mixes - Mashups

TRACKS:
The Cure - Just Like Heaven (Tweaked acapella)
The Commodores - "Easy" (Instrumental)

DESCRIPTION:
Normally, I would put a long blurb here about the process behind creating a specific mashup. The hours spent getting for a perfect match, the hard work of making a 5.1 surround channel vocal track clean enough for mixing use, et cetera.

This time, I am letting the mashup speak for itself.

As heard at the end of many Bootie L.A. club nights, here it is.

And for those of you who are curious what it was like hearing this in a club, here's some video of the mashup being played by DJ Paul V at the end of Bootie LA from September 7th, 2008.

UPDATE (February 12th, 2012 - piano cover!?!?): YouTube user "R10pez10" did a piano cover of the mashup. I'm still a bit speechless about that. Pretty cool!

UPDATE (August 2nd, 2015): As people have been rediscovering this mashup, sadly through a fan uploaded video (not made by me) put up on YouTube, I have gone and re-uploaded the mashup, now remastered! A cleaner MP3, and a FLAC (!!!) file, are now available!

Mashup first published: October 28th, 2008. Mashup re-uploaded (remastered - sound quality improved, but mashup NOT changed): August 2nd, 2015.

PRESS COVERAGE!

"Seriously, whatever you are doing, it is not as important as listening to this." - Rolling Stone, December 5th, 2008 (click image below for full page from archive.org):

"Some mash-ups just work too well, and this is one of those." - Wired Magazine, November 25th, 2008 (click image below for full page from archive.org):

After my Smiths / TFF mashup got some viral heat, people started discovering my older mashups (including this one). In fact, it got a LOT of buzz online. . .again.

Mashing up the Commodores and the Cure is a shockingly good idea! http://t.co/JPbWDMTr7C pic.twitter.com/Z93kCqth93

- Dangerous Minds (@DangerMindsBlog) August 3, 2015

The Cure vs The Commodores #mashup is just like heaven http://t.co/mUGHRUdQtk pic.twitter.com/BQmFowuMeP

- Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) August 6, 2015

Someone Mashed Up The Cure & The Commodores, And It Is Brilliant http://t.co/XDQKlhyrfG https://t.co/Y12L3Us8es

- Sonic More Music (@sonicmoremusic1) August 1, 2015

'Easy Heaven', A Seamless Mashup of Easy' by The Commodores & 'Just Like Heaven' by The Cure http://t.co/3FInsSCXO9 pic.twitter.com/dGhOdKsuo3

- Laughing Squid (@LaughingSquid) August 7, 2015

I've seen this link all day long, but finally clicked, and… yes, Robert Smith & Lionel Richie belong together. https://t.co/mkH5OS447w

- Anil Dash (@anildash) August 6, 2015