Enya vs Prodigy – Apeboy (Lenlow edit – censored version) from Purple McFadden on Vimeo.

Amazed that the this hadn’t been properly videomashed – there are some rather odd ones out there (using another band’s video for starters – Tiamat’s video is the one used for MTV Mash, strangely!) and I thought this deserved the classic proper A vs B treatment since it’s a classic A vs B from way back (1999 originally). So here’s the Instamatic video for the Bastard/Bootie fave Enya – Orinoco Flow vs Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up originally by Apeboy and recreated and extended by Lenlow.

Of course given then nature of the original Prodigy video it’d not pass the ‘no nudity/sexual nudity’ guidelines for YouTube or Vimeo so ironically I can show the violence but not the sex…but you can see the uncensored version below from my site, even share/embed it. Of course it’s NSFW containing sex, violence, drug use and all kinds of fun stuff!

Hate to edit it for that but then I can’t put it on YT or Vimeo..silly. You kind of miss the point of the original Prodigy video too since that end reveal shows the protagonist naked thus makes it seem possibly more gratuitous. Grr.

At the top is the censored version if you’re squeamish about posting the first, still fairly adult (the Prodigy video is still pretty hardcore even with edits; it was banned on MTV so be warned) but shouldn’t be anything there you couldn’t show on UK evening TV, in fact a lot less probably and tame for most of the internets now.

If you want a downloadable version of the uncensored one for your iPod etc you can download it here.

First quickie mash as part of Jez CMP’s Weekend Challenge (to create a bootleg in a weekend) and as I don’t release things enough (sit on them for months > years) I thought like the CO bootleg to just get this out there to the usual deafening silence

The instrumental given was Hot Chip’s ‘One Pure Thought’ and it’s afrobeat drums reminds me of Fela Kuti, the king of Afrobeat, so here it is mashed with ‘Lady’ and a little bit of ‘Schuffering and Schmiling’. Given the sources probably about 0.5 people will get it, but if it makes one person (or 0.5 of one) check out Fela’s back catalogue such as Black President then job’s a good ‘un.

Oh and usual pop service will continue shortly

Fela Down the Chippy (Swears He’s Hot) – Fela Kuti vs Hot Chip

From the underground to the Underground, from the pirates patois to piccadilly palare, the bright lights of Londonium  shine on for the last of the London shows.

“Nothing is certain in London but expense.” (69Mb, 92Mb)

• London Radio montage inc Radio London and Pirate Radio 1994/95
• Blur – London Loves (GHP ‘Londinium Loves’ bootleg mix)
• Sid James – Look at Life – The Market
• Television Personalities – Oxford St., W1
• Philip Lynott – Solo In Soho
• Members – Solitary Confinement
• Soft Cell – Bedsitter
• The Kinks – Muswell Hillbilly
• Frank Tovey – Bridge Street Shuffle
• The The – Heartland
• The Real Tuesday Weld – Last Words
• Polly Perkins of Paddington Green by SpokenVerse (originally Harry Clifton)
• Leslie Hutchinson (Hutch) – A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
• Flanagan & Allen – Where The Arches Used To Be
• Sid James – Bermondsey
• The Mint Juleps – Docklands
• London Conversation with Andy Hackett
• Morrissey – Piccadilly Palare
• Catatonia – Londinium
• Specials – Bright Lights (Peel session)
• London – Amen Andrews (part)
• Pulp – Bar Italia

The final part of this journey down bootleg history lane is probably the biggest project, covering all tracks from Blur’s legendary Parklife album, A-sides and B-sides in 2 CD set to honour it’s 10 year anniversary of release.

Conceived by McSleazy and helped out by RadioQuita then from Strangely Familiar and created as with London Booted from the people on Get Your Bootleg On messageboard, it came out a few months after the aforesaid Clash album and again was popular with many blogs.

