The mashup cupboard emptying and Aphrodite-luvvin’ continues, this time with Instamatic on the mix (could just as well be a DJNoNo release but it’s more on the serious side; the quote at the start from one of my favourite films Garden State about family changes was rather spookily prophetic – this track was finished in July last year!)…anyway this takes Fever Ray’s excellent ‘When I Grow Up’ and makes it share a bunk bed with Aphrodite’s jungle classic ‘Stalker’.

Like some of my mashup vids I sometimes make mashups or longmixes with a feeling or specific intention to be about something – this was definitely about me having to empty my room at home the year previous – and became prophetic about the thoughts around my mother’s death and emptying the house. I don’t think we really appreciate those things til they’re gone.

Instamatic – Stalker Fever (Fever Ray vs Aphrodite)

Why did I hang on to it so long? Dunno, I rarely release stuff anymore…I still create mashups but have felt really apathetic about releasing them (ditto with podcasts, bar the making bit!). I think the inevitable criticism or attention wears heavy on me, as I’ve said before I make them for me, this is music as I’d like to hear it, or makes me laugh. If anyone else likes it it’s a bonus…but I’d be lying if external opinion had no bearing which tends to lead to apathy or being wary about letting others hear it, as a really negative review can make me disown ‘my children’ for years (see Stone Cold Roses for that one). It’s also why if you dig around the Wimpy player on the Artists site sometimes you might get the odd unreleased ’surprise’

Originally for the excellent Mashed n’ Slashed compilation last year, this is DJNoNo using Sesame Street’s Count von Count again with Batty Song and taking a more dancehall twist with Weedy G’s Sleng Teng refuelled riddim. One two three….batty!batty!batty!batty!

DJNoNo – Batty Dub

DJNoNo’s frankly quite worrying love affair with Aphrodite (not as dodgy as his obsession with Julie Andrews, the stalking court hearing is in a few weeks) continues with this ode to the Asylum ‘Those Were the Drums’ mashing Mary Hopkin’s 1968 classic ‘Those Were the Days’ with ‘London Massive’ by Aphrodite – and craftily sneaking in some Osymyso talking about Bastard at the Asylum for Swiss TV all those years ago…

DJNoNo – Those Were The Drums(Mary Hopkin vs Aphrodite)

This was played back in November at the 72 night, not got around to posting that and the other tunes I did until now…rest will follow hopefully

Yo! Yo! Yo! Ere iz mah new mashup, a funkee lil gully numbah which is reet clart, m8. I took mah home-boy Hugo Montenegro (in da hizzle!) n’ mixed im wiv Aphrodite, drum & bass GOD(ess?) and a little known grime GANGSTAH! groop called The Osmonds? Nevah heard of ‘em but dey are super-smart funky m8, gr8 bassline. Not so shure aboot dose haircutz an flares, but who knose. Oh an’ it reminded meh of dem liverpoolian scouse gits the Beatles so I dropped in somefink direct from the street, totally bangin’ m8, the Swingle Singers doing Daytripper. PROPAH JOKES!

YoYo Roll (Aphrodite ‘Woman That Rolls’ vs Hugo Montenegro ‘Yo-Yo’ vs Osmonds ‘Yo-Yo’ vs Swingle Singers ‘Daytripper’)

One of the new tunes I played in Saarbruecken *cough* sorry DJNoNo played in Saarbruecken – was this new one – I’d not heard Deadmau5’s ‘Ghost n’ Stuff’ – great spooky electro action a la Phantom – but when I did and heard his great Salt n’ Pepa bootleg I thought I could go one better – so here’s one of my guilty pleasures, Low by Flo-Rida with Deadmau5’s ‘Ghost n’ Stuff’ appropriately called ‘Florida Ghost Tour’

Florida Ghost Tour (Flo-Rida vs Deadmau5)

Some1 slipped me sum Rohynolz n’ bundled me in da boot (car, not bootlegz) n’ next fing I knew I woz in Germanyland, in Sourbroken or somefink. N’ forced at sausage-point 2 do a set, n’ ting for Innernational Mashy Bashy, sausage & mash? Aye dunno, maybe twas dose funny robots 4 Mash get Smash?

So eye came up wiv dis Do Re Mi versuss mah favurite shawty, Juleeee! So 2 Bad Mice get down with teh Maiden ov Musicals, Miss Julie Andrews & dey both ‘ave a rave. Dey liked it in Germany, like, so aye got to go home n’ not turned in2 bangers or swine flew or somefink. Woohoo!

But nice sausages, dose. Not sure about teh mash…but bring on teh gravys!

DRM Bombscare (2 Bad Mice vs Julie Andrews & sum annoying kidz, nevah alllow dem at a rave!)

Ere’s teh vido – FOX didnae like it, apparuntly.

640×480 h264 Quicktime MOV s’ere.

Yea me hearteez, I iz bak wiv de aven janz or summat posh like dat – wiv de lethal originatorz, yup ya Fragglez, kikin’ it hard-style like.

Keepin’ it reel, NORFSIDE!!! so not safe 4 da kidd1ez or ya work, like.

