Mellow Cola and His Infinite Sadness

Throwaway made-in-5 mash, based upon feeling a bit lonely on a lazy, long Bank Holiday Monday

Mellow Cola and His Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
The Commodores - Sail On

Sunday Whispers

Taken from The Physics Disco mix I put out earlier this year, here's the heartbreaking semi-autobiographical story of a guy who's lost his will to enjoy the Dance. Those in the know KNOW exactly what this mash is about. But if you don't, just enjoy George getting dark and brooding.

Sunday Whispers

Ripple - Sunday Morning (dub)
George Michael - Careless Whisper
elements from Cloverfield



And a HUGE thank you to my good friend The Reborn Identity for putting the most dazzling visuals together for this track. Georgie holograms, Deckard getting drunk as he knows his fate in love, and Beth...oh sweet beautiful Beth, waking up in bed before delivering the killer blow. This stuff really happened. I've seen things....

Steppin' Out On The Town

Remember I promised you something a bit more upbeat and uptempo? Here you go...

Steppin' Out On The Town

Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
Stevie Wonder - Uptight
Benga & Coki - Night



Back to downtempo normality soon!

Feeling Destiny

Bluesy-acoustica with a hint of the mysterious, featuring the magnificent purveyors of chill, Zero 7

Feeling Destiny

Zero 7 - Destiny
Nina Simone - Feeling Good
Akira Yamaoka - Lost Carol

One Mad Love

Quick bit of DIY chilled beat balladry featuring one of my all time favourite covers. Now with VASTLY improved vocals, courtesy of a little help from my friend Voicedude. Cheers 'Dude and your mysterious 'pella maker :)

One Mad Love

Morcheeba - One Love Karma
Gary Jules - Mad World

Preview/Download



Sadly, the vocoder defeated me again...

Elusive Tears

The search for that elusive upbeat mash continues....


....which segues nicely in to this, my first foray in to mashing the Japanese language. East meets west in an acoustic ballad taking the best of J-pop and fusing it with Wolverhampton's own, Ivor Novello award-winning heir to Nick Drake/Jeff Buckley brilliance, Scott Matthews.

True story - one night in 2006, I saw Scott perform in Birmingham, as he supported and opened for two bands I was good friends with. He was unknown at the time but beyond superb that night. And he's not the only guy to open for these bands and go on to commerical and critical success. He wins an Ivor Novello, my friends are still playing pubs (sorry Ste!)...

Elusive Tears

Scott Matthews - Elusive
Otsuka Ai - Tears




For completeness, the words to Otsuka's beautiful ballad are as follows:-

meni utsuru sakura no mau aru hino gogo
meni utsuru kimi to boku no tsunaida te to te

ano hino no koto
wasure ta wakejanaikedo
sayonara shiyouto omou nda

kimi no koto omoidase ba namida gaafuretekuru
kimi no koto omoidase ba namida gaafuretekuru

daisetsu ni omotte ita boku no koishi i hito
daisetsu na jikan saemo agerarenakatta
hito nin nishite kanashi maseta boku no utta koishi i hito

kimi no koto omoidase ba namida gaafuretekuru
kimi no koto omoidase ba namida gaafuretekuru

kimi no koto omoidase ba namida gaafuretekuru
kimi no koto omoidase ba namida gaafuretekuru

with rough translation of

Before my eyes, the cherry blossoms flutter about in the afternoon
Before my eyes, we were hand in hand--yours in mine

That day…
I haven’t forgotten about it,
But I think I should say good-bye

When I think of you, the tears begin to overflow
When I think of you, the tears begin to overflow

My beloved is important to me
I wasn’t even able to give her valuable time
I’ve left my beloved all alone to wallow in sorrow

When I think of you, the tears begin to overflow
When I think of you, the tears begin to overflow

When I think of you, the tears begin to overflow
When I think of you, the tears begin to overflow

I Need Your Codeine

The first track I came up with when creating the Physics Disco mix, for whatever reason, it got put on the back-burner and forgotten. When in doubt, leave it a couple of months, and things suddenly fall in to place!

A singalong classic from 1980 (and forget the horrible and lazy Baby D cover version, for me it was always about MC Everson Allen of the legendary Ratpack fame singing the refrain over N.R.G.'s '92 oldschool brilliance), given a dark brooding dubstep spin verging on the sleazy.

As always, any multiple hidden layers of meaning are, of course, purely coincidental :)

I Need Your Codeine

The Korgis - Everbody's Got to Learn Sometimes
L-Wiz - The Girl From Codeine City

26th June 10

I'm terrible at naming mashups, and this could have so easily ended up as Dayvan Love Museum, which would have been awful.

Instead, I've simply given it the title of the date when the two things that inspired this track happened. One being Muse playing a storming headline set at Glastonbury, the other being something else. And the pairing has so many hidden layers of meaning, it's ridiculous.

This one's for the eternally-lovely LAS and her frost-covered landscapes as she journeys by coach

26th June 10

Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
Muse - Muscle Museum



Maybe something more upbeat will come along one day!

Summer Booty 2010 / Breezin' On

Another month, another Colatron contribution to a compilation. This time, it's the magnificently sunny Summer Booty 2010 compilation as compiled and mastered by the wonderful DJ Useo.



Breezin' On

George Benson - Breezin'
Erykah Badu - On & On



And be sure to download all 3 discs of summer goodness at
http://groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2010/06/summer-booty-2010.html

Everybody loves the sunshine :D

My Own Strange Love

Here's something I had left over on the PC from working on the Physics Disco, when the mix was a very different creature indeed (i.e. NO dubstep). Inspired by the mighty Flying White Dots himself.

My Own Strange Love

M83 - My Own Strange Path
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps



**Wipes eye.....sniff**