JUNE 12, 2009: Getting props in the blogosphere for "Sounds For The Swing-Set!!"
Thanks to Bartcop Entertainment, AudioPorn Central, and Silence Is A Rhythm Too (who call it "insanely cool"). And episode #1 of a new podcast The Khaos Network, features a previously unavailable RIAA song "Music For Creeps To Watch Girls By," a "Swing-Set" outtake. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FEBRUARY 9, 2009: Mashup Industries proudly presents: Café del Mash, a chill-out international various artists comp feat. DJ Clivester, Phil Retrospector,Tone396, Apollo Zero, DJ Schmolli, ATOM, etc., and a newie from RIAA: "Happy Heart Of Home" that features: instro: Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra "Queen of Hearts" beatz: Beastie Boys "Posse in Effect" 'pella: 2pac (and whoever the girl is singing) "Happy Home" samples: from old spoken-word albums called something like "How To Plan A Dinner Party" and "Your Makeup Routine." Smooooth... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RIAA remixed People Like Us's contribution to WFMU's Inaugurable Poem Remix challenge ("By all accounts, Elizabeth Alexander's [Obama] Inaugural Poem, uh, sucked. We think you could do better."), mixing Miss Us' poem cut-up with The Stranglers' "Golden Brown. " It's called "An Golden Induction Is A Gust Of Brown Air" and you can get it (and 50 others) HERE There was a write-up about the challenge yesterday in the LA Times. We're famous! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DECEMBER 17, 2008: Santastic Four, the latest in Boston's dj BC's series of various-artists holiday collections, is on line as a free download, and I think it's the best one yet. And I'm not just saying that because Mr Fab & His Bag O' Toys are on it! We mash up The Beach Boys with Dr. Suess, and throw in bits of other silly Xmas records. Also featured: Go Home Productions, Voicedude, Smash Up Derby, Cheekyboy, DJ NoNo, solcofn, and BC himself. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOVEMBER 16, 2008: "Mashed In Plastic," a various-artists mashup/sound-collage tribute to filmmaker David Lynch features RIAA's "Eraserhead Serenade" from last year, as well as internet legends like Wax Audio, Voicedude, Phil Retrospector, and Totom. The website truly is a feast for the eyes and ears: "Mashed In Plastic" And dig this truly amazing video from The Reborn Identity: "Eraserhead Serenade" (video). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 14, 2008: Mr Fab and His Bag O' Heads have risen from their crypt once again to deliver two new Halloween shockers on the free download various artist collection Night of the Living Monster Mash-Up "El Psycho Watusi" takes the '60s garage punk classic "Psycho" by the Sonics to Cuba (Ray Barretto's "El Watusi"), joined by Lords of the Undergorund, Bernard Hermann and the Beatles. Then, we mix more '60s rock, including the truly bizarre "Spider and the Fly" by the Monocles, with a wacky cameo from the Fab Four (no relation) again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 8, 2008: There's 5-count-'em-FIVE new RIAA tunes on the free download various-artists collection hosted by Mashup Industries: KING OF THE ROAD - A Bastard Pop Tribute To Dean Martin. Thanks to DJ Clive$ter for pulling this swanky, swingin party together, featuring other major mashup luminaries like The Who Boys, Apollo Zero, Pilchard, DJ Schmolli, Copycat, BenDoubleM & Krazy Ben. I'll drink to that! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JUNE 22, 2008: Coming soon! July 7, to be exact, an exclusive peak at a monumental new RIAA mix called "USA" on "Do or D.I.Y. with People Like Us" on WFMU, New Jersey 91.1/90.1 fm 7-8pm EST. Listen live or on-line. UPDATE: Subscribe to the podcast so you can get the high-quality mp3 of the show, available for the next 2-4 weeks; afterwords it will only be available as a RealAudio file. Time to give some great big thank you links to radio shows playing "Schizophonia Suite": The Angry Robot Lover's Orchestra (WESU 88.1, Middletown, CT), and the always supportive Idio-Audio (CKLN, Toronto), who both played the Suite in it's entirety! Also thanks to Non Sequitur on KUCI right here in SoCal, Sound Quarry on WPRB (Princeton, New Jersey), Radio FMR (89.1 Toulouse, France), L'étranger (Radio Panik 105.4FM, Brussels), and Feed Me Weird Things, FlirtFM 101.3 Galway, Ireland. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JUNE 2, 2008: EliteLatteMac has made an excellent video of RIAA' s "Kraftplay" (Coldplay vs Kraftwerk) using 1962 Seattle World's Fair footage. Ah, the world of the future - push button phones! Which you can use to control your oven! Round spinning things! Computer love! This is so good: Century 21 Calling And from a cat named Drax: "An "Ashes to Ashes" tribute. A terrific show which is a sequel to "Life On Mars". Music is by RIAA and mashes Nirvana's "Come As You Are" with Killing Joke's "Eighties". "Ashes To 80s" The song is available over in the right-hand "Music" column. "Ashes To Ashes" hasn't made it's way to our shores yet, but I loved "Life On Mars" so I'm happy with this vid. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APRIL 15, 2008: Here's a new video from Monsters By Mail, again using Mr Fab & His Bag O' Heads' spooky instro "Thereming": "Abby The Unusual" Scroll down to 10-21-07 for his first video. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 2, 2008: Bootie went great last night! I brought along a lava lamp and some tiki patio lights to decorate the dj table. Now up on YouTube, a chap named Space Man Sam can be seeing enjoying songs from RIAA's "Sounds From The Space-Set": "Intergalactic Centerfold" "OK Robot" - He even acts out the songs's lyrics at one point. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FEBRUARY 16, 2007: I DJed last BootieLA, and probably will again next time (remember: Bootie is every first Saturday of the month), and may very well be doing it regularly. Mr Fab is downstairs in The Echo's new lounge, playing not just RIAA stuff, but all kinds of mashup loveliness, especially in the chilled, lounge, jazzy, reggae, abstract and novelty catagories, and will even get rockin'/dancey if the place hits critical mass. Very nice friendly unpretentious atmosphere - see ya there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JANUARY 10, 2007: Risque, Illicit and Adult, RIAA's best-of-2007 collection is now up, featuring compilation cuts, the winning entry in WFMU's Remix Rudy contest, and various other goodies from the past year - 19 tracks! MAY 20, 2009: RIAA's 16-song mashup collection: "Sounds For The Swing Set" takes you on a hallucinogenic trip thru vintage Vegas, timewarping into the Now. The Rat Pack, Bobby Darin, Tom Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, and the zombie-fied body of Elvis get it on with Lady Gaga, Led Zeppelin, Public Enemy, Cornershop, Fatboy Slim, and a thrift-store's worth of Space Age-Exotica obscurities. Throw in countless bits from tv, movies, and spoken-word records and you've got the soundtrack to the wildest weekend you’ll ever have. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APRIL 20, 2009: RIAA has a song featured on the MySpazz page of the essential sampling music radio show "Some Assembly Required," along with two other sample artists who met the 50-second challenge. We used the show's theme song, a karaoke version of the country hit "Only In America" and cartoon sound effects. Show host Jon Nelson dubbed it "Awesome!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARCH 29, 2009: A normal dance-floor mashup from RIAA? Thank Mrs. Fab for this idea. Chelly "Take The Night" vs The Ting Tings "Shut Up And Let Me Go" = "Shut Up And Take The Night" The missus works out to Chelly at her fitness clubs, hence the band name for this tune: RIAA = Rosemary's Inspiration: Aerobic Activity. (Yep, she thought of that, too.) Thanks to Simon Idoll for th artwork! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 29, 2008: RIAA presents a 21-track collection of some old, mostly new songs: "Madnight" Inspirations: dreams, nightmares, Los Angeles noir film and literature, "lowbrow" and Surreal art, carnivals and sideshows, 78 rpm records, weird old black and white movies, autumn... There's some strange things on this album, e.g. "A Frottage Co-Sale" - the vocals are lyrics to the old tune "A Cottage For Sale" fed into a text-to-speech program, then pitch-shifted almost every syllable to get it in tune with the song. And the title song features live multi-overdubbed theremin. Features previously released "hits" "Running WIth The Devil Bunnies," "Wild California Love," "Murderer's Polka," "Well, Bust A Move," & "Always Another Sucker On The Vine." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 8, 2008: I know you all are not crazy about the new RapidShare arrangement, but I think I have a solution. Dig this 30-track player Kick back, click play and listen! You can also download. This is a sampler, but I may do this for every album. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUGUST 26, 2008: You probably shouldn't be sober when listening to this one, feat. James Blunt,Micky Avalon ("My Dick") boomin beats by Ming & FS ('Madhattan Bound') and lots & lots of sound effects. Utterly tasteless and disrespectful. But funny! (I hope) You're Pootyful --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've posted this song before, but parts were out-of-key, so throw away your old versions. '80s pop (The Go-Gos) vs '80s underground goth/metal/punk (Chrome), but with Smokie Robinson singing, Les Baxter on percussion break, RIAA on da beatz. "Going To The Go-Gos" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- JULY 6 , 2008: RIAA, the Mad Dogs of Mashups, have a new 10 song summer collection called "Radical, Intense & Awesome!!" Mixing surf/garage rock, bossa nova, EZ, Bollywood, and reggae dub with electro, punk, hip-hop & jazz to produce a head-spinning delerium that goes beyond the usual acapella vs instrumental formula. Some songs might have 10 sources crammed into 3 minutes. Plus: Bizarre sound bites! Campy movie quotes! Spike Jones-ish sound effects! It will have you asking, "What did they put in my Mai-Tai?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- JUNE 2, 2008: British podcast host Peter Nelson asked us to contribute a mix to his show. The resulting "Jet-Set Suite," is 30 minutes of swinging '60s swank rudely mixed with all manner of odd noises and voices, propelled by boomin' beats. And you can get it on the Travels and Adventures page. A great big thanks to Mr. Nelson. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAY 1, 2008: RIAA presents: Schizophonia Suite a 20 minute 5 song free on-line EP of mashups/sound collages inspired by mental illness, featuring "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Haa," Anton LaVey (founder of the Church of Satan), Big Band, '50s Space-Age, and punk rock musics, actual recordings of mental patients, and Lionel Ritchie' penis. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARCH 20, 2008: Welcome to...Out-Of-Context Theatre! This one is as ludicrous as it gets. Sam Cooke dances with a chicken. "Twistin The Night Away" vs Ray Stevens' henhouse version of "In The Mood." Beatz by Soft Cell, and a message from the "Saturday Night Suit" from the 365 Project. "Chicken Slacks" Like the above silliness, another one where the vocal has been chopped up and re-arranged, but not to be funny this time - we are here to RAWK. The Gossip "Standing in the Way of Control" vs Velvet Underground "Sister Ray": "Standing Sister Ray of Control" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARCH 2, 2008: RIAA goes rawk 'n' roll!!! Nirvana's "Come As You Are" vs the song they ripped off: Killing Joke's "Eighties." Technically, this one's a little rough, but it had to be done: "Come as The Eighties" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DECEMBER 15, 2007: Just what you need to heat up your winter: disposable silliness. Listen, smirk, delete. First, RIAA mashes up The Violent Femmes "Blister In The Sun" with "Smoke on the Water," but not the Deep Purple original. Nope, we used Senor Coconut's nutty Latin electro-lounge version: Smoke on the Sun Vegas lounge legend Wayne Newton gets down with The Village People, producing a tune whose title is an anagram of "Danke Shoen" and "YMCA" (hey, you try coming up with all these clever titles): Candy Enema Shok -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DECEMBER 4, 2007: "Previously enjoyed" Christmas tunes from years gone by, since I haven't made any new ones: (Individual mp3s no longer available; download all 5 songs HERE) "The Chipmunk Song (remix)": Alvin & Co. slowed down; not for those who want their childhood fantasies dashed! "G-L-O-RIAA": Van Morrison & Them, Patti Smith, Vienna Boys and Mormon Tabernacle Choirs, silly cut-up stuff, intro from an album of Charleton Heston reading from the Bible. "The $6 Million Man & Santa Claus Fight Global Warming"with help from Booker T & The MGs, and The Rhodes Family "Santa's Acid Hawaiian Space Disco": 9 minutes of madness "I'll Be Home For Christmas": Sinatra goes to Iraq. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 18, 2007: "Mashing Pumpkins," a various-artists Halloween mashup collection is now up! The all-star roster includes Mr Fab & His Bag O' Heads' "I Want My Mummy" - singing silly lyrics over The Who "I'm Free," My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult "Leathersex (remix)," Steve Martin "King Tut," a movie trailer, & sound effects. The Bag O'Heads page of spooky treats has some (sorta) new goodies: last year's "Night of The Alive Dead" has been remixed, "Cannibal Zombie Mom" has a horrific new intro, and last year's compilation contributions have been added, such as a theremin tune featured on Oddio Overplay's "Calling All Fiends" collection. All our heads now in one convenient bag. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 5, 2007: People Like Us & RIAA combine forces! George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" + Beach Boys' "God Only Knows", w/beatz by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult It made it's premier yesterday on Vicki PeopleLikeUs's WFMU radio show Do or D.I.Y. This episode is available as a downloadable album called "Wet Sounds - The Best Of All Things Particularly Avant Retard 2007." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUGUST 8, 2007: RIAA contributed tracks to 2 online comps: FOOLKLEGS: Folkloric MashUps, compiled by Funky Belek & KrazyBen features the songs "Down at Mississippi" (raunchy hip-hop Delta blues: Howlin Wolf vs. Violator & Doughbelly Stray) and "Revelation Fever" (Son House vs Peggy Lee) DECEMBER 16, 2007: Another 30 min. themed mix from Mr Fab added to the "Travels and Adventures" page is the The Deuce Project Megamix made for the The Deuce Project science fiction themed radio show 89.1fm Kalamazoo, MI. It's all sci-fi theme mashups from various fine folks. Scroll down here for tracklist. Thanks to Josh for inviting me to contribute. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DECEMBER 15, 2007: IT IS TO LAFF "A new collection of humourous bootlegs from a large group known in the mashup world online, except with all-new DJ names! Enjoy the tracks, while you attempt to determine WHO ARE THESE GUYS REALLY? The actual DJ identities will be revealed soon..." (Although I think I know who did tracks 5 & 12...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DECEMBER 14, 2007: WE WON! (See Dec. 4) Thanks Station Manager Ken! And here's a Christmas present for y'all: the "Radio Clash File" secret code (see Nov.29). Click on the phone box and punch in 555-142-6063. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DECEMBER 7, 2007: Thanks to Bootleggers Dozen on 94.7 Alternative Portland (KNRK Oregon) for spinning them RIAA tunes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DECEMBER 4, 2007: My entry to WFMU's "Remix Rudy Giuliani" contest is called "Wake Me Up When Sept 11 Ends" and features Green Day, an instrumental version by Nader (appropriate band name!), and some NPR news clips. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOVEMBER 29, 2007: So you want RIAA's tune "Mind Control CIA"? It's got The Stone Roses, Curtis Mayfield, The Last Poets, and clips from a tv documentary about the CIA's LSD experiments. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, begins here. Listen to the podcast (especially the 3 phone calls) punch the 3 codes into the phonebox, and get a whole various artists download album of mashup grooviness called the "Radio Clash File." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOVEMBER 11, 2007: "Womanizing Bastard" is the brilliant title of an article all about Yours Truly for the website Evolve.at. It's great, if you can read German. Author DJ Clive$ter is a big fan of our tune "The Lonely Woman," (off the "Tech-xotica" album), dubbing it Song of the Year for 2006, so hence, as they say, the name. Danke shoen, Clive! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 29, 2007: "Beat-Boot-ique Mashuptown Massacre" is an awesome 2-disks-worth collection of monster mashups featuring Mr Fab & His Bag O' Heads "GhostZombie Goes To Town": Slammin' electro beatz with zany Esquivel-esque thrift-store records, including several versions of the Big-Band era swinger "Mr Ghost Goes To Town. And zombies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 21, 2007: "Thereming," a theremin instrumental from last year's "Calling All Fiends" compilation, has been featured in this cool art demonstration video from Monster by Mail: Two Headed Toy Poodle Zombie of DEATH and in an actual haunted house: Frightmare Forest in Iowa. BOO-Yah!