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I Kissed A Girl (Club Mix)

2008-08-20T04:17:00.008+01:00

Featuring:
Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
Niels De Vries - Sueño

There didn't seem to be many decent club mixes of this track around so I've tried making one myself. This mix features Niels de Vries' european club hit Sueño chopped up to fit with Katy's vocals.

And here is a (very daft) mix I made featuring the same Katy Perry track but this time with Aqua's Barbie Girl

I Want You Back All Summer Long

2008-08-17T01:37:00.005+01:00

Featuring:
Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
Kid Rock - All Summer Long

Another mashup featuring a Motown hit.

I Want You Back was the Jackson 5's first single for Motown and introduced Michael Jackson to the world. It is #120 in Rolling Stone's list of all-time greatest songs.

All Summer Long is a song by Kid Rock released as the third single from his 9th studio album Rock N Roll Jesus. In it's original version, this song itself is a mashup as it features Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London and Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama with Kid Rock singing over the top. It is already a big hit in Europe and looks set to perform well in the States.

Just Dance (Disturbia Mix)

2008-08-17T01:35:00.005+01:00

Featuring:
Lady GaGa Feat. Colby O'Donis & Akon - Just Dance
Rihanna - Disturbia

A straightforward mash of two tracks with a similar feel.

And here is the link to a HQ avi video. You might need the X264 codec installed to play it.

Goldmember vs Dirty Dancing

2008-08-17T01:33:00.006+01:00

Featuring:
Beyonce - Work It Out
The Contours - Do You Love Me (Now That I Can Dance)

A soundtrack mashup! Beyonce starred in the film Goldmember and recorded this track for the movie. The track, the video and the movie have a seventies vibe, but I've attempted to transform it into a sixties style song by combining it with the Motown hit, Do You Love Me. Released on the Motown label, the Contours track was originally a hit in 1962. It featured prominently in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing, reviving the record's popularity. Re-issued as a single for the More Dirty Dancing soundtrack album, Do You Love Me became a hit for the second time, peaking at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The lyrics and timimg of the vocals from the two tracks fit together nicely with Beyonce and Billy Gordon taking it in turn to sing a phrase each at various points throughout the mix.

Video Download Area

2008-08-04T13:30:00.039+01:00

The high quality videos on this page are large mpeg files and have been split into smaller 50mb chunks to make it easier (and cheaper!) to upload and download. After you have downloaded the full set of chunks for a video, you can join the files together using a free utility, HJSplit.

For a slightly easier alternative if you are a regular Windows user, simply save the following small file in the same folder as the chunks and double-click it to join the chunks together: HJJoin.exe (44bk)

Beyonce vs The Contours - Work It Out, Do You Love Me

Part 1; Part 2; Part 3

Lady GaGa vs Rihanna - Just Dance (Disturbia Mix)

Part 1; Part 2
Also available as a Higher Quality avi

Probably The Cheesiest Mashup In The World

Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4

Madonna & Co - Give It 2 Me Twice More

Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5

Leona vs Duffy - Bleeding Mercy!

Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5

Leona Lewis - Better In Time (Reggae Mix)

Pert 1; Part 2

Lil Wayne vs Madonna - Hung Up On Lollipops

Part 1; Part 2; Part 3

If Carlsberg Made Mashups...

2008-07-30T19:20:00.013+01:00

Featuring:
Alicia Keys - No One (Curtis Lynch Reggae Remix Instrumental)
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love (Acapella)
Rihanna - Take A Bow (Acapella)
Black Eyed Peas Feat. Justin Timberlake - Where is The Love (Instrumental)
Alicia Keys - No One (Acapella)
Fort Minor Feat. Holly Brook and Jonah Matranga - Where'd You Go

Samples:
Black Eyed Peas Feat. Justin Timberlake - Where is The Love (Acapella)
Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
U2 - With Or Without You
Leona Lewis - Better In Time
James Blunt - You're Beautiful
Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
Linkin Park - Shadow Of The Day
Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli - Time To Say Goodbye (Con Te Partiro)

If you ever want to write a platinum-selling hit song and are wondering what chords to use in the chorus, it might be worth your while bearing in mind the chord progression: I-V-VI-IV

These chords have been used in some of the most successful songs in pop history. Ever since The Beatles Let It Be, this winning combination of chords has helped many artists to sell records in millions.

