Well last few months have been fairly busy until now, especially May which some of these date back to – well back in May saw the release of Foolklegs 2 – I LOVED the first one, the idea of taking Folk music and mashing it with modern music, mostly from French bootleggers, which also gave it another cultural twist.

Favourites from this is Granpamini’s Incantation-meets-East London ‘Dizzee goes Peru‘ and my one to watch Elocnep who’s Darkness vs Lily Allen video I posted here and is also from this (not sure where the folk is in that, but anyway great tune) but he/she (?) must love Buraka Son Sistema as much as me as my favourite track from this whole collection is “Love kalemba or hate kalemba” which is Lady Sovereign vs that Angola/Portugese collective. Great stuff, and I expect great things from Elocnep – and will be featured on the next Radio Clash.

Now the next one again I came a little late to, and sadly the first I heard the compilation those nasty people at PRS (boo! hiss!) had Cease and Desisted it, and yes it’s our friends at EMI again, so boos all round. The compilation in question is Bootrospective, the Pet Shop Boys compilation produced by Dan Mei and Marc Johnce under the DMF collective with several other bootleggers. And it’s rather good, I think both of them are fairly new to mashups but do a great job here, as well as CjR who like Elocnep is definitely One To Watch, putting Heartbeat with Jacko as “Bad Heart” and making a funny if apparently rather unintentional comment on the death of MJ (and funnily enough a friend suggested a similar combo the day after Jacko’s death) – and Clive$ter & StabinCabin but mostly it’s a Dan Mei and Marc Johnce gig.

Best tracks as well as the CjR are “Did You See Me Moving Along” which obviously knows that Bloodhound Gang based their Discovery Channel on the b-side to West End Girls (that BBC Shopping theme) and matches it with another Pet Shop Boys track to good effect, “Unforgiven Rent” which marries Metallica with ver Boys and shouldn’t work but does and “Land Of Stupid” Genesis meets the Pet Shop Boys.

Where to get this as DMF and folks have pulled all links? Well I’ve poked around and found some kind soul has uploaded it to Mass Mirror and Mediafire. (And if the PRS or EMI are reading this, go fuck yourselves – I doubt Neil nor Chris are opposed to mashups from seeing their live shows and *ahem* other stuff I know, Chris I’ve heard especially liked DJ Magnet – Love Comes Running Up That Hill Quickly and these are of similar quality – maybe you should check with the artists FIRST before flexing your DMCA muscles?).

Lastly a new find via Soundcloud (I am on there as MutantPop and have started the Mashup group which seems surprisingly healthy, if rather odd in places!) but not odd is this great cutup track by musician and composer Neil Rosenberg in the vein of Dickie Goodman, The BranFlakes and Twink, cutting up kids records, preachers, auctioneers and old jazz records – recommended:

(and he liked my “Stripper Jackson” which for a musician to rate anything I do is a serious compliment for little old non-muso me

I dunno, Lily Allen mashups are like buses, turn your head for a minute and 2 come at once and whizz past the bus stop.

I missed these first time (uh, like 2 weeks? YEARS in blog land) but the first is by the excellent ThriftshopXL – I raved about the last Lily video he did with the Cure, and now Lilyest Hobo (please no dog jokes) which got the thumbs up from the label and b3ta and loads of other places. In fact it had pervaded my consciousness that something callled the Lilyest Hobo was out there, but never clicked on the link..If I’d seen TXL next to it I would have immediately because he’s always quality.

And the next is a surprise – me liking a Darkness mashup! I know, Lily now Darkness, what is Tim coming to? Anyway mixed with the wonderful Buraka Son Sistema by the french bootlegger Elocnep (one to watch, kids!) and from Foolklegs II – which if it’s anything as good as the first one is well worth downloading as I just have. I’ll let you know.