Get your motor running

As Piley and I head out on the highway, having a run out on the theme of Types of Transport. Edwyn Collins, Jack Hammer, Bo Diddley and an exclusive preview of a new tune from Dennis Hopper Choppers are onboard for the ride. Along with possible topics for some radio pitch and put including:

How many driving tests!
Strange vehicles you've ridden in.
Who to cast in a live action Wacky Races.
Favourite TV only transport: The Banana Splits buggies, the Pink Panther car, Thunderbirds hover jet-skis.

And some new additions to the Morrisey conga. Park yourself here from 9 for a ninety minute radio ride.

It's a re-up, but from four years back - I think we can swing that..

Wilson Pickett - Born to be Wild



For me the greatest pop video of the year. No Q! Good work Soundhog..



Davy your Transport/animal husbandry shout is still under discussion...

Soundhogging

DJ, producer and the Bruce Lee of bootleg remixing Ben Soundhog has collected some of his most recent reworks and cross-pollinated pop-ups into a glowing collection Music From The Pig Fink.

Blossoming with summer thumpers Fink is a selection box of unlikely bed fellows buddying up and sharing the same personal song-space. A place where the Super Furry Animals, Dave Clarke and Cymande jam side by side

The Smokin' Message



And those rocking robots Daft Punk, and audiophile space-jazzers Steely Dan become conjoined, recoded and rewired to lively up your legs..

Daft Dan



Music From The Pig Fink is free and available for download here

Ben SH's sleevenotes on the tunes

Lazy Sunday - Last Of The Winter Mixtures

Photo by Bleech - he's in today's Observer you know

So as this year's chill begins to fizzle, perhaps it's time to take a reflective look at that was the winter that was - by way of a mix that's perhaps more downtempo, frosted - and some may even stretch to bleak, than the usual mondo mania. With a collection of cool jewels and crystal melts, from mainly Northern European icy climes.. Get Carter(Newcastle), Serge, Yves Montand and Air (France) John Martyn (Scotland), Baltic Fleet (Liverpool) and Stina Nordenstam (Sweden) ...threaded together by a motif of movment and travel - which I'd like to claim was planned, but in truth, is entirely random...

Last Of The Winter Mixtures



Roy Budd - Carter Takes A Train
John Martyn - Smiling Stranger
Yves Montand - Pour Faire le Portrait d´un Oiseau
Serge Gainsbourg - Melody
Minnie Riperton - Take A Little Trip
Dennis Hoppers Choppers - Ballad Of Fu Manchu and The Red Bride
Harsh Reality - How Do You Feel
Money Mark - Cry
Gather Round Children - Yoko In Idaho (Sufjan Stevens and Beatles mashup)
The Beatles - Flying
Stina Nordenstam - On Falling
Air - Soldissimo
Ian Brown - F.E.A.R
Easy All Stars - Karma Police
Baltic Fleet - 48 Hour Drive (Boston)
Boards Of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
Soundhog - The Doves Are Mine

Soundhog's booty of Brandy & Monica meet The Doves is a thing of such slow shifting pure beauty it really does deserve a solo posting..

Soundhog The Doves Are Mine

Funky Friday - Apple Bonkers

31 Beatles tunes are buried in this illustration by Paul McDonald - how many can you spot?

Because a couple of the regular threads in my cyberspace scrapbook are The Beatles and Bootleg Remixes - it seems high time for the two to come together by digging out and polishing up a selection of the shiniest Beatle boots in my cellarful of noise for an FF post..

Including a fab four from Mark Vidler/Go Home Productions (the George Martin of mashups) where Annie Lennox, Jacko, The Monkees, and Blur all get bolted on to The Beatles, and Soundhog's (the George Harrison of hybrid-pop) uptempo edit of Eleanor Rigby and Soulsearcher's - 'Just Can't Get Enough'

So as the Hamburg audiences were given to shouting... "Mak Shau!,Mak Shau!"

And if you fancy grabbing a couple of mellow moptop mashups which blend The Beat's with The Beach Boys, Mogwai and Kid Loco - just click your Cuban heels

GHP - All My Birds



GHP - Rich Girls And Boys




GHP - Daytrip To Never Never Land



Soundhog - Eleanor can't get enough




Go Home Productions - Paperback Believer


The download for Paperback Believer is available right here

Double Top

As I may have mentioned before - I am a terror for a bootleg remix...

So here are a couple of cut and paste cuties both formed from the same Caribbean cloth - using 'Double Barrel' as a musical bed and backdrop, with kittenish girl group vocals smoldering center stage.

McKay - Take Me Over



Soundhog - Double Freak



Think of this as a warm up for Funky Friday - which has an extra special guest this week.

Mid Week Mashup - Soundhog

If Mark Vidler/GHP is the Mozart of mashups, then Soundhog is the Beethoven of bootleg remixes, with a darker dynamic to his fast and furious bastard pop.

This 8 minute extract from his 'Superchunk' mix is a collection of component parts that really shouldn't fit together, but have been pieced into pick n' mix musical mosiac so stunning that it outshines any of the originals. The shift from Destiny's Child/'Old Grey Whistle Test' theme to Liberty X by way of Primal Scream and onto Breakbeats backing the retro riff from 'John Craven's Newsround' is pure mashup magic.

Here's the track list for this clip

Area Code 615 - Stone Fox Chase
Destiny's Child - Bootylicious
Primal Scream - Loaded
Liberty X - Got To Have Your Love
Donovan - Barabajagl
Elizabeth Knight - excerpt from 'How To Give Yourself A Stereo Checkout'
John Baker (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) - New Worlds
Martin Rushent - excerpt from 1985 'Micro File' interview
Renegade Soundwave - Biting My Nails

Here's the track

Radio Soundhog Vol.2 - The Superchunk (extract)



The full unedited Radio Soundhog Vol.2 - The Superchunk is here

Soundhog's website has a walloping load of goodies, greatest hits, mix tapes and various radio sessions. So get on over and fill your booties.

Bovver Boots

As I've mentioned before I am a mentalist for a mashup. I don't know what the exact scores on the doors are, but at the last count it was roughly 15 - 20 CDs worth of self compiled booty bounty grabbed from the net.

This trio of terrors are three of the Punky bootleg remixes from the collection. I would give credits - dates, details etc.. to whoever produced these tracks, but like most cyberspace oddities of the time, these were only available online for a few days and the sketchy info below is all I have.

The Lurkers vs Beyonce.mp3


The Buzzcocks vs Madison Avenue.mp3


The Ramones vs The Beastie Boys.mp3