Don’t believe a lot of what you read here.

It’s just wrong. Maybe it has been edited by a few people to self promote; all respect to those people, but they arrived a bit later. Doesn’t it strike you as odd, when the page actually mentions GYBO and Boomselection started in 2001/2002 all the ‘notable’ dates are from 2004/5 on? So apparently we all sat on our hands for 2-3 years doing nothing? Probably posting lolcats and bitching about Weiser/IDC LOL.

I added the first mashup albums/compilations (Parkspliced, I Created A Monster, London Booted – some of the first to mash up a whole album) a while back and they’ve been removed. Why? Well probably cos the wikitrolls and wikimods use Google as a primary source. Extremely sad – but why you should NEVER use Wikipedia as a primary source. Ever. It has some rather glaring omissions/wrongness:

• No Frenchbloke & Son? Esp in Bootleg Albums – no Haggis Trax (1999 apparently, not 2002! Played on JOHN PEEL FFS)
• No Fondue Meltdown?
• No Soundhog?
• No Erol Alkan / Kurtis Rush?
• No Strictly Kev? No DJ Food?
• No Coldcut – they’re rather important re: mashups…Beats and Pieces was seminal as well as the KLF
• Your Woman by Whitetown as good as it is, is NOT a mashup. It has no recognisable 2nd ‘B’ element?
• No Cartel Communique – well Bastard is sort of mentioned…in passing, sad for this is the first ever mashup club, the one that influenced Bootie. So why is it passed over, with a small image credit?
• Soulwax created Blue Monday vs Kylie – really? LOL (it was actually Erol Alkan as Kurtis Rush, Soulwax remade it)
• No mention of how DJ Hero actually started at Bastard?
• Never ever heard of Bonna Music, Good Copy Bad Copy (self promo?), WTF is Glee doing there?, White Panda – WHO?, Max Tannone – ditto, never heard of you, Tom Caruana – ??? and Clayton Counts should probably not be there either – the latter was just doing it as a stunt like his rather sick ‘death’. ‘Punkmash’ != mash.
• Why is Girl Talk on there since he’s said he’s not a mashup artist?
• Love you ToTom but why is there a separate section for your work and GHP and Freelance Hellraiser doesn’t? Or Soundhog or Frenchbloke or Fondue Meltdown or…
• Ditto Legion of Doom – you’re a precursor cos you started doing mashups in 2004? Really? Err…

OTOH, nice to see Phil n’ Dog’s Doctor Pressure getting rather belated props…

As an aside, I heard from John that one of the editor of  an influential 70′s gay rights magazine added it to Wikipedia cos it wasn’t there – to be deleted by some Wikitroll. Why? Well apparently it ‘didn’t have enough Google hits’. *facepalm*

Of course! If  it isn’t on Google it doesn’t exist! I mean it’s not like there is a massive pre-history of the world that hasn’t been digitised yet…oh. And this is recent history that thinks mashups started in 2004/2005 – it’s far worse for say the history of Gay Rights and GLF. Distortion for personal gain of near and nearish history is very common.

Oh and response to those who’ll helpfully say: ‘why don’t you edit it then?’ – I did that for many years correcting the mistakes, they all get reverted back to wrong/self promo/recent stuff. So maybe you should have a go (enough people repeatedly doing it might get the message across). Go to it gang!

Other response might be: ‘who gives a fuck about history’ - well it’s a lucrative & powerful position to write it. Such gatekeepers get appearance fees, book deals and lazy journalists apply them with ‘expert’ status firming up their position and their ‘idea’ of history. It then gets written down as ‘the truth’ til many years later – if ever – someone actually bothers to question it, but by then the damage is done. But recent events have shown it’s worryingly about who shouts the loudest, who shouts longest, and public perception rather than any idea of truth (which I know is subjective, but to abandon any ideal of objective truth even if it is an impossible goal, but an important journey, is worrying).

