VDJ's Mashed Universe

Sympathy For A Stray Devil (Rolling Stones vs Akira Yamaoka)

2012-01-08T23:09:00.004+01:00

This mashup I had put aside for several months, as a concept probably never not to be finished,
However when I relistened to it was better than I remembered it and I decided to finish it. Though I am not entirely satisfied I decided to release it, or it will bother me forever.
It features the Rolling Stones on vocals and a favourite staple of mine, Akira Yamaoka, on everything else.

Sympathy for a Stray Devil:

Rolling Stones - Sympathy For the Devil
Akira Yamaoka - A Stray Child

VDJ- Sympathy for a Stray Devil (Rolling Stones vs Akira Yamaoka) by VirtualDJ

other links:

mediafire
divshare

An Ordinary Fantasy - John Legend vs Nobuo Uematsu

2011-08-03T23:55:00.004+02:00

This mashup features a track that is well known to most gamers, the prelude from Final Fantasy VII.

It's not the original though but the orchestral version as performed by The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

An Ordinary Fantasy

Music - Prelude (Final Fantasy Series) - Nobuo Uematsu & The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Vocal - John Legend - Ordinary People

VDJ - An Ordinary Fantasy (Nobuo Uematsu vs John Legend) by VirtualDJ

other links to the mp3:

mediafire
divshare
official fm

Vision Of One Single Lady ( Beyonce vs Röyksopp)

2011-05-15T22:32:00.008+02:00

Another mashup with Röyksopp from me. This time with Beyonce.

Vision Of One Single Lady ( Beyonce vs Röyksopp)

Music: Röyksopp - Vision One
Vocal: Beyonce - Single Ladies Put A Ring On It

other links to the mp3

mediafire
divshare

Silent Shouts (The Knife vs Tears For Fears)

2011-04-20T23:26:00.005+02:00

Recently I'm listening a lot to music from The Knife and I wanted to try to make a mashup with one of their seminal tracks, Silent Shout.
That song does not have a structure like a typical popsong, it was not that easy to find something that can fit with this tune.
I found it with a tune from Tears For Fears that shares a bit of the title as well.
Being based on a track of The Knife I couldn't help myself to alter the voices as well somewhat.

Silent Shouts

Music:
The Knife - Silent Shout (Lulu Rouge Instrumental Re-edit)
Vocal:
Tears For Fears - Shout

VDJ - Silent Shouts (The Knife vs Tears For Fears) by VirtualDJ

other links to the mp3:

mediafire
divshare

The Wolf And The Ripper (Fever Ray vs Nick Cave)

2011-03-28T23:52:00.003+02:00

It's been almost a year since I made a mashup.
Here's finally a new one.
It's based on the brilliant dark brooding new track from Fever Ray and the always dark and menacing Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.

The Wolf & The Ripper:

Fever Ray - The Wolf
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Jack The Ripper

VDJ - The Wolf And The Ripper (Fever Ray vs Nick Cave) by VirtualDJ

other links to the mp3:
mediafire
divshare

The Rocking Cumbia Machine (Kraftwerk, El Remolón, Steve Miller Band)

2010-08-22T23:54:00.004+02:00

This tune is a reworked track of one of my entries to the Gybo Weekend challenges.
I changed a lot compared to that entry, notably I added a vocoder to Steve Millers voice and resturctured the backing track so that there would be less clashing vocals,
I also made a version with almost no Steve Miller in it (the inhuman mix).

The Rocking Cumbia Machine:

Music:
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
El Remolón - Cumbia Bichera

Vocals:
Steve Miller Band - Rock N Me

VDJ - The Rocking Cumbia Machine (Kraftwerk and El Remolon vs Steve Miller) by VirtualDJ

The Missing Model - Kraftwerk, Balanescu Quartet, Everything But The Girl

2010-06-06T17:50:00.005+02:00

Missing by Everything But The Girl vs the Kraftwerk tune 'The Model', in a mix together with the classical interpretation from The Balanescu Quartet

A pity of the crappy acapella.

Vocal : Everything But The Girl - Missing

Music: Kraftwerk - The Model

Balanescu Quartet - The Model

VDJ - The Missing Model (Kraftwerk Everything But The Girl Balanescu Quartet) by VirtualDJ

other links for the mp3:

mediafire
fileden (direct link)
divshare

Get This Heartbeat Started (Pink vs D-Shake)

2010-05-30T16:56:00.004+02:00

I started this more than a year ago but never got to finish it until now.

The acapella is a familar one from Pink, Get This Party Started, the instrumenal might be less well known.

It's My Heart The Beat by D-Shake, which was a big alternative clubhit in 1991 in the Netherlands of which I have fond memories.

The tune is based upon a sample of the Simple Minds' song Love Song.

Get This Heartbeat Started

Vocal: Pink - Get This Party Started

Music: D-Shake - My Heart The Beat

VDJ - Get This Heartbeat Started (Pink vs D-Shake) by VirtualDJ

other links (might be handy if the amount of soundcloud downloads have expired)
mediafire
fileden (direct link)
divshare

Gloomy Angels and Reptiles (Akira Yamaoka/NIN/Carol Kidd)

2010-05-05T13:43:00.006+02:00

This tune probably would be more suitable for Halloween.

It features a tune from Akira Yamaoka, composer of the Silent Hill videogame soundtracks.
His tunes usually are dark and foreboding and this is no exception.
I heard some similarities with Reptile from Nine Inch Nails which I layered then with this.
I also wanted to use Glooomy Sunday for a while and here it fit perfectly.
The singer is Carol Kidd, a Scottish jazz singer I had never heard of, but I could find an acapella from her for this song that fitted the bill well.
(Maybe somewhere in the future I will try to make an acapella of the version from Diamanda Galas, that would make it more chilling for certain)

Gloomy Sunday is also known as the Hungarian Suicide song. The lyrics are quite explicit about that.
However, when it became known by Billie Holiday's version, record companies wanted to add a 3rd verse with a lighter tone, the song was to depressive for them.
I skipped that last verse. It doesn't make sense at all, explaining that the other verses were just a dream.

