I've got a whole essay brewing about [mashup WHERE COUNT(songs) > 2;] ("plunerphonics"?). The central question is: are you using the sounds as starting points for subsounds (Prefuse), whole cloth as tuneful sounds (Avalanches), conceptual throughlines (Jason Forrest) or cultural landmarks (Girl Talk). There's a loose continuum along that list: how important were the original song's intentions?
Plexure, a precursor at least to all those examples, blasts way off the left side of the scale, chopping hundreds of songs to bits, blasting confetti point-blank, a microscopic ransom note spouting nonsense. Small recognizable fragments filter though, but they're islands in a sea of double-clusterfucked, the luckiest rapid-fire radio-station flipthrough you've ever had.
Conceptually? Good job setting the bar that everyone who came later would prudently duck. The man invented the game, and the rest came along and said "what if I did that...without making it completely fucking unlistenable?". Even at 19 minutes its an exhausting listen that I can't recommend against strongly enough: you probably already get the idea. Listen to a few minutes if you must, just out of deference, but it really is awful, awful music to listen to 2.5/5
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