The wonderful Tracii Macgregor at Gargamel Music hepped me to this latest project put together by New York hip-hop DJ/producer/scene-vet Rich Medina. Like any device, the mash-up/remix can yield a good amount of garbage (Gaga vs. Bieber, etc.), unless the sources are well-chosen and assembled.

It hardly gets better than pop king Michael vs. Nigeria’s Afrofunk prez Fela Kuti—much has been made of how Fela and James Brown mutually influenced each other, so the R&B/Afrofunk connection is hardly a surprise. Medina’s put together 10 rounds of it for The King Meets the President in Africa, which is downloadable for free. Unfortunately, the videos below are uncredited—if Rich did these as well, I’d consider him even more of a badman talent than I already do.
 

Thriller vs. Zombie from MJ Fela on Vimeo.

Billie Jean is Shakara from MJ Fela on Vimeo.

I love this blog and am enlightened by it almost daily, so I’m surprised you think these are good Mashups.  Though, I do acknowledge the ‘mashed’ songs have a slight title/genre connection, it seems to be mostly layering the vocal track of one song over the music of another.  That is what A LOT of people are doing but it’s too easy.
One of the best Mashups I’ve heard is by DJ Schmolli called “Oy Mi Sweet Dutchie”.  3 songs (all about smokable drugs) from 3 genres layered and mixed (hence, Mashed).  Very fun.

This is so poor. What a failure, could these vocals be any more out of key ? Such contrived nonsense, almost disrespectful to both artists. Youd be kicked out of music class for this rubbish.