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.
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.
It’s 30 years since Ian Curtis died, so today Michael I’m mostly listening to Joy Division. Here have ‘These Days’ – b-side to Love Will Tear Us Apart and one of, if not the, last studio recordings Ian did, a mile or two (literally) from where I was born and grew up – although I’d just moved down south a few months earlier at that time.
Also vocal-less but really digging Incubation today, off the Komakino single:
R.I.P. Ian – listening to one track off the Komakino flexi I wonder if the next album would’ve been quite electronic. What might have been…although instead we got New Order, a much sunnier cousin to the darker JD, so not all bad, Here it is with some datamoshing (which is like the modern equivalent of my running VHS tape through backwards techniques at college; creating MPEG2 intentional encoding errors as transitions:
Great video – and as it says, many of the mashups played on Radio Clash or ones you download from here and elsewhere, non-’podsafe’ podcasts you enjoy could and probably will be classed as illegal downloads – putting your connection at risk if the Digital Economy Bill is passed – doesn’t matter how transformative, how political (re: this video, rx2008 and Cassetteboy), or artistic and creative (Eclectic Method, Osymyso, Earworm, Girl Talk if you must) they are – still illegal downloads, and this bill makes no provision for them (as was originally mooted – all we got is a vague flabby concession on orphan works).
Not to mention the wonderful work Wikileaks is doing (as talked about on my personal blog, if you haven’t checked out Collateral Murder and the video of the killing of 2 journalists and several innocents in Iraq in 2007 while the kiddies on the trigger describe it as ‘nice’ ‘oh yeah look at those dead bastards’ like it was some kind of video game) which would be endangered by bills like this – for copyright law is always used to censor by corporates, government, religions and military.
So remember this debate when your MPs and their elves come-a-knockin’ on your door on the run up to the election. Where they there? Well this tool might tell you who ignored the 20,000 letters and couldn’t be bothered to turn up – apparently only a handful (numbers are debated especially by Labour’s Twitter Tsar – methinks the lady protest too much!) turned up last night. Was your MP there? I’d love to post a list, if it existed EDIT – someone has, of sorts: http://debillitated.heroku.com/ …
It’s an odd day when you find me agreeing with John Redwood (who bothered to be there and contributed as a voice of reason over the rushing of this bull bill) as well as usual suspects such as Tom Watson and Austin Mitchell (ditto, wish they were my MP!).
I mean even the inventor of the very thing you are reading this on is against it.
About to head off to the wilds of Surbiton to see John, probably be online in one way or t’other but y’all have a Happy Scroogemas and Bah Humbug New Year! Happy HanuKwanzaWinterDrinkymas!
So to celebrate my commiserations of the season, here is my Bah Humbug exclusive compilation I gave out to people who came to the 2nd Radio Clash night in 2005 (also called Bah Humbug!) – was that 4 years ago? Wow. I’m uploading this because I met up with Kirk last night and he said he still listens to it every Xmas while wrapping presents, so it definitely gets the Coverley Classic ™.
Also reuploaded the Bah Humbug mix also from 2005, you’ll get a bit of deja vu from this but it’s an expanded version of this compilation – but in lower quality to get the filesize…and it’s mixed!
01. Wayne Butane / Xmas (Excerpt)
02. Sparks / Thank God It’s Not Christmas
03. Bob Rivers / Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire
04. The Chipmunks / Xmas with the Devil
05. A plus D / Give Da Jew Girl Toys (Dirty)
06. Princess Superstar / I Hope I Sell a Lot of Records at Christmastime
07. Culturcide / They Aren’t The World
08. Cassetteboy / Up the Chimney
09. Mae West / Put The Loot In The Boot, Santa
10. Culturcide / Santa Claus Was My Lover
11. Vandals / Christmas Time for my Penis
12. Cassetteboy / Happy Cliffmas
13. Vim / When a Child is Bored
14. Little Marcy / Suzy Snowflake
15. Tiny Tim / Santa Claus Has Got the Aids
16. dj BC / Turbo Sleigh Ride
17. The Fall / Jingle Bell Rock
18. Bob Rivers / Wreck the Malls
19. Mr. T Experience / Merry Fucking Christmas
20. Voicedude / Carol Of The Burgers
21. Peter & The Test Tube Babies / I’m Getting Pissed For Christmas
22. Dwarves / Drinking Up Christmas
23. Showcase Showdown / Merry Christmas I Fucked Your Snowman
24. JIROB v Paul McCartney / Pipes of Peace (gentle remix)
25. Adam Sky / Shakin’ and a Bakin’
26. Shitmat / Dis Dancehall Ting Is Better Than That T.V. Ting Tony
27. Rx / Happy RxMas & a Whole Lotta Love
28. TBC Poundsystem / Don’t Lose my Funky Sledge
