Themed post: Michael Jackson

As I was listening though my mashup collection I realized that I have a ton of Michael Jackson mashups.

Here are some of my favorites (in no particular order):

Norwegian Recycling - "Wanna Be Mixin' Something"
You will be hard pressed to find more King of Pop samples in one song. This mashup features 7 Michael Jackson songs and several others. For a list, and to download, visit Norwegian Recycling's website. Norwegian Recycling also made the video:




DJ Schmolli - "Jacko Breaks Free on Earth"
An excellent mashup from Austria's #1 exporter of Michael Jackson mashups (and more). Unfortunately I don't know who made this video:




Party Ben - "Promiscuous With You"
Nelly Furtado and Timbaland vs. Michael Jackson. This is a seamless mashup and a seamless video by VJ Brewski:



Go Home Productions - "Jacko Under Pressure"
Sticking with "Rock With You" a great A vs. B mashup by pioneering mashup legend Go Home Productions (a.k.a. Mark Viddler).


Mad Mix Mustang - "The Way You Got Me That Feeling"
Combining Michael Jackson with James Brown is tempting fate. Toying with two of my musical heroes could either be a colossal failure or a colossal success. Like most of Mad Mix Mustang's mashups this is the latter.


DJ Gauffie - "I Want ABC Back"
The vocals from The Jackson 5's "ABC" over the instrumentals of The Jackson 5's "I Want You Back." This is extremely well done. My mom is two years younger than Michael Jackson and grew up listening to the Jackson 5, watching their TV shows, mimicking their dance moves, and crushing on Jermaine. I played this for her and she didn't notice that it was a mashup until I pointed it out. That is the sign of a well-produced bootleg.


I encourage you to visit the artist's websites where you will find many more excellent mashups.

Simply incredible

I am nearly wordless in awe of this mashup project by Kutiman. The project is called Thru YOU. Kutiman has pulled dozens of videos from YouTube featuring individuals playing musical instruments and mixed them into 7 tracks/videos. Each track mashes up numerous separate YouTube videos. This is what creativity, media remixing technology, and Internet communication can do.

Here is one of the tracks:


Kutiman explains a little bit about his project in this video:


All of the videos or linked on the project website here.

This makes me giddy.

I Have A Weakness For Puns

I guess this is sort of a mashup. Not really, but I love it and I wanted to put it on the blog.

Listen To This

This has already been posted widely but in case you didn't see it this is DJ Earworm's United States of Pop 2008:

This mashup combines samples from each of the Billboard Top 25 songs of 2008. Earworm made the video as well. DJ Earworm also created a mashup combining the Billboard Top 25 songs of 2007 last year:

Both of these and many other excellent mashups can be downloaded from DJ Earworm's site.

Earworm is one of the most talented mashup artists out there. His production skills are incredible. Earworm is also the author of a mashup instruction book which is quite good although sadly not Mac compatible (he uses Sony's Acid Pro). DJ Earworm is best known for creating mashups with a large amount of samples all melded together seamlessly. However unlike other mashup artists, such as Girl Talk, that use tons of samples in a sort of frenetic collage, Earworm's mixes sound much more like recognizable songs with verses, choruses, and lyrics from multiple sources that are often tied to a common theme. For more about DJ Earworm's style check out this article from the MIT Technology Review which also features a cool "make your own mashup" tool.

DJ Hero

It appears that Activision, the publisher of Guitar Hero, is set to release DJ Hero this summer. Somehow the concept of playing a guitar controller is more appealing to me than playing a turntable controller, but the game will apparently focus on creating mashups and will allow the use of Guitar Hero controllers alongside the turntable.

For more about the game go here or here.

Several members of the mashup community have been involved in the making of this game which is a good sign. The game is being developed in the U.K. which is home to an abundance of great mashup artists. 

I am now officially one step closer to buying a new video game system.

Amazing Hot Dog Launcher

I saw this today at BoingBoing Gadgets. As far as I am concerned this may be the greatest invention of all time. No wonder the Phillies won the World Series.

A mashup of sorts