Jon Nelson (artist)

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." 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, Wired Magazine, 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)