mixes - Mashups

TRACKS:
Carpenters - Rainy Days And Mondays (DIY acapella - Thanks Peter Jackson)
Adele - Skyfall (Instrumental Version from a shockingly hard to find CD single)

DESCRIPTION (2024):
It has been raining in California. A lot.

If any of you follow my socials, you will know my apartment management company stripped the roof off of my little apartment last year, leaving it exposed for over a week. Then, it rained. To date (2024), I've lost almost $25,000 in damages and storage facility fees.

Suffices to say, I am not fond of the rain anymore.

But I digress...

Playing around with making new vocal tracks (that you Peter Jackson!), I decided to try and see if I could isolate Karen Carpenter from a standard Carpenters CD.

Oh. my. GOD!

Now, Karen Carpenter is an angel. You have to treat her as such. You can't just throw her over any song. Luckily, while looking through instrumental tracks, I found "Skyfall" by Adele. Karen Carpenter with James Bond intensity? Hell yes!

Now, I know my mashups are for a rather specific audience. I get that many people don't like me crossing genres. But, if what I create makes *me* happy, that's good enough.

This mix made me happy. This mix almost made me like the rain again...kind of. *waves fist at shitty apartment management company*

It is currently Monday. It is currently raining. It's the perfect time to launch this new mashup.

Rainy days and Mondays always get me down...

2026 UPDATE:

Shortly after putting this mashup online, I pulled it down. It just wasn't up to my usual quality. Technology wasn't there yet. Now, with advances in stem separation to where I can cleanly separate a lead and backing vocal, I was able to fix a number of issues that plagued the original mashup.

Also, for the video (only), I added the vocal talent of Mr. Casey Kasem. I recently came into ownership of a small stack of original 1972 American Top 40 radio show records (sorry, I meant "vinyls", hipsters). After recording in all nine hours of shows, cleaning up the surface noise, and extracting just Casey's voice from the shows, I set upon having Casey himself introduce the mix (again, only on the video version). It took me three days to phonetically (Google it) edit Casey to get him to say what I wanted him to say, and that included finding radio recordings other than the 1972 ones I had. For example, the word "brat" had to be pulled from a show when "da Brat" hit the top 40. It was a lot of work, but I love how it turned out. Yes, I am sure that "AI" could have faked it and voice replicated Casey in under a minute, but I am old school (and old). I wanted the challenge of having to do the edits myself.

File uploaded: February 19th, 2024, revised August 24th, 2026