Halloween rolls around faster each year

Where has the year gone? How has the year gone? WHAT has the... never mind.

I was spinning my favourite hyper-specific genre: HALLOWEEN, on halloween again with the lovely Tynie Socials, this time at The Grove.

What got played...

John Murphy - In The House... In A Heartbeat

Jeff Buckley - Ulalume

Murder by Death - Those Who Stayed

clipping. - Nothing is Safe

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - A Nightmare On My Street

LeeDM101 - Running Dreams (Placebo/Marilyn Manson/Eurythmics/Ministry/Kate Bush mashup)

Lord Dent & His Invaders - Wolf Call

Rex Garvin & Mighty Cravers - Strange Happenings

Pixies - Where Is My Mind

Death in Vegas - Dirge

Skeletons - Positive Force

Fingathing - Don't Turn Around

DJ Crossability - Magic Adolescent (Arctic Monkeys vs Little Mix mashup)

Bessie Smith - Blue Spirit Blues

Adamski - Killer

Nelly Furtado - Say It Right (MAUS club remix)

Nemanja - Orfejev Ples

Gorillaz - Dare

Electric Six - The Number of the Beast

10000 Spoons - Bullet With Pussycat Dolls (Smashing Pumpkins vs Pussycat Dolls mashup)

Roky Erickson - I Walked with a Zombie

Dex Ward - Might As Well Dance (f-tang-a-lang)

Echo & The Bunnymen - People Are Strange

The Three D's - Graveyard Cha Cha

Brody And The Grodies - You Put The Hex On Me

Zombina and the Skeletones - Last Chance Dance

Misfits - London Dungeon

The Allergies feat Andy Cooper - Tear The Place Up

Michael Sembello - Maniac (DJ Mar Omella extended rework v1)

She Wants Revenge - Tear You Apart

The Bacarrudas - Wolf Party

Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - (Ghost) Riders In The Sky

Lord Luther - Teenage Creature

Los Straitjackets - ¡Ghostbusters!

DRA'man - Highway to tax (AC/DC vs Detroit City Limits mashup)

DRA'man - Jump in the line (House of Pain vs Harry Belafonte mashup)

Supple - Stayin' Alive

Eels - Fresh Blood

Videoteque - Beware the Moon

Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence '04

The Budos Band - Ghost Talk

Isaac Rother & The Phantoms - Hit Me Baby One More Time

Pam Fleming's Dead Zombie Band - Boppin' Bones

Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London

DJ Shadow - Organ Donor (Extended Overhaul)

DJ Lobsterdust - It's Fun To Smoke Dust (Queen vs. Satan mashup)

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

Vixoria Drift - The Hand That Feeds Smooth Criminals (Nine Inch Nails vs Michael Jackson mashup)

Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

Lady Gaga - The Dead Dance

The Automatic - Monster

Muse - Time Is Running Out

Misfits - Skulls

Bobby 'Boris' Pickett & The Crypt Kickers - Monster Mash

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams

Soft Cell - Tainted Love

Britney Spears - Toxic

Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet's Back)

DoM - Lucky Ghostbusters  (Ray Parker Jr vs Daft Punk feat Pharrell Williams mashup)

N-Trance - Set You Free

Corona - Rhythmn Of The Night

Haddaway - What Is Love

Rihanna - Disturbia

New Order - Blue Monday

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A-Trak remix)

McFly - Five Colours In Her Hair

Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity

Lady Gaga - Marry The Night

Erasure - Love to Hate You

Bobby 'Boris' Pickett & The Crypt Kickers - Monster Mash (AGAIN)

Baccara - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

ABBA - Lay All Your Love On Me

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn & Nell Campbell - The Time Warp

Stevie Wonder - Superstition

Here comes the sun (duh duh duh duhhh)

 Played a set at TERNS to celebrate it not being terrible grey weather anymore. Cheery Sunday afternoon stuff.

Big John K - Poor Souls

Ramsey Lewis Trio - John Henry

Black Merda - Take A Little Time

The Exotics - I Don't Want Nobody To Lead me On

Alèmayèhu Eshèté & Hirut Bèqèlè – Tèmèlès

Amon Düül II - Fly United

Paul Ritchie & The Cryin' Shames - Come On Back

Clemon Smith - Brother Man, Sister Ann

Roger Fakhr - Had To Come Back Wet

Huey 'Piano' Smith & His Clowns - Just A Lonely Clown

Harvey Averne - I Feel Fine

Lee Dorsey - People Gonna Talk

Lowell Fulson - Mellow Together

Eddie Bo - (Ooh, Wee Baby) What You Gonna Do

The Mar-Keys - Gonna Work Out Fine

Derrick Harriott - Reach Out I'll Be There

The Human Beinz - Dance On Through

Sidan - Ar Goll

Gift - Drugs

Indian Ropeman - Sunshine of Your Love

Calypso Rose feat Manu Chao - Leave Me Alone

Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier - Psyche Rock (Fatboy Slim malpaso edit)

