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MASHUPS / REMIXES / ETC.

Below is an admittedly incomplete discography of bootleg items I've produced over the years, with a couple of the more notable items up top.

This list doesn't include a lot of prototype mashups that appeared only as short segments on the Sixx Mixx, or tracks I play out for some surprise factor, which I'm aware is sorely lacking in my DJ sets these days ("hey, anybody wanna hear 'Hella Dare' again?").

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. If you see something listed on here with no link, or you heard rumors of something and don't see it here, feel free to get in touch, although for the thousandth time, I didn't make "Sweet Home Country Grammar."

DOWNLOADING INSTRUCTIONS

On a PC, right-click on the link and select "Save Link As..." then select an appropriate place to save the mp3 file, click OK, and you'll have it. Drag and drop into your favorite music playing software.

On a Mac, either hold Control and click or click and hold, until the menu pops up. Select "save" or "download to disk," and again, select a convenient location for the file. Then you can plot it right in iTunes and everything should be hunky-dory.

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I used to make a lot more of these things for some radio shows, most notably the Sixx Mixx, which aired from 2003-2005 on LIVE 105, 91X and KJEE. Also this is where you can find are one-off radio mixes and live sets from Bootie and beyond. It's a fun page of stuff for sure.

MOST REQUESTED MASHUPS (I.E. HOTTT TRAXXX)
	Green Day vs. Oasis vs. Travis vs. Eminem "Boulevard of Broken Songs" (Version 1 Remaster) ~~8MB 256kbps mp3~~ Direct link removed temporarily due to overwhelming traffic. Mediafire link here.	This is the first one, as aired originally on the Sixx Mixx on LIVE 105 on October 1st, 2004. Of course we all know the story by now: I was putting this together like an hour before the show was to air at 6pm, and when I realized I needed Aerosmith's "Dream On," it wasn't anywhere in the studio or even on iTunes at that point, and there wasn't enough time to go to the record store or anything. Then I remembered Eminem sampled it (or, uh, just shouted over it) in "Sing (for the Moment)," which was in the studio, so I used that 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 due to overwhelming traffic. Mediafire link here.	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. It replaces the Eminem with actual Aerosmith, as was my original intention. This utilizes two versions of "Dream On" in fact, the roriginal and a live version so you can get the big, silly extend-o ending with stadium cheers. Hooray mashups.
	Chemical Brothers vs. John Williams "Galvanize the Empire" 5 MB 192 kbps mp3	Talk about being late to the game. Imagine if I'd thought of this back when Galvanize was a hit. Wasn't one of those Star Wars prequels out at the same time, even? This would have been huge. Oh well. At least it served me well at Bootie 1/13/07 as part of the Party Ben Kenobi experience.
	Rihanna vs. General Public "Tender Umbrella" 6mb 192kbps mp3	Adrian's right, it's kind of a throwaway... and he's only saying that because I told him it was! Here's the problem: as far as I know, there's no studio a capella, so I had to use a DIY pella, which of course has some quality issues, and you can kind of hear the hi hat in the background, yada yada. But I really like that "Umbrella" song and I felt like giving it the traditional Party Ben "put it with a song from the 80s" treatment, why not, and Adrian was very kind to say it was good.
	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," which conjured up images of, like, British bobbies in big fluffy coats wobbling after wayward cross-country skiers, or "Every Car You Chase," which is also kind of funny, like the song is being sung to a puppy, who's always out there in the road going after Isuzus and stuff. I used to put fake artist names in the ID3 tags ("Beyoncaville!") and I thought I was being really clever, but then I got an iPod and realized how annoying it was, since I couldn't find anything, so now "Party Ben" is always in my artist field. But "Snow Police" is also a great title, so it gets to be the subtitle. Anyway, whatever, I made it and Ireland seems to like it.

