DJ Brokenwindow - Parallel Universe #2

As promised, here is the second volume of DJ Brokenwindow's excellent mash-ups. In particular, The Fugees Fu-Gee-La atop Richard Demaria's The Next Episode is brilliant! Other highlights are LFO vs. The World Of Skin, someone named Carlito rapping over Steve Reich's It's Gonna Rain and DJ Assault meeting Wendy Carlos. Seriously, get this now!


DJ Brokenwindow - Parallel Universe #2

01 Round Up Those Flowers
02 What U Change About Ballin'?
03 Canton Is Over Here
04 Hooked On Techno 1
05 Beach Culture Fight Music
06 Glowstick Raver's Valentine
07 Picture P Diddy In Haiti
08 Oh La La La, The Next Episode
09 Too Many MC's, Not Enough Ultravox
10 Walk Like The Egyptian Lover
11 Shamalama Carousel
12 Owner Of A Lonely Superbitch
13 The Joke's On Hula
14 Old Dope Peddler Breaks
15 Blood On Your B-Boy Gloves
16 League Or Die
17 Front 242's Estranged Child
18 Hooked On Techno 2
19 It's Gonna Rain Fame
20 Kit Clayton vs. Roscoe P. Coltrane
21 I Want To Be Your LFO
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DJ Brokenwindow - Parallel Universe #1

So Prince is claiming he doesn't plan on issuing another album, eh? Why don't I buy a word of that? It's rather funny actually, as everyone knows he's a rather compulsive studio guy. Reminds me of something Z-Trip once said about mash-ups, claiming that the only way people should make them is by cutting records live. Uh, why should I take your word? Who made you an expert? Well, Z-Trip is an expert when it comes to live mash-ups but seriously, who is he to make the rules? You're supposed to make music because you enjoy it, and Prince has been doing that forever, although we'll probably never hear all of it. Making rules that override everything ruins the fun part of music, the experiments and the mistakes. Mash-ups took on a new popularity because of homegrown producers that wanted to put their favorite songs together for whatever reason they thought it was a good idea. That's how it works, and that's also why I'm so glad there are people like David Chandler, aka DJ Brokenwindow, out there to entertain and make you think about what you could be doing with your music.

Chandler is probably best known as Solenoid or for his label, Community Library, of which you can read more about here, but around the turn of this century he released two records as DJ Brokenwindow on kid606's Violent Turd label. Both records are collections of vinyl mash-ups Chandler made by taking records and syncing them with each other. That probably sounds rather pedestrian at first, but we're talking about actual records, manually syncing them together, and doing so (almost) entirely without digital editing tools. On top of that, he even provides basic instructions on how to sync the records he used so you could do it yourself. And as if all of those things weren't cool enough, the mash-ups are actually rather good and the whole affair is intensely entertaining!

Below you'll find the first volume of Parallel Universe for your aural enjoyment. I'll post the second volume on Saturday. For now though, get this and play it while you're doing whatever it is you're doing, be it housework, exercise, playing with your kids (be careful about some of these tracks if that's the case), whatever, but be prepared to find a new, bizarre and, above all, intensely entertaining soundtrack to whatever you're doing. Seriously, I don't want to give away any of the wonders you'll find within this album, you should explore it and find the amazement within, although I will say the Krautrock track mixed with "C" Is For Cookie should give you a clue what to expect!


DJ Brokenwindow - Parallel Universe #1

01 Hair, Nails, Percolator
02 This Synth Here
03 We Order Our New Thang
04 Eleanor Ectomorphs
05 Living On Vanilla Ice
06 Shit On My Side
07 Oh Yeah, Uh Uhh
08 B-Window Meets Roxanne Uptown
09 Me So Yashar
10 Come To Perry
11 Leave It Turquoise
12 Let's Build A Rhythm Twise
13 Rational Youth Get Down
14 Lights, Camera, Hyman
15 Der Cookie Und Der Prinz
16 R.U. Ready Perry?
17 That Dead DJ Can Spin and Dance
18 Better Green Onions
19 Mr. Schmidt's Guiro
20 Beige Sit Down!
21 Info-Metic-Running
22 We Are The Maracas
23 Tahitian Tamure Techno #1

DJ Douggpound - Pound It

Before we go any further, as far as I'm aware this album is only available for purchase on the Tim and Eric tour. If it's available elsewhere please let me know because I will remove the link for download immediately. That said, Douggpound's own site doesn't have it for sale so I figured it was safe to put this up so people could check it out. Regardless, Douggpound, if you're reading this and want it taken down, just say the word and it's done.

