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The reason I wanted to clear the decks yesterday was to talk about the hour-long best-of mix I've been listening to much of the past week.

http://soundcloud.com/darkmorgoth/dj-morgoth-muyb-best-of-2011
DJ Morgoth gives you 61 minutes of good-to-awesome. This is a best-of set, but unlike most of the others I've listened to in the past couple weeks it's got a number of things I hadn't heard yet or hadn't appreciated on first go-round. Twenty-two tracks in all, and if you've been reading me this past year you'll know most of the names. My picks for the best of the best are:

http://soundcloud.com/mashmike/sak-noel-vs-eminem-vs-yello
MashMike builds a Sak Noel mix that stands out from all the others for inventiveness. It helps if, like me, you actually like Eminem when he's not being a raving asshole. Extra bonus points for the Yello samples.

http://hulkshare.com/gkmc77wan14n
DJs from Mars are (in my book at least) the best in the business right now at producing fun party banger mixes. And I've been tagging Mashup Germany all year as a great mega-mixer. So put the two of them together and you can guess what you get - a long-form banging mega-mix with lots of great samples and hair-turn transitions. I've listened to this at least half a dozen times and I can't help bopping along each time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H4YG7BFdws
Kap Slap puts together a fun and funny mash that makes me think about giving Britney the Bad Touch and how awesome that would be. And yes, it's another Journey-covering mash and yes I'm still rocking out to it 'cause I'm an ancient fogey who saw them way back when, not when Glee re-made them popular.

http://vimeo.com/27691758
Finally, this is a Skrillex mix called "Dubsex" so you've got to have at least some wub tolerance here. But it's not too heavy on the wub, and really it's mostly a Nero/Alana Watson remix. I really liked the original track and it's kind of fun listening to 3LAU and Skrillex dub up Daft Punk.
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Time for another of my infrequent visits to Bootie Blog. They seem to post only about once a month, top-10 lists. So there's a lot to review and some of it is quite good and new to me. Herewith five:

http://bootiemashup.com/aplusd/AplusD_GucciGucciGirlPower.mp3
A+D put together a six-way all-girl mashup that's a lot of fun, built mostly around rapper Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci" and the Ting Tings. Paradoxically, by not featuring any particularly strong vocalist it works pretty well as an ensemble mash.

http://bootiemashup.com/top10/aug2011/3LAU%20-%20All%20Night%20Long%20(LMFAO%2C%20Ellie%20G%2C%20Mann%2C%20Darth%20%26%20Vader).mp3
3LAU's "All Night Long" by contrast, builds around the strong and smooth vocals of Ellie Goulding. I'm not familiar with most of the other tracks that are mixed in here, and it's a valiant effort to give someone with a good vocal-trance sound more of a house club thumpy feel. I think the start of the mix works better than the end, but overall not a bad effort.

http://bootiemashup.com/top10/aug2011/marc%20johnce%20-%20who%20dat%20addictive%20bad%20s%26m%20girl.mp3
Marc Johnce proves he can play the mega-dance-mash mix game, too. DJ Lobsterdust is kind of the defining sound here and I don't think Johnce has tried this before. Here he's got at least 6-7 major sounds going, and all heading for a high-energy pop-dance finish. I can even put up with the Katy Perry in here, though I continue to feel that mixing Perry with something only makes something slightly worse. But I digress. Johnce's mash is good, and it's fun picking out the bits you know and then going back to see which bits you missed.

http://bootiemashup.com/top10/aug2011/dylanvasey---omg-you-changed-the-way-you-kiss-me-example-vs.-usher.mp3
Dylan Vasey (http://www.mashstix.com/Dylan.php) is a new name to me and this is a pretty simple mash of Usher's "OMG" which is a pretty lame spin on its own with Example's "Changed the Way You Kissed Me." Example's tune is a pretty hot club banger on its own with a fast-rap backbone and the mash relies heavily on that. Almost everything lame from the Usher tune is stripped out and he becomes a guest vocalist on the Example track, which would be an awesome idea in reality, too.

http://bootiemashup.com/top10/july2011/MashMike%20-%20Pump%20Up%20The%20Party%20Rock.mp3
Mashmike out does both Lobsterdust and Johnce in the mega-mash department. Seven contributors (plus samples) including current pop stars backed by classics like C&C and Salt-n-Pepa. This is one of those tracks you drop at the start of a set to get people up and moving

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