Party Ben - Stuff to Have



MUSIC	MIXES	INFO	EVENTS	PRESS	CONTACT

MASHUPS / REMIXES / ETC.

Below is an admittedly incomplete discography of musical tracks I've produced since I first started fiddling with digital audio gizmos back in 1998. A couple of the (relatively) more notable mashups are listed first.

There are links to some tracks and there aren't links to others, a vestige of a time when my web hosting company was tough on bandwidth, and also I kind of get confused sometimes. If you see something listed on here with no link, or you heard me play a track out and about but don't see it here, or just want to chat about life, feel free to get in touch.

Also, hint hint, if I'm working on something or I don't think it really deserves a whole to-do over here on partyben.com, I'll often post first drafts or secret little ditties over on Facebook and Twitter. So follow/friend/fan/like/poke me if you feel like that might be fun to experience.

LONG MIXES ARE HERE

- Radio shows!
- Live sets!
- Guest mixes!
- Possibly remastered Sixx Mixxes soon!

It's a fun page of stuff for sure.

MOST REQUESTED TRACKS LOVELY COVER ART	ARTISTS / TITLE / LINK / NOTES	VIDEO (IF AVAILABLE)
	Beyonce vs. the Andy Griffith Theme "Single Ladies (In Mayberry)" Download: 6MB 256kbps mp3 A ridiculous thing that got a smidgen of laughs when I put together in late 2008 and then had another spurt of interest in late '09/early '10. Looking forward to the 2012 revival.
	Green Day vs. Oasis vs. Travis vs. Eminem "Boulevard of Broken Songs" (Version 1 Remaster) ~~8MB 256kbps mp3~~ Direct link removed temporarily Mediafire link This is the first version, as aired originally on the Sixx Mixx on LIVE 105 on October 1st, 2004. The deal is that I needed Aerosmith's "Dream On" at like 5:30pm, and it wasn't anywhere in the studio or on iTunes, so I used Eminem's "Sing (For the Moment)" as a backup.
	Green Day vs. Oasis vs. Travis vs. Aerosmith "Boulevard of Broken Songs" (Version 2 Remaster) ~~8MB 256kbps mp3~~ Direct link removed temporarily Mediafire link This is the second one which appeared on Best Mashups in the World Ever are from San Francisco and I don't remember exactly when I made it, about a year later maybe. It replaces the Eminem with actual Aerosmith, as was my original intention, utilizing two versions of "Dream On" in fact, the original and a live version with the supremely hokey extend-o ending followed by stadium cheers. Hooray mashups.
	Chemical Brothers vs. John Williams "Galvanize the Empire" 5 MB 192 kbps mp3 Really I need to give credit where credit is due here, since I'd been playing Z-Trip's "Empire Strikes Back" out and about around this time (like, um, 2006 I think), so that sort of inspired this. It of course took me a while to realize "Empire" was in the same key as "Galvanize." A bit slow, Party Ben is, hmm.
	The Police vs. Snow Patrol "Every Car You Chase (The Snow Police) " 6mb 192kbps mp3 I couldn't decide which was a better name, "Snow Police" or "Every Car You Chase." Years ago I used to put fake artist names in the ID3 tags ("Beyoncaville!") and I thought I was being really clever, and that's where "Snow Police" would have gone, but when I got an iPod I realized I couldn't find my own mashups cause they all had those doofy made-up artists, so now "Party Ben" is always in the artist field. But "Snow Police" is funny enough I made it the subtitle. Anyway, whatever, some people in Ireland liked it.
MASHUP/REMIX ARCHIVE 1998-PRESENT (NEWEST ITEMS FIRST)
LOVELY COVER ART	ARTISTS / TITLE / LINK / NOTES	VIDEO (IF AVAILABLE)
	A Taste of Honey vs. Ke$ha "Boogie Tikkie Tokkie" 12MB 320kbps mp3
	Green Day vs. Oasis vs. Tonka/Black Noise "Boulevard of Broken Songs (2010 Remix)" Download: 12MB 320kbps mp3
	Simian Mobile Disco vs. Rufus & Chaka Khan "Nobody's Intentions" Right-click to download: 10MB 320kbps mp3
	Daft Punk vs. Queen "Another One Bites Da Funk" (2009 Redo) Right-click to download: 10MB 320kbps mp3 Seriously, I was but a baby when I made this. A quick intertubes search finds it starting to show up in the Sixx Mixx in early 2004. Who knows. I mean, I wasn't paying much attention. But anyway, suddenly it shows up in a video game last year and I'm like, jeez it sure sounds crappy now, let's remaster that puppy.
	Commodores vs. Rolling Stones "Machine Gun Shelter" Right-click to download: 9MB 256kbps mp3
	Yppah vs. Stevie Wonder "Uptight Gumball" Right-click to download: 8MB 320kbps mp3
	Coldplay vs. Sebastian Ingrosso "Laktos Scientist" Right-click to download: 13MB 256kbps mp3 I'd been hearing "Laktos" around and I was like, "huh, those happy little chords sound familiar." So, slap a vocal and some echo over the top and you got yourself a jam.
