A mashup, innit, yer daft bandits!

[imomus]

Partial as I am to the old bastard pop malarkey-type mashup from time to time (Gay Christmas Mr Lawrence being a recent example), I'd like to offer you today a little morsel I was toying with last night, a rickety splice between BMX Bandits' lovely cover of "Something About Us" and the original track by Daft Punk, with me playing a wobbly 80s string machine as I sing along through a vocoder. I've knocked the whole joint out of joint and given it my best verfremdungseffekt processing, but I'll be damned if the song doesn't still spill with gorgeous emotion. Some pop is just indestructible.

Something About Us (Momus / BMX Bandits / Daft Punk mashup, innit?) (stereo mp3 file 5.2MB, 5mins 40secs)

Comments

[ddf.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love the warbly, broken record player vibe throughout. The beat being misaligned at the beginning annoyed me until it got itself back in sync. Good to read that was intentional, anyway. And you're right, it's pretty hard to destroy what is at the root an awesome pop song.