MASHUP/REMIX ARCHIVE: 1998-2009 (NEWEST ITEMS FIRST)
Wacky Artwork (if available)	Artists Violated + Title	Amusing anecdote and/or explanation
	MSTRKRFT - "Bounce" (Bloody Beetroots remix) vs. Class Action - "Weekend" = "(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! It's practically made for me! Actually I'm still not entirely sure about the title; "Bounce Weekend" seemed kind of dumb, and just "Party" seemed anticlamictic. If anybody has any better ideas, drop a line. And if it turns out I'm not the first to think of this, my apologies.
	Bat for Lashes vs. Shawn Christopher / Egostereo - "Another Sleepless Night Alone" Right-click to download: 12MB 256kbps mp3	How great is Bat for Lashes' new 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 pretty dumbfounding lyrical similarity as well. Bonus! This may not be for everybody but it actually really pleases me, the way it turned out, which happens like never, so that's something.
	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 (who wasn't that into Vampire Weekend until I told her to get the album, in my defense) but then when I was planning the set and fretting about not having any hipster tunes she said hey, what about that Vampire Weekend band, and I was like, ah, yes, okay, good one. 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.
	Justin Timberlake vs. Radiohead - "(All I Want You to Do is Be) My Reckoner" Original mix: Right-click to download! 7MB 256kbps mp3 Remix: Right-click to download! 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" Right-click to download: 7MB 256kbps mp3	A cheesy little number I've been playing around the nightclubs, and now you can put it on your Zunes.
	Beyonce vs. the Andy Griffith Theme - "Single Ladies (In Mayberry)" Right-click to download: 6MB 256kbps mp3	What do I even say about this? "Forgive me"? How many "hail Mary"s do I have to do at the Church of the Freelance Hellraiser to atone for this? Is this the mashup version of a cry for help? Well, for Vidler's sake, somebody call the GYBO authorities!!!
	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	Wow, so MIA's like a Top 5 Artist in the US of A, how neat is that? Now I've done a lot of other MIA mixes so I think the fact that I'm like a year late to a Paper Planes mix can be excused, can't it? Anyway 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.
	Fake Blood vs. Purple Ribbon All-Stars - "On Mars All Night" Download: 7MB 256kbps mp3	Wanting to play that Fake Blood track out at the clubs but feel like the lack of vocals makes it a little too tough of a sell? Hey, let's add a space-referencing rap (Kryptonite is from space, right?) and get the party started. Or, just play the original, since it's freakin' awesome. Whatever, I don't care.
	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." That's data for the trainspotters. Casual fans, all you need to know is one's hyper, one's not quote so hyper. Of course when I made these I hadn't heard the Barletta mix, which is pretty awesome, so I suppose these are kind of superfluous, but whatever.
	Led Snooppelin - "Drop It Like It's a Whole Lotta Love" (2008 Remix) 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. Unfortunately I never quite liked the way it turned out; Zep is hard to work with, since the beats are all over the place, and the original rhythm track (culled from "Block Rockin' Beats") didn't really work. But despite its obvious production flaws, lots of people have told me they were into it. So, for my January 2008 video showcase set at Bootie, I figured it might be time to revise the thing. So, hello, beat from the Lovemakers' "Shake That Ass," and a complete rebuild from scratch. Better? Who knows. But I finally made a cover.
	Daft Punk vs. Nirvana - "Smells Stronger" ~~5MB 192kbps mp3~~ Z-share link	Like I said below, these are perhaps the two most mashed-up songs ever in history (outside of Eminem's "Without Me"), and so this is kind of dopey, but as part of the show it works okay.
	Justice vs. Dead or Alive - "D.A.N.C.E. (Like a Record)" 6MB 192kbps mp3	Honestly this was inspired by DJ Zebra who would end his sets with the MSTRKRFT mix of "D.A.N.C.E." all the time, so I'm like, "what goes with that?" Pete Burns goes with that. Again, silly, and I probably worked harder on the cover than the actual mashup, but hey, at least I'm still trying, right?
	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 Monterrrey, 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) and it's nice to see they're still putting out quality tunes. This one fits right in under that Low song that's everywhere.
	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 Baltimore Remix) 7MB 192kbps mp3	Yes, this is item number four (4) that I've produced with the good old Lyrics Born a capella, although really there's just the AWB and the U2 versions which each have a "remix." But still, yes, I'm a hack, and I hope Tom isn't getting sick of me doing this. Anyway: Call, call, callin' out!
