Although this mashup of B.Dolan’s ‘Rats Get Fat’ and Ghost’s ‘Rats’ was originally created about the COVID-19 pandemic and started two months ago it seems oddly appropriate about #blackoutuesday and #blacklivesmatter and the riots going on in the States.
Compared to my last one my hope has become anger over the lockdown – it is a mashup about resistance and class war, that rats get fat when good men die, that we are not all in this together, that they don’t care about us, and some of us even less due to the colour of our skin. And given the Rats lyric about cities burning it seems spookily prescient to the last few days.
Anyway there are two versions – the original rock demo which was hindered by the lack of a decent instrumental, and the Synthwave Second Wave version which I think works better using a cover of Rats by Zeropoint.
Thanks go to @hinoirocks and Ian of The Lloydbrary for the help making this mashup.
Instamatic – Ghost Rats (Second Wave Mix v3.0)
Instamatic – Ghost Rats Getting Fatter (demo)
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