	MSTRKRFT (Bloody Beetroots remix) vs. Class Action "(All I Do Is) Party Time" Right-click to download: 8MB 256kbps mp3 I mean, seriously. Both these songs are about the party! And that's my name!
	Bat for Lashes vs. Shawn Christopher / Egostereo "Another Sleepless Night Alone" Right-click to download: 12MB 256kbps mp3 How great is Bat for Lashes' album, Two Suns? Maybe I'm a total girl (maybe!) but I really identified, lyrically, with "What's a Girl to Do," and Natasha's really hit the nail on the head again with "Sleep Alone." Sigh. But more than anything, the song's hypnotic rhythm cries out for a trance-y remix. Of course I'm too lazy to go and make my own beats, so I just go looking for something in the same key, and I remember Egostereo's chilly remix of the Shawn Christopher classic "Another Sleepless Night," which turns out to also have a nice lyrical similarity as well. Bonus.
	The Cars vs. Lady Gaga "Poker Face (Just What I Needed)" Right-click to download: 6MB 256kbps mp3 And the award for "laziest mashup title" goes to... Well, damn, you try and think of a better one. "Just What I Poked"? Anyway, I've been wanting to make something out of this classic Cars track for a while, but there's no instrumental, so I kind of had to build one out of sticks and gravel. I don't know if it "adds" any "thing" to the "song" but there it is.
	Evelyn "Chapagne" King vs. Kid Cudi "Shame (At Nite)" Right-click to download: 8MB 256kbps mp3 And the award for "laziest mashup" goes to... Okay, not like there's anything wrong with the Crookers mix, but sometimes you don't necessarily have a peak-time dancefloor ready for such a banging megajam, right? This doesn't really go anywhere, but it's, you know, pleasant enough.
	Vampire Weekend vs. T.I. & Rihanna "Live Your Life Punk" Right-click to download: 5.5MB 256kbps mp3 Mostly this little number is thanks to Kristi since I was planning a Bootie video set and fretting about not having any hipster tunes, and she said hey, what about that Vampire Weekend band, and I was like, okay. I keep thinking I should do like a 7-minute jump-up jungle version of this, but I guess I'll add that to the to-do list.
	Kanye West vs. Green Day vs. Oasis "Boulevard of Flashing Lights" Right-click to download: 8MB 256kbps mp3 I hope people understand that there's a bit of self-mockery going on here, in the sense that it's amusing to me that one would take one's "hit" and then beat it to death with cheesy remixes, in, as I've said before, as good a sign as any of being on the back side of one's career arc. Did I just take away the funny by over-explaining it? Damn, that happens to me a lot. Anyhoo, isn't that Kanye song awesome? Isn't Kanye awesome? I seem to be mucking about with that guy's stuff a lot lately, but I promise I've totally liked him since a way long time ago.
	Queen vs. House of Pain vs. Go Home Productions "We Will Jump You" Download: 3MB 128kbps mp3 Darr. I never really wanted to release this, since it's super lazy and sloppy and I totally admit it was just something I made so I could play "Jump Around" at Bootie. But people like House of Pain and Queen and junk, so here you go.
	Justin Timberlake vs. Radiohead "(All I Want You to Do is Be) My Reckoner" Original mix: 7MB 256kbps mp3 Remix: 12MB 256kbps mp3 So I hear "My Love" out and about, and I realize, "holy crap, this is Reckoner, complete with falsetto croonery." Then I waste a few days putting it together, and then I realize the Oakenfold mix is actually really good and deserves its own version. Fun.
	Ting Tings vs. Nelly "Shut Up In Herre" Download: 7MB 256kbps mp3 A cheesy little number I've been playing around the nightclubs, and now you can put it on your Zunes.
	Justice vs. Kanye West "Let There Be Love" Download: 8MB 256kbps mp3 Earworm's already got the Pitchfork-approved Radiohead combo going, and I of course highly recommend anything he does. But sometimes you just want to dance, don't you?
	M.I.A. "Paper Planes" (Party Ben's Fly Like High Like Remix) Download: 11MB 256kbps mp3 This is pretty straightforward: get in at dance tempo, slow down for some MIA, speed back up to dance tempo, crowd goes wild or maybe just goes to get a drink. It uses the Jeff T remix of Felipe Avelar's Electric Boogaloo for the beats.
	Fake Blood vs. Purple Ribbon All-Stars "On Mars All Night" Download: 7MB 256kbps mp3 Super dull blend using my favorite neo-rave track of 2008.
	Lil Wayne - "Lollipop" (Party Ben remix) Download: 12MB 256kbps mp3 Lil Wayne - "Lollipop" (PB vs. Mowgli mix) Download: 9MB 256kbps mp3 I tried this two different ways: first up, doing my own bassline-style version (pilfering beats from the Twocker remix of 187 Lockdown's "Gunman"), and second, doing a slightly more mellow mix that uses the funky backing track from Mowgli's mix of In the Club's "Turn You On."
