Tag: freelance hellraiser
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Mutant Pop 6: I’m Allergic to Bootlegs
Final post on Official Bootleg Nostalgia Week on Radio Clash (there will be a reprise, oh yes in the next few weeks) and the final Mutant Pop compilation. I share Official Bootleg Nostalgia Week with C-Tel over at the Acid Ted blog, well I’ve only just named it that but we seem to be inspiring each…
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Alan Hawkshaw and Les Hurdle on The Champ
You might not know the names, but you certainly know the tune…apparently the most sampled UK track of all time, Mohawks ‘The Champ’ is a real hiphop staple…and amazingly was recorded in ONE TAKE. Respect. Also Alan wrote the Grange Hill theme and Les did that amazing bass line on it…Alan did a lot of…
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Mutant Pop Two – Bastard Pop Class of 2002 stand tall!
Here’s the second part of the Mutant Pop compilations, a lot of the same suspects except some Kylie tastic bastard pop / mashups (and mashup history via the BRITS), DJ Spec’s classic Nelly vs Grange Hill pops up as does Philly Da Kid’s Eminem vs Smiths mash which still does the business. Includes the first…
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Warning to proto-mashup historians – ignore Wikipedia
Don’t believe a lot of what you read here. It’s just wrong. Maybe it has been edited by a few people to self promote; all respect to those people, but they arrived a bit later. Doesn’t it strike you as odd, when the page actually mentions GYBO and Boomselection started in 2001/2002 all the ‘notable’…