! Sonic collage artist Escape Mechanism cuts and pastes while aural trickster Lost in Translation slashes and burns'' by Michaelangelo MatosCity Pages (Volume 20 - Issue 949 - February 10, 1999)

Discography

*Escape Mechanism ''(Emphasis Added)'' (2008) *Cast of Thousands with Escape Mechanism ''Self Titled'' (2004) *Escape Mechanism, Steev Hise, The Tape-beatles, Wobbly ''Minneapolis Summit'' (2002) *Escape Mechanism ''Self Titled'' (1998)

References

External links

Some Assembly Required websiteEscape Mechanism websitePost Consumer Productions website
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