	Led Snooppelin - "Drop It Like It's a Whole Lotta Love" (2008 Remix) Download: 5MB VBR mp3 Led Snooppelin was an attempt back in 2004 to try and put something together that wasn't entirely 80s-dependent like the rest of my work. I never really liked the way it turned out, but despite its obvious production flaws, it got some attention, basically because of the source material (the same way a lot of otherwise dull rap/rock mashup hybrids did back then). So, for my January 2008 video showcase set at Bootie, I figured it might be time to rework the thing. It's a little faster now.
	Daft Punk vs. Nirvana "Smells Stronger" ~~5MB 192kbps mp3~~ Z-share link Two songs that were already overused to the millionth degree in mashuppery and remixery by the time I put them together, but this was part of my Daft Punk-inspired 2008 video DJ set at Bootie so I thought it was funny.
	Justice vs. Dead or Alive "D.A.N.C.E. (Like a Record)" 6MB 192kbps mp3 Honestly this was inspired by DJ Zebra who, when we were on tour together in '07, would end his sets with this MSTRKRFT mix of "D.A.N.C.E.," which I really liked. So I was like, "what goes with that? Pete Burns goes with that." Silly, and I probably worked harder on the cover than the actual mashup.
	Plastilina Mosh vs. M.I.A. "Millionaire Galang" 7MB 192kbps mp3 Hey, Party Ben goes to Mexico! "Millionaire" was a big hit for the Mosh in 2006 I guess so perhaps this is a little old for everybody south of the border, but I always like a local-flavor mashup whenever I'm traveling so I pulled my old trick of putting MIA over the top. Crazily enough I ended up meeting the P-Mosh guys in Monterrey, which is a weird coincidence. They were nice.
	Can't Stop Callin' Out: The Complete Party Ben vs. Lyrics Born Experience ZShare RAR file link includes all 5 tracks 1. U2 vs. Lyrics Born - "Callin' on Sunday" (Original mix) mp3 The original 2004 mashup that ended up being one of my biggest LIVE 105 hits, interesting since I at first considered it a copout cousin to my Janet Jackson/U2 combo (see below). 2. U2 vs. Lyrics Born - "Callin' on Sunday" (2005 Remix) mp3 This is the remix I put together specifically for a LIVE 105 BFD DJ set where Lyrics Born himself was playing -- that set in fact consisted entirely of mashups & remixes of other artists on the bill, which was a good idea in theory but made for a bit of a wonky set. Anyway this uses the good old Blondie beat for pumping up ze dancefloor. 3. Average White Band vs. Lyrics Born - "Callin' Up the Pieces" mp3 The whole point of this was to have something surprising for my Bootie headlining set in January 2007, since everybody was sick of the U2 one at this point. 4. Average White Band vs. Lyrics Born - "Callin' Up the Pieces" (Baltimore Remix) mp3 I was just going to do a B-more style mix of Lyrics Born but then I couldn't help but put some of "Pick Up the Pieces" in it. Bonus Track: SebastiAn vs. Lyrics Born - "Callin' Ross" mp3 This is just me being stoopid: using SebastiAn's thumpy "Ross Ross Ross", this mix doesn't really go anywhere but is kind of amusing in a glitchy kind of way.
	Plump DJs vs. Flo Rida "Low Addict" 9MB 192kbps mp3 I've always been a fan of Plump DJs (and in fact, some of my first forays into the nightclub scene in San Francisco were in the Nu Skool Breaks scene; wow, those were the days).
	Tepr vs. Shannon "Minuit Music" 8MB 192kbps mp3 This one takes the datA remix of Tepr's "Minuit Jacuzzi," a track that already kind of seems to reference '80s freestyle, and makes it a little more obvious. I actually had to completely reconstruct the Tepr track to make this happen, it sounds pretty easy but it wasn't, I promise.
	Lyrica Born vs. Average White Band "Callin' Up the Pieces" (Party Ben's Bmore Remix) 7MB 192kbps mp3 This was item number four (4) that I produced with the good old Lyrics Born a capella.
	The Chemical Brothers - "Star Guitar" (Party Ben's a Big Bright Shining Star Remix) 9MB 192kbps mp3 "Star Guitar Stand Up" 9MB 192kbps mp3 A while back Electrosound asked me to take part in a bootleg tribute to the Chemical Brothers, and while I don't usually have time to contribute to these projects, I'd had an idea rolling around my head for elucidating the Baltimore sound that kind of bubbles under in "Star Guitar" for a while, so I was happy to have a deadline to whip me into shape. So, first I made the (mostly) instrumental version which I handed off to the project, and then I thought "hey this could use some Ludacris," so I threw "Stand Up" over it. Whee! Go here to grab tracks from Block Rockin' Boots with contributions from GHP, Moule, BC, Dunproofin' and more.
