the Fixxx (Memorial Day Eve ‘08)

OOF.

What a wedding.  At least I’m not hungover.

(passing out for 10 hours will do that to you)

10) Mei-lwun ¤ Free Ballin’ (9)

9) Matt Hite ¤ You Get Around (A Bad Name)

From one of the victims of Behind The Scene, his latest hit gives Bon Jovi the thing that they’ve never had: indy cred!  And gallons of it!

8 > Colatron ¤ American Finale

You will give in to Estelle and Kanye.  You will give in to Estelle and Kanye.  You will give in to Estelle and Kanye.  You will give in to Estelle and Kanye.  And Cola’s no different, as he takes this year’s summer jam and takes a Hall Of Fame a ca in CeCe to bring together this relaxed kick-back jam.  This guy’s good.  Somebody should do something with him…

7) DJ Lobsterdust ¤ Down Unda Club (6)

6) DJ Schmolli ¤ Justice For Billie Jean (4)

5) DJ Lobsterdust ¤ Epic Black Rock (5)

4) It’s The Real ¤ Crank Dat End Of The Road (2)

3) Go Home Productions ¤ Missing Carly (3)*

2) Go Home Productions ¤ Rolling Confusion

See, that Olbermann video is what we lit-crit types call foreshadowing.

1) Colatron & DJ Brother Darkness ¤ Brooklyn Sweet Freakphony (1) 3

 

the Fixxx (5 ¤ 18 ¤ 08)

10 > Colatron ¤ Love Will Tear Dub Apart (9)

9 > Mei-lwun ¤ Free Ballin’ (10)

8 > DJ Steve 1der ¤ Under The Money (5)

7 > DJ Z-Trip ¤ Immigrant Noise <remix> (

6 > DJ Lobsterdust ¤ Down Unda Club (7)*

5 > DJ Lobsterdust ¤ Epic Black Rock (4)

4 > DJ Schmolli ¤ Justice For Billie Jean (3)

3 > Go Home Productions ¤ Missing Carly (6)*

2 > It’s The Real ¤ Crank Dat End Of The Road (2)

1 > Colatron & DJ Brother Darkness ¤ Brooklyn Sweet Freakphony (1) 2

Party Ben ¤ INDEPENDENT ROOM

 

Update Your Interweb Life Accordingly

The NEW and IMPROVED Getcha Bootleg On

Get after it.  Oh, yeah, and don’t forget to friend us on Facebook if you bout it like that.

 

the Fixxx (5 ¤ 11 ¤ 08)

10 > Mei-lwun ¤ Free Ballin’ (3)

9 > Colatron ¤ Love Will Tear Dub Apart (6)

8 > DJ Z-Trip ¤ Immigrant Noise <remix> (5)

7 > DJ Lobsterdust ¤ Down Unda Club

Inexplicably left off last week’s Fixxx, due to which I cannot reasonably explain besides the fact that Lobsterdust has been killing the scene all year long and burying it with awesome mash after awesome mash.  But like you want stuff this good more spaced out, right?  Anyway, scroll down the page to nab the mp3 from the Mashup King of New York.

6 > Go Home Productions ¤ Missing Carly

Off Mr. Vidler’s new awesome comp release Sliced Krispies, bringing together two seventies classics for the first time.  The problem I think from Carly’s perspective is that Mick Jagger not knowing he’s vain would be like assuming Dick Cheney didn’t know how to fire a gun.  Anyway, go to his site for the whole 11 track all-you-can-listen buffet, but catch the video for #6 while you can (with a name like YouTube, this thing is never gonna last…)

5 > DJ Steve 1der ¤ Under The Money (4)

4 > DJ Lobsterdust ¤ Epic Black Rock (7)*

3 > DJ Schmolli ¤ Justice For Billie Jean (2)

2 > It’s The Real ¤ Crank Dat End Of The Road (1)

1 > Colatron & DJ Brother Darkness ¤ Brooklyn Sweet Freakphony 1

Oh, please, he said with a shocked look.

RIAA ¤ IT’S WHISKEY

 

Damn, It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta

{reproduced with permission from Colatron.com)

Well, this is officially my first collaboration in more ways than one.

