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Awesome Mashups

Radioactive September

Radioactive September

Do you remember… the 21st month of 2020? Musical mashup artist William Maranci gives Earth, Wind, and Fire a dose of Radioactive energy with his latest unexpected combo, mixing the track September with Imagine Dragons’ alt-rock sound and resulting in a dark new vibe.

Taxi Driver: The Sitcom

Taxi Driver: The Sitcom

The Martin Scorsese classic Taxi Driver and the TV series Taxi have at least a few things in common: a New York City setting, an ensemble of quirky characters, and… taxi cabs. So it made perfect sense to video editor kingkida to combine the two, giving Robert De Niro a starring role on a 1970s ABC sitcom.

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Through The Fire and Blinding Lights

Through The Fire and Blinding Lights

What happens when you combine the power rock vocals of DragonForce’s track Through the Fire and Flames with the ’80s-soaked synth beats of The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights? As YouTube commenter Ozan Emre Keser put it, you end up with a Journey song you never heard before. A stellar mashup from William Maranci.

Toon Town Mysteries

Toon Town Mysteries

Detective Eddie Valiant has a tough case on his hands. Will he figure out who murdered novelty mogul Marvin Acme, or will he come up empty? Tune in, and find out as “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” meets “Unsolved Mysteries” in this hilarious mashup from the guys at Nerdist.

Du Hast My Love

Du Hast My Love

Musical mashup genius William Maranci envisions what it might sound like if Justin Timberlake and Rammstein collaborated on a track, combining the hard rock hit “Du Hast” with the pop hit “My Love,” resulting in an angry, high energy dancefloor banger.

Sheryl Crow + Sugar Ray + OMC

Sheryl Crow + Sugar Ray + OMC

Pomplamoose mashes up three very different tracks into one, combining Sheryl Crow’s “Soak Up The Sun,” Sugar Ray’s “Every Morning,” and OMC’s “How Bizarre.” The marriage of these three strange musical bedfellows was the brainchild of guitarist Brian Green and backing vocalist Erin Bentlage, and it worked out brilliantly.

Elton John f/Soulja Boy

Elton John f/Soulja Boy

If there are two musicians we never thought we’d mention in the same breath, we’re thinking that Elton John and Soulja Boy would probably be somewhere on that list. Regardless, mashup artist William Maranci managed to find a way to combine “Bennie and the Jets” and “Pretty Boy Swag” into a cohesive track.

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Puddles: Stairway to Gilligan’s Island

Puddles: Stairway to Gilligan’s Island

Back in 1978, Little Roger and the Goosebumps figured out that the lyrics to the theme from Gilligan’s Island lined up perfectly with Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven. While we loved the novelty of the classic mashup, Puddles Pity Party really ramped up the vocals and theatricality. Oh, and on a related note…

Closer to Funkytown

Closer to Funkytown

(PG-13: Language) If Trent Reznor was making music during the 1970s, it might have sounded something like this industrial-disco smashup by editor William Maranci, who once again proves that there are no two genres that can’t be combined as Lipps, Inc’s Funkytown and Nine Inch Nails Closer become one.

Rob Zombie Aerobics

Rob Zombie Aerobics

Aerobics videos were one of the hallmarks of 1980s cheese. And while they might have been incredibly campy when set to Olivia Newton-John music, this video shows how they can be improved upon when the choreography lines up with Rob Zombie’s Dragula. It also works well with Superbeast.

Pop Culture Typography

Pop Culture Typography

Designer Isaac Moores (aka Izac Less) created this fun animation which provides typographic lyrics to Madeon’s dance masterpiece Pop Culture, using logo graphics based on just that – pop culture. Don’t know where they’re all from? Watch this version of the clip.

Concatenation 2: Olympic Game

Concatenation 2: Olympic Game

Video artist Donato “Milkyeyes” Sansone combined footage of Olympic athletes performing a variety of movements, from gymnastics to diving to track and field events, seamlessly melding together their motions so they look like one extended routine. The technique is a refinement of his earlier clip, Concatenation.