	Modern Talking vs. Gnarls Barkley "Crazy (If You Want)" 6MB 192kbps mp3 Part of the Party Ben Gettin' Euros Tour 2007 Experience! So in an attempt to ingratiate myself with the many nations of the EU, I tried to put together something appropriate for each location on the tour: "Polska Boys" for Poland (see below), a "Boulevard" mix with MC Solaar for France, and this ridiculous thing for Germany. Not familiar with Modern Talking? They're only the most successful pop group in German history, and it turns out "You Can Win If You Want" is basically the same exact chord pattern as "Crazy." I played it at Bootie Munich expecting a rousing ovation, but sadly, it almost killed my floor.
	Kult vs. M.I.A. vs. Gary Glitter "Polska Boyz" 6MB 192kbps mp3 Part of the Party Ben Gettin' Euros Tour 2007 Experience! Kult are a legendary Polish rock combo, and their song "Polska" is from 1992, so it's understandable that its refrain of "Poland, we live in Poland" is probably not without a bitter edge. Come to think of it, it may be nothing but bitter edge, with a kind of stoic pride deep inside the bitterness in that way Eastern Europeans do so well. Sure, this mashup is a slapdash affair, thrown together in desperation to have something Polish to play for crowds in Warsaw and Krakow. But I find the contrast with M.I.A.'s vocals rather amusing -- like, how many boys are in Poland -- and it also came in handy during a set in Warsaw the night the Polish soccer team made it into the finals for the first time like ever. Poland!
	Amy Winehouse vs. Four Tops "Rehab (Can't Help Myself)" (Version 1) 6MB 192kbps mp3 Amy Winehouse vs. Four Tops "Rehab (Can't Help Myself)" (Version 2) 7MB 192kbps mp3 Amy Winehouse vs. Jmekka "Rehab" (Breaks mix) 10MB 192kbps mp3 #1 I made before I had the a capella, so it just uses the Hot Chip remix of Ms. Winehouse's little tune. After I got the a capella, I thought I'd make a new version with a bigger, um, beat, and that's #2, but now I think I like the original better anyway? And #3 is just a little fun thing I made for the Mighty Love Parade After Party.
	Bootie Traxx Volume 2 - Rapidshare link for all five tracks 1. Faithless vs. Yaz vs. Steve Miller Band - "Don't Go (Insomnia Airlines)" 8MB 192kbps mp3 An early version of this (using Ce Ce Peniston's "Finally" instead of Yaz) made its first appearance during my headline set at the club back in January, but this one is a little better, plus the two vocals now have an amusing conceptual interplay. 2. INXS vs. E-40 "Need U to Go" 4MB 192kbps mp3 Also cropping up first back in January, it's not exactly forging any new ground but people seem to enjoy it. 3. Junior Boys vs. Rod Stewart - "(Do Ya) Think I'm Sexy (In the Morning)" 7MB 192kbps mp3 Again, I played this in January and was never that happy with it, but a few intrepid Bootie fans have inquired. 4. Timbaland vs. The Supremes - "The Way I Keep Me Hangin' On" 4MB 192kbps mp3 When you want to play Timbo at Bootie you've got to mix it with something, right? 5. Le Tigre vs. D4L - "Deceptataffy" 5MB 192kbps mp3 The newest of the Traxx, this is the latest installment in the pseudo-feud between myself and A+D over "Wipeout Taffy." If they don't like it, well, how will they feel about "Beethoven's Fifth Taffy"!!
	M.I.A. vs. Kate Bush "Dreaming of Boyz" 6MB 192kbps mp3 Hey, Boyz is in 6/8 time, and so is that good old Kate Bush song "The Dreaming," so why not play them at the same time. Plus there's that whole, you know, "third-world" theme, with Kate singing about aboriginal Australians and stuff, perhaps someone smart could write an essay about all of this.
	Jose Gonzalez vs. Cirez D "Killing For Love (Remix)" 8MB 192kbps mp3 This is my attempt at a "remix" of the new Jose Gonzalez track, "Killing For Love." Since I'm too dumb to make my own beats, I go steal them from other songs, in this case an atmospheric Cirez D electro track called "Horizons." There's actually some originally Party Ben bleeps and bloops in it as well. Neat. Fun.
	Rihanna vs. General Public "Tender Umbrella" 6mb 192kbps mp3 I was dismissive of this at first, mostly because the DIY acapella has quality issues, but nobody seemed to mind -- it sort of took off and eventually made it to Dave Wakeling's ears, and he told a newspaper he got in touch with my agent, which was funny to me because I don't have an agent, and comedy ensued.
