In the nearly eight weeks since we last posted a Bootie Top 20, we’ve been traveling for at least half that time, throwing Bootie parties in São Paulo, London, Holland, Austin, LA, and of course, every Saturday night in our home base of San Francisco (even when we’re not actually, physically there!)

So we know you’ll forgive us for being a little tardy again with this one … especially you people who bug us via Twitter and email, complaining how we haven’t posted any new mashups. You might as well just say, “Where’s my free shit, dammit?”

Slogging through the slush of the bootleg scene to bring you the best mashups takes time and care and … a slightly less-hectic schedule than we’ve been keeping these past two months. Still, there was a bumper crop of great boots out there, so doubling up this month was really the only way to go. Who loves you? That right, WE DO.

Plus, we promise not to wait another eight weeks. Hell, we already have about seven of June’s Top 10 already picked out!

Download all 20 tracks in one convenient ZIP file!
Or right-click individual tracks below. Sorted (mostly) alphabetically by bootlegger.

dj BC - Stuntin’ Like a Father Figure (Lil’ Wayne & Birdman vs. George Michael) – Boston
This track is perfect for anyone with “Daddy issues!” Bootie Boston’s own dj BC puts a hip-hop spin on this chilled-out George Michael classic from the ’80s. Perfect for early in the night (or ramping it down near the end). Speaking of daddies, congrats go out to BC, who just became the father of twins!

DJs FROM MARS DOUBLE-SHOT
DJs From Mars – DJ Got Us Falling In Hot Stuff (Usher vs. Donna Summer) – Turin, Italy
DJs From Mars – Show Me In The Deep (Hard Electro Remix) (Adele vs. Robin S. vs. DJs From Mars) - Turin, Italy
After booking Italy’s DJs From Mars for both Bootie LA and SF this month, you can’t even imagine our disappointment when we found out that they can’t get into the U.S. right now due to visa problems. Grrrrrr… However, the electro-banger brilliance of these two tracks will still be rockin’ a Bootie dance floor, whether they’re there to spin it live or not! Although we absolutely love both of these tracks, we have a special place in our heart for the hard electro bangin’ beauty of “Show Me In The Deep.” One word: Wow.

Envision – Boys & Girls Fight With Fire (Scissor Sisters vs. Good Charlotte) – Australia
We thought the new Scissor Sisters single was okay, but for some odd, inexplicable reason, pairing it with Good Charlotte (a band we’re barely familiar with) elevates it into an anthemic modern rock jam that’s somehow way better than both original songs. This is the first of four tracks on this month’s Top 10 from the recently-released “The 3rd World” genre-mashed compilation, put together by Envision.

Faroff - Mashed Girl (The Temptations vs. Cee-Lo Green) – Los Angeles
We have to admit, the shelf life of “Fuck You” has nearly expired, but this new soul mashup from Faroff just barely squeaks by, with its clever back-and-forth play with the classic “My Girl,” exchanging both backing instrumental and vocals, and then flipping it in reverse in the next verse.

Fissunix – Need To Be With You Tonight (INXS vs. Smokey Robinson) – France
For the past few months, this has been a staple in Adrian’s early sets, setting a sexy smoove Motown groove to warm up the dance floor.

HEAVY METAL DOUBLE-SHOT
Fissunix & DJ Schmolli – Hairbangers (Willow Smith vs. Kreator) – France / Austria
DJ Flashard – Everyone’s The Beast (Iron Maiden vs. Lily Allen) – UK
Two very different heavy metal mashups, showcasing the genre’s unique instrumentation and vocal stylings, respectively. The first uses Kreator’s thrash metal to add double-meaning to Willow Smith’s ode to hair whipping (which, is, of course, a direct result of headbanging). The other shines a bright light on Iron Maiden’s classic high-pitched metal vocals, stripped away from its bombast to reveal a hidden melodic pop sensibility.

Frail Limb Purity – Centerfold Rocketeer (J. Geils Band v. Far East Movement) – Arizona
A modern makeover of a #1 hit from 1982, breathing new life into a nearly-forgotten pop gem. Stuff like this makes me wonder why more older artists don’t get their classic material officially remixed or mashed up, in order to expose themselves to a younger audience.

KOOKY MASHUP DOUBLE-SHOT
G3rst – I Got New York (Black Eyed Peas vs. Frank Sinatra) - The Netherlands
DJ Schmolli – In The Mood For Some Killing (Glenn Miller & His Orchestra vs. Rage Against The Machine) – Austria
A few years ago, we compiled a CD for DJing entitled “Kooky Mashups” — ridiculous stuff like rap mashed up with classical music, or TV show themes turned on its ear. These two new mashups would feel right at home on that disc, mashing up swing with ’90s rage rock, and a Broadway show tune with a pop-party jam. “I Got New York” came out nearly a year-and-a-half ago, but ever since we dropped it at the last Bootie NYC party, we’ve discovered it’s a great way to bring everyone in the room together to kick-start the night! Tonight’s gonna be a good night!

LeeDM101 vs. Party Ben – Killing Days Are Over (Bootie Edit) (Echo & the Bunnymen vs. Florence + the Machine) – UK / San Francisco
We really liked Party Ben’s remix of “The Dog Days Are Over,” but it was almost a little TOO faithful to the original song. LeeDM101 mashed it up with “The Killing Moon,” but we really missed that jubilant Florence chorus and wanted a thicker beat. So we combined the mashup with the remix for this special “Bootie edit.”

The Limousines – Internet Killed The Video Star (Party Ben Remix) – San Francisco
We love it when we fall in love with a new song, and then discover it’s from a Bay Area band. Yay! This band is creating a huge buzz, and here they get a bootleg remix with a bit of an ’80s-meets-disco feel, appropriate for a song that not only nicks its title from an iconic song from that same era, but also complains about the kids “disco dancin’” and how the “drum machine ain’t got no soul.” Yes, it’s ironic!

DJ Lobsterdust – Roll It (Salt-N-Pepa vs. Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs. A-Trak) – New York City
Lobsterdust no doubt has his sights set on rockin’ the Bootie NYC dance floor at Santos Party House on Saturday May 21st with this one, which mixes late-’80s rap cheese with NYC electro-indie cool.

