3 Summer Mashes

Last year one of my first mashups was included on BBI's Summer Booty compilation and since the demise of BBI the original producers went their own separate ways resulting this year in 2 albums:
DJ Useo presents Summer Booty 2008 and the Summer Booty album by Sound Unsound Network.
I made a track for each album and they have been available already for some time but not yet on my own site.
So here they are and a brand new one as well. (direct links below)




Lebanese Thieves Don't Lie:
Shakira - Hips Don't Lie (acapella)
vs
Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde (instrumental)
(256Kb/s)

This one was featured on DJ Useo presents Summer Booty 2008.

Direct Link (through fileden):
Alternative link (through divshare):


Mas Que Sensual:
Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction
vs
Sergio Mendes ft Black Eyed Peas - Mas Que Nada
Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby
Dee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
Chic - Good Times
Herbie Hancock - Rock-It
Don Omar - Reggaeton Latino
Salt 'N Peppa - Push It
(256Kb/s)

This one was featured on the Summer Booty album by Sound Unsound Network.

Direct link (through fileden):
Alternative link (through divshare):


and the brand new one, not released anywhere before, is a kind of Ska/Reggae version of Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer spiced up with the horn section from Superstitious by Stevie Wonder.


Hammer Madness:
UB40 - Reefer Madness (instrumental)
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (acapella)
Stevie Wonder - Superstitious (instrumentals from the multitrack)
(256Kb/s)

Direct link (through fileden):
Alternative link (through divshare):

Summer Booties 2008

Last year BBI released the album Summer Booty, a 3 CD monster collection of tunes around a summer theme. This was the first album I was featured on, the album was a huge succes, even though (or maybe because) not all tracks were flawless. I think it worked as a kind of jumpstart for a lot of mashup-artists who were just starting or not very well known and were featured along arrived bootleggers.
This year there will be two Summer Booty albums, due to some differences of opinion between the facilitators of the first edition. The first one has just arrived, DJ Useo presents Summer Booty 2008 and features one track of mine:

Lebanese Thieves Don't Lie
Shakira - Hips Don't Lie (vocals)
Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde (instrumental)

It's on my myspace player but not yet available for download. You can download it by going to the summerbooty site

Soon Sound UnSound Network (The successor of BBI) will present their Summer Booty compilation as well on which I also will be featured.

So even though this little quarrel might have stirred some rivalry the bootleg afficonados ultimately profit by having more to listen to.
For the record, both sides have laid down their quarrel and are in support of each others product.

2 Mashups with the Balanescu Quartet covering Kraftwerk

Since Popmusic is a lot about recycling and mashups are the ultimate recycled music it is just a matter of time before covers of mashups will appear.
I don’t know if a cover of a mashup has been made before but here it is.

I was wondering how KrazyBen’s splendid mashup of Kraftwerk and Timbaland, ‘’The Way Models Are’’ (from last year) would sound if the original Kraftwerk backing track would be replaced by the cover The Balanescu Quartet made of The Model.

Lately, when working on my Psycho Robots track, this thought got into my mind again and so I decided to just try it for fun’s sake.

The result was pleasingly enough to me and I decided to give this a go.

Because I considered it a bit lame to post only this track I also went searching into material that would fit with another of the Kraftwerk covers by this quartet.

In the end I settled with Shakira’s Whenever, Wherever with backing of Computer Love by the Balanescu Quartet.
Timing wasn’t easy, the backing track slowed down considerably in the middle section and Shakira started to get overstretched too much,. So after a lot of rearranging parts and snippets I think I succeeded.

So here they are:

Whenever, Wherever Computer Love:
Shakira – Whenever, Wherever
vs
The Balanescu Quartet – Computer Love

(warning: long intro)

&

The Way I Model:
Timbaland – The Way I Are
vs
The Balanescu Quartet – The Model
(based on KrazyBen’s mashup The Way Models Are)

(click on the divshare logo to download)

Two Summer Tunes

With the summer not really getting in full swing I decided to make some summer tracks. One new, and one which was featured on the summer booty compilation a while ago.

The new one:

Who's Your Liar:
Beyonce & Shakira - Beautiful Liar (spanglish version)
vs
Daddy Yankee - Who's Your Daddy



(click on the divshare logo to download the mp3)

I made this one for my wife who's totally into reggaeton and Beyonce and Shakira

The old one (though remastered, the vocal should be better in the mix and a recurring click at the end has been removed)

Drop It Like It's Chichi:
Snoop Dogg: Drop It Like It's Hot
vs
Chichi Peralta - Un Día Más

Both tracks have some imperfections but I think are still enjoyable, it's up to you to decide.


(click on the divshare logo to download the mp3)

For a version without ambient (jungle) sounds during the mix (except for the end) click here