DJNoNo – Fraggle Ross (Fraggle Rock theme vs SebastiAn Ross Ross Ross (Liggybaby Fuck Me Edit))

Scary – Ah’ve been featchurred on a Halloween Monster mashup bootleg thingummy called ‘Bride of Monster Mash‘ or summat, with a nu DJNoNo track – ‘County Sound‘ with MC Count von Count chattin’ over Dillinja and Aphroditee-hee. Chek it!

Also kickin’ da classix are DJ B.C., Urn Monkey, Fett and the dog, Hurleyburd, Pilch-hard, Meestah F-A-B, the boys from Essex and Cheeky and soulcoffin & many more homies I can’t get tha names right eether….all well good doh.

Dunno why asthmatic ducks are largin’ it on da homepage though…is that a new moosikal stylee? Very Count Duck-u-like.

And now da peepz over at Boing Boing have bigged it up with my track as their fave! BRAPBRAPBRAP!!!!

that bloke tbc’s at it agin – e’s gon un’ stole sum of ma old booteez and put em up on ‘is blog. Bah. Is mah bootee stash not safe, man? An’ e added sum smarmy feckin smart-arse comment to em 2. Dat man needz a seeing to, correcklee like.

Neway, ere’s tha toonz now tha damage is dun.

1. I Love Happy Hardcore (Fuck Happy)
2. Too Many Egos - full version
3. Em is a Naggin Fly (Crossover vs Eminem vs Roy Orbison

‘Kodiak Moment’ promotional Instamatic CD – Artwork by Pheugoo

A lot of my old boots/mashups haven’t been online for years – most people don’t know I’ve created something like 50+ mashups as Instamatic since 2003, more as DJNoNo and as tbc and various aliases…there have been quite a few mashups ‘retrospectives’ recently, and the odd request to find various tracks so here is my Greatest Misses…tracks that fell down the cracks!

Also a few tracks such as the Jump megamix (Jump x2 and Renegade Trouble) and the Too Many Egos haven’t been properly released before.

Also includes my first released mashup – FSOL vs Peaches, so you can see how far little I’ve developed…I did think ’shall I redo some of these?’ or fix some of the mistakes I can hear now – I thought not since I hate that when say bands re-release ‘tweaked’ or ‘improved’ versions of old songs. Publish and be damned!

Thanks to RevMenagerie who requested my Negativland / String Quartet mashup…

NOTE: Some of these tunes are severely NSFW – especially FCUKK Fashion…

1. The Future Sound of Peaches (FSOL vs Peaches)
2. Missy Wants A White Horse (Missy vs Laidback and jacky – one of my personal faves)
3. Fragile Tomorrow (Kings of Tomorrow vs Fragile State)
4. FCUKK Fashion (Prodigy vs Bowie and DJ Yoeri) (as Instore – with the Kate Moss situation strangely topical now!)
5. Kylie’s Ass is a Spaceship (Kylie vs SFA vs NERD)
6. Still haven’t Found It (Negativland live vs String Quartet)
7. Blancmange Milkshake (Kelis vs Blancmange)
8. Satan Bush Blair (Bootie edit – original featured over at Bushwhacked)
9. Ludakriss (Kid Carpet intro) – (here’s the original with the Kid Carpet ‘Jump’ intro)
10. Altogether Let it Be Me (An excercise in combining songs inspired by Pachelbel’s Canon – Nancy Sinatra vs The Farm)
11. Radio 4Play (Shannon vs Radio4) - I got kind of obsessed by Shannon’s ‘Let the Music Play’, and then Kelis’s Milkshake…shows huh?
12. My Muppet Band (Tokyo Ska Orchestra vs D12 – originally over at Strangely Familiar website)
13. Infidel Milkshake Party (Wyclef & Missy vs Kelis)
14. Work it Tiger (Le Tigre vs Masters at Work)
15. Egyptian Jet (Bangles vs Jet -a month later a mix of this appeared on 7″ – dunno if it was mine?)
16. Shannon’s Knuckles (Shannon vs Rankie Knuckles)
17. Madison Heartbreak (Maisonettes vs Madison Avenue)
18. Brightside Slippy (never totally finished since I was afflicted by a sudden inexplicable hatred of the Killers)
19. Fire (Bootie edit of a minimix – DJ Zebra mixed into Fire mix (Grandmaster Scott vs Radio4 vs Electric6 vs Trammps)
20. Jump minimix – Ludakriss / Jumpx2/ Renegade Trouble – first time online! (Made for Uprising 3.5, also played in part at Bastard -
    Kid Carpet / Ludacris vs Kriss Kross / House of Pain vs Kriss Kross / Wildchild vs Beasties)

and from the DJNoNo canon, a few rarities:

1. I Love Happy Hardcore (Fuck Happy) – first DJNoNo boot, done for a Happy Hardcore competition where mrNo shows how much he likes Happy Hardcore…
2. Too Many Egos - full version (various based on the odd acapella version of EgoRocker and a pisstake of several Ego-Rocker boots – a short 70s version that eventually appeared on Marty Batfreak’s 100 mix)
3. Em is a Naggin Fly (Crossover vs Eminem vs Roy Orbison – pisstake of Eminem boots and mrNo trying to prove Bush No.10 wrong when he said Eminem boots now didn’t work. Did thaNo succeed? Erm, pass…)