I tend to browse around the iTunes Music Store when I need new music but don’t want to deal with buying entire new CDs. Most of you know that I’m a big Fatboy Slim fan, so when I saw a couple of singles I don’t have showing up on some most popular lists, I had to listen. I ended up getting Psyche Rock, a remix by Fatboy Slim. Soon as I heard it, the first thing I thought of is the theme to Futurama. Sure enough, there’s a backstory that explains the connection. The theme song to Futurama was strongly inspired by the original track that Fatboy Slim remixed (Psyche Rock by Pierre Henry, if you’re wondering…. time to hit the used CD stores).
I’m on a mashup kick as of late, much to Heidi’s annoyance on road trips. When I get to run the radio, it’s all Girl Talk lately and she hates that stuff. Anyway, I found two more artists over the last few days. Both guys have their stuff on their web site for free.
The video above is using a mashup called Sweet Home Country Grammar which is a mashup of Sweet Home Alabama and Nelly’s Country Grammar. So far, it’s just about my favorite discovery of the past few months. The mashup is by DJ Mei-Lwun. You can download this track along with several others at his web site (click his name in the previous sentence). I also really love his mashup of Kanye West’s Jesus Walks and AC/DC’s Back in Black. The mashup is called Jesus Walked Back and He’s Black. It works really well.
The other artist I found has also been doing the mashup thing for a while. His name is Party Ben and he also has an extensive collection of his tracks on his web site. My favorites right now are Galvanize the Empire, a mashup of the Chemical Brothers’ Galvanize and the Empire March from one of the Star Wars movies, and Rehab (Can’t Help Myself), which mashes up Amy Winehouse’s Rehab and the Four Tops’ Can’t Help Myself. So good. Check out his web site, you can preview and/or download a whole ton of stuff there.






July 15th, 2004 at 11:21 am
for one reason or another… I have collected an extreme number of odd albums and compilations. I used to just buy boatloads of CDs… so if you are looking for particular songs….let me know, I may have them. It may take me a while to find them, But I can look.
July 15th, 2004 at 11:22 am
BTW, I know my post had nothing to do with the story you were telling but I have no posting ability, so I responded in here.