Artist	Song
Amy	Kiss (For Caroline)
MC Sleazy	Don't Call Me Blur (Blur vs. Madison Avenue)
Diplo	Tippin' Toxic (Mike Jones vs. Britney Spears)
Jimmi James	Avalanches Above, Britney Continues Below
De La Soul	Transmitting Live From Mars
Negativland	U2 (special edit radio mix)
Run DMC + Aerosmith	Walk This Way
DJ Twombly	Quad City Baile Funk (Quad City DJs vs. De Falla)
Lionel Vinyl	Slooo-Wee (Mark Ronson vs Kylie)
Gloomybear	Kelly Wash the Cars (Air vs Missy Elliott vs Stakka Bo)
Big Black Matt Goias & Fancy	Quick to Back Down (Bravehearts vs Siouxsie and the Banshees)
Nine Inch Nails vs 50 Cent	Closer to Da Club
Team9	Pretend We're Scrubs (L7 vs TLC)
DJ Shoe	Sweet Layla (Guns N Roses vs Derek and the Dominos)
DJ Mei-Lwun	Sweet Home Country Grammar (Lynyrd Skynyrd vs Nelly)
Pheugoo	Egyptian Reggae (Adina Howard vs Jonathan Richman)
Freelance Hellraiser	A Stroke of Genius (Strokes vs Christina Aguilera)
Go Home Productions	ABBA and the Bunnymen (ABBA vs Echo and the Bunnymen)
Go Home Productions	God Save Madonna (Sex Pistols vs Madonna)
Danger Mouse	Encore (Jay-Z vs The Beatles)
Nas	Last Real Nigga (DJ KO Red Hot Chili Remix)
DJNoNo	B-Boy Polka (DJ Kool Herc vs Lawrence Welk)
Evolution Control Committee	Rebel Without a Cause (Public Enemy vs Herb Alpert)
Diplo	Bingo (M.I.A. vs Jay-Z)

Comment:

I've been putting more and more mashes in mixes lately, even as I recognize the usually time-sensitive appeal any particular track tends to have. So to put the habit behind me, I decided to put together a mix of some of the recent ones I'm most impressed by, plus some "classic" tracks. In addition to the mashes, I threw in a couple of infamous historical cases of musical plagiarism, "Transmitting Live from Mars" and "U2." Had De La Soul (along with some other hip-hop acts) not gotten the pants sued off them, one could speculate that this silly (yet fun) "mash culture" would have happened about 15 years earlier and in the heart of Long Island. That, of course, would have totally rewritten the last decade or so of popular music.

As a bonus, I included "Walk this Way" since it is in somewhat the same spirit. I really wanted to include one of those Ghostface tracks from his last album where he hilariously raps over other people's songs (like, the whole thing, verse and chorus) but I couldn't squeeze him in. Oh well.

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