Chris DeLine

This is Culture Bully’s sixth annual list of the year’s top mashups, and this time around I thought it’d be nice to switch things up a bit. Instead of simply compiling a list of my own personal picks, I invited a slew of mashup producers to vote for their favorites from 2010. Quickly, here’s how voting worked: I asked everyone to send in a list of their favorite two or three mashups from the past year (I deleted picks which selected mashups that were released in past years). If they sent in more than three I still listed them below on their individual ballots, but only three picks counted toward the final totals. Whether the track received a first or third place vote, it only counted for one point toward the final total. I also tallied total votes for individual producers; again, only counting individuals’ first three votes. Lastly, no one was allowed to vote for themselves.

Over 50 bastard pop producers sent in their picks, and by a wide margin the highest rated mashup of the year was Fissunix’ “Whole Sex Lotta Machine,” which combines Zeppelin and a little J.B. with Run-DMC & Aerosmith’s classic rap/rock collaboration. Below you’ll find download links for each individual track that made the final list. Please search around among the links: I promise you’ll find something fantastic that you’ve never heard before!

The Top Mashup/Bootleg/Bastard Pop Producers of 2010

#1) Fissunix
#2) DJ Schmolli
#3) DJs From Mars
#4) LeeDM101
#4) Mighty Mike
#6) The Kleptones
#6) MadMixMustang
#6) Mashup-Germany
#9) DJ Gaston
#10) Dunproofin’
#10) Phil RetroSpector
#10) The Reborn Identity

The Top Mashup/Bootleg/Bastard Pop Songs of 2010

#1) Fissunix “Whole Sex Lotta Machine”
Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love” vs. James Brown “Sex Machine” vs. Run-DMC & Aerosmith “Walk This Way”

#2) DJ Schmolli “Cooler Rock ‘n’ Roll”
Crookers feat. Yelle “Cooler Couler (Junkie XL Remix)” vs. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll”

#2) DJ Schmolli “Rude Boy Resort”
Papa Roach “Last Resort” vs. Rihanna “Rude Boy”

#2) DJs From Mars “Enter Telephone”
Lady Gaga feat. Beyone “Telephone” vs. Metallica “Enter Sandman”

#2) Mighty Mike “Cocoon People”
Village People “Y.M.C.A.” VS. Cocoon “Chupee”

#6) BRAT Mashup “One of These Nights”
Lamb “Gorecki” vs. the Eagles “One of These Nights”

#6) DJ Earworm “Like OMG, Baby”
Alexandra Burke “All Night Long” vs. Cheryl Cole “Fight For This Love” vs. Chipmunk feat. Esmee Denters “Until You Were Gone” vs. Dizzee Rascal “Bonkers” vs. Ellie Goulding “Starry Eyed” vs. Jason Derulo “In My Head” vs. JLS “One Shot” vs Justin Bieber “Baby” vs. Ke$ha “Tik Tok” vs. Pixie Lott “Mama Do” vs. Rihanna “Rude Boy” vs. Scouting For Girls “This Ain’t a Love Song” vs. Tinie Tempah “Pass Out” vs. Usher feat. Will.I.Am “OMG” vs. The Wanted “All Time Low”

#6) DJ Gaston “Cooler Bites the Dust”
Queen “Another One Bites the Dust” vs. Crookers feat. Yelle “Cooler Couler (Junkie XL Remix)”

#6) DJ Schmolli “Big Bootie Bitches in Miami”
Bombs Away “Big Booty Bitches” vs. LMFAO “I’m in Miami Bitch!” vs. Busta Rhymes “I Love My Bitch” vs. Sir Mix-a-Lot “Baby Got Back”

#6) DJs From Mars “Alors on Danse”

Stromae vs. “Dance All Stars” (Kraftwerk “The Robots” vs. Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock “It Takes Two” vs. Patrick Hernandez “Born To Be Alive” vs. Lipps Inc. “Funky Town” vs. Technotronic “Pump Up the Jam” vs. Frankie Nuckles “Your Love” vs. Run-DMC “It’s Like That (Jason Nevins Remix)” vs. Robin S “Show Me Love” vs. Storm “Storm” vs. Snap! “Rhythm is a Dancer” vs. C&C Music Factory “Everybody Dance Now” vs. Daft Punk “Around the World” vs. the Chemical Brothers “Hey Boy, Hey Girl” vs. Felix Da Housecat “Silver Screen (Shower Scene)” vs. Underworld “Born Slippy” vs. Benny Benassi “Satisfaction” vs. the Bloody Beetroots feat. Steve Aoki “Warp”)

#6) Dunproofin’ “All the Lovers Fade to Grey”

