i'm really into these things called "mashups" now

http://www.lancelockarm.com

And go nuts.

http://apollozero.multiply.com/music/item/110

Never. (And it's a different album.)

also scott you must check out the Kleptones album A Night At The Hip Hopera before you give up on the genre.

Seal and Streisand on Mars by the Univac Index

I am surprised and disappointed that dog latin didn't return to ILM and start this thread.

There was a lot of cutting Missy's vocals the fuck out of her tracks and pasting in rock/indie vocals iirc.

Terrastock/Boston FAP 2002 -- Matos, Alan T., myself and at least a few other folks are in a bar, "Hard to Explain" comes on and when there's no Xtina we all start swearing loudly.

This? Pink Project - Domino:

A1 (Medley): Da Da Da I Don't Love You, You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha, Der Kommissar (Rap' That), Meeting.
A2 (Medley): Mammagamma, Sirius, Another Brick In The Wall Part 3.
B1 (Medley): Hyper Gamma Spaces, Oxygene Part 4.
B2 (Medley): State Of Independence, Voices Inside My Head.
C (Medley): Smoke On The Water, Love Like A Man.
D2 (Medley): Connecting Flight, Magic Fly.

Most perfect mashup I've heard for ages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79brGk_AXG4

Just SB me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN75im_us4k

^ better than i expected tho

"perfect mashup," an oxymoron for our age

That Nirvana one pisses me off because there's obv no such thing as a Nirvana instrumental, so dude just used the karaoke version

Dude might as well have just uploaded a YouTube of himself singing the rick astley song over Teen Spirit at karaoke night fwiw tbh tbqf

you sure are whiney!

I thought we'd talked about DJ Schmolli here on ILM, but it was probably in the comments section of old-Idolator now that I think about it. His Iron Maiden/Monkees one last summer was great, but I just found his latest one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAbUNFNLFE0

wait, are mash-ups the new re-edits now??

This is blowing my mind....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vDf0j3SEseU#!

these are my two favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLPhBYoscxM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtQne6L3F8

The mashup of the Hives' "Hate to Say I Told You So" with Lisa Left Eye Lopes' "The Block Party" is not on YouTube, but trust me it is AWESOME.

was at a bbq last summer and the dj played "single ladies" over "sweet georgia brown", fit just perfect.....

This is one of my favorites:

Futuro - Breathe With Me Til Dawn (Pink Floyd vs. Judie Tzuke)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptY6u7q7v7M

Accidentally mashing up the resident Comateens videos on youtube with Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 on Spotify. FIgured skot might appreciate the former if not the latter.

bill mcclintock is amazing at this http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6C3PX8hLzueaPWW9nmT85w/videos

I forgot mashups existed.

That Deep Purple/Bee Gees one is quite impressive, given that it subtracts little from either track.

my world is empty without you, maneater = A+

I forgot mashups existed.

― growing up in publix (morrisp), Sunday, 23 September 2018 03:57 (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you haven't been following the glorious life and career of neil cicierega then

Vanessa Paradis vs. Slayer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3lKOt33dTg

Was there a mashups POX thread on ilm? I can’t find it.

Anyhoo... this is a top 5 for me:

ELVIS & THE WAILERS - crying in the chapel

https://youtu.be/HvKm8-P-4mI

guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_jBfoTLFQ

^ possibly the greatest mashup i've ever heard

Our Alice was asking about a song she dimly remembered. Something about "We do what we like and we like what we do"

That'd have to be the beasties mashup w/ Andrew WK, played them it a fair bit back in the day..

xpost Wow, that's one of the better ones I've heard, at the very least since his mash-up of "Disco Inferno" and "Dragula."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcie6qQL8ls

Holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnrfqPoX4WU

“Raining Lobsters” is incredible!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYNSSkOOTBk

OMG at Raining Lobster and Bad Mother

holy shit i don't even know the Slayer song but "Raining Lobsters" is really something

More discussion of recent mashups in TikTok and elsewhere in this twitter thread by adjunct music professor and writer

our next unit in technomusicology is on mashups. i know mashups are like way over as a zeitgeist, but they still crop up from time to time. what's the best recent mashup you've encountered?

— wayne&wax (@wayneandwax) March 3, 2021

still trying to wrap my head around this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EotYv9eJCw

These guys are still at it, doing a year-by-year thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uXDh_Ghdso

those year-by-year mashups are pretty well-done! having "Da Funk" to lean on as a foundation is kind of stacking the deck, but still.

my only beef is how much they pitch-shift the angelic, indelible backing vocals from a certain Van Halen classic in the 1979 one. i'd bend everything else to match those, dammit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sooNYhKH6_0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MRx4LpYbQ4

Talking Lipps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYAwYM4lTwI

This might be the best example I’ve seen yet of an Ilx thread started on the upswing of a trend that is hilarious when seen a decade later, cf “Spotify: anyone heard of it?” et al

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXbaIhnXpCE

metallica/huey lewis one has me dying. stitching together the cheesy arena show footage works incredibly well!

