Break Machine - Break Dance Party (Dual Citizen edit)

Here's my edit of Break Machine's 1984 hit "Break Dance Party." 

Madeon - Pop Culture (live mashup)

Madeon is an amazing French dance music producer. This guy is only 17 and already killing it. I was blown away with this use of the Novation Launchpad. I own one of these things, but this is by far the most impressive performance I have seen with it yet.

So what is he actually doing? The Launchpad is connected to the music production software Ableton Live. Each illuminated yellow button represents a sound clip in Live, in this case, a song of Madeon's choosing. By pressing the button, it turns green, indicating the song has started playing at a predetermined location.  Pressing a non-illuminated button stops play in that vertical column.  Pressing one of the non-illuminated buttons on the far side starts play of all clips in the horizontal column.  So he is basically playing short snippets of 39 different songs to create his composition.

Towards the end of the song, at 2:32, Madeon switches to a different mode in the Launchpad that allows him to control a synthesizer in his host software, Ableton Live. The music continues in the background while he plays a solo on top using buttons corresponding to notes on the keyboard.

He is showing how a grid of buttons should be respected as an as instrument. After all, what more is a piano than a series of buttons? But by using samples, he is incorporating a wide range of timbres from 39 songs to produce an entirely unique creation. Great stuff!

Here are the 39 songs he is using:

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 - Mamma'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)

BONUS

• Read TheWorstGuy.com's Interview with Madeon
• Madeon - Shuriken (download)