New likes and old favorites (music)

[drwex]

Not much preamble here - busy, not much time to organize a post.

http://www.madmixmustang.nl/
http://www.madmixmustang.nl/mp3/You%20Rock%20My%20Rock.mp3
http://www.madmixmustang.nl/mp3/Dont%20Stop%20Bromancing.mp3
http://www.madmixmustang.nl/mp3/Fat%20Bottomed%20Girls%20Come%20Together.mp3
http://www.madmixmustang.nl/mp3/MMM%20-%20We%20No%20Can%20Dance.mp3

Mad Mix Mustang has appeared in a few places I've noticed lately so I went to check out the site. There are a lot of mashups here. Like any other big collection, you'll find winners and losers here, and a wide variety of styles. I've pulled out the direct links to a few I think are particularly good, mostly because they mash together things that you don't usually hear mashed at all, or in combinations.

"You Rock My Rock" is Queen/Michael Jackson/Joan Jett. The only weak part of this is where he pulls out Jett's vocals to use MJ's, but I'm not much of an MJ fan to start with.

"Don't Stop Bromancing" is another Journey mash, but put up against someone I've not heard before: Tim Berg (http://www.facebook.com/timbergmusic, http://beatport.com/artist/tim_berg). The base "Bromance" track (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChzbYiYHOUU) is being mixed all over Europe it seems, and I can see why. It's a high-powered electro-house dance track with a simple riff and lush musical sweeps that just beg for soaring vocals. Paging Steve Perry!

"Fat Bottomed Girls Come Together" is an example of MMM's unusual pairings. The Queen track is a popular remix component, but here we get a guest appearance by John Lennon on behalf of The Beatles. This one really has to be heard to be believed, because it works really astonishingly well.

"We No Can Dance" is another good mix of components you don't hear all that often. I would be remiss in passing it up, though, after my musical adventures around We No Speak Americano. Here we have Phil Collins (*) singing over the jazzy riffs of the Yolanda tune. It works. And I swear he's sub-sampling just one tiny bit of "Chica Bomb" near the end there as well as one very clear "unh hunh" from "Da Da Da".

(*) I was amused to discover that MizA and I fall into the group of people who consider "Genesis" to be things done by this group while Peter Gabriel was a member. After he left it's all "Phil Collins" regardless of what's on the album cover.

http://audioporncentral.com/2010/08/illegal-sunday-pheugoo-all-that-she-hides.html
Pheugoo, who I last noted as doing something awesome pulls off another brilliant musical juxtaposition by putting together Ace of Base and Kosheen. I don't like either of the base components, so not linking them, but this mash is smooth and funky-danceable.

http://viprhealthcare.typepad.com/files/lady-gaga-ft.-beyonce-vs.-metallica---enter-telephone-djs-from-mars-club-rmx.mp3
I'm reasonably certain I asserted I was done with Gaga mash-ups. I am reasonably certain I shall now eat my words. My new heroes DJs from Mars took not just Gaga but also Beyonce and threw them to the heavy metal wolves. Metallica adds just the right kind of hard edge and thunderous bass that makes this the kind of thing I want to play VERY LOUD.

There's a particular moment where the mash shifts from the slower pace to the faster and you'd expect something to fall apart, but instead it just kicks up another notch.