Tag: oki
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Zoot Boots vol 2
I know this has been slowly bubbling under for ages, but finally Zoot Boots 2 has arrived, the album of 1950s or earlier electroswing and vintage mashups. Loving PomDeter’s Rhumbleboogie (yay! Andrews Sisters!) and g4gorilla’s Mony Mony Billy Idol vs Tommy Dorsey swing bootleg atm, and anyone who mashes Secret Love by Doris Day is…
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Everyday I’m Flapping – Charleston goes Party Rockin’
Talking of early jazz, I love this mashup from the ever-talented Oki, very funny…Charleston just goes with anything, doesn’t it? Example, here’s Christina Aguilera with The Charleston from RikkiRok I used on my I Hate Jazz mix (and strangely credited the wrong Rikki mashup…oops!) And the other Charleston mashup I know of isn’t online, it’s…
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Love Will Crush Us Apart – oki’s Joy Division mash gets an Instamatic video
I’ve long said that no-one has created a good Joy Division mashup – there’s been a few close calls on that, but nothing that really works…and as a MAHOOSIVE fan of Joy Division and New Order I’m probably more critical than most – until now. Oki is doing a project called ‘DIVas of Joy Division’…
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Joy Division finally gets the mashed love they deserve
Was listening to a Peel session (Festive Fifty from 1981 no less) with Joy Division today thinking ‘why aren’t there more JD mashes?’ – well I can answer my own question in part – it’s because it’s hard to do it well, and like all guitar bands from the pre-midi autotune era, key and timing…