Finally I present to you ‘Fleetwood Mix’ – the Fleetwood Mac mashup album (it changed from an EP to a short LP in the last few hours, literally!) with tracks by DJ BC (current Bootie Top 10 Exclusive!), Celebrity Murder Party, LeeDM101, DJ FOX, RIAA, 10000 Spoons and myself, remixing the hits new and old in the 30+ year career of Fleetwood Mac. Musically the mashups and remixes range from glam rock, rap, house, dubstep, children’s records and ambient!

I thought this would never see the day, so it’s good to finally have it for you – you can download the tracks below or the full zip with larger artwork on Mediafire and failing that – and only if the link is down – you can download it direct from my server. Keep in mind though if you hammer/spread this link I will take it down again as it nearly nuked the server last time!

EDIT: I spruced up ‘Go Your Own Steinway’ which is basically a new version (new intro and speech samples, better production etc.) and uploaded it on the 22nd October, and remastered ‘White Witch Dub’ – so you might want to redownload these Also you can still get the later ‘Dubmatic’ version of White Witch Dub over at the Instamatic site or see the video here.

1. dj BC – Everybody’s Everyday Girl (Fleetwood Mac vs Snoop Dogg vs Kanye West vs Q-Tip vs Capleton)
2. Celebrity Murder Party -  Glam Manalishi (remix)
3. 10000 Spoons – Big Low Love (FM vs Flo Rida vs Hardnoise)
4. RIAA – Babar’s Tusk (children’s record vs FM)
5. DJ FOX – Hypnotized Gypsy (Akon vs FM)
6. Instamatic – White Witch Dub (Skream vs FM – unreleased original version – Dubmatic video)
7. LeeDM101 – Never Make Me Cry (Man Sized Mix)
8. Instamatic – Go Your Own Steinway (Eric Prydz vs FM)

Edit – it’s now also available on Fairtilizer and 5 of the tracks are also over on Soundcloud.

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

Gradually getting back into video and uploading some of my degree/personal video work.

(Excerpts from) The Milk Lab Tapes 1995 (remixed 2002)
(NSFW, contains super8 of birth and a rather charming 1950s porn lady, quite quaint really…)

Milk Laboratory was an experimental music night – well not that experimental, we’d play Aphex Twin, LFO, Throbbing Gristle, Air Liquide – industrial and dark ambient. I did the visuals, using found video, adverts, stuff I’d shot around Sheffield, and remixing Super8 that a friend had collected and was doing loops from. I also used to shoot a lot of video from buses – my degree show was shot in the bus station – and super8 shot on the moors (which will be another film/post) and upside down reverse video shots – literally I took VHS tape and respliced it upside down so the helical scanning drum would read  correctly yet backwards – and it worked! I loved the way the colours reversed and the image broke up.

Posted it here because a) it contains some music I’ve not released yet – from 1992-95 it contains the pieces under my Reality Engine moniker – you might be surprised from my pop mashups where my history lies, in more extreme noisetronica/experimental cutup work, that would be more akin to Merzbow, Zorn and Burroughs than Soundhog or Go Home Productions!

• ‘Killed or Murdered (Headcleaner mix)’ (the WW Catholic Radio sampling one, with feedback through an effects unit)
• ‘Test Broadcast’ which I did for a film in my second year (and yes that is me on vocals)
• ‘Semi Automatic (Headcleaner mix)’ which was a cutup I did on the Amiga, again with feedback, and the track I was working on for my degree installation -
  
• ‘Counter Surveillance Program’ which included loads of mobile phone scans. The rest of the tracks are bits from the N.E.M.C.

You can find part two here – both p1 and 2 were the ‘remix’ re-edit I did in 2002 from the 15 minute original,  taking out the boring morphs and really dodgy stuff. Yes there was dodgier stuff!

And here’s a video I did of people smashing up televisions. Yes as you will see in future posts I liked to destroy things, including intentionally glitching video:

Some of you will know about the Gowers report on Copyright which recommended the loosening on rules around ‘fair use’ in the UK similarly to US rap groups and parodies in the US. Now according to the wonderful Open Rights group they are looking for examples from artists to give Patent Office where more relaxed copyright would have made things easier.

They are looking for concrete examples of creative practices inhibited by the law, to back up proposed exceptions for the purposes of “creative, transformative or derivative works” and “caricature, parody or pastiche”. Would you, your colleagues, students or collaborators benefit from these exceptions? Are you working or have you worked on a project outlawed by the overly-protectionst copyright regime, which would have benefited from these kinds of exceptions? If so, please get in touch – info[at]openrightsgroup.org – and share your experience.

Obviously the introduction of similar ‘fair use’ laws as in the US would transform mashups and sample-culture, podcasting, remixing, music performance, recording and such like, so please give examples to Open Rights Group, they seem to be good people on the side of angels (and not Record Industry shills afaik).

Please do this – or at least if you don’t, don’t moan to me about the arcane UK copyright laws in future – we have out chance and it’s now.