And no I wasn’t adding Radio Clash – someone did that years ago and it stayed for a while*, ironically when I’d stopped playing purely mashups…more adding those who should be remembered and never were (part of the remit of Radio Clash and the mashup history series, it has to be said – must resurrect the Mashup History because otherwise this will be forgotten and people will think Glee invented mashups LOL).

*It then got removed as teh Wikitroll said apparently podcasts have nothing to do with mashups…okaaaay. Never reappeared on the podcasting page. Being one of the first (I lose count of whether I’m 2nd, 3rd or 4th – not bothered about the ranking, tbh) podcasts in the UK doesn’t count for much it seems

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

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

OK for once under the vague and wafer thin pretense of being the mashup blog I’m supposed to be, I’m going to start (well for at least one post to post tunes I’m digging atm with links! woo!

First up is Dunproofin -  my favourite bootlegger of 2008 (and pretty close to that in 2007 AND 2006!) and friend of the show (he provided the lovely Radio Clash remix that now serves at the theme tune) and I have to say he deserves to be as big as Soulwax or GHP and has the skills to back that up. Don’t believe me? – check this out:

Dunproofin’s Incredible (and he is an’ all – Oasis ‘Live Forever’ vs M-Beat ft General Levy ‘Incredible’ vs 808 State’s ‘Pacific State’) which I first heard played by the lovely DJ Lumpy at Eclectic Kettle isn’t the first Oasis jungle mix floating around- there is a Wonderwall one which sounds like it was mastered on cardboard – but it’s certainly the best, and with 808 too? Bonus!

Also check out Police Klaxons (Klaxons ‘Golden Skans’ vs Police’s ‘Can’t Stand Losing You’) which makes Stings (can I say one thing? STING!) vocals less than excrable which is some going.

He also put out a ‘best of’ album, which you can download on torrent here – really really recommended, highly so. Especially the original FU2, and check out the new version on his site.

Another contender for masher of the year is australian bootlegger Wax Audio – you might know him from his political mashes, but his recent and not-so-recent Maiden and Metallica mashes will make any metal mickey happy…but here he goes more for an 80′s vibe mixing Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill with Prince’s Sign o’ the Times, and makes something that works for these times. I like the brooding quality here, makes Kate’s track less than the slightly-god bothering track it is and more darker, doubtful.

Mashups of Running up that Hill are rare apart from DJ Magnet’s Pet Shop Boys opus, unlike Sign o’ The Times which is fairly well remixed, and having tried to mash it recently I now know why – tis a nightmare to work with, so kudos to Mr Wax Audio for creating something that works so well.

Mashing Up That Hill (Kate Bush vs Prince)

In the 5th installment of the Beatles episodes, we go all happy-duppy, wear afghan hounds with rainbow piece signs, take a lot of LED with the Coolage Acrid Test and thankfully miss the Maniacal Hystery Tour Bust to Milton Keynes.

Buses are a total pain, so let the Train take the Strain! (67Mb, 87 mins)

• Rutles / Tragical History Tour – Piggy in the Middle
• Jimmi Jammes – Sgt Pepper’s Paradise (extended)
• Who Boys – Two Tribes
• team9 – taxman vs lovesong
• ccc – tax jam pollution
• team9 – Back in Zdarlight
• Ill Chemist aka The Breakbeatles – Feel Alright
• team9 – eleanor rigby in my head
• Wendy Carlos – Eleanor Rigby
• Soulwax – Beatles vs Kraftwerk
• Jimmi Jammes – Trippin’ Up
• Ill Chemist aka The Breakbeatles – Back to the Top
• Ill Chemist aka The Breakbeatles – Take this, Brother
• Pilchard – Rita got loaded
• Kleptones (original US band) - I See Rainbows (for Yoko)
• Soundhog – Thinking of No-one
• ccc – Close to No-one
• GHP – Pinnochiohead on LSD
• Mutation – Fabtasia
• Evolution Control Committee – Lucy in the Stretch
• ccc & Ill Chemist – Kelly Watch the Hole (from Cracked Pepper)
• Soundhog – A Day in Tracy’s Life
• Fall – A Day in the Life
• Johnny Cash – In My Life
• Laibach – Across the Universe