It’s 6 years today since Joe Strummer died.

Just a note to mark the date, and to say the 5th anniversary mashup album from last year ‘This One’s For Joe‘ is still up and rolling. Thanks Joe!

OK for once under the vague and wafer thin pretense of being the mashup blog I’m supposed to be, I’m going to start (well for at least one post to post tunes I’m digging atm with links! woo!

First up is Dunproofin -  my favourite bootlegger of 2008 (and pretty close to that in 2007 AND 2006!) and friend of the show (he provided the lovely Radio Clash remix that now serves at the theme tune) and I have to say he deserves to be as big as Soulwax or GHP and has the skills to back that up. Don’t believe me? – check this out:

Dunproofin’s Incredible (and he is an’ all – Oasis ‘Live Forever’ vs M-Beat ft General Levy ‘Incredible’ vs 808 State’s ‘Pacific State’) which I first heard played by the lovely DJ Lumpy at Eclectic Kettle isn’t the first Oasis jungle mix floating around- there is a Wonderwall one which sounds like it was mastered on cardboard – but it’s certainly the best, and with 808 too? Bonus!

Also check out Police Klaxons (Klaxons ‘Golden Skans’ vs Police’s ‘Can’t Stand Losing You’) which makes Stings (can I say one thing? STING!) vocals less than excrable which is some going.

He also put out a ‘best of’ album, which you can download on torrent here – really really recommended, highly so. Especially the original FU2, and check out the new version on his site.

Another contender for masher of the year is australian bootlegger Wax Audio – you might know him from his political mashes, but his recent and not-so-recent Maiden and Metallica mashes will make any metal mickey happy…but here he goes more for an 80’s vibe mixing Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill with Prince’s Sign o’ the Times, and makes something that works for these times. I like the brooding quality here, makes Kate’s track less than the slightly-god bothering track it is and more darker, doubtful.

Mashups of Running up that Hill are rare apart from DJ Magnet’s Pet Shop Boys opus, unlike Sign o’ The Times which is fairly well remixed, and having tried to mash it recently I now know why – tis a nightmare to work with, so kudos to Mr Wax Audio for creating something that works so well.

Mashing Up That Hill (Kate Bush vs Prince)

Hmm didn’t yer momma say too much candy was bad fer yer?

Well if you want a suger-sweet musical mashup candy overload they’ve posted links to 240+ mashups, mostly mashup albums over at AudioTuts – nicely including the Radio Clash Strummer and Radio Clash File compilations. Thanks! Some good mashup albums there…don’t get sick from gorging on them though!

For those who like breakcore, dubstep, breakstep, folkcore or whatever steppycore is current, you might like to try the Goat Lab radio – which is great and current show features the our very own Pete Juxtaposeur! Who plugged the Strummer comp – thanks Pete

It’s a nutty ride, but liking the accordion and 200bpm bizniz.

Oh and another friend of the show, DJ Lumpy will be playing Goat Lab @ The Croft in Bristol on the 18th April, I’m planning to be there, oh yesh. I have a feeling horse masks and silly insane remixes of TV themes might occur…

Red Castle to Pawn’s foreleg 7th Mannequin (Original Halibut Maneuvre)

Check, mate. (66Mb, 86mins)

• New ident!
• Burial – Archangel (from Untrue)
• Glowstyx – 7 Daze (from Class of 1992)
• Yazoo – Situation (Dunproofin mix)
• Axwell – I Found U (remode)
• Age of Chance – Kiss (1986 Bootleg)
• Mr Oizo – Skatesteak (from Steak OST)
• The Peppers – Pepper Box
• Wilmoth Houdini – Black But Sweet (thanks to Copycat)

Red Castle mix (a mix inspired by the gardens and castles of the Alhambra in Granada.)

• Ann Rachlin – Mystery of the Spanish Garden with:
• Matmos – Zealous Order of Candied Knights (from The Civil War)
• Shackleton – You Make Me Cry (from Skull Disco)
• Matmos – Regicide (from The Civil War)
• controlfreak – one for sorrow
• The Orb – Spanish Castles in Space
• Francisco Tárrega – Recuerdos de la Alhambra
• Amiina – Hilli (from Kurr)
• Isaac Albéniz – Asturias
• Joan Baez – Babe I’m Gonna Leave You
• Joe Strummer and the Latino Rockabilly War – Cholo Vest (from Permanent Record outtakes)
• Carter USM – Impossible Dream

• Elizabeth Fraser – At Last I Am Free (from Rough Trade 25 – Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One)

My photographs from the Mezquita in Cordoba, December 2007