As some of you may remember, about 6 months ago, I made a little promo one shot for Scott over at Ramdom Thoughts, which was basicaly based upon an idea that me sweet sweeeeet Angel gave me. We were chillin’ over at my flat one night when she mentioned the Beatnuts’ tuned that was sampled on J-Lo’s “Jennie from the Block”. I wasn’t familiar with the original so I googled “Brooklyn Bomb” upon her advice. I eventually came by a little instrumental jobbie, by some unknown artist that sampled several beats from various hip-hop superstars, that included the Beatnuts that I fell in love with immediately. This became the basis for my instrumental, and eventually after trying a few other instrumentals over the top of it, the Verve’s legendary “Bittersweet Symphony” fitted it perfectly.

You have to remember, when I first went to Uni, my musical life revolved around house, old skool and d’n'b. I’d grown up hanging out at my mates’ houses listening to the likes of the Smiths and the Roses, and even though I was in denial to be controversial, I did like guitar based/indie music, but it was all about the beats for me at the time. I went along to the V98 festival in Leeds more for the drinking than the music, but it all changed once I saw the Verve headline on the Sunday night. It’s an old cliche about life changing moemnts but this was literally just that. I have no qualms about admitting, I cried me eyes out to the live version of “Lucky Man” and “History” still sends a shiver down my spine, but “Bittersweet Symphony” remians for me, THE defining song of the 90s, Needless to say, it’s still my most favourite gig I’ve ever been to (and there’s been a few now!) and the Verve’s “Urban Hymns” is still in my top 5 albums of all time. It inspired me to learn guitar and wear flares. That’s powerful music!

Anyway, so the promo was made with my trademark Colatron voices and samples, and it was well received, generating more traffic to the site, plus it earned a fair few downloads for a short piece. I had to try and make a full length track out of it.

So off and on, over the last 6 months, I’ve revisited the Acid Pro session, completing the instrumental part of things around the same time as I finished the EVP sessions. I just did not have a vocal to fit it.

An avid reader of the Island of Misfit Songs blog by the incomparable Butch Rosser (aka DJ Brother Darkness) in the US, I’d clocked a few months back that he occasionally posts a list of ideas he has that he’d like fellow mashers ot throw together for him. A few ideas have really excited me, but I’ve just never got around to making them. But on the last challenge, Butch had the genius idea of pairing Adina Howard’s “Freak Like Me” (butchered by the Sugababes) with soul classic, “Mr. Big Stuff” by Jean Knight (which holds another special place in my heart ever since my good friend Kirsty was the Soccerette of the week on Sky Sports Soccer AM show a few years back and she had to do that catwalk thingy to it). In theory, a great pairing, but in practice, my laziness prevented me from putting the effort in to match the two.

Another of Butch’s ideas involved matchign Biggie Smalls with the Verve - I’ve never been a Biggie fan as such, but as mentioned, I’m a HUGE Verve fan. The cogs were turning in my head. I have a Verve track, with a strong back beat made, hmmm…..

I dropped the Adina vocal in and well, excuse the French but shit me if it didn’t virtually fit immediately…..

3 weeks later, playing around with various track placings/cuts, and looking for that final touch (I went for a home-made Bittersweet Symphony acapella to bring the anthemic lyrics back in) and here it is. I have to give a little it of credit to Angel, you are quite literally the best hon (you need to meet this girl - 6ft 2″ of ex-model/dancer perfection, now signed to a NY rap label - she is simply awesome) and I have to give a whole load of credit to Butch for giving me the inspiration to take two of his ideas and mash them. A mash of a mash. Crazy. So yeah, this is essentially, Colatron & DJ Brother Darkness on the ones and twos. I love it, it’s going back to the hiphop beats of early Colatron, and it’s freaky like a monkey

Colatron & DJ Brother Darkness present….

Brooklyn Sweet Freakphony

featuring
Pharoah Monche - Simon Says (Intro)
Unknown - Brooklyn Bomb (feat. Slick Rick, Crooklyn Clan, Bad Boy, Beatnuts, Time Zone, Biggie, Jay-Z, Mase, Mobb Deep & Nas)
Adina Howard - Freak Like Me
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony (both instrumental and DIY acapella)

and vocal excerpts from the following movies

Hideous!
Timerunner

(click on image for mp3)

= = = = =

Who’s next?

