…by way of GYBO and a lot of other mashup/bootleg peeps including interview with a lot of the US bootleggers!

Liam McGranahan’s dissertation “Mashnography: Creativity, Consumption, and Copyright in the Mashup Community” as part of his doctorate from Brown University is available here, a ‘mashnography’ study into the ethnography of the bootleg scene. BTW timbearland = me, before my ‘fingertrouble’ namechange (I’ve also been on GYBO as ‘beardie weirdie’, ‘timbearcub, ‘instamatic’, ‘DJNoNo’ and about a million aliases, just to confuse the historians and dissertation writers out there ).

Slightly surprised since it is a ethnographic study that focuses on GYBO as much as Bootie that there aren’t more interviews with some of us original 2002 GYBO crowd, or indeed McSleazy (we are all quoted from GYBO threads interestingly). Also could cause a few stirs re: quoted comments about some people’s love/hate of GYBO (4 comments? really Partyben? Although I suspect that said Eminem mix is the one DJNoNo purloined the ‘Lose Control’ acapella via LOL…) but a pretty interesting read – includes a lot of the mashup politics, internal schisms, aims and ideas – not really news totally to me, but then I live it don’t I?

Although I disagree with the analysis of one of my writings:

“timbearland: ‘I don’t think you’d find many people here having a problem
with what you’ve said. I mean I’ve even worked for Universal Music and I
agree with you. They seem to usually be one of the better ones, so unusual
if they are doing a Warners. Sony BMG seems best and most flexible,
EMI and Warners historically the worst. UMG are usually in the middle.’

It is possible that certain record companies are more permissive of mashups than others,
but there is no discernable pattern. Rather, major labels appear to issue C&D orders based
simply on what catches the notice of the legal department. This may be the result of
media attention, Internet buzz, the objections of a sampled artist, or just random luck.”

I KNOW this to be the case – but it’s the problem of quoting me during a conversation with my peers without past knowledge – I wouldn’t have re-stated the backstory to this info for the 50th time as a long-term GYBO person most people there have heard it before. I’ve spoken to someone within Sony BMG who confirmed that they send out white labels and promos with acapellas and promote DJ remixes as a sort of focus group – at least within the RnB division they did. I know other labels who’ve paid for white label mashups to be pressed. There is a double standard there – some of the labels DO court unofficial remixes and mashups, others don’t, or in the case of EMI put out a Mashed compilation whilst CD’ing most of the mashup community, without understanding the irony. Universal according to one of their staff are ‘pretty clueless’ about the technology and not really aware enough of the internet to start throwing C&Ds around (until NirGaGa that is).

Coupled with the fact that of all the official and unofficial C&Ds out there, they are all mostly EMI, then Warners close by, then Universal – the NirGaGa one being a rare one – and then Sony. In fact only issue I ever had with Sony was ContentID restricting countries that could see a video on YouTube…compared to a C&D I got from EMI for using Kylie (where I had to do what Pilchard did and ‘duck and dive’ for a while) – this is positively benign! Sony being big in the interactive world, owners of ACID and also having a lot of hiphop/RnB/disco remix culture via BMG seem to in small part get it -as much as evil mega corps ever really get it.

That said, next week I’ll probably get a C&D from Sony, LOL.

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Yup Radio Clash has made it onto Google Books via Spin, July 2005 I’m already sort of on there (2 pages) of my ‘Make a Mashup’ chapter of Podcasting Hacks.

Yay! Go me! The 15 minutes was so fleeting but at least it’s documented online…just call me “Tim” LOL.