This mash features a number of recent hit singles based on this progression, which is why they mix together seamlessly. I had to change the key and tempo of most the tracks, but once that was done, putting the mix together required little effort.

This hackneyed chord progression has a very commercial (or "cheesy") sound, which is why it's probably the cheesiest mashup in the world!

Disturbia Mixes

2008-07-17T03:18:00.005+01:00

I felt the "bum-bum-bee-dum bum-bum-bee-dee-dum-dum" refrain of Rihanna's forthcoming single Disturbia somehow had a soviet feel to it, so I tried adding some "Russian" music to it. And it worked out pretty well! In fact, I liked the sound of this so much that I created two "Russian" mixes featuring popular Belarus guitarist DiDuLa.

The music in the Darkness mix is a track entitled Russian and music featured in the Light mix is Package From Romania.

DiDuLa's albums are extremely good but difficult to get hold of. I highly recommend his work if you can find it. His 2002 CD Road To Baghdad is my favourite.

Rihanna vs DiDuLa - Disturbia (Darkness Mix)
Uploaded by Calmucho

Love Lament

2008-07-05T03:07:00.004+01:00

The Kooks - Naive
The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love
Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
Gladys Knight & The Pips - I Heard It Through the Grapevine

I was feeling in a melancholy mood the other day so I thought I'd put together something that reflected my mood at the time. My collection of Motown acapellas seemed to be an ideal starting point given that Motown has produced a number of tracks bemoaning love in one way or another. You may have already worked out that I like to mix genres whenerever possible, so I thought I'd go for a modern-day indie instrumental to overlay some Motown acapellas onto. I'd recently stumbled upon some Kooks instrumentals of which one was the beautiful but malancholic Naive. Perfect! And this is the result.

Bleeding Remix!

2008-07-01T06:46:00.004+01:00

Featuring:
Leona Lewis Feat. Trazz - Bleeding Love
OMD - Enola Gay (Sample)

Another poppy Calmucho mix. This one is a simple pop synth mix of the official remix of Bleeding Love. It features a rap by Trazz. The drum loop at the beginning that continues throughout the track is from OMD's Enola Gay from 1980. The synth riff from that track also features on a couple of occassions in this mix.

Better In Time (Reggae Mix)

2008-07-01T06:15:00.003+01:00

Featuring:
Leona Lewis - Better In Time
Alicia Keys - No One (Reggae Instrumental)

Watch the video (YouTube)

This is a straightforward mash I made a couple of months ago for my YouTube channel. Check out the video for it here.

Give It 2 Me Twice More

2008-07-01T01:40:00.003+01:00

Featuring:

Madonna - Give It 2 Me
Timbaland, Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake - Give It To Me
Britney Spears - Gimme More

I'm not sure if this is a mashup or a megamix or a remix. It's not a traditional A+B mashup, but at any ony time there is usually more than one of the featured tracks playing simultaneously. The bassline that runs throughout the entire mix is from HRH Madonna's new single Give It 2 Me. The drums and occasional "acid" bass are from Spartaque's remix of Timbaland's Give It To Me. Over the top of these elements are acapellas and samples from Britney, Justin, Timbo, Nelly and Madonna from tracks with Give..Me or Gimme in the title.

I uploaded this mix to YouTube on May 10th and it has been well received. If you're not offended by commerial pop/house you'll probably like it too. But if you have more ecclectic tastes then this blog is not for you!

Download original YouTube mix:

MTV Superstars - Give It 2 Me Twice More
Uploaded by Calmucho

Bleeding Mercy!

2008-06-30T21:45:00.004+01:00

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!

Leona Lewis vs Duffy - Bleeding Mercy (Mashup)
Uploaded by Calmucho

Say It Right In Paradise

2008-06-28T05:49:00.007+01:00

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.

Hung Up On Lollipops

2008-06-25T14:02:00.005+01:00

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!

Madonna vs Lil Wayne - Hung Up On Lollipops
Uploaded by Calmucho

Kookie Monster

2008-06-24T12:18:00.011+01:00

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

2008-06-24T11:31:00.066+01:00