[excerpt of the first Bastard flyer - by Douglas Pledger]

Back 2 the Bootleg Old Skool, with Bastard Pop*, Glitch, Bootlegs* and Mashups* from the archive from 2001 to 2003.

Part 1 of a personal journey into my favourite tunes from the Start of Modern Bootleggery As We Know It.

All mashups are available for download below for a short while...don't kill my bandwidth though
Gonna Go Click, WAAAAY Click here (36Mb, 62 Mins): http://www.mutantpop.net/go.php?url=160

Notes

• Freelance Hellraiser - Stroke of Genie-us (2001)

• People Like Us podcast is back!

• GHP - You Make Me Feel XTC (2003)
• McSleazy - Don't Call Me Song2 (2001/2002?)
• Braces Tower - Don't Wanna Go (2003)
• Soulwax - No Fun / Push It (2001)
• conway - Lisa's Got Hives (2001/2002?)
• Lionel Vinyl - Owner of a Lonely Butt (2003)
• Girls on Top (aka Richard X) - Warm Bitch (2001)
• Stark Effect - Gonna Make You Stupid (2002)
• Freelance Hairdresser - Marshall's Been Done to Death (2002)
• Soundhog - I Wish I Was a Bulldog (2002)
• Frenchbloke & Son - Sound of Da S-Club (2001/2002?)
• flashbulb - ll cool j mamma said knock you out (2003)
• skatter - Madonna is a Filthy Slut (2003)
• Poj Masta - Chopped Up Chic Freak (2003)
• Apeboy - Enya vs Prodigy (1999-2002?, redone by Lenlow 2005)

• Adam and Joe Podcast - R Kelly Trapped in the Closet

* same thing, really.

Ok as any fule knowz, the biggest podcaster's friend is (and was) the iRiver iFP series. Why?

Well they were cheap, portable, you can record on them via external microphones and do the sort of outside broadcasting/interviews you've heard here on Radio Clash and the likes of Bicyclemark, amongst many others.

Problem is that apart from the 790 (which is only 256Mb) the rest of the range has been discontinued...but you can still get refurbished models cheaply. I've just bought an iFP 895 512Mb as a replacement for iVer - the iFP890 256Mb I dropped in Canada. It's arrived, looks good as new and all tests so far seem to indicate it's working alright.

I only paid £39.99 from Electrobytes, and it arrived within 2 days so I think they are kosher. I'm not being paid by them, but spent ages looking through dead links. I too initially wanted to get a new not refurbished player - for those of you that still do, check out iRiver's site where they will sell you the iFP 790 256Mb for 30 Euros + shipping (dunno if this is Europe only, looking at the US site it seems so) which came out at around the same as the refurbished one (and I wasn't sure if custom duty was included?).

And anyway I blog so much here and on my LJ about bad service, it's nice to talk about good service - like where I bought Charles II the video iPod from, the unlikely place of FonePlanet - but they were extremely quick, got it within 1 day of sorting out the payment, like this one was. I'm so used to shit service online, or being defrauded/abused that it literally has been a shock to find a few extremely good places. Restored my much battered faith in ecommerce.

So maybe some of you who need a replacement will find this info useful. Certainly I think the iFP's are soon to be totally consigned to the second hand market - and the new iRivers don't have the pre-amp or external mic facilites (I have a T30, little iVer, and it's a nice little player but it's recording features are close to useless). Personally though I'd not touch iRiver's HD players after my bad experience with Gerald.

I was and am a little still nervous of buying a refurb model (but it is a Flash memory MP3 player/recorder, not like a HD player with moving parts inside) but everything seems OK so far.

So welcome Long John iVer (aka Big or Large iVer), who'll probably be what I'm recording shows on from now on.

For a mix I'm looking for girl/boy band interviews or intros where they introduce themselves in turn - I've heard a Girls Aloud one 'Hi I'm Cheryl!!!!' which I want to track down, but any manufactured boy/girl bands that are popular or have been (Take That, Boyzone, NSync etc.)

If you know of any, I'd love you for evahhhh!!!!111!!!!!!

EDIT: Found the Girls Aloud http://www.toazted.com/interview/35/Girls-Aloud.html - so you get the idea...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5099894.stm

Not surprising, but very sad - maybe pop is dead?

Ironically I'm working on a Pop is Dead mix about the music industry...maybe I should work in some TOTP stuff...

Heatwave! Well maybe there was a heatwave, it's gone now but this show was inspired by the longest day of the summer and the hottest June 12th on record in the UK.

Dunno where it's gone now...what that the summer?

Wash those Summertime Blues right out of your hair: http://www.mutantpop.net/go.php?url=159
Notes:

• Bill Hicks - Summertime Blues
• DJBC - Hotbreaker
• Hal Cali - Otsukare Summer

Tim's Summer Soul Northern Glam mix

• Lionel Vinyl - Is there a Doctor on the Train?
• RAH Band - The Crunch
• Suzi Quattro - Glycerine Queen
• Peaches - Boys Wanna Be Her
• Joan Jett and the BlackHearts - Summertime Blues
• Pilchard - Clapstero
• The Fall - F'Oldin Money
• Jimmi Jammes - Trippin'
• ccc - Pink Night
• Shirley Ellis - Ever see a diver kiss his wife while the bubbles bounce about above the water
• Bar-Kays - Soul Finger (from Altantic R&B 1967-69)

• Breathe Don't Stop (Q-Tip vs MJ - this is the original not that awful Jungle Bros cash in!)
• Usha Uthup - Chhupke Kaun Aya (from Tom Middleton's 'The Trip')
• Malha Funk - Nova Danca (Melo Do James Brown) (from Senor Coconut FM CD)
• Bonde do role - Melo do Tabaco (from Diplo presents)
• Negreto - Dile (from Senor Coconut FM CD)
• St. Petersburg Ska-Jazz Review - Anarchy in the UK (from Puritan Blister blog)
• Desmond Dekker - Where Did it Go
• The Indelicates - We Hate the Kids (from Spoilt Victorian Child blog)
• Arty Fufkin - Exit Music (for a Norwegian Film)
• DJ Earlybird - Learned from Summertime