	Mylo (Etienne de Crecy remix) vs. Tegan & Sara "Walking With a Ghost in Paris (2007 Remix)" 8 MB 192 kbps mp3 Back in like 2005 I put some Mylo with Tegan & Sara. Tegan liked it, Sara didn't, it got played on the radio. So fast forward to Summer 2006, and I download an amazing BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix set from Mylo in which he plays a remix of "Paris Four Hundred" and I'm like, "hey, I gotta get that, and do a remix of the Tegan & Sara mashup." Fast forward again a few months until I finally locate said remix (ahem), which turns out to be by Etienne de Crecy, and here you go. Unfortunately his remix is pitched up from the original, which already was higher than Tegan & Sara, so now their voices are way up in chipmunk land.
	Lyrics Born vs. Average White Band "Callin' Up the Pieces" 5.3 MB 192 kbps mp3 How much can I milk "Callin' Out"? Well, since I was kind of responsible for getting the brilliant Lyrics Born's "Callin' Out" added to LIVE 105 rotation (where it eventually went to #1, boy those were the days), I feel like I can kind of go nuts with the a capella. First there was the U2 version, then there was the U2 remix version (with the beat from Rapture Riders, take that GHP) and then there was this one. It's disco-riffic! Props to Tom of course and Lydia at Quannum for not, you know, suing me.
	Chemical Brothers vs. John Williams "Galvanize the Empire" 5 MB 192 kbps mp3
	Bonde do Role vs. New Order vs. Spank Rock "Confused Tobaco Bump" 4.9 MB 192 kbps mp3 Felt like playing "Melo do Tobaco" at Bootie and that required putting something else over the top of it right? Although of course "Melo do Tobaco" is basically "Man in the Box" over a beat from Peaches or something with some Portuguese shouting and stuff, which is already sort of mashuppery.
	Tom Tom Club vs. Fergie "Genius of London" Dirty Version: 5.8 MB 192 kbps mp3 Clean Version: 5.8 MB 192 kbps mp3 Dumb.
	Michael Jackson vs. Nelly Furtado "Promiscuous With You" 7.9 MB 192 kbps mp3 After a few tries at marrying something to the Promiscuous a capella I finally found something that worked.
	The Wiseguys vs. Olivia Newton John & John Travolta "Ooh La La Summer Nights" 7.6 MB 192 kbps mp3 Funny how things work out. I considered this a total jokey throwaway when I made it, back in 2006 I think, but it's turned into one of the tracks I play the most to this day, and probably has gotten the crowd going more often, in more diverse locales, than just about anything else I've ever made.
	Gnarls Barkley vs. Donna Summer "I Feel Crazy" 7mb 192kbps mp3 This uses Karl G's bootleg remix as a jumping-off point and basically just layers the synth loop from Ms. Summer's legendary little number over the whole thing. I know there's like 500 "Crazy" boots out there but my excuse is this was part of a mix I did for XFM so it's not like a real mashup or anything.
	Hot Chip "Over and Over" (Party Ben's Smell of Repetition remix) 9mb 192kbps mp3 This is obviously a bit of a riff on the Boyz Noise mix of Kaiser Chiefs, but it's also got "I Feel Love" in it.
	Mylo vs. Miami Sound Machine "Conga Pressure" 6.3M 192kbps mp3 Well, this cracks me up at least. See, cause there was that other one by those Phil 'n' Dog guys that was like a mega-smash with the other Miami Sound Machine song, but nobody in the US knew that Miami Sound Machine song, so this is like for Americans and stuff. Ha? Anyone?
	Elastica vs. Sean Paul "Temperature Connection" 5MB 256kbps mp3 Later, A+D did a superior (and hipper) Elastica-mashing track with The Gossip, but I got to Connection first, by like a few weeks or something.
	Gorillaz vs. No Doubt vs. Deep Purple "Hella Dare You to Smoke" 5MB 192kbps mp3 Something silly I made for Bootie that people ended up asking about enough for me to overcome my shame and post it here. Most importantly, I made this cover in like the basic PC paint program at work.
	Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs. Green Day vs. Oasis vs. Love & Rockets vs. Samantha Fox "Golden Boulevard" 5MB 192kbps mp3 This operates first of all as sort of a dub mix of Boulevard of Broken Songs, and was really just a goofy part of a Sixx Mixx, but then I sort of liked how it all came together and saved it as its own MP3.
	Veruca Salt vs. Pussycat Dolls - "Dontcha / Seether" 192kbps mp3 Switch vs. Khia vs. Laid Back - "Get Laid with Khia (2006 remix)" 192kbps mp3 A remix of one of my very first mashups, which just used Khia and Laid Back. Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs. Company B "Fascinated by Gold" This is pretty silly and I wish I had the actual a capella, but the Diplo mix stands in okay here I guess.
	John Denver "Thank God I'm a Country Boy (Party Ben's City Boy Remix)" 5MB 192kbps mp3 Made specially for a local nightclub's totally silly Country vs. Electro theme night, but turned into one of my most requested tracks. Video version features added Snoop!
	Death Cab for Maddy "Hung Up on Soul" 6MB 192kps mp3 "Hung Up on Soul" Minus Maddy remix: 7.8 MB 192kbps mp3 Wanted to make a Death Cab remix; got distracted by Madonna. Then made the originally intended version without any Madonna vocals. First track of mine where a fan-made video turned up.
