Here’s what I hear in my head when I put DJ Shadow’s Midnight in a Perfect World together with the jazz standard ‘Round Midnight.

[ See the behind-the-scenes video here. | Download the mp3 here. ]

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Hear the original works that inspired this mashup:

DJ Shadow – Midnight in a Perfect World

Thelonious Monk – ‘Round Midnight (as performed by Ella Fitzgerald)

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lyrics:

memories always start, always start round midnight
it begins to tell i’m out my mind
it gets really bad ‘round midnight
when my heart is still with you
and ol’ midnight knows it, too

when the memories start
to stand those memories i haven’t got the heart
and i’m out my mind
it begins to tell around midnight