Music:

Akira Yamaoka - Angel's Scream
Nine Inch Nails - reptile

Vocal: Carol Kidd - Gloomy Sunday

VDJ - Gloomy Angels and Reptiles (Akira Yamaoka and NIN vs Carol Kidd) by VirtualDJ

other links:
fileden (direct link)
mediafire
divshare

Off The Beaten Meter: Mashups Beyond 4/4

2010-04-02T12:12:00.010+02:00

A video to my mashup Watcher of Facades which was created for
Off the Beaten Meter: MashUps Beyond 4/4:
A compilation of mashups using rhythms other than the standard 4/4.

This project conceived by DJ Not-I will be released on april 12th 2010 on the following website:

offthebeatenmeter.blogspot.com/

Watcher of Facades from Virtual DJ on Vimeo.

This mashup features music and vocals from:

Philip Glass - Facades
Genesis - Watcher of the Skies
William S. Burroughs - What Keeps Mankind Alive?

The image sources are from:

2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick
The Shepperton Concert by Genesis
The Music of Kurt Weill: September Songs by Larry Weinstein.

From the Off The Beaten Meter site:

Off The Beaten Meter: MashUps Beyond 4/4 is a compilation of new exclusive (as well as a few previously released) mash-ups in time signatures other than 4/4.

Off the Beaten Meter features tracks by a range of noted bootleg remixers/mashup artists, including Andrewherring, DJ not-I, Eternal Khaos, G3RSt, Lee Spoons, Overdub, RIAA (Mr. Fab), ToTom, Virtual DJ, and Voicedude, who mash up and regenerate odd-metered tunes by the likes of 4Hero, Chris Squire, Dave Brubeck, Foo Fighters, Genesis, Joan Osborne, Louis Armstrong, Metallica, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Outkast, Philip Glass, Pink Floyd, Primus, Queens of the Stone Age, Quindon Tarver, Radiohead, Ravel, Slayer, System of a Down, The Commodores, The Future Sound of London, The Supremes, Tool, UK, and many more.

The resulting compilation is a heady brew of progressive bootleg remixing that pushes the envelopes of both mash-up-making and rhythmic perceptions in general.

Off The Beaten Meter will appeal to and satisfy the chin-stroking muso-nerds as well as the much broader spectrum of people who enjoy and appreciate excellent and interesting music, liberated from genre constraints and the ubiquitous 4/4 straitjacket.

This compilation will blow your mind, yet also have your foot tapping and head nodding in time signatures off the beaten path. So get ready to "Sit back and have some fun / and tap your foot in 21!" (Tony Levin/King Crimson)

Odd Russian Fever (David Bowie, Rihanna, Fever Ray)

2010-03-19T21:02:00.006+01:00

This is the second mashup I made with David Bowie's Space Oddity.
(the other one, with Calle 13 see here)

It features Rihanna's Russian Roulette as the main music, mixed with Fever Ray's dark and ominous If I had a Heart:

Odd Russian Fever:

David Bowie - A Space Oddity (vocals)
Rihanna - Russian Roulette (music)
Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart (vocals/music)

VDJ - Odd Russian Fever (David Bowie vs Rihanna vs Fever Ray) by VirtualDJ

If you want to download the tune and the soundcloud downloads are expired then you can also get it here:

mediafire
fileden(direct link)
divshare

Kenji's Love Song (Bob Marley vs Röyksopp)

2010-01-17T16:41:00.002+01:00

This song is partly inspired by the story about Kenji, a robot programmed to emulate human emotions, like love.
However Kenji's programming took an extreme turn for the worst, mistaking affection for possession.
You can read the story about Kenji here.

I guess the story is an internet hoax though.

The vocals by Bob Marley are entirely vocoded,
The instrumental track, Silver Cuiser by Röyksopp, is in 6/8 so I had to rearrange the complete song to fit in this different rhythm.

As you can imagine this sounds totally different than the original By Bob Marley.

Kenji's Lovesong

Bob Marley - Is This Love (vocals)
Röyksopp - Silver Cruiser (instrumental)

VDJ - Kenji's Love Song (Röyksopp vs Bob Marley) by VirtualDJ

More links to the mp3:
mediafire
fileden (direct link)
divshare

A Reggaeton Oddity (David Bowie vs Calle 13)

2009-10-13T01:11:00.012+02:00

I did not think I would do this but after the previous 2 mashups with Calle 13 instrumentals and classic rock tracks from Queen and the Eagles I have made a 3rd one.
This time it's David Bowie's Space Oddity that gets a reggaeton treatment.

A Reggaeton Oddity:

David Bowie - Space Oddity vs Calle 13 - Atrévete-te-te

Virtual DJ - A Reggaeton Oddity (David Bowie vs Calle 13) by VirtualDJ

other links:

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divshare
fileden (direct link)

Play That Funky Music Downtown (Petula Clark vs Wild Cherry)

2009-10-06T19:03:00.003+02:00

Petula Clark's classic goes funky in this 60 vs 70s mashup

Play That Funky Music Downtown

Music: Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
Vocals: Petula Clark - Downtown
and a bit of help from Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting

Virtual DJ - Play That Funky Music Downtown (Petula Clark vs Wild Cherry) by VirtualDJ

other downloadlinks:

mediafire
divshare
fileden (direct link)

Fame Forever (Röyksopp vs David Bowie)

2009-09-15T09:06:00.010+02:00

The well known song Fame by David Bowie paired with a chilled track from the latest Röyksopp album Junior.

