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[index_page_description] => Well, this is the heart of the entire site. Before I even knew what a mashup was, I was making mashups. Hell, as a kid, I was always singing songs over other songs. I noticed common threads in songs when I was very young. At the time (1975), what I was doing didn't have a name...except for "annoying", said by most of the people around me. Hell...people still tell me that now! Anyway...
Jump ahead a decade or two. I started hearing radio mix shows, and later shows like "Yo! MTV Raps". I'd hear DJs playing two songs at the same time, and it blew my mind. I wanted to do that! How the hell did they do that!?! Being a (literally) poor kid in the San Fernando Valley, I had very little interaction with like-minded people, and even less of a chance to be able to afford the equipment necessary.
After an assualt in 1986, I had a LOT of free time. Giving me free time is always a dangerous thing. In this case, I had free time, and a donated open reel tape deck from a schoolmate (Robert Kasitz). After dumpster diving many of the local Burbank and North Hollywood recording studios for recording tape, I started to learn how to do edits.
In four short years, I went from a kid who survived an assault to a remixer on KROQ. From there, other radio stations, record labels and then working for Depeche Mode. But I never forgot my fascination of hearing multiple songs at once in my head.
I started at KROQ in February of 1990. By October, I was getting my mixes played on the air. One of those mixes was E.M.F. "Unbelievable". That E.M.F. track I would consider the first mashup I produced. It starts as E.M.F., but then I throw a LOT of other bands over the song. I thought I was just emulating all the mixes I heard on DJ service releases (D.M.C., Razormaid, Hot Tracks, Disconet, et cetera), but I was actually putting the weirdness I hear in my head onto tape. Mashup!
Back around 2000, when "mashups" became a thing online, I enjoyed some success here and there with some of my creations. While mashups may have died to some people, I'm still proudly flying the mashup flag. Hell, on March 8th, 2025, I had a heart attack. Two weeks later, I was home making more mashups.
Below you will find a large number of my mashups. Advice: Ignore who the artists are. I pride myself on taking disparate genres, and merging them together. I don't do mashups to mock songs. My aim is to create new art. I want you to see a song in a completely different way.
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TRACKS:
The Cure - "The Lovecats" (acapella and horn elements)
Beastie Boys - "Paul Revere" (heavily re-edited album version)
DESCRIPTION:
It's Caturday.
No, that's not enough of a description...
Since my last mashup of The Cure might have been a bit too experimental for some of you, I went back to the regular formula for this mashup.
Take one acapella of Robert Smith. Lay it over a beat it has no business being on top of (Beastie Boys). Render. Inflict upon the internet.
:)
Personally, I like hearing Robert Smith with Barry White's strings, but this one is fun, too. No video of my girlfriend running down the streets of Los Angeles in an inflatable T. Rex outfit this time. Just a re-edited version of Tim Pope's original music video.
Mr. Smith, if you're enjoying these, leak the acapella for "Close To Me". I've got some ideas. :)
It's the grooviest thing. It's the perfect dream
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TRACKS:
The Cure - "The Lovecats" (acapella and horn elements)
Beastie Boys - "Paul Revere" (heavily re-edited album version)
DESCRIPTION:
It's Caturday.
No, that's not enough of a description...
Since my last mashup of The Cure might have been a bit too experimental for some of you, I went back to the regular formula for this mashup.
Take one acapella of Robert Smith. Lay it over a beat it has no business being on top of (Beastie Boys). Render. Inflict upon the internet.
:)
Personally, I like hearing Robert Smith with Barry White's strings, but this one is fun, too. No video of my girlfriend running down the streets of Los Angeles in an inflatable T. Rex outfit this time. Just a re-edited version of Tim Pope's original music video.
Mr. Smith, if you're enjoying these, leak the acapella for "Close To Me". I've got some ideas. :)
It's the grooviest thing. It's the perfect dream