Download dj BC’s Muppet Mashup

While I’m always impressed with the work Girl Talk does, I’ve always been slightly more impressed by artists like the Kleptones, who are able to take a single artist and turn their work into the backdrop for a sound collage.

Danger Mouse did it most famously with The Grey Album, combining the Beatles and Jay-Z into something that he’s been able to turn into a career as a producer. The Kleptones’ work on A Night At the Hip-Hopera (with Queen as their jump-off), as well as how they turned the Flaming Lips into the backing band for Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots is simply superb.

Boston’s dj BC has created what seems to be the most fun mashup collection I’ve heard yet. It might not be the most cohesive mashup ever. There are certainly some seams showing here and there. Still, the idea of making a mashup album where you use the Muppets turns an “artsy” concept into something playful again.

If nothing else, head over to the Mupper Mashup page and grab the opening track, “The Muppet Strut.” It mixes the Stray Cats’ “Stray Cat Strut” and the opening theme to The Muppet Show together in a way that makes me wanna move like the first time I heard Jurassic 5′ “Swing Set.”