Fame Forever

Röyksopp - Röyksopp Forever (instrumental)
David Bowie - Fame (vocal and guitar)

Virtual DJ - Fame Forever (Royksopp vs David Bowie) by VirtualDJ

other links:

mediafire
divshare
fileden (direct link)

Diamanda Galas vs Digitalism - news

2009-09-01T21:46:00.000+02:00

In the beginning of 2008 I made a mashup with a version of I Put A Spell On You as sung by Diamanda Galas and the electrosong Idealistic by Digitalism.
To my surprise I got contacted recently by her labelmanagement, telling me that they liked it and if they could use it as a free download on her website. Needless to say that I was thrilled by this.

Many people are not familiar with her work but if you are open minded about music and not afraid where it can take you it is absolutely worthwhile checking it out. Don't expect a Disney or a bubblegum experience though.
Here's a link to her website and to a wiki about her.

My mashup is still to be found here on divshare

Hotel de los Aburridos (Calle 13 vs Eagles, The Doors & 50 cent)

2009-08-15T19:21:00.003+02:00

Like the last track I posted this one also uses a classic rock tune and a beat from Calle 13, though this beat is somewhere between reggaeton and cumbia.

Actually this tune was made before the Bohemian Tango track,but it was meant to feature on a summer compilation from Sound-Unsound.
The compilation has been released recently and this was my contribution to it.

Hotel de Los Aburridos

Tracks used:

Calle 13 - Cumbia de los Aburridos
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Doors - Alabama Song
50 Cent - In Da Club

You can listen/download from these following links:

Virtual DJ - Hotel de los Aburridos (Calle 13 vs Eagles Doors 50 cent) by VirtualDJ

mediafire
divshare
fileden (direct link)

If you are interested in the full album from the Sound-Unsound members, please visit this page

Also, I'd like to bring this to your attention:

With all of Sound Unsound compilations from “Summer Unsound” onwards, we will be supporting a charity with each release. We have decided that this compilation’s supported charity will be the “British Heart Foundation”. The British Heart Foundation is the nation’s heart charity. Every day they save lives, through pioneering research, providing vital information to help people reduce their own heart health risks, campaigning for change and supporting and caring for heart patients. You can find out more information about the British Heart Foundation and make a donation here:-
http://www.justgiving.com/neiltomo/

If you enjoy the album or my tune, please consider making a donation to the British Heart Foundation. Every penny donated makes a massive difference.

Bohemian Tango (Queen vs Calle 13)

2009-06-19T00:11:00.005+02:00

This started out of curiosity.

The Bohemian Rhapsody is a complicated song as everybody knows and I was curious if it was possible to do anything with this song at all.
It's probably the mashup I worked longest on, discarding it at first when I had made my first try.
After a few weeks I heard it again and thought it wasn't that bad after all, so I gave it another try.
Some problems I could solve in due time and this is the result.
I'm quite certain that many consider it sacrilege to use this song at all, but that's the challenge isn't it?
The instrumental is by Calle 13 from Puerto Rico, labelled a reggaeton act but they are much more than that and one of the best groups out of Latin America in the last few years.

Bohemian Tango:

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Calle 13 - Tango del Pecado

(click on the divshare logo to download)

other links:
mediafire
fileden (direct link)

Hate That I Love Mr Brown - (James Brown vs Rihanna & Ne-Yo)

2009-03-14T19:24:00.005+01:00

Rihanna united with another spouse basher in a funky mashup.

This mashup I started for the Sound-Unsound birthday challenge but I got stuck and never finished it until now.

(edit 16-03-2009 new tweaked version)

Hate That I love Mr Brown

James Brown - The Chicken (instrumental)
Rihanna and Ne-Yo - Hate That I Love You (vocal)

(click on the divshare logo to download)

other links:
mediafire
fileden (direct link)

Shotgun in NYC (Blue Stahli vs Genesis)

2009-03-08T21:57:00.003+01:00

Another mashup featuring Genesis during the Peter Gabriel era.
The screaming vocals of Peter Gabriel I matched with the electronic rock of Blue Stahli which I had discovered through some excellent mashups of one of the best mashup artists around, Aggro1
Check out his site, especially if you like DnB.

Shotgun in NYC
Genesis - Back in NYC (vocals)
Blue Stahli - Shotgun Senorita (instrumental)

(click on the divshare logo to download)

other links:
mediafire
fileden (direct link)

Rocky Martin (Ricky Martin vs Kaiser Chiefs)

2009-02-01T15:14:00.003+01:00

A short rocking A+B:
Kaiser Chiefs with a guest vocalist: Rocky Martin

Living Na Na Na Loca

Ricky Martin _ Living La Vida Loca (vocals)
Kaiser Chiefs - Na Na Na Na Naa (instrumental)

(click on the divshare logo to download)

other links:
mediafire
fileden (direct link)

Ruled By Crawlers (Genesis vs Muse)

2009-01-27T00:08:00.004+01:00

Genesis had a rich musical history before it became hitmachine headed by Phil Collins.
Songs from these era have rarely or never been mashed and with the recent release of the first albums in a 5.1 format,with Peter Gabriel as leadsinger, opportunities arose to try to get a clear vocal.
Here is my first try with one of my favourite songs, Carpet Crawlers.
I mashed this with Ruled By Secrecy by Muse, which is in 6/8 where Carpet Crawlers is in 4/4 creating quite a few obstacles which I hope I overcame.
To get the placement right I first sung the melody myself and then started to arrange everything.
I hope I did right.

Ruled By Crawlers:
Carpet Crawlers - Genesis (vocal)
Ruled By Secrecy - Muse (instrumental)

(click on the divshare logo to download)

other links:
mediafire
fileden (direct link)

Sean Paul's Sing-A-Long (Sean Paul vs The Mini Sloths from Ice Age 2)

2009-01-17T18:47:00.002+01:00

I am not very active with mashups at the moment but when recently I saw Ice Age 2 I knew I had to do something with the hilarious songs by Sid the Sloth and The Mini Sloths.

