Category: Mashup History
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It’s Always Bloody Repeats
To those that missed my Masters of Mash interview with PimpDaddySupreme on Twitch earlier in the year, it’s being repeated as a YouTube Premiere today, Wednesday 4th November at 19:00 GMT / 2PM EST. Come watch the Clash of The Mashup Beards! As I stare into space a lot, look pensive/confused/bemused (*delete as inexplicable) and…
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I Do Call It A Comeback! RETURN of Totom, Solcofn & Dunproofin
The Bootleg Revival starts here…(and Bootie Mashup and Sowndhaus and…) Shortly after posting my latest Radio Clash where I posit – and encourage – an old guard mashup revival – THREE of the old school GYBO bootleggers come out of retirement. Zeitgeist or what? First up is ToTom who I didn’t realise hadn’t posted at…
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Masters of Mash interview
Just a reminder that I’ll be talking to beardmeister Pimpdaddysupreme as part of his Masters of Mash series (who? me?) for 2 hours from 7pm BST this Wednesday 27th May (there might be something special if you turn up early though 😉 at his Twitch – PDSMix. Pretty sure we’ll be talking mashups/bootlegs/bastard pop history,…
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Pause Button Beats
“Public Enemy No. 1” was a pause tape beat” This is an amazing article via Ian Fondue of the Lloydbrary about early hiphop DJs using cassette tapes in their productions – yes a lot of us started creating ‘pause button edits’ and it’s amazing that some of the classics were created this way. I knew…
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new Negativland: True/Fake News
Some rumblings from the land that is Negativ:, there is a new release called Discernment from an album called True/False out on October 21st which seems like it’s a development from the True/False tour but very timely in this era of ‘Fake News’. Click here to pre-order, which comes with lots of bonus goodies AND…