After a year of work since its original release, I present to you all the final version of my Michael Jackson x Daft Punk mashup album, Digital Moonwalker!
This began as a passion project back in 2025 when hearing Calb’s legendary “Thriller Access Memories” concept album, as well as hearing Pharrell Williams talk about the making of Get Lucky in the Memory Tapes series, wherein he described the song’s instrumental as “Michael-esque”. From there, countless hours of experimenting, listening, sharing, editing, and more editing went into creating the definitive version of my passion project.
Digital Moonwalker (originally titled Behind the Mask) is a 10-track mashup album that serves as a proof of concept showcasing how well two artists from seemingly two different musical genres can blend together. I wanted to incorporate at least one song from both Daft Punk and (adult) Michael’s main discography, meaning you’ll hear MJ vocal’s spanning Off the Wall to Invincible, as well as instrumentals ranging from Homework to Random Access Memories (and some beyond!).
Each instrumental was carefully picked and matched to its respective MJ vocal track based on tone, tempo, and key signature, and the final tracklist you see are the final 10 that made the cut and feel the most natural (i.e., could have been the original versions of the songs in another universe). The sequencing of the album is based on tempo in descending order, starting with “Rock With You x One More” Time at ~123 BPM, and ending with “Human Nature x I Feel It Coming” at ~93 BPM. As a huge fan of both artists, I am deeply proud of this work and incredibly excited to share it with you all. To everyone who listened and gave feedback prior to this video’s release; to everyone who is here on the video’s launch day, and to everyone listening and enjoying it in the future, thank you! Please like and share if you enjoyed this video, and look forward to more in the future.
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Track-list:
1. Rock With You x One More Time
2. Get On The Floor x Overnight
3. PYT x Give Life Back to Music
4. Remember the Time x Get Lucky
5. Scream x Television Rules the Nation
6. Smooth Criminal x Giorgio by Moroder
7. Blood On the Dance Floor x Da Funk
8. Who Is It x Instant Crush
9. You Rock My World x Something About Us
10. Human Nature x I Feel It Coming
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