Cartelmike brightened up a grey and depressing Friday by posting this rather strange yet wonderful ray of Russian sunshine. I would listen to this on a loop. Continously. With extra loopy bits.

As well as being released and played in part on XFM, 72 the collaborative mashup project will have a live mashup event in London on Thursday 29th October at Loom bar from 7pm-1am with many mashup DJs in a continuous moving mashup feast! Idea is like the old Bastard ‘Bring Yer Own Boots’ – each DJ brings 3 tracks but similar to 72, one track at a time, in order!

This means the night has a dream DJ list of many people picking just the best 3 tunes, which I think should provide great if chaotic results – totally in the spirit of Bastard! And like Bastard it won’t just be mashups, but I’m sure you’ll hear a few

I will be DJing (well putting on 3 tunes) as well as:

Osymyso
Freelance Hellraiser
LV15
Bush No.10
Jez Celebrity Murder Party
Joel 90
Ape
Lee Spoons
Cartelmike
Eddie Pedalo
Dsico
Pheripheral
Scott Cairo
Tizwarz
Gara Gara
and Pom Deter, who ran the 72 project with Eddie Pedalo.

I’m sure many more to be added! Should be a great night, it’s free so come on down, the mashup’s lovely! And it will be one of the few (read: only) events you will see me anywhere near DJ decks in the near future since I am officially retired

This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence (yes Banksy you can kiss my arse)

I mentioned on Twitter that I was planning a follow-up to these shows, and without even mentioning that the idea was around the theme of first, dorkland aka Walton (Viera?) in Second Life suggested I do a show on the first mashups that got people hooked on them. I did so on Twitter, Get Your Bootleg On forum and this blog and had an amazing response…so amazing that the show has had to be edited down and some of the responses dropped – but I still have 27 amazing tracks which are all classics and part of bootleg/mashup history (and a few were surprises even for me).

Still ended up over 2 hours though! Very much worth it, because it is a 2 hour 20 long mix of some of the most influential and classic bootlegs of all time.

As I said this is part 1 of a series, the next one as it always happens was playlisted first and already included a few mashups and cutups that were mentioned for this show, so those tracks and shouts will be in the next part.

Thanks to all who responded what their first mashup they heard (or wanted to hear) was!

But you know that we’ve changed so much since then, oh yeah (2 hours 20, 110Mb)

Tracklist:

• Girls On Top – Warm Bitch (first mashup for: me & Cartelmike)
• Freelance Hellraiser – A Stroke of Genius (dorkland, LV15, okiokinl)
• Soulwax – Smells Like Teen Booty (iainh, A&D)
• dj french bloke – destiny’s kennedys (eve massacre)
• Soulwax – Skeelo & Eye Of The Tiger (REMIX) (tigermendoza, RebornIdentity)
• Jay-Z + DJ Danger Mouse – 99 Problems (Eternalkhaos)
• DJ EZG – Rockerfaction (ACRoZ, Mighty Mike)
• ? – My Name Is Funk Soul Brother (Veering Axiom)
• Pussy 2000 – It’s Gonna Be Alright (dunproofin)
• Tinman – 18 Strings (Promo mix) (ACROZ)
• Freelance Hellraiser – I Just Can’t Get Enough Purple Pills (GaraGara)
• ? – Last Night Billie Jean Saved My Life (Bob Levingbird)
• Missy Elliott – Get Ur Freak On (X-Press White Label Club Mix) (Oscar TG)
• ECC – Rebel Without A Pause (Pete Juxtaposeur, FM24)
• Osymyso – Intro Inspection (corporation)
• DJ Gauffie – Oops! Slim Shady Did It Again (Norwegian Recycling, DJ Schmolli)
• Jay-Zena – 99 Luft Problems (9freak9)
• Grease Vs Dr Dre & Snoop Dog – You’re The One I Want In The Next Episode (lassoo the moon)
• Girls on Top – We Don’t Give a Damn About Our Friends (Tizwarz, jake9274)
• Soulwax – Dreadlock Child (Lee Spoons)
• Freelance Hellraiser – Step on Man (Ian Fondue)
• Go Home Productions – Jacko Under Pressure (Linus)
• Loo & Placido – Rigby Reggae (CMP)
• DJ Earworm – Stairway to Bootleg Heaven (BenY)
• 10000 Spoons – Whiskey in the Jarre (clivester)
• PartyBen – Boulevard of Broken Songs (psycho acoustic research, WFAH)
• Orbital – Halcyon (Live) (PortPower)

This video from Swiss TV, shot in September 2002 (we think), shown 2003? is presented by Mark Nicholson aka Osymyso no stranger to Radio Clash (although I haven’t played him far from enough in recent years) – a second career perhaps? Very good presenting! and other mashup people I’ve spotted that are no strangers to this show include:

Cartelmike
Jonny Cartel (by the bar! Quelle surprise!
Bushno10
Stash da Rola (I think standing by Bush)
Rob PB (in the hat
Matt Catt (with hair!)
Strictly Kev (DJing)
Cartel Baz (by the bar)
Jo Zephyr and her friend or other half (?) whose name sadly escapes me.

Others supposed to be there are Churchy and ian Fondue, can’t spot them though, it’s like a Bootleg Where’s Wally? I hadn’t started going to them yet – not until 2003 so pretty sure I wasn’t there for this one.

Thanks to Cartelmike for posting this, and Mark Osymyso for letting him post it online

A little voice inside my head said: “Don’t look back, you can never look back.”. Well actually it was Don Henley but in the case of The Asylum, home of the legendary Bastard, one the world’s first ever mashup nights (well that was King of the Boots, also run by Cartel Mike and Johnny, and might have been there too) in London back in 2001 or 2002 until 2006, it’s very true.

This was the club that was so underground (it wasn’t properly licensed!), grungey and accidentally hip, that not only did Chris Morris base the pisstake of the club in Nathan Barley on it, the owners went onto run the Macbeth in Hoxton, where one of them or their staff got into that whole Blake/Amy debacle.

It seems that The Asylum has been kidnapped by Laura Ashley, and forced to wear floral wallpaper, union jack underpants and Ye Olde tourist-trap trinkets. So sad.

History – right there. Or was…

(not pictured behind them is the Ye Olde fireplace, the patio chav-style windows at the end, the union jack chairs, the WI tea cups used as ice holders and the tablecloths. I shit you not. Go look at the pictures from upto 3 years ago and compare!)