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RC 225: Babylondon 2012

Welcome to Gridlock! They call it murder…

A state of the capital address about London, 2012, Babylon and ting. Righteous music from roots reggae to dubstep, soul, rock and gothabilly & psychobilly (and two Orchestras  and  some funky dubby jaxz from Miles Davis!) celebrating Jamaica’s 50th birthday and Red, Gold and Green rather than Bronze, Gold and Silver.

“The man who worships silver and gold, shall surely, surely, surely lose his own soul, Then fade away”. (and a track I forgot to play on this podcast! Bless you Junior Byles).

I don’t play enough Jamaican music so inspired by David Rodigan here is a dubtastic podcast.

Babylon and on and on and on (re-record not fade away) (2:15 – 139Mb)

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  • The Orb – Golden Clouds 81 Neutronz Remix
  • Alborosie – Kingston Town
  • Culture – Lionrock
  • Kulture – Steppin Outta Babylon
  • DJ Schmolli – Get Up Youth (Bob Marley VS P.O.D. VS Friction)
  • Ms Doll – Barbie Bonfire (Knife Party vs Aqua)
  • Anna Meredith – Nautilus
  • Meat Beat Manifesto – Radio Babylon (Beach Blanket Bimboland mix)
  • Blasters – Dark Night
  • Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone
  • The Maytals – Pressure Drop
  • UB40 – One in Ten
  • The Redskins – Bring It Down!
  • The Pioneers – Time Hard
  • Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Loyal To My Sorrowful Country
  • Demented Are Go – Crazy Horses
  • Skatalites And Don Drummond – Occupation
  • The Rev. Horton Heat – Cowboy Love
  • Linval Thompson – I Love Marijuana
  • Sugar Minott – The People Ought To Know
  • The Mekons – Empire Of The Senseless
  • Burning Spear – Slavery Days
  • Prince Far I – Bendel Dub
  • Miles Davis – Black Satin
  • Electric Light Orchestra – 21st Century Man
  • Akala – Find No Enemy
  • Jimmy Cliff – Many Rivers To Cross
  • Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Pandaharmonium
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RC 224: GYBO RIP Part One – The New Skool

Sadly as mentioned on the blog Get Your Bootleg On – the 10 year old mashup forum is to close – certainly the bootleg forums are now gone. Here’s the first part of commemorative shows (sounds like a Franklin Plate: here buy the 2002 Mashup Edition with Extra Goldleaf Missy!) where I’ve taken the first 5-6 pages of GYBO and featured the tracks there – just to show the creativity and diversity of the place. And to give GYBO a sort of wake.

What I thought might be difficult to find good stuff I eventually had the opposite problem – too many good mashups! This also harks back to the first Radio Clash podcasts back in 2004-6 which were originally an all mashup.

As mentioned in the show I need your help for part 2 – which will be the ‘Old Skool’ edition. What was the first mashup you heard on GYBO? Or the favourite one you’ve heard in these 10 years? Usual address, or try the contact form above or the comments below.

What No Clayton Counts or Weiser? (2:17 138Mb)

or listen on Mixcloud

  • Captain Obvious – Madonna Has A Kiki (Madonna vs Scissor Sisters)
  • S.I.R. Remix – Call me Maybe (Hands Up! Give me your Heart!) (Carly Rae Jepsen vs Ottowan)
  • Mashed And Confused – I’m Finally Horny (Mousse T Vs Ce Ce Peniston)
  • Thriftshop XL – Pump up the 212 (Topless Harry Hill Mix) (Azaelia Banks vs Technotronic)
  • G4Gorilla – I’m Back With Roses (Outkast vs Dean Coleman & The Partysquad feat. Michael Bryan)
  • DJ Spider – How Does It Feel La La La (LMFAO vs Kylie)
  • Michmash – Monster Can’t Dance
  • MashMike – Tacatá (Lederhosn Remix) (Tacabro vs. Haindling vs. Tag Team vs. Lady GaGa)
  • G3RSt – I Want Stacy’s Mom
  • Loo & Placido – Beat It Freaks (Michael Jackson vs. Yuksek vs. The Noisy Freaks vs. Richard Cheese)
  • RUINMYTUNE – Luv U Single Ladies
  • DRA’man – Get the model
  • No Saturday Night Surgery – What Makes You Stop Believing (One Direction vs Journey)
  • ViC – Michael83 (INXS vs. M83)
  • LeeDM101 – Midnight Moon (M83 vs. Creedence Clearwater Revival)
  • JaxOhmboy – NumBear (BearopjiggaFuced it mix)
  • Zigmond Fraud – Hittin The Devil Beats
  • DJ Schmolli – Rock Of Ages (2012)
  • Fissunix & CLT – Moon Steam
  • Onelove – Lazy Scrubs (Bruno Mars vs TLC)
  • GenErik – Empire Heart of Gold (Neil Young vs Jay-Z)
  • mARKYbOY – Crimson Cologne Cerrone Houdini (Goldfrapp vs Morcheeba)
  • Maxko187 – Something About Us (Daft Punk vs Kesha vs Will Smith)
  • daftbeatles – Heart of Glass (Blondie vs Philip Glass)
  • FreeMan88 – The Great Dictator Final Speech vs Time by Hans Zimmer

Photo taken by Pelican used under Creative Commons as John White who made the original ORLY? owl is rather litigious – the inspiration for this image is this excellent animated GIF which has gone into GYBO folklore

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Nothin’ Crazy – except selling my mashups

I guess my mashup being on Amazon (oh and iTunes too) would be something to brag about – if I’d put it there, and of course the original artists were being compensated, and it wasn’t someone else claiming it as their production also.

So DJ Crazy J Rodriguez please stand up for your online perp walk – selling my Nothin’ Crazy (Gnarls Barkley vs B.O.B ft Bruno Mars) for 89 cents as part of your ‘Summer Break’ album is not big, not clever and insulting as I post all of my mashups for free as I don’t own the copyright and never intend to make money from content I don’t own. Usual disclaimer is I do them for fun and not profit, with all parts credited and much love (and hopefully some extra sales/promotion) given to the original artists. Apparently there are many other mashups ‘stolen’ and sold there also from the likes of DJ ZEBRA, Fissunix, DJ Schmolli, Wax Audio, DJ Earworm, DJ Lobsterdust and Dan Mei…very naughty.

So save yourself some money and download Nothin’ Crazy for free here.

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DJ Schmolli ‘Get It Away Bitch’ gets the Instamatic treatment

DJ Schmolli ran a competition for the best video for his new Red Hot Chilli Peppers vs Prodigy vs Bob Marley track – and I won! Here is the result launched today…hope you enjoy. Had some fun with grain and film plugins as the source material for the Prodigy was low quality, and using various videos of the tracks sampled in the Prodigy track (rather than the original video which doesn’t fit and I’d used before in my video for Enya vs Prodigy) – so we have cameos by Randy Weston and his bongo player, Kool Keith, RATM and a totally unrelated visitation by Ofra Haza…

I think the revolutionary atmosphere in Egypt also had some bearing on the choices, too…all those flags (all of my videos have what posh people call ‘visual motifs’ – for Correspondence for example it was the circle, this one is the flag).

Hope you enjoy!

Word on the street is DJ Schmolli is releasing his CLXXIV EP tomorrow on AudioPornCentral…from what I’ve heard it sounds ace :-D

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