About to head off to the wilds of Surbiton to see John, probably be online in one way or t’other but y’all have a Happy Scroogemas and Bah Humbug New Year! Happy HanuKwanzaWinterDrinkymas!

So to celebrate my commiserations of the season, here is my Bah Humbug exclusive compilation I gave out to people who came to the 2nd Radio Clash night in 2005 (also called Bah Humbug!) – was that 4 years ago? Wow. I’m uploading this because I met up with Kirk last night and he said he still listens to it every Xmas while wrapping presents, so it definitely gets the Coverley Classic ™.

Also reuploaded the Bah Humbug mix also from 2005, you’ll get a bit of deja vu from this but it’s an expanded version of this compilation – but in lower quality to get the filesize…and it’s mixed!

You can get a zip file of the compilation here – enjoy! Or don’t, grinches!

01. Wayne Butane / Xmas (Excerpt)
02. Sparks / Thank God It’s Not Christmas
03. Bob Rivers / Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire
04. The Chipmunks / Xmas with the Devil
05. A plus D / Give Da Jew Girl Toys (Dirty)
06. Princess Superstar / I Hope I Sell a Lot of Records at Christmastime
07. Culturcide / They Aren’t The World
08. Cassetteboy / Up the Chimney
09. Mae West / Put The Loot In The Boot, Santa
10. Culturcide / Santa Claus Was My Lover
11. Vandals / Christmas Time for my Penis
12. Cassetteboy / Happy Cliffmas
13. Vim / When a Child is Bored
14. Little Marcy / Suzy Snowflake
15. Tiny Tim / Santa Claus Has Got the Aids
16. dj BC / Turbo Sleigh Ride
17. The Fall / Jingle Bell Rock
18. Bob Rivers / Wreck the Malls
19. Mr. T Experience / Merry Fucking Christmas
20. Voicedude / Carol Of The Burgers
21. Peter & The Test Tube Babies / I’m Getting Pissed For Christmas
22. Dwarves / Drinking Up Christmas
23. Showcase Showdown / Merry Christmas I Fucked Your Snowman
24. JIROB v Paul McCartney / Pipes of Peace (gentle remix)
25. Adam Sky / Shakin’ and a Bakin’
26. Shitmat / Dis Dancehall Ting Is Better Than That T.V. Ting Tony
27. Rx / Happy RxMas & a Whole Lotta Love
28. TBC Poundsystem / Don’t Lose my Funky Sledge

Back back back in the mists of time, when men were men, women were women, and Dsico still made bootlegs, there was a messageboard called GYBO. Still is in fact. Now the girls and boys in mid 2003 on said messageboard had an idea – what about getting together and doing a charity mashup album inspired by and for War Child and their recently released Hope album.

That compilation begat London Booted, which begat Parkspliced, which begat the whole mashup compilation phenomenon, I’m willing to bet. It included a few tracks that went on to have a life after the album – Loo & Placido’s groundbreaking ‘Safari Love’ was for the album, as was GHP’s ‘Let the music gimme shelter’, Fondue Meltdown doing their classic Daft Punk vs Beats International bootleg and indeed the aforementioned Dsico contributed an excellent Jennifer Lopez vs Ladytron bootleg ‘ghetto pr0n queen’ which I suspect was one of his last A vs B bootlegs before going all glitch, then ditching bootlegs altogether and declaring them dead. Repeatedly.

The rest of the list is veritably star studded with early-mashup names – Frenchbloke (with and without Son), Ultra396, Poj, Boomselection’s DJ Spec, DJ Crook Air, Cropstar, Miss Frenchie, Bitter Sound Foundation, and some you might not remember such as Steve JH Christ who is dead (yet was resurrected probably 3 days later as Steve SPR aka Steve Supercollider – for fun ask him to show you the video ), Seej, Hepcat and Counter Corporation, amongst others.

Here is said album via Mediafire (162Mb) for the first time in probably 6 years in it’s full 2 CD set with original artwork(s) 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 mass sharing of the direct link and I will take it down again!). The original download asked you to donate to Warchild, I leave that to your conscience!

Disc 1:

1. douglas does electronics – run mary feelgood
2. dj spec – peak a boot (specshul fx edit)
3. dj just in time – you ran over me
4. dsico – keep it real bitch
5. tld productions – try an ugly fiesta
6. tom tom – pink vs the who – there goes my generation
7. ultra396 – beastie blitz
8. fondue meltdown – around the bassline
9. frenchbloke & son – walkable balloon
10. miss frenchie – the lion sleeps
11. voodoo bong – manu chao vs. prodigy).
12. ghp – ultrathin
13. seej – together again

Disc 2:

1. idc – safe from us
2. frenchbloke – seeing pigs
3. bomfunk mc’s – freestyler [poj mix]
4. dj crook air – love will sing it back
5. ghp – let the music gimme shelter
6. bitter sound foundation – check the sensi
7. hepcat – baby got aerodynamic back
8. counter corporation – i hate you tupac
9. dsico – ghetto pr0n queen
10. ultra396 – i’m your love machine
11. cropstar – take my woojet
12. steve jh christ – smacked up dragula
13. loo & placido – safari love

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.