Link to the original Halloween 2024 contest description

At long last, it's time to announce the results of the Halloween 2024 contest.

With high stakes came bigger prizes. And with bigger prizes, incredible ideas and execution were expected.

You all started with good ideas. Many of you took the feedback well and were able to work with me to elevate your mashups to the next level. Some overused songs but still enough variety and creativity to elevate this album. Tracks like Rolfe Kent's Dexter theme, Rob Zombie's What Lurks On Channel X, Camille Saint-Saëns's Danse Macabre, and many more made appearances on the album and were used for some really creative ideas, even before I helped elevate some of them. Familiar favorites like Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites, Close Your Eyes, Dragula, and Monster Mash were used as well. Other left-field choices made an appearance but were really effectively used to fit the context of Halloween and the album as a whole.

I'd consider this year's Halloween album both moderately successful and high quality. This is all thanks to your incredible entries and drive to improve on them. It's not easy working on a tight deadline, but we pulled it off.

This time, the contest started October 2nd. Since I was able to get artwork while the contest was going on, this wasn't the worst start. In future years, I still would have started the Halloween contest no later than October 1st to give everyone more time but also so the album comes out well before the Halloween parties to come. There were some last minute edits that were getting in the Saturday of Halloween weekend, which I honestly wish I had avoided. The balancing act with starting early and getting inspiration by absorbing elements of the holiday season can be tricky, but I think we're at least going to start on the right track for Christmas when we start that contest in the mid-November timeframe. By then stores will start selling merchandise for Christmas and you'll be sick of the same old Christmas music over and over again (which will then inspire you to make mashups with them).

All that said, here are the results, which link to the original submissions that were judged before going through the mixing and mastering. Given how close some results were, favorites at the time of album release were considered but not as highly weighed as judging and voting for the original entries.

Halloween 2024: Contest Results

• First place: Xam - Danse Macabre Nightmare (Camille Saint-Saëns, The Nightmare Before Christmas OST, Andrew Gold) u/xam_nl
• Second place: SLVFRK - Close Your Eyes [Frozen Version] (Madonna, Kim Petras) u/kogan92
• Third place: PW - Dexter's Psychiatrist (Avalanches, Rolfe Kent, Beatles) u/profound_whatever

The winner will receive a prize of their choice, once I contact them.

Congratulations to all who participated! If you have not already done so, you may publicly release the tracks on the album, which has been released here:

https://mixmstrstel.bandcamp.com/album/spooky-mashups-2024-an-r-mashups-compilation

The next contest will be for the Christmas/Winter Wonderland album. Watch this space.

November 2024 request and resource thread

Welcome to the all new mashup request and resource thread for November 2024!

Guidelines

1. This is the thread to make your mashup requests in.
2. Try to be as descriptive as possible.
3. If someone wants to fulfill your request they should mention that in here.
4. We no longer allow user created request threads for new mashups.

Please join our official Discord server!

Previous Posts

• Request Thread for October 2024
• Request Thread for September 2024
• Request Thread for August 2024
• Request Thread for July 2024
• Request Thread for June 2024
• Request Thread for May 2024
• Request Thread for April 2024
• Request Thread for March 2024
• Request Thread for February 2024
• Request Thread for January 2024
• Request Thread for December 2023
• Request Thread for November 2023
• Request Thread for October 2023
• Request Thread for September 2023
• Request Thread for August 2023
• Request Thread for July 2023
• Request Thread for June 2023
• Request Thread for May 2023
• Request Thread for April 2023
• Request Thread for March 2023
• Request Thread for February 2023
• Request Thread for January 2023
• Request Thread for December 2022
• Request Thread for November 2022
• Request Thread for October 2022
• Request Thread for September 2022
• Request Thread for August 2022
• Request Thread for July 2022
• Request Thread for June 2022
• Request Thread for May 2022
• Request Thread for April 2022
• Fall Request Thread for 2021
• Summer Mashup Request Thread for 2021
• Monthly Request Thread for April, 2021

Resources and advice

• Most resources are on the Discord server: https://discord.gg/pyBFv5zjzX
• New guide to making mashups: How to Make Good Mashups (new)
• Consult this guide for common mashup feedback we give
• Mashup artists are more willing to do your request if the songs are close in key (+/- 2 semitones) and BPM (+/- 10%, but can stretch to +/- 20% or more)
• Need song keys? Consult these key databases first and verify by ear
• Need song BPMs? Tunebat can be ok, but most DJ software good for key already do it better

r/mashups submission reminders

• Title format for mashup submissions on r/mashups: [Optional Tag] Mashup Artist - Song Name (Artists Being Mashed) Optional Comments
• For example: Carlos Serrano - Something About The Fire (Daft Punk, Adele)
• Please include the mashup artist in mashup submission titles to make them searchable
• Use link posts when sharing links, especially to YouTube or SoundCloud. Please do not use text posts with only links to audio because the audio does not embed.
• When sharing SoundCloud links, please use the soundcloud.com domain, not snd DOT sc and not on DOT soundcloud DOT com. The other links do not embed on Desktop.
• Do not use link shorteners (like bit DOT ly). We have no idea where these kinds of links go and get instantly blocked by spam filters. Save these for the mashup descriptions on YouTube/SoundCloud/etc pages.
• Title format for other mashup-related content: [Tag] Description
• For example: [Discussion] Where else do you find mashups?
• In all cases, [Tag] always goes in front and can be any of the following: [Discussion], [Meta], [News], [Contest], [Resource], [Meme], [Album], [Mix], [Year End], [Year-End], or [Demo].
• Do NOT use the [Mix] tag for individual mashups. This is reserved for long mixes/DJ sets that include mashups.
• Mashup snippets posted to TikTok or YouTube Shorts are generally not considered complete mashups. For these, please use the [Demo] tag so users know not to expect a finished mashup.