Category: Mashup History
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How an Illegal Mashup Reignited British Pop
Great video explaining how Richard X et al reinvented British pop music, and it makes a good case for that (although I feel that he was treated like an outsider for a lot of it, even though he was a hitmaker, they took his ideas but shut him out?). And the Gary Numan comment that…
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Return of Twinkleboi (sorta)
Well he’ll always be Twinkleboi to me, but TDYLAN aka Toby Dylan as he is known now of Bushwhacked fame has released a back catalogue of mashups and mixes over at Bandcamp called ‘mixed x mashed’. He’s not really returning either, since he never stopped doing remixes and mashups! So my title is a bit…
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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…
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The KLF have rejoined the music industry
It all started with a cryptic messages over Xmas via the KLF group about railway bridges in Kingsland Road and posters, via a message on the KLF YouTube channel. Wary of another fan-made scam I ignored it…but someone *ahem* graffitied Samplecity Thru Trancentral and posted these posters talking of a release today… So far so…
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Ballroom remastered
An Xmas Eve treat – a remastered lossless version of DJNoNo’s 2015 Ballroom EP, my silly concept ‘album’ mixing big band jazz, exotica, latin jazz, easy listening, bossa nova, cha cha, samba, swing, space age etc with hip-hop and rhythm and blues. It was supposed to be the first DJNoNo album but never really worked…
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DJNoNo’s First Album – Accordion Hero
DJNoNo – Accordion Hero (Hisstory 2004-2020) by DJNoNo DJNoNo’s First Album – Accordion Hero! (well if you don’t count Ballroom as an album, it is more like mini-album or long EP…that will be posted after this for the full DJNo ‘experience’). 16 years in the making it covers the best and a little of the…