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.

Can’t think of a clever thematic linking device apart from there is no mention of the World Cup or football in this po….DOH! Have an unrelated yet topical Chris Brown MAD cartoon mashup instead…

I should be so getting sick of Lady Gaga mashups by now, but no not yet. I was getting ready to hate Pomatic’s Thieves Like Romance Lady Gaga vs New Order mashup (well so few people do New Order justice, much abused in the mash world but rarely bettered) and was surprised to find out that’s it’s a total POP CHOON (Ian Act of Dog and Jeb 50 Pound Note please report to the front desk! beep!) mashing Thieves Like Us and Bad Romance to great effect.

In fact it’s part of a whole album ‘The Fame Monster Mash Hitz’ (title could be slightly better, C- see me!) and it’s pretty good – nothing here crossing genres or experimental like the last post but with tunes like Just Summer – Bananarama vs Lady Gaga (Cruel Summer vs Just Dance) it’s less about cred envelope-pushing and just recognising a good dancefloor-friendly totally pop mashup – which I remind you is quite hard to pull off well especially pure A vs B. And these two do that well – good summer pop mashups.

Unwanted Whisper by The Kleptones

Kleptones are off to several festies this year, including i_beta festival in the Netherlands and Glastonbury – and afore thee went they left us with a nice present, Unwanted Whisper a reversal mashup of their infamous Bootie track ‘Careless Or Dead’ – rather than using the George Michael instrumental this uses the acapella, and vice versa for the Jon Bon Jovi. Strange to hear this combo reversed, but it also works but in a less immediate way than Careless.

I have to say I don’t cover the artier/experimental side of mashups and cutup culture as much as I’d like to, but here’s definitely one release to make up for that – the second volume of Motown Meltdown. I loved the first volume ever since I heard it via Vicki People Like Us’s Do or DIY show and played a Blanketship track from it a couple of years ago.

This new volume carries on the humour and ambience of the first, the idea being that you can only use tracks from the Motown Masters Karaoke discs (yes you might have wondered where those many Motown mashups come from, well they released Karaoke discs made of the actual master tracks, that’s how!) and nothing else. The resulting Vol 2. goes from insane brokenbreaks glitch of Vytear to achingly sad tracks from Blanketship, to more hypnagogic drones from Beaks Plinth and manic cutups and loops of T H E M A Y S and Lord Tang. Definitely not Motown as you’ve heard it before!

My choices? Well ‘I Still Hate You…_ Lavender Dreams’ by Blanketship is definitely recommended as well as these two:

Since I Decided to Go by Rokhausen – a manic jive through the Motortown’s back catalogue, humorous and funky and mad. My kind of track – fuck art let’s dance

Qulfus – Three Times Twice – I have several factors for why I choose the music for the blog and podcast, one of them is definitely if it makes me laugh. This is probably some kind of profane sacrilege dissing The Lionel but I love the slowed down re-edit/retake of the Commodore’s ever-green (and admittedly slightly mouldy) classic. Brilliant

If you like download the whole album here.

First quickie mash as part of Jez CMP’s Weekend Challenge (to create a bootleg in a weekend) and as I don’t release things enough (sit on them for months > years) I thought like the CO bootleg to just get this out there to the usual deafening silence

The instrumental given was Hot Chip’s ‘One Pure Thought’ and it’s afrobeat drums reminds me of Fela Kuti, the king of Afrobeat, so here it is mashed with ‘Lady’ and a little bit of ‘Schuffering and Schmiling’. Given the sources probably about 0.5 people will get it, but if it makes one person (or 0.5 of one) check out Fela’s back catalogue such as Black President then job’s a good ‘un.

Oh and usual pop service will continue shortly

Fela Down the Chippy (Swears He’s Hot) – Fela Kuti vs Hot Chip