There's nothing ambitious about this one, just a little funny piece (I hope)

Sean Paul's Sing-A-Long:

Sean Paul - Get Busy
John Powell - Mini Sloths Sing-A-Long and bits of Sid's Sing-A-Long (from the Ice Age 2 soundtrack)

(click on the divshare logo to download)

mediafire link
divshare link
fileden link (direct download)

Give My Tears Some Shelter (Rolling Stones vs Amy Winehouse)

2008-11-29T16:59:00.003+01:00

Another mashup using an Amy Winehouse instrumental, though it could have been named a Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrel instrumental as well, because the music from Tears Dry On Their Own is actually Ain't No Mountain High Enough, written by Ashford & Simpson.

Give My Tears Some Shelter

Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (vocals and guitars)
Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own (instrumental)

(click on the divshare logo to download)

other links

mediafire
fileden

edit 04/12: put a new resynched version online

Back To Roxanne (The Police vs Amy Winehouse)

2008-11-24T23:37:00.006+01:00

After fixing my broken computer, my first mashup since quite a while.

Back To Roxanne

The Police - Roxanne (vocals)
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (instrumental)

(click on the divshare logo to download the mp3)

other links:

mediafire
fileden (direct link)

Suspicious Minds On A Dancefloor (Elvis Presley vs Sophie Ellis Bextor)

2008-10-06T10:12:00.018+02:00

A more lighthearted mashup from me than usual:

Suspicious Minds On A Dancefloor

Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley (vocal)
Murder On The Dancefloor - Sophie Ellis Bextor (music)

This is the new and IMPROVED version made by Voicedude

(click on the divshare logo to download)

EDIT 17/10 Well, after writing this still some timing issues were not completely resolved, but my computer broke down. Fortunately Voicedude who was a tremendous help in tweaking earlier versions offered to rebuild and retweak it so here is the link to his improved version:

For archival or comparison purposes here are links to the older version.
other links (click on them)
filebam
fileden (direct link)

WAR OF CONFUSION (video)

2008-09-14T20:58:00.015+02:00

In March I released a mashup made with music of germany's 80's popgroup
Propaganda and vocals of The Temptations, Edwin Starr and Nas, which
was well received.

The lyrics of the song Ball of Confusion, by The Temptations,
though more than 30 years old seem as relevant today as they were
then and conjured up a lot of imagery when listening to it.

After viewing Godfrey Reggio's Naqoyqatsi, loosely translated as 'Life

as War' an idea started to form that his use of imagery and editing

and the subject matter would well fit with this audiomashup of mine.

To get the idea was easy, to execute it was a different matter.
I had no experience with video editing except the very basics and
what I wanted to achieve would definitely need more than that.

It took countless hours of experimenting and searching for
materials, watching hours and hours of documentaries of which some
were really gruesome to see and for about 3 months I was solely
dedicated to bring this project to fruition.

Do I have a political agenda with this video?
No, but like any sane person I am disgusted by the atrocities and
accompanying cynicism that occurs on our planet. And we grow indifferent to many of the news about it. I hope this video shows that wars, neglect, famine, etc are no trivial matters at all and definitely not glamorous.

A lot of the material used is from the USA, my video is not
specifically targeted against the USA, it's simply that there is lot
more media coverage from there to be found.

At the end of the video a creditroll with all sources is listed.

Special thanks to DJ Not-I for kindly previewing the video and
giving helpful suggestions and my wife who had to endure viewing
this over and over again.

WARNING THIS VIDEO CONTAINS STRONG GRAPHICAL IMAGES OF VIOLENCE AND
IS NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVICED

youtubelink

War of Confusion from Virtual DJ on Vimeo.

link to the downloadable mp3 (15MB 256bitrate) (through divshare)

link to the downloadable video (mp4 format (640x480)(through divshare), the widescreen version will follow soon 111MB

edit 10 oct: The video received great reviews and has been featured (among others) on Audioporncentral, mashupfacts, Bartcop Entertainment, and was voted for Video Of The Month at Sound-Unsound.com.

In Case You're Wondering

2008-08-29T16:30:00.004+02:00

In case you're wondering why I haven't posted anything new the last 2 months, the reason is that I am working already about 2 months on an elaborate video for my mashup War of Confusion.
I expect to finish this somewhere in September, it's the most complicated and ambitious mashup related thing I have done until now. Here are some screenshots from the still unfinished video to get an idea:

Video for Empty Islands (Supremes, Cardigans, Madredeus)

2008-07-13T02:04:00.004+02:00

This is the second video I have made to any of my mashups.

Music:
The Supremes - My World Is Empty Without You (acapella)
Cardigans - Lovefool (acapella)
Las Ilhas dos Acores -Madredeus (Instrumental)

Images:
Anima Mundi - Godfrey Reggio
Earth - Alastair Fothergill & Mark_Linfield
The March of the Penguins - Luc Jacquet

Youtube:

Myspace:

Empty Islands

The mp3 can be found here

3 Summer Mashes

2008-07-07T12:06:00.009+02:00

Last year one of my first mashups was included on BBI's Summer Booty compilation and since the demise of BBI the original producers went their own separate ways resulting this year in 2 albums:
DJ Useo presents Summer Booty 2008 and the Summer Booty album by Sound Unsound Network.
I made a track for each album and they have been available already for some time but not yet on my own site.
So here they are and a brand new one as well. (direct links below)

Lebanese Thieves Don't Lie:
Shakira - Hips Don't Lie (acapella)
vs
Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde (instrumental)
(256Kb/s)

This one was featured on DJ Useo presents Summer Booty 2008.

Direct Link (through fileden):
Alternative link (through divshare):

Mas Que Sensual:
Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction
vs
Sergio Mendes ft Black Eyed Peas - Mas Que Nada
Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby
Dee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
Chic - Good Times
Herbie Hancock - Rock-It
Don Omar - Reggaeton Latino
Salt 'N Peppa - Push It
(256Kb/s)

This one was featured on the Summer Booty album by Sound Unsound Network.

