God | People

Kanye West vs. Marilyn Manson vs. Stevie Wonder vs. Depeche Mode vs...

This is along the lines of what I’ve been working on lately, with no one song being the “main” instrumental or acapella for longer than a few bars. There are 22 songs sampled in all - find them all and win a prize!

Shake it Off (Like a Polaroid Picture)

Taylor Swift vs. OutKast

This was a fun challenge. Many have tried to do something with “Hey Ya”, often to mixed effect. Most people try to edit down the weird time signature into something more conventional, and the result usually sounds awkward or boring. I tried my best to make the Taylor instrumental sound like it was written for Andre’s vocal. It ended up making the Best of Bootie 2018, so I’m counting that as a success.

Blue Crystal Shelter

The xx vs. New Order vs. Rolling Stones

I wanted to try something with more interweaving of different sources throughout, basically trying to create new songs instead of join 2-3 songs together, if that makes sense. This is what set me down the path of becoming super-analytical and using songs with similar lyrical themes to “write” lyrics, which led to the creation of God | People.

Tears for Feist

Feist vs. Tears for Fears

I think this was a case of me hearing one of these songs, hearing some melodic flourish and recognizing that it appeared in the other song, and forcing the songs together through sheer force of will. Always fun to include a guitar solo in a mashup.

Ghostflektor

Arcade Fire vs. Ray Parker, Jr.

I put a lot of extra work into this one in order to justify using “Ghostbusters” well after it had been done to death in the mashup community. It was an honor to be included in the 2019 Bootie Halloween mix as the token “Ghostbusters” inclusion.

Damn All My Friends

LCD Soundsystem vs. blink 182

This works if you can let go of the fact that the Mark Hoppus vocal is way stretched out and focus on the fact that these two songs are about basically the same thing; “Dammit” from the perspective of your 20s and “All My Friends” from the perspective of your 30s.

Payday Rap (Remix)

Dean Craig Pelton

I made this, I think, the day after the Community episode it’s from aired - I had to pirate the individual episode and extract the vocal track from the 5.1 mix, which was the part that took the longest. The backing track is from one of those “Dusty Fingers” cratedigger compilations and is basically untouched.

This got retweeted by a few people tied to the show including Dan Harmon, and was reblogged by the… official Community Tumblr (remember 2014?). Very exciting!

Crazy Train to Chicago

Sufjan Stevens vs. Ozzy Osbourne

The Randy Rhoads guitar solo at 4:14 sounds so sick with the Sufjan track. In my opinion of course.

Everjasmine

Jai Paul vs. Foo Fighters

Maybe one of my favorites that I’ve ever done, to be honest. Particularly proud of the vocal production, which emulates the original Jai Paul vocal pretty closely.

Carry On Wayward Slam

Kansas vs. Quad City DJs

This one has almost half a million views on YouTube, and is the second-highest voted mashup on r/comeonandslam, a rare good subreddit. A guy played it at his wedding. I suppose that all means this may be the most successful thing I’ve ever made. That’s fine!