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Make your own mid-2000s themed mashups

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66 pointsanaptfox14 comments

Not really "make your own mashups," more like "explore this extensive list of pre-made mashups," but very cool nonetheless

There are 20 tracks on the left, each one seems to be compatible with 5 - 10 of the ones on the right. There would have to be 100-200 pre-made mashups covering all the combinations, so there must be some sort of systematic method for mashing up.

Oh; no there isn't [1]:

> Just cranked through em all for two weeks. Thought about automating it but it wouldn't sound as good

"When in doubt, use brute force", i guess. That said [2]:

> They're templatized, so phase 2 is to do it programmatically. Everything up right now was manual though :)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/5sgd4k/this_site_let...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/5sgd4k/this_site_let...

Oh. That's disappointing.

When I read mid-2000s themed mashup my first thought was how 10 years ago there were a lot of startups that just took two apps and made them work together (like Google Maps + Flickr).

It would be cool to drag and drop to make those kind of mashups.

This is nice too, though.

and often using Yahoo! Pipes :)

I remember Yahoo! Pipes. Those were the days.

Lycos uses to have a mashup that just let you make playlists of videos from various video services and share them with friends.

And they were covered by Mashable, which is now a bad HuffPo clone.

Some downright masterpieces to try yourself:

Tipsy vs. Hey There Delilah

X Gon' Give It To Ya vs. Float On

Move Bitch vs. Take Me Out

99 Problems vs. A Thousand Miles

...who am I kidding, all of these are great.

X Gon' Give It To Ya vs. A Thousand Miles had me cracking up for some reason.

Do yourself a favor and listen to DMX - Reading Rainbow Theme. Great times.

Move Bitch vs Take Me Out is really on another level, you even get two different choruses in the same song.

This said, overlapping rap over rock is too easy a game.

I love the text at the bottom:

> No ads! Instead, please support the ACLU

Needs to update the URL bar, so these are shareable.

This is excellent!

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