• Captain Obvious – Close (To The Highway) (Rascal Flatts vs Art of Noise)

    Captain Obvious – Close (To The Highway) (Rascal Flatts vs Art of Noise)

    Another Captain Obvious (old) banger, this time created for a Car themed Crumplbangers Discord challenge….and when I think cars, I think Art Of Noise’s Close (To The Edit) which famously sampled a neighbour’s VW Golf. Also the first time I’ve mashed a modern Disney track – Life is a Highway – this one is from…

  • Million Reasons For Something To Believe In (Clannad vs Lady Gaga)

    Million Reasons For Something To Believe In (Clannad vs Lady Gaga)

    Winner of ToTom’s Crumplbanger Challenge, and I took it to church, but a humanist/atheist one, and created a atheistic gospel/country song, contrasting Lady Gaga’s faith/loss of faith in someone vs Clannad’s criticism of that search and the fact that others lie, (including I’d say the Church, the State and others). Though although more I listen…

  • Captain Obvious – Dream Big In Babylon (Bob Vylan vs The Ruts)

    Captain Obvious – Dream Big In Babylon (Bob Vylan vs The Ruts)

    I was listening to the new Bob Vylan single ‘Dream Big’ and it totally reminded me of Babylon Burning – so much so it’s exactly the same BPM and only 1 semitone difference…LOL. So Captain Obvious had to do a quick mash with some propah jungle bizness, had fun doing a rock vs jungle vs…

  • Welcome To London, Colin (The Clash vs Flow Dan vs Pet Shop Boys vs 808 State)

    Welcome To London, Colin (The Clash vs Flow Dan vs Pet Shop Boys vs 808 State)

    WINNER of the 1989 Crumplbangers Discord Challenge! A very apocalyptic love/hate mashup about my manor…London. So had to do something with 808 State as both Quadrastate and 90 (both of which I own, on vinyl and cassette respectively) were released in 1989, and back then I was all over 808 State after Pacific State –…

  • All By My Vampire (Olivia Rodrigo vs Eric Carmen)

    All By My Vampire (Olivia Rodrigo vs Eric Carmen)

    I usually only do mashups where I like least one of sources I like, for very good reason. Mashes like this are why…I have got to the ‘post it or delete it’ stage. I want it out of my sight, for good. Sometimes doing a mashup will sell me on a track, I will grow…

  • Million Reasons I Don’t Like Mondays (Lady Gaga vs Boomtown Rats)

    Million Reasons I Don’t Like Mondays (Lady Gaga vs Boomtown Rats)

    “Every heartbreak makes it hard to keep the faith” Your Monday theme song! Inspired by an old ToTom mashup – Lady Gaga’s Million Reasons vs a piano version of Gary Numan’s Down By The Park, I have been obsessed belatedly with the Gaga song. the lyrics resonate deeply with me at the moment. It seems…

  • Bluey Idol (Dancing With Bluey)(Generation X vs Joff Bush)

    Bluey Idol (Dancing With Bluey)(Generation X vs Joff Bush)

    What’s the best ever Australian TV series? Neighbours? Home and Away? Young Doctors? Prisoner Cell Block H? The Sullivans? No BLUEY! It literally is the best Australian thing ever…and DJNoNo wanted to have a go at the current Crumplbangers Discord challenge (EDIT: It won the challenge!) where the theme is use at least one Australian…

  • Souvenir Walls – LiBianca vs OMD & Suzanne Vega vs Radiohead

    Souvenir Walls – LiBianca vs OMD & Suzanne Vega vs Radiohead

    Left of Centre, Wondering About You – or not in the case of the LiBianca track where her friends didn’t think of her at all – an afrobeat plea for considering the mental health of your friends, that theme seems to cross these two mashups. And yes, more 80’s! It’s hard to get a decent…

  • Dystopian Cyberpunk – Boards of Canada vs Animals & EBTG vs Buunshin

    Dystopian Cyberpunk – Boards of Canada vs Animals & EBTG vs Buunshin

    Adriana A of Bootie had a set at a Cyberpunk festival (Neotropolis) and challenged everyone to make cyberpunk mashups…Now mine were way too slow and moody to get on the mixtape (I think you had to have a name starting with A to get on it :-P), but I think the post-apocalyptic combination of Boards of…

  • Fifty Fifty vs Bangles & Miriam Makeba vs Moroder

    Fifty Fifty vs Bangles & Miriam Makeba vs Moroder

    From South Africa to South Korea, here’s a global selection of mashups from Captain Obvious and Instamatic using tracks from Fifty Fifty, Miriam Makeba, Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakey & The Bangles. And a shedload of 80’s – yeah even more 80’s Boomer shit! First up is a track by Captain Obvious unusually not for…