悪の巷に豪邸

Gugug has a great cover of the Skatalite's cover of "Exodus" up on Youtube, I liked it so much I transcribed it. Tabnabber system, number indicates octave, capitals are sharps. It sounds pretty close to me.

( Exodus. )

I've been a little busy to update much, including Kanji-a-Day ( sorry! ), but just to mention, there is a new Kleptones release out for people who have been listening to some of the mashup stuff I post links to here now and then. You can download it in several different cuts from here.

The Sledgehammer ( Genesis ) vs. Superstition ( Stevie Wonder ) leader at the beginning of Disc 1 / Track 15 is a mean tease, but the following War ( Edwin Starr ) vs. Land of Confusion ( Genesis ) I will accept as a reasonable apology.

-- curious_jp

Bootie is a monthly party in San Francisco for music mashup afficionados, and is apparently the site of many new bootleg debuts.

I have a few of their previous compilations, but Best of Bootie 2005 has just been released, and it's a great, great listen if you like this kind of thing. It's a free twenty tracks, crossmixed for continuous play.

After two days, it's hard to pick out a favourite yet, but front runners include:

"Somebody Rock Me" by Party Ben ( "Rock The Casbah" [Clash] vs. "Somebody Told Me" [Killers] ). Occasionally, great mashups happen along which can stand as independent tracks in their own right without any prior knowledge of the source material ( but honestly, who hasn't heard of The Clash? ) "And Your Bird Was Right" ( "And Your Bird Can Sing" [Beatles] vs. "You Were Right" [Badly Drawn Boy] from CCC's "Revolved" springs to mind, but this is another great example which keeps the feel of the original piece flawlessly. I would love to be able to sing this at Karaoke.

"P-Funk is Playing At My House" by DJ Riko is an amalgamation of a wall of P-Funk samples, LCD Soundsystem's "Daft Punk is Playing at My House" and a set of original guest vocals. Great.

"Badd to Me" by King of Pants ( "Close to Me" [Cure] " vs. "Badd" [Yin-Yang Twins] ) is just funny by virtue of the contrast of the mopey, sensitive Cure with the bombastic stupidity of The Yin-Yang Twins. I actually laughed when I first identified the instrumentals.

However, it's all good, and it's always nice to see that great "I hate you so much!" sample from Kelis' "Caught Out" getting another run. I think you should check it out, before the rights-holders have it removed forever.

-- curious_jp