You might recall me mentioning GYBO Weekend Challenge, the ad-hoc for-fun mashup challenge where you have a weekend (no, never) to create a mashup using a pre-selected acapella and instrumental – and winner voted by the people of the board (usually other challengers) gets bragging rights and to select the next tunes to mash. Well not only is it on it’s 13th incarnation, like Fela Down the Chippy my track that won the first one, weekend before last I won against some tough competition with my exceedingly rough and ready and silly ‘Bollywood in Space’ using Babla Orchestra and the selected instrumental ‘Do You’ by Adam Freeland and some early space samples, with a sort of EBN/MBM inspiration (but not as good). I hope you like…not as polished as my usual, but fun

What I’m reallty proud of is for this weekend (just gone)’s challenge I got to choose the next tracks for the 13th GYBO challenge – Pet Shop Boys ‘Always on my Mind’ seems to have flummoxed them all apart from MP3J’s excellent mash:

and Pom’s Always Mine mash which works really well.

PomDeter – Always Mine by pomDeter

But the acapella was the perennial Thou Shalt Always Kill by Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – one of my favourite tracks and this seems to have caught the collective inspiration of GYBO. Firstly with this amazing track from Dunproofin – Just a Band probably my favourite so far, certainly those of you who like the Radio Clash theme music which is also by Andy will LOVE this:

Dunproofin – Just a Band

And LV15 does a rather litigious reading of it with a very current Bieber 800-type ambience, again brilliant although he might get threats from Strummer’s legal team

And this house tastic Justice vs Thou Shall Always Kill from Ian Fondue – love the just a band section when it kicks in:

IanFondue-JusticeForKilling(Demo) by imedit-gybo-challenge

And for a spacefunk MBM type vibe is FM24′s take on Thou Shalt Always Kill:

This is all making it very hard to know who to vote for. If I can vote being Queen Fingertrouble I’ll just wave then, and say let them eat Caek (is a lie!).

Shits and Giggles is a new odds-and-ends compilation from The Kleptones, slightly surprising after the double-album blowout that was Uptime/Downtime, and while by it’s very intention it’s a mixed bag, there are several tracks of interest:

Saturday White – Elton John’s Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting has been pretty well mashed, but not with Billy Idol, and when the vocoder/autotune kicks in it’s ‘woo!’ (< that’s a technical term)

Kill -  I think this is one of the offcuts of the A Night at the Hip Hopera Queen mashup album from many years ago – shame it didn’t make the grade because after one listen I love this track, summing up the music industry in one handy resealable easy-to-carry song.

Psycho Dreams – only here because in part I’m WTF did he get THAT acapella (although I can partly guess, I had little success with that) but also a really rare Fleetwood Mac mashup.

Highly recommended is Unwanted Whisper which is a reversal of the more famous “Careless and the Dead” Bon Jovi vs George Michael mashup, which has been posted elsewhere but is well worth checking out as is the rest of the album which can be downloaded here.

* and eats shoots and leaves, probably

Howdy pardner! Here’s the latest Videotones mash, ‘Exit’ from the Kleptones Downtime album. Reborn Identity has given the mash given a spaghetti feel (hmm isn’t that actually gnocchi? )

Be prepared for a brooding, tense and downbeat Western epic facing down the barrel of a gun with Beck, John Mayall, Aesop Rock, Henry Fonda, Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson amongst many.

There seems to be a desert theme (rather than dessert, that would be silly) developing amongst the Downtime bootlegs, inspired by Reborn’s excellent Untired mash, also available at this very channel – watch this space for more dusty hot action!

This is what Reborn Identity said about this video mash:

“With “Exit”, The Kleptones take a bluesy song about returning home and inject it with all the tension of a Western showdown. The words “I’ll be way up in the sky” take on a gloomier, more fatalistic edge.

This video incorporates footage from “One Upon A Time In The West” (1968), “A Fistful of Dollars” (1964), “The Good, The Bad & The Ugly” (1966) and “Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid” (1973).”

BTW we’re still looking for contributors to turn the rest of the Uptime / Downtime album into video – so give us as shout or email Eric at eric@kleptones.com if you’re interested.

Name and Shame time: there’s a mashup thief called lvlvlv1 and also DJ White Knight about claiming false credit for making mashups and remixes inc my Go Your Own Steinway mashup.

This happens from time to time, sad and pathetic people try to enlarge their tiny e-Penis by stealing other people’s work and claiming it as their own. Yes I don’t own the rights either; but when all you have is credit for making a combination work it’s cheeky for someone to come and claim it as their own – especially when you’ve done all the work! Note this is exactly the same mashup, he’s not remade it, it’s the same production to my ears.
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8)Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer & Andy Moor vs Motorcycle (Disco Trance Mashup)
9)Fleetwood Mac-Go Your Own Way lvlvlv1 (Trance Mix)
10)Ronski Speed & Gareth Emery vs Ferry Corsten, Super8 & Tab (Trance Mashup)
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More galling – and the reason I’m calling him out on this, usually I ignore stuff like this – is the asserting that it’s trance. Its NOT TRANCE FFS. Fred Falke is not trance (french house), Fleetwood Mac is not trance (MOR rock), even Eric Prydz on a bad day is not trance (club house). Steal my mashups BUT NEVER EVER CALL THEM TRANCE, DICKWEED. I have never done, and will never do, a mashup or remix using trance. I hate trance.

So this lvlvlv1 = a complete tw*t, go make your own mashups and remixes, and stop nicking other people’s work. So now I’ve just splatted your name all over google as a talentless cock who plagiarised other people’s work (you really should enable comments), consider yourself slapped.

Thanks to pomDeter for the tip, he’s nicked one of his as well, and a few others possibly. And one of Martinn’s – see the comments for their take on this (I am not alone in having work stolen by this man).

And see the follow up post which should be linked below where he reported me for ‘hate speech’ for calling him talentless. Well if you have to steal other people’s work, then yes you have no talent.

EDIT: Restored to it’s former glory as surprise surprise, despite his futile ePenis threats and puppet accounts (see below) GoDaddy didn’t pull the plug despite his pathetic butthurt email. Maybe less of the dodge bleach job next time, lvlvlv1? It must be eating through to your brain.

Care Bear Double Rainbow Stare! What does it mean? Woah…it’s so intense!

The original:

And the remix, which makes me love the internet even more, from the Autotune News peeps:

Actually I like the song even more, kind of sums up the awe in more than the slightly odd (surprised ‘shrooms weren’t involved, Paul Vasquez the ‘Yosemitebear Mountain Giant’ says no ) extreme style of the original, and quite wisely cut most of the sobbing. And moaning. Which although I really appreciate the fact that yes the world has amazing beauty and most people take it for granted, and that IS a bitchin’ rainbow, that bit was ever so slightly scary. More so if he wasn’t on anything…although he does partake of weed, so maybe it’s some sort of THC afterglow?

Even inspired an excellent and funny Muppet Mashup:

The Double Rainbow Connection (Remix) by gdelahaye

I find it quite sweet and life-affirming actually – especially when coupled with Pachelbel’s canon in a mashup style Or even this 2001: A Double Rainbow Odyssey.