Calmucho

A mashup/remix blog

Monday 30 June 2008

Bleeding Mercy!



Featuring:
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
Duffy - Mercy



This mashup features the two biggest-selling singles this year by UK artists. To be honest, this mix of styles shouldn't work at all: the keys of the two tunes are virtually incompatible and the tempos of the two tracks are 30bpm apart. Even the time signatures are different in the choruses. However, I was determined to make something that sounded listenable, and have just about succeeded (after a lot of hufing and puffing).

At first listen, the opening verses of the Leona track will probably sound off-key (it is in a different key here to the one you're used to hearing). However, once the chorus kicks in, it starts to make sense musically.

Hope you stick with it to the end as it gets better as the track progresses!

Saturday 28 June 2008

Say It Right In Paradise



Featuring:
Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
Various - Another Day In Paradise



Julie, A friend of mine from my YouTube channel pm'ed me last night to suggesting a mix of Nelly Furtado's Say It Right with Phil Collin's Another Day In Paradise. I hunted around for an instrumental version of the original Phil Collins track but couldn't find it anywhere. I don't think the track was ever released as an instrumental (at least, not according to discogs.com). I listened to a few alternate versions by other artists and none of them was really suitable, so I decided I'd combine them all together in one mix. This worked out for the best as the three different versions together give the track a really big layered sound, typical of an 80s power ballad.

It starts out slow and quite haunting to set the mood and slowly builds. It soon gets into its stride and there's a good climatic section towards the end.

I really like this one. Hope you like it too.

Many thanks to Julie for the idea.

Wednesday 25 June 2008

Hung Up On Lollipops



Featuring:

Madonna - Hung Up
Lil' Wayne - Lollipop



This is a fairly straightforward A+B mashup I made in April. It featues one of the US biggest selling tracks of 2008, Lollipop by Lil' Wayne coupled with the multi-platinum Hung Up from Madonna. Listening to this mash again, it seems hard to believe that the original tracks were 23bpm apart. Not sure what this will do for Lil' Waynes street cred!

Tuesday 24 June 2008

Kookie Monster



Featuring:

The Kooks - Always Where I Need To Be
Rihanna - Take A Bow



This mashup came about after giving Rihanna's track a few listens and thinking that it was just a bit too bland for my tastes. I knew it would sound better with a rock track underpinning it. I just needed to find a rock instrumental to accompany it. When I made this mashup back in April, the Kooks album had just been released in the UK to high acclaim. Luckily enough, the first single from it was in the same key and tempo (more or less!) as Rihanna's track. And the single contained an instrumental version, whoo hoo!! So, after smoothing out the tempo of the Kooks track, throwing in some vocal "Doo do do"s from my homemade acapella and sticking Rihanna over the top of it, this mashup was born.

I managed to cut the video a few days after the Rihanna video was premiered and uploaded it to YouTube on May 4th.

Calmucho's Mixes

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Download: Katy Perry & Aqua - I Kissed A Barbie Girl.mp3
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Download: Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl (Club Mix).mp3




Download: Jackson 5 vs Kid Rock - I Want You Back All Summer Long.mp3
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Download: Lady GaGa vs Rihanna - Just Dance (Disturbia Mix).mp3
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Download: Beyonce vs The Contours - Work It Out, Do You Love Me.mp3
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Download: Probably The Cheesiest Mashup In The World.mp3
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Download: Rihanna vs DiDuLa - Disturbia (Russian Darkness Mix).mp3
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Download: Rihanna vs DiDuLa - Disturbia (Russian Light Mix).mp3




Download: The Kooks vs Motown - Love Lament (Naive Mix).mp3




Download: Leona Lewis Ft Trazz - Bleeding Love (Calmucho Remix).mp3




Download: Leona Lewis - Better In Time (Reggae Mix).mp3
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Download: Madonna & Co - Give It 2 Me Twice More (Original Mix).mp3
Download: Madonna & Co - Give It 2 Me Twice More (Video Mix).mp3
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Download: Leona vs Duffy - Bleeding Mercy.mp3
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Download: Nelly Furtado vs Phil Collins - Say It Right (...In Paradise).mp3




Download: Madonna vs Lil' Wayne - Hung Up On Lollipops.mp3
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Download: The Kooks vs Rihanna - Take A Bow (Very Entertaining Mix).mp3
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Simply a-MAZE-ing !!!