Marc Johnce – Report On The Floor (The Way You Are) (Josh Strickland vs. Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull vs. Bruno Mars) – Nuremberg, Germany
Can’t-miss club banger all the way, from the always-reliable Marc Johnce. If this doesn’t get you dancing, then you must be in a coma. This one’s just made for the club.

DJ Maya Jakobson – Till The Swan Lose Deep Control (Britney Spears vs. Adele vs. Missy Elliott vs. Tchaikovsky) – Tel Aviv, Israel
So far, our favorite mashup using Britney’s “Till The World Ends,” courtesy of one of the few female mashup producers out there, a woman from Tel Aviv who is also one of the resident DJs of the A.D.D. mashup parties, one of the few true mashup parties in the world whose (fun fact!) name was inspired by Bootie’s “About Us” description. This track is truly diva-licious, especially with that bit from “Black Swan.”

Mighty Mike - 21 Guns In The Battlefield (Pat Benatar vs. Green Day) – France
Green Day’s “21 Guns” was a punk-pop anthem rife with war metaphors in its lyrics, so of course it makes perfect sense to mash it up with “Love Is A Battlefield,” another song that compares love to war.

Phil RetroSpector – The Boys Are Back In Heaven (Pixies vs. Thin Lizzy) – Ireland
Who knew The Pixies nicked a guitar line from Thin Lizzy? Exhibit A: This mashup from Phil RetroSpector, who layers both riffs on top of each other, and you can barely tell the difference. This track also gives Thin Lizzy’s vocals a very different slow and sexy, sultry feel. A seamless pairing!

DJ ShyBoy – Dark Love Kill (Kanye West vs. Hypnogaja vs. La Roux) – Los Angeles
Despite the frequent appearance of a few bootleggers in our Bootie Top 10, nepotism plays no part in our decision-making. In fact, when we’re listening to a week’s worth (or month’s worth, as the case may be) of mashups, we don’t even see the ID3 tags. We’re just picking out the stuff we like, and checking the credits later. So it was particularly surprising when I marked this track, loving it and really wanting to know who the backing band was. To my shock, it was DJ ShyBoy, mashing up his own band Hypnogaja. We had been telling him that he should mash up his own band’s music more. This proves our point why. The Kanye blends in perfectly, but adding La Roux’s “In For The Kill” is the icing on the cake.

Titus Jones – We Love Hustlin’ Drugs (Weezer vs. Rick Ross vs. Ke$ha vs. Katy Perry vs. Afroman) – Nashville
It wouldn’t be a Bootie Top 20 without a track from [*whispers*] Titus Jones. This track takes five songs and finds the common thread between them all … it’s a mashed-up ode to substance use in all its forms! For or against, who cares? This track rocks!

This coming Easter weekend, Bootie is going to The Netherlands to take part in its first European festival, Paaspop in Schijndel. An entire area, called “Mashup Ville,” has been dedicated to mashups, and we – A Plus D – will be doing headlining sets each night.

We’ll be joined by some of the best names in the European mashup scene, including many of our personal friends and colleagues, including Bootie Berlin‘s DJ Morgoth, Dr. Waumiau, and Mashup-Germany, as well as DJ Schmolli and Simon Idoll. We’re also looking forward to meeting for the first time some of the faces behind the names we’ve known for so long, such as Bootie Top 10ers MadMixMustang, G3rst, Pheugoo, and Mash2Mix, as well as Dylan Vasey, Bo the Man, and Siegmund Fred.

MASHURRECTED 2011 :: m i x t a p e by madmixmustang

To commemorate the event, DJ Morgoth has put together the mixtape, “Mashurrected 2011,” featuring mashups from the entire DJ line-up of Mashup Ville at Paaspop. Click above to give it a listen, or to download the album, click here!

Looking forward to two days of hanging out with our fellow mashup DJs, and partying with the Dutch! Mad props to MadMixMustang for helping to put this whole thing together!

Next Friday 22 April, Bootie returns to London — the spiritual birthplace of the modern mashup movement — for an epic one-off mash bash at The Shoreditch.

After the huge success of last year’s first party at Cargo, we’re coming back and ready to throw down the gauntlet once again, with ourselves – A Plus D – as well as sets by The Kleptones, João Brasil, DJ Payroll, and Instamatic.

Londonist.com did a nice little music preview for the event, with tons of video links to explore — check it out here.

PURCHASE DISCOUNT ADVANCE TICKETS HERE!

And for more party details, click on over to BootieLondon.com

We – A Plus D – are headed back to Brazil again this week to DJ at the launch of Brazil’s second Bootie party, Bootie São Paulo! Mashup-Germany is will also be on the decks, helping to get this Sampa party started, along with DJs Moriera and Rafael Schultz. All the details are on the Bootie São Paulo website!

We were gonna try to rally to get a Top 10 done before leaving for a week of Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro (where we played Bootie Rio) but since we’d been so busy and sleep-deprived getting ready for THAT, we opted to sleep on the plane instead. Now it’s already mid-March and since we’ll be heading back to Brazil in early April to help launch Bootie São Paulo, we figured we might as well just go crazy and make this a Bootie Top 20, since we know we’re not going to have another Top 10 ready in time for April Fool’s Day!

Not only that, but we added a few extras as there were a lot of “topical” mashups and “compare-and-contrast” double shots we wanted to post, including a 4-pack of Brazilian mashups inspired by our travels.

Right-click the title to download, or just grab everything in this convenient zip file:
Bootie Top 20 – March 2011 zip file (156 Mb)

R.I.P. NATE DOGG
A Plus D – I Keep Forgettin To Regulate (Warren G. & Nate Dogg vs. Michael McDonald) – San Francisco
With Nate Dogg’s sad passing yesterday, we just HAD to include this. THIS is how they SHOULD have made “Regulate” (except maybe they didn’t want to pay Michael McDonald for more than a 10-second song loop). Inspired by “Yacht Rock,” Episode 7.  Rest in peace, master of the G-Funk.

CHARLIE SHEEN TIGER BLOOD MASHUP SPECIAL!
Totalcult – Fire-Breathing Fists (Charlie Sheen vs. Cypress Hill) – Birmingham, UK
Even Bootie can’t escape the Charlie Sheen crazy-pants media blitz! All of Charlie’s best sound bites, smartly mashed with “Insane In The Brain.” Winning, duh!

