Awesome Remixes

Using only sounds found in Michael Bay’s bombastic Transformers’ flicks, Eclectic Method created an EDM track that will have you gyrating your hips on the dance floor to the beat of giant robots beating the crap out of each other.

Bring out the hairspray and leather jackets. We’re hitting the club with the latest mix from aural time traveler Tronicbox. It’s Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know, a ’90s song that came out in 2011, remixed to sound like it’s from 1984.

(PG-13: Language) DJ Flipboitamidles mashed up C418’s remix of the Stranger Things title theme with The Weeknd and Daft Punk’s megahit Starboy, resulting in a more textured darkwave track. The lyric video is dope too.

If Film Theory How It Should Have Ended is to be believed, Chewbacca played the long con. Over the decades, he’s used his limited screen time in Star Wars movies to piece together a holiday tune. One of those things that’s funnier the second time around.

Electronic musician Kaskobi brings classical music into the 21st century with a seriously danceworthy arrangement of Beethoven’s 19th century classic, in a battle between his Novation Launchpad and Launchkey digital music controllers.

DJ Earworm returns with his annual mashup of the year’s most popular tunes, offering up your daily dose of The Weeknd, The Chainsmokers, Sia, DNCE, Rihanna, and lots of Twenty One Pilots woven in between.

YouTuber Tronicbox puts his ’80s touch on Ariana Grande’s Into You. It’s not as densely retro as his viral Justin Bieber remix, but we’re not recommending this because it’s edgy. It’s just a plain good remix.

If you loved Studiokamp’s Cattlerap, bring out your emergency provisions, say goodbye to your loved ones and dive into Auctioneer Beats. This addictive Vine channel makes bite-sized fire by adding hip hop beats to auctioneer contests.

(PG-13: Language) Young beatmaker Daniel Asadi has a little fun with The Office‘s memorable opening theme by using it as the backgrount beat in this live remix of Kendrick Lamar’s Poetic Justice.

YouTuber Tronicbox turns Justin Bieber’s pop house hit into a very convincing ’80s power ballad, using most of the decade’s trademark sounds without devolving into a cheap joke. Seriously, the only thing that gives it away is that it’s too clean. Thanks Karlo!

Eclectic Method slices, dices, and mashes up bits from James Corden’s insanely popular Carpool Karaoke singalong series into a single track. See if you can identify all of the performers featured, then check the video description to see if you’re right.

YouTuber Fizz Zix was recently bombarded by a car alarm that sounded like it needed it’s battery changed, but just had enough juice to keep on going. His mind went, “Run that back. Man that’s exclusive.” We bet Future could make a million of off this. Extended mix here.

(PG-13: Language) Producers Mick and Chi Duly mark Notorious B.I.G.’s 19th death anniversary by dropping this cool mixtape featuring some of Biggie’s most popular verses juxtaposed against the beats of phenom beatmaker Metro Boomin. Thanks Karlo!

Put on your headphones, crank up the volume, and drink in this 15-minute history of rock music, as remixed by Ithaca Audio. The clip includes sound bites from 348 rockstars, 84 guitarists, 64 songs, and 44 drummers, from Elvis to Foo Fighters. Download the audio track here.

Prepare to have fun fun fun fun… YouTuber Mike Diva made a parody trap track using clips from the infamous kazoo episode of a little known ’80s TV show called Special Friends. You can buy the extended mix on Mike’s Bandcamp.

YouTuber KyleKallgrenBHH made a summary of Star Wars IV: A New Hope using sounds and clips from other movies and TV shows. The resulting remix shows that Star Wars is deeply embedded into pop culture, but is itself a jumbled recollection of its predecessors.

(PG-13: Language) Ever heard Drake with the Wii Shop Channel? How about Kendrick Lamar with Mega Man, or Nas with K.K. Slider? Because they’re all great things that go great together, as proven by 14-year-old beatmaker Toonlink.

(PG-13 Language) YouTuber Rufus Paisley used clips from a sign language learning course to make an unofficial music video for a tacky rap song where two dudes brag about their penises. We’re missing out on half of the fun here.

To celebrate the 5th anniversary of his highly informative documentary, Kirby Ferguson put together all four parts of Everything is a Remix into one video, with proper transitions and remastered audio. He’s also selling EiaR t-shirts and posters on Kickstarter.

YouTuber Muted Vocal retuned the theme songs of X-Files, Halloween, Saw, The Exorcist and A Nightmare on Elm Street to major keys. The spooky tracks became hilariously harmless tunes fit for dramas, game menus and commercials.

Tapes slowed down Vacationer’s Go Anywhere and blessed it with the right amount of spice – synths, pitch-shifted interjections, beach sounds – to transform the peppy pop track into a chill but confident tune.

Beatmaker Mickey Valen adds just the right amount of edge and bass to Here, the hit anti-party anthem by this summer’s breakout YouTube star, 18-year-old Alessia Cara. Get the original song, uhm, here.

“Yipeee!” What if Anakin Skywalker kept talking and thinking like a kid all his life? We’d get the sci-fi version of Kung Pow. M. deicke mashed scenes from the original trilogy with the young Anakin’s dialogue from the prequels.