	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 and played it a bunch all over Europe. Whee! And yes that's my profile on the cover. Pointlessly elaborate, I know, but that's my whole deal. 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 ovationm, but sadly, it almost killed my floor. Was is das? Are Germans now embarrassed by Thomas and Dieter? Say it ain't so!
	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 "alternative" Polish rock combo; 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 was a slapdash affair, thrown together in desperation to have something Polish to play for crowds in Warsaw and Krakow, and is really all about finding something in 6/8 times. But, I find the contrast with M.I.A.'s vocals rather amusing: like, sure you live in Poland, I got it, but how many boys are there?
	1. Amy Winehouse vs. Four Tops "Rehab (Can't Help Myself) (Version 1) 6MB 192kbps mp3 2. Amy Winehouse vs. Four Tops "Rehab (Can't Help Myself) (Remix) 7MB 192kbps mp3 3. 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	Adrian's right, it's kind of a throwaway... and he's only saying that because I told him it was! Here's the problem: as far as I know, there's no studio a capella, so I had to use a DIY pella, which of course has some quality issues, and you can kind of hear the hi hat in the background, yada yada. But I really like that "Umbrella" song and I felt like giving it the traditional Party Ben "put it with a song from the 80s" treatment, why not, and Adrian was very kind to say it was good.
	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," which conjured up images of, like, British bobbies in big fluffy coats wobbling after wayward cross-country skiers, or "Every Car You Chase," which is also kind of funny, like the song is being sung to a puppy, who's always out there in the road going after Isuzus and stuff. I used to put fake artist names in the ID3 tags ("Beyoncaville!") and I thought I was being really clever, but then I got an iPod and realized how annoying it was, since I couldn't find anything, so now "Party Ben" is always the artist field. But "Snow Police" is so good, so I guess it's a subtitle. Anyway, whatever, I made it and Ireland seems to like it.
	Mylo (Etienne de Crecy remix) vs. Tegan & Sara "Walking With a Ghost in Paris (2007 Remix) " 8 MB 192 kbps mp3	Hey remember this one? Back in like 2005 I made a mashup of a random Mylo track and Canadian indie-rockers Tegan & Sara. Tegan liked it, Sara didn't, it ended up in top five of the year at the excellent C89.5 in Seattle. It was good times. 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), turns out it's by Etienne de Crecy, and here you go.
	Lyrics Born vs. Average White Band "Callin' Up the Pieces" 5.3 MB 192 kbps mp3	How much can I milk this little number? 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	Talk about being late to the game. Imagine if I'd thought of this back when Galvanize was a hit. Wasn't one of those Star Wars prequels out at the same time, even? This would have been huge. Oh well. At least it served me well at Bootie 1/13/07 as part of the Party Ben Kenobi experience.
	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. Anyway, this is me getting all Favela. Or whatever.
	Tom Tom Club vs. Fergie "Genius of London" Dirty Version: 5.8 MB 192 kbps mp3 Clean Version: 5.8 MB 192 kbps mp3	Okay. Let me get this out of the way. Basically I hate Fergie, I think she's annoying and dumb, and of course "London Bridge" is a rip-off of "Hollaback Girl." But I was like, hell, that song is huge and kind of catchy so I need to make something out of it to play at Bootie, so why not put it with that good old Tom Tom Club song everybody and their Mariah Carey have sampled. I never intended to put this out but after posting my recent "Live at Bootie 10/14/06" mix, I had a bunch of e-mails about it, and at this point in my "career" I can't really afford to avoid the requests of any of my few remaining fans. So (sigh) here you go.
	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 works. This is nice and long.
	The Wiseguys vs. Olivia Newton John & John Travolta "Ooh La La Summer Nights" 7.6 MB 192 kbps mp3	Hey, Big Beat's back! Can we call this "The New Rave"? No? Okay. Anyway, the Brits seemed to be amused by this at the recent Bootie British Invasion, but I don't know if you can really dance to it.
	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 the Rinse mix so it's not like a real mashup or anything and plus it sounds more like a dance remix anyway so whatever.
	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's that other one by those Phil 'n' Dog guys that was like a mega-smash... perhaps when they spin at Bootie in November we can have a "pressure-off"?
	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.
	Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs. Green Day vs. Oasis vs. Love & Rockets vs. Samantha Fox - "Golden Boulevard"	Certain former music editors for the East Bay Express and current music editors for the new New Times-y Village Voice (?!?!!!!) may think this sucks before they even hear it, but, they're dumb.
