An Important Announcement

As you can tell from recent history, it became harder and harder for me to do this, so I decided to change things around and I'll stop updating this blog. I won't take this down, though; I'll keep it up for perpetuity for people to look at and download stuff at anytime. My new movie blog is here, so please check that out.

Who Doesn't Love This Song?

If you’re wondering why I’m posting this now when I said that I was going to be on my trip, it got bumped from me leaving yesterday to me leaving this Sunday; don’t ask for the full story, but complications happened which prevented me from leaving when I was scheduled to; in hindsight the new days I’m gone may work out better for me anyhow. I’ll keep it short and sweet.

While I was looking for songs to put on a burned CD or two for my trip up north, I stumbled upon a mashup from DJ Erb. At his downloads page, you can spend either 50 cents on a particular tune or you can just download the free ones available.

The song in particular I'm pointing out is his mashup of one of the greatest songs of all time, Radar Love (who doesn't love that tune?) featuring vocals from two of the most popular rappers that appear in mashes, the Beastie Boys and Ludacris. It's good stuff and I think that more mashes need to be done with Golden Earring's classic song.

As my trip starts on the 2nd I'll be taking much of this month off. My next post here won't be until the weekend of August 22nd.

Steve Harris Is A Believer

I know, a day late, a dollar short, and all that. I'll do one last post by the 28th of July before I leave for my Illinois trip.

I got a tip on a new song from a local wrestling messageboard, of all things. A big fan of Iron Maiden made a post which was of a YouTube video of a new mashup involving that band and... The Monkees!

It's from a DJ I've talked about before, DJ Schmolli. You can download the song at his blog here. Hearing Bruce Dickinson singing over the oldies standard is quite surreal, yet great at the same time.

A Trio of Interesting Albums

As I'm exhausted tonight I'll keep it pretty brief. Right now at Mashuptown is a trio of albums that, while I haven't really listened to any of them yet, all sound intriguing.

ToTom doing an entire album of Bob Dylan mashups is certainly unique and it's a great idea.

DJ Zebra doing an entire album based on Woodstock is also a great idea, as hey next month is the 40th anniversary of that wonderful weekend, if you can believe it.

Finally, an entire album based on electro songs done by a variety of DJ's... thumbs up from me.

I'll be back next weekend.

Check Back Here This Upcoming Weekend

Unfortunately yet another calamity happened to me this past weekend; remember how I got a cheap computer around Thanksgiving due to problems with the old one and how it would be a temporary fix until the summer when a new one could be bought? Well, the 4th of July the cheap computer crashed and as it was a holiday I had to wait until Sunday to get a new one; I got a Hewlett-Packard and that should be better than the cheap one. But, that screwed up my schedule and thus I'll have to post something new this upcoming weekend.

Remembering Michael Jackson, Part 3

I'll keep it brief again here. While I'm not too familiar with most of the tunes presented at this Mashuptown link, it's 23 songs that are either mashups or remixes, so that should satisfy your desire for tunes from him. The comments sections has links to some other sites that will provide tunes, so that's something you should look at too.

I'll be back the 4th of July weekend with at least one relevant mashup to the holiday.

Remembering Michael Jackson, Part 2

I'm pressed for time now so all I have to say is that to look and download a mashup that I wrote about last summer that involves MJ and The Pussycat Dolls and it did the miracle of making the latter actually tolerable, go here.

I'll be back tomorrow and that'll be more substantial of a post than this one.

