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I Just Work Here – 2023 Best Of Mashup album
I usually do compilation albums every 2 years, but 2023 was my 20th year of making mashups, and thankfully a good year for mashup from all the aliases and so I thought I’d do a ‘Best of’ the year, 26 of my best tracks. It’s called ‘I Just Work Here – 2023 *etc’. I Just…
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Driving A Fast Car Home For Christmas (Tracy Chapman vs Chris Rea)
I wasn’t planning to make a Xmash mash this year – but this combo fell in my lap, and as far as I know, it’s not been done? It almost became a Captain Obvious track because of that – also the moving (and really sad) Fast Car is having a moment via Luke Combs’ cover,…
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Captain Obvious – Close (To The Highway) (Rascal Flatts vs Art of Noise)
Another Captain Obvious (old) banger, this time created for a Car themed Crumplbangers Discord challenge….and when I think cars, I think Art Of Noise’s Close (To The Edit) which famously sampled a neighbour’s VW Golf. Also the first time I’ve mashed a modern Disney track – Life is a Highway – this one is from…
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Captain Obvious – Houdini Everywhere (Dua Lipa vs Fleetwood Mac)
Houdini Is Everywhere! No it literally IS Everywhere 😉 Dua Lipa’s Houdini is very 80’s influenced, she talked about her ‘psych direction’ and when I first heard it I thought…Fleetwood Mac – and of course brought some psych magic via the Psychmagik Edit, my favourite of Everywhere. Two versions, an earlier slightly longer version, and…
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Captain Obvious – Dream Big In Babylon (Bob Vylan vs The Ruts)
I was listening to the new Bob Vylan single ‘Dream Big’ and it totally reminded me of Babylon Burning – so much so it’s exactly the same BPM and only 1 semitone difference…LOL. So Captain Obvious had to do a quick mash with some propah jungle bizness, had fun doing a rock vs jungle vs…
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Captain Obvious – Space Flowers (Miley Cyrus vs Sheila) (Sir Hank reboot)
This one has a long and chequered history, I almost didn’t post this here – it’s an accidental reboot. I heard an A vs B vs C using the Miley Cyrus – Flowers vs Sheila B Devotion’s Spacer combination by Spider. I later found a dead link to Sir Hank’s mashup but I looked and…
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Captain Obvious – Only 80s Ghosts Again (Yazoo vs Depeche Mode)
Ahh the ‘OOK* 80’s Bootlegs’ that Sowndhaus is apparently famous for! Everyone is making Ghosts Again mashups, so thought I’d have a go. Yes this is so obvious it’s Captain Obvious, but I’ve never made a Yazoo mashup so neh. And it’s an era mashup, indie 80’s versus modern 80’s corporate-ish pop (DM are on…
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Dorothea from Hackensack (Taylor Swift vs Fountains of Wayne)
Over 2 years ago Adam Schlesinger died, and I was gutted since Fountains of Wayne were a bit part of my post-Britpop comedown listening (less Stacey’s Mom, more Radiation Vibe). And their best song was never a single, it was a later album track called Hackensack – even Katy Perry covered it! So I was…
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Best of 2021-2022 Bandcamp Albums from Instamatic, Captain Obvious, DJNoNo & tbc
It’s nearly Christmas so here’s your present (or booby prize? It’s that time of year, The Biannual Mashup Report! – I am releasing the last 2 years or so of mashups and plunderphonic experiments from Instamatic, Captain Obvious, DJNoNo & tbc on Bandcamp that aren’t on Black Block or the newly updated Xmas album….I did…
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Last Christmas Heroes – Wham vs Bowie
And finally this gets released – my other Xmas track -the Taylor Swift one got chosen for Bootie Xmas but I think this one is a classic festive sadbanger (well it’s euphoric as well, oddly) This was one of the other tracks under consideration for the Bootie Christmas 7 compilation….but I think it’s the best…