Oh I am so banhammered on all the corporate WebNannyShieldManagerProFascistAntiGayCocksucking firewalls for that subject line, but I don’t give a fuck. I’m in a great mood cos not only has the proper video for Cee Lo’s TRACK OF THE YEAR dropped – and no he’s not paying me a dime, cos he’s more like Atari, and doesn’t have a Ferrari – but he does have a kickass video:

…also Ride On Zeitgeist Kleptones has done a quickie mash of said track with Flaming Lips ‘Do You Realise’. I think this is confirmation, along with the 4 million (!) hits in a week and a half this track is gonna be huge, and the corporate web censorin’ radio-friendly blanddogs are gonna be busy…not since Man Don’t Give a Fuck and Fuck the Pain Away has the bleepmachine probably gone into hystrionic meltdown, I bet…cos if it’s so evil why does it sound so GOOD? And why do you cheer Mr Green at the end of the video vs the bitch from hell when she gets her comuppance, reverse Cinders style.

You might recall me mentioning GYBO Weekend Challenge, the ad-hoc for-fun mashup challenge where you have a weekend (no, never) to create a mashup using a pre-selected acapella and instrumental – and winner voted by the people of the board (usually other challengers) gets bragging rights and to select the next tunes to mash. Well not only is it on it’s 13th incarnation, like Fela Down the Chippy my track that won the first one, weekend before last I won against some tough competition with my exceedingly rough and ready and silly ‘Bollywood in Space’ using Babla Orchestra and the selected instrumental ‘Do You’ by Adam Freeland and some early space samples, with a sort of EBN/MBM inspiration (but not as good). I hope you like…not as polished as my usual, but fun

What I’m reallty proud of is for this weekend (just gone)’s challenge I got to choose the next tracks for the 13th GYBO challenge – Pet Shop Boys ‘Always on my Mind’ seems to have flummoxed them all apart from MP3J’s excellent mash:

and Pom’s Always Mine mash which works really well.

PomDeter – Always Mine by pomDeter

But the acapella was the perennial Thou Shalt Always Kill by Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – one of my favourite tracks and this seems to have caught the collective inspiration of GYBO. Firstly with this amazing track from Dunproofin – Just a Band probably my favourite so far, certainly those of you who like the Radio Clash theme music which is also by Andy will LOVE this:

Dunproofin – Just a Band

And LV15 does a rather litigious reading of it with a very current Bieber 800-type ambience, again brilliant although he might get threats from Strummer’s legal team

And this house tastic Justice vs Thou Shall Always Kill from Ian Fondue – love the just a band section when it kicks in:

IanFondue-JusticeForKilling(Demo) by imedit-gybo-challenge

And for a spacefunk MBM type vibe is FM24′s take on Thou Shalt Always Kill:

This is all making it very hard to know who to vote for. If I can vote being Queen Fingertrouble I’ll just wave then, and say let them eat Caek (is a lie!).

Shits and Giggles is a new odds-and-ends compilation from The Kleptones, slightly surprising after the double-album blowout that was Uptime/Downtime, and while by it’s very intention it’s a mixed bag, there are several tracks of interest:

Saturday White – Elton John’s Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting has been pretty well mashed, but not with Billy Idol, and when the vocoder/autotune kicks in it’s ‘woo!’ (< that’s a technical term)

Kill -  I think this is one of the offcuts of the A Night at the Hip Hopera Queen mashup album from many years ago – shame it didn’t make the grade because after one listen I love this track, summing up the music industry in one handy resealable easy-to-carry song.

Psycho Dreams – only here because in part I’m WTF did he get THAT acapella (although I can partly guess, I had little success with that) but also a really rare Fleetwood Mac mashup.

Highly recommended is Unwanted Whisper which is a reversal of the more famous “Careless and the Dead” Bon Jovi vs George Michael mashup, which has been posted elsewhere but is well worth checking out as is the rest of the album which can be downloaded here.

* and eats shoots and leaves, probably

Jesus Christ I got my swagger back by Retarded Cunt

I can imagine all the web nanny corporate firewall sphincters contracting as I type the name of this mashup artist Retarded Cunt but what the fuck – crazy, uncommercial, uncompromising, messy and silly name, crazy, uncommercial, uncompromising, messy and silly mashups. I like, a lot.

Sometimes the millions of radio-friendly perfectly musically pitched ‘Pop vs Pop’ productions aren’t the point – where’s the grit? The humour? The what the fuck attitude? I worry for a lot of the more recent mashup artists, the pop is less bastard and more brand-friendly. Harummph.

And gotta love something that will never be played on radio, probably cos of the name…as everyone worries about their ‘brand’ and corporate slightly radical posturing…wonderful. You’ll probably hate it, probably think it’s terrible (hey I agree it’s wrong – even probably someone’s idea of a joke alias – but wonderfully intentionally wonkily wrong – full of YOU CAN’T DO THAT moments, some that work, some that don’t) but silly sonic terrorism (as Vicki People Like Us says ‘avant retard’) gives me hope because that’s where this whole thing came from. Silly, messy, clashy, witty, WTF bootlegs. It’s what I fell in love with in the first place.

And anything that makes jaded-old ‘heard it’ me laugh nowadays is alright with me. KInd of like Girl Talk with better drugs and a sense of humour…

Where’s my war of the worlds? by Retarded Cunt

Care Bear Double Rainbow Stare! What does it mean? Woah…it’s so intense!

The original:

And the remix, which makes me love the internet even more, from the Autotune News peeps:

Actually I like the song even more, kind of sums up the awe in more than the slightly odd (surprised ‘shrooms weren’t involved, Paul Vasquez the ‘Yosemitebear Mountain Giant’ says no ) extreme style of the original, and quite wisely cut most of the sobbing. And moaning. Which although I really appreciate the fact that yes the world has amazing beauty and most people take it for granted, and that IS a bitchin’ rainbow, that bit was ever so slightly scary. More so if he wasn’t on anything…although he does partake of weed, so maybe it’s some sort of THC afterglow?

Even inspired an excellent and funny Muppet Mashup:

The Double Rainbow Connection (Remix) by gdelahaye

I find it quite sweet and life-affirming actually – especially when coupled with Pachelbel’s canon in a mashup style Or even this 2001: A Double Rainbow Odyssey.