RC 335: Galvanize The Empire - Mashbusters from Radio Clash Podcast: - London-based global music podcast feat. covers, mashups, remixes, and bootlegs since 2004.

The mashups are back! A call to arms for the Mashbusters Army, the old guard to come back to life and awaken via the first all-mashup show in nearly a decade fresh for Halloween with quite a few spooky mashes, and also a call to vote in the US election with various political mashups.

Why? Well a recent mashup went viral dredging up an old combination and didn’t credit the original – it does now after I complained – but this isn’t about my beef with him, cos this isn’t a new phenomenon.

People have been remaking, remodelling and remixing our history for a long time, erasing what went before. Constantly stuck in the moment, rebooting the same old thing every few years, like some mashup Groundhog Day – and making out they invented this shit.

It’s hard to develop as a community and culture when stuck in this perpetual loop where people don’t know their history and are doomed to repeat it, like some Sampling Sisyphus. And yes, the younger crowd might kvetch but credit is all we have, it’s important. As you invest more into mashups you’ll change your mind, it’s not ‘unoriginal’ or throwaway at all.

And Illegal or not, we have to respect those who went before, from the hiphop blenders, the disco medleys and the experimental copyright liberation artists. Y’all have to give dues and respect for the past, for we/they made all of this possible with our endless legal fights and building places to share mashups new and old, spreading the word of mashups and it’s history – we built this city with Biggie Pelaz and Rock and Roll! YA RLY!

There is a pushback against this – from the Masters of Mash interviews mentioned in the podcast to the Bootleg Archive which I run. But it’s a bit lonely out here? Join us! Come back and fight this tide of endless memes with mashups, history and reclaim our culture. Well it’s everyone’s culture, but it seems that a few think they have the total run of the place. Kids: get off our lawn! :-p

So I bring out the battle weapons for a Mashbusters Mash Battle, great mashups from the old bootleg/bastard pop school, the new mashup school, the even newer soundclowns and crumplebangers and the latest meme mashers, it’s all here. Also a long-forgotten mashup of mine from 2010 from an alias that partly lends this podcast it’s name.

And this zombie-like revival – it’s already happening, Aggro1, Solcofn, Dan Mei, Marcjohnce, ToTom (although he was away for such a short time I didn’t notice!), Wax Audio and others featured here are recently back in the game. What have the meme-mashing kids done? They might just regret it 😛

Also glad to see most of the mashup sites linked below are still live. I stopped adding links because it was depressing seeing all the dead sites….we are still here, we never went away. But time to make our presence known. And yes I think given the revival and the fun I had doing this – this is going to be a regular thing. Thanks to Adriana and the Bootie Mashup crowd, Pimpdaddysupreme, Sowndhaus, Pomdeter and sterereo for inspiring or helping me make this finally happen, over 8 years later…oddly that was late October too, maybe mashups are always for Halloween?

It’s time to do it again…do it again….do it again…push the button…I’ve been doing this for 19 18 years, wanna fight me? Fight these tears, I put in work, and it’s all for the kids, But these cats done forgot what work is…Mashbusters Assemble!

It’s Time To Push The Mashbusters Button (224Mb, 2:36)

Party Ben – Galvanize The Empire (Chemical Brothers vs John Williams)
DJ Schmolli – WAPbusters (Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion vs Ray Parker Jr.)
Essexboy – Freaky Teethbusters (Obie Trice vs Ray Parker Jr.)
manriki – Milkshake Busters (Ray Parker Junior vs Kelis)
Neblina Sound – Could You Be Intergalactic (Beastie Boys Vs Bob Marley)
vs The Notorious B.I.G.)
Entyme – Rockabye The End of The World (Back To Californication) (Clean Bandit vs R.E.M. vs Red Hot Chili Peppers vs The Notorious B.I.G.)
Bill McClintock – We Will Pop, Funk, Rock, and Soul You (Queen vs Sly Fox vs Temptations vs Metallica vs Jacksons)
DJ Schmolli – American Generation (The Who vs Green Day vs Dead Kennedys)
sociallyevaded – Thomas Gon’ Give It To Ya (DMX vs Thomas & Friends)
ToToM – Spitfire America (Childish Gambino vs Prodigy)
Warezio – Run Away at Sunset (Carly Rae Jepsen vs The Midnight)
pomDeter – Call Me A Hole (Nine Inch Nails vs Carly Rae Jepsen)
DJLex.com – Drop Some Lovin Pressure (Murk vs Mylo)
Elektric Cowboy – Pressurized (Mylo vs ?)
The Last Audiobender – Hello 500 (Extended Edit) (Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette vs The Proclaimers vs Michael Jackson vs Queen)
MashBusters aka Instamatic – I Was Made For Barbara Streisand But She Gave Love A Bad Name aka Duck Kiss (Duck Sauce vs Kiss vs Bon Jovi)
Roland Clark – Resist (DJ Diciple Bootleg – Cory Hart vs Roland Clark)
World Famous Audio Hacker – The Hand That QTs (Nine Inch Nails vs MIA)
Aggro1 – Steely Dan v. Caninesounds
Dunproofin’ – Superquadrophonia (Quadrophonia vs S’Express vs U96)
Pimpdaddysupreme – Beat It, Shove It, Push It (Michael Jackson vs Santogold vs Salt N’ Pepa)
LeeDM101 – Six Sick 6 (The Prodigy vs Orbital vs 666)
10000 Spoons – Rentaghost! (Pac Man vs Human Resource vs Raw Silk vs Specials vs Bomb the Bass)
oki – waterloo apologie (ABBA vs Nirvana vs Queen)
Bingo Starr! – Harder, Better, Faster, Blonder (Blondie vs Daft Punk vs Britney Spears)
Jack Roger – Voodoo Poker Sabotage ft. The Kleptones (Beastie Boys vs Lady Gaga vs Billie Eilish vs The Prodigy)
The Kleptones – Reclaim This (Grace Jones vs ?)
DJ FOX – Welcome to Badrock (Billie Eilish X Damian Marley)
DJ Cummerbund – Blurry In The USA (Miley Cyrus vs Puddle of Mudd vs Jay-Z vs Randy “Macho Man” Savage vs Britney Spears vs Ric Flair vs Chase Holfelder)
ArthurTheBootleg – Turn Down For Stranger Things (Lil Jon vs Survive)
DJ Tripp – Stranger Heathens (twenty one pilots vs Survive)
*whispers* Titus Jones – Rhiannon’s Stronger Island (Fleetwood Mac vs Kelly Clarkson vs Mike Posner vs Pendulum)
The Reborn Identity – Rumours Have It (Adele vs Fleetwood Mac)
sterereo – Fleetwood WAP (Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion vs Fleetwood Mac)
satis5d – Sunset Radio (Queen vs The Midnight)
YIT T – Let It Breathe (Green Day vs The Beatles)