(Many Of) The Best Mashups Of 2008

Hello everyone. As 2008 winds down in a matter of hours (to me, this year flew by, but recent years have been that way to me), an easy (but yet very informative) way to do a last post here this year is to direct you to four different sources of mashups which people have judged to be the best ones created this year.

The first one is the release of Best of Bootie 2008, compiled by DJ's Adrian & The Mysterious D. Besides the mix of 20 tunes, the page offers additional mashups that they enjoyed. While I'm surprised at some of the tunes they chose, their other three releases were quality, so I'm sure this one will also be worth downloading.

The second page is from Culture Bully. Here you have the top 15 mashups of the year, as designated by Chris DeLine. I haven't really downloaded any of the songs I'm not familiar with yet, but I'm sure it's a fine collection. Right now I'm downloading the song he thought was the best, which somehow combines THIRTY-SIX different songs into a 4 minute tune. I don't know how it can be done either, but that should be enough of an enticement for you to check out the link.

The third page is from someone at Culture Bully. Here you can download a mix of different songs that are (at least in one person's opinion) the best of the year. You can even download a mix of all the songs combined together into an album format.

The fourth page is, yep, from Culture Bully. Here is a page which contains FIFTEEN different DJ's offering up their opinions on the best tunes. Believe me, from those four pages, you'll get dozens upon dozens of different tunes which will fill out at least a few different burned CD's.

I'll be back on Friday night the 9th with something new for this page. Have a good New Years Eve and New Years Day. It may be real late tonight, but I'll post something on my other music page.

Happy Holidays

Hello everyone. I apologize for this being up a little later than planned, but I had to do other things first, including watching the Bears win against the Packers last night.

I’ll wish everyone a Happy Holidays, no matter which holiday you do or don’t celebrate during this time of year. To me, the Christmas season isn’t the same as it was back when I was a kid. I could explain why I feel this way, but I’ll spare you all. It just isn’t the same, let me reiterate.

Personally, many of the Christmas mashups I've heard aren't for me; that isn't a comment on the job done on them by all the people who participate in that kind of stuff. They do a great job with it; it just doesn't usually tickle my fancy for some reason. But, as it's the season, if you want to listen to them to be full of mirth, you can download songs here and here. The latter has links to a few dozen X-mas tunes, especially if you click on the links at the bottom of the page.

For a non-Christmas song, here is one (located here) I found from a guy known as Terry Urban. I'm not too familiar with him and his work, but his combining A Milli and Viva la Vida is interesting (although I'm not sure yet if I can call it "good" or not; I just know it's been popular as of this week) and something you can put at the end of your mashup CD if you don't care for it yourself.

Happy Holidays, everyone, and I'll be back Wednesday the 31st with something new to spotlight.

Wild Mustang

I will continue my official/unofficial rule of bringing up all different mashup DJ's to spotlight on here. The newest one is a cat that broke out this year and has become popular, for good reason.

The man I'm referring to is the Dutch fellow known as MadMixMustang (M3), whose site is here. As Monday Night Football is about to start, I won't delve into which tracks you should download, although the MP3's that are mentioned as having been featured on radio or other blogs before is a good start. You can also download entire albums from him, which are worthwhile too.

As you can see from someone breaking out this year and becoming well known in this field, while the scene may not be as hyped as it was a few years ago, as long as people still have ideas to put the oddest songs together and they're able to do it well, then the mashup scene will still survive and probably thrive, in fact.

I'll be back a week from Monday with an appropriate seasonal mashup spotlight.

AC/DC Rules The Nation

To start things off, I’ll mention that an interesting read is here; it documents mashup DJ’s Adrian & The Mysterious D and their journey to Beijing to do a set there. I think Far East Asia is a very interesting place and one of these days I’d like to visit there, Lord willing.

To get on with it, the latest mashup I’ll spotlight is one I don’t believe I’ve posted on here before. I say that as before my old computer tower went kaput, I had a list of all the songs I have on here and my other music blog, and I had it burned to a disk. Where that disk is now, though… I guess I’ll do another list one of these days… “one of these days” meaning “before I do my next post on here”.

For now I’ll spotlight a song that I don’t believe I’ve mentioned before, and a mashup DJ I don’t believe I’ve mentioned before either. The track is on this Mashuptown page and it uses the music of Daft Punk’s Television Rules the Nation (from their Human After All album) and the vocals of AC/DC’s Back in Black. Sounds odd, but it works, and given that AC/DC is on the road now, it’s a natural to mention them at this time.

Here is Electrosound’s new page, by the way. If you want a link to the Frenchman’s page of downloads, go to this page here.

I’ll be back a week from tonight (as I have a busy Friday) with another mashup to spotlight, and by that point I’ll have an updated list for both of my blogs as to what exactly I’ve posted so far.

I'll Be Back Monday Night

At the last minute I ended up going out last night, and I have stuff planned this weekend, so my newest upload will be up Monday night.