Remembering Michael Jackson, Part 1

To copy and paste from my other music blog:

Well, I certainly wasn’t planning on doing another one of these so soon but of course with the big news that broke early yesterday evening for me, it’s something that I feel I have to do. Now, without taking into account how he was in real life-and it’s obvious that whether or not you believe those charges against him (I probably should look more into those cases before deciding one way or another, but I’ve heard that those accusers and their families were less than credible, so who knows what the truth actually is), he had obvious mental problems-you have to say that he made some incredible music. I have no idea whether or not those child molestation charges were true but either way it’s sad that he had an abusive father and ended up being messed up in the head from spending most of his life being a celebrity; as it’s been proven MANY times before, being a celebrity, especially these days with those awful cockroaches known as the paparazzi, seems like it’s not even worth it as it’s caused many casualties and people dying way too young with all the press and attention forcing people to do-as Michael did-to turn to drugs and alcohol and that along with whatever mental illnesses he always had, and it’s unfortunate that someone who was so talented and made some great music in the 70’s and 80’s lost his mind, allegedly did some horrific things, and even without that, just acted *strange* and his music career wasn’t the same. I don’t know if I can faithfully say “RIP” to him for obvious reasons but I’m still shocked that one of the most important figures in music history passed away unexpectedly.

Between that, Farrah Fawcett passing away on the same day after having to fight cancer for the past few years, Ed McMahon a few days prior, David Carradine dying and the way that happened, the death of Japanese wrestling legend Mitsuharu Misawa (a big deal to me) and the fake rumors yesterday about both Jeff Goldblum *and* Harrison Ford passing away, and it’s been quite the unfortunate month.

So, today through Sunday I will point out some mashups that involve him; of course, due to the number of great pop/R&B songs he created, there hasn't been a lack of great tunes involving his music.

Tonight I'll point out two tunes that I enjoy a whole lot. The first one is from DJ Party Ben. At this link you can hear Promiscuous With You, which is a combo of MJ's Rock With You and Nelly Furtado/Timbaland's Promiscuous Girl; it was quite the feat in that I don't really care for the latter but combining it with that Jackson song made it pretty great.

The second tune is Saysayism Allstar Jam, from DJ Lobsterdust. At this link you can download the tune, which has the music from the MJ/Paul McCartney song Say Say Say and adds in a bunch of vocals from artists old and new. It's very groovy.

I'll be back tomorrow with at least one new mashup.

It's Not The Pyts

With this post I will mention a DJ I stumbled upon while looking at BeeMP3 for a particular song on there-oh what a night-and I found a mashup from a DJ I had not heard of before. I went over to his page and I'll present to you Mr. Pytski, from The Netherlands, or Holland if you will.

Looking at his Mix Downloads page you'll see that he has a large list of mashups he created. Clicking on each link offers up some details on the song (always a nice touch), a download link and the ability to stream the song before downloading it. I'm sure you'll find something that you'll like. I like Walk This Way, Don't Bring Me Down and I'm So Excited In Da Club, in particular.

I'll be back Friday the 3rd with a mashup that I hope will be related to the big day on the 4th.

Check Back Tomorrow Night

The latest thing to impede my doing this on time is that on a whim I decided to head on down to the Miami area on Friday, mainly due to boredom and me needing to do something out of the norm. I got back Saturday night, only to go to a wrestling show, so on Sunday and Monday I had to write about both experiences for my other pages, and then today I was occupied with something else, but I got some unexpected good news so in a bit I'll be going out on the town... point is, I'll be back tomorrow night to do this, I promise.

Electric

Today I decided to reference something I mentioned awhile back, but this time add a little more to it; hey, I’m stumped as to what else to talk about, so that’s what I’m going to do. I spent some days thinking about what song I should pick. I finally went with one that I can still listen to today and never get tired of.

I first talked about it in this post from the last day of 2008, which was really a few links that brought you a cornucopia of the best mashups from last year. The one I’m going to talk about is number 2 on this list. It’s a combo of Justice’s remix of MGMT’s Electric Feel and Notorious B.I.G.’s Nasty Boy. As for each group, Justice is a group that I should go ga-ga over but they’re hit and miss with me. Some of their stuff is great but sometimes I’m “meh” to it. MGMT, though, is a band that I think is crap all the time, and Justice’s remix of that tune improves it 1000 fold. Mixing it with the vocals from Biggie is pretty sweet and while I’m mainly familiar with this one song when it comes to the oeuvre of Brooklyn's ddpesh, that tune is a great one to remember from him. I also think that there need to be more blending of rap and electro.

I'll be back this upcoming weekend with another song.

