There's nothing like a well-crafted mashup to liven up a slow day. Like peanut butter and jelly, like wine and cheese, like shiny rims and tricked out Chevy Impalas, a good mashup brings two songs together in a way that complements their strengths and sounds really cool in the process. As track manipulation's gotten easier and easier, mp3 mad scientists have been hard at work mixing and matching song pieces in a veritable Mr. Potato Head array of dance-magic.
Here, the bouncy synths of
Friendly Fires' "Skeleton Boy" with the Debbie-Harry-esque crooning of
Deluka's "Cascade." When British electronica meetsmore British electronica, everybody wins. Sure it sounds like the 80s, but since when is that a bad thing? Deluka's music is incidentally set to be included in
Grand Theft Auto IV...and you thought that Impala reference came out of nowhere. -
Nina Mashurova
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MP3: Deluka vs Friendly Fires
Deluka on Myspace
Friendly Fires on Myspace