Month: December 2022
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RIP Terry Hall
RIP Terry Hall. 63 is WAY too young. Another part of my youth gone…. An amazing lyricist – some of my favourite Specials, Colourfield and Fun Boy Three tracks were penned or cowritten by him – Man At C&A, Blank Expression, Tunnel of Love, Our Lips Are Sealed, Gangsters, Thinking of You, Friday Night and…
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Last Christmas Heroes (Wham vs David Bowie) video
Another christmas ‘present’ is a video for my Last Christmas Heroes mashup – a lot of ‘fun’ doing this since Davinci Resolve kept crashing, not sure if it’s cos it’s the latest version or the snow particles I was playing with – the Heroes video works really well with snow! Sadly it’s blocked on YouTube…
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Only Living Boy In Jamaica (Boy Who We Be) (Tanya Stephens vs Simon & Garfunkel)
My end of year track mashing up Tanya Stephens vs Simon & Garfunkel– and created for the ‘unmashed’ challenge on the Crumplbangers Discord. Also if you’ve got the new tbc 21/22 album, it was first posted as part of that. I am a big fan of reggae and dub – you’d probably not guess that…
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Christmas Leftovers 1: Audioboots and Cbat
Yeah tis the season, where I have to create a Christmas podcast well before people leave work to go home for Christmas, but of course projects and mashups get released in the hinterland between that and Christmas Day….and so I go DOH when something drops that I’d have loved to have had a week ago.…
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Great Tyler Durden vs Taylor Swift video
Love this Taylor Swift meets Tyler Durden video and mashup by ah! mashups aka Irish mashup producer Alan Hurley. I actually considered this combo of Pixies – Where Is My Mind vs Anti-Hero before I did my Radiohead one, but it didn’t work for me (Titus Kondo did not bring joy). But he’s made it…
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Best of 2021-2022 Bandcamp Albums from Instamatic, Captain Obvious, DJNoNo & tbc
It’s nearly Christmas so here’s your present (or booby prize? It’s that time of year, The Biannual Mashup Report! I am releasing the last 2 years or so of mashups and plunderphonic experiments from Instamatic, Captain Obvious, DJNoNo & tbc on Bandcamp that aren’t on Black Block (now on there for the first time also)…