What Will Happen To Me Next?

Unfortunately, I had yet more stuff that I had to deal with which delayed me posting anything here, including some idiot impersonating me on a bad local messageboard! I had to write and mention it on my pages, first off, then register for that site to prove that the impostor was indeed that... so yeah it's been a hassle.

So, I'll keep it simple here and tell y'all about a site I found just recently which is a nice place for the newest mashups, especially if they're from the Netherlands. Yes, a Dutch blog about mashups! It's Mashup Facts. While part of it is in Dutch so thus most of you can't read it, it is still easy enough to find songs, whom they're by, and download them. So, enjoy.

I'll be back this weekend, unless more calamities pop up, that is.

Social Networking

Just to let you know, for purposes of MySpace/Facebook blogs and Livejournal wrestling posts (although probably once in awhile I'll mention the music pages) go to twitter.com/blairpac to check out my thoughts; I'm still not a big fan of that site and a lot of it is BS (especially with the "celebrity tweets", most of whom are by their handlers rather than the celebrity themselves) but I'll still try it out, if only for a little bit.

Still, I'll be back this weekend; I've just been way too tied up as of late to concentrate on this. Sorry. But, I will post a new song that I'll talk about this weekend.

I'll Return This Sunday

Don't ask, but I will tell that I'll be back by Sunday night, the last day of the month.

You Can Never Win

This weekend, I'll bring up another old mashup from a few years ago. It was part of a mix that I plugged last year but I figured it deserved another mention, this time separately. Once again it can be found at Good Blimey's Mashup Page; it's in Volume 6.

It's from Groovepod Panikk, a trio of DJ's/musicians who I don't believe are around anymore, which is unfortunate as from what little I heard of them, they're pretty cool. That's about all the info I have on them, alas. The song is Never Win The Wall, which is a combo of Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) by Pink Floyd and Never Win, by Fischerspooner. That was the first time I heard that electronic group; overall I don't think that their whole schtick is really for me, but Never Win is a quality song and it works really well with Pink Floyd's biggest hit on the charts. Like I said, you can find it in Volume 6 of the link I provided, and I'll be back next weekend with another mashup to talk about.

A Day Late, 50 Cent Short

I decided to wait and do this now instead of last night, as among other things, I realized that I needed to leave the house now instead of later to do my activities downtown. I’ll talk about it on my other music page in a few days.

As for this update, I’ll bring up some links I’ve plugged many times before, but I’m bringing them up again for good reason. There’s the Bootie Blog, and recently posted there is not only the past two months of their favorite mashups of the month, there is also a recap of their journey to Australia to do some shows. That’s another country I’d like to visit one of these days. By the way, I recommend DJ Schmolli's song, as he somehow made a combo of Blue Monday and In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida work.

As for the song I’m going to point out, once again it’s from Good Blimey, but hey, look at all the hundreds of tunes they have up on there; I could use them as a source until I’m in the cemetery if I wanted to. Anyway, the tune can be listened to and downloaded in Volume 6. It is from Agent Lovelette, a person who used to do mashups but doesn’t do it anymore. This is pretty old, from a few years ago in fact. It’s called Lil Bit Damaged, as it combines Just a Lil Bit from 50 Cent and Damaged Goods, from Gang of Four, only the unique thing was done of the backing track (Damaged Goods) being played using an old Nintendo! No kidding. Then again, there’s D Pad Hero, which does the same thing, and is one amazing feat that guy pulled off, by the way. As for this mashup, it's good stuff and you won't look at the original "Fiddy" song the same ever again.

I'll be back next weekend with another song to spotlight.

Happy Cinco de Mayo

Yes, I've finally returned. I apologize for all the non-posts and breaks during the past 6 months or so, but it was due to my zany schedule. But, things should be more normal now.

Today is Cinco de Mayo, but I wasn't able to find any relevant songs that tied in to that. So, I'll just repost something that at the time had a working link but not any longer.

