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

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they are way cool

this is my fave one it's called last nite a dj saved jack and diane's life:

http://apollozero.multiply.com/music/item/114

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

Just go here:

http://www.lancelockarm.com

And go nuts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:20 (eighteen years ago)

wait, so were john mellencamp and indeep in the same room at the same time???

― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:21 (eighteen years ago)

omg john denver remix is so cool

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

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:21 (eighteen years ago)

i'm kinda drunk though

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:21 (eighteen years ago)

seriously, listen to john denver one. even if you aren't drunk.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:22 (eighteen years ago)

ned, listen to john denver one.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:22 (eighteen years ago)

I will but I am in Men Without Hats mode. When it is complete.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

you are doing the safety dance...naked. aren't you.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

uh, it's okay. the visual on that site is great, tho.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

you are doing the safety dance...naked. aren't you.

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

im pretty stoned and the jd one is sorta blowing my mind

― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:33 (eighteen years ago)

*sigh* i think i'm like totally over mashups already. i don't know, the two i have heard are good, but i need more...

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:38 (eighteen years ago)

man, Ned really does like Men Without Hats. i wouldn't have guessed:
Men Without Hats, 'Pop Goes the World'

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:41 (eighteen years ago)

they're like junk food - good at first, mostly unfulfilling in the long run.

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

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:43 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:48 (eighteen years ago)

i liked those old bootleg records from the 80's that just added beats to ac/dc and motley crue songs. those were cool. i have an early 80's italodisco album that mashes da da da with der kommisar. soooo coool.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:52 (eighteen years ago)

have you heard Discocaine? Eric Clapton with disco beat = excellent.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:54 (eighteen years ago)

are you guys serious? mash-ups need to go away already.

― youth problem (YouthProblem), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 05:21 (eighteen years ago)

last year I heard my favorite mashup yet.

Seal and Streisand on Mars by the Univac Index

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 05:36 (eighteen years ago)

Some WFMU DJ played Le Sacré du Printemps and one of the songs from Bitches Brew ("Pharoah's Dance"?) simultaneously the other day. Not as carefully constructed as most mashups I've heard, but the effect was fantastic.

― Tuesdays With Morimoto (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 05:52 (eighteen years ago)

Youth Problems = OTM

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 07:22 (eighteen years ago)

mashups did go away. this is the revival. i (heart) the '00s!

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 07:33 (eighteen years ago)

the beatles LOVE started the revival. it's all LOVE's fault.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

I seriously can't hear the Strokes song 'Hard to Explain' without being surprised when Christina Aguilera's vocals don't come in after a few bars.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 09:55 (eighteen years ago)

yeah it's the same for me with 10cc dreadlock holiday, although that doesn't often happen.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

surprised AND DISAPPOINTED

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

what ledge said

― antidote against poisoning (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

thirded.

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

i am surprised and disappointed that this isn't a revived thread from 2002.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

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

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

Seems like bootie has whethered its been-there-done-that phase. I found myself wondering if it's somehow having an influence on the minimalist approach of a lot of *stand alone* artists, hip hop or otherwise. The Gossip's last album seems almost like a source for remixing rather than a fully realized record.

― bendy (bendy), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

it took me almost a full year to get to a point where I could admit that the Q-Unit album was one of my very favorite things from 2005

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

i thought mashups were exciting because they felt like a challenge to Xtina and the Strokes and everybody to be bolder in ripping off each others' steez. Since the formula was usually rock-background-with-pop-vocals, it seemed aimed particularly at rock bands: a criticism of the pathetically emaciated state of rock vocals. Minor Threat with Destiny's Child singing the lyrics was an obvious upgrade. But the rockers didn't pick up the ball. :(

― Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

mash-ups are awesome, and with today's technology
http://www.hstore.it/stores/drogheria/images/potatoBuds.jpg
pretty much anybody can produce them!

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

i am surprised and disappointed that this isn't a revived thread from 2002.

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

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

Since the formula was usually rock-background-with-pop-vocals, it seemed aimed particularly at rock bands: a criticism of the pathetically emaciated state of rock vocals. Minor Threat with Destiny's Child singing the lyrics was an obvious upgrade. But the rockers didn't pick up the ball. :(

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

― onimo (onimo), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

far more the other way round tho. like 99/100 ratio at least.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

i'm over the mashups. i think it was just a phase i was going through. um, for a night. i did dig that john denver one though!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

I remember really liking one that put Snoop vocals over FLips "Yoshimi", but the thing that was great was when it went to the "breakdown" and they "dropped" a Will Ferrell as Robert Goulet singing "Who Let The Dogs Out" sample.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

surprised AND DISAPPOINTED

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.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

"i have an early 80's italodisco album that mashes da da da with der kommisar. soooo coool."

