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I'm going to +1 that it's more of an 80s sound, though I'd say it's closer to the turn of the decade what comes to mind: the synthy portions of Ozric Tentacle's "Erpsongs" https://youtu.be/_k-kJu8Ejz0?t=1067 (should start around 18 minutes in) and Jean-Michel Jarre's "Oxygene", which was a huge influence for electronic musicians everywhere at the time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttpPIRnEFVE

A very simple idea that usually works is just to take parts of the melodies of the songs you want to mash up (like 2-4 bars, or maybe just 1-2 phrases) and glue them together into a new melody that flows nicely. So take 1-2 phrases from song A and put them in your track, follow that by 1-2 phrases from song B, then 1-2 phrases from song A again, etc. It will help if you puzzle out a structure that makes sense (e.g. use 2 phrases from each song from the verses, and 2 other phrases for the chorus). Or, what you could do, is take part of the melody from song A and use that as your verse, and use part of the melody of song B and use that as your chorus. A bit simpler, but can be very effective. At the end of the day it’s just playing around with it, messing with it until you have something that sounds good. Anything goes, no clear cut recipe. Just gotta try and try and try and eventually you’ll have something that works.

First post has been updated with the newest iteration of the style. It's based on Material Dark. It has many issues but is mostly usable for now. Since I'm overriding the Invision CSS variables, userstyles.org doesn't like the formatting. For now I've posted the CSS directly to the first post, but I'll be putting it up on GitHub when I get on a computer with Git installed ? Yes, I recognize the irony that the code block is yet unstyled.