The song I talked about originally can be looked at here. They re-did their page and now you can't find it there. So, you'll have to look here to get the tune, along with quite a few other older mashups from a few years ago (that song in question is near the bottom). Enjoy. It's a great song for a night like tonight, where you may want to go out and enjoy it being an unofficial national Mexican holiday, no matter your race, creed or color. But, don't drive drunk, whatever you do.

I'll be back this Friday with another tune.

A Brief Sabbatical

Unfortunately, the excu.. er I mean reason why this is going up at this time is because of Internet problems. Yes, I just had them this past November and I thought I'd be done with them for months, but I was mistaken. But, it's working fine now. Problem is, for the rest of the month I will just not have the time to do this, so the next time I'll post a song here will be on Monday evening, May 4th. By then things will calm down for me and be much less hectic, I promise.

Too Hot To Give It Up

Once again I'll tie something from my other music page over to here. If you look there now you'll see a post concerning Marvin Gaye; a big deal has been made over the anniversaries of both his death and his birth being earlier this month. I uploaded the song Got To Give It Up and figured it would be most logical to point out a mashup involving that tune here.

Once again I'll mention DJ Riko, who I mentioned last year for his Superchunk mix. If you look here, you can scroll down and find the mashup he did involving Gaye's song where you hear his vocal over the music of a song by UFO, which is a band that you never hear on the radio but from the songs I've heard from them, they're cool with me. It's more rocking than the original Gaye tune, but it doesn't make it any worse. In fact, it goes together very well.

I'll be back next weekend with something new.

Catching Up Is Hard To Do

I'll direct you here for an explanation as to where I've been the past few days. Basically, I've felt too crappy to do this until just now. Damn McDonalds food!

Anyway, I'll just quickly mention a link that I've brought up before, but in case you haven't bookmarked it yet or whatever, Popbytes's mashup of the week page-located here-is a nice source for quality songs on a weekly basis. I especially enjoy the latest song posted on there, a rather unique take on Kung Fu Fighting.

I'll be back this Friday, and as my schedule is clear for that day... at least I hope that I'll be more on time.

Catching Up

All I've got to say is that my March has been completely manic, which is why I haven't been able to keep up with my self-imposed timetables. But, my April will be more normal. It's just that now I'll do a short blurb here and then the next time I'll be more lengthy.

For this, I'll do something different. I decided to search "mashups" on Google News and I found some interesting stuff.

The highlight was this article, about an Israeli who spent a lot of time taking unrelated music clips and combining them into 7 videos; you'd have no idea that they're separate music clips that were mashed together, it was done so well. All the videos are here. He did a great job there.

Then, there's this article, which talks about an up and coming mashup artist who has an online album. I haven't heard it yet except for the one YouTube video, but it sounds good to me.

I'll be back this Friday, and this time I'll be more punctual due to my April being less zany.

I'll Be Back Wednesday Night

Unfortunately, I had a zany weekend which included an incident that I'll mention below, so you'll have to wait until Wednesday night, as the next 48 hours for me, I'll be swamped with a variety of things. To copy and paste (and note that this was written while I was intoxicated at the time):

I had quite the bizarre night tonight. I went to a wrestling show in Orlando and then to you know where (yes, that one nightclub) afterwords. The show was entertaining and my time at Mako's was rather odd, but independent of that, my night was strange due to the fact that at the wrestling show, a famous actress/singer (famous enough that she recently won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar!) was there and I saw her there but I did not know who she was until after I got home.

The show I went to was Florida Championship Wrestling, which is like the minor leagues to World Wrestling Entertainment. They usually have shows around their home base of Tampa, but tonight they had a show in Orlando. Anyway, one of the wrestlers there has the real name of Dave Otunga. He was on the VH1 reality show I Love New York 2 (at least from what I hear; I never watch those shows). I don't know what his wrestling name was as the sound system there wasn't the best, so I wasn't able to catch it, but he indeed is a wrestler in FCW and he wrestled in a match on this show. In case you don't know, Mr. Otunga happens to be engaged to a name that all of you should know. In fact, I saw that lady walking around during the show, but I did not recognize her as a celebrity, but believe me, she is.

