Comments on: Looking for awesome hip-hop mashups

Question: Looking for awesome hip-hop mashups

Afroblanco — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:18:36 -0800

Where can I find some awesome hip-hop mashups?

For most of my life, I've been sorta "meh" on the whole hip-hop thing. However, all of this changed when one of my friends introduced me to The Kleptones' "A Night at the Hip-Hopera" and DJ Dangermouse's "The Grey Album." It turns out that a part of my brain responds ecstatically to high-quality hip-hop set to music that I love.

What blogs/websites/DJs should I be familiar with? Sites with downloadable material are especially appreciated.

Also - as a side note - does anybody know of a good (Windows) utility for downloading MP3s from blogs? Winamp has a feature that's supposed to do this, but it never works for me.

By: nitsuj

nitsuj — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:29:17 -0800

Girl Talk

By: wemayfreeze

wemayfreeze — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:30:56 -0800

The Hood Internet. All you need.

By: burnmp3s

burnmp3s — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:32:07 -0800

Back when everyone and their mother was making Jay-Z mashups, my favorite one was The Slack Album. It was a near perfect mix of Jay-Z and Pavement. Sadly it seems that the website where you could download it no longer exists.

By: farishta

farishta — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:39:30 -0800

second Girl Talk- Night Ripper is his best.

By: ShootTheMoon

ShootTheMoon — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:47:08 -0800

Oink used to be awesome for finding these albums. Too bad they got closed down. If you have memberships to the Oink replacements (I wish I did, can't check for ya).

This: http://www.discogs.com/release/618853 (Quentin Tarantino Mash Up by James Hyman) was a good mashup album, if you can find the torrent.

By: carabiner

carabiner — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:52:25 -0800

Best of Bootie CDs are free and downloadable.

By: ncc1701d

ncc1701d — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:53:26 -0800

seconding girl talk - that's probably the best stuff out there.

check out tim fite's over the counter culture.

go to hypem.com and search for mashup (or mash-up, mash up, etc.).

check out this lifehacker.com entry about google search, using the same queries as above for hype machine.

By: zpousman

zpousman — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:58:08 -0800

diplo's essential mix from 2007 is awesome. It has lots of mashed up goodness. Less rap, but still very very respectable.

By: mattbucher

mattbucher — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:02:02 -0800

Blogs? Check out this blogroll at the TofuHut.

By: caveatz

caveatz — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:04:16 -0800

Get thee to the The Hood Internet Indie rock meets Dirty South Krunk. R. Kelly meets Rogue Wave, Lil Wayne vs. Modest Mouse, T.I. vs Fujiya & Miyagi , and even TLC via Led Zeppelin. Any mash-up worth its salt has got to better than listening to any song individually. The even do photo-mashups of the artists together that look just as convincing as the songs are. And they're playing SXSW if you happen to be in Austin,TX this weekend.

By: youarenothere

youarenothere — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:13:27 -0800

Bootie is an awesome monthly mashup party that posts lots of mashups on their website and blog.
Get Your Bootleg On is a mashup forum.
YourSpins is a mashup community with contests and the like
MashupTown is s so-so mashup blog.

But, yeah. The Hood Internet is pretty much all you need.

By: youarenothere

youarenothere — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:16:24 -0800

Also, the Download Embedded Firefox extension lets you readily batch download embedded files like mp3s from a website.

By: Fupped Duck

Fupped Duck — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:16:27 -0800

does anybody know of a good (Windows) utility for downloading MP3s from blogs?

There's a great add-on for the firefox browser called downloadthemall that lets you download all the MP3s on a page in just a few clicks.

By: afx114

afx114 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:26:50 -0800

DJs On Strike

By: jtfowl0

jtfowl0 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:36:50 -0800

DJ Prizefighter does a bunch of these, although they are hip-hop mashed up with other hip-hop. I haven't listened to any of the new stuff, but his (her?) old stuff was teh awesome.

By: Leon

Leon — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:44:40 -0800

ncc1701d: thanks for that tim fite link. That's one of the most interesting things I've heard in months.

By: jtfowl0

jtfowl0 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:47:34 -0800

Sorry, apparently the mp3 links at the DJ Prizefighter site don't work. And wow, Girl Talk is completely badass.

By: owtytrof

owtytrof — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:59:32 -0800

Go get the rest of The Kleptones' stuff, if you haven't already.

Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots is what got me started. From Detroit to J.A. and 24 Hours have a wider variety of music; they're not concentrating specifically on hip-hop, but still worth a listen.

By: owtytrof

owtytrof — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:01:04 -0800

Given the link you posted in your question, you've probably already been to mine. I should have checked first. Sorry about that.(and for the double)

By: web-goddess

web-goddess — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:38:40 -0800

Seconding the Best of Bootie albums. They're awesome. (The 2007 one starts with a Star Wars mashup that had me physically laughing during a jog.)

By: muscat

muscat — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:41:27 -0800

WEST SOUNDS (if you can find it). I think it was the college dropout (kanye west) remixed with Pet Sounds (beach boys). Awesome.

By: alkupe

alkupe — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:50:44 -0800

Seconding the hood internet. I also would recommend the following:
Ratatat has a good mix that they just released (there's also a volume 1 that was good).
I also like (and this is a bit older and sillier) DJ ZTrip's uneasy listening vol 1 . This has some remarkable shit.

By: peacecorn

peacecorn — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:54:10 -0800

Give DJ Swindle a shot. I can vouch for the Bob-Marley-Meets-Mobb-Deep mash, as well as the Nas-via-Al-Green tracks.

Thanks for asking this, by the way. I was just about to do the same.

By: pseudostrabismus

pseudostrabismus — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:40:36 -0800

Loo & Placido.

By: thelongcon

thelongcon — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:45:45 -0800

Mashup of Queen and 50 Cent: Q-Unit

By: roofus

roofus — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:20:40 -0800

Try McSleazy, team 9 and go home productions for specific kick ass remixers.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:16:47 -0800

Wow, what an awesome thread. This is going to keep me busy for a while. Thanks, all!

By: allkindsoftime

allkindsoftime — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:50:54 -0800

http://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mp3+mashups

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:55:39 -0800

Damn. Girl Talk isn't on iTunes.

By: teh asset

teh asset — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:13:12 -0800

Bangfest by Ludachrist is one of the best I have heard.

By: finite

finite — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:08:37 -0800

Girl Talk's Feed The Animals is good stuff and is available for name-your-own-price.