The Mashup Culture vol. 2 - compilation

OK - another massive treat for all you mashup fans. Today sees the release of the summer-tastic sequel to this year's Mashup Culture compilation album from the boys at theMashupRadio.com. Featuring a multitude of some of the biggest name producers on the scene including

Fissunix, Elocnep, Laura B, Amoraboy, DJ Schmolli, ComaR, DeeM, DJ MagicBaron, ViC, Jarod Ripley, Basic Physics, MashMike, ToTom, Chocomang, DJ Athom, DJ's From Mars, DRA'man, Kellys Sevlac, KrazyBen, Mighty Mike, The Bootleague, Sebwax and the legendary Loo & Placido.

And me.

Grab or listen to the album at

Mashup Culture Vol. 2 at the MashupRadio.com

And here's the preview of my track, which you can currently only download by grabbing the album

To Be Sweet With You

Edvin Marton - Bitter Sweet Symphony
Mr. Big - To Be With You
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony



Best enjoyed in the sun with an ice cold alcoholic beverage. Santé mes amis!

Fire and Ice and Drums and Sunrise - the video

The wonderful A Mei has spoilt me rotten with the most lush, beautiful and haunting video for my track on Mixed Temptations. Check this out and show your support!

Fire and Ice and Drums and Sunrise

Within Temptation - Fire and Ice
Morcheeba - Beat of the Drum
Orbital - One Perfect Sunrise



Also available at https://vimeo.com/44391571

More coming within just 24 short little hours...

Mixed Temptations: The Within Temptation Mashup Album

Every once in a while, I receive an invite to submit to a compilation album or collaboration that makes me stop and wonder whether it's my cup of tea. Such an invite was received following some stuff I helped out my mate Dan Mei with on his Within Temptation mash Zombie What Have You Done.

Symphonic goth metal wouldn't be the genre you'd instantly associate me with, but I have to admit, watching the genesis of this album come together, I've grown to adore the dramatic sweep of Within Temptation's emotional metal.

So here it is - the EPIC mashup album of the year.

Featuring contributions and tracks from A Mei, Bynar, CjR-Mix, Dan Mei, DJ Morgoth, DJ Schmolli, Fissunix, iMashup, LeeDM101, MadMix Mustang, Marc Johnce, Mashup Germany, Panos T, Robin Skouteris, Titus Jones and Xam - grab the full double CD album from

http://mixedtemptations.wordpress.com/

And here's my contribution,

Fire and Ice and Drums and Sunrise

Within Temptation - Fire and Ice
Morcheeba - Beat of the Drum
Orbital - One Perfect Sunrise

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EPIC!

Rabbit In Your Deadlights

The final part in my Thom Yorke trilogy, and this time I'm using my beloved Rabbit In Your Headlights - one of my all-time favourite tracks.

And thanks to my mate Bynar for the inspiration to use multiple sources to pad it out and make a dark, unforgiving soundscape. Yamas!

Rabbit In Your Deadlights

Biome - Space
UNKLE feat. Thom Yorke - Rabbit In Your Headlights
Pinch - Widescreen (sample)
Sleeper and District - Dungeon Style (sample)
Jamie Woon - Wayfaring Stranger (Burial remix) (sample)
Josh Wink - Don't Laugh (sample)
Jacob's Ladder - movie dialogue [1990]



Consider this a warm up... word is, there's a CLT full-length mix in the pipeline...

I Reckon I'm Crazy

Part 2 in my planned Thom Yorke mash trilogy, and I've already sent myself insane from listening to him warble on, over the headphones, on repeat...

I Reckon I'm Crazy

Radiohead - Reckoner
Seal - Crazy

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Part 3 and a possible return to my beloved Mashstep to follow soon...

Susan's Nude

I'm feeling particularly upbeat this week...

Susan's Nude

Susan Boyle - The End of the World
Radiohead - Nude

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And as a special bonus, it's double-cover week here in the Mash Cave - choose your chosen cover from above, resize to 500x500 px and ID3-tag to your broken heart's content.

Enjoy, if you can...

DJ ATHOM - Politik Killers (Video)

Only the 2nd time I've produced a video for another mashup producer (though I plan to change that soon) - here's a dystopian take on the mashup video for DJ ATHOM's fantastically bleak and thought-provoking track, Politik Killers. 

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death.

Politik Killers

Assassin -- L'état assassine Live (Intro)
Manu Chao -- Politik kills
Morcheeba -- Killer Hippie (Bad Vibrations Mix)

Be sure to support DJ ATHOM at his website

A Fascinating Time

Featuring on the massive mashup compilation, The 4th Point of Procrastination, organised and compiled by Envision Mashed Productions, here's my surprisingly cheerful submission

A Fascinating Time

Alan Pownall - Chasing Time
Alphabeat - Fascination

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Be sure to check out the full 4 disc compilation by visiting

Envision presents - The 4th Point

Lonely Worlds

Finally, I've had the pleasure of mashing one of my top 10 all-time favourite songs...

Ever since hearing Shadow mash it live on the suitably titled Live! In Tune and On Time, I knew an acapella had to exist somewhere out there. This was confirmed after hearing the mighty Scratch Perverts use it live to great effect on the legendary Unkle Sounds WWIII disc 2 (1999 live recording with frontman James Lavelle). 4 years on, and I've found it (along with some other FANTASTIC material I hope to use soon).

On instrumental duties, is Fetal Pulse, the experimental project of Canadian Pedro Costa - wonderful sonic soundscapes that my old mate the Reborn Identity introduced me to a year or so ago.

Lonely Worlds

UNKLE featuring Richard Ashcroft - Lonely Souls
Fetal Pulse - Worlds Collide

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So so happy to have used that one, and it may well appear again one day soon. Keep 'em peeled!

In other news, a couple of projects with some great guys fast approach....

Moon Steam (a Fissunix collaboration)

Time for another collaboration with my good friend from France, the fantastique and incroyable Fissunix. And this time it's like a tale straight out of a Jules Verne novel... coming to you live from the surface of the moon...

Moon Steam

Air - Moon Fever
Peter Gabriel - Steam
Fatboy Slim - Right Here, Right Now
Kosheen - Spies
Moon [2009] - movie dialogue



As always, find the link to my amazing mash maestro mate down there on the right of your screens and be sure to show him some amour