	Veruca Salt vs. Pussycat Dolls "Dontcha / Seether" (192kbps mp3)	Make up your own title on this one.
	Switch vs. Khia vs. Laid Back "Get Laid with Khia (2006 remix)" (192kbps mp3)	The original is almost two years old at this point so I figured why not throw in the latest track to sample the Original Bongo Band's "Apache."
	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 Club Future's Country/Electro theme night
	Death Cab for Maddy "Hung Up on Soul" 6MB 192kps mp3 Minus Maddy remix: 7.8 MB 192 kbps mp3	Wanted to make a Death Cab remix; got distracted by Madonna. Then made the originally intended version without any Madonna vocals.
	The Surfaris vs. D4L "Wipeout Taffy" 5MB 160kbps mp3	Possibly the most hated mashup in Party Ben mashing-up history.
	The White Stripes vs. Eric B & Rakim "Pump Up the Doorbell" 4MB 160kbps mp3	Back to my usual throwaway dancefloor sellout mashups using obvious tracks and silly breakdowns.
	Dean Gray American Edit album project Produced with 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 mashup gets one person to buy Kraftwerk's Computer World, it's 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."
	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	Mmmm, gorilla cake. That's "Feel Good Inc." (from the iPod commercial!!!!) and "Never There."
	Tegan & Sara vs. Mylo "Walking with a Ghost in Paris" 4.7MB 192kbps mp3	More of this "I'd like to do remixes but am too lazy so I just take instrumental dance tracks and use those" stuff.
	THE SOMEBODY KILL ME EP Clash Killers "Somebody Rock Me" 6.7MB 192kbps mp3 Killer Killers "Somebody Kill Me" 7MB 192kpbs mp3	Yeah, you know, the Killers are not my personal faves, and they've been kind of unfriendly the two times I've met them, and they're having a feud with The Bravery who were really nice and funny. But people sure like that "Somebody Told Me" song, and look, there's the a capella on the import CD single, so let's make bootlegs why not. That second one is Adamski vs. Killers vs. Basement Jaxx by the way.
	Led Snooppelin "Drop It Like It's a Whole Lotta Love" 3MB 128kbps mp3	I don't do a lot of these rock-vs-rap things but this was just right there for the making, and I had to get in on the Snoop phenomenon.
	Louis XIV vs. Devo vs. Fatboy Slim vs. The Knack "Finding Out Sharona is Blind"	A little sloppy (a little?) but an attempt to make a dancefloor track out of Aaron Axelsen's original idea of putting "My Sharona" with the Louis XIV track. I like that Louis XIV song, by the way -- lots of people are hating on them for being indie rock posers, or whatever, but that song reminds me of The Fall circa "This Nation's Saving Grace," and that can only be good.
	Chic Franzie Boys "(Triple) Freak Me Out" 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. Hmm, maybe I want a sandwich." About a month later, genius bootlegger and Friend of Bootie (TM) McSleazy announced his latest mashup item: Franzie Boys! Now, I take Mr. Sleazy at his word that he hadn't listened to that specific Mixx, and in fact came up with the idea on his own; and ultimately if I didn't have the brains to make a 1-minute segment of a Sixx Mixx into a full-length mashup, then it's really my own fault either way, and I wish him nothing but the greatest success. But, so, anyway, fast forward to like November of 2004, and I'm getting sick of reading reviews of the Beasties that mis-state the origin of the "Triple Trouble" sample as Chic's "Good Times," so instead of writing an angry letter to the editor, I just decided to make my point via the magic of audio, and it turns out you can put Franz Ferdinand over the top of it. Neat! So while you may accuse this item of being too similar to McSleazy's, I feel that our concurrent discovery of the two original tracks' similarity gives me some leeway. Plus he seems to like it. Am I boring you? Want a sandwich?
	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. Two airings on the Essential Selection!! Thanks Julesy! Or, uh, is it Tongy?
	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"). You know, I went looking for the original of Aerosmith's "Dream On" to stick on the end of this, and I was under deadline for the Sixx Mixx and all, so I couldn't get to the record store, and it wasn't on iTunes (weirdly), so I thought "where can I get me some Aerosmith," and thenI remembered: like a special mashup delivery boy, Eminem brought me all the Aerosmith I needed, and even shouted a little bit over it, to signify his approval. "Yeah!" said Eminem, "Come on!" "Sing!" Thanx Em. Friends 4 evah.
	Eminem vs. Stereo MCs vs Eagles "Just Lose My Mind (One of These Nights)"	My whole point here is really to show the similarity between the bassline in Stereo MC's "Elevate My Mind" and the Eagles "One of These Nights," so don't make fun of me for making another Eminem boot. Update 5/22/06: mp3 fixed so hopefully it works in iTunes now.
	Incudoubt (Plus Devo!!!) "Hellamaniac"	I've been telling anyone within earshot that Incubus totally stole the riff in "Megalomaniac" from Devo's "Freedom of Choice," and nobody would listen to me. But then along came a No Doubt a capella (thanks McSleazy!) and it all came together. Now everyone bows down to me. I don't know if it makes me like Incubus any more though.
