DJ Cummerbund

November 26, 2020 11:07 AM

DJ Cummerbund: A purveyor of cursed, powerful mashups such as The Devil Wap Down to Georgia and Play That Funky Music Rammstein (2020 Webby Award). Come for songs that you may not know how to feel about individually yet are strangely compelling when bound together, stay for the restrained yet hilarious video editing and persistently recurring Macho Man.

Thrill It To Me Baby - "DJ Cummerbund, Rick James, Michael Jackson, and Vincent Price deliver some Halloween funk to your face."
Shaxicula - "This is the music of the Dark Multiverse."
Gamblefalls - "When I found out there were no Kenny Rogers/TLC mashups, I immediately got to work. This is also the first mashup to feature a Muppet death!"
WarMCA - "WAR! I despise! 'Cause it means destruction of YOUNG MEN!"
Man I Feel Beautiful - "The hit song by Shanilyn Twanson. And Toto."
I Believe In A Pony - "A love song?"
Holiday No. 5 - best summed up by an exchange in the comments:

Cod3Thr33: How the hell do you get him to sing in tune to an entirely different song without it sounding all auto-tuned? That's pretty cool. And the "Mambo #5" in Billy Joe Armstrong's voice was a pro touch. Damn!
DJ Cummerbund: They both came to my studio and rerecorded their parts
Cod3Thr33: Cool! Did Lou Bega bring Asmreemjmlah?
DJ Cummerbund: Sadly she was not there

Man In A Bottle - "Xtina meets some grunge icons and they have a party on the beach and like one is trapped inside a bottle and also there's a thirsty dog."
Get Away - "A spicy tune about being allergic to cats."
iDeng - "Bored with dominating the pop world, Korean sensations BTS find a new backing band in Mudvayne to help round out their new heavy sound."
Semi-Charmed Sign - "this song is what it feels like to snort fat rails of the 90s"
I Write Sugar Not Watermelons - Brendon Urie gets increasingly annoyed with Harry Styles rambling about fruit.
Smell Up Your Spice Party - "OMG Party Rock Anthem has the same BPM as this Spice Girls song and this Nirvana song!"
Get Out Of My Black Or In Too Deep - "A song for the troubled times we live in."
Weird Betty - "the musical equivalent of a fever dream"
Another One's Hot In Herre - "Supergroup Quelly performing their new club banger."

posted by automatic cabinet (18 comments total)

YYMilk is exactly what you think it would be
posted by kurumi at 12:07 PM on November 26, 2020 [3 favorites]

Play that Funky Music Rammstein made me bark like a seal during standups. Turns out my mike was still on, scaring team mates, which forced me to blame Mila the cat, claiming I swallowed a clump of cat floof.
posted by lemon_icing at 1:35 PM on November 26, 2020 [3 favorites]

OMG this is the thing I have wanted all my life!!!
posted by rednikki at 1:47 PM on November 26, 2020

Detroit Rock Lobster is genius.
posted by Foosnark at 1:56 PM on November 26, 2020 [5 favorites]

Turning Du Hast into a call and response is nothing short of brilliant.

"Play that Funky Music, Rammstein"
"NEIN"
posted by thoughtful_jester at 2:20 PM on November 26, 2020 [9 favorites]

It’s a little weird that Don’t Stop Til You Mash Enough is nominally about Baron Trump turning 13, but the mashing is impeccable. Everytime you think it’s peaked he adds another layer.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 2:36 PM on November 26, 2020 [3 favorites]

Bonus points to Rammstein’s keyboardist for apparently having a treadmill at their position on stage. Gotta get those 10k steps in somehow!
posted by FallibleHuman at 2:43 PM on November 26, 2020 [4 favorites]

I Will Jump is an amazingly brilliant mash-up of music & lyrics
posted by Saxon Kane at 3:15 PM on November 26, 2020 [2 favorites]

Bill McClintock is also a great source of mashups.
posted by smcameron at 3:25 PM on November 26, 2020 [1 favorite]

And Andy Rehfeldt is also a great source of alt-Rammstein.
posted by flabdablet at 7:24 PM on November 26, 2020

The Devil Wap Down to Georgia is far greater than the sum of its parts.
posted by flabdablet at 7:45 PM on November 26, 2020 [1 favorite]

No discussion of DJ Cummerbund would be complete without a mention of The Marching of the Ants.

You know that feeling where you’re busting a gut and you hate yourself for it, so you laugh even harder? And then you hate yourself harder? It’s a vicious circle worth falling into.
posted by armeowda at 7:50 PM on November 26, 2020 [1 favorite]

When you've exhausted Neil Cicirega's material, Cummerbund is next.

My favorite is Through the Flaming Hotels of California from FB because YT kicked it.
Close 2nd is Scratches All Down My Back.
posted by bigmike485 at 9:01 AM on November 27, 2020

What, Sledgehammer as Hell didn't make the cut? Or Bird Parade? And how can you not mention how, after YouTube took down "The Devil WAPped Down to Georgia," DJ Cummerbund reappeared to save Halloween with Monster WAP? DJ Cummerbund is clearly some sort of warlock, wielding unearthly powers to entertain us and drive us to madness, and I will brook no dissent.

But come to think of it, has anyone ever seen DJ Cummerbund and Funk Turkey in the same place?
posted by Faint of Butt at 10:57 AM on November 27, 2020 [1 favorite]

Holiday Number 5 is on semi-regular rotation around here. It doesn't seem like it should work but somehow it does.
posted by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug at 11:02 AM on November 27, 2020 [1 favorite]

Someone else re-uploaded The Devil WAPped Down to Georgia.
posted by Pronoiac at 3:19 PM on November 27, 2020 [1 favorite]

Are there any full-length mashup mixes similar to Girl Talk that exist, other than Girl Talk? If so I'm hoping someone in this thread can point me towards it.
posted by TreeHugger at 7:24 AM on November 30, 2020

Are there any full-length mashup mixes similar to Girl Talk that exist, other than Girl Talk? If so I'm hoping someone in this thread can point me towards it.

I recommend The Kleptones for this purpose. For me, they're still the kings at mashup.
posted by chbrooks at 9:03 AM on November 30, 2020 [1 favorite]