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Sledgehammer as Hell

Sledgehammer as Hell

What happens when put two earworms in a jar, poke some holes in its lid, and leave them to get freaky? You end up with something like DJ Cummerbund’s combo of Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer and Lizzo’s Good as Hell. Toss in a little Stevie Wonder, Red Hot Chili Peppers, TLC, and Rihanna, and you have a meta-hit on your hands.

The Nice Jedi

The Nice Jedi

Imagine if you will, that the 2002 Star Wars prequel Attack of the Clones was actually a buddy movie about a pair of P.I.s who use their Jedi powers to investigate crimes in the seedy underbelly of Coruscant. That’s what you’ve got here, courtesy of trailer editor Imperator Cuts in a playful nod to Shane Black’s The Nice Guys.

DJ Cummerbund: Weird Betty

DJ Cummerbund: Weird Betty

Remember that John Hughes movie where Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith engineered their own unrealistic fantasy woman? Well what if her name wasn’t Lisa, but instead was Black Betty? Imagine no longer. Thanks to mashup artist DJ Cummerbund, we have our answer. Bam-ba-Lam, mama-sa, mama-koosa!

Isleyhead: Ace of Shout

Isleyhead: Ace of Shout

Music mashup master Bill McClintock is at it again. This time, he managed to combine the Motown sounds of The Isley Brother’s classic Shout! with the metal edge of Motörhead’s Ace of Spades, giving frat boys a whole new kind of chant for their toga parties. Shoo-be-doo-wop-bop.

Sci-Fi & Horror Virus Survival

Sci-Fi & Horror Virus Survival

(PG-13: Gore/Language) Need advice on how to survive during a viral outbreak? Check out filmmakers Evan Gorski’s and Michael Dougherty’s clip “Everything I Need to Know to Survive COVID-19 I Learned by Watching Sci-fi and Horror Movies.” We’re still going with “Have a nice cold pint… and wait for all this to blow over.”

Star Wars to the Danger Zone

Star Wars to the Danger Zone

What happens when you replace the F-14A Tomcats in Top Gun with X-Wing Fighters? Movie magic. Jackson McKay combined the Kenny Loggins’ classic Danger Zone with footage from Star Wars episodes IV through IX and Rogue One, giving us the only Star Wars soundtrack that works even better than one by John Williams.

DJ Cummerbund: I Will Jump

DJ Cummerbund: I Will Jump

If Van Halen made disco music, it might have sounded something like this crazy mashup by DJ Cummerbund that blends together the hair band’s rock hit Jump with Gloria Gaynor’s dance floor anthem I Will Survive. It’s hard to believe these songs were released just 5 years apart.

DOOM Crossing: Eternal Horizons

DOOM Crossing: Eternal Horizons

With both Animal Crossing: New Horizons and DOOM Eternal released on the same day, The Chalkeaters and singer Natalia Natchan thought it might be fun if the two games were actually one. And so, they made a song and an animated music video featuring the adorable Isabelle and her new friend, DOOM Slayer. Full song here.

My Humps f/Mozart

My Humps f/Mozart

Being stuck on lockdown gets your mind roaming in some strange directions. For remixer William Maranci, it made him wonder what a The Black Eyed Peas and Mozart collaboration might have sounded like. Whatcha gonna do with all that junk inside your trunk, Wolfgang?

Lovely Day + Lizzo Mashup

Lovely Day + Lizzo Mashup

What happens when your Lovely Day is Good as Hell? We imagine it sounds something like this excellent musical mashup by the guys from Pomplamoose, who managed to seamlessly combine the Bill Withers classic with Lizzo’s 2019 pop megahit into one delightfully upbeat tune.

James Brotörhead: Superkill

James Brotörhead: Superkill

Sadly, it’s an impossibility now, but what would have happened if James Brown had joined Lemmy and the band on stage during a Motörhead concert? Well, thanks to mashup artist Bill McClintock, we need wonder no longer. So crank up your volume to 11, and rock out with the Godfather of Soul and the Master of Metal.

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