Once I got home after the wrestling show (and my time at the happiest nightclub on Earth) I was looking at the local wrestling messageboards, which talk about shows such as Florida Championship Wrestling. There was a thread on one of the boards, and a guy who I don't get along with (don't ask) started a thread where he bragged about meeting that girl and he had photographic evidence of that meeting. Once I saw the photo and made sure that it was her (and yeah, it was who he said it was), I put it together, and I feel like a total jackass now.

Folks, tonight at the wrestling show I went to, JENNFIER HUDSON (yes, the American Idol contestant from 2004 who went on to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Dreamgirls, not to mention the success she has had in the music field) was there, and I saw her walking around, but I did not know at the time who she was, thus I was not able to take a picture of her to post online and brag about me hobnobbing with a celebrity.

EPIC FAIL on my part.

From what I understand, she doesn't usually show up at the wrestling matches of her fiancee Dave Otunga, so it was a special night for that couple. I'll probably forever shake my head and regret being such a boob and not realizing that I had an opportunity to hob-nob with such a famous person. Oh well, though.

Another Random Links Post

Unfortunately, look at the time, and note that among other things, tonight I had to listen to part of ISU’s mens basketball postseason game online (from a Kansas radio station), where they lost to Kansas State in OT in the first round. It doesn’t mean they didn’t have a fabulous season, though.

Up now at Bootie Blog is a post where DJ's Adrian & The Mysterious D returned to China, and the resultant photos. I'd love to visit that country one of these days, but I'll keep on dreaming and maybe it'll happen sometime in the future. Below that is their monthly list of the best mashups from the preceding month.

Check out Mashuptown to look at, among other things, an entire online album devoted to St. Patrick's Day.

Finally, there's Mashupciti, where you can examine a treasure trove of mashups.

I'll be back on Friday the 20th with something new.

I'll Be Back Wednesday Night

Don't ask. Way too busy as of late.

Popping And Locking

On my other page, I have a new entry up devoted to a pair of electro tunes. It's natural then that I talk about a pair of mashups here which involve songs from that genre.

The first one is known as Me Against The Rockit and it's found at this popbytes page. To clarify, the song is from Jimmi Jammes, a DJ that's still around doing mashups for a few years now. He's a familiar name to me, in other words. That mashup is a miracle in that it made me care about a Britney song that was made after 2001! Since that year, pretty much every song I've heard from her has been crap-ola, when to be honest, before that some of the tunes were perfectly fine pop.

The second tune is from a pair of DJ's that I've mentioned more than once before here, but this tune is absolutely germane to this discussion, so they'll be brought up again. I'm referring to DJs Adrian & The Mysterious D, whose song Don't Stop Believin' in Planet Rock can be found on their website here. Journey plus Afrika Bambaataa may sound strange, but hey, it works great if you haven't had the opportunity to check it out yet.

So, with those two tunes you can tag some graffiti on the nearest brick wall before putting on your fingertip-less gloves and adadas tracksuit as you do the backslide and the spin around with the other b-boys and b-girls out there.

Anyhow, I'll be back this upcoming Friday with another mashup or two to spotlight.

I Love... Mashups

I really do apologize for being gone from this page for so long with no explanation, but things for me as of late have been nutrageous and it’s enough just for me to do my other blog.

Anyhow, I'll mention two quick things. First, the Good Blimey page I've mentioned a few times in the past which has a massive playlist of mashups to listen to (and even download) is still operative. In case you don't know the address, it's here.

The second thing is a DJ I've mentioned before, but I'll bring him up again as hey, as of late I've been really digging one song from him. It's DJ Mei-Lwun, the Asian DJ I talked about here. The song I'm talking about this time is I Love 50, his simple yet effective combination of 50 Cent and Joan Jett. While the song may be a little long, I really have no complaints about it. Note that Mei-Lwun says this was the first mashup he ever did; it's an impressive feat, given that the tune is pretty great. Thankfully he's still in this game and making quality mashups.

I'll be back this weekend, and I'll be more prompt.

