Category: Remixes
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RIP Smiley Culture
Sad to hear about the death during a police raid of Smiley Culture – ironically best known for his 1984 reggae/proto ragga hit ‘Police Officer’ with Saxon Soundsystem about the ‘sus’ stop and search laws – shame that unlike the funny end of the song this police intervention had a far sadder ending. 🙁 And…
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2 Bears 1 Song
If you Go Outside (hoho) into the woods today, you’re in for a remix surprise – 2 Bears remix probably the Best Song of Last Year (OF ALL TIME!!!!) and create a sort of crunk slow drum and bass breaks mix. Who are 2 Bears? Well none other than Joe Goddard of Hot Chip and…
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Phoenix release complete multitrack of ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix’
1901 and Lisztomania has not left my sets nor has Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix left my iPod since they were released…so the news that the French band Phoenix has released the entire multitracks for the whole album for your remixing pleasure is news to warm my heart (and hopefully yours too)!
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Motown Meltdown once, twice, twice, twice…
I have to say I don’t cover the artier/experimental side of mashups and cutup culture as much as I’d like to, but here’s definitely one release to make up for that – the second volume of Motown Meltdown. I loved the first volume ever since I heard it via Vicki People Like Us’s Do or…
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Bearshine Hotel
Strangely til yesterday I knew not the existence of the wonderfully and appropriately named Richard T. Bear (with the name, the plaid and the Grizzly Adams look he SO has to be a Bear prototype?) so the excellent Niallist has created a great re-edit of his biggest hit Sunshine Hotel – the Disco Beard edit.…