 

the Fixxx (5 ¤ 4 ¤ 08)

Whew!  80 minutes left!  Still counts!

10] ToToM ¤ Harder Better Super Stitious

9] Fidelski ¤ D’yer Pass’er By (10)

8] ComaR ¤ Shut Up On A Blue Monday (9)*

7] DJ Lobsterdust ¤ Epic Black Rock (8)*

6] Colatron ¤ Love Will Tear Dub Apart (5)

5] DJ Z-Trip ¤ Immigrant Noise (6)

4] DJ Steve 1der ¤ Under The Money (2)

3] Mei-lwun ¤ Free Ballin’ (4)*

2] DJ Schmolli ¤ Justice For Billie Jean (3)*

1] It’s The Real ¤ Crank Dat End Of The Road (1) month

Next week…Go Home Productions…and maybe a little somethin’ somethin.

Hmm.

 

Lobsterdust Lobsterdust Lobsterdust!

OI OI OI!

You know, that’s the awesome thing about mashups: there are a billion ways to make the same old hook sparkle like new, and in this case Lobster’s taken 2 pretty familiar hooks and turned them into an epic party mash.

Colin Hay & Curtis Jackson.  I can smell the buddy movie from here.

Down Unda Club

Now if only I could find some way to start carving into that massive Into The Hopper list…hmm…

 

Hour After Hour Work Is Never Over

And ToToM’s brilliance isn’t, either.

Harder.

Better.

Faster.

Superstitious.

GET IT.

 

the Fixxx (4 ¤ 27 ¤ 08)

10] Fidelski ¤ D’yer Pass’er By (7)

9] ComaR ¤ Shut Up On A Blue Monday (10)*

8] DJ Lobsterdust ¤ Epic Black Rock

With a small rush of Faith No More “Epic” boots (long overdue btw), the King of New York brings in a mashup that rocks from all ends with FNM, AC/DC, and Queen mashup classics to back up the 1990 classic.  Shift changes, two halves that taste great together, it was fantastic.

7] DJ Fox ¤ No One To Squeeze (5)

6] DJ Z-Trip ¤ Immigrant Noise (remix) (4)

5] Colatron ¤ Love Will Tear Dub Apart (9)*

4] Mei-lwun ¤ Free Ballin’ (3)

3] DJ Schmolli ¤ Justice For Billie Jean (6)*

2] DJ Steve 1der ¤ Under The Money (2)*

1] It’s The Real ¤ Crank Dat End Of The Road (1) 3

 

the Fixxx (uhhh…dude, what day is it?)

Hey.  Took a week off to hit up NYC for Keith and the Girl.  Fun times abounded, everything from DJ 101 and working on Serato (cue shot of Homer drooling) to drinking and debauchery I cannot bring up in a family venue such as this.

Suffice to say, now we should be back on track (even if we did opt for live band karaoke over another Z-Trip show last night), bringing in the top 10 mashes in ALL of the land!

10] ComaR ¤ Shut Up On A Blue Monday

I used to hate Rihanna, until I came to the realization that she was merely the most popular mashup producer alive (before this, “Tainted Love” and “PYT”) and now she’s gotten from all the way off of the Dead To Me list into the mass.  And the French work, merely highlighting the source material, lends a slightly darker edge to her 4-minute metaphor.  Good times.

9] Colatron ¤ Love Will Tear Dub Apart

Ah, after weeks and weeks of begging and bribery, Andy finally gets what he wants; a spot in the exalted top 10 thanks to his Pallot workover and dub redo of the Joy Divison classic.  Good on ya, Andy.  And next time make the check out in American money.

8] DJ Gizmo ¤ Patience With Somebody (7)

7] Fidelski ¤ D’yer Pass’er By (6)

6] DJ Schmolli ¤ Justice For Billie Jean (3)

5] DJ Fox ¤ No One To Squeeze (2)

4] DJ Z-Trip ¤ Immigrant Noise (remix) (4)

3] Mei-lwun ¤ Free Ballin’ (1)

2] DJ Steve 1der ¤ Under The Money (5)*

1] It’s The Real ¤ Crank Dat End Of The Road 2

FTW.