	Faithless "Mass Destruction" (George W Mix)	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."	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 more added fun times. This is still kind of retarted 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 has been a little dancefloor number I've played out at parties and such, and I never posted it because it's pretty dumb. But there've been a couple requests, so, here you go.
	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! Now pay attention to Uncle Ben's story here. Raves! You know, those things with the Dr. Seuss hats and glowsticks? No? Well, they were good times. I seem to remember something about "Milk of Magnesia," and a song that went "Woo! Woo woo! Woo! Woowoowoo!" Now go get Uncle Ben a Pall Mall.
	Rapture vs. Tiga "Hot Lovers"	The cover over there is much better than the actual mashup item.
	U2 vs. Janet Jackson "Control, Bloody Control" New Version for Patty O'Furniture and Tristan Shout's lip-synch performance at the Bootie 2-Year Anniversary	The first attempt I made to marry something to U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday;" this was fine, and inspired a phenomenal lip-synch performance, but when I got the Lyrics Born a capella, it worked so much better... sorry Janet, but it's the truth.
	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. Ultimately the goal is 100 Keep Things Alive, which will be loaded onto a mini-iPod and shot into space, to let all the aliens know what Earth was like in 2004: a frickin' party.
	Hot Hot Bowie "Let's Dance With Me" (Party Ben's Get It, They Both Say Dance, Mix)	(Hot Hot Heat "Talk To Me, Dance With Me" vs. David Bowie "Let's Dance") You know, the kids from Hot Hot Heat actually gave me a copy of the acapella from this song and I never made anything that great out of it. I think they might have been expecting some superstar David Morales-style megamix which I am unfortunately incapable of.
	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"	Inspired by Adam Freeland's brilliant dub-style reworking of Nirvana, "Smells Like Freeland"...but of course nowhere near as good. A complete deconstruction and rearrangement of "Hey Ya" -- I isolated each individual element from the song (hard to do without the original tracks) and my biggest innovation is probably turning the chorus into straight 4/4 time at the end, something that was much more complicated than it sounds. It all turns out to have a kind of retro-jump-up-jungle kind of feel.
	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.
	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. Some echo fx. And stuff.
	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." Apparently Tommie Sunshine has his own version that's much better, but here's mine.
	Fatboy Slim vs. Rolling Stones & stuff "Satisfaction Skank" (Party Ben copycat mashup) 5MB 192kbps mp3	So here's the story. 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, feeling like we'd never get our hands on the original. We played mine all the time on LIVE 105 and at clubs and it became my first mini-"hit". Later I posted it here. Fast forward a few years and some genius on my most favorite website around, GYBO.org, saw it here, and decided I had "stolen" it and that I was trying to pass myself off as having thought the idea up. For the first year or two of my "mashup career" I was known as "the guy who steals mashups." Fun! Of course, my feeling was, anybody who was coming here already knew Fatboy made the thing first and that "(Party Ben Copycat Mashup)" might tip them off that this was my own version. Whatever: people are awesome. What's amusing is that later I finally heard Fatboy's own mix, and it wasn't so great, plus mine was totally different: I kept the tempo of Rockafella Skank while his slows down for the Stones, plus mine also erupts into silliness towards the end with guitar and organ solos from the soundtrack to "The Interns," some gonzo '60s party movie with crazed dancing girls, I guess, although I've never seen it and just bought the record at a Salvation Army cause the cover looked so hilarious. Incidentally, this was the 2nd mix I made using the "Session 8" program on an old PC at LIVE 105; it turned out to be the only computer I know of that was an actual casualty of the "Y2K" issue -- our crack (-head) LIVE 105 engineer was unable to update its system software, 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 technology 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's first try at computer-assisted mixing)	It's 1998, and LIVE 105 had this prototype "my first audio editor" called "Session 8" in our old studios. It was called Session 8 because it could only handle 8 tracks of audio (!!!) but there were some cool things it had like a parametric EQ and some basic effects. I decided to teach myself to use it by making a remix of a favorite 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.