Kirk comes back from popping out to the shops, only 2 years late…

We talk about The Curse of Glen Cambell, how my DJ program predicts our IQs, Rude shipping forecasts and Lewis’s butt, rip-off band names, 1986, bounce baby bounce baby bounce, Hovis 2: The Revenge on DVD and play some cheesy reggae, silly tunes and some cool stuff and some not so cool stuff…

Do you want a cornetto? And what IS the Colour of Max Clifford? (73Mb, 102 mins)

• …2 years later…
• Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
• The Spirit of Morph
• Kerry Katatonia
• The Curse of Glen Campbell
• Mobile Phone Subliminals
• Sopwith Camel – Hello Hello (from MILK)
• Noisettes – Wild Young Hearts
• Not the Tim that does the Podcast
• Cake Recalcitrance
• Black Kids – I’ve Underestimated My Charm (Again)
• Sparks – Now that I Own the BBC
• Tempo IQ
• Black Lips, Alison Keys, Steadman
• Attack of the 50ft Atomic Penguin Cafe Orchestra
• 1986 sucked
• Claire and Friends – It’s ‘Orrible Being In Love When You’re 8 1/2
• Monie Love – It’s a Shame
• P-break
• 1986: The Manual
• Mike ‘Pancake’ Smith
• You’re My Recession
• Wedding Present – Give My Love to Kevin
• Spike Jones – Black and Blue Danube
• Kirsty MacColl – Theres a Guy Works Down The Chip-shop Swears He’s Elvis
• Kirsty and the Replicants
• Bounce music
• Cheeky Blakk – Bitch Get Off Me
• Sissy Nobby – I Wish I Could
• Blade Runner: The Final Final Cut
• Hovis 2: The Revenge
• Bob and Marcia – Young, Gifted and Black
• Cheesy reggae link
• Piglets – Johnny Reggae
• Rude Shipping Forecast
• Butt of Lewis, Inspector Morose
• Pete and the Pirates – Mr Understanding
• Specials AKA – (What I Like Most About You Is Your) Girlfriend
• Allergic to brackets
• Simpson’s digits
• Chicago – If You Leave Me Now

Just to let you know I guested (guested? is that a verb? Is it like gussied?) on the Night Nurse Show #121 with Dat Gay American Scott, Stefan in da shizzle, Rowley from Dark Compass and  me – well into any lineup a little rain must fall, but the other 3 made good conversation.

We bitched about Twitter, dodgy kebabs, fucking deaf blokes, Tsar Tsar Gabor, Stefan and Scot traded handbags (again), I got grilled about work by Scott handcuffed to the chair with the desk lamp on full blast, I was honorary Twinkleboi for a bit and talked about his Gargantuan Penis (there the similarity ends, sadly) and that Scott is the Evil Company Destroyer having killed every company he’s worked for, bar one. It was very funny and not the Darth Vader/Luke Skywalker showdown Scott was probably expecting, thinking wrongly Rowley was my mortal enemy…naw he’s lovely.

Sadly though this will be the last time I’m on the Night Nurse Show…as it’s ending in 4 shows. I’ll miss it

Second part (literally) of podcast #176, a more icy and quiet cold selection, for wandering through snow in the dark to, while pondering which floor is best to throw bankers from. 5th? 15th? 20th? I expect it changes the splat ratio and the survival factor…hey that’s a bailout we can all agree on!

I’m the Urban Yeti Baby, Yet I Don’t Exist (66Mb, 82 mins)

• Fleetwood Mac – Before the Beginning
• Beck – Modern Guilt
• Eine Kleine Nacht Musik – Ertrinken
• The Orb – Let the Music Set You Free
• Rex The Dog – Heartsong
• The Residents – Kaw Liga
• Metallica – Unforgiven
• team9 – Fujiya and the Foxes
• Human Highway – The Sound (team9 remix)
• Richard Hawley – Long Black Train
• Kanye West – Street Lights
• Dubstar – Stars(acoustic)
• Burial – Night Bus
• The Orb – Sleeping Tiger & The Gods Unknown
• Cut Copy – We Fight For Diamonds
• Low – Shots & Ladders
• Hope Organ – Sneaky
• The Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Lullaby
• Adult Rodeo – Jesus, He Loves LSD + Me
• The Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Lullaby
• RIAA – Always Another Sucker On The Vine
• Metallica – Fade to Black