Mashups
Blog posts focused on the work of mashup, bootleg, or bastard pop producers, including tracks, compilations, and videos. For more, take a listen to the best mashups of 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010.
- ELO vs. Run DMC & Aerosmith mashed by Pytski ()
It’s always refreshing to hear a new take on classic track… especially one that has permanently embedded itself in my brain. Though I’m fairly certain that I could live a complete and fulfilling life if I went the rest of my years without hearing “Walk This Way” again, it’s still interesting to hear a new […]
- The Cult vs. Faith No More mashed by G3RSt ()
I’d venture to say that the Cult are one of my favorite bands from the ’80s. You can always tell how much you liked an old group by your response to its output in the twilight of its career. And as I enjoyed the band’s 2001 “comeback” album, Beyond Good and Evil, I think it’s fair […]
- Lindstrøm vs. Jim Jones mashed by The Hood Internet’s ABX ()
The Hood Internet have long since been two of my favorite bootleggers, and it kind of feels like they were finally accepted into mashup culture (if there is such a thing) around the end of 2008. After A plus D teamed up with the duo to host the first ever Bootie Chicago in late-October I was lead […]
- Gloria Jones vs. Soft Cell mashed by Copycat ()
While being one of the most obvious approached to mashups, combining multiple renditions of the same song is so rarely used, let alone used and done well. In 2006 when A plus D combined Nelly Furtado’s cover of “Crazy” with Gnarls Barkley’s original, the song blew me away–it worked so well, I couldn’t believe that […]
- The Police vs. Duffy mashed by Mighty Mike ()
With “Mercy for Roxanne” French bootlegger Mighty Mike takes two songs which have been greatly over-mashed on their own, and perfectly combines them into flowing track that puts Duffy’s “Mercy” into a more fitting context of 1978. The producer has been on a tear the past few months, with one of his best mashups, “Beggin’ […]
- Culture Bully Presents: 2008 Mashed ()
Culture Bully proudly presents this retrospective mix, combining elements of the year that was, represented by the collected efforts of a hodgepodge of producers from around the world. 2008 Mashed is an album that utilizes the popular, the outrageous, the kitschy and the under-appreciated. So as history welcomes the pop music of 2008 and accepts […]
- Culture Bully’s Best Mashups of 2008 Guest Posts ()
In addition to Culture Bully’s annual list of the year’s best mashups, we’ve asked a few friends to join us this year by sharing their lists as well. Thank you for reading Culture Bully, and I hope you enjoy these lists. The Top Mashups of 2008 by The Abrahammer #1) Immuzikation “One More Time To […]
- Best Mashups of 2008 ()
#15) DJ Geometrix “What You Know About a White Wedding?” [MP3](T.I. “What You Know” vs. Billy Idol “White Wedding”) Northern Virginia’s DJ Geometrix makes his first appearance on Culture Bully’s annual lists with this, his Billy Idol/T.I. mashup entitled “What You Know About a White Wedding.” While “White Wedding” mashups are fairly ubiquitous (example: this […]
- Girl Talk “Feed the Animals” Review ()
Attempting to explain Girl Talk‘s Feed the Animals and identify what succeeds or fails with the set can’t be done on the level of an album in its entirety, it’s hard to even approach each track on an individual basis considering what they are. Mashups aren’t anything new, nor is Gregg Gillis’ mix-heavy approach, but […]
- Culture Bully & DJ MDSB Present: The Best of 2007 ()
#1) LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver It’s not that Sound of Silver is the best album of the year musically speaking, but lyrically it’s what touched me most in 2007. Don’t get me wrong, the churning, building piano on “All My Friends” and the progressive girth of “Get Innocuous” are just two examples of James […]
- Best Mashups of 2007 ()
#15) DJ Nicky T “Woohaa” [MP3](AC/DC vs Busta Rhymes) #14) DJ Maxentropy “Glamorous Ex Gf” [MP3](Fergie vs. Matt Willis) #13) Pheugoo “I Was Signed for Loving You” [MP3](Snoop Dogg feat. C. Wilson & Justin Timberlake vs. Kiss) #12) DJ MDSB “All My Friends” [MP3](LCD Soundsystem vs. John Cale vs. Franz Ferdinand) #11) DJ Lobsterdust “Baby […]
- The Illuminoids: Justice vs. David Bowie Mashup ()
The Illuminoids have produced a mashup that suggests some weight to the argument against Kanye West’s recent single “Stronger;” that being that the song is nothing more than a crudely remixed track serving as background to a set of mediocre lyrics. After hearing the song a few dozen times I can attest to the point […]
- Are Mashups Dead? Ten of the Best from the First Half of 2007 ()
“R.I.P. Mash-ups, we’ll miss your forced titular ironies.” So began yesterday’s “Mash-up Genre Raises Hell in Heaven” article on Idolator. Not long ago I was invited to help out as an infrequent guest editor over at Mashuptown, one of the web’s leading bootleg sites, and I feel that I’ve been able to keep at least a casual […]
- New MTown Producer Alert! DJ STV SLV ()
As the internet grows it continues to develop its own unique sects, niches and cliques. Two such groups that have sprung up within the broad music blogosphere include sites dedicated towards the ever-vague terms indie rock and hip hop. One site, The Hood Internet, has found equal ground between the cultures using the atypical bootleg model […]
- Clive$ter’s “Together Undone” ()
Though far from a stranger to Mashuptown DJ Clive$ter is a fresh name to me, and fresh is the truth when speaking of his “Together Undone” boot which was released last month. For the better part of the song there’s little inclusion of Eric B & Rakim’s “Paid in Full” but when the classic rhyme […]
- Best Mashups of 2006 ()
In 2006 mashups saw a decline in mainstream acceptance as casual listeners lost interest and media outlets which once bolstered the musical niche regressed to their initial state of disinterest. But beneath the increasing skepticism a strong base of bootleggers kept creating music which still found a fan base with their ever-present originality. In an […]
- dj BC Interview ()
Reviving underground eminence with his recent ragtime/hip hop set, Wu Orleans, Boston based bootlegger Bob Cronin, aka dj BC, takes a tip from his past releases and once again changes the ever shifting view on what is possible within the confines of mash-ups. Cronin established himself within the mainstream with his release of The Beastles […]
- Best Mashups of 2005 ()
Mildly unuseful note(s): in terms of the best albums of the year, everyone has their opinion; as is the case with haircuts (I’m looking at you MySpace emo-trash). But, the case is, most of the time something cool comes out of them. Hell, one might even find an album that one has never heard before. […]
- Red Stripe Dub ()
Last night was a Red Stripe fiesta. If you don’t know what Red Stripe is, it’s a Jamaican beer made famous (in the US, anyways) by the companies RAD commercials. Red Stripe, Hooray for Beer! Anyways, it tasted so good that I made a song about it. Not so much, made as stole from other […]