Should I have a stupid subtitle for this post, like THE QUICKENING or ELECTRIC BOOGALOO ? Nah, fuck that. And as sad as it is to say this, I've read that the word boogaloo now has some kind of new, shitty context related to racist organizations. Fuck that too! All I'm here for is the music and the history, sometimes in that order, sometimes reversed. And today, it's more about the music because someone else did the history part a long time ago. And with that... Do you remember Richcolour and Mastermix dot org ? If not, well, you missed out. It was a cool site dedicated to mixes played on the radio in the UK primarily in the eighties. The site is technically still there, but there isn't any content and I wouldn't bother visiting. Instead, use the Internet Archive Wayback Machine   and visit some archived versions of the site! Now, at this point you might be saying something to yourself like "None of the links on archive pages ever work, so I can't grab ...

As if the all caps title doesn't give it away, here are some very old bootlegs. Unlike most of what I've posted so far, most of these mp3s are transfers from bootleg vinyl pressed in the eighties, the exception being a track from an early nineties bootleg compilation that Ninja Tune released on the Bond St. imprint . Let's Do It: More of the 80s Medley (Short Version) Let's Do It: More of the 80s Medley (Long Version) Are you familiar with Stars on 45 ? If not, their initial release, also named Stars on 45 , was a wonderful abomination focused on making a medley of mostly unrelated hits with a side of Beatles classics. It's kind of awful and wonderful all at the same time with a group of studio-based mimics doing miniature covers of songs the whole world sang, or at least danced to in some cases. What's less known about that first record is it was based off a successful bootleg mix created for club DJs, which in turn was also based off yet another bootle...

Anyone else miss people making tons of unauthorized remixes and posting them online? Wait, I think I left a few words out, like before and were . Those words belong around people . I guess there have been bootleg remixes forever, even before the term remix was coined. I've been fascinated with remixes since I was a kid, trying to convince my mother to buy me the 12" instead of the 7" after a good piano lesson. Sometimes the remixes sucked, but more often than not they provided insight into what else we weren't allowed to see or, at the very least, extended a good groove. And when I found out about independent producers who made their own remixes, I really wanted to know what else was out there. For that, like many things, the internet was the blessing and curse, in that we got to learn and hear these versions, though we also had to suffer through a deluge of them. It was novel, at least initially, being easy to shine light on the best contributions, though that...

I've always wanted to start a band. I can play the keys and I've got good rhythm. I can write good lyrics and I've got a low voice that carries. It's probably not going to happen though. I don't think I have the drive for it, not to mention I'm quite a bit older now. Still, if I were to start a band, my goal would either be to create a group covering lots of different styles, or one that was into very loud music, to the point of outright noise with underlying melody. My blueprint for the latter would be Beck's early band recordings where his songwriting talents were sometimes buried behind waves of feedback and screams. If you don't know what I'm talking about, the  Stereopathetic Soulmanure  album will fill in the blanks, though there is a quite a bit of it on Mellow Gold  too. That said, a song that gets straight to the point is his cover of Can's I'm So Green . As for where to find that, well... It was scheduled to be part of a Dust Broth...

Am I going to have to come up with increasingly dumb names for my blog posts? Only time will...NAH, I'm definitely going to come up with dumber ones. Anyone else remember Palms Out Sounds ? They, like O.G. Stereogum , did some awesome remix posts where they had official mixes alongside unofficial or rejected versions. As has been the standard since "prosumer" digital audio workstations became the norm, often time the homemade mixes are much more impressive than anything the labels put out. Brings to mind the intense disappointment I had after hearing the four officially sanctioned remixes of Gnarls Barkley's Crazy that were about as generic as a basic house mix could get. We won't even get into how troubled Cee-Lo's career has been since his run-in with rape charges and shitty online behavior, so I'll just say that the first Gnarls Barkley album was so good that it deserved remixes of a much higher caliber. But back to the matter at hand, there were...