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.

― todd (todd), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

that's the one! i love that thing.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

that looks so rad. it's got all the beardo faves. Alan Parsons, Pink Floyd, Jean Michelle Jarre, Space, that sick ass police song, Vangelis

― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

it's weird, mash-ups seem to be huge again, at least here, it is very wtf

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

if i post another 80's mix i'll put the da da kommissar thing on it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

I went on a date to a large corporate holiday party a couple months ago and the theme was adult contemporary mash-ups.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

like threesomes and shit?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

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

― I am flesh and blood. You are software and circuitry. (chap), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 16:40 (sixteen years ago)

Just SB me.

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

― Biodegradable (Derelict), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 16:53 (sixteen years ago)

^ better than i expected tho

― mdskltr (blueski), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 17:03 (sixteen years ago)

"perfect mashup," an oxymoron for our age

― S.M.H. Pinafore (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 17:22 (sixteen years ago)

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

― S.M.H. Pinafore (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 17:23 (sixteen years ago)

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

― S.M.H. Pinafore (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 17:24 (sixteen years ago)

you sure are whiney!

― goole, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 17:27 (sixteen years ago)

eight months pass...

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

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 23 July 2010 02:06 (fifteen years ago)

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

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 23 July 2010 11:04 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

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

― bodacious ignoramus, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 22:58 (twelve years ago)

these are my two favorites:

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

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

― walk in the room they throwin Sade left to right (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 23:06 (twelve years ago)

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.

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 23:21 (twelve years ago)

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

― m0stlyClean, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 23:25 (twelve years ago)

three months pass...

This is one of my favorites:

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

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

― Moka, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 22:24 (twelve years ago)

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.

― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 02:12 (twelve years ago)

four years pass...

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

― Hakim Bae's TMZ (s.clover), Sunday, 23 September 2018 03:56 (seven years ago)

I forgot mashups existed.

― growing up in publix (morrisp), Sunday, 23 September 2018 03:57 (seven years ago)

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

― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 23 September 2018 09:42 (seven years ago)

my world is empty without you, maneater = A+

― StanM, Sunday, 23 September 2018 10:08 (seven years ago)

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

― imago, Sunday, 23 September 2018 10:10 (seven years ago)

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

― pomenitul, Saturday, 29 September 2018 19:10 (seven years ago)

ten months pass...

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

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 15 August 2019 17:35 (six years ago)

ten months pass...

guys

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

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 12:14 (five years ago)

^ possibly the greatest mashup i've ever heard

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 12:14 (five years ago)

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..

― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 12:20 (five years ago)

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

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 12:23 (five years ago)

Holy shit

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

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 12:28 (five years ago)

“Raining Lobsters” is incredible!!

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 12:29 (five years ago)

seven months pass...

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

― Joe Bombin (milo z), Thursday, 4 March 2021 03:03 (four years ago)

OMG at Raining Lobster and Bad Mother

― skip, Thursday, 4 March 2021 03:17 (four years ago)

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

― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 4 March 2021 14:01 (four years ago)

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

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 March 2021 14:17 (four years ago)

still trying to wrap my head around this one

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

― frogbs, Thursday, 4 March 2021 14:33 (four years ago)

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

― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 4 March 2021 14:52 (four years ago)

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!

― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Friday, 5 March 2021 17:01 (four years ago)

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

― xzanfar, Friday, 5 March 2021 17:19 (four years ago)

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

― xzanfar, Friday, 5 March 2021 17:26 (four years ago)

Talking Lipps:

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

― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 6 March 2021 19:33 (four years ago)

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

― Canon in Deez (silby), Saturday, 6 March 2021 19:34 (four years ago)

lol

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

― piscesx, Saturday, 6 March 2021 20:02 (four years ago)

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

― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 12:40 (four years ago)

"walrus" also really tickling me yeah

― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 12:43 (four years ago)

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.

― armoured van, Holden (sic), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 20:43 (four years ago)

three years pass...

guys.... some of this stuff is incredible

https://tomcaruanamashups.bandcamp.com

― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 August 2024 14:12 (one year ago)

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

― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Thursday, 1 August 2024 14:25 (one year ago)

"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!

― scott seward, Thursday, 1 August 2024 14:47 (one year ago)

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

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 1 August 2024 14:49 (one year ago)

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?

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 1 August 2024 15:07 (one year ago)

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

― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Thursday, 8 August 2024 11:11 (one year ago)

*Cardigans' ffs autocorrect

― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Thursday, 8 August 2024 11:11 (one year ago)

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

― Agnes, Agatha, Germaine and Jack (Willl), Thursday, 8 August 2024 11:17 (one year ago)

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