ALBUM OF THE YEAR GRAMMY MASHUP
The Hood Internet – Sprawl Of Glass (Arcade Fire vs. Blondie) – Chicago
With Arcade Fire’s surprising win of “Album of the Year” at last month’s Grammy Awards, we just had to include this, courtesy of The Hood Internet. DAMN, this is a gorgeous mashup!

NEW LADY GAGA TRIPLE SHOT!
DJ Tripp – Express This Way (Lady Gaga vs. Madonna) – Santa Cruz, CA
DJs From Mars – Knock This Way (Lady Gaga vs. Amii Stewart) - Torino, Italy
DJ Tyme & Nathan Scot – Born This Way In The U.S.A. (Lady Gaga vs. Bruce Springsteen) – San Francisco
The release of Lady Gaga’s new single, “Born This Way,” was predictably a smash hit across the globe, so we’ve included three very different mashup variations. The first, released by DJ Tripp mere hours after the original dropped, showcases just how much Lady Gaga “borrowed” from Madonna’s “Express Yourself.” The second is a disco-infused club banger from the always-dependable DJs From Mars (who will be playing Bootie SF, LA and Rio in May!) And the last one is a cheeky, old-school A vs. B, and what it lacks in polish it makes up for in sheer genre-clashed (and lyrically-related) ridiculousness.

A PLUS D BRAZILIAN DOUBLE SHOT!
A Plus D – Sou Foda Time (Os Avassaladores vs. Black Eyed Peas) – San Francisco
A Plus D – We R Who We Tamborzao (Ke$ha vs. DJ Amazing Clay) – San Francisco
We made two new mashups for our gig at Bootie Rio. The first features a hilarious Brazilian rap song “Sou Foda” that became a surprising internet meme, while the second turns Ke$ha into the singer of a baile funk song. Speaking of Brazil — if you’re near São Paulo, we’ll be back there on April 7 to open a brand new Bootie!

POST-CARNAVAL SAMBA SPECIAL!
Faroff – Brazilian Star Wars (John Williams vs. Danzel) – Brasilia / Los Angeles
João Brasil – One More Batucada (Daft Punk vs. Sergio Mendes) – Rio de Janeiro / London
Having now experienced the epic pageantry of Rio’s Carnaval parades, we’ve come away with a new appreciation of samba, and these two mashups were the soundtracks to both Bootie Rio’s and Bootie SF’s Midnight Mashup Shows this past month, which featured bootie-licious samba dancers! Faroff will be spinning with us next month at Bootie LA, while João Brasil is Bootie Berlin‘s special guest DJ this Friday (and will also be playing with us at the second Bootie London party on April 22.
CHECK OUT THE VIDEOS HERE and HERE!

NEW BRITNEY DOUBLE SHOT!
DJ Dave Share – Catch Em And Hold It (Britney Spears vs. Busta Rhymes) – Orange County
Titus Jones – Hold Your Sexy Arms Against Me (Britney Spears vs. Cutting Crew vs. Pink vs. David Guetta feat. Akon vs. Taylor Swift) – Nashville
Britney was the OTHER big pop diva to drop a new single, so here are two of ‘em for you: One for the bros and dudes, with Busta droppin’ rhymes to give the song some tough “street cred,” and another for the girls and gays, with its divalicious house beats. The former was also the first single from Titus Jones’ excellent new mashup album, “Culture Shock.”

Dan Mei & Marc Johnce – Whip Your Hands Outta My Dream Hell Bottle (Avril Lavigne vs. The Ting Tings vs. Kylie Minogue vs. Katy Perry vs. Willow Smith vs. The Police) – Denmark / Germany
This mega-mashup of six artists is pure, puréed fun – to quote New York Post’s Ryan Brockington, it’s “pop throwing up on pop.” This track has made quite a splash, and was also given the nod by Kylie herself — who tweeted it to her followers. How’s that for credentials?

Alexis Von Fierce – Salt Air on Mars (Bruno Mars vs. Chew Lips vs. Two Door Cinema Club) – San Francisco
Making a Bootie Top 10 debut here, Alexis Von Fierce takes Bruno Mars’ sentimental ballad and gives it an indie-electro makeover, perfect for the dance floor.

Titus Jones – College Is Crazy (Asher Roth vs. Britney Spears vs. Beyoncé vs. Gnarls Barkley) – Nashville
Titus Jones’ mashup album “Culture Shock” may be our favorite mashup album of the year (that is, until “Best of Bootie 2011″ gets released!) So we couldn’t resist including a second track from the album, especially since we always had a soft spot for Asher Roth’s “I Love College.” This is definitely one of our favorites from the album. Well done, Titus!

DJ Kue – Black and Yellow (DJ Kue Remix) (Wiz Khalifa vs. DJ Kue) – San Jose, CA
This bootleg remix goes out to our LA friend and host Brian — aka “The Bootie LA Office” — who also happens to be a huge Pittsburgh Steelers fan. Sorry ’bout the Super Bowl, dude. But at least this electro-banger brings it.

Divide & Kreate – Crazy In The Deep (Adele vs. Gnarls Barkley) - Stockholm, Sweden
Here’s one for the Europeans and the ahead-of-the-curve Americans (okay, we’ll say it… the gays!) Adele hasn’t quite hit it big in the U.S. the way she has across the pond, but that still hasn’t stopped us from loving it, and dropping it in our early sets.

Mighty Mike – Waiting In Heaven (The Cure vs. Bob Marley) – France
Neither one of us are huge fans of reggae, but we’re both longtime fans of The Cure. This track brings a new light to reggae beats for us, and adds a special chilled-out beauty to The Cure.

LIKE A G6 DOUBLE SHOT
DJ Lobsterdust - G6 Kids (Far East Movement vs. MGMT) – New York City
DJ Shyboy – Like A B.I.G.6 (Notorious B.I.G. vs Far East Movement) – Los Angeles
With “Like A G6″ fast approaching its expiration date (and perhaps past it), we figured we better post these — both big hits on the Bootie dance floor — before its too late!

Yeah, yeah, we know … we read your tweets. And we know you guys are chomping at the bit for a fresh batch of mashups. Yes, we skipped the month of January, since we had just released our “Best of Bootie 2010″ CD. But now that you’ve worn THAT out, it’s time to hear what’s been blowing up our playlists at Bootie this past month.