Direct link (through fileden):
Alternative link (through divshare):

and the brand new one, not released anywhere before, is a kind of Ska/Reggae version of Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer spiced up with the horn section from Superstitious by Stevie Wonder.

Hammer Madness:
UB40 - Reefer Madness (instrumental)
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (acapella)
Stevie Wonder - Superstitious (instrumentals from the multitrack)
(256Kb/s)

Direct link (through fileden):
Alternative link (through divshare):

Electroswamp - Talking Heads vs Goldfrapp

2008-05-24T14:14:00.003+02:00

When I was listening to Ooh La La by Goldfrapp I thought that the chorus could probably match very well with the chorus in the Talking Heads song Swamp.
What I did not expect was that the two songs would match entirely so well.

In my opinion Swamp is one of the weaker Talking Heads' songs, but in this combo I like it a lot.

Electroswamp:

Talking Heads - Swamp (from Stop Making Sense)
Goldfrapp - Ooh La La (extended remix and Phones re-edit)

(click on the divshare logo to download)

Summer Booties 2008

2008-05-19T16:54:00.006+02:00

Last year BBI released the album Summer Booty, a 3 CD monster collection of tunes around a summer theme. This was the first album I was featured on, the album was a huge succes, even though (or maybe because) not all tracks were flawless. I think it worked as a kind of jumpstart for a lot of mashup-artists who were just starting or not very well known and were featured along arrived bootleggers.
This year there will be two Summer Booty albums, due to some differences of opinion between the facilitators of the first edition. The first one has just arrived, DJ Useo presents Summer Booty 2008 and features one track of mine:

Lebanese Thieves Don't Lie
Shakira - Hips Don't Lie (vocals)
Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde (instrumental)

It's on my myspace player but not yet available for download. You can download it by going to the summerbooty site

Soon Sound UnSound Network (The successor of BBI) will present their Summer Booty compilation as well on which I also will be featured.

So even though this little quarrel might have stirred some rivalry the bootleg afficonados ultimately profit by having more to listen to.
For the record, both sides have laid down their quarrel and are in support of each others product.

Mistah Pok's video to Psycho Robots

2008-05-19T16:45:00.003+02:00

A while ago after I had made the mashup with Psycho Killer by the Talking Heads and Robots by Kraftwerk, Mistah Pok made a video to this, which you can see here. I recommend to take a look at his My Space profile, he has lots of excellent videos.

psycho robots

What Goes Around In A Hurt World (Madonna vs Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake)

2008-05-12T21:34:00.005+02:00

I made this quite some time ago, but never came to finish it completely, when other projects took over. I am not entirely sure about this one, it seems alright to me but also very regular as if it misses something. Maybe I have heard it too much already. So I did finish it and you can make up your mind about this one.

What Goes Around In A Hurt World
Madonna - Drowned World/Substitute For Love (instrumental)
Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around (acapella)
Christina Aguilera - Hurt (acapella)

(click on the divshare logo to download)

Dexter wants to love you (Bob Marley vs Theme from Dexter)

2008-04-10T01:03:00.003+02:00

This is just a little tune I made for Gybo's TV Tunes challenge.
It's the main title from the television series Dexter, about a serial killer with a conscience (composed by Rolfe Kent) vs Bob Marley's Is This Love.

(click on the divshare logo to download)

War Of Confusion (Propaganda vs The Temptations, Edwin Starr and Nas)

2008-03-18T18:39:00.008+01:00

The idea for this mashup started when a multiply contact posted a long mix of Propaganda tracks.
I thought Ball of Confusion by the Temptations would match well with this. Then, to get along with the subject matter, War by Edin Starr was added and One Mic by Nas.
The only problem is that I do not have the dirty pella by Nas, so I extracted the muted words from the original but the difference in sound is noticable, (fortunately it's only in the second verse) which I then tried to mask with sounds effect, from the track by Paul Hardcastle - 19.
(Thanks to dj prince for the samplepack).
If anyone has the original pella by Nas, I would like to redo this, because it's still bothering me a bit.
It turned out to be my longest mashup up ever, clocking in at 8:41.

edit 24 Mar: I have added a short version (5 min) today as well

War of Confusion

Propaganda - P-Machinery (Beta mix and album version)
Temptations - Ball of Confusion
Edwin Starr - War
Nas - One Mic
and some sound samples from the track 19 by Paul Hardcastle

time: 8m 41s
bitrate: 256
filesize: 16 MB

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2 Mashups with the Balanescu Quartet covering Kraftwerk

2008-03-04T13:29:00.007+01:00

Since Popmusic is a lot about recycling and mashups are the ultimate recycled music it is just a matter of time before covers of mashups will appear.
I don’t know if a cover of a mashup has been made before but here it is.

I was wondering how KrazyBen’s splendid mashup of Kraftwerk and Timbaland, ‘’The Way Models Are’’ (from last year) would sound if the original Kraftwerk backing track would be replaced by the cover The Balanescu Quartet made of The Model.

Lately, when working on my Psycho Robots track, this thought got into my mind again and so I decided to just try it for fun’s sake.

The result was pleasingly enough to me and I decided to give this a go.

Because I considered it a bit lame to post only this track I also went searching into material that would fit with another of the Kraftwerk covers by this quartet.

In the end I settled with Shakira’s Whenever, Wherever with backing of Computer Love by the Balanescu Quartet.
Timing wasn’t easy, the backing track slowed down considerably in the middle section and Shakira started to get overstretched too much,. So after a lot of rearranging parts and snippets I think I succeeded.