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUGUST 29, 2007: Those nutty Who Boys' latest podcast features a little slightly drunken (them, not me!) ) interview with Mr Fab, and premiers a new RIAA tune called "Coming To Get Bloodstains" (Who Boys vs Agent Orange). Better yet: their hilarious, well-sung acapella "Mr Fab" idents. LA's own Illuminoids have a new all-mashup podcast. Episode 3 features RIAA's "Beastie Butt." And they also played it on Mashup Mark's radio show on NE1 FM 102.5: Episode 8 (Aug 4). Thanks to all y'all! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUGUST 16, 2007: A swell new music site, AudioPorn, picked "Pacifica Fish Dance" as this week's Monday Kick: "The happy, positive craziness which helps you to start another week." Awesome! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JULY 5, 2007: Thanks to The Mash Up, a crazy show on London UK's ResonanceFM for playing RIAA. Cool show, y'all should listen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JUNE 23, 2007: Hey, "Sounds For The Space-Set" made Mashup of the Week over at Attuworld. Thanks Simon Iddol, you rule! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JUNE 14, 2007: Mr Fab interview/story here! on BartCop Entertainment. Thanks to DJ Useo. And thanks to WIDR Kalamzoo, MI for airplay-ing us.- JANUARY 20, 2007: The ever-supportive John Sakamoto of the Toronto Star ranked "Dirt Bacharach" #1on his 11/25/06 Anti-Hit List (now back on line). We're Number One! *waves big styrofoam finger* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JANUARY 18, 2007: We love getting airplay. That's why we love KGNU's "Afternoon Sound Alternative" and Peter Nelson for playing our musics. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JANUARY 5, 2007: "Dirt Bacharach" made WFMU Station Manager Ken's Top Ten Albums of 2006 list. Happy New Year! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JANUARY 3, 2007: Sonic Reclamation Industries is back! Our on-line re-issue "label," is returning to the inter-webs with two old compilations, "Moog Breakbeats" and "WeirdPunk L.A." New collections on the horizon... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DECEMBER 26, 2006: The Idio-Audio show on Toronto's CKLN has always been good to us, but they really outdid themselves Dec. 18th: they played a whole hour of RIAA tuneage, including the "Dirt Bacharach" album in its entirety. Merry Christmas to me! Really appreciate it guys, thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DECEMBER 17, 2006: Big ol' thanks to Clive$ter in Vienna, Austria for spinning our stuff so much on his Saturday night MyClubbingSpace show. And Vicki (of People Like Us fame) played a whopping 45-minute set of RIAA tunesmithery on her WFMU show "Do Or D.I.Y." You can hear the whole show here. It features some unreleased RIAA tracks including "Long Live The Fertile Meadows" (Elvis' "Viva Las Vegas" vs Talking Heads "Psycho Killer" over some d'n'b craziness), "Why Don't You Psych Out" (Pierre Henry/Fatboy Slim vs "Why Don't You Smile Now" by an early version of the Velvet Underground), some silly cut-ups, and "I Like Stinky Cheese!!!" - quite possibly the most idiotic thing I've ever done. Of course, Vicki says it's her fave of the bunch. Can't thank you enough, Ms. Bennett. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DECEMBER 7, 2006: "Dirt Bacharach" has been heard recently on: Station Manager Ken's WFMU show (quite a bit!), Radio Clash podcast, DJ Zebra's Zebramix on OuiFM, Paris, France, and THE SPLATTO FESTIVAL, WBCR 97.7 FM in Great Barrington, MA. Thanks so much, y'all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DECEMBER 4, 2006: Radio Lirios has been giving plenty of airplay to our tuneage, and the Lirios crew's blog has written many nice things as well. Muchos gracias for getting RIAA and Music For Maniacs out there to the Spanish-speaking community. World domination, baby! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOVEMBER 20, 2006: UK-based crew The Who Boys, famed for both mashups and original tunes, also have a very entertaining weekly podcast: Saturday Night With The Who Boys. The most recent edition focuses on "Dirt Bacharach" but features their usual silliness as well. Thanks, Boys! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 26, 2006: Savant Garde Sound System is a brilliant name for a radio show, and I'm not just saying that 'cause they played two Mr Fab & His Bag of Heads tunes: Caspar The Friendly Queen & Dark Shadows Chachacha. But they did, and I FANG them very much. