The Rocking Cumbia Machine (Kraftwerk, El Remolón, Steve Miller Band)

This tune is a reworked track of one of my entries to the Gybo Weekend challenges.
I changed a lot compared to that entry, notably I added a vocoder to Steve Millers voice and resturctured the backing track so that there would be less clashing vocals,
I also made a version with almost no Steve Miller in it (the inhuman mix).



The Rocking Cumbia Machine:

Music:
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
El Remolón - Cumbia Bichera

Vocals:
Steve Miller Band - Rock N Me

VDJ - The Rocking Cumbia Machine (Kraftwerk and El Remolon vs Steve Miller) by VirtualDJ

VDJ - The Rocking Cumbia Machine (Kraftwerk and El Remolon vs Steve Miller)(inhuman mix) by VirtualDJ

Mistah Pok's video to Psycho Robots

A while ago after I had made the mashup with Psycho Killer by the Talking Heads and Robots by Kraftwerk, Mistah Pok made a video to this, which you can see here. I recommend to take a look at his My Space profile, he has lots of excellent videos.


psycho robots

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)

Psycho Robots - Kraftwerk vs Talking Heads

Two classic tunes from two of my own favorite bands in this mashup:

Psycho Robots:
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (from Stop Making Sense)
Kraftwerk - Robots



the track has been tweaked after some helpful comments

(click on the divshare logo to download)

Bootwerk: a bastard pop tribute to Kraftwerk

(artwork by Simon Iddol)

A while ago I had made a track for the Red Hot Chili Peppers mashup competition at mashuptown.com featuring the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Eyed Peas, Public Enemy and Kraftwerk.
Apparently this got noticed by Mashup Industries who where working on a Kraftwerk bootleggers album and I was asked if this track could be included in their project. Needless to say I was very honoured by the request and even more when I got to know who the other contributors were, like DJ Zebra, Dunproofin', Divide & Kreate and more excellent mashup artists.

The album has arrived, it's a stunning compilation and I'm proud to be included in this album together with some of my bootlegger heroes in a tribute to one of my all-time musical heroes.



You can get the full album, all individual tracks and the artwork at the site of Mashup Industries

(You can get my track by scrolling down, but i recommend to get all the tracks)

Enemy Humps Non Stop

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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Humpdebump (instrumental)
Black Eyed Peas - My Humps (instrumental)
Kraftwerk - Music Non Stop (instrumental/voice)
Public Enemy - Public Enemy Number One (voice)


This mashup is my entry for the mashup town Red Hot Chilly Peppers mashup competition.
I just had to try if Humpdebump would mix with My Humps from the Black Eyed Peas, just for the similarity in the titles. When it did I thought about Kraftwerk's Music Non Stop as a track that sounds quite funky, what I associate with the RHCP as well, so that was the next layer. I had an all instrumental mashup ready, but them decided to add a voice as well and that was to become from Public Enemy.

(26 may, replaced the original post with a new one rendered at a higher bitrate and a minor tweak)