New for 2011! Download all 12 mashups in ONE CONVENIENT ZIP FILE (Right-click to download)

Our New Year’s Resolution was to buy a dedicated server so we could offer up the Top 10 (or Top 12, as the case may be) as an easy-cheesy zip file. Could Bootie love you even more?

A Plus D – Whip My Hair, Whip It Real Good (Willow Smith vs. Devo) - San Francisco

We made this especially for our pal Ryan Brockington over at the New York Post’s PopWrap blog, where it’s been available as an exclusive download. A concept so obvious, it simply HAD to be done. And frankly, we’re shocked at the quality (or lack thereof) of the few other versions out there, so we made our own with extra A Plus D pizzazz.

DJ BC – Silly Fuck Songs (Cee-Lo Green vs. Paul McCartney vs. Diana Ross) – Boston BOOTIE EXCLUSIVE!

When Bootie Boston’s DJ BC returned to San Francisco to play our flagship party last month, he came armed with a few new mashups, hot off the laptop. As soon as we heard this one though, we knew we HAD to have it as an “exclusive.” It’s perfect for all our Valentine’s parties this month!

DJs From Mars – Barbramyte (Taio Cruz vs. Duck Sauce) - Torino, Italy
BONUS TRACK: Marc Johnce – Flex Gym Duck (Duck Sauce vs. Dizzee Rascal vs Ray Krebbs) – Nuremberg, Germany

The obligatory entry from the electro-mashers supreme, DJs From Mars. Should we just start reserving a spot on each month’s Top 10 for them? Seriously! Plus, as an added bonus, it’s the original full version of Marc Johnce’s Duck Sauce mashup, which appeared in a hybrid form on the “Best of Bootie 2010″ CD.

Gaston – Cooler Bites The Dust (Queen vs. Crookers feat. Yelle) - France

We love year-end “best mashups” lists, not just to compare notes, but also to see if we missed anything … like this one, which appeared on Culture Bully’s “Top Mashups of 2010″ list. How did we miss this? This is one bad mofo of a mashup.

MadMixMustang – Let’s Dance ‘n Stuff (David Bowie vs. Deadmau5) – The Netherlands

Like so many bootleggers before him, MadMixMustang announced his retirement from the mashup scene, and then cleared off his hard drive by releasing a bunch of leftover tracks, including this previously unreleased gem from 2008. We wonder how long before MMM’s inevitable “comeback!” Seeing as he’s hosting the mashup tent at this year’s Paaspop Music Festival in The Netherlands — with tons of  bootlegger DJs, including ourselves — we think he’ll be back on that laptop churning out more mashup hits before we know it.

Marc Johnce – Know Your Enemy That Got Away (Green Day vs. Katy Perry vs. The Killers) – Nuremberg, Germany

We all know that Green Day has an awful lot of “pop” in their brand of “pop-punk” … but hearing what it would sound like if they went full-tilt Katy Perry pop is jarring … in a good way! And hey, while we’re at it, let’s “Katy Perry” The Killers, too!

Mashup-Germany – I’ll Be Missing You (Don’t Raise Your Glass) (Pink vs. Mike Posner vs. Puff Daddy feat. Faith Evans vs. Kelly Clarkson vs. Black Eyed Peas vs. Tracy Chapman vs. Chic vs. Daft Punk vs. Sportfreunde Stiller) - Frankfurt, Germany

Mashup-Germany is a master at multi-song mashups, and here, he manages to cram no less than nine songs together to craft a four-minute piece of pop gold. Or does this just prove that practically all pop songs sound the same? Either way, big ups go out to Mashup-Germany for this masterful multi-mash!

Party Ben – What’s My Name Jack (John Cougar Mellencamp vs. Rihanna & Drake) – San Francisco

With its loping low-tempo rhythm, ’80s classic “Jack & Diane” has been appropriated by many a hip-hop DJ as an easy musical bed to throw a rap and a beat on top of … and nearly all of them come off flat and uninspired. Well, leave it to someone like Party Ben to finally get it right! Loving this jam.

DJ Shyboy – DramaTron (Mary J. Blige vs. Daft Punk) – Los Angeles

How much do we love this MP3′s artwork of Mary J. Blige as a disc-throwing program on the game grid of Tron? Almost as much as we love her going dark-electro by being mashed up with Daft Punk’s soundtrack, which is “the best thing about the movie,” according to DJ Shyboy.

DJ Tripp – We R L’Amour (Ke$ha vs. Erasure) - Santa Cruz, California BOOTIE EXCLUSIVE!

Tripp makes Ke$ha tolerable by reviving a forgotten ’80s favorite and giving her a gay synthpop backing. Just in time for our twisted love mashup sets at this month’s Valentine’s parties! Well-produced and we’re loving finally hearing some Erasure in a mashup!

Voicedude – Sweet Teenage Dreams (Glee Cast vs. Eurythmics) – Los Angeles

More ’80s goodness! Darren Criss’s touching cover of Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” – the most downloaded song in “Glee” history – gets a mashup makeover seemingly tailor-made for the Bootie dance floor! Yes, another mashup just in time for Valentines Day!

Well, it’s about time. It’s starting to look like the mainstream media is finally catching on that mashups are no longer a “fad” or a “phase,” and that there is still much life and vibrancy in the current scene. Check out this review of the “Best of Bootie 2010″ album from the UK’s Guardian: newspaper:

“According to legend, the sound of inmates whooping in response to the murder lyric in Johnny Cash’s live recording of Folsom Prison Blues was actually added in a studio afterwards. So, really, mashup artist DJ Topcat has merely followed tradition by updating the famous performance with a breakbeat and a blistering guest rap from NWA’s Eazy-E. The resulting track, Folsom Prison Gangstaz, is the highlight of the Best of Bootie 2010 album, the latest instalment of the free compilations put together each year by bootiemashup.com.

The album proves, once again, how imaginative and vibrant the mashup scene remains.

Other corkers include Knock Out Eileen, which features LL Cool J rhyming over Dexy’s Midnight Runners, and Papa Was a Ghost which seamlessly matches the Temptations with Deadmaus. Meanwhile, Van Halen are unlikely winners of the “most mashed” award with their song Jump appearing in three of the album’s 22 tracks: the one somehow combining it with the backing track of John Lennon’s Imagine is particularly impressive.”

