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Looks like DJ Drama and Lil Wayne are back at it. QUESTION: does anyone else feel like its cheating for an artist to use the same beat etc this many times?

A look inside the remix mind and how DJ Earworm crafted his 2012 United States of Pop remix. So so so good.

This dj group formed in the late 90s and makes most of its songs from samples from a bunch of old vinyls.  Their style is really different but has been pretty successful!  

You've probably come across it before, but an example of a mash-up by DJ Earworm who combines the top 25 songs of the year.

Around my sophomore year of high school, I remembered a great instrumental I'd heard at some point in my life but couldn't place. I sung it to a friend (ber ner ner ner ner neeer ner ner…) and while she recognized it, she couldn't place it either. We made it our mission to figure it out, asking everyone we knew, and eventually someone posted the attached link to my facebook. This class made me suspicious that perhaps the instrumental wasn't actually created by DJ Kool. Using whosampled.com, I found out that the this awesome piece has nothing to do with him. The entire instrumental is taken from "The 900 Number" by The 45 King (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axJpBlxW6n0). But then I looked up The 45 King, and discovered that he, too, is a DJ. "Let Me Clear my Throat," which gets the credit for this instrumental, is actually a remix of "The 900 Number," which is a remix of Marva Whitney's "Unwind Yourself" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym7IoodKeWI). And Whitney is just the singer; I wasn't able to find the sax player behind it all. I think it's upsetting that most of the credit goes to DJ Cool, who merely added a worthless hook you wish wasn't there and small bits of songs which barely alter The 45 King's work. At least Mac Miller, the most recent borrower I could find, changed it up a bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3GGN51_pjE

This article explores DJ POGO's journey through disney copyright infringement and then permission through a deal with the company.  It's pretty darn interesting, for serious.

My fav dj shows how he remixes his movies on a mac.

Now you too can be a DJ like White Panda or Girl Talk? 

This is a cool interview that basically talks about how to avoid facing a copyright infringement lawsuit!

The artist POGO remixed audio from the movie "Up" to create this awesome song!!!  I wasn't sure about copyright stuff but it is linked to the facebook Disney/Pixar page, so maybe?  Or maybe they're just taking advantage of the publicity?

Lil Wayne's opinion of mixtape DJs.

Mash-up of Superfreak and Can't Touch This.  They flow so seamlessly!  I wonder why?