Album Cover Mash-Ups by Christian Marclay

Unless you've spent the last decade living under a rock, you've probably heard a mash-up or two. You know, a DJ takes the music from one song and plops the vocals from a totally different song on top of it...and let's not confuse 'mash-ups' for 'sampling'. Mash-ups generally work best when the marriage is ironic. [see youtube for Rick Astley vs Nirvana].

New York based visual artist & composer Christian Marclay goes a step further, he mashes-up LP covers, creating some seriously over the top collages.

NOTORIOUS B.I.G. 'JUICY' vs THE XX 'VCR'

MR OIZO vs MF DOOM

Daedelus' "Impending Doom" featuring DOOM vs Mr Oizo's "Flat Beat". I wish this track was about 10-minutes longer, son!

MASSIVE ATTACK vs VAMPYR

Massive Attack's 'Angel' set to the much under-appreciated 1932 film 'Vampyr'. Vampyr was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.

NOUVELLE VAGUE vs JEAN-LUC GODARD

Nouvelle Vague's 'Dance With Me' mashed-up with the classic dancing scene from Jean-Luc Godard's crime comedy Bande a Part. It so impressed Quentin Tarantino that he named his movie production company, "A Band Apart", after the film and referenced it in Pulp Fiction. Godard later said that he would much rather Tarantino had just given him a lot of money instead. Bande a Part was released in the US as Band of Outsiders.

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM vs APHEX TWIN

LCD 'watch the tapes' vs Aphex Twin '4' mash-up.

DAVID LYNCH'S 'ERASERHEAD' - MASHED UP

A beaty mash-up that's REALLY fucked up! David Lynch's 'Eraserhead' mashed-up by RIAA. 'Eraserhead Serenade' was lifted from the album Mashed in Plastic. Sit back and be stupefied by 5-minutes of pure, unadulterated WTF?!

YUL BRYNNER in WESTWORLD

Video & audio rehash (courtesy of 'nullzerovoid') of the 1972 SciFi classic West World. Starring Yul Brynner, in a complete and total departure from his most famous role in The King and I.
Synopsis: An excursion to a futuristic "Fantasy Island" turns deadly for two wealthy tourists (Richard Benjamin, James Brolin) in Michael Crichton's sci-fi thriller. Seeking cowboy adventures in the island's Westworld sector, the two enter a high-tech nightmare controlled by a ruthless robotic gunslinger (a chillingly creepy Yul Brynner). Surrounded by malfunctioning Wild West androids, the terrified adventure seekers get more than their money's worth.

PSYCHIC TV vs KRAFTWERK

Psychic TV 'Joy' vs Kraftwerk 'Numbers'

NEWCLEUS vs JANET JACKSON

Finally found a copy (a shit copy, but at least it's a copy) of an old white label bootleg that's just about 25 years old of Newcleus (Jam on It) vs Janet Jackson (When I Think of You).

APHEX TWIN vs PRODIGY 'BREATHE'

AFX opens a whole can of ugly on Prodigy's 'Breathe'.

MOS DEF vs MASSIVE ATTACK 'I AGAINST I'

A sweet mash-up, battling Mos Def against Massive Attack.

RICK ASTLEY vs NIRVANA

NEVER GONNA GIVE YOUR TEEN SPIRIT UP

METHODMAN 'JUDGEMENT DAY' THE TRICKY REMIX:

Tricky lends his perspective to Meth's 'Judgement Day'. This posted version is much heavier than Methodman's original with a darker themed, rolling drum pattern that builds and builds and then pulls back. Builds and builds and then pulls back again. Over and over, never quite finishing you off.

MASSIVE ATTACK 'RISINGSON' vs MADONNA 'YOU MUST LOVE ME'

Another beautifully black video mash-up featuring Massive Attack's 'risingson' and a witchy, witchy Madonna performing her 'you must love me' track.

MASSIVE ATTACK vs PRODIGY

MASSIVE ATTACKs 'ANGEL' vs PRODIGYs 'VOODOO PEOPLE'. This video tastes of a Guy 'Mr. Madonna' Ritchie flick: music, action, color and the impending threat of an ass-whooping. Keep your eyes peeled for cameo appearances by the boys of Prodigy throughout.