	The Surfaris vs. D4L "Wipeout Taffy" 5MB 160kbps mp3 Possibly the most hated mashup in Party Ben mashing-up history. It was one of the first things I released after the D-level fame of Dean Gray. Can you say, "self-sabotage"?
	The White Stripes vs. Eric B & Rakim "Pump Up the Doorbell" 4MB 160kbps mp3 There were quite a few quality "Doorbell" mashups out by the time I did mine, but this one looped the Pump Up the Volume rhythm over the whole thing which made it a bit more dance floor friendly.
	Dean Gray American Edit Produced with the delightfully handsome Team9 Well, you can find out more about this here and here and even here.
	Coldplay vs. Kraftwerk "Computer Talk" 4.6MB 160kbps mp3 If this pointless combo got one person to buy Kraftwerk's Computer World, it was worth it.
	Nine Inch Queens "Insane, Medicated Hand" 6MB 192kpbs mp3 Two QOTSA album tracks ("Medication," "Everybody Knows That You Are Insane") in unholy union with Trent's ubiquitous vocal from "The Hand that Feeds." They were touring together so I was sort of secretly hoping they'd do a version of this live one night, but, um, no. And they didn't cuddle either, like in my Photoshop fantasies, as far as I know.
	THE RADIO HOLLABACK EP Clash vs. Gwen Stefani "Radio Hollaback" Gus Gus vs. Gwen Stefani "Believe in a Hollaback Girl" As I've said in the press, these are easy when the vocal has like one note. But, it's fun on the dancefloor. That's what I do.
	Gorillaz vs. Cake "Never Feel Good" 6MB 192kpbs mp3 I've always received millions of suggestions for mashups, and most are useless and annoying (but, um, keep those e-mails coming!), however, this one came from a LIVE 105 listener and intrigued me enough to try it. The sound quality is terrible to my ears, since there was no Cake acapella and I was forced to just, like, turn down the bass, but whatever, it's there.
	Tegan & Sara vs. Mylo "Walking with a Ghost in Paris" 4.7MB 192kbps mp3 One day I noticed that Tegan & Sara track we were playing at LIVE 105 had the same chord pattern as Mylo's "Paris Four Hundred," so I put them together. Despite the fact that neither track was well known, it turned into one of my bigger "hits," ending up in the Top 3 most-played tracks of the year on Seattle's C89.5 and getting airplay around the world. Tegan & Sara themselves came into the station a few times and were incredibly nice, but apparently they disagreed about actually releasing the track officially, so that didn't happen. Their label did, however, from what I understand, offer promo copies to dance and Top 40 stations.
	THE SOMEBODY KILL ME EP Clash Killers "Somebody Rock Me" 6.7MB 192kbps mp3 Killer Killers "Somebody Kill Me" 7MB 192kpbs mp3 Again, a random throwaway that took on a life of its own. Had to get the acapella from a weird thing on the single where you could "remix" the track in a piece of proprietary software, but I just took out all the other instruments and recorded what was left. Sneaky.
	Led Snooppelin "Drop It Like It's a Whole Lotta Love" 3MB 128kbps mp3 The first version from 2004 or whenever! Honestly this was pretty cynical, in genesis, since I hadn't done any rock-vs-rap things and that was getting a lot of attention in the mashup/DJ world at the time. I never really liked this.
	Louis XIV vs. Devo vs. Fatboy Slim vs. The Knack "Finding Out Sharona is Blind" Total sketchpad mix based on a suggestion from the music director at my radio station. Title was used as an example of why I am bad by a douchebag writer for a local weekly newspaper, who later called me a "sad sack" in a terse e-mail exchange, which I suppose is sort of true, but ironically, part of what makes me sad is douchebags, and, moreover, if I had to choose, I'd rather be a sad sack than a douchebag, any day.
	Chic vs. Franz Ferdinand vs. Beastie Boys "Chic Franzie Boys" 7MB 192kbps mp3 Once upon a Sixx Mixx, in June, 2004, I threw together Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" and the Beasties' "Triple Trouble." "Funny," I thought, "they're like in the same key and stuff." About a month later, genius bootlegger and Friend of Bootie (TM) McSleazy announced his latest mashup item: Franzie Boys! Now, of course Mr. Sleazy came up with the idea on his own, but it was kind of funny, so later when I did my own Beastie mix with Chic, I snuck Franz Ferdinand in there and gave it a name that was a nod to his original version.
	U2 vs. Way Out West "Vertigo" (Breaks Mix) 7MB 192 kbps mp3 Another one of those "Don't Own a Drum Machine Or Have the Individual Tracks from This Song But Would Really Like To Do A Remix So I'll Just Steal This Instrumental Dance Track from Way Out West and Put A Lot of Echo On the Original and Call It Good Or At Least Mediocre" things I do. Got two airings on the Essential Selection!!
