Night Cry (Early Bird Edition)

Dark sinister clowns have stolen the country music from Johnny Cash, which has made Johnny very very sad.

But with the energetic help of some old Yello, and a few additional funky loops/stems I found lying around (including some sounds from an old pinball machine), Johnny's Cry Cry Cry can be heard in a whole different funktronic light.

Night Cry (Early Bird Edition) was originally released on Envision's The 3rd World: Annual Genre-Smashed compilation. Unfortunately, the IFPI had the album download removed.

Fortunately, you can still enjoy my funktronic mash-up track here using the Official.fm player below. You can also enjoy the funky mash-up video I put together for this track (available on YouTube and Vimeo for everyone's global viewing pleasure).

Night Cry (Early Bird Edition)
Johnny Cash - Cry, Cry, Cry
Yello - Night Flanger
Qubic - a few sound loops/stems I found lying around
3:07 / 320 kbps / 7.3 MB

The 3rd World Annual Genre-Smashed Compilation

The 3rd World Annual Genre-Smashed Compilation mash-up album, compiled and presented by Envision, was officially released earlier today, containing 44 tracks from 29 DJ's and mash-up producers. The theme... Smash the genre and bring the track(s) into a new world of sound.

What is the real meaning of the theme? The idea is to take two or more original songs and combine them into a mash-up production such that the resulting genre is different than the genre of the original songs. Or more commonly... the resulting mash-up production is a different genre than the original genre of the predominant vocals.

Why am I promoting this compilation? I produced a zany psycho funketronic mash-up track, called Night Cry (Early Bird Edition), as well as a video to go along with it, which have both been released on this compilation.

You can watch my video and download the entire album (with my zany mash-up track) at http://www.envisiondesign.com.au/The3rdWorld

Q-Picks 2010

It's been a couple of years since I posted my yearly favourite music picks. I'm not sure why I didn't post one last year, but here's my favourite picks of songs and albums that were released in 2010...

Favourite Mash-up Songs

1. LeeDM101 - Roxanne's Tainted Fly [link]
2. [MMM] MadMixMustang - You Rock My Rock [link ]
3. DJ Lobsterdust - Steady Romance [link]
4. DJ Clive$ter - Mas Que Amor [link]
5. Simon Iddol - We are in the Go-Go Club [link]
6. G3RSt - I've Seen That Paranoid Face Before [link]
7. KrazyBen - Hypersonic Sweet Music [link]
8. Tweylo - Personality in Bloom [link]
9. PiotreQ - Good Times Bite the Dust [link]
10. Stay Away Music (S.A.M.) - Boiled Hamma [link]
11. mARKYbOY - The Rain Thief [link]
12. Chocomang - One Chair [link]
13. DJ Morgoth - Stylo It's No Good [link]

Favourite Commercial Songs

1. Laurie Anderson - Only an Expert
2. Diane Birch - This Corrosion
3. k.d. lang - Hallelujah (Vancouver Winter 2010 Version)
   
4. Laurie Anderson - Transitory Life
5. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Save Me
6. Holy Fuck - Red Lights
7. Laurie Anderson - Lost Art of Conversation
8. Goldfrapp - Rocket
9. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Pulse
   
10. Bryan Ferry - Alphaville
11. Ok Go - This Too Shall Pass
12. Goldfrapp - Head First
13. Sarah McLachlan - Loving You is Easy

Favourite Albums

1. Laurie Anderson - Homeland
2. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - History of Modern
   
3. Diane Birch - The Velveteen Age (with the Phenomenal Handclap Band)
4. Goldfrapp - Head First
5. Mashup Industries - Café del Mash Vol. 2 [link]
6. Holy Fuck - Latin
7. CjR Mix / Bynar - Dangerous Power (The Boot EP) [link]
8. Tangerine Dream - Booster III
9. Bryan Ferry - Olympia
10. Sarah McLachlan - Laws of Illusion
11. Sound Unsound - Chillax [link]
12. Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back

Oíche Suaimhneach, Fir Caoin (HD Video)

Oíche Suaimhneach, Fir Caoin HD from BorisB High Def on Vimeo.

