-
Posted by:
He said he was going to retire from the mash-up game, but masterful British DJ and producer Mark Vidler a.k.a. Go Home Productions is back to confecting his brill, genre-hopping brand of bastard pop. If it’s only for one album’s worth of mp3s (currently available for download at his website: http://www.gohomeproductions.co.uk/mp3.html), I’ll take it!
Vidler is calling this collection of 11 wacky tracks Spliced Krispies. There are exceedingly clever jams that toy with the likes of R.E.M., Billy Joel, Stone Roses, Sex Pistols, the Supremes, Queen, the Commodores, CeCe Peniston, Black Sabbath, and Luther Vandross, and a couple of insane novelties (e.g. The Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice?” crossed with the jingle from a Cadbury’s Fudge ad).
Maybe the “Shine a Light” concert film goosed him, because Vidler continues his manipulation of the Rolling Stones’ discography with three cuts on Spliced Krispies featuring Stones classics linked up to very different artists. They’re actually my favorite numbers in the bunch, so I’ve attached an audio stream of the most flawless and inspired - “Rolling Confusion,” essentially mashing elements of the Stones’ cynical view of ‘60s revolution “Street Fighting Man” and their apocalyptic “Gimme Shelter” with the Temptations’ mind-expanding, socially-relevant Motown opus “Ball of Confusion.”
Since Vidler lined up video mash-ups of each piece on Spliced Krispies, I thought I’d offer up “Rolling Confusion,” plus the other two Stones-driven clips: "Mick n' Carly," mixing the Stones’ “Miss You” with Carly Simon’s “You're So Vain,” (the latter having featured Stones singer Mick Jagger on back-up vocals); and the spacey "2000 Light Years From Bolan," grafting together the Stones’ psychedelicacy “2000 Light Years from Home” and Marc Bolan & T.Rex’s glam-rock anthem “(Bang a Gong) Get It On.”
Spliced Krispies! It’s the Breakfast of Champions - any time of day or night…
"Rolling Confusion"
"Mick n' Carly"
"2000 Light Years from Bolan"
Generally I'm not a fan of sampling and/or Mash-ups but damn that Mick and Carly number is brillant!!!
Christ, Mike. Brilliant, all, though my favourite of them is the Bolan mix. the vid clips with Jones are quite nice, too.
mmm, MOG . Took me a minute to catch you. Thanks for the links, too:)
Have to agree w/Waydutch, Mick & Carly is brilliant! But then again that's one of my fave Stones tunes.
waydutch: I just find the entertainment value in a canny or unlikely mash-up to be so high that I can't help seeking them out.
wassonii: You're welcome! Hot links for everyone!
August: I prefer the older Stones tunes of the ones Vidler used here, but danm! He's good. I'm totally loving the looping in all of the mixes. He never seems to undermine the tone of the component parts while finding the sweet spot where they all intersect.
Sweet! Can't wait to check it out. Thank you o' great and wise mashup man. How can Mark Vidler stay away from it? He's too good. Hey you don't have the white label mashup of Missy Elliot's "Get UR Freak On" and George Michael's "Faith" do you? I can't find that anywhere.
Those were great. Unlike everyone else, I think Rolling Confusion was my favorite.
fistula spume: Nope. No Missy/George mash on hand. Was that a GHP mix? (Meanwhile, I've got Missy Elliot vs Blondie - "Heart of E"; Le Tigre vs Missy Elloitt - "Decepta-Freak-On"; Missy Elliott vs The Cure - "I'm Really Hot Hot Hot!!!"; and so on.)
gympumpkin: You and me both. Brings to mind another great Stones/Temps mash-up: Voicedude's "Papa Was a Rolling Stone Named Jack."
I really dig 2000 Light Years from Bolan, man. It trips me out. Vidler's lateral thinking is pretty awe inspiring. Mick and Carly? He's got a sense of humour too.
oh the mash up...
a guilty pleasure...
Jonh: I don't believe there's a more musical mash-up producer than Vidler. He knows how to fit disparate things together and make them sing - and, as I've yammered about before, he makes them sound like they were originally recorded that way.
dangerdot: Guilty as charged!