Category: Mashup History
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RC 224: GYBO RIP Part One – The New Skool
Sadly as mentioned on the blog Get Your Bootleg On – the 10 year old mashup forum is to close – certainly the bootleg forums are now gone. Here’s the first part of commemorative shows (sounds like a Franklin Plate: here buy the 2002 Mashup Edition with Extra Goldleaf Missy!) where I’ve taken the first…
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What’s your favourite bootlegs/mashups of the last 10 years?
To honour and remember the passing of GYBO I was wondering what’s your favourite bootleg/bastard pop/mashup of the last 10 years? Especially ones relating to GYBO, ones you heard first via GYBO or artists you discovered via the forum. Old, new, 2002 or the latest in 2012. One rule as it’s about discovering others mashups…
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GYBO to close
After 10 years the original mashup messageboard, Get Your Bootlegs On (GYBO) is to close, citing the SurfTheChannel case as a reason. Personally this is very upsetting to me – GYBO has been mentioned on this blog many times over the years as it’s how I first became part of the mashup (then bootlegs or…
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Why I Don’t Play That Many Mashups
In a rant response to a thread on Mashstix responding to this post on FMITracks, I thought I’d post here as it fairly succinctly explains why I rarely play mashups on what was a formerly mashup podcast. Ahh the state of mashups…I got there in 2008, what kept you guys I’ve noticed there is two…
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Mutant Pop volume 3 – 2003 Eve of Mashtruction?
Well by the looks of the Mutant Pop cover (which took me the longest of the series, and is the shittest, thus proving that maxim – I did model the 3D myself though) I was going for a B-movie vibe, which if Zombie Kylie and Vampire Pink are anything to go by it could be…