Bootie’s love affair with New York Post’s PopWrap continues with this, a PopWrap exclusive and A Plus D’s first mashup of 2011 – a concept so screamingly obvious that we HAD to “whip it up” (pun intended) before there were a zillion other versions out there.

Download here: A Plus D – “Whip My Hair, Whip It Real Good” (Willow Smith vs. Devo)

Ryan Brockington at the New York Post‘s infamous “PopWrap” blog has named our just-released “Best of Bootie 2010″ CD (get it here) the #1 recap of mashups of the year. He writes:

“If you are having a New Years Eve bash or take the world’s longest shower, this 80-minute mix is a must-have on your playlists. Our pals A Plus D at Bootie Mashup have taken the best of mashes from DJ all over the globe and pureed them all together to form the best accumulation of 2010 audio.

The mavens mix Lady Gaga up with Daft Punk, tossing in a few old school faves from Will Smith and Bob Marley, resulting in a detailed map of where pop music has come from and where it is today. An audio “You Are Here” mall map, of sorts. We. Love. This. Mix.”

In-between planning an epic, sold-out New Year’s Eve party in San Francisco, our cat getting hospitalized for a couple days, and Adrian getting the full-blown flu during the holidaze, we SOMEHOW still managed to compile and mix this year’s “Best of Bootie” CD! Grab it here: http://bootiemashup.com/bestofbootie2010

We did things a LITTLE differently this year, offering up the album in TWO VERSIONS:

There’s the nearly 80-minute “mixtape” version like we have in years past, meant to be compiled in order and burned on a CD, perfect for playing at parties (or your spin class). This is pretty much the soundtrack to Bootie, crammed to fit on one CD — from the early-in-the-night ramp-up tunes to the prime-time dancefloor bangers to the last-call drunken kookiness to the end-of-the-night sentimental slow jams. It’s like having your own personal Bootie party, on one CD!

Then there’s a second, “unmixed” version, with each track available as a full download – for those who like to mix-and-match their tracks, or simply not have the beginnings and ends of their mashups cut off when they use the “shuffle” function on their iPods. This version will definitely NOT fit on a CD.

We’ve also included our usual 10 Bonus Tracks, which contains some awesome tracks that just didn’t fit in the album.

Plus, this year we included something new, a BONUS ALBUM from our Brazilian brethren at Bootie Rio. The Brazilian mashup scene is exploding, and there’s no better showcase of that than the “Best of Bootie Rio 2010″ album, featuring 17 mashups from several Brazilian bootleggers.

This was a good year for mashups!

We had a tough time narrowing down the list! When we couldn’t decide between two mashups that used the same instrumental source material, we simply made our own hybrid mix versions, combining both mashups into one track. We also had to edit many of the tracks judiciously, in order to cram 23 mashups into 80 minutes. Geek out and listen to the unmixed versions to spot the differences!

A special shout-out to all the bootleggers whose work made this album possible. DJs From Mars (actually, they’re from Italy) are certainly the stand-out producers this year. But many of our old favorites and various Bootie DJs are also included, as well as a few newcomers to the mashup scene. Again, it was very hard to choose, and if anyone is bummed that their mashup didn’t make it, know this: we didn’t even include our own A Plus D tracks! We truly tried to be objective and choose what we thought were the best tracks that match the Bootie vibe and make for a great compilation.

Let us know what your favorite tracks are! Personally, our favorite this year is probably Titus Jones‘ “I Wanna Bulletproof Dancer” … unless we’re in a chill-out mode, then we’ve gotta go with LeeDM101′s gorgeous “(Find Myself) A Heap of Love.” But that’s just us right now. The truth is, ask us next week, and we might have a different answer for you!

Our pal Ryan Brockington over at the New York Post loves mashups, and he recently highlighted five of them from this month’s Bootie Top 20. He’s told us he likes mashups that sound like “pop throwing up on pop,” and he definitely gets that, highlighting tracks from Dan Mei, The Kleptones, DJs From Mars, and two from Titus Jones. Props!

By the way, if you’re in Australia this weekend, come on out to Bootie Sydney this Friday, and Bootie Melbourne this Saturday!

Yeah, yeah, we know we sort of skipped a month, even though we DID release two, count ‘em, TWO Halloween Booootie CDs last week. But we know you can’t live on Halloween mashups alone, so we’re offering up another Top 20 to make it up to you.

And seeing as we’re leaving the country for a month to bring Bootie to Hong Kong, Bangkok, Sydney, and Melbourne, you better enjoy it, because who knows if we’ll have our shiz together after our Asia/Australia tour to cobble together a Top 10 for December? Especially since we’ll be working on the much-awaited “Best of Bootie 2010″ CD, which we’ll be releasing around Christmas. So enjoy this double-dose of the Bootie Top 10, sorted alphabetically by bootlegger.

Love, A+D

Dan Mei – Stronger Than Jolene (Dolly Parton vs. Britney Spears) - Denmark
Our current DJ book contains over 280 CDs, with an average of about 18 mashups on each. (Do the math!) With that volume of material, it’s not surprising that occasionally, some quality work gets lost in the mix, only to be rediscovered years later. This is one of those tunes, which has recently been getting lots of spins at Bootie, especially with the whole “early ’00s” retro thing happening … right on time! And personally, we loves us some Dolly!

Dave Wrangler – Summertime Stylo (DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince vs. Gorillaz) – Houston
Given the song’s lyrical content, this should have been in the Bootie Top 10 months ago. But this song’s chillaxed vibe made it a bit of a sleeper hit for us. Still, seeing as that we’re headed to Australia in a couple weeks to do the first Bootie Sydney and Bootie Melbourne, we’re actually right on time for summertime down under!

Daw-Gun – Love Butterfly (Lady Gaga vs. Crazy Town) – New York City
Daw-Gun has been an up-and-coming producer out of New York for a while now, and he really nails it on this one, taking Crazy Town’s one-hit wonder “Butterfly” and updating it with some Gaga, ten years after the fact. What was that I said about the early ’00s being “retro” already?

DJs FROM MARS DOUBLE SHOT
DJs From Mars – Love The Way You Lie In Paradise City (Eminem ft. Rihanna vs. Guns N’ Roses) – Torino, Italy
DJs From Mars – Teenage Gay (Katy Perry vs. OMD) – Torino, Italy
It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of DJs From Mars, the amazing DJ/production duo out of Italy who are known for wearing boxes over their heads while they DJ as much as they are for their sharp, club-ready mashups. Here are two tracks that merge current pop with classic ’80s material — hair metal or new wave, take your pick — and give it all their trademark bass-thumping electro makeover.