Visage “Fade to Grey (Michael Grey Remix)” vs. Kylie Minogue “All the Lovers”

#6) The Kleptones “Voodoo Sabotage”

The Prodigy “Voodoo People” vs. Beastie Boys “Sabotage”

#6) LeeDM101 “Blue Boys Cure Everything”

Headman “Blue Boys” vs. the Cure “Lullaby (Remix)” vs. Phoenix “Everything is Everything (a capella)”

#6) Ludachrist “Pon De Foley”

Major Lazer “Pon de Floor” vs. Axel F. “Bevery Hills Cop (theme)”

#6) Mashup-Germany “Everybody Speaks No Americano”

Yolanda be Cool & DCUP “We No Speak Americano” vs. Backstreet Boys “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” vs. Phantom of the Opera vs. Bob Sinclair “Rock This Party” vs. Benny Benassi “Satisfaction”

#6) Phil RetroSpector “Chasing the Broken Hearted”

Jimmy Ruffin “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted” vs. Snow Patrol “Chasing Cars”

The Reborn Identity “I’ve Never Missed You”
G3RSt “Dub of Fire”
LeeDM101 “Blue Boys Cure Everything”

List by Apollo Zero

BootOX “Remember the Curious Gossip”
Wax Audio “Stayin’ Alive In the Wall”
Mighty Mike “Cocoon People”
dj BC “No Sleep Til Liza”

List by ATOM

DJs from Mars “California Girls Jump” (Katy Perry vs. Van Halen)

List by Ben Double M

Mashup-Germany
The Kleptones
The Hood Internet

List by Cheap DJ

DJ Gaston “Cooler Bites the Dust”
Fissunix “Whole Sex Lotta Machine”
Mighty Mike “Cocoon People”
DJ Gaston “With L.E.S. Kids”
DJ Gaston “Shut up Man”
DJ Gaston “Always Superstition”
Fissunix “MCs Just Want to Celebrate”
Fissunix “Starlight Traffic”
Mighty Mike “Waiting In Heaven”
Party Ben “This Tightrope’s Made for Walkin’”
Amoraboy “Amymagine”

List by ComaR

#1) BRAT “One Of These Nights”
Eagles meet Lamb in the absolutely best and most outstanding mash-up of the year.

#2) Go Home Productions “Smells Like Rockin’ Robin”
Insane. Classic, for sure.

#3) Divide & Kreate “The Final Love”
Possibly the cheesiest mashup ever, by my very good friend D&K from Sweden.

#4) Mighty Mike “Waiting in Heaven”
Very unexpected and very cool combo with Bob Marley and The Cure(!).

#5) Apollo Zero “Shame Machine”
My good friend Apollo simply kills it with this tremendous mash-up of Depeche oldie “Shame” and Grand Popo Football Club’s “Smashing Machine.”

#6) Phil RetroSpector “Monkey Gone to Opera”
The Young Punx vs The Pixies vs Goldfrapp in a trademark melancholy trip by my mate Phil.

List by Copycat

Lobsterdust “Knock Out Eileen”
Sugamotor “Bitter Boy”
BRAT “One of These Nights”

List by Divide & Kreate

Phil RetroSpector “Chasing the Broken Hearted”

List by DJ Brother Darkness

LeeDM101 “Radioactive Tubular Girls”
CjR Mix “Dangerous Sex In A Bottle”
Phil Retrospector “Dub Be Goodbye Me”
DJ Morgoth “Carry On My Wayward Island”
DJ Bahler “El Lobo y la Luna”

List by DJ Bynar

Fissunix “Whole Lotta Sex Machine”
Yold “Flex Up!”
The Bootleague “Our Teachers”

List by DJ Gaston

Wale “Good Girls (Andrew Clark + Quix Remix)”
Swedish House Mafia vs. DJ Khaled “All We Do is One (Jason Smith Blend)”
A-Trak “O Let’s Overdo It”

List by DJ Geometrix

Party Ben “This Tightrope’s Made for Walkin’”
Mojochronic “(Rudolf) You Don’t Have To Turn On The Red Light”

List by DJ McFly

DJ Schmolli “Cooler Rock ‘n’ Roll”
Marc Johnce “Flex Gym Duck”
Eve Massacre “All the Lovers Are Drunk”

List by DJ Mif

DJ Schmolli “Rude Boy Resort”
Mashup-Germany “Everybody Speaks No Americano”
DJs From Mars “Alors On Danse”

List by DJ Morgoth

The Kleptones Uptime
DJs From Mars “Enter Telephone”
Titus Jones “I Wanna Bulletproof Dancer”

List by DJ Paul V.