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 25, 2006: "Calling All Fiends," a various-artists free on-line collection of spooky music, is now up. It features a moody, haunting melodic theremin song from Mr Fab called "Thereming." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 15, 2006: The otherwise distinguished radio show/podcast/site- Some Assembly Required hit a new low by publishing an "interview" with RIAA. Big thanks to Jon Nelson, and I hope your reputation recovers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 2, 2006: Bride of Monster Mash-Up, a various-artists collection, is now on-line, features Mr Fab singing "Cannibal Zombie Mom" over '60s trash-rock riffs from The Standells and the Ventures with boomin' beats! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEPTEMBER 1, 2006: Sorry, but the SRI tuneage has been taken off-line. Hopefully all previous (and future) SRI collections will one day be available in a format that doesn't suck up so much bandwidth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUGUST 09, 2006: Wow, Idio-Audio on Toronto's CKLN Monday morning has played us for the last four shows in a row. Keep it up guys, thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JULY 12, 2006: Recent airplay: "Impending Loom," CHLY, BC, Canada. Thanks for spinning "Johnny SKAsh," eh! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JUNE 26, 2006: Awfully nice of all the good folks over at WFMU for spinning the "hits" from "Recording Industries Are Archaic": Do or DIY with People Like Us, Monica, Bob W., PGB - I blow you all kisses of thanks. And long-overdue thanks to the syndicated mashup/collage show Some Assembly Required for playing us out, as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APRIL 16, 2006: A nice chap in Slovenia (!) wrote to ask for some CDs, and said he'd donate some money to us if we had a Paypal account. So we got one - upper right of this page. Send a donation and help a non-profit brutha out with his bandwidth, CD packaging costs,etc... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APRIL 4, 2006: A big merci to DJ Zebra for spinning "Bonnie & Clyde in Orbit" on his OuiFM radio show in Paris, France. And Adrian & The Mysterious D tell us they included "Smells Like That WIld Thing" on their CD they gave out at the last BootieLA. A bazillion thank-yous to you two. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARCH 24, 2006: Thanks to DJ! (pronounced "DJ Shift-One" yuk yuk!) of The Silence Xperiment crew for spinning RIAA on his new all mash-up show "The Blender" on Central California's KCSS Friday afternoons PST. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARCH 9, 2006: DaftMonkey's new Bootie Blog, covering all the latest news from the mashup world, has a Top 10 List, and RIAA's "Nasty African Boys" in on it! We don't know how or why. But we'll take it. Thanks DM. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARCH 3, 2006: Now up on the SRI page: "Weird PunkL.A.": a 22-track download album of "weird-punk" from the late '70s-early '80s Los Angeles underground. Herky-jerky rhythms! Synth squiggles! Sarcasm! Featuring out-of-print (or never-in-print) classics from The Screamers, Wall of Voodoo, Oingo Boingo, The Suburban Lawns, & some great obscurites. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARCH 1, 2006:This Saturday will be a (as they say on TV) "very special episode" of BootieL.A.: the mighty mighty DJ Earworm will be spinning, creator of some of the bestest mashups ever, e.g. "Stairway To Bootleg Heaven" and "Nobody Takes Your Freedom." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FEBRUARY 16, 2006: Gotta give big ups to John Sakamoto of The Toronto Star who has featured our music several times in his regular column (and pod-cast), the Anti-Hit List, most recently for "Intergalactic Centerfold." Thanks again, sir! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FEBRUARY 13, 2006: I'm very bad for not mentioning that the live mashup band Smash-Up Derby were performing at Bootie's return to LA last week. BootieLA's own Adrian is their kooky co-lead singer. Check 'em out if you're in Cali, and/or dig the mp3s here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JANUARY 29, 2006: Thanks to PimpDaddySupreme for spinning RIAA grooves at the club PM in Nashville, TN, putting "Tricky Wipeout" on a give-away CD, and playing a number of tunes from "Sounds For The Sun-Set" at a surf-rock show. Mahalo! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DECEMBER 29, 2005: Thanks to Churchill for featuring RIAA's Chris-mix ("Santa's Acid etc.") on show #3 of his excellent podcast, Make Some Noise. He plays mashups and random wackiness. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DECEMBER 1, 2005: BootieLA returns to the Echo this Saturday, Dec. 3: Show up in a Santa hat & get you this month's Bootie mash-up CD. With DJ Party Ben, DJs Adrian & the Mysterious D and PaulV from Indie 103.1's "Smash Mix," Jean Natalia performing a Christmas mash-up show at midnight, giveaway of unofficial CD of Ross Godfrey from Morcheeba mashing up his own band's music. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some guy in England has a CD of Beastie Boys mashups for sale on eBay called "Hello Mashey," which includes our own "Beastie Butt," renamed "Route Down to Satan." Why buy when you can download for free? Still, I guess it's an honor to be anthologized... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 29, 2005: Recent club action: Thanks to Boston's DJBC and UK's Cheekyboy for giving our tunes a spin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OCTOBER 23, 2005: Thanks to 'Quita for spinning RIAA tuneage on "Strangely Familiar Radio," WRFN, Nashville, TN. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 19, 2005: An independent video documentary maker has posted two 3-and-a-half minutes videos called "Mashup Music," on his site "Urban Testing Ground," featuring interviews with Mr Fab, and the far more glamorous Adrian & Mysterious D, footage of BootieLA#2, and cat wrestling. Audio snippets of RIAA's "Forty Days and Forty Nights" and "Kraftplay" can be heard. Big thanks to Joel for a job well done. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCTOBER 1, 2005: BootieLA #2, Los Angeles' second all-mashup night at The Echo on Sunset Blvd was an even bigger sucess then #1- the crowd get there early, packed the floor, filled the place to its 400+ capacity, danced to everything (as DJPaulV said, "You could have played a fart vs a burp mash and people would have danced to it" - now that I'd like to see), and stayed all night. PaulV, and visiting San Franciscans Party Ben, Adrian and the Mysterious D all took turns DJing, and Adrian and guest singer/dancer Princess Kennedy, the best-looking man in a bikini you'll see all year, performed a lovely live version of NiN's "Closer" vs Joan Jett's "I Love Rock'n'Roll." Even better news: soon to be a regular monthly event. And the cherry on top: RIAA's "Tricky Wipeout" was included on a special various-artists CD given away to club-goers this night only. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEPTEMBER 1, 2005: Well, this has to be a first: London's mash-meister tbc spun RIAA's "Tricky Wipeout" on a boat - a BOAT - cruising down The Thames as part of the "The Pirates of Pilchard" floating party, which also featured sets by such fine English bootleggers as Pilchard (the organizers), Lumpy, dB, Fettdog, as well as some live bands. You can hear tim's set and interviews from the cruise on his podcast "RadioClash#43." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUGUST 24, 2005: San Francisco's Bootie club, America's premier bootleg mashup party, came to LA July 30 - think of the best night out you've had lately. Yeah, well, this was better. Mucho thanks to Adrian & D, Party Ben, and our own DJPaulV who created such a rip-roaring succes it's coming back Sept.30: Bootie LA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JULY 21, 2005: Thanks to mashup radio show "Pop Collisions" KZSC, Santa Cruz, CA for some recent airplay. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ JUNE 4, 2005: Recent radio airplay: DJPaul V at Indie103 (Los Angeles) and "Damaged Hearing" KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado. Thanks for the support. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAY 29, 2005: Sometime in late March, Beck (you know, the he's-a-loser-baby-so-why-don't-you-kill-him guy) posted a link on his Beck.com site to RIAA's inexplicably popular "Bring The Strippers!" Big thanks to His Beckness. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAY 1, 2005: We were knocked off-line (bandwidth exceeded) but we're back. Hello. A new division of M-1 opened recently: Sonic Reclamation Industries. SRI is dedicated to preserving lost, out-of-print audio recordings of significant artistic or historical value. These recordings are presented as a non-profit public service and are not for sale. First up: Brian "Beach Boys" Wilson's unreleased 1977 oddball masterpiece "Adult Child." [now off-line] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARCH 15, 2005: This website's one-year anniversary! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FEB 28, 2005: A new-and-improved version of Twinkleboi's various-artists on-line album "Bushwacked" is back online [now offline unfortunately]- sound-collages inspired by President Bush and the war in Iraq. Includes contributions from Osymyso, Eve Massacre, Instamatic, Don Amott, Earworm, Gordyboy, and RX, the mad genius who re-edits speeches to make it appear as if Bush is singing/reciting songs like U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday." RIAA contributes "O.I.L. (Operation Iraqi Liberation)," which has bits of Jello Biafra, Big Black, Black Sabbath, The Misfits, and Jimi Hendrix in it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FEB 22, 2005: Recent club play - thanks to Audio Shrapnel at Bastard (London, UK) in December and DJJayR at Bootie (San Francisco) Feb 12th for spinning RIAA tunes for all them funky-butt party people. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ JAN 1, 2005: Here's a nice way to ring in the new year - seeing RIAA's "The Joy of Noise" in timbearcub's top 10 Best of 2004 list. DEC 18, 2004: recent club play for M-1 tunes - International Bastard Pop Weekend, Trier, Germany; Pilchard's weekly sets in Reading, UK recent radio airplay: "Boots'n'All" feat. DJ Hickory Dickory Doc (Australia) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEC 14, 2004: TBC's latest Top Ten (for the week of Dec 1) features both RIAA's "The Joy of Noise" (Public Enemy's "Bring The Noise" vs Apollo 100's early-'70s Space Age instrumental "Joy") and Mr Fab and His Bargain Slacks '"There Is Not An Unusual Light That Never Goes Out" (Mr Fab sings The Smiths over Tom Jones)! Tim compiles his fave mash-ups/remixes/ unusual covers culled from the internet, and this week we're 20% of the list. He also featured "The Joy of Noise" on his new pod-cast. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOV 14, 2004: "Bring the Strippers!" is the featured "Boot of the Week" at Boots'n'Remixes, an Australian mash-up site. Thanks, mates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Here Comes the Hot Butter" was #1 on timbearcub's TOP TEN for the week of 11/7/04! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OCT 18, 2004: M-1 presents a music news web-log: "Music For Maniacs." Sick music. For sick people! Home-recordings, internet art-terrorists, and utterly unique sounds will be reviewed here, with links provided for your downloading/listening pleasure... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ September 23, 2004: online album now available: "Jet-Set Discotheque" International sample/remix/mash-up dance par-tay! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 10, 2004: online album now up: "Horrorgasm!" Features "I Needs My Witches," "Moonstruck," "Kitty Porn," "O.I.L." _____________________________________________________________ August 22, 2004: online album "Graffiti Beetles" now available - live instruments played over backing tracks _____________________________________________________________ Augist 14, 2004: 2 albums online: "Sounds For The Sun-Set" (tiki/surf mashups), and "Dub and Dubber, " (live instruments played over hip-hip instrumentals) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- April 15, 2004: a new Mr Fab tune, "Bossa Super Nova," is included on a free downloadable album "Interplanetary Materials," compiled by Otis Fodder for Comfort Stand Records. All songs on the album deal with outer space in some way, so expect plenty of Moogs, theremins, sci-fi movie sound-bytes, etc. Other artists include Seksu Roba, R. Stevie Moore, WACO (Wild Acoustic Chamber Orchestra). "Bossa Super Nova" features an electric organ's cheezy bossa nova beat, "Brasil 66"-ish vocals, Mr Fab's analog synth stylings, and Robbie the Robot whippin' up the drinks on a Forbidden Planet... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 15, 2004: New website, not everything works yet. Be patient. |
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