DJ Fac - Seven Nation Army’s Going On (Backstreet Boys vs. White Stripes) – Switzerland
Here’s another mashup “lost from the vaults” that we’ve recently rediscovered — and it never fails to get the crowd at Bootie jumping and singing along. You know, when we thought about the ’90s thing happening, we figured it would be iconic grunge and alternative bands that would be riding the retro wave, not Backstreet Boys. But hey, let’s face it, this is easier to sing along to than the Stone Temple Pilots, and everyone secretly loves this Backstreet Boys song. Yes, it looks they DO have it “going on for years.”

Faroff – Ray No Speak No Americano (Ray Charles vs. Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP) - Los Angeles / BrazIl
Brazil’s Faroff — by way of Boston and Los Angeles — is one of Bootie’s resident DJs, and his output has gotten increasingly more tuned to the dance floor. Here, he manages to bridge half a century in one song, taking Ray Charles’ 1954 classic (which was sampled in Kanye West’s ‘Gold Digger’) and blends it seamlessly with this past summer’s huge club hit “We Speak No Americano.”

CLUB CAN’T HANDLE ME DOUBLE SHOT
DJ Fox – Club Can’t Use Somebody (Kings of Leon vs. Flo Rida ft. David Guetta) – San Francisco
DJs From Mars – Where The Streets Can’t Handle Me (U2 vs. Flo Rida ft. David Guetta) - Torino, Italy
Speaking of big summertime club hits, you just couldn’t get away from this “Club Can’t Handle Me” song these past few months … so hey, why not breath some new life into it by fusing the dance hit with anthemic stadium rockers? The first, by SF’s own DJ Fox, uses Kings of Leon, while the second samples U2 and comes from DJs From Mars, who — yes, admittedly — we just couldn’t resist including for a third appearance on this list.

Hawkins – XXX (X vs. The XX) – St. Paul, Minnesota
LOVE this one. Wow. We’ve gotta admit, we didn’t have high hopes for this one when we first saw it. Most mashups with a clever pairing of band names or song titles usually come off sounding forced. Just because your mashup has a clever name,  doesn’t mean it’s necessarily going to SOUND clever. But this is a RARE exception. Hawkins gets it, producing a haunting mashup that takes a song with often overlooked dark themes (“Los Angeles”) and puts it into a more proper musical context. We love The XX, but after hearing so many mashups phoned in with simplistic, easy rap vocals plopped on top, this is a welcome surprise.

Jarod Ripley – Just The Way U Are (Bruno Mars vs. Freeez) - France
Bruno Mars is so hot right now, how could we not include him this month? French producer Jarod Ripley fuses him quite nicely with Freeez’s forgotten 1983 favorite “I.O.U.,” making for a beautiful blending of genres and decades. Nope, the ’80s will never truly die.

THE KLEPTONES DOUBLE SHOT
The Kleptones – Jump You Fucker (Cee Lo Green vs. Van Halen) – Brighton, UK
The Kleptones – Lung Cancer (Radiohead vs. Amerie J) – Brighton, UK
In the world of mashups, The Kleptones are one of our favorites, so we couldn’t resist doing a double shot! The first one is a brand-new track fusing Cee Lo’s expletive chorused YouTube hit with Van Halen and their awesome keyboard breakdown, specially made into a “Bootie edit” for your dancing pleasure. The second is off their “Shits & Giggles” compilation, turning Radiohead’s brooding song into something far funkier than it was originally intended.

DJ Lobsterdust - Celeplanes (M.I.A. vs. Rare Earth) - New York City
Speaking of funk … here, Rare Earth’s 1971 hit gets a contemporary update with M.I.A. on vocals. We used to pretty much reserve a spot on each month’s Top 10 for DJ Lobsterdust. But he’s been recently busy, so his mashup output has slowed down a wee bit; we had to dig back a few months to rediscover this gem.

DJ Morgoth – Carry On My Wayward Island (Kansas vs. Pendulum) – Berlin
This past year has seen several acapellas from classic ’70s and ’80s songs leaked onto the internet, greatly expanding the bootleg production options available to mashup producers. No longer limited to only using tired and overused rap and pop vocals, many producers are becoming extremely creative with what’s floating around out there. Bootie Berlin’s DJ Morgoth wasn’t even alive when Kansas’ classic rock opus first came out, but that hasn’t stopped him from turning the song into an electro club-banger! Genre-f*ck alert! And from what we can tell, this Pendulum track may not even be released in America, so once again, a mashup is exposing us to new music we would have otherwise never heard. You’re welcome, record companies.

Party Ben – Beat Sauce (Michael Jackson vs. Duck Sauce) – San Francisco
Considering that Duck Sauce is a collaboration between DJs Armand Van Helden and A-Trak, it’s no surprise that their name-dropping “Barbra Streisand” track (which actually has nothing to do with Babs) has become a big club hit. Here, Party Ben adds the vocals of “Beat It,” and replaces the spoken “Barbra Streisand” bit with a spoken “Michael Jackson” bit instead. Clever!

DJ Shyboy – Metro Life (T.I. & Rihanna vs. Berlin) – Los Angeles
Berlin was such a quintessential LA band back in the day, that it’s no surprise that an LA mashup producer came up with this one. Bootie LA’s Shyboy turns the T.I. and Rihanna hit into retro ’80s goodness. And we’re pretty damn sure you’ll be hearing this one on Bootie LA’s dancefloor for the ’80s vs Electropop Night later this month.

TITUS JONES DOUBLE SHOT
Titus Jones – I Wanna Bulletproof Dancer (La Roux vs. Whitney Houston vs. Robyn vs. Taylor Swift) – Nashville
Titus Jones – Smells Like Ke$ha’s G6 (Ke$ha vs. Nirvana vs. Far East Movement vs. Britney Spears) - Nashville
I love it when Titus Jones writes his own blurbs: “While ‘Bulletproof’ is still enjoying major airplay, ‘Dancing On My Own’ is slowly working its way up the charts. I’m in love with this song, and I’m also in love with the ’80s. “Robyn song about dancing” plus “80′s Whitney Houston song about dancing” = Retro Dancing Magic. Plus, there’s always room for auto-tuned Robot Taylor Swift, right? Next up, Ke$ha’s latest hit single, ‘Take It Off,’ had a deliciously yummy club beat that I couldn’t resist using, not to mention the awesome party-ness of Far East Movement’s ‘Like A G6′ — and yes, that is auto-tuned Kurt Cobain robotic-ly singing over the electro-pop-goodness. Forgive me, Nirvana, for I have sinned.

