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.

Where's The Clown Fired From The Cannon?

Ok, sorry about the technical difficulties there. It wasn’t my fault, I swear!

It is common for songs by Britney (do I need to state the last name?) to be mashed up; I mean, with most of her songs, there is much room for improvement! Anyway, while looking at Hypem, I randomly found a mashup involving Britney combined with a DJ I am not familiar with. The song can be located here.

Truth be told, I don’t have much info about the song or the person who put it together. I’m not sure who this Matt Green guy is (it’s such a common name, you can guess what happens when you try and Google the name), and I am not too familiar with Martin Solveig aside from the info here, but the mashup of one of his songs and the title track from Britney's newest album, Circus (and yikes, the cover of the album is atrocious, and it looks more like a real sex doll than it does resemble Britney!) is very cool, although long at 7 1/2 minutes. I'm sure y'all will like a dance track on here, as I rarely post them.

I'll be back on Friday the 7th with a new mashup to spotlight.

Due To Technical Difficulties...

check back here Saturday night. It's not my fault this time, I swear!

Mashups Make Me Lose Control

As my computer is cooperating now (at least for today) I'm able to post this. As places like Mashuptown are rather quiet as of late, I decided to look through the list of mashups I still have on my computer and haven't burned to CD or a burned disc yet. I came across the name ComaR.  

ComaR is a French mashup artist who has been doing this for awhile now. I was looking through his latest songs and I stumbled across one which combines a familiar rap song with a new wave-ish song from the 80's that you don't hear on the radio, but the group is certainly well know. ComaR's Atomic Control uses the vocals of the Missy Elliott/Ciara song Lose Control over the music of Blondie's Atomic (and some vocals from that are used also); it's not complicated, but it works well together. I'll be back Friday night the 28th (barring any further problems) with a new mashup to spotlight.

Yep, More Computer Problems

Unfortunately, today has spawned more computer problems, and it's a miracle I can even post anything tonight. I was able to post something on my other music blog, so you can check that out tonight; I'd rather not take a chance trying to post something here tonight (plus, I'm going out in a little bit to a magical place) so I'll post something here (barring any setbacks) tomorrow night.

The Only God I Need Is The Ace Of Spades

I'll be lazy here and bring up a song that was recently mentioned on Mashuptown in this post. I have to mentioning it here as the song, from German mashup dude DJ Morgoth. Hearing Lemmy from Motorhead singing Ace of Spades over the Gorillaz's seminal hit Feel Good Inc. is rather bizarre, but somehow it works, IMO. Now, what few Motorhead songs I've heard are pretty cool, and the Gorillaz are hit and miss with me, but both of the songs on their own are great in their own way, and combining them wasn't a disaster but instead managed to work. I already provided the Mashuptown link where you can download it and see if you feel the same way.

I'll be back in a week's time with another mashup to spotlight.

I Can Be Your Hyperspace

Tonight I will bring up (again?) a popular site to find the most current mashups. That site is Mashupciti. I don't recall if I've brought it up before or not. I should have looked at the site again sooner, as I did see they had in fact a page up for Halloween mashups, and now none of the songs on that page are still up. D'oh!

The song I'll bring up is from yet another guy I haven't mentioned before, although this cat has been around for a few years now doing this craft. I'm referring to the Frenchman known as DJ Zebra. The tune in question is here and is known as Body Crazy, as it features The Beastie Boys and their hit Body Movin' singing over Prince's Let's Go Crazy. I liked how Zebra used the most recognizeable sections of Prince's classic tune to his advantage.

I'll be back a week from tonight with another mashup to spotlight.

I'm Back!

To copy and paste from my other music page:

Hello everyone. I do apologize for being gone for so long, but I wanted to make sure that my computer problems earlier in the month wouldn't return (eventually, they stopped), but now that things are fine...

Last night I posted a Halloween tune there; I didn't have the time to post any Halloween mashups here, although I haven't been able to find too many of those anyhow.

Tonight I will post a mashup of two memorable 80's songs mixed by a DJ that I'm surprised I haven't brought up yet in this blog. The song is from DJ Tripp and it's entitled Don't Go Weird, as it combines Weird Science and Don't Go, from Oingo Boingo and Yaz (a.k.a. Yazoo), respectively. It's a simple yet effective combination of 80's pop.

DJ Tripp-Don't Go Weird (6.35 MB, 192Kbits/second)

By the way, I found the above link at this link, which features many different remixes of popular 80's songs. If you're a fan of that genre, you should probably bookmark it.

I'll be back on Friday night the 7th with a new mashup to spotlight. Oh, and don't forget to set your clocks back tonight.