Music like Jaydiohead

Jaydiohead is the mashup project of the music of Jay-Z and Radiohead that was mixed and produced by New York producer Minty Fresh Beats (Max Tannone). Tannone premiered the album Jaydiohead on his Myspace page on December 30, 2008, which was officially released to download January 1, 2009. The first album was followed up by the July 12, 2009 release of Jaydiohead: The Encore, which featured five new mixes. The album Jaydiohead has been called an internet sensation.

Tannone began work on Jaydiohead about a year prior to the album's completion, beginning with the tracks "Wrong Prayer" and "Ignorant Swan". The remainder of the tracks, which incorporate Jay-Z's a capella releases and samples from Radiohead songs, were mixed and produced beginning in August 2008. Over the course of six weeks, Tannone had completed the album from his laptop. In an interview with The Daily Beast writer Touré, he explains that producing a song is a lengthy process that could take several weeks to complete. Using Jay-Z's a cappella songs as the master tempo, he searched through Radiohead songs that he believed would complement Jay's lyrics. He also states that cohesion between the songs was one of the most difficult tasks in mixing. But by splitting up Radiohead songs into smaller pieces, he was able to layer Jay-Z's vocal tracks on top of them, sometimes placing additional melodies, adding drums or percussive instrumentation, or other effects into the track. Due to copyright infringement issues, similar to the release of most mashups, the songs were offered free of charge from the official website, and no legal action has been taken against Tannone.Jaydiohead was also bootlegged on vinyl.