	Blursabian "There's No Other LSF" 5MB 128kbps mp3 That's Blur vs. Kasabian mind you. A polarizing little mix, with some apparently anghlophilic souls gushing with praise, and some apparently anglophobic types running away screaming.
	Green Day vs. Oasis vs. Travis vs. Aerosmith vs. Eminem "Boulevard of Broken Songs" 6M 192kbps mp3 And look at me flauting the C&D: Boulevard of Broken Songs (Dance Mix '05) from American Edit 8M 192kbps mp3 Maybe, this boot will be the one that saves me. Green Day "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," Oasis "Wonderwall," Travis "Writing to Reach You" (From 1999's The Man Who), and Eminem's "Sing (For the Moment)" (which samples Aerosmith's "Dream On"). This is the original version as culled from the Sixx Mixx which aired on October 1, 2004. The remastered higher bit-rate versions are at the top of the page.
	Eminem vs. Stereo MCs vs Eagles "Just Lose My Mind (One of These Nights)"
	Incudoubt (Plus Devo!!!) "Hellamaniac"
	Faithless vs. George W. Bush "Mass Destruction" If I had a nickel for every time I took a popular tune, then added a well-known public figure's voice over the top, with some added echo for dramatic effect, I'd have... 25 cents.
	U2 vs. Lyrics Born "Callin' on Sunday" 2005 BFD Remix 5MB 192kbps mp3 The phenomenal East Bay hip-hop genius and all-around nice guy gets the Party Ben (mis) treatment with "Sunday Bloody Sunday" -- yes, I already did one with U2 and Janet but you can ignore that one because this one's way more better. If you like Lyrics Born please go buy his record at www.quannum.com, the East Bay record label home to a whole variety of hip-hop excellence.
	Laid Back vs. Khia vs. !!! "Get Laid with Khia," or maybe "Ride 'em, Giuliani!" or, um, "Me and Khia on a Horse." 7MB 192kbps mp3 Credit to Bay Area bootlegger DJ Earworm for reminding me that bootlegs don't all have to be totally retarded A+B mashups, but can use three or more songs, for added fun times. This is still kind of retarded but at least has three great tunes in it.
	Fugazi vs. Destiny's Child "Independent Room" 4MB 128kbps mp3 I don't understand why there aren't more "Waiting Room" boots - the damn thing's got like 2 full minutes of instrumental sections, it's exactly at hip-hop speed, and it's a freakin' classic. This one seemed kind of obvious, so hopefully someone else can come up with something better.
	Beastie Boys vs. Afrika Bambaata & Soulsonic Force "Ch-Check Out the Rock" Not quite as frenetic and hyper as the "Old Skool Mix" (see below), this is a little more dancefloor-friendly.
	Linkin Park vs. Luke Chable "Somewhere in Melburn" (Party Ben Didn't Do Much Mix) Aaron Axelsen of LIVE 105's Saturday night electronic music show Subsonic played the Luke Chable song at like 3 in the morning, and I was like, "What is that sample from? Hmmm..." Three days later I figured it out: Linkin Freakin' Park. So I thought, why not add some more, to make it more obvious for the kids? Party Ben: always thinkin' about the kids.
	Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs. Andrea Doria "Bucci Maps" More of a blueprint for somebody with actual talent and maybe a drum machine to make a good mix of "Maps." Anyone? Slide? Hello?
	Daft Queen "Another One Bites da Funk" 6MB 160kbps mp3 Everybody says Freddie Mercury sounds all chipmunky in this, but what am I supposed to do, slow down the Daft Punk? I think not.
	Crazy Town vs. Steve Miller Band vs. J-Kwon "Tipsy Butterfly" First making its appearance in Sixx Mixx 54 (August 20, 2004), this was a little dancefloor number I played out at parties and such, and never posted it because it's pretty dumb.
	The Cure vs. Black Box "Everybody Inbetween" Everybody hated this except like seven severely disturbed individuals.
	Beastie Boys vs. All Sorts of Vintage Techno "Ch-Check It Out" (Old Skool Mix) 5MB 128kbps mp3 Making the new Beastie Boys single slightly less annoying! Techno tracks include: Fast Eddie "Yo Yo Get Funky," Royal House (Todd Terry) "Can You Party," Inner City "Good Life," 808 State "Cubik," LA Style "James Brown is Dead." These songs are from when Uncle Ben used to go out to "raves," children!
	Rapture vs. Tiga "Hot Lovers"
	U2 vs. Janet Jackson "Control, Bloody Control" 4MB 128kbps mp3 My first attempt to put something with U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday;" this was fine, and inspired a phenomenal lip-synch performance from Patty O'Furniture and Tristan Shout & co, but I sort of abandoned this version when I realized Lyrics Born sounded good with U2 also.
