WonderLight

You don't even want to know the amount of work that went in to this one.....

WonderLight

Oasis - Wonderwall (i)
Jennifer Hudson - Spotlight (a)

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Dedicated as in most cases, to Kayleigh....

Something special is coming...

A glimpse of the future....

Taken from my forthcoming mix album "Welcome To My World"

Where Is Diana's Home



Bloc Party - Where Is Home (Burial Remix)
Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancefloor
Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana
Princess Diana - Martin Bashir interview


Video by The Reborn Identity

Sycamore Cowboys

Sorry folks - it's been a while since I graced these pages. However, be assured I have not given up the art of mash. Instead, I have been locked away in the Mash-cave working on a new album, which is now complete. More details will follow, but I can tell you its a space-rock ambient extravaganza. 15 new tracks, 1 you already know. It'll introduce you to my world.

As a result, there are one or two bits and pieces left over on my desktop which for space and time constraints couldn't make the final cut. This is one such track.

Part inspired by the Who Boys now classic and genius Strange Pyramid (fusing of all things, Radiohead with Billie Holiday), and heavily inspired by our collection of all things David Lynch last year, the Mashed In Plastic album (if you don't own a copy, shame on you! Over 20,000 downloads and counting) - here's my ode to all things jazzy trip-hop.

Oxymoronic legendary unknown jazz singer (Little) Jimmy Scott, appeared in the finale of Twin Peaks, singing this haunting ballad to the woods, bedecked in suit, looking a million dollars in the Lodge, and possibly out-cooling the Man From Another Place at the same time. It is one of THE standout moments in the whole of the show, and had many a Twin Peaks fan scrambling to get a hold of a copy of the soundtrack. In fact Jimmy is widely cited by his peers as being THE soul singer (Ray Charles, Billie Holiday, Quincy Jones....he even made Madonna cry!) of all time, and yet so few people know about him. For more info visit his site and educate yourselves as to what the human voice can achieve

http://www.jimmyscottofficialwebsite.org/

Pair him with the equally moody trip-hop stylings of pioneers Portishead, and you have a gloomy, nay threatening even, song to go to bed on.



Sycamore Cowboys

Portishead - Cowboys (i)
Jimmy Scott - Sycamore Trees (a)




Thanks to Gav for the Jimmy Scott piccie too.

As I say, much more to come the next couple of weeks.

But until then, I'll see you in the branches that blow....

Coming soon....

With A Little Bosh From My Friends

A silly little 60s mash to begin 2009, featuring the Darlings of Wapping Wharf Laundrette themselves, the Small Faces, and some band from Liverpool. I hear they were quite good.

Chilling to think these two tracks are 40 years and 42 years old respectively....

With A Little Bosh From My Friends

The Small Faces - Collibosher (i)
The Beatles - With A Little Help From My Friends (a)

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It's going to be a busy year folks, so please bear with me on the updates... but you can expect a huge one within a month or so with some pretty deep stuff - deeper than the normal A+B stuff I bash out anyway!

Happy New Year,
A.

Hallelujah double-pack

This has absolutely nothing to do with X-Factor, though I did indeed vote for Alexandra Burke last Saturday....twice.....

The most beautiful song in the world. Jeff Buckley's definitive version. A thousand covers. And a rush for the coveted Christmas number one spot in the music charts. My contribution....

Rapture

Semi-inspired by the latest classic by the maestro, Flying White Dots' "3D" album (you MUST visit here ), and utilising 4 tracks from my favourite album of the last 12 months, the most ambient of Hallelujahs, to take you to the next level




Burial - Endorphin (i)
Imogen Heap - Hallelujah (a)
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah (live at Sin-é) (i)Burial - Untitled (both tracks from Burial, and opening track from Untrue)Jeff Buckley - vocal sample





Faithless Praise

Taking on a whole new dark undercurrent, surprisingly thanks to pop princess Rihanna, Imogen gives praise to being cheated on


Rihanna - Unfaithful (i)
Imogen Heap - Hallelujah (a)
Jeff Buckley - vocal sample

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A huge thanks to Gav of the Reborn Identity for sharing the Imogen vocal with me....I hope I've done it justice for you.

