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I’ve been listening to the Best of Bootie 2005 CD. It is truly addictive, the best mashup compilation I’ve heard in a long time. I have to listen to it again and again, every time I must go back for more.
Two of the best tracks have M.I.A. acapellas, Sri Lanka High (MIA vs The Ramones) is truly inspired and An Honest Brave (MIA vs The Bravey) just goes together like it was always meant to be. My Other Car is a Beatle probably wins as the best mix though, Gary Numan, The Beatles, L’Trimm and Van Helden all lovingly smushed into one electroclashy extra-sexy synthpop number.

I’ve just started it running on it’s third time through today.

Wow!! Man did I get a real treat last night. I went to fabric to see adam freeland play with his new live band Free*Land. I was expecting some really hard breaks… that they would be playing something like his DJ sets. Dance music, repetitive beats, deep bass and droney sounds. But oh no, they had guitars and used them to full effect and a real live drummer too.

The mix of music was really weird but good. It started with some great industrial tinged stuff, industrial breaks and industrial dub, crazy I know but it sounded excellent. Towards the end they softened up, the hard edge had gone, and they had some chick on vocals. I can’t remember exactly what the end was like as I was a little mashed at the time, but I was pumped by the end of their set and that kept me going till 5am.

Overall the rest of the night at fabric was excellent too. It’s not the bastion of house music that it used to be. This entire night was hiphop, drum&bass and breakbeat. All very exciting.

Strangely enough I’m listening to lounge music via MSN’s Music Lounge. Having been isolated to the BBC’s gulag in white city I’ m am condemned to the vagaries of online radio. But quiet surprisingly have found some good playlists on MSN.

I found number 1 and 3 of the 2manydjs mashups. Both very cool, but number 2 is definitly the bollocks. There is a fair amount of track repitition between the three albums, but they are still kept feeling fresh. Worth laying your hands on if you can. I got mine at Amoeba in LA. Haven’t seen it here in the UK at all.

Rhombus are an excellent New Zealand dub act. I like it a lot which is suprising since I generally hate dub with a soulful loathing.

Arena-folk-metal-punk. Corgan also recruited one of the guitarists from Tortoise.

A disc of “best of”s and a disc of remixes.

Is sounding very good. I thought on hearing some of the tracks off it previously it might sound very same-y. Doesn’t though. Will have to listen to some more.

Rocks! Nobody I’ve heard mixes 10cc into Dolly Parton into Royksopp.

www.2manydjs.org

Nice re-release of this older BoC album (EP by todays CD length standards really). It sounds very typical of their work. A fairly hectic D&Bey sounding track, but otherwise drifty melodiousness.