In which robots take over the show, and I leave them to it…

Click! Take the Voight-Kampff test after the beep! (36 Mb, 46 mins)

• air liquide – if there was no gravity (jammin’ unit remix)
• Air Liquide – Im Erlenmeyer-Kolben PT.I
• psicklops – Track 12
• Air Liquide – Part I – System Engaged
• Fleetwood Mac – Storms
• Osunlade And Erro – Everything In Its Right Place
• Jasmina Maschina – Asleep (Minit Variation)
• mash2mix – love is all i need my friend
• Fleetwood Mac – Safe Harbour
• Gena the Crocodile – Blue Wagon (Russian)

Sun? What sun? Summer you say? What’s that?

Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to Berlin I go ( 41Mb, 53mins)

• Sigur Ros – Gobbledigook
• Weezer – Pork And Beans
• Celebrity Murder Party – Sabotage_The_reaper
• World Famous Audio Hacker – Never Win Against The Wall
• Bo Diddley – You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover
• Soyuzmultfilm – Chunga Changa
• Ivor Cutler – There’s A Turtle In My Soup
• Celebrity Murder Party – Wild Boyz wearing ma rolex (d)
• Daler Menhdi – Tunak Tunak Tun
• madonna 303 ( aka air liquide – aka cem oral vs. ingmar koch )
• D-Ranged – Assembled (Wavewhore Remix)
• Pete Shelley – yesterday’s not here
• Augusto Alguero and Orchestra – Gran Premio

Video of CMP#9 back in May – yup that’s a certain DJNoNo Djing at the 4:37 mark! Thanks Bob ‘Batboy’ Levingbird and the CMP crew

From FCC baiting to Rufus,I wish you the fuckin’ best in whatever place you end up

OK I listened to the new Girl Talk LP (Feed the Animals) and it was a big pile o’ MEH. Better than NightRipper, only slightly clashy but it washed over me, I have heard this all before – I’ll let you into a few DJ secrets:

1. It’s easy to mix hiphop reasonably well (I mean even I used to manage it when I started – for instance my Roy Orbison ‘You Got It’ vs Peaches in 2003) and quickly – no key clash (although he managed it on Soulja boy, because like Eminem ’sing song’ forms of rap do actually have a key!)

2. Mixing whole songs together is hard – you have to rearrange the song structure, which not only could be in different tempos, time signatures could be in different keys or melodies. Mixing little bits of songs in 30 seconds or less chunks is far far far easier, especially if they are spoken word or hiphop – small bits you can pick and choose which bits to use also, leaving the ‘difficult’ bits out

Really I think he’s becoming the Jivebunny of the Noughties…

Anyway it’s easy to say ‘there’s been better’ but really, anyone could say that so time to put my mixes where my mouth is, well not mine but others – here’s some Zip compilations of my favourite long and short mixes of the last 8 years that use many sources but do it a HELL of a lot better than Mr Gillis:

It Aint Girl Talk, it’s BETTER (Vols 1-4  -each 200Mb or so each, zipped)

Volume 1:
inc mixes/mashups from Evolution Control Commitee, Soulwax and Osymyso

http://www.divshare.com/download/4804218-e08
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5oi5lt

Volume 2:
inc mixes mashes from Audioshrapnel inc the full quality of the exclusive Radio Clash mix, Avalanches, Hank Handy, DJ Earworm

http://www.sendspace.com/file/jfw17j
http://www.divshare.com/download/4804423-fdd

Volume 3:
inc mixes/mashes from Frenchbloke & Son, Freelance Hairdresser, Ian Fondue, DJ Food and Osymyso

http://www.divshare.com/download/4804798-c6d
http://www.sendspace.com/file/zmc75h

Volume 4:
inc Hank Handy, Soundhog, Strictly Kev, team9

http://www.sendspace.com/file/u9w1jm
http://www.divshare.com/download/4808540-a8f

(And of course you’ll hear more tracks like this in your hopefully favourite podcast Radio Clash!)

As they’re not on my server – feel free to share, repost, torrent whatever – I’m uploading some rare/exclusive stuff too. I hope these help educate people that a) there is better out there, for free and b) Mr Gillis isn’t the future of mashups (he hates the term – he claimed he was not related to mashups in an interview last year! He then retracted it, but still, what is he then? The new Z-Trip? LOL)