The organisation is an amalgam of the Real IRA, independent republican terror units in areas such as East Tyrone as well as members of Republican Action Against Drugs in Derry.
The bigoted caricature of a Hollywood industry type is a hazy amalgam of hook-nosed Jew and sandal-wearing hippy – but this is clearly nonsense, underlined by one of Feinberg confidantes.
The amalgam of John Wizard's likely influences might stretch to that modern palimpsest of a sunny West Coast sensibility, Brooklyn chillwave, but Withers has inevitably soaked up sounds closer to home: the Afro-pop of Brenda Fassie as well as contemporary South African house.
It is no coincidence that the DUP's manifesto often reads a bit like an amalgam of the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
Jaunty in a way that would be unbearable at any other time of year, slathered in girl-group harmonies and sounding like an amalgam of most other Christmas songs, California Winter carries that strange mix of sadness and hope that we can all relate to at Christmas.
Issued by Domestic – a hub for exploratory, leftfield music housing the likes of Mink Freud and Hektagon – it is the amalgam of cultural detritus and dream sequences from one young man's childhood, projected through a science-fiction approach to electronic music-making.
The pair worked as agents of a fictional unit called CI5, an amalgam of MI5 and the CID, targeting major league criminals from international drug dealers to terrorists.
His film - cut to fit Gordon's music - is an amalgam of old black and white archive footage of the heyday of New York's construction, with some new colour footage for the final movement.
Palin's entire career rests on the back of her favourite false dichotomy: "Real Americans" (rural, incurious, "traditional" voters afraid of big government and change of any kind) v fake Americans (an ill-defined amalgam of liberal elites, immigrants, abortion-hungry feminazis, people who read publications, Washington fat cats, Wall Street grifters and Katie Couric).
That area of public life used to the terrain of the DUP given that the party was rooted in fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church and an amalgam of other hardline evangelical Protestant sects.
Thus their non-EU Britain, for instance, is 91% New Zealand and 9% Argentina (an amalgam Eurosceptics will no doubt pounce on).