So here they are:

Whenever, Wherever Computer Love:
Shakira – Whenever, Wherever
vs
The Balanescu Quartet – Computer Love

(warning: long intro)

&

The Way I Model:
Timbaland – The Way I Are
vs
The Balanescu Quartet – The Model
(based on KrazyBen’s mashup The Way Models Are)

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Psycho Robots - Kraftwerk vs Talking Heads

2008-02-11T00:15:00.003+01:00

Two classic tunes from two of my own favorite bands in this mashup:

Psycho Robots:
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (from Stop Making Sense)
Kraftwerk - Robots

the track has been tweaked after some helpful comments

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Empty Islands - Supremes vs Madredeus vs Cardigans

2008-01-27T19:10:00.000+01:00

This mashup is in total contrast with the former. This Supremes' track always had a very melancholic mood, but you still dance on the the backing track. I have tried to enhance on the mood of the lyrics by using an instrumental track of the portuguese Madredeus and snippets of Lovefool by the Cardigans

Empty Islands
Supremes - My World Is Empty Without You
Madredeus - As Ilhas dos Açores
Cardigans - Lovefool

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I Put A Spell On Your Ideals - Diamanda Galas vs Digitalism

2008-01-20T14:23:00.000+01:00

When I was working on a Halloween track some months ago I was rediscovering Diamanda Galas. For those who do not know her, she has a voice that penetrates your spine and is definitely not your average top 40 singer. For that Halloween work I had used a small bit of her version of I Put A Spell On You. To use the whole track I needed something that sounded a bit dirty and nasty and I think this Digitalism track complements her vocals.

I Put A Spell On Your Ideals:
Diamanda Galas - I Put A Spell On You
vs
Digitalism - Idealistic

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Santa Does Detroit (A Motown XXXmas Carol)

2007-12-06T12:22:00.002+01:00

This one was made for the cancelled BBI XXXmas compilation.
The aim was to make a Christmas song that would make Cliff Richard look away in shame. This one does not feature Cliff, but Michael Jackson appears to have a somewhat unexpected masochistic streak somewhere in the song.

Santa Does Detroit (A Motown XXXmas Carol)

Vocals: several Christmas songs from the Motown label, like the Supremes, Jackson 5, Temptations and Smokey Robinson
Music: Pornsonic – Nice ‘N Sleazy Does It and a sample from Justify My Love by Madonna
Cameos: George Friedrich Händel, Snoop Dogg, quite a lot of heavy panting, Donna Summer, Britney
Attribute: A whip

(click on the divshare logo to download )

or use this (direct) link: fileden
(bitrate 192, size 5.3 MB)

Sin Race (Editors vs Robbie Williams)

2007-12-02T19:36:00.001+01:00

The acapella for this tune was the first one I ever made by using phase inversion on the instrumental track and adding to the complete track. However, I never found a suitable use for it.
Recently I got the Editors track, complete with an instrumental. A very good rock tune that I immediately liked, and the only acapella that fitted was this Robbie Williams tune. Robbie always sounds better with a good rock backing.

So here it is:

Sin Race:

Editors - Rat Race (instrumental)
vs
Robbie Williams - Sin Sin Sin (acapella)

(click on the divshare logo to download; 7.57MB bitrate 256)

Rihanna's Underworld (Rihanna vs Underworld)

2007-11-25T20:58:00.000+01:00

Rihanna's Underworld:

Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music
Underworld - Dark and Long
and a bit of Isaac Hayes and Michael Jackson

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Beat-Boot-Ique’s Mashuptown Massacre!

2007-10-23T20:42:00.000+02:00

Beat-Boot-Ique has released the ultimate Halloween package for this years festivities featuring bootlegs that stir the dead and moves the undead. The living stay behind with a sense of dread after listening to this soundtrack to the afterlife.

It was challenge for this mortal to contribute anything deadly, being still attached to this living realm. After countless sessions with my Ouija bord and consulting with spirit my soul concocted the following brew:

Satan's Witch Queen

ingredients:
The Specials - Ghosttown
Redbone - The Witch Queen of New Orleans
Diamanda Galas - I Put A Spell On You
Diamanda Galas - The Litanies of Satan

This potion is being served at Beat-Boot-Ique, order this and more than 20 other bedazzling meals and drinks here

And if you survive do not forget to take a view at the stunning videos that can be found there as well. It might be the last thing you ever see.......

Paper Calypso (Genesis vs Tito Puente)

2007-10-19T21:45:00.000+02:00

A bit inspired by the Forgotten Hits compilation by Simon Iddol:

Paper Calypso:

Genesis - Paper Late
vs
Calypso Blues - Tito Puente

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The Max Way - Paolo Conte vs Timbaland

2007-10-14T20:23:00.000+02:00

When I heard a tune that reminded me of this beautiful track by Paolo Conte I got inspired.

The Max Way:

Paolo Conte: Max
vs
Timbaland: The Way I Are

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Little Love Things - Justin Timberlake vs 2 Bit Pie

2007-10-14T00:26:00.000+02:00

My latest:

Little Love Things:

Justin Timberlake - My Love
vs
2 Bit Pie - Little Things

bitrate 256, size 8MB

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Video for Slow Martian Nasty Girl

2007-09-27T16:26:00.000+02:00

Inspired by a comment that this mashup of mine could have been an imaginary love theme from Star Trek where Captain Kirk rejects a green skinned alien I got inspired again to make a video for this.
This is entirely new territory for me.
The video contains elements from Mars Attacks, Star Trek and Kylie Minogue

Slow Martian Nasty Girl & 3 Outtakes from Outer Space

2007-09-09T00:29:00.000+02:00

edit 12 september I am excited to say that the compilation below got mentioned on Audioporn Central.

I have been working on tracks for a while for the SF themed compilation album "The Vinyl Frontier vol.1: mashups from outer space" by Beat-Boot-ique that has been released recently (see previous blog). 2 tracks of mine are featured on that album. I made some more that did not make it into the final cut. Here are all 4 of them of which Slow Martian Nasty Girl is featured on the album. Because of the nature of the album these are not your average mashups!

