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Just because my own creative output has slowed to a crawl, it doesn’t mean I can’t dig up other gems to share.
In this instance, someone’s gone to a great deal of effort to mash up sound and video from Disney’s Alice in Wonderland to create an eerily Bjork-esque work of art.
Mark Vidler AKA Go Home Productions has come out of mashup retirement (I wish I could say the same), releasing a whole album of mash goodies.
Not every track appeals to me, but you could say the same thing about every person’s reaction to every album, I suspect. There are some standout tracks (featured below) and even on the songs I’m not enamoured with, you still have to marvel at GHP’s ability to extract audio and make a killer edit.
Go Home Productions - Luther’s Orange Crush (Luther Vandross vs REM)
Go Home Productions - Main Bloom (Nirvana vs Alan Parker)
…io9 has a list of the best science fiction songs for karaoke.
The article even includes a link to the king of mashups, Go Home Productions - it’s like the article’s been written by me, except it hasn’t. Creepy.
Go Home Productions - Uptight Killer (Stevie Wonder vs The Killers vs The Rolling Stones vs David Bowie) | download
…for the music, but it so goes with the video.
However, one should never have to apologize for penguins, no matter the soundtrack.
A brief recap, for those of you who are late to the party.
Viper Pilot is many things. One of the many things Viper Pilot is is a DJ / mashup producer /remixer. Some of you may be new to the wild and crazy future-world of audio battles against robot armies that Viper Pilot lives in. Have no fear, however! I have prepared a survival kit containing an LP of Viper Pilot’s first eight audio bombs for you to cradle lovingly at night, and use them to arm yourself against mechanical oppression.
Download: Viper Pilot - Sketches of Things to Come
Tracklist:
- Do the Busta Stop (Busta Rhymes vs Daft Punk vs Fatback Band)
- Big John Pass Me By (Jimmy Dean vs Pepe Deluxé)
- Ballad of the Colonial Roughnecks (Freestylers vs Giorgio Moroder vs Stu Phillips)
- The Prodigal Slide (The Prodigy vs Maestro Fresh-Wes)
- U-Moog on Maars (Pixies vs Dick Hyman vs MAARS)
- Black Shadow Demon (DJ Shadow vs Uriah Heep vs Black Sabbath)
- Mash Up at Run’s House (Run DMC vs Groove Armada)
- She’s Gone to Chase the Sunshine (Al Green vs Planet Funk)
Bootlegs, mashups, bastard pop, A+B, whatever you call ‘em, I love ‘em. Granted, there are plenty of shit bootlegs going around (generally the ones flooding your earspace with even more Shakira or Fergie than you were already being subjected to thanks to the tediousness of commercial radio), but the ones that work really please the subcockles of my gizzard. Today, I present to you the first in a series of mashup collections that have been quite hard to come by for one reason or another.
Bootwerk - A Bastard Pop Tribute to Kraftwerk
As if Kraftwerk weren’t the bomb-droppinest of old-school gizmo-rock wizards this side of the Volga, try smashing them up with, well, everything and anything. Kraftwerk are especially well suited to mashups because their songs tend to be minimalist in one way or another. Even if the track as a whole is busy, it’s likely to be heavy on the mad science bleeps and light on the percussion, leaving a lot of wiggle room for an enterprising producer to get funky with it. I had a spin of this compilation again recently, and a great swathe of the tracks went into my DJ playlist instantaneously. There’s plenty to enjoy here, and plenty of ‘OMG!’ moments that you expect from a good mash.
Access it from the fleet’s audio archives in data drawer 54/alpha-niner:
The heat has already started to hit Brisbane, so the Viper Pilot R&D lab has churned out a groovy summer tune. For those of us circling the southern polar region, this ought to help keep everyone down here a bit chilled. For everyone up north who’s already pining for the return of spring, a listen should fill you with nice warm memories of t-shirt weather. It’s just that kind of track.
This time around, we’ve dug through the fleet’s audio archives and dug up soul crooner Al Green to smash him up against Italo-house wizards Planet Funk.
Viper Pilot - Gone to Chase the Sunshine
(Apologies for crappy filehosting service. I’ve got as many resources as possible diverted to bringing a proper Viper Pilot web-HQ online; until then this will have to do.)
A long-overdue release from the Viper Pilot mash factory today! A touch of writer’s block has kept me grounded for the past little while, but it was nothing a couple of overly-retarded bouts of staying up past 2 in the morning on consecutive school nights couldn’t eventually solve.
For immediate dispatch to the spinward front:
Viper Pilot - Mash Up at Run’s House (Run DMC vs Groove Armada)
As the ‘Rear Admiral’ is fond of saying, feel free to give a FaceBook reacharound if you like what you hear.
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