Jon Nelson (artist) explained

Jon Nelson is a sound collage 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."^[1] Jon Nelson has been championing the genre of mashup music for more than 10 years;^[2] Some Assembly Required is now syndicated throughout the United States and Canada.^[3] 262 episodes were produced from 1999 to 2011.^[4]

Reviews and articles

• The Art of Mashups^[1] By Tom Asbrook, On Point, February 5, 2009
• Jon Nelson of Escape Mechanism^[5] 23007 by Katya Tylevich A.V. Club Twin Cities, January 28, 2009
• Some Assembly Required: Mash-Up Pioneer Dreams in Soundbites^[6] By Elizabeth Held, Wired Magazine, December 22, 2008
• Escape Mechanism promotes recycling!^[7] 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)^{[7] [8] [9]}
• Cast of Thousands with Escape Mechanism Self Titled (2004)^[10]
• Escape Mechanism, Steev Hise, The Tape-beatles, Wobbly Minneapolis Summit (2002)^[11]
• Escape Mechanism Self Titled (1998)^[12]

External links

• Some Assembly Required website
• Escape Mechanism website
• Post Consumer Productions website

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Art of Music Mashups | On Point with Tom Ashbrook . Onpointradio.org . 2009-02-05 . 2014-02-13.
2. http://www.avclub.com/twincities/articles/jon-nelson-of-escape-mechanism,23007/
3. Web site: Syndication . Some Assembly Required . 2014-02-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120928230653/http://www.some-assembly-required.net/whosyndicating.html . 2012-09-28 .
4. Web site: Playlists . Some Assembly Required . 2014-02-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131209052520/http://www.some-assembly-required.net/episodes/ . 2013-12-09 .
5. http://www.avclub.com/twincities/articles/jon-nelson-of-escape-mechanism
6. Web site: Held . Elizabeth . Some Assembly Required: Mash-Up Pioneer Dreams in Soundbites . Wired.com . 2013-03-28 . 2014-02-13.
7. http://archives.secretsofthecity.com/magazine/blogs/hear-hear/2008/09/escape-mechanism-promotes-recycling
8. Web site: Escape Mechanism . Escape Mechanism . 2014-02-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130923033850/http://www.escape-mechanism.com/releases/2006/06/escape-mechanism-emphasis-added.html . 2013-09-23 .
9. Web site: Held . Elizabeth . Wired Mentions the ECC in January issue . Evolution-control.com . 2009-01-20 . 2014-02-13.
10. Web site: Escape Mechanism . Escape Mechanism . 2014-02-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063846/http://escape-mechanism.com/releases/2006/06/escape-mechanism-live-cast-of.html . 2016-03-04 .
11. Web site: Escape Mechanism . Escape Mechanism . 2014-02-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140223140158/http://www.escape-mechanism.com/releases/2006/06/escape-mechanism-steev-hise-tape.html . 2014-02-23 .
12. Web site: Escape Mechanism . Escape Mechanism . 1999-02-10 . 2014-02-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140223140058/http://escape-mechanism.com/releases/2006/06/escape-mechanism-self-titled-debut-cd.html . 2014-02-23 .