This one didn’t get an physical release so probably in some ways is rarer, but there are some real gems on there. The star-studded international assortment of bootleg & mashup DJ names you’ll probably recognise (or should seeing what they went onto) that contribute tracks are Loo & Placido, Lenlow (Bootie Boston), Go Home Productions, McSleazy, Pojmasta and JoolsMF (both also the people behind DJ Hero creating most of those mixes), DJ Payroll, Gameover, Dunproofin, Mixomatosis, FakeID aka Lionel Vinyl/Geek Chic Soundsystem, DJ Tripp and Josh Console aka cry on my console (Pirate Soundsystem/again DJ Hero) and many more.

My tracks? Well I still stand by my b-side ‘Golden Beard‘ by my alter-ego ‘timbearcub’ – later just ‘tbc’ the world’s worst DJ name – as one of my best ever, Slowdive meets Nina Simone and only 3.4 seconds of Blur’s frankly terrible jazz-wankathon ‘Beard’. ‘Godlife‘ – well I love the intro, but really the Acapella of Doom although being in key (I checked, both are Eminor Dm or something) claimed another victim. It’s those evil Beach Boys harmonies…goes in to the ‘not bad, could do better folder’ really.

I’ve included both artworks (the ones shown here are by myself, the bumper cars/whippet) and an interview done by theconfidential with all the people involved and RadioQuita.

Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls who do boys like they’re girls who do girls like they’re boys can download the zip file via Mediafire here (164Mb) or failing that (and only if it doesn’t work) then try the direct link here which should never change (warning: any hammering of my server or sharing of the direct link and I will take it down again!).

Disc 1 – Parkspliced album

1. Blur – Grrls & Bots (JoolsMF and Duff Fader)
2. Blur – Tracy Jacks (McSleazy)
3. Blur – End Of The Century (Gameover)
4. Blur – Godlife (Instamatic)
5. Blur – Bank Holiday (Payroll)
6. Blur – Goodhead (Jet Set Alex)
7. Blur – The Cassette Dissector (10000 Spoons)
8. Blur – Even Further Out (Pop Razors featuring m3)
9. Blur – No Blur No Cry (Loo and Placido)
10. Blur – Londinium Loves (Go Home Productions)
11. Blur – System Error in the Msg Centre (FakeID)
12. Blur – Naughty Dover Girl (DJ Tripp)
13. Blur – Magic America (Fujikato)
14. Blur – Jubilee (Fujikato)
15. Blur – Is This A Bootleg? (Dunproofin and m3)
16. Blur – Lot 1110101111001101010105 (cry.on.my.console)

Disc 2 – Parkspliced B-sides

1. Blur – Hey Magpie (Ilunga)
2. Blur – People In Europe Spread Love (Miss Frenchie)
3. Blur – Pojjy Waltz (Pojmasta)
4. Blur – Peter Panic and the Wolf (Lenlow)
5. Blur – Miracle on Threadneedle Street (Faultside)
6. Blur – You Can’t Go To The End (Mixomatosis)
7. Blur – Goldenbeard (timbearcub)
8. Blur – Shop Like A Britpop Millionaire (DJ Nite)
9. Blur – Theme From An Imaginary Chameleon Affair (CompactRisk)
10. Blur – Red Neck (Bad Tattoo)
11. Blur – Alex’s Hidden Place (Softbot)
12. Blur – Got Yer Album Dun (DJ Porky)

Phil Retrospector’s much awaited ‘Introversion’ mashup album is now out – expect ambient film scores, spoken word, spookiness, 3am moments and quiet reflection in dark modern rooms.

A few of the tracks come from the excellent David Lynch compilation ‘Mashed In Plastic’ but recommended is Bluebird Blackout mashing Harry Dean Stanton with Muse, All Angels and Bob Dylan, Song to the Sigur mixing Sigur Ros with This Mortal Coil, Sleepwalking for Hours mixing Lauri Anderson, Morcheeba and Ligeti with Philip Glass and A Thousand Secrets where Leonard Cohen’s spoken word meets Muse again and Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares.

But really pretty much the whole album with only 1 or 2 slightly niggly exceptions is quality stuff.