My 32 Best Mashups of 2022

Bootie Mashup is asking people on their Discord to nominate their 3 best mashups of 2022 for inclusion for . So I made a list…and ended up with 38 32! So I’m taking the top 3 – which are the only ordered ones, the rest are pretty much equal 4th – and I decided to posting my list here. The choices are from tracks I played on the podcast in 2022 and the last month of 2021 (December the 1st is the cutoff date for me) or have in my stack to play.

BTW something in the stack but not played for a bunch of reasons – stuff that doesn’t play nicely with other tracks, like weird tempos or harmonics or even certain keys tend to get played less -weirdly I seem to get stuck in the 10-3 half of in the Open Key Wheel, and I am not sure why. I usually find I am trying to desperately find something to harmonically pair a 5-8m/d with in Traktor.!

To be fair, the rules of the Bootie allows a DJ to pick one of their tracks – so I allowed each of my aliases to pick one. And then ironically gave my #4 place to iWillBattle as well, Cherndelifer cannot be denied.

The #1 is by Aggro1 still my favourite, it’s how I heard Taylor Swift’s Anti-Hero and it still stands up as the best one so far – and there has been many.

And CastleR’s Story of My Journey – or Burn Out, could be either – meant a lot to me. So many feels….Yes me? Including a MCR mashup? With MY repulation for not liking MCR mashes? Yup. Weirdly like a few of these I can’t find the CastleR tracks posted online, so I have lined to the podcasts that featured them…a lot of this selection is about feels. There are a lot of great mashups, but not many make me laugh or cry. Many of these did that.

(also if any pedant is going to point out DJFnoFno is bending the rules…well it’s DJNoNo, it’s what he does but that track was fnogg’s idea, DJNoNo just created it).

Also I think these are all December 2021 or later, it’s hard to tell since both Sowndhaus and YouTube helpfully say ‘ay year ago’ which doesn’t really help. Thankfully I have a solution for the latter 😉 (this list started at 38 tracks til I disqualified a load).

And yes. a lot of Gayle and T-Swift, Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish. Lorde and Katy Perry – truly is the age of the new diva! This list ranges from club bangers to crumplbangers, plunderphomics, moody mashes, indie, disco, rock, electronica, bagpipes, drum and bass, game soundtracks and 8-bit, emo, and whatever GHOST DATA is ”aether pop electronic dreamsynth Houston’ according to their Bandcamp. Mmkay. This eclectic list pretty much sums up the podcast!

Also sad that so few of these have proper videos, mostly just single images! The ones I embedded here have nice videos, is the age of the full mashup video dead in the TikTok era? Admittedly I didn’t make full videos for the ones featured here, yet…but I am getting there.

Best Mashups of 2022

1. Aggro1 – Taylor Swift ‘Anti Hero’ vs GHOST DATA ‘Become God’
2. CastleR – Story of My Journey to The Sky (Mudeth vs One Direction)
3. iWillBattle – Somewhere I Cherndelifer [Crumplstock 10 Mix] (Brock Baker as The Swedish Chef x Linkin Park)
4. DJNoNo – Pröpänë Kïckstärt (Mötley Crüe vs Pendulum vs Adriana A)
5. Allan Smashee – About Dance Time (Lizzo vs. David Bowie)
6. ah! – Somewhere I Used To Belong (Gotye vs Nine Inch Nails)
7. The Kleptones – Low Sweetness (from FL/OW – via mailing list)
8. The Kleptones – Think About from FL/OW – via mailing list)
9. CastleR – Burnt Out (My Chemical Romance vs Fall Out Boy vs Senses Fail vs Jimmy Eat World)
10. ah! – Meeting In The Woods (Taylor Swift vs Radiohead)
11. ToToM – Susie Cool Gurenge (Boney M & Creedence Clearwater Revival vs. LiSa)
12. Instamatic – Don’t Stop Making Your Kind Of Music (Mama Cass vs Fleetwood Mac)
13. HallMighty – Sweet Melancholy Hill (Neil Diamond vs Gorillaz)
14. DJ Giac – Instant Deep (Genesis vs Paradis)
15. IanFondue – IDGAF Tonight (Dua Lipa vs Gene)
16. GladiLord – CrumplValse (Shamisen Player Shamio & Urze De Lume vs Barbara Pravi)
17. Ian Fondue – Firework Lover (Katy Perry vs Philip Bailey and Phil Collins)
18. LeeDM101 – Bullet Spell (Nina Simone vs Massive Attack)
19. CastleR – bela bossa nova (Billie Eilish vs Arctic Monkeys)
20. HallMighty – Disco The Casbah (The Clash vs Gloria Gaynor)
21. DJFnoFno (fnogg & DJNoNo) – Royals At The Gay Bar (Lorde vs Electric Six)
22. Ian Geek – Reasons to be Cheeky (Part 3)
23. Adriana A – Atari Radio / 2600 P.W.E.I. (Pop Will Eat Itself vs. Rhythm Scholar)
24. DSP – All Sisters Of Night (Genesis & Depeche Mode)
25. Adriana A – Dorothea Goes Home For The Holidays (Taylor Swift vs. Coldplay)
26. Eternal Khaos – Daydream Caller (Carly Rae Jepsen vs The Monkees)
27. MsMiep – Don’t You Forget My Dancing Lasha Tumbai (Simple Minds vs. Verka Serduchka)
28. ToToM – 1979FU (Gayle vs. Smashing Pumpkins)
29. iWillBattle – We Live Here Lets Have Another Party (Bob Vylan x Winifred Atwell)
30. Captain Obvious – Standing In The Way of Survival (Gossip vs Gloria Gaynor)
31. Marc Johnce – Nothing Compares 2 abcdefU (Gayle Vs. Sinéad O’Connor)
32. Minor Arth – Wet Deceptacon Dream (Le Tigre vs Wet Leg)