Happy Christmas everyone
Andy

I'll Be There In Twin Peaks

The surprise hit of the summer.

Audio by Colatron (with Wax Audio)
Video by The Reborn Identity ( http://www.rebornidentity.com/)

The best thing I ever made?

Please Don't Stop This Feeling I've Got

Whilst on first listen, this may appear to be a simple A+B, trust me - it wasn't.

Beginning life back in August, literally days before I got sucked in to the Mashed In Plastic project, this began as a sweet sounding mash, based upon the first bar of Rihanna matching up perfectly with the musicbox-esque chimes of Razorlight's guitars. Her voice soared above the melody, and I knew I had to finish this one. However, th tempo on either the vox or the instrumental was killing me - I may be imagining it but it seems to head all over the shop, and I had to wrestle to keep this in line.

Dipping in and out of it over the last 4 months, each time has been faced with frustration and pushing to the back of the queue to be returned to. However, this week, I decided enough was enough and I had to finish it or abandon all together.

Some micro-edits throughout the body of the vox helped, giving the timing a more natural fit, and finally it all began to take shape...until I hit the Mama Say Mama Sas....

For some reason unbeknownst to Johnny Borell and crew, when building up in to the outro, they decide to change the count to what I think may be 2/4 instead of 4/4 (as some of my fiercest critics have noticed, I am CRAP at counting beats). It's only briefly in 2/4 but it completely messed up my plans for the Mama Say Mama Sa section of the vox. What to do? Do I just leave it?

Nah.... despite Rihanna's pleas, I stopped the music.

Before building back in to the outro again.

So here we are 4 months on, and a relatively simple track is made, but behind the scenes, I'm breathing a sigh of relief and mopping my brow. I only hope this feeling of relief doesn't stop....

Please Don't Stop This Feeling I've Got

Razorlight - I Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got (i)
Rihanna - Don't Stop the Music (a)

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And this may not be the last of Borrell-bothering I do....watch this space....

If I Were Stevie Wonder

Another week, another quick pop-tastic mash.

Does the world need another Stevie Wonder mash? Do they require yet another Beyonce mash? Maybe not, but I'm a sucker for making the obvious...

If I Were Stevie Wonder

Beyonce - If I Were A Boy (i)
Stevie Wonder - Superstitious (a)

Edit:
Ok - I don't do this often but I've gone back and tweaked this. The 'pella wasn't clean enough for my liking, but thanks to Virtual DJ, I found a slightly better version direct from the multi-track masters so I've remade it from scratch. I've also added 6 tracks (!) of the original Stevie keyboard now within the final couple of bars to give a nice climax to proceedings. Think of this as version 2

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Doing the hard work so you don't have to...

Dope Your Mama Up

Well, after the unbridled success that was Mashed In Plastic (several blog and forum platitudes, one Mash of the Week, etc. so far, and apparantly a serious contender for compilation of the year), I can finally get back to 'normal' and concentrate on my own tracks once more.

It's strange heading back to normal everyday music, and the urge is constantly there to drop in a little Twin Peaks sample, or some Badalamenti strings, but I must resist.

So, opening up my projects list in Acid, I saw I had about 3 or 4 proper contenders to finish off. So what I do I do? Start something completely new instead!

Here's a quickish mash I put together, mainly to proove to myself I can still do it, and do it well.

French sex botherer Serge Gainsbourg glams up the already glam Scissor Sister to the max, with extra 70s glam effects on the vox. All whilst me ma gets high

Now with direct hosting too! Many thanks to me good mate Gav of the Reborn Identity identity for sorting this out for me. At last after 18 months, I've finally got it sorted!


Dope Your Mama Up

Serge Gainsbourg w/Jean Claude Vannier - Cannabis (i)
Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama Out (a) + (i)

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I'm off to play jump-rope with Puff the Magic Dragon, see ya later!