Don't Misunderstand Me

Unfortunately I wasn't able to find an appropriate song for what was Friday the 13th, so I'll just mention some random stuff, alright?

In this blog, which is from the recently mentioned DJ Copycat, he mentions the mashups that he liked the most in 2008. He also produced a link to the always cool MySplice compilation.

Speaking of Copycat, over on Mashuptown there's a post where he combined Santa Esmeralda's classic over of Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood with Blind, by dudes named Hercules & Love Affair and Antony Hegarty; of course, I hadn't heard of any of them before, but I don't follow most of current music that's deemed "hip". Anyway, that song is pretty rad.

Finally, if you want something different, there's Bhangra Booty, located here, which combines popular Western songs with those from the Bhangra genre, popularized in India.

I'll be back a week from today, spotlighting something else.

Damn You, Real Life

Sad to say, the past few days have been real hectic for me, between going to wrestling shows, and partying, and all that. So, I'll just direct you to The Bootie Blog, where some choice tracks were uploaded; I'll be back on Friday night, and then I'll do something more substantial.

Covered Well

While looking at Mashuptown, I came across an interesting thing to mention (rather briefly, I know, but I'm running out of steam right about now), and it's combining an original version of a song with a cover of it. As mentioned here, a famous example was A Plus D combining the original Crazy with Nelly Furtado's, which can be found on sites like BeeMP3.

The link I provided to Mashuptown also has the song that inspired me to do this, which is the two most famous versions of Tainted Love. No matter which one you prefer, you should enjoy this work from Copycat, where you hear the cover's vocals and music, but the music is changed so that it matches the beat of the Jones version, which to me makes it sound like Good Thing, funnily enough.

I know this is different, but combining a song with a later tune that samples the earlier tune, can also be pretty cool. For example, the aforementioned A Plus D and the song they have on their webpage of I Keep Forgettin' To Regulate, which makes you see what happens when Nate Dogg and Warren G sing directly over the song they sample rather than just using the sample and modifying it. Regulate is a song I rate pretty highly, by the way.

I'll be back around this time next week with another mashup.

Check Back On Friday Night

Unfortunately, I ran into another busy weekend; you can read about it here. I also have crap to do this week, so I'll have to do my thing this Friday. Sorry, folks.

What A Trip

I was stumped as to what to mention here, but then I went over to Mashupciti, where regularly new tracks are posted by a variety of people.

Well, one recent one is from none other than DJ Z-Trip, a DJ who's been around for awhile and does music other than mashups. But, the tune he posted there is a classic mashup where he acted a beat and used the riff from Sweet Child o' Mine* and had Stevie Wonder singing Uptight over it.

* which, by the way, seems to be totally ripped off from Alice Cooper and his new wave song Clones. Yes, Alice doing new wave; it should be no surprise that it didn't work, but the song itself is cool. Given that Cooper later was on a GNR song, there must have been no hard feelings for the riff borrowing.

You can find various downloads from Trip on his website. I've actually see Trip before in concert, and sad to say I believe it was the last time he performed in that area. Given that I got a ticket for it for ONE DOLLAR... but I wrote about the experience (much too briefly, sadly) on my MySpace page here. If you ever have the chance to see one of his performances, go! As I wrote about it then, it was quite the experience. Unique music, a videoscreen filled with groovy stuff, the lights, sound... and with his relationship with EA, he was able to do the gimmick where some fans got to play Pac-Man on the videoscreen! No kidding. Like I say, go if you ever are able to, no matter the cost. With me, it had to be the best dollar I've ever spent.

I'll be back Friday night with a new song spotlighted.

I'm Skipping...

To copy and paste from the other music blog I do:

Hello everyone. I apologize for this getting up late, but I’ve just had other things to worry about this weekend, so that’s why this is up now.

As I have relatives over at the Casa del Blair, this will be a quick blog. I know, all of these seem too short, but in this case, I have a good excu… I mean explanation.

So, I'll just not post one today due to lack of time, and when I return this Friday, I promise I'll have something uploaded for you all.