Akademik

n.

A musical technique that creates a new piece of music by mixing passages from a number of existing songs.

"Side 2, however, due to the duo's running out of money for studio time, was a bizarre, abstract collision of previously recorded music being looped, repeated, mangled, and played at incorrect speeds -- the first rock remix, perhaps, or an early example of plunderphonics."

— Fred Mills, "Neu! School," Phoenix New Times, July 12, 2001

"The project, a compact disc recording called Plunderphonic, featured Oswald's manipulations of familiar recordings by artists such as Michael Jackson, Glenn Gould, Dolly Parton, and Elvis Presley. By using a variety of recording techniques, including electronic sampling and tape manipulation, Oswald created new, often radically different compositions from the existing material."

— Chris Dafoe, "Recording industry crushes composer's project," The Toronto Star, February 9, 1990

Today's word (actually, plunderphonic) was coined by musician John Oswald and used as the title of a CD he released in 1989.