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Wacky
Artwork
(if available) |
Artists
Violated
"Title I cobbled together out of the other titles"
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Amusing
anecdotes and possibly even a useful description of what the hell is going
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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. |
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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"!!
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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Mylo (Etienne de Crecy remix) vs. Tegan & Sara
"Walking With a Ghost in Paris (2007 Remix) "
8 MB 192 kbps mp3
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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. |
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Lyrics Born vs. Average White Band
"Callin' Up the Pieces"
5.3 MB 192 kbps mp3
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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. |
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Chemical Brothers vs. John Williams
"Galvanize the Empire"
5 MB 192 kbps mp3
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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. |
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Bonde do Role vs. New Order vs. Spank Rock
"Confused Tobaco Bump"
4.9 MB 192 kbps mp3
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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. |
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Tom Tom Club vs. Fergie
"Genius of London"
Dirty Version:
5.8 MB 192 kbps mp3
Clean Version:
5.8 MB 192 kbps mp3
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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. |
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Michael Jackson vs. Nelly Furtado
"Promiscuous With You"
7.9 MB 192 kbps mp3
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After a few tries at marrying something to the Promiscuous a capella I finally found something that works. This is nice and long. |
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The Wiseguys vs. Olivia Newton John & John Travolta
"Ooh La La Summer Nights"
7.6 MB 192 kbps mp3
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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. |
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Gnarls Barkley vs. Donna Summer
"I Feel Crazy"
7mb 192kbps mp3
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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. |
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Hot Chip "Over and Over"
(Party Ben's Smell of Repetition remix)
9mb 192kbps mp3
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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. |
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Mylo vs. Miami Sound Machine
"Conga Pressure"
6.3M 192kbps mp3
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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"? |
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Gorillaz vs. No Doubt vs. Deep Purple
"Hella Dare You to Smoke"
5MB 192kbps mp3
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Something silly I made for Bootie that people ended up asking about enough for me to overcome my shame and post it here. |
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs. Green Day vs. Oasis vs. Love & Rockets vs. Samantha Fox - "Golden Boulevard"
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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. |
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Veruca Salt vs. Pussycat Dolls
"Dontcha / Seether"
(192kbps mp3)
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Make up your own title on this one. |
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Switch vs. Khia vs. Laid Back
"Get Laid with Khia (2006 remix)" (192kbps mp3)
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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." |
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs. Company B -
"Fascinated by Gold"
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This is pretty silly and I wish I had the actual a capella, but the Diplo mix stands in okay here I guess. |
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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 |
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Death Cab for Maddy
"Hung Up on Soul"
6MB 192kps mp3
Minus Maddy remix:
7.8 MB 192 kbps mp3
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Wanted to make a Death Cab remix; got distracted by Madonna. Then made the originally intended version without any Madonna vocals. |
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The Surfaris vs. D4L
"Wipeout Taffy"
5MB 160kbps mp3
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Possibly the most hated mashup in Party Ben mashing-up history. |
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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. |
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Dean Gray
American Edit
album project
Produced with Team9
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Well, you can find out more about this here and here. |
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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 |
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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." |
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THE RADIO HOLLABACK EP
Clash vs. Gwen Stefani
"Radio Hollaback"
Gus Gus vs. Gwen Stefani
"Believe in a Hollaback Girl"
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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. |
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Gorillaz
vs. Cake
"Never Feel Good"
6MB 192kpbs mp3 |
Mmmm,
gorilla cake. That's "Feel Good Inc." (from the iPod commercial!!!!) and "Never There." |
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Tegan & Sara vs. Mylo
"Walking with a Ghost in Paris"
4.7MB 192kbps mp3
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More
of this "I'd like to do remixes but am too lazy so I just take instrumental
dance tracks and use those" stuff. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Louis
XIV vs. Devo vs. Fatboy Slim vs. The Knack
"Finding Out Sharona is Blind"
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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. |
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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? |
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U2
vs. Way Out West
"Vertigo" (Breaks Mix)
7MB 192 kbps mp3
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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? |
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Daft
Queen
"Another One Bites da Funk"
6MB 160kbps mp3
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First
made available exclusively through RadioQuita's Strangely
Familiar megasite, and thus a little bit under the radar, but Mysterious
D calls it her secret dancefloor weapon. |
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Blursabian
"There's No Other LSF"
5MB 128kbps mp3
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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. |
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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
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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. |
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Eminem
vs. Stereo MCs vs Eagles
"Just Lose My Mind (One of These Nights)"
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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. |
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Incudoubt
(Plus Devo!!!)
