The ‘how many tunes can you cram into a mini?’ challenge continues – well this went out earlier in the year but I missed it – Jaguar Skills mixing 30 years of hiphop in one hour…it’s a total nostalgia fest for me, especially as my interest in bootlegs coincided with hiphop & RnB getting it’s act together after years of boring gangsta posturing and chin-stroking 70’s soul samples. This mix confirms what I’ve always thought – that the years 1997-99 were the worst in hiphop – I lost interest in all that 2Pac/Biggie shit and was frankly relieved when they were killed (I wonder if it was by music lovers? ).

May have made for headlines, books and films but made with a few exceptions (cohort Puffy, Dre’s California Love) for terrible introverted dirge-like music. A bit like crunk is now but with less ‘yeahs’. So I was happy when 1999 was the year that TUNES and FUN and ELECTRONICS came back, although 98 was a lot better than 97, the lowpoint. Thankfully it seems with Kanye, Lupe and Kid Cudi that the intelligent and POP is now again back in hiphop? Hope so…

Anyway you can find this mix here (it’s a radio rip, as you’d expect as it was only available on BBC Radio 1). Let me know if the link goes down and I’ll up it somewhere…deserves to be up, no way this could ever be put out legit as the rights on 538 tunes alone would take years to clear and probably hundreds to buy!

I’ve been really busy and rather well, Saarbroken since the International Mash Bash in Saarbruecken gig – staying up to 6am both nights reminded me I’m getting old – but I had a great time, and some brilliant sets.

My favourite of the whole Mash Bash was the drum and bass / early jungle set of GYBO regular LV15 – it made me dance like a loon at 6am in the morning and still does, so job well done. And some great mime DJing from the man that even fooled some long-time DJs

He’s now posted it onto Soundcloud, first track is seriously NSFW, and you might hear someone you recognise in there

Sadly I think it was LV15’s last gig (as was Who Boys on Saturday it was a retirement gig) – I hope not, even if there is another 5 years to wait it’d be worth it – and he didn’t get to play this last track which is my favourite mashup of the moment – mixing Marvin Gaye with drum and bass and Pink Floyd by the way of Aphrodite. Pure old skool jungle class.

You can find some of the seperate mashups on his Soundcloud page (I must get me one of those). I must dig out his Drum dnb mix from 2003/4 if I still have it…

Also Pilchard posted a mix with loads of tracks from his set, which has some great ones, nice to hear Mixamatosis’s version of Atmosphere again, and a totally bonkers intro by Eddie Pedalo.

DJ Yoda should be well known to long time listeners of Radio Clash (and anyone into cutups, mashup history, turntablism or music generally), and if not, why not? Actually don’t answer that…

Anyway as part of the Data Transmission podcast he’s created a great Cut and Paste Country & Western mix mix, mixing country, blues and hiphop – sounds like an odd combination? Not really – from Wyclef’s dubplate with Kenny Rogers, to the like of Gangstagrass and millions of mashups the country/hop hybrid has been well done. Even I’ve DJ’d a few of the tracks in this mix as part of the country sets I did in Second Life.

But here are some greats – Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire goes urban, Littlest Hobo and Duellin Banjo drops, and Dolly Parton…need you want anything more?

And yes there is Country AND Western

When I talk about someone remixing YouTube you’ll probably roll your eyes and say ‘I’ve seen that before.’ – well maybe not like this.

Kutiman takes all the acapellas, demos, gear tests, people showing off their skills which there are millions of in YouTube – and a bit like the Napster Nuggets aka Mic In Tracks of old, makes a new track from them:

An amazing mix, and apparently there is an album of these but it’s been nuked by the attention – hope it comes back soon, I really dig this video and would love to see it and the others in hi-res – but it seems quite a few of them have already made it on to YouTube.

Intro:

More like this 4:20 tune (check out the white rasta :

And proof you can go all dnb on our asses with stuff like this:

Want to hear Little Boots covering Freddie Mercury?
Amiina (Sigur Ros’s string section, played on RC in the past) covering OMD?
Au Revoir Simone covering one of my favourite ELO songs (Here is the News)
AC Slater, probably the best remixer atm outside of Jackbeats remixing Prodigy?
Bonde de Role doing Pigbag?
Young Punx doing Clapping Song?
Nightwaves doing Phil Collins?
Good Books and Freezepop doing Yazoo?
JoolsMF remixing Gwen McCrae (heard good things about this from a mutual friend, and he’s a regular on Radio Clash).

Buffet Libre, who produced those excellent 80’s covers and remixes by modern bands from last year that I ‘rinsed’ like crazy on Radio Clash and my DJing online and off, have done it again – Buffet Libre Rewind 2.

Only listened to a few off the front page but already it’s HIGHLY recommended by me – highlights are the aforementioned current goldenboy of remixes AC Slater with his remix of The Prodigy (looks like the 80’s rule has been relaxed somewhat) and Bonde de Role’s funk carioca take on Pigbag