Megamix

adjective or noun depending on context, often derogatory,

a string of songs thrown together, often all by the same exact artist, to offer nothing more than a cheap masturbatory fantasy for fanboys and fangirls. a megamix is often made by people who call themselves djs but have no real skill or have never played in a club.

to further separate what makes a megamix apart from a dj mix is that a megamix will often forego all sense of flow, structure and common sense just to painfully string together the songs in any way possible.

tactics include:
– vocal looping of the same line over and over,
– using “jump edits” in the song to repeat a certain section of beat, note or part of b-ssline repeatedly, often causing it to sound like a cd skipping,
– unnatural pitch increases to mix a 90bpm song together with a 140bpm song (instead of slowly scaling the tempo with other songs in between),
– ignoring song cues and/or mismatching them,
– overlapping two songs that aren’t even in the same tempo or beatmatched,
– not following the 4/4 structure or typical 16 or 32 beat dance mix structure,
– cutting off one song in the middle of a verse or chorus just to make a hasty transition to another song that hasn’t reached the same point in intensity of the previous track.
1) erasure released a bonus-cd megamix on their hits! alb-m that sounded like cr-p. a real dj should have made a mix instead.

2) i went to a dance club and the dj sounded like he was playing a megamix, turns out he was really having a seizure in the booth.
listening to your entire music collection in random/shuffle mode.

(only really applicable if you have a large collection including various wildly different genres; otherwise you’ve just got a sh-tty little vanilla playlist of a life.)
argus macwargus: “whaddayawanna listen to?”
micaela superstar: “idunno, just gonna put on the f-ckin’ megamix.”