When I first heard Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro”, I thought the similarities to Ace of Base’s classic “Don’t Turn Around” were striking. I dug up the Gaga instrumental easily, but the Ace of Base a capella was tougher to find. In the end, I had to use the 2009 version, which has a slightly different vocal rhythm — not exactly what I wanted, but I think it works.
I upped this onto youtube when I made it, but I’m just now (Nov ’10) uploading it here for download.
This is a mashup that came out of preparations for my Halloween mix. It didn’t really work in the mix, but sounds just fine as a standalone track.
The electronic half is an older grime track by Kid D, “Scary House”. I mixed it with the Vitamin String Quartet’s cover of Slayer’s “Dead Skin Mask”.
download: DJ Empirical, “Closer to Ragga (Nine Inch Nails vs. Kid606 vs Lesser)”
summer 2003
This is a fun little chunk from the middle of a big, mostly sloppy two-hour tag-team set I did one evening with Johnny Switchblade when he was in town visiting.
download: DJ Empirical, “Push This Party Started (Salt n Pepa vs. Pink)”
DJ Empirical, “Lick Up (Missy vs. Cameo)”
DJ Empirical, “Good to Be a Maneater (Hall & Oates vs. DJ Rap & Ganja Kru)”
circa 2002
Mashups were all the rage in the UK in 2001, right before I got turntables. However, I got wind of the whole thing through Snuggles, an audio-collage email list. Needless to say, not long after I got decks in early 2002, I had to try my hand at it.
These tracks were the most successful vinyl mashups I recorded.