Tag: Dan Mei Marc Johnce-Land

https://www.youtube.com/watch?vRnCjdnpCX5U I think DMF - now more commonly known as Dan Mei & Marc Johnce - first came onto my radar with their compilation mashups around 2008 or 2009. The best being the long-lost Bootrospective - a Pet Shop Boys mashup album that I talked a lot about back in the day, one of my favourite mashup albums of that year with DJ Clive$ter and CJRMix. Sadly very shortly after release it got totally nuked everywhere due to a Sony/PRS Cease and Desist. I thought I'd played them on the podcast - seemingly not? Unless I tagged them oddly, I suspect the legals or other things put me off doing so. At the time I thought the artists had objected, but it turns out no, it was a label/rights thing. And as forecast by my past 2009 self, you can now download the original compilation over at Bootleg Archive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?vPOTO5lbzwoE Now many years later,, a few months ago Marc created several videos of the standout tracks - one for my fave by Dan Mei & Marc Johnce - Land of Stupid (Pet Shop Boys - I'm With Stupid vs Genesis - Land of Confusion) which is still topical - and one for CJRMix's Bad Heart (Michael Jackson - Bad vs Pet Shop Boys - Heart). The latter hasn't aged well for me now we know more about MJ since 2009 (that was starting to be known back then, so I'm guessing why I didn't play that one, and MJ's work is still mostly shadowbanned on the podcast). Still a classic mashup though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?vn98Ek-ptPtg Talking of which the third video is Dan Mei & Marc Johnce's - Minimal Republic - Pet Shop Boys - Minimal vs OneRepublic's far too ever-present Apologize - although back then the track was less overdone in mashups I give it a pass., Now I have to be honest: I struggle with anything with Apologize because like Coldplay's Clocks/Yellow it's been overmashed, overplayed, covered and remixed to a point I can't really hear the song anymore? It's a good mashup, and I think to fresh ears that didn't hear 10 million Apologize mashups - it was like the Gayle or Call Me Maybe of it's day - they'd love this. It's a 'me' problem definitely - but it is always good to hear Minimal in a mashup. And great to see these Dan Mei & Marc Johnce tracks that many missed because of the C&D back online and alive again, definitely part of mashup history.

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