	THE KEEP STUFF ALIVE EP "Keep Dean Alive" (Featuring Howard Dean) "Keep Hung Alive" (featuing William Hung) "Keep Janet Alive" (featuring Janet Jackson) "Keep Stern Alive" (featuring Howard Stern and more) Once you manage to erase Jesse Jackson from the thing, it turns out that just about anything works over the top of Crystal Method's "Keep Hope Alive," if you put enough echo on it. Boy this seems like ancient history, Howard Dean and Janet Jackson's nipple and junk.
	Hot Hot Bowie "Let's Dance With Me" (Party Ben's Get It, They Both Say Dance, Mix)
	Beyoncaville "Crazy In Japan" (Beyonce "Crazy In Love" vs. Alphaville "Big in Japan) Should I have called it Alphayonce? "Big in Love?" Beephaville? Mmmm, beef.
	New Donna "Bizarre Light Triangle" 5.7MB 160kbps mp3 New Order "Bizarre Love Triangle" vs. Madonna "Ray of Light," made specially for Bootie 1/14/04
	Lumislave "Show Me How To Leave" Audioslave "Show Me How To Live" vs. Lumidee "Never Leave")
	Coldplay vs. Punx "God Put A Smile Upon My Face" (Ben X Parties On Your Face Mix) 7MB 192kbps mp3 Named by a Subsonic listener!
	Outkast vs. Party Ben "Ben Ya" 10MB 192kps mp3 Inspired by Adam Freeland's brilliant dub-style reworking of Nirvana, "Smells Like Freeland," this is a complete complete de- and reconstruction of "Hey Ya." Similarly to Freeland's mix, this uses nothing but sounds from the original song, although often altered significantly. My biggest innovation here is probably turning the chorus into straight 4/4 time at the end (i.e. removing the quick 2/4 measure that makes the song so quirky). It all turns out to have a kind of retro-jump-up-jungle kind of feel. In general one of my favorite things I've ever made.
	Eminem vs. Party Ben "Without Me" (Nobody Listens To Techno Mix) 6M 192kbps mp3 Featuring One Up Front, Plump DJs and Moby. Conceptualized during an endless drive back from Coachella, listening to "Without Me" on the radio. Turned into a crazy phenomenon on LIVE 105. Spent lots of money on pressing promo 12" singles of it so I could give some away and actually play it out -- this was before CDJs were standard for DJ booths. Hard to believe.
	Jurassic 5 vs. Party Ben "What's Tricky" Featuring High Contrast & Run DMC
	The Roots "The Seed 3.0" (Party Ben remix) 4MB 160kbps mp3 Featuring the beats from Lee Coombs' remix of New Order's "Crystal," and some other stuff I can't remember.
	Fischervana "Smells Like Emerge" (Party Ben incompetent mashup) Too my credit (?), I remarked on the similarities between the Spooner and Nirvana before Adam Freeland told me he was trying to mash these two up when he made "Smells Like Freeland."
	Fatboy Slim vs. Rolling Stones & stuff "Satisfaction Skank" (Party Ben copycat mashup) 5MB 192kbps mp3 So here's the story. The year is 1999. I read about Fatboy Slim playing a version of "Rockafella Skank" in his DJ sets that was mixed with the Rolling Stones; he called it "Satisfaction Skank." "Cool," I thought, and decided to try to make my own version of it, since I assumed we'd never get a copy at LIVE 105. The station ended up playing my version all the time, and some local clubs started playing it, for my first taste of producer-y fame. A few years later, I was accused of stealing Fatboy Slim's mix and posting it as my own, which was a stupid, boring non-controversy, made up by a moron. What's amusing is that when I finally heard Fatboy's own mix, years later, I didn't really like it -- his was slowed down to fit with the Stones, which I thought was awkward. Incidentally, this was the 2nd mix I made using a program called "Session 8" on an old PC at LIVE 105 -- called "Session 8" because it had 8 audio tracks to play with. It turned out to be the only computer I know of that was an actual casualty of the "Y2K" issue, and with no compatible software available to which I could transfer the tracks and session, all the original files were all lost on Dec. 31st, 1999, when this PC went "kablooie." Unfortunately it did not take the rest of our worldwide technological grid with it.
	The Hives vs. The Prodigy "Hate To Smack My Bitch Up" (Party Ben poorly executed mashup) From a suggestion by Aaron Axelsen, Popscene DJ and LIVE 105 guy. Went through a couple revisions and never quite came together although the kids at Popscene were known to shout "Smack my bitch up" during The Hives since Aaron played it all the time.
	Beck "Lonesome" (Party Ben remix) It's 1998, and LIVE 105 had this prototype "my first audio editor" called "Session 8" in our old studios. I decided to teach myself to use it by making a remix of a Beck song, "Lonesome," from One Foot in the Grave. The song is in 3/4 time originally, and my innovation was to set it to a 4/4 hip-hop beat (courtesy of DJ Shadow), rudimentarily "stretching" certain notes to make up the extra beat in each measure. It was my very first attempt at digital audio editing. Maybe I'll put it up here someday.