What Is It Good For?

This is another case of a song on here being connected with a song I posted onYet Another Idiot With A Music Blog. You can read that post here, as the song I'm spotlighting here is a mashup that includes said track.

Pheugoo is a mashup DJ from the Netherlands who has put together some quality work. For example (and the link is not on his page although he has it hidden on his page) he created a song that combined two tunes about as far away from each other in terms of style as you can get in popular music. He had the rapping of Usher, Luda, and Lil Jon in Yeah over the music of… Jerry Reed's Eastbound and Down, from Smokey & The Bandit! Seriously. It actually works too. If you search for it on Project Playlist you'll find it.

The tune I'm spotlighting here can also be found on Project Playlist, as again it's a hidden link. It's Robot Wars (Release The Beast), acknowledging that it's a combination of Release The Best and the Edwin Starr tune War, and that the former was sampled for Robot Rock. It's a great combo.

Pheugoo-Robot Wars (Release The Beast)

http://www.pheugoo.com/music/Pheugoo - Robot Wars (Release the Beast).mp3

Check back here on Friday for the next tune I'll be spotlighting.

Urgent Signs

Yep, this will be another case of a rock song's music being combined with a rap tune's vocals, but this one is extremely good and I'm shocked I haven't posted it yet.

The tune is from Lock3down, a mashup artist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There are several tracks that I feel are especially worthy of download, although I will only point out one (as hey, who knows what you the listener may prefer so you can try them all out and keep the ones you like, you know). This particular one combines the Snoop Dogg/Justin Timberlake song Signs with Foreigner's Urgent. Foreigner! Not too surprisingly, it's known as Urgent Signs. The combination proves to be great as the way Lock3down put it all together was A+ You'll probably dig it also. The music video for it is pretty cool also.

I'll be back Monday night with another mashup to spotlight.

Yet Another Post Where I List Several Links

Hey, I'm sorry, but I wanted this up before midnight my time, so here you go. It's still an interesting post, I think.

First, here is a link to many mashup videos.

If you ever want to try and make a mashup of your own, use this website as a guide. I've never tried it myself, but maybe one of these days...

Finally... here is a newish forum for mashups, known as The Laptop Punk Mash Up Forum.

I'll be back on Thursday night.

Happy Easter Weekend, Everyone

My apologies for this being so late but the past few days have been insane for me so I'll tell you that what I had planned for Friday night will be up Monday night, I promise.

Plugging Another Blog

I know I've mentioned it before, but The Bootie Blog is a great place to go to find some of the best matchups of the preceding month. It's run by DJ's Adrian & The Mysterious D.

They didn't do one for January tunes, but earlier this month they posted their February ditties that they enjoyed the most. I've heard all of them and many of them are well worth downloading. You also get explanations for why the songs were chosen. Hey, it's more interesting than me writing about one song on here.

I'll be back a week from today with me pointing out one song and spotlighting it. Hey, I don't think I'll have that much free time the next 7 days, so there you go.

Victim of Da Funk

A rather odd "real life" moment happened just earlier today, when I was in a local Best Buy when I saw none other than retired basketball (and current assistant coach for the Orlando Magic) Patrick Ewing walk into the store and start looking at DVD's! I kid you not. I didn't go up to him and get a picture or an autograph, but it still makes for an interesting story to tell, as this is the first time I've ever encountered a random celebrity doing a regular mundane thing such as purchasing DVD's.

Today I will spotlight a mashup DJ who apparently isn't in this business anymore-given that his website hasn't been updated in more than a year and I haven't heard anything new from him in that time-but he was great while he was around.

I am refering to DJ John, a guy who put together multiple tunes into a cohesive whole. Arguably his best song (and undeniably his most popular tune) was Victim of Da Funk, which mainly combined Daft Punk's Da Funk and the Eagles' Victim of Love, but also has bits and pieces of other songs. It can be found easily on the mashups page on his website; all the songs there are still available for download. This ranks very high on the short list of the best mashups I've ever heard. Many of the other songs there are also worth a download. It's a shame he doesn't make mashups anymore, but those tunes will be around forever.

Check back here Friday night, where I will spotlight the next mashup.

Work It With A Fury

Today's mashup spotlight will be on a guy whose songs I've downloaded for a few years now (and who has a really good July 05 hour long mix that I recommend); the guy calls himself Solcofn and he is from Washington, D.C.

The song that I'm pointing out is in the "mash ups" section under "2007"; you can search the page and you'll find the tune Work It With A Fury. It uses the vocals of a rap song over the music of a electronic song from one of the most well-known personalities in that genre.

The vocals are from the Missy Elliott song Work It and the music is from a Chemical Brothers song; the title of that song is unknown to me. Not too surprisingly, Missy is one of the most popular people to have their songs mashed up, to various degrees of goodness. I think this is one of the best ones, as the music fits the rapping very well.

I'll be back on Tuesday afternoon (probably in the latter part of the afternoon) where I will spotlight yet another mashup.

Ah Ha, Ah Ha, This Tune's Staying Alive

On Monday I posted a link to Good Blimey's huge collection of mashups. Since then, I figured out the easy way to download the songs from the playlists (I use Firefox, and in the file section there's a "Save Page As..." feature; ridiculously easy, and I only figured it out now...) and listened to a smattering of those tunes. There are many gems in there, but so far the best one is from a person or group that as far as I know doesn't make mashups anymore.

I really can't tell you much of anything about Batchelor Royale, except that he/they were around a few years ago. I recognize the name but I don't recall hearing any B.R. songs before. The one I'm talking about here combines two common tunes that get mashed up, Usher's Yeah! and the Bee Gee's Stayin' Alive. Actually, this tune mainly uses the N-Trance remix of the song, but some of the original vocals are also there. There is another surprise sample or two in the mix. Overall, it's a kick-ass mashup and it's unfortuate that B.R. doesn't appear to be in this field anymore.

Here is a direct download link to the song:

http://goodblimey.com/stream/Volume%201/Usher%20vs%20Bee%20Gees%20-%20Stayin'%20Yeah%20(Batchelor%20Royale)%20(088).mp3

I'll be back on Saturday (probably in the evening) with a new mashup to spotlight.

A Correction, Re: A Recent Post

Recently, I posted a blog that contained a song from Aggro1. He himself commented and stated,

Aggro1 is actually from Dayton, Ohio.

Hustle Athletics is actually a moniker of the DnB group more commonly known as Noisia.

Thx for the mention.

Believe me, I was very flattered that he saw the blog and commented on it. My apologies for the confusion as to where you lived. I think I got you confused with DJ Earworm or something.

In a few minutes, a post where I spotlight a song from a few years ago.

Several Quick Links

I'll actually do something a little different tonight. I'll only post a few random mashup links.

The first one is Mashupciti, which is a site that hosts streaming mashups (that you can also download via the "divShare" link) and it's a variety of artists I have not heard of before but just from a cursory glance, some of these cats are quite good.

The second is Mashstix, a similar site to the above. There, you can vote on which songs you think are the best.

Finally, if you want an 18GB(!) music player that streams mashups from a few years ago (you CAN download any individual songs, although they open in a Quicktime file that plays the song, and for me at least those are usually a bitch to try and convert in a download, but Lord knows you can't be picky about it when you can download 18 gigs of mashups!) , go here and listen to the hundreds of songs he has there. I'm sure that when you find songs you like, you can search for them online and some of them shouldn't be too difficult to find and download.

I'll be back Wednesday night, this time with one song spotlighted.