Wax Audio presents...MASHOPOLOS II - THE MASHENING
Mashopolos II - The Mashening is a comprehensive collection of Wax Audio's 2008 mash output, tweaked, re-jigged, sexed-up and optimized for maximum earhole penetration.
The Mashening will take you kicking and screaming though an aural landscape of dirty electro, head banging metal, funk, blues, jazz, belly dance grooves, Indian drum'n'bass, film scores and good old fashioned toe-tappin rock'n'roll.
Now then, dim the lights, pour yourself a drink, spark up a number, whip up a glass of Milo (or whatever it is that makes your sensory receptors all that more excitable), recline on your most comfortable sofa, place your most expensive headphones on your noggin and let The Mashening do the rest...
You can download or preview individual tracks or grab the whole album as a zip file below. I'd go for the zip file if I were you as most of the album runs as a seamless whole, like one of them '70's prog epics.
The Beatles - Come Together Justice - Waters Of Nazareth Barack Hussein Obama - "We have to come together" Martin Luther King Jr - "I have a dream"
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so that Barack Obama could run. Barack Obama ran, and the rest is history. Who knows what 2009 and beyond will bring, but in the meantime lets boogie.
Bryan Adams - Run To You Metallica - Enter Sandman
Let's imagine that James Hetfield actually grew up in Canada instead of California. Imagine he was brought up by a working class lumberjack family and got about in denim and checkered flannel. This Canadian Hetfield's first real six -string wasn't a Gibson Flying V but rather a Strat. Finally, imagine that instead of meeting Lars Ulrich and Bob Rock on his way to super stardom he actually met Jim Vallance and Bob Clearmountain.
Got all that? Right, here's what it would have sounded like...
Miles Davis - Go Ahead John Angus Young - Live Solo Songs Of Peloponnesos & Roumeli - If I Were A Bird So I Could Fly King Crimson - Improv (From The Night Watch - 1973) Dead Can Dance - Dawn Of The Iconoclast Public Enemy - Bring The Noise Various Quotes, Samples & Noises
Ever wondered what a jam between Miles Davis and Angus Young somewhere in a traditional Greek island village backed up by a bit of King Crimson and Dead Can Dance and hijacked by Public Enemy would sound like? Niether have I. Never mind, here's another mash...
Angelo Badalamnti - The Pink Room (From the David Lynch movie Fire Walk With Me) AC/DC - The Jack (Live At Donnington) Dead Can Dance - Dawn Of The Iconaclast Thuvan Throat Singing + Samples From The Film 'Fire Walk With Me
"The full despair behind the story of Laura Palmer is revealed in this track: hopelessness, perverted sexual desire and heart-dropping abuse, the loss of sanity that accompanies a loss of soul. By taking a raunchy rock tune and showing up its sexually negligent side, a new (and still more vertiginous) twist is given to a dark tale. The light menace of the instrumental track is turned all the more grim . . . and the result is one of the most emotionally disturbing portraits in sound you’ve ever heard"
-Alan, 1086 productions (from the Mashed In Plastic track notes).
Metallica - Blackened Mahsun Kýrmýzýgül - Neyin Peþindesin Sen / Mavi Göz / Zarar Olsan
I was in Istanbul a couple of years ago on an overnight stop. I spent the evening strolling throughout the old town and along the Bosphorus where numerous street hawkers sold their wares. The only thing I bought was an MP3 CD packed with Turkish pop/folk albums (I believe the genre is called Arabesk). Hearing the tunes pumped over the seller's distorted speakers I immediately knew this was mashup material!
These not-for-profit works (mashups, bootlegs, bastard-pop tracks etc) were created as non-substitutable, non-commercial derivatives of recognised recorded works. They do not compete with the market for the original material, nor do they undermine, defame or otherwise harm the original artists. Contrarily they promote each artist's commercial work by further validating their iconic status in popular culture.
