DJ Earworm does a yearly mashup combining the entire Billboard Top 25 songs of that year. Here’s his, and America’s, offering for 2009. I like it.

Full sampling/remixing post in the works. (Update: here it is.) Until then, meditating on these. Kevin Kelly says in a New York Times article about video mashups:

[T]he habits of the mashup are borrowed from textual literacy. You cut and paste words on a page. You quote verbatim from an expert. You paraphrase a lovely expression. You add a layer of detail found elsewhere. You borrow the structure from one work to use as your own. You move frames around as if they were phrases.

I find this to be equally true of music-making, not just of the electronic kind, but of any kind.