I heard Pop Culture by Madeon a few months ago and it immediately got in my head with its crunchy synth and infectious dance styling, so when it came up in my playlist today, I decided to check for a video. When I found the official release on YouTube, I was blown away by what I was seeing. I knew it was obviously a mashup, and could pick out bits and pieces of songs I like, but I didn’t realize just how deep this rabbit hole went. The seamless editing blends 39 separate tracks from artists ranging widely from ELO and The Who to Chromeo and Nero. Watching Madeon’s fingers dancing across his Launchpad and trying to figure out how he’s keeping track of the samples and levels while playing a freestyle organ solo is nothing short of amazing. His mastery of digital dj equipment seemingly knows no bounds. And then, I found out he’s only 17 years old – queue puff of smoke leaking out my ears. Hit the jump and turn it up for a great party track, an unbelievable visual use of musical technology… and bonus utterly ridiculous dance video .
Pop Culture by Madeon: Killer Live 39 Track Mashup
Here’s the Novation Launchpad and Madeon’s talent in all their glory:
And here’s a bonus video of some random bro with hysterically ‘good’ dance moves and phenomenal editing getting down to the same track.
Want the full list of tracks used in this mashup?
Alphabeat – Boyfriend
Alphabeat – Fascination
Bag Raiders – Shooting Stars
Black Eyed Peas – Gotta Feeling
Britney Spears – …Baby One More Time
Capsule – Can I Have A Word
Chromeo – Momma’s Boy
Coldplay – Viva La Vida
Daft Punk – Aerodynamic
Daft Punk – Around The World
Deadmau5 – Raise Your Weapon (Madeon Remix)
Deadmau5 – Right This Second
Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed
ELO – Mr. Blue Sky
Girls Aloud – Biology
Gorillaz – Dare
Gossip – Heavy Cross (Fred Falke Remix)
Gwen Stefani – What You Waitin For (Jacques Lu Cont Mix)
Housse de Racket – Oh Yeah
Justice – DVNO
Justice – Phantom Part II
Katy Perry – One Of The Boys
Ke$ha – Take It Off
Kylie Minogue – Wow
Lady Gaga – Alejandro
Linkin Park – Crawling
Madonna – Hung Up
Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette – Boys and Girls
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
Nero – Me and You
One Republic – All The Right Moves (Danger Remix)
One-T – Magic Key
Ratatat – Shempi
Solange – I Decided (Freemasons Remix)
Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You
The Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star
The Killers – Losing Touch
The Who – Baba O’Riley (SebastiAn Remix)
Yelle – Que Veux Tu (Madeon Remix)
Thanks for the post!
Awesome. Thank you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2ExVvhzfCY
Here is another amazing video from that song. This one shows all the music videos that were used.
oh, great find! I like that even better. I’ve posted video mashups before, I love the precision behind something that looks so seamless and effortless.
I came. Again. That dance video is worth not just a shit ton, not just a fuckload, but all of them.
Now here’s a man with talent. Maybe a bit of a deviation from the video mashups, but certainly worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQ6HzZfp7E
I can’t decide which is more disgustingly awesome; his locking, or the astroturf shag in that man cave.
Hey, it’s Martin Starr. Neat.
I’ve been listening to this track for a few weeks now and it’s freakin’ great. Really raises my spirits, and makes me feel better.
thats nathan barnatt dancing
haha sweet, track is dizzy
The best video using this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwBPqUktaPo
Thanks for posting this. Great videos. Where can I download this song?
LOVE thiss… what song is it where it goes *its bad* at 0:16 and 0:24
took me forever to figure it out, but it’s the Gorillaz!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAOR6ib95kQ
An awesome, groovin’ harbinger of the apocalypse. At what point will we all just be regurgitating the same song to each other like scavenger’s vomitting nutrients to their nesting young?
I want a remix of a mashup of one hundred remixed mashups of hundreds of remixes. An infinitely growing, exponential song will develop and form a rift in the space time continuum.
This ^. I cannot say how much I want this.
OMW, that just made my day! Such fun! That song is so cool – love it.
dude, try listening to girl talk instead. better tactics.
Yes, absolutely. Gregg Gillis is amazing.
I want to dance like that someday…limbs flailing in harmony, head flashing in the sun.
I was just about to post “That’s not some random bro, dude, that’s an actor in various sitcoms and stuff.”; then out pops the random bro.
Whoa, far out man!
its not talent it would take 4 poeple all in tune harmonizing and timed perfectly to get that but one guy comes along and samples sounds and pushes buttons
and he is dubbed a musician musicians have calluses and can creat theyre own sounds the best example to play a a sus 9th chord is hard to hit in timing yo need to push y is pianstacigly hard our pinky over 4 fretts it hurts you have to push a butten cheating i think soo learn how to really play
If I could reach through my monitor, across the great traverse of the internet and all its perils, out through your monitor and smack you, I would.
This is music. This man uses, as his instruments, the voices of dozens of disconnected and diverse artists. His calluses are mental. The sheer amount of effort and musical talent it takes to put something like this together is staggering. Can you do what he did with that board up there? Doubtful.
If you could, the last thing you would do would be to denigrate what this fellow has accomplished. I’ll bet a penny to a pound that this man has more musical ability in his pinky than you do in your entire, close-minded frame.
Or. To be fair. You can recreate this song on guitar and post it for us. Go for it, amigo.
This seriously kicks a$$.
What song is the one in this video that says “I can be your boy, you can be my girl.” and the girl singing “I got to know!”
Boys and Girls by Martin Solveig (who is epically awesome). I’d have to comb through the video as I don’t know the second part off the top of my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1hjJwZnSN4
there you go 😀
very late reply, but boys and girls by martin solveig. and heavy cross by gossip (fred falke remix) your welcome
i needed to write a comment, this mashup is actualy the best ive ever herd you got good taste mate !!! keep up the good work!!
What songs are they that keep saying oh, for example 0:20- 0:24. Also, what song is it from 2:25- 2:32?!
Gregg Gillis is so amazing. Nothing to compare
Agreed, but man… it’s been a long, long time since he’s released an album.