"walrus" also really tickling me yeah

This might be the best example I’ve seen yet of an Ilx thread started on the upswing of a trend that is hilarious when seen a decade later, cf “Spotify: anyone heard of it?” et al

nah, the thread title always read like that - it was six years after Boom Selection / the crest of the upswing, and five years after cover versions of mash-ups were going #1 in the UK.

guys.... some of this stuff is incredible

https://tomcaruanamashups.bandcamp.com

https://flipoutmusic.bandcamp.com/track/castaways-flipout-isley-edit

"This might be the best example I’ve seen yet of an Ilx thread started on the upswing of a trend that is hilarious when seen a decade later, cf “Spotify: anyone heard of it?” et al"

haha, this was me being silly. i heard one mashup i liked while drunk and needed to start a revival. i knew everyone here had become totally sick of them. but there will always be good ones. that slayer lobster one is excellent!

Those would kill at the funk 45s sockhop dj night, do they still have those? Love hearing those New Orleans funk breaks.

xp

I've always wondered if there are any tricks to help make videos sync to the audio in the mashups when there might be thousands of alterations, pitch shifting, tempo nudging to the original audio. Do they just do the slog work of re-tuning each clip manually? Do they work with video files to make the mashups in the first place?

I've been getting back into making these now AI can strip vocals out of tunes so easily. Latest creation is Rayana Jay 'Last Call' over the Cardigan's jazzy take on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Works far better than it should, even the saxophone from the RJ track :)

https://soundcloud.com/user-101843311-553307970/the-cardigans-vs-rayana-jay-sabbaths-last-call

*Cardigans' ffs autocorrect

And here's Nina Persson over the Rayana Jay beat in case that's your thang: https://soundcloud.com/user-101843311-553307970/rayana-jay-vs-the-cardigans-last-call-on-the-sabbath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1E4Qdrjxi0

That’s great. I’m in awe of the musical brain that can even think that one up let alone execute it.

I have been wondering why there's not a silver age of mashups now that we have AI stem separation and all the rest.

I suspect the audience is really balkanized depending if you appreciate AI-assisted mashing versus pure prompt one-shotting, are OK with AI-voice cloning or not, are put off by the demi-cover trend, etc...

I've been making a lot of them myself lately. AI stem separation is pretty hit or miss in my experience, but when it works it doesn't really come off as AI assisted at all. I've seen people claim AI can just handle the entire process for you but from what I've listened to it doesn't really handle the little things right, plus there's the main thing of you needing an idea in the first place

My issue with a lot of AI stem separation is that parts often still sound like they are being played underwater.

Having far too much fun with Ableton stem separation atm

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OwDbr9PSnqvuHOO3CT_SsYYQ0UpPz7bB/view?usp=drivesdk

My issue with a lot of AI stem separation is that parts often still sound like they are being played underwater.

― MarkoP, Thursday, February 12, 2026 4:57 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I use the OpenVINO stem separator in Audacity along with a free program called Ultimate Vocal Remover, idk if one's better than the other but they both do them differently so it increases your chances of getting a good split. Honestly I have no clue why some songs separate cleanly and others don't, seems to work better on old recordings for some reason, I think auto-tune and other digital vocal processing effects really mess with it

one thing I've learned is that all those Rock Band/Guitar Hero games need individual stems and there's tons of DLC for those games, if you find a torrent with all that you'll have access to tons of stuff, I think this is why we had a golden age of mashups in the first place. like 90% of the songs used in those Neil Cicerega albums are in Rock Band. "My Iron Lung" I think was in Guitar Hero if you're looking to do it proper :)

the robotic/underwater feel of separated stems is just the unnatural loss of reverb, which blends with the other sounds in a much less seperable way. you can often fix it by carefully applying new reverb.

heres my latest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOdRbgh2rcs

one thing I've learned is that all those Rock Band/Guitar Hero games need individual stems and there's tons of DLC for those games, if you find a torrent with all that you'll have access to tons of stuff, I think this is why we had a golden age of mashups in the first place. like 90% of the songs used in those Neil Cicerega albums are in Rock Band.

Yes I was the first person to tell Neil about the Rock Band stems, back in 2008.

I assumed thread revive was about this https://www.avclub.com/the-lost-art-of-the-mashup-cultural-reset

Somehow missed Pop danthology.

lol the Ratt/Sade one is solid work

Yes I was the first person to tell Neil about the Rock Band stems, back in 2008.

― MarkoP, Thursday, February 12, 2026 10:16 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

well damn. you changed the course of music shitposting history

The person who does my album covers and who would be a great ILXor if I could convince them to post here, Logan Postumous, does good mashups under the name of Timsvb.

https://lllogan.bandcamp.com/album/timsvb-tall-eyeless-quick-guide-to-cult-life-worship