Print yourself a Disney future

Didn’t know Disney did this sort of R&D but it’s amazing what can be done today, and what will be tomorrow. The first thought comes to mind: won’t the old world of patents and IPR be out of the window when you literally can print yourself a lamp, phone or a toy?

We’ve seen what happened to the digital industries and how they transformed mechanical reproduction of music, books and films forever – can’t help but think this sort of thing eventually will sound the death knell of the likes of Ikea and Apple – unless they start creating iPrinters and probably will try some sort of object DRM, but then again that’s proved unworkable before.

But anyway, we come another step closer to a Star Trek future of the replicator…

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Gangnam Style

…yes I must be one of a few blogs not to post the original – I love Psy’s Gangam Style though. And some of the parodies and mashups (plenty of really bad ones though). But it’s funnier without the music!

But this isn’t a usual YouTube hit and run post – there’s an interesting side that apparently Psy or his label might have waived or ignored copyright claims on YouTube and other sites and has been rewarded with a massive world-wide success (top 10 in 10 countries, No. 2 in the Billboard charts – for an untranslated K-Pop track that’s unheard of) and a viral hit.

Goes to show you what I and many others have been saying for years, that artists and record labels are shooting themselves in the foot with DMCA and C&Ds and such like.  Mashups, fan remixes, flashmobs, recreations, parodies, covers, family videos and even literal misheard videos are all excellent free promotion for a track. And Psy or his label are probably canny enough to know that.

If not it’s an amazingly happy accident – but by not being all litigious about it (eh Rastamouse? No I will never forget that)  the Psy phenomenon has gone world wide – aided by a lot of these fan videos. As was Gotye’s massive hit, also as I seem to remember. So it amazes me that still videos get pulled and quite often falsely – and that news that YouTube was finally changing it’s terribly flawed ContentID system to one requiring manual review and appeals seems to be wrong.

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Mutant Pop 4: Attack of the Giant Mutant Mashup Ant (2003)

OK it took me over a year to get round to doing the rest of the Mutant Pop compilations – I wanted a pause from endless tagging/chasing up of corrupted tracks on crumbling CD-Rs…but with the current GYBO-closing nostalgia it seems the right time to post the rest.

Another slice of mashup history – this one is from late 2003, and like the previous volumes (still available: Mutant Pop 1 – Mutant Pop 2 and Mutant Pop 3, funnily enuff) it’s something I did for friends and when I hit Bastard gave copies to a few people there. Now for a wider audience finally, it’s a mixed affair, this one being more downtempo, dubbier, funkier and jazzier than previous ones – mostly because of the ubiquitous inclusion of several Loo & Placido, Smash & Reverend Dan tracks. I was getting into the more ambient side of bootlegs at this point, and in later volumes. Oh and everything had to have The Streets on it, twas like Milkshake and Missy the flavour of the month.

Considering these mashups are 9 years old or older, they actually hold up surprisingly well. This was my ‘best of’ current mashup compilation, after all…And yes that is a closeup of an ant, you might find it familiar as I recycled the artwork on the tbc mashup blog page.

As usual front and back covers are included, tagged MP3s, and I’ve tried to correct any obvious errors in the tags (not the original artwork, not going there) but the usual disclaimer applies: if you couldn’t be bothered to tag your shit correctly in 2003, then don’t moan if I get the names wrong in 2012. Consider it karma for endless nights trying to find who the feck did what back then and now…

Mutant Pop 4 (100Mb -Mediafire)

  • Long Shore Drift – F.E.A.R of Music (Ian Brown vs Madonna)
  • Loo & Placido – The Genie Dance (Christina Aguilera vs Mudies All-Stars vs The Streets)
  • Loo & Placido – Working Class Childrens (Beyonce Vs Lennie Hibbert)
  • Reverend Dan – Get This Organ Started (Pink vs Jimmy McGriff)
  • detboyear – Give It Up At The Gay Bar (Electric 6 vs LCD Soundsystem)
  • Reverend Dan – It’s Getting Bongo Rock In Her (Tiga vs Incredible Bongo Band)
  • DJ Frenchbloke – Ich Hab Meine Bizkit (Limp Bizkit ft Redman, Method Man & DMX vs Andreas Dorau)
  • jrb – Please Sir Can I Have A Biscuit (Limp Bizkit vs Please Sir! theme)
  • Akira Kawahara – In Da Benny Hill Club (Benny Hill theme vs 50 Cent)
  • Richcolour – Anniething (Annie vs General Levy and many others)
  • Soundhog – The Theme I Love (Love Unlimited Orchestra vs Eminem)
  • Go Home Productions – Wouldn’t It Be Nice To Be Your First (Barry White vs Beach Boys)
  • Frenchbloke & Son – Monday Survival (Stars on 45 version) (New Order vs Gloria Gaynor vs Stars on 45)
  • Missy Elliot – Lick Shots (SCO Network Remix) (Missy Elliot vs Madonna vs Beats International)
  • sonof – Sexy Model (Balanescu Quartet vs Kraftwerk vs Right Said Fred)
  • bittersoundfoundation – Tour De People (Missy Elliot vs Kraftwerk)
  • Dsico – Ghetto pr0n Queen (J-Lo vs Ladytron)
  • DazAutomatic – WhateverJLo (Liam Lynch vs JLo)
  • Pink – Just Like A Pill (Jacknife Lee Remix Edit)
  • Smash – Crazy Baby Boom! (Beyonce vs Groove Armada vs Saliva)
  • Asnivor – The Lost Art of Being Unpretty (TLC vs Queens of the Stoneage)
  • Smash – Wild Rock Music (Madonna vs Steppenwolf vs Apollo440 vs Ike & Tina Turner)
  • Go Home Productions – Ray Of Gob (Sex Pistols vs Madonna)
  • Go Home Productions – Baby’s Got A Crazy Horse (B@stard Remix)  (The Prodigy vs The Osmonds vs MC5)
  • Loo & Placido – Safari Love (Elton John vs Aretha Franklin vs The Beatles vs Various)
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GYBO/Bastard Interviews

Inspired by my GYBO RIP show (well that’s what C-Tel told my anyway ;-) his Acid Ted blog is interviewing all the legendary Bastard/GYBO crowd from the early days – he’s already had great interviews with Ben Soundhog (part 1 and part 2), Frenchbloke (part 1 & part 2) Andy Dunproofin (part 1 and part 2) and most recently Mike Cartel of Cartel Communique – wha ran the legendary King Of The Boots and Bastard nights that kicked off this whole mashup (then bastard pop or bootleg) scene so many years ago.

King of the Boots was too early for me but I was a part of Bastard’s sweaty wonderful nonsense and can attest of their brilliance – and like Soundhog & Mike states, a lot of the ‘career’ and money/business side is what eventually killed it – a bit like podcasting did at around the same time with Apple and iTunes, you had the likes of MTV & big media muscling in and it all got a little nasty and strange. At the time those (who aren’t seen for dust now) who wanted to ‘monetize’ their mashups, nights and podcasts thought it strange and we were being intentionally ‘indie’ and jealous of their ‘success’. I think in both spheres, mashup and podcast, that the originators still have a love for it and support it in the main is testament to what we were trying to do, and that we all had a different and more radical ideas of a possible future in mind. Putting money to that seemed to profane the messy, chaotic, lo-fi, impossible and illegal wondrousness of it all.

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