BorisB is working on a new-ish video project these days... He's taking his best mash-up videos of all time and reproducing them in stunning HD video. The first video out of the gate, and just in time for Xmas, is the video for the Xmas mash-up I had produced a couple of years ago, Oíche Suaimhneach, Fir Caoin. (Note: You'll have to watch it from the vimeo web site to get the HD quality video.)

Here's the remastered version of the song file in high-quality 320 kbps stereo for your listening and downloading pleasure...

Oíche Suaimhneach, Fir Caoin
Mediaeval Baebes - Umlahi
Loreena McKennitt - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Abdelli version)
Loreena McKennitt - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Instrumental)
6:05 / 320 kbps / 14.1 MB

World's Greatest Pop Mashups - A Sound Unsound Compilation

Sound Unsound just released an awesome mash-up compilation digital album, World's Greatest Pop Mashups.

If you love pop tunes, there's 18 pop mashups on this album with pop tunes spanning the 80's, 90's, and the last decade. You'll also find a track produced by me containing a little something from the 80's and a little something from this past decade...

You can also visit Sound Unsound to get more details about the album release.

Chillax, Come Down..... A Sound Unsound Compilation

Sound Unsound just released the awesome mash-up compilation digital album, Chillax, Come Down.....

As the title suggests, it's filled with music that you can chill and relax with. Containing 23 chill tunes produced by various mash-up/remix producers, you will also find one chill tune produced by me...

Northern Half Life
Imogen Heap - Half Life
Enigma - Northern Lights
Running Time: 5:24

You can preview my track using the Official.fm player above.

If you want to download the track for your music library, you'll have to download the digital albums from the people at Sound Unsound using the links found on the following Chillax release postings (fyi, my track is on Disc One, but you'll want both awesome discs):

mARKYbOY Mash Ups: Chillax, Come Down

Groovey Time with DJ Useo: Sound-Unsound's CHILLAX Come Down

You can also visit Sound Unsound to get more details about the album release.

Continuum 08: the Music & the Mixes

Continuum 08 is a collection of remastered mashup singles and mixes that I had originally produced in 2008, plus a collection of mashup videos produced by myself and a few other producers. It commemorates my commitment to continuously trying to improve my production skills as well as my continuously growing interest in music mashup production (and now mashup video production as well).

I spent several months this year learning how to improve my audio extraction and mastering techniques, and what better way to do that than figure it out on pieces I've already completed. Thus, all the music in this collection has been remastered in 320 kbps audio.

My original intent was to have this project completed by April 2009, but a few personal situations delayed the project. My sincere apologies go to the other producers (BorisB, Guv'nor, and The Reborn Identity), who produced videos for this project back in February/March and had to wait until now to see them released. I thank them for their immense patience.

Continuum 08 is contained within 3 albums for your listening, viewing, and downloading pleasure:

1. Continuum 08: the Music
2. Continuum 08: the Mixes
3. Continuum 08: the Videos

Consequently, there are 3 download packages - one for each album. Each album download package includes the music tracks (or video tracks), a digital booklet (in PDF, which can be added to your iTunes library), a paper CD case (in PDF, with printing and folding instructions), and some digital cover art.

As part of this release, all the cover art for each mashup single has been recreated in 3D and only included in the digital booklets contained within the download packages.

You can listen to and download the individual tracks using the Fairtilizer music players below. Or click on the album download links to download the music tracks with all the extra goodies. Note that the Videos album package is not listed below because it will be presented in a separate blog posting.

Download the Continuum 08: the Music album package. (112.87MB)

Download the Continuum 08: the Mixes album package. (216.85MB)

Also check out Continuum 08: the Videos.