Super Mash Bros Cause Dance Frenzy

Super Mash Bros at the First Show | Photo by Heather Vandenengel
Super Mash Bros at the first show | Photo by Heather Vandenengel

Saturday night the Student Activities Center gym was filled with three things: sweat, eardrum-blasting beats and glowsticks. The cause? The DJ duo Super Mash Bros, who played two sold out shows and kept 1,800 students in a dance delirium, moving their feet and throwing their hands in the air until 2 a.m.

Super Mash Bros, which consists of Los Angeles natives Nick Fenmore and Dick Fink, create mashups – taking parts of different songs to make one heart-throbbing, foot-tapping inducing track, sometimes with surprising results.

“I hate “Sandstorm” and Soulja Boy, but together they sound great,” said Fenmore, referring to their track, “DGAFLYF.

The shows were put on by the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity in collaboration with Birthright Israel and the BU Hillel House. Between the two shows, $8,019.09 was raised for the Judy Gelfand Alzheimer Research Fund.

Fenmore said that they originally planned on doing only one show, but when it sold out the fraternity “begged us” to do a second show at midnight. Students were equally enthused, as they waited for the doors to open outside in the rain in a line that stretched up to Comm Ave.

Boston DJs BC and Lenlow opened up the first show, spinning records to create masterful mashups, like T.I. and Rihanna’s “Live Your Life” infused with college indie favorite, Vampire Weekend.

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As children of the 90’s, Fenmore and Fink wove “anything that we listened to as a kid and grew up with” in with Billboard hits of this decade, they said. It’s no surprise then why they are so popular among college students, who, let’s admit it, will take any excuse to listen to their favorite 90’s anthems.

Take the track, Jaein Off On My Day Off”. It lays the vocals from the Ying Yang Twins’ “Get Low” over Sum 41’s “Fat Lip”, which then transitions to Korn’s “Freak on a Leash” and tops off with Third Eye Blinds “Semi-Charmed Life”. The result is an insanely infectious, feel-good fusion.

Inevitably, Super Mash Bros draw comparisons to popular mashup artist Girl Talk, who came to BU last September. They call themselves “Girl Talk’s hot cousin” and said that he is a great guy, but also admit that the association is the biggest curse and the biggest benefit.

“He gave us great publicity, but everyone compares,” they said.

Girl Talk comes from an experimental background, while they come from DJ backgrounds, they explained further.

“We just want to bring a party and dance and have fun,” they said.

After two shows, hundreds of snapped glow sticks and gallons of sweat poured from 1,800 dance-crazed students, I say mission accomplished.

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About Heather Vandenengel

Heather Vandenengel (CAS '11) is a campus writer for the Quad.

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