The Guardian recommended this free collection of mashups, so I listened to it, and I enjoyed it more than I was expecting, given that this sort of young people's music is not really my cup of tea. It's well worth downloading for the ear-destroying Beastie Boys/Prodigy/Pendulum track "Voodoo Sabotage" and the wonderful version of Beyonce's "Single Ladies" with a whistling tune which I gather is the theme from an old American TV programme called the Andy Griffith Show. It has its limits - for example, it is clever to weld Lady Ga Ga's "Bad Romance" together with the Human League's "Don't You Want Me" without showing a join, but what you get is less than the sum of the parts.
You could write length essays about (a) mashup as an essentially postmodern art form and (b) the legal implications but I don't have time....
http://www.bootiemashup.com/bestofbootie2009/
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