DJ Tripp - Run This Firefly (Jay-Z ft. Rihanna vs. Owl City) - Santa Cruz, CA
We’ve featured several “Fireflies” mashups in the Top 10 over the past few months, but this is actually the one that gets played the most at Bootie. Plus, it’s produced by DJ Tripp, who is our trusted resident DJ at Bootie SF while we’re away in Asia and Australia this month, so it’s only fitting that he has an awesome track in this month’s Top 10.

For most of the month of November, we’ll be in Southeast Asia and Australia, bringing Bootie to four different cities on two continents!

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FRIDAY 19 NOVEMBER – SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
BOOTIE SYDNEY @ PHOENIX BAR
Exchange Hotel, 34 Oxford St., Darlinghurst, Sydney
Our first Bootie mashup party in Sydney!

For the past two years, we’ve given out exclusive, limited-edition Halloween mashup CDs at our epic HALLOWEEN BOOOOTIE parties in San Francisco. (How epic? Well, last night we had nearly 1,600 costumed people crammed into the DNA Lounge!)

These annual compilations are given out to the first 300 people who show up in costume … but they’re just too good to be exclusive, so we’ve decided to release both of them online for everyone to enjoy!

Click the CD covers – with gorgeous artwork by Mike Segawa – to get to the downloads! Or just go here: BootieMashup.com/halloween

It’s almost Halloween, and we’ve been busy! First up, we – A Plus D – will be DJing this Thursday, October 28th, at the annual Refi Rock Halloween Party at Pacha in New York City, which is a benefit for the Boomer Esiason Foundation.

Not only are we DJing for a good cause, we’re also DJing … with Pauly D, of Jersey Shore fame! A Plus D Plus Pauly D — what’s not to like? Halloween party, yeaaaah! We’ll be sure to take pictures.

After the party, we fly back to San Francisco just in time to throw our epic Halloween Booootie party at the DNA Lounge. We just finished compiling the “Halloween Booootie 2″ CD, filled with 13 spooktacular Halloween-themed mashups. We’ll be giving them away FREE to the first 300 people in costume, but for a sneak preview, check out our latest A Plus D mashup: “Psycho Killer On The Dancefloor.”

HALLOWEEN DOWNLOAD: A Plus D – “Psycho Killer On The Dancefloor” (Talking Heads vs. DJ Sign & Purple Project)

DJ Topcat’s brilliant Johnny Cash vs. Eazy-E mashup “Folsom Prison Gangstaz” – released six months ago, but just featured on last week’s Bootie Top 10 – got BoingBoing’ed today, so now it’s making the internet meme rounds in the blogosphere and twitterverse. Just something we like to call the “Bootie Bump.”

We just threw one of our biggest Bootie parties ever — the epic 7-Year Itch Anniversary in San Francisco — and in less than two weeks, we leave for Burning Man to throw Bootie BRC out in the middle of the desert. So we figured if we didn’t hustle and get this month’s Bootie Top 10 done RIGHT NOW, it wouldn’t get posted until sometime in the middle of September. And we know how you guys HATE that.

So here, without further ado, are the summertime mashup jams that have been blowin’ up our iPods (and CD decks) this past month. RIGHT-CLICK TO DOWNLOAD!

Ever since we got back from two months on tour, we’ve had a bit of a rough time getting ourselves back onto a “regular” schedule, as you can probably tell by this, yet another overdue Bootie Top 10 list. In fact, it’s starting to become a “Top 10″ in name only, as we just can’t help including two months’ worth of mashups. Yup, double the mashups, double the fun!

We just did “Lady Gaga vs. Madonna Night” a few weeks ago at Bootie SF, and it was our second biggest Bootie party ever, with nearly 1,500 people. A lot of you have been asking for some of the mashups we played that night, so if you’re a bit Gaga-adverse, you might want to skip around a bit.  However, we also have a healthy dose of other genres such as electro, hip-hop, etc., so there should be something for everyone.

Without further ado … sorted (mostly) alphabetically by bootlegger…

DJ BC – Eyes Without A Bootie (Billy Idol vs. John Blu) – Boston
Bootie Boston’s own DJ BC provides us with a new slow jam to ramp down the night. And yes, we’re suckers for a mashup that name-drops our party’s name!

Faroff - You Ring Me Round (Like A Telephone) (Lady Gaga vs. Beyoncé vs. Dead Or Alive) – Brasília/Los Angeles
The video for this keeps getting pulled down from YouTube, thanks to Lady Gaga’s label (who were all about having Bootie mash her up before her fame, the hypocrites!) But here’s the audio mashup, as Brazil’s Faroff realizes that the classic ’80s hit, “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)” is one of those perfect pop songs that seems to magically mash up with nearly everything!

CALIFORNIA GURLS DOUBLE SHOT!
DJ Digital Dave - Back To Cali Gurls (Bootie Edit) (Notorious B.I.G. vs. Katy Perry) – Pittsburgh
Mash2Mix – California Tik Tok Gurls (Bootie Edit) (Katy Perry vs. KeSha) – The Netherlands
Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” is definitely this year’s summertime jam, which is why we wish someone would leak a clean acapella track from it. But until then, we’ve got these two mashups that simply HAD to be done: The first makes the inevitable lyrical connection between Biggie and Katy and their enjoyment of all California has to offer, while the second simply proves that this summer’s biggest pop song is basically the same as last winter’s biggest pop song, which is why so many DJs and producers have mashed these two up. (This was the first one out of the gate though, and the best, in our humble opinion– it was a Bootie exclusive to NY Post’s “Pop Wrap” blog last month, read about it here.)