Slow Martian Nasty Girl:

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Kylie Minogue - Slow
Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl
Danny Elfman - Martian Spy Girl

bitrate 320

(as featured on the BBI album, remastered by Celebrity Murder Party)

The Eve of a Dreaded Problem:

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Juno Reactor ft Gocoo: Teahouse
Jeff Wayne: The Eve of the War
Apollo 13 crew: Trouble Sequence
Bernard Hermann - The Day The Earth Stood Still (prelude)
Olive - You're Not Alone
Oakenfold - Dread Rock
Danny Elfman - The Arrival
Donna Summer - I Feel Love

(This is an extension of The Eve of A Problem, which is the opening track of The Vinyl Frontier)

bitrate 256

Rocket Session:

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Elton John - Rocket Man
Linkin Park - Session

bitrate 256

This Is Why I'm Frozen:

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Madonna - Frozen
Mims - This Is Why I'm Hot
Nelly Furtado - Turn Off The Light
Danny Elfman - Ungodly Experiments

bitrate 256

The Vinyl Frontier: Mashups from Outer Space

2007-08-26T00:37:00.006+02:00

Beat-Boot-Ique has released a new compilation album featuring two tracks of mine. This one is based on Science Fiction or Space Music in it's broadest interpretations, featuring mashups, remixes, new material and totally reconstructed tracks.
New for BBI releases is that this is the first album that was reviewed by a prerelease team so that the overall quality of the album could be raised before final release.
The album has an excellent flow and feels like those old concept albums, which is quite an achievement considering that all contributors where working separately on their tracks, proving that the use of this pre-release team succeeded in creating a homogenic album, instead of a collection of loosely themed, but separate tracks.
The album has been mastered by Celebrity Murder Party and he did a fine job on that.

Everyone who has an interest in spacey songs and soundscapes should give this album a listen.

Track listing:

Side A

01. Virtual DJ - Eve of a problem
02. CMP - Intergalactic Predator
03. Virtual DJ - Slow Martian Nasty Girl
04. Viper Pilot - Ballad of the colonial Roughnecks
05. Juxtaposeur - Space Dictation
06. Guv'nor - That Chewie Tune
07. DJ Le Clown - 200

Side B

08. DJ Useo vs Celebrity Murder Party - Goldrush Revolution
09. Juxtaposeur - Moon Conversation
10. Guv'nor - UFO Outta Space
11. DJ Useo vs Celebrity Murder Party - Love Rocket
12. Celebrity Murder Party - Wrath of Khan Never knows
13. DJ Useo - Major Tomgebirge
14. Icky - Let me be Outta Space

edit 09-09-2010: The album is not available anymore on it's original location.
You can find the first 12 tunes here as a rar file (126 MB, mediafire link)
Tracks 13 and 14 can be found in a separate rar file here

Individual songs are not released yet. In time I will publish my contributions as individual mp3's along with an extended version of the opening track and some outtakes that did not fit in the final version of the album.

PS
Eve Of A Problem features:
Jeff Wayne - Eve of The War
Juno Reactor ft Gocoo: Teahouse (from the Matrix 2)
"Trouble Sequence" - The Apollo 13 crew

Slow Martian Nasty Girl features:
Kylie Minogue: Slow
Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl
Danny Elfman - Martian Spy Girl (from Mars Attacks)

Two Summer Tunes

2007-08-07T00:52:00.000+02:00

With the summer not really getting in full swing I decided to make some summer tracks. One new, and one which was featured on the summer booty compilation a while ago.

The new one:

Who's Your Liar:
Beyonce & Shakira - Beautiful Liar (spanglish version)
vs
Daddy Yankee - Who's Your Daddy

(click on the divshare logo to download the mp3)

I made this one for my wife who's totally into reggaeton and Beyonce and Shakira

The old one (though remastered, the vocal should be better in the mix and a recurring click at the end has been removed)

Drop It Like It's Chichi:
Snoop Dogg: Drop It Like It's Hot
vs
Chichi Peralta - Un Día Más

Both tracks have some imperfections but I think are still enjoyable, it's up to you to decide.

(click on the divshare logo to download the mp3)

For a version without ambient (jungle) sounds during the mix (except for the end) click here

My Silent Love (Akira Yamaoka vs Lionel Richie & Diana Ross)

2007-07-12T00:54:00.001+02:00

Akira Yamaoka is the composer of the splendid soundtracks of the Silent Hill computer games. I really love his music and always wanted to do something with it.
Silent Hill is well known for it's brutal and horrific imagery and creepy atmosphere so you might be surprised that I combined this with Lionel Richie & Diana Ross.
The file below is the tweaked version. The old one has been deleted.

My Silent Love:

Akira Yamaoka - Room of Angel (from Silent Hill 4 - The Room)
vs
Lionel Richie and Diana Ross - My Endless Love

(Click on the divshare logo to download the mp3)
or use this direct link: fileden

Call Me The Beginning Of The End (Blondie vs Nine Inch Nails)

2007-07-08T22:53:00.001+02:00

Recently I am listening to a lot of noisy music so it did not come as a surprise that I resorted to use Nine Inch Nails in my latest mashup blended with an eighties track of Blondie. Of course it also helps that NIN has published all separate tracks of several songs of their latest album Year Zero. Also Mr Bush makes a cameo appearance.

So here it is:

Blondie - Call Me
vs
Nine Inch Nails - The Beginning Of The End

(click on the divshare logo to download the mp3)
or us this direct link

(painting of the map of the USA by Jasper Johns)

Bootwerk: a bastard pop tribute to Kraftwerk

2007-06-25T21:28:00.000+02:00

(artwork by Simon Iddol)

A while ago I had made a track for the Red Hot Chili Peppers mashup competition at mashuptown.com featuring the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Eyed Peas, Public Enemy and Kraftwerk.
Apparently this got noticed by Mashup Industries who where working on a Kraftwerk bootleggers album and I was asked if this track could be included in their project. Needless to say I was very honoured by the request and even more when I got to know who the other contributors were, like DJ Zebra, Dunproofin', Divide & Kreate and more excellent mashup artists.

The album has arrived, it's a stunning compilation and I'm proud to be included in this album together with some of my bootlegger heroes in a tribute to one of my all-time musical heroes.