Doug Lussenhop, better known as DJ Douggpound, is a writer and editor for Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! but also a musician. Okay, kinda a musician. A DJ maybe? Uh, all I know is he's funny as hell. He's got a recurring role on Awesome Show in a segment called the Poundcast which follows his misadventures and includes very odd attempts at hip-hop and remixes. You could say he's a mash-up artist though his stuff sounds nothing like Girl Talk or anyone else for that matter. If you didn't know his tracks were meant to be funny you'd probably assume he was talentless, but you've gotta be real good to be this bad! All the cliches of bad hip-hop mixtapes like annoying catchphrases, overused samples and things that get in the way of the tracks are present, as well as lots of old rave and house music beats and the cheesiest samples you've ever heard. Ever thought about taking the chorus from The Who's Who Are You, speeding it up and having a program beat-match it to a house beat? Douggpound did and the results are embarrassing, hilarious and strangely captivating. Most of these tracks also start as bad jokes before being molded into bad remixes. It's really brilliant in a demented way, leaving you oddly entertained and coming back for more.

If you go see Tim and Eric live you should pick this up. It'd be great if Douggpound would put out more discs because I'd make sure to pick them up. Mash-ups are supposed to be fun and artists like Girl Talk understand that, but there is a weird amount of hipster angst surrounding people who try to make it a bigger deal than it is. Douggpound rips those hipsters a new one and makes it okay to laugh while doing so. Check out his official website and twitter page and buy this if you get a chance. This is some seriously silly shit!


DJ Douggpound - Pound It

for my brother...

though anyone else is welcome to download this as well! This was given to me by a friend that said it was posted on a popular, private website. All I did was edit a few minutes of near silence off the beginning of the original wave file which makes this start just as Girl Talk starts his intro. Trust me, you're not missing anything, this is still the complete show. Enjoy!


Girl Talk - Live @ Binghamton University, 5/1/10

Girls On Top

The history of the mash-up is far too long to go into accurate detail here, so I'll talk for a minute about the aura surrounding one Richard Philips, better known as Richard X, previously known as Girls On Top. Since releasing a few very popular mash-ups, Mr. Philips has gone on to remix and produce a number of big name artists including Annie and Nine Inch Nails (can't get much more polar than those two, eh?) but his breakthrough was a re-recording of his mash-up "We Don't Give A Damn About Our Friends", which was a meeting of the music from Gary Numan's "Are Friends Electric?" and the vocals from Adina Howard's "Freak Like Me". Yes, unlikely bedfellows indeed, but what a payoff! The track gained enough popularity for a commercial release at which point a slightly edited version was recorded by the Sugababes. It became a number one single on the British charts and, as such, Richard X's career became a legitimate one.

As Girls On Top, Philips only released two vinyl-only singles. These were "Warm Bitch", which was a mash-up of The Normal's "Warm Leatherette" and Missy Elliot's "She's A Bitch" with "We Don't Give A Damn About Our Friends" on the b-side and "Being Scrubbed" which featured the title cut, a mash-up of Tangerine Dream's "Being Boiled" and TLC's "No Scrubs" and on the b-side, "I Wanna Dance With Numbers", a mash-up of Kraftwerk's "Numbers" and Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody". Both singles have since become collectors items but have also been bootlegged relentlessly. At one point, a bootleg "Greatest Hits" collection of Girls On Top tracks appeared featuring both singles in their entirety, a Beatles and Fat Truckers mash-up, a remix of the Sugababes version of "...Friends" and an unreleased track featuring Aaliyah and OMD.

Today, I present to you, a collection of these 6 tracks. It is worth noting that the tracks posted here are not from a single, unified source. I have good quality vinyl rips of the two singles but the version of "Being Scrubbed" has a skip in it, so I used a version from a bootleg compilation in it's place. Also, the Beatles/Fat Truckers track is from a ridiculously lo-fi source so please don't accept this as representative of the final product. I've actually looked high and low for that one and, apart from a youtube stream, had no luck in finding the complete track. The Aaliyah/OMD track is actually from a mix someone gave to me but is indeed the complete track. I'm sure if you ran it through a spectral reader you would find it's quality to be dubious, but it sounds perfectly find to my ears. Finally, if you would like to learn more about Mr. Philips and his various productions, please visit
his site. It's very detailed and features samples of many of his works.



Girls On Top

01 Being Scrubbed (TLC vs. Tangerine Dream)
02 I Wanna Dance With Numbers (Whitney Houston vs. Kraftwerk)
03 Warm Bitch (Missy Elliot vs. The Normal)
04 We Don't Give A Damn About Our Friends (Adina Howard vs. Gary Numan)
05 The White Single (The Beatles vs. Fat Truckers)
06 Romance V.3 (Aaliyah vs. OMD)