Go Home Productions – How Soon Is Independence? (Destiny’s Child vs. The Smiths) – Watford, UK
Go Home Productions, aka Mark Vidler, is considered by many to be one of the early bootleg scene’s biggest stars. He began mashing up in 2002 and did both the legally-released “Rapture Riders” mashup (Blondie vs. The Doors) as well as the UK-only Mashed CD, a full album of copyright-cleared mashups. Recently, he’s made a much-welcome return to the mashup world, such as this with this track, which uses classic source material such as The Smiths. And he’ll be playing at Bootie’s 7-Year Itch Anniversary in San Francisco on August 14th!

Lazyellow – Blah Blah Blah Chillin Romance (Ke$ha vs. Lady Gaga vs. Wale) – London, UK
Totally infectious club-banger mashup from a newcomer to the mashup scene, Lazyellow from the U.K. We were not big fans of Ke$ha’s “Blah Blah Blah,” but hearing it mashed with thumpy beats and Lady Gaga’s “rah-rah-ah-ah-ah, etc.” as a chorus makes it awesome.

LeeDM101 – (Find Myself) A Heap of Love (Florence & The Machine vs. Depeche Mode vs. Imogen Heap) – South West UK
Simply a stunner of a slow jam, and our favorite Florence & The Machine mashup thus far. Gorgeous and beautiful. Also, it’s nice to see Lee revisiting his Depeche Mode fan roots!

DJ LOBSTERDUST DOUBLE SHOT!
DJ Lobsterdust – Knock Out Eileen (LL Cool J vs. Dexy’s Midnight Runners) – New York City
DJ Lobsterdust – Two Stop (Journey vs. Grizzly Bear) – New York City
Our favorite mashup producer from New York City (and perennial Bootie Top 10 contributor) DJ Lobsterdust returns … and we couldn’t pick just one! The first is a smile-inducing genre-clash of ’80s hits … one that really knocked us out! The second forces indie hipsters to embrace their inner Journey. And come on, who doesn’t secretly love “Don’t Stop Believin’? It’s practically the Bootie theme song!

MadMixMustang – Pac-Man Inferno (Buckner & Garcia vs. The Tramps) – The Netherlands
Speaking of smile-inducing ’80s mashups, this ridiculous combination has us longing for a hot tub time machine so we can take it back with us and blast it on a boombox at the video arcade (while rockin’ our feathered hair and Jordache jeans, of course!) We also love that MadMixMustang uses a lot of source material that other mashup producers overlook … I mean, c’mon, “Pac-Man Fever”? Totally tubular.

MARC JOHNCE IS A “MONSTER” DOUBLE SHOT!
Marc Johnce – Monster Never Can Say Goodbye (Lady Gaga vs. The Communards) – Nuremberg, Germany
Marc Johnce – Monster Will Come Back (Lady Gaga vs. Holy Ghost!) – Nuremberg, Germany
We had plenty of “Just Dance” and “Bad Romance” mashups for “Lady Gaga vs. Madonna Night” at Bootie, but none of “Monster.” Fortunately, Marc Johnce came through at the last minute with not one, but two mashups of what’s rumored to be Gaga’s next single. OMG, and even more ’80s retro goodness with a forgotten gem from The Communards! And then for the more indie fans, we got a very cool version with Brooklyn electro duo Holy Ghost!

Mashup-Germany – Hit And Drop On All The Single Ladies (Beyoncé vs. Rihanna vs. Ray Charles vs. Snoop Dogg) – Cologne, Germany
What’s great about this track is its use of the timeless Ray Charles track, “Hit the Road Jack.” Plus, the Bootie crowd never seems to tire of “Single Ladies.” Here, Mashup-Germany uses his signature multi-song combo style to wonderful effect, even adding in some “Drop It Like It’s Hot” in the mix. Never fails to get everyone’s hands up!

Mighty Mike – Heart-Shaped Desires (Nirvana vs. Muse) – France
Released eight months ago, this one is a bit of a iPod sleeper hit for us, combining two of favorite band’s songs into a dark concoction, full of creepy cool menace.

LADY GAGA vs. MADONNA DOUBLE SHOT!
Mkaio – Alejandro (Mkaio’s Holiday Smash) (Lady Gaga vs. Madonna) – Salt Lake City, Utah BOOTIE EXCLUSIVE
Nathan Scot – Alejandro De La Isla Bonita (Lady Gaga vs. Madonna) – San Francisco
What would “Lady Gaga vs. Madonna Night” be at Bootie without actual Lady Gaga vs. Madonna mashups? The classic “Queen of Pop” dukes it out with the current “Queen of Pop” in a mashup duel using Gaga’s current single, “Alejandro.” The first is a “Bootie Exclusive,” while the second showcases Lady Gaga’s obvious influence for “Alejandro” (I’m talking to you, “La Isla Bonita”) as well as both artists’ mutual love of Latino culture (or at least Latino boys!)

Mochi Beats – Time After Romance (Lady Gaga vs. Cyndi Lauper vs. Three 6 Mafia) – Orange County, California
“Bad Romance” is a such a dance floor stormer, that this darker atmospheric (yet still thumpy) version from mashup scene newcomer Mochi Beats comes off as quite an unexpected surprise!

Stein-Vidar – Like A Virgin At The Y.M.C.A. (Bootie Edit) (Madonna vs. The Village People) – Norway
Another newcomer to the mashup scene, Norway’s Stein-Vidar brings the classic pop cheese with this ridonkulous mashup. The songs work great together, and we added back in some of the original “Y.M.C.A.” (hence the Bootie Edit) just so when you feel the need to do the requisite Y-M-C-A arm gestures!

Thriftshop XL – Abba Alpha Beat Beet Roots Of All Evil (ABBA vs. The Bloody Beetroots vs. Alphabeat) – Scotland
How do you turn classic pop cheese into electro-breakbeat madness? Like this. Wait for it, wait for it … and then there goes ABBA, down the rabbit hole.

Titus Jones – Imma Stop Loving Drugs (Ke$ha vs. Glee Cast vs. La Roux vs. Black Eyed Peas vs. Iglu & Hartly) – Clarksville, Arkansas
One of our favorite mashup producers, known for his multi-song, multi-layered creations, returns with this fantastic pop gem. Titus Jones just graduated from college — someone hire this guy for audio production, he’s awesome! Bonus points for using the Glee Cast version of “Don’t Stop Believin’. Did we mention it’s practically the Bootie theme song?

Bootie LA was recently featured on Los Angeles’s KTTV Fox 11 news, as well as on the morning show “Good Day LA.”