There’s something charmingly unhinged about the idea of releasing a mashup of 100 songs for a generation with no attention span left. But while that may sound absurd, it works in practice thanks to the tenured dance music duo DJs From Mars, who reached triple digits while curating songs for their new “megamashup.”
Cramming 100 festival anthems from the past two decades into one cohesive cut, the mix spans from the seminal music of Daft Punk and The Chemical Brothers to the serotonin-draining anthems of 2010s Avicii and Swedish House Mafia to today’s global hits from Fred again.. and Peggy Gou. It’s the kind of ambitious nonsense that sounds impossible until you hear it working perfectly.
The Italian duo credits the AI-powered stem separation tool LALAL.AI for making the project feasible. While many in today’s music industry weaponize AI for unethical uses like unauthorized vocal deepfakes, platforms like LALAL.AI were built to enhance the toolkits of producers rather than displace them.
Thanks to its clean stem separation technology, gone are the days of artists digging into the dregs of Google with the hopes of finding that one golden studio-quality acapella.
“We always struggled to find good quality acapellas,” DJs From Mars said in a statement. “Now we can extract clean vocals from basically every existing track. That’s a game-changer for our mashups, our live sets and our studio production. We tried LALAL.AI, and boom! It was love at first sight.”
The result, a euphoric 13-minute jolt of electro nostalgia, feels like watching a montage of your own raving history. It’s a reminder that sometimes the best way to celebrate how far dance music has come is to throw it all in a blender and just see what happens.
Check out the new “megamashup” below.
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