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]