Know Your History Part 4: Bushwhacked

Thanks to Boris B a bit of important cutup/mashup history has been now added to the Bootleg Archive one of the first political mashup compilations, 2004’s Bushwhacked against Bush and the Iraq war. I recently added Twinkleboi who put this together to the Archive and asked him if he still had it – he said he didn’t know where it was, but Boris came to the rescue!

It includes tracks by Eve Massacre, DJ Earworm, rx, me (the version here was unique to this, the version elsewhere is v2), Wax Audio from his first release in fact, osymyso, Black Lung, RIAA, Dj Tripp, gordyboy, League of Infinite Justice, Digital Cutup Lounge and many more.

It is currently missing only one track – ‘Saul Williams & Digital Cutup Lounge – Pledge of Resistance’ which given it’s been offline for 15 years, that’s pretty good.

Nearly all these tracks bar RX, osy’s and mine were not only missing from the Archive, they weren’t on the Internet at all, they were just dead links. So this is an important bit of history to put back out there, and one of the things I am most proud to be involved with in my err ‘career’. *cough*

Those in the future might ask ‘where were you?’ when it comes to wars like the invasion of Iraq given the ripples are still felt now, but at least I can say that myself and others made our voices known even this small way.

And listening back, it still stands up, and is an important document of the times and also of cutup and mashup/plunderphonics of that era. Download it at the Bootleg Archive.as separate tracks or as a zip file.

And if you want to learn more about early mashup/bastard pop/cutup/bootleg history, check out the Know Your History series and the Mashup History category.

EDIT:And now as of November 2021, it’s on Bandcamp!

CD1:

1. League of Infinite Justice – Ambitions Of Empire
2. RXmusic – Boys ‘n’ Girls
3. Digital Cutup Lounge – Drop Bush Not Bombs
4. RXmusic – Dick Is A Killer
5. League of Infinite Justice – Awe
6. Mentallyill – Good Bad ‘n’ Dubya
7. RIAA – O.I.L (Operation Iraqi Liberation)
8. Vidar Brennodden – Their Own Destruction
9. League of Infinite Justice – Shock
10. Rockerbiff – Bush Of Ghosts
11. League of Infinite Justice – Payback
12. Dept. of Corrections – Drums of War
13. League of Infinite Justice – Infinite Justice
14. Dave Anton – Bushwhacked
15. Osymyso – Bushwhacked2 (Slushalodmix)
16. League of Infinite Justice – United We Fall

CD2:

1. Don Amott K of C – Bummer In The Whitehouse
2. gordyBoy – Bush Missile-f1 11
3. RXmusic – Sunday Bloody Sunday
4. DJ Earworm – Bush Lied To Me
5. Instamatic – Satan Bush Blair
6. Krivu Krivs – Lizards Running The Planet
7. Jocke Boberg & Janne Palmen – Shame on you Mr Bush
8. Unknown – Burn the Bush
9. Eve Massacre – WAR (What A Rad Mix)
10. Saul Williams & Digital Cutup Lounge – Pledge of Resistance < missing, do you have this?
11. Digital Cutup Lounge – Drop Bush (Gristilized Mix)
12. Orenzero – WMDean (Bush Lies Mix)
13. Dj Tripp – Bush Remix
14. Wax Audio – Major Combat Operations
15. Black Lung – Come to Daddy (Say Hello to Allah)

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