Tag: mashup history
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Dan Mei & Marc Johnce & CJRMix Re-Retrospective
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…
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Sickick and streaming mashup superstars?
These remixes by Sickick are an interesting take on the whole mashup thing, to not only chop up and remix songs a la Madeon but also add original vocals and production. And even more surprising, Madge has given her blessing to Sickick’s Frozen remix, so it’s on Spotify, as is the Michael Jackson vs Phil…
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Know Your History Part 4: Bushwhacked
Thanks to Boris B a bit of important cutup/mashup history has been now added to the Bootleg Archive one of the first political mashup compilations, 2004’s Bushwhacked against Bush and the Iraq war. I recently added Twinkleboi who put this together to the Archive and asked him if he still had it – he said…
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Kodiak Moment Vol 2: Best of Instamatic 2003-2008
Kodiak Moment 2: Best of Instamatic & TBC 2003-2008 by Instamatic So here finally is the second Kodiak Moment with my mashup work for the first 5 years – 2003-2008 as Instamatic and tbc.. Picking up where the first one left off with also a look into the pre-history of my first mashups – included…
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The First Kodiak Moment
Given mashup history is in vogue, I thought I’d post my back catalogue up on Bandcamp for the first time in a high quality format. First up is the promo CD I made just before I played Bootie in 2004, Kodiak Moment, all from the lossless files I used back then. It is a mix…
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The Last Bastard(ish) 94
F-me, it seems to be a recent history of finding old videos I’d never think I’d see again. First I found a rip of a BBC2 reality show I briefly appeared in called The Candidate, a June 2000 pilot that never made a full series. I turned up for a job and there was cameras…