You can get the full album, all individual tracks and the artwork at the site of Mashup Industries

(You can get my track by scrolling down, but i recommend to get all the tracks)

Bring It On Pussy (Grinderman vs Goose)

2007-06-17T21:23:00.000+02:00

This mashup is almost entirely the opposite from the previous one which was mainly acoustic. It's noisy, loud, dirty and sleazy.

Grinderman: No Pussy Blues
vs
Goose: Bring It On

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No Smile Of Mine

2007-06-03T18:38:00.000+02:00

This time an almost entire acoustic mashup, thx for DJ Schmolli for giving the inspiration:

Genesis - No Son Of Mine (acapella)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Desecration Smile (guitar/bass)

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Enemy Humps Non Stop

2007-05-20T00:44:00.001+02:00

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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Humpdebump (instrumental)
Black Eyed Peas - My Humps (instrumental)
Kraftwerk - Music Non Stop (instrumental/voice)
Public Enemy - Public Enemy Number One (voice)

This mashup is my entry for the mashup town Red Hot Chilly Peppers mashup competition.
I just had to try if Humpdebump would mix with My Humps from the Black Eyed Peas, just for the similarity in the titles. When it did I thought about Kraftwerk's Music Non Stop as a track that sounds quite funky, what I associate with the RHCP as well, so that was the next layer. I had an all instrumental mashup ready, but them decided to add a voice as well and that was to become from Public Enemy.

(26 may, replaced the original post with a new one rendered at a higher bitrate and a minor tweak)

Summer Booty Compilation by Beat-Boot-Ique

2007-05-07T21:09:00.000+02:00

A few weeks ago I was invited by the people behind Beat-Boot-Ique to join their mash-up community. Beat-Boot-Ique (BBI) is a new startup in the mashup world that focuses on theme based compilations featuring mashups.
The latest theme was the summer and I contributed one track to it, Drop It Like It's Chichi - Snoop Dogg vs Chichi Peralta. (On volume 3)

I am quite proud to be part of this together with such fine mashers as for example Copycat, Voicedude, Norwegian Recycling, Morgoth: a nice blend of the "arrived" mashers and the new and upcoming talent.
Yesterday this soundtrack of the summer went online: 3 hours, 41 tracks and 28 dj's bringing you that summer vibe. Needless to say that I warmly recommend this, so grab it here
You can use this torrent as an alternative.

On this place I also want to thank DJ Useo and Toss for organizing the whole project and all contributors for the fine tracks and artwork.

Simple Gwen - Gwen Stefani vs Simple Minds

2007-04-30T17:55:00.000+02:00

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Back to the days when the Simple Minds were still considered an alternative band.
My latest Mashup combines the songs I Travel from the Simple Minds with What You're Waiting for from Gwen Stefani.

First Steps

2007-04-05T23:16:00.001+02:00

After listening and searching for mash ups I got interested and was wondering how people made these and if it was possible to do this myself.

I do not have any DJ-experience but in the eighties made my own projects, sometimes mixing in with looping tapes as well (those were the days). I was a proud possessor of a sampler, a Yamaha MSX computer (32K memory!) with a build in DX9 FM synthesizer and step sequencer, a basic Roland drum computer and later an Atari ST 1040.

Somewhere in the 90's I started living and working in Latin America for seven years, always on the move and simply had no opportunity anymore to make my own music.

The whole mash-up craze relighted my fire to do anything with music.
So, here are my first five after toying around with some software for about six weeks.

In order of creation:

1. 1 Sledgehammer
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer vs Amerie - 1 Thing

When still experimenting with my new tools I was already thinking to do something with Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer. I stumbled on the combination with Amerie's 1 thing and noticed that this could be a successful combination.

2.Slave To Love U Baby
Donna Summer - Love to Love You Baby vs Britney Spears -Slave 4 U

Immediately I wanted to follow up and thought Donna Summer's I Feel Love would be an easy one to mash but out of curiosity I decided to listen again to Love To Love You Baby instead . When I heard it I knew that that would be a lot more interesting to do and here is the result.

3.Love Or Hate Perfect Fashion
David Bowie - Fashion vs Princess Superstar - Perfect vs Lady Sovereign - Love Me Or Hate Me

Then I was messing with Fashion by David Bowie but did not know with what to combine, I chose an easy way out and combined this with two rap acapella's ( I could not chose so decided to use both) by Lady Sovereign and Princess Superstar. I had my doubts because it was a bit of an 'easy' mash-up, but I got carried away and decided to finish it.

4. Country Hocus Pocus
Nelly - Country Grammar vs Focus - Hocus Pocus

I was searching for a good guitar riff to use for my next mash up, even searching on the web if there are lists of the best guitar riffs ever to get inspiration (there are), but then thought about the dutch group Focus that had a song with a good riff, which as far as I knew had not been used yet.

Having the riff, I needed something to combine this with, I searched my small collection of acapella's and came up with Nelly's Country Grammar but sped up quite a lot.
I did not even know the original song otherwise I probably would not even haven thought about doing this. The result is that fast paced rapping Nelly.

It's a pity that the acapella I have is a bit distorted in the verses which only gets worse by speeding it up. I first tried to cover this up by heavy filtering and delay but that sounded cluttered. So I stuck to this one, it has some flaws but the result I still like so much that I decided to post this. Hopefuly one day I wil find a better acapella.

Additional (direct) link: fileden

5.Independent Peter
Destiny's Child - Independent Women vs Duane Eddy - Peter Gunn vs Talking Heads - Seen and not Seen vs Perfecto All Stars - Papa's Got A Brand New Pig Bag

It sounds so simple but this one took me quite some time to complete. To keep the song interesting I tried many variations on the basic concept (which was DC and Duane Eddy) and finally after getting the idea to use a kind of drum roll when the sax blows its tune the pieces fell into place. I still have the feeling that it can be better and would like to hear your opinions.