England’s Last Band Standing

LONDON—On the cusp of a new technology, the old impersonates the coming form. The “mash-up”—the digital overlay of disparate musical elements—became technically possible in the late 1990s. But the mash-up already existed by another name in the late 1970s, through the DJs manually syncing two turntables. And though the mash-up looked forward to the end of manual music-making, at the time its most prominent analogue, both technologically and symbolically, was the backward-looking manual labor of a four-piece rock band, Oasis.

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