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Lucretia’s Independence Day (America #4) (Martina McBride vs Sisters of Mercy)
Fourth in the American Trilogy (well it worked for Douglas Adams) I came across Martina McBride’s Independence Day and stopped in my tracks. New country is rarely my thing, but I was struck at how gothic/new wave it was, with it’s messages of domestic violence and independence via arson and death….cheery! I’m sure Goth Country…
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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…
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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…
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Crazy Frogs and Creepy Blackbirds
DJNoNo has been busy with a menagerie of mashups for challenges – and even an AI video! A Creepy Blackbird gets a drum and bass treatment via The Beatles and GFOTY, and Crazy Frog meets Blondie and Fleetwood Mac. This was the first entry to the Sad vs Hyperpop challenge – it’s GFOTY’s hyperpop cover…
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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…
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ABBAstard & 4 new ABBA mashups
There aren’t enough ABBA mashups – despite the Bootie Mashup compilation from a few years ago and myself trying to plug that gap single–handedly! Rectifying this, a bunch of us corralled by iWillBattle have got together and created the ABBAstard album – 25 tracks from the likes of myself, Will, TheRandomSapphire, oki, DJ J-Brew, fnogg,…
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Rich White Straight Men’s Money (Kesha vs Pink Floyd vs ABBA)
OK for some reason I decided to do the latest Crumplbanger Challenge set by Titus Jones on Hard Mode, cos I forgot that Pink Floyd’s Money is in 7/4. Probably the only 7/4 track in this challenge….and also only my second Kesha mashup ever (WAAAAY back in the day I did one where she guested…