Kid Cudi & Chip Tha Ripper “All Talk”

List by DJ Riko

#1) Fissunix “Whole Sex Lotta Machine”
#2) DJs From Mars “Alors On Danse”
#3) DJ Clive$ter “I Was Made For Loving Virgins”
#4) Mashup-Germany “Can You Hear The Sirens Coming”
#5) Phil RetroSpector “Chasing The Broken Hearted”

List by DJ Schmolli

#1) DJs from Mars “Enter Telephone”
#2) Divide & Kreate “Kissie Minogue”
#3) The Kleptones “Gimme Gimme”

List by DJ ShyBoy

Girl Talk All Day
DJ McFly The Melting Pot (Part 1)

List by DJ Stroke

#1) Dan Mei & Marc Johnce “Smooth Romance”
#2) DJ Morgoth “Stylo It’s No Good”
#3) Fatboy Slim “Weapon Of Choice (Rhythm Scholar Groove-A-Thon Remix)”
#4) Taio Cruz “Dynamite (In My Head) (S.I.R. Remix)”
#5) The Kleptones “Surf Mountain”

List by DJ Useo

Fissunix “Whole Sex Lotta Machine”
DJ Gaston “Always Superstition”
Lobsterdust “Celeplanes”

List by DJ Y Alias JY

Fissunix “Whole Sex Lotta Machine”
DJ Moule “Good Love, Good Rock”
Mighty Mike “Cocoon People”
Fissunix “Doin’ the Jumpo”
Party Ben “The Tightrope’s Made For Walkin’”
Madmixmustang “Very Golden Brownious”

List by DJ Zebra

#1) The Kleptones “Voodoo Sabotage”
#2) Mashup-Germany “Stay Another Day N Nite”
#3) g4gorilla & CjR Mix “Given Up Single Ladies”

List by DJs From Mars

Mighty Mike “Black or Free”
LeeDM101 “(Find Myself) A Heap Of Love”
DJ Gaston “Gunns Are Burning” Sugamotor “Bitter Boy”
DJ Y Alias JY & Amoraboy “Beg It Again (DJ Y alias JY’s Check It Out Re-Funk Rework)”
Propellerheards vs. SUYT Mashupsandbootlegsandbastardpop
ToToM “New Moon Steppin’ Up”
M’siou Rigolitch “Boban Markologic”
ElectroSound “What You Know In My Place”
Elocnep “Duck Sauce ADD an SUV”
Wax Audio “The Final Teen Spirit Mashup”
FAROFF “Ray No Speak Americano”
DJ Moule “Good Love, Good Rock”
DJ Schmolli “Cooler Rock ‘n’ Roll”
DJ Bynar “Reigning Knights of No Man’s Land”
Jarod Ripley “Just The Way U Are”

List by Fissunix

The Reborn Identity “American Days Are Over”
Wonderful! Very well executed and tugs at the heart strings. Breathes new life into both tracks, despite having heard them both hundreds of times. Fantastic.

The Kleptones Downtime
The whole album. It’s great, it’s too hard to pick a favourite, I love “Untired and Correspondence” in particular, but the journey they make up is terrific. Pretty much everything on it is unique and extremely soulful as well as being very well produced. Music to stare out of windows on trains to.

Fleetwood Mac “Everywhere (Psychemagik re-edit)”
Another track I have to mention despite not being a mashup as such is Psychemagik’s re-edit of Fleetwood Mac’s Everywhere. Quite how they’re managed to take just one track and make it more emotional, dreamy and sublime yet at the same time turning it into a dancefloor groover is beyond me entirely. Awesome.

List by Flying White Dots

DJ Schmolli “Big Bootie Bitches in Miami”
DJ Morgoth “Lifeline Princess”
DJs From Mars “Carl Orff vs. Linkin Park” Vasey

List by FrogTheDawg

#1) The Shits “Blur 52′s”
#2) Giles Who Boy “Broken Mirror”
#3) G3RSt “Venus Whip”

List by Frunt Room

#1) MadMixMustang “Holiday Of Choice”
#2) DJ Schmolli “Rude Boy Resort”
#3) Eric Arthur “Glory Fox”
#4) Lobsterdust “Knock Out Eileen”
#5) Retarded Cunt “Hamburgers”
#6) Rillen Rudi “Ni Ten Ichi Rude Boy”

List by G3RSt

#1) Ludachrist “Pon De Foley”
#2) Chambaland “Invisible Gurls”

List by The Hood Internet

LeeDM101 “Bob’s Twilight Phone”
Angels & Filth “Boulevard”

List by The Kleptones

Fissunix “Whole Sex Lotta Machine”
Dunproofin’ “All The Lovers Fade To Grey”
MashMike “Move it, Barbra”