"Hellamaniac"
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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. |
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Faithless
"Mass Destruction" (George W Mix)
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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. |
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U2
vs. Lyrics Born
"Callin' on Sunday"
2005 BFD Remix
5MB 192kbps mp3
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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. |
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Laid
Back vs. Khia vs. !!!
"Get Laid with Khia," or maybe "Ride 'em, Giuliani!"
or, um, "Me and Khia on a Horse."
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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. |
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Fugazi
vs. Destiny's Child
"Independent Room"
4MB 128kbps mp3
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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. |
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Beastie
Boys vs. Afrika Bambaata & Soulsonic Force
"Ch-Check
Out the Rock"
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Not
quite as frenetic and hyper as the "Old Skool Mix" (see below),
this is a little more dancefloor-friendly. |
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Linkin
Park vs. Luke Chable
"Somewhere
in Melburn" (Party Ben Didn't Do Much Mix)
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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. |
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Yeah
Yeah Yeahs vs. Andrea Doria
"Bucci
Maps"
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More
of a blueprint for somebody with actual talent and maybe a drum machine
to make a good mix of "Maps." Anyone? Slide? Hello? |
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Crazy Town vs. Steve Miller Band vs. J-Kwon
"Tipsy Butterfly"
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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. |
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The
Cure vs. Black Box
"Everybody
Inbetween"
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Everybody hated this except like seven severely disturbed individuals. |
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Beastie
Boys vs. All Sorts of Vintage Techno
"Ch-Check
It Out" (Old Skool Mix)
5MB 128kbps mp3
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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. |
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Rapture
vs. Tiga
"Hot
Lovers"
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The
cover over there is much better than the actual mashup item. |
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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Hot
Hot Bowie "Let's Dance With Me"
(Party
Ben's Get It, They Both Say Dance, Mix)
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(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. |
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Beyoncaville "Crazy In Japan"
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(Beyonce "Crazy In Love" vs. Alphaville "Big in Japan) Should I
have called it Alphayonce? "Big in Love?" Beephaville? Mmmm,
beef. |
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New
Donna
"Bizarre Light Triangle"
5.7MB 160kbps mp3
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(New
Order "Bizarre Love Triangle" vs. Madonna "Ray of Light"..
made specially for Bootie 1/14/04) |
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Lumislave
"Show Me How To Leave"
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(Audioslave "Show Me How To Live" vs. Lumidee "Never Leave") |
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Coldplay
vs. Punx
"God Put A Smile Upon My Face"
(Ben X Parties On Your Face Mix)
7MB 192kbps mp3
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Named
by a Subsonic listener! |
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Outkast
vs. Party Ben
"Ben Ya"
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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. |
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Eminem
vs. Party Ben
"Without Me"
(Nobody Listens To Techno Mix)
6M 192kbps mp3
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Featuring
One Up Front, Plump DJs and Moby. Conceptualized during an endless drive
back from Coachella, listening to "Without Me" on the radio. |
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Jurassic
5 vs. Party Ben
"What's Tricky"
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Featuring
High Contrast & Run DMC |
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The
Roots
"The Seed 3.0" (Party Ben remix)
4MB 160kbps mp3
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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. |
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Fischervana
"Smells Like Emerge"
(Party Ben incompetent mashup)
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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. |
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Fatboy
Slim vs. Rolling Stones & stuff
"Satisfaction Skank" (Party Ben copycat mashup)
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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. |
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The
Hives vs. The Prodigy
"Hate To Smack My Bitch Up"
(Party Ben poorly executed mashup)
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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. |
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Beck
"Lonesome"
(Party Ben's first try at computer-assisted mixing)
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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. |