Clue J And His Blues Blasters - Pine Juice

Loose Ends - Taxman

The Detroit Cobras - Putty (In Your Hands)

Irma Thomas - Somebody Told You

Nina Simone - Save Me

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Bag Of Bones

Tacocat - Hologram

The Dave Pike Set - Mathar (The Frank Popp Ensemble mix)

The Rose Garden - Next Plane To London

Professor Longhair - Who's Been Foolin'

Ray Charles - Don't You Know

Ray Sharpe - Help Me (Get The Feeling) pt 2

Camille 'Lil' Bob - Stop

Joe Simon - Come On And Get It

The Budos Band - The Sticks

Brian Auger & The Trinity - Tiger

Betty Harris - There's A Break In The Road

Amanaz - Khala My Friend

Sugarman Three - Pull My Cart

St. Paul & The Broken Bones - Call Me

Brenton Wood - The Oogum Boogum Song

The Barbarians - Moulty

Bo Diddley - Road Runner

Jerry & The Medicine Men - The Medicine Man pt 2

Barrence Whitfield & The Savages - Cape May Diamond

The Village Callers - Hector

Carla & Rufus - Cause I Love you

Bobby Franklin's Insanity - Bring It On Down To Me (part 1)

The Chapters - If You Can't Love Me - Pity Me

Dave Bartholomew - Yeah Yeah

Crystal Mansion - Somebody Oughta' Turn Your Head Around

Fuzzy Haskins - The Fuz And Da Boog

Marc Hype & Jim Dunloop feat Sara Bourgeois - The Mexican (radio version)

Youngblood Brass Band - Ain't Nobody

MC5 - The American Ruse

Rusty Harness - Goodbye

Aaron Neville - Let's Live

Alexi LaGoon's favourite mashups of 2025

 Haven't done this for ages, but, as a long-term mashup enthusiast, I feel it's nice to highlight some of the instances of this most postmodern and superficially trashy but actually sometimes transcendently beautiful craft that I really enjoyed in 2025.

In no particular order:

LeeDM101 - Sunday Apologies (Sinéad O'Connor vs Marsheaux)

Sinéad's cover of Nirvana is full of delicate melancholy, setting it drifting over a kind of harsh but lush synth landscape makes something really beautiful and moving.

Dunproofin' - Lonely GOATherd (Julie Andrews vs LL Cool J)

I think there's a specific art to a comedy mash, and this is probably the silliest of the year that I really enjoyed - great high concept, wildly mismatched sources, tremendous fun, almost danceable.

Titus Jones - Entertain Us (Charli XCX vs Blur vs Britney vs Nirvana)

Probably the most straight-up banger mashup here, taking several already incredibly catchy elements and scrunching them together slickly to make something even more dancefloor-centric.

fnogg - Subway Situation (Chappell Roan vs Weezer)

One of several great mashes from fnogg's Roan vs Weezer 'Cheezer' album (the other highlights, for me, being Red Wine Photonova and Undone After Midnight). I reckon this one has the edge as the anthemic heaviness of the instrumental brings out the frazzled emotion of the vocals better than the original (even if it ends up sounding a bit like that Keane song).

McClintock Mashups - I'll Be A Disciple For You (Slayer vs The Rembrandts) 

Are Slayer bad? I'm not metal enough to know, but a superficial skim of the internet suggests their more dubious imagery and lyrics are for provocation rather than actually being representative of a racist worldview, and the lyrics here seem to be asserting a general hatred of EVERYONE, which I can kind of get behind - particularly when expertly intertwined with the 'Friends' theme tune! Comedically mismatched but really well integrated (love a back-and-forth vocal), great.

DoM - Everybody Needs To Go Home (Boney M vs Fatboy Slim)

Fatboy Slim's Everybody Needs A Carnival  is itself an alternate version of his Everybody Needs a 303, with added calypso carnival party vibes. Throwing in Boney M's Gotta Go Home (perhaps better recognised as the sample for Duck Sauce Barbara Streisand) creates incredible energy. At times it sounds like a great mix (i.e. two records playing in sync) more than a comprehensively integrated mash, but it's so good, just draaaaags you inexorably to the dancefloor.

ah! - Lumnpch (Billie Eilish vs Presidents of the United States of America)

Eilish's breathy ethereal vocals over the Presidents' bouncy grungy riffs is an unusual dynamic, but it all fits together delightfully. Perhaps even more than any other mashup this year, I listened to this one over and over and over.

That's it. Loads of others I enjoyed, but think those were the top of the pops. Go check out all the creators accounts for more quality stuff, etc etc.