List by KrazyBen

#1) Ian Fondue “Kiss You”
#2) MadMixMustang “We No Can Dance”
#3) Dj Tripp “How Low in the House”
#4) Obvious Productions “Standing in the Way of Your Friends”
#5) Go Home Productions “Smells Like Rockin’ Robin”

List by Lenlow

#1) Party Ben “Beat Sauce”
#2) DJ Schmollo “Cooler Rock N Roll”
#3) Fissunix “Whole Lotta Sex Machine”

List by Lobsterdust

Ludachrist “Pon De Foley”
LeeDM101 “Blue Boys Cure Everything”
The Glitch Mob “Bad Wings In For The Kill”

List by Loo & Placido

DJs From Mars “Enter Telephone”
DJ Schmolli “Rude Boy Resort”
Mighty Mike “Imagine A Jump”
Lobsterdust “Knock Out Eileen”

List by Marc Johnce

#1) Pheugoo “Hometown Bitch”
#2) MadMixMustang “Don’t Stop Bromancing”
#3) Xam “Stylo Can’t Dance”

List by Mash2Mix

#1) DJs From Mars “Radio Tok Tok”
#2) Xam “God is a Memorie”
#3) DJ Y Alias JY “Thunderstruck Right Now”

List by Maxx Destrukt

Fissunix “Whole Sex Lotta Machine”
Had me flippin’ and bouncin’ like a wigged out trampoline.

Apollo Zero “Workin’ Hot Techno Pop”
Had me acting insane like a Travis Bickle’d DeNiro.

DJ McFly “If You Jinglin’”

List by Mojochronic

Voicedude
Mashin’ Jackson
DJ Not-I
Off The Beaten Meter
Hawkins’ “XXX”

List by Mr. Fab

#1) Symphony Of Science “Wave Of Reason”
#2) Pogo “Wishery”
#3) DJ Earworm “Like, OMG Baby”

List by Norwegian Recycling

Instamatic “Nasty Chewing Girls (12″ Bubblicious Genius mix)”
ToToM “Best of Your Own Church”
DJ Le Clown “Evil Whisky Bar”

List by oki

The Reborn Identity “Sweet Mountain High”
DJ Bynar “Mullholland Empire (Dark Mix)”

List by Phil RetroSpector

Dunproofin’ “You’re Not Roxanne”
ToTom “3’s Right Now & 7’s Tonight”

List by Pytski

#1) DJ Schmolli “Undone Lullaby”
#2) LeeDM101 “Roxanne’s Tainted Fly”
#3) MadMixMustang “You Rock My Rock”

List by Qubic

Fissunix “Whole Lotta Sex Machine”
Phil RetroSpector “Chasing the Broken-Hearted”

List by The Reborn Identity

FAROFF “No Womanizer Knows”
DJ Schmolli “Big Booty Bitches In Miami”
dj BC “Could You Be Love Gamed”
PartyBen “California Clever”
Phil Retrospector “Chasing The Broken Hearted”
Sam Flanagan “Brimful of Bonkers”
Sugamotor “Orchid Colours”

List by Solcofn

#1) The Hood Internet “Ignition (Keep It Remixing Louder)”
#2) DJ Stroke “House of Homey (Money To Blow Remix)”
#3) The White Panda “How We Remember”

List by Supermash

Dunproofin “All the Lovers Fade to Grey”
MadMixMustang “I Got More Than A Feeling”

List by Thriftshop XL

#1) The Kleptones “Jump You Fucker”
#2) Mashup-Germany “Sexy Bitch In Memphis”

List by Titus Jones

dj BC “Say Say Say La La La”
I’m very difficult with hip-hop mashups nowadays and this one just nails it.

Mighty Mike “Nothin Ironic”
A great take on Alanis’ song.

DJ Schmolli “Cooler Rock ‘n’ Roll” / DJ Gaston “Cooler Bites the Dust”
And finally two mashup with the same instrumental. I can’t tell which one is better, they’re banging, excellent ideas and feature classic vocals both.

List by ToToM

Fissunix “Whole Sex Lotta Machine”
oki “Is She Really Going Acapella?”
Marc Jonce “Not My Smoke Tonight”
Fissunix “Doin’ The Jumpo”
oki “Bizarre Bottom Girls”
DJ Jeff Jones “Party In The Empire State”
DJ Schmolli “Rude Boy Resort”
MadMixMustang “Downtown Girl”
Amoraboy “Feel the Joker”
Norwegian Recycling “Miracles”

List by Voicedude

Mashup-Germany “Everybody Speaks No Americano”
Very enjoyable (and danceable mashup) keeps me bouncing across the room every time I put this on.

DJ Earworm “Like, OMG Baby”
Multimashup like only dj earworm could provide us.

List by Xam

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