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In a change from normal I’ve stuck all the parts of this mix on one posting. This mix has seven parts in total and you need to download them all and play them in order, without gaps between tracks, for full effect.
Enjoy!
Tracklisting
1. Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime
2. Prince – Sign Of The Times
3. Layo and Bushwacka – It’s Up To You
4. Antoine Clamaran – Feel It
5. KC Flightt – Planet E
6. Cream – Sunshine Of Your Love
7. NuYorican Soul – Runaway
8. Notorious BIG – Hypnotize
9. Nirvana vs Adam Freeland – Smells Like Freeland
10. Patti Labelle – Lady Marmalade
11. Right Said Fred – Deeply Dippy
12. Gat Decor – Passion
13. Who Da Funk – Shiny Disco Balls
14. Fun Boy Three – The Tunnel Of Love
15. DADA ft Sandy Rivera – Lollipop
16. Girls Aloud – Close To Love
17. Beastie Boys – Body Movin’
18. Deee-Lite – Groove Is In The Heart
19. Til West – Same Man
20. Sesa – Like This Like That
21. Fatboy Slim – Everybody Loves A Carnival
22. DJ Kool – Let Me Clear My Throat
23. Fedde Le Grand and Ida Corr – Let Me Think About It
24. The White Stripes – The Hardest Button To Button
25. The Funky Worm – Hustle! (To The Music)
26. The Gibson Brothers – Cuba
27. Basement Jaxx – Plug It In
28. Stonebridge – Put Em High
29. Anita Ward – Ring My Bell
30. Meshell Ndegeocello – Who Is He And What Is He To You
31. Pet Shop Boys – In The Night
32. Phil Kieran – Juicy Great Tribal Choon
33. Barry Manilow – Copacabana
34. Neneh Cherry – Buffalo Stance
35. Belouis Some – Imagination
36. Freda Payne – Band Of Gold
37. Sugababes – Red Dress
38. Roisin Murphy – Let Me Know
39. Malcolm McLaren and Lisa Marie – Something’s Jumping In My Shirt
40. Garbage – When I Grow Up
41. The Gibson Brothers – Que Sera Mi Vida
42. Uniting Nations – Ai No Corrida
43. Bobby Blanco – 3AM
44. Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
45. Erasure – Drama!
46. Girls Aloud – It’s Magic
47. Girls Aloud – Call The Shots
48. Rogue Traders – Watching You
49. The GoGos – Our Lips Are Sealed
50. Souvlaki – Inferno
51. Klubbheads – Klubbhopping
52. Noir – All About The House Music
53. Freeform Five – No More Conversations
54. Black Eyed Peas - My Humps
55. Farley Jackmaster Funk and Darryl Pandy – Love Can’t Turn Around
56. Adamski – Killer
57. 5ive – If Ya Gettin Down
58. Beastie Boys – Intergalactic
59. Stacy Lattislaw – Jump To The Beat
60. New Order – Fine Time
61. Sugababes – Round Round
62. New Order – True Faith
63. Chemical Brothers and The Flaming Lips – The Golden Path
64. ESG – Dance
65. Bobby Boris and The Crypt Kickers – The Monster Mash
66. The Cure – Inbetwen Days
67. Electrovamp – I Don’t Like The Vibe In The VIP
68. Matthew Wilder – Break My Stride
69. The Beatles – We Can Work It Out
70. Orange Juice – Rip It Up
71. DJ Yoda – Wheels
72. Beck – Where It’s At
73. The Chi-Lites – Are You My Woman
74. The Sugarhill Gang – Rapper’s Delight
75. Evelyn Champagne King – Love Come Down
76. Raze – Break 4 Love
77. FPI Project – Rich In Paradise
78. Hound Dogs – I Like Girls
79. Goldfrapp – Twist
80. Steps – Better The Devil You Know
81. Armand Van Helden – Touch Your Toes
82. Real Roxanne – Bang Zoom Let’s Go
83. Axwell – I Found You
84. Syntax – Pray
85. Bob Sinclar – I Feel For You
86. Kathy Brown – Turn Me Out
87. Candi Staton – You Got The Love
88. Toddy Terry – House Sermon
35. Girls Aloud – Girls On Film
36. Lionel Ritchie – All Night Long
37. Alibi vs Rockefeller – Sexual Healing
38. Micky Modelle – I’ll Get Over You
39. Goldfrapp – Oh La La
40. Kylie Minogue – Slow
41. The Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up
22. M – Pop Muzik
23. Massive Attack – Light My Fire
24. Sly And The Family Stone – I Wanna Take You Higher
25. Vanessa Williams – The Right Stuff
26. Peplab – Ride The Pony
27. Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock – It Takes Two
28. Gadjo – So Many Times
13. Velvet Underground – I’m Waiting For The Man
14. Sander Kleinenberg – The Fruit
15. Beyonce, Missy Elliot, MC Lyte – Fighting Temptations
16. Soho – Hippy Chick
17. Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl
18. Nelly Furtado – Promiscuous
19. Chad Jackson – Hear The Drummer Get Wicked
20. Playgroup – Number One
21. Christina Milian ft. Joe Budden – Whatever You Want
7. De La Soul – The Magic Number
8. Kylie Minogue – Better The Devil You Know
9. Basement Jaxx – Do Your Things
10. Tag Team – Whoop! There It Is
11. The Style Council – Promised Land
12. Tiga – Hot In Herre
1. U2 – Pop Muzik
2. The Cramps – Bikini Girls With Machine Guns
3. Cameo – Word Up
4. Duran Duran – Wld Boys
5. Justin Timberlake – SexyBack
6. The Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control
Well waddya know? We did find some more mixes, in fact I found a whole bunch of them, although some are quite long so I don’t know how may will be posted online – do you really want to download a file 100mb plus file?
Anyway, this is one of three R&B mixes that I found on a CD, so you can reasonably expect the other two parts to follow some time soon. On this mix are some of the usual suspects – PussyCat Dolls, Ciara, and the ubiquitous Girls Aloud. Another track not infrequently used is “Call My Name” by Charlotte Church. The first two singles from her ‘pop’ album (this one and ‘Crazy Chick’) were very solid pop efforts and I’m surprised that she hasn’t bothered following them up. Guess she’s too busy trying to carve out a career as a chat show host now, doubtless trying to keep her husband in hair product. Anyway, enjoy this live-vocalled Top of the Pops performance of “Call My Name”:
The Calico Sessions R&B 2222:
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Tracklisting:
1. Ciara – 1, 2, Step
2. Chaka Khan – I’m Every Woman
3. Charlotte Church – Call My Name
4. Justin Timberlake – Like I Love You
5. Mis-Teeq – Can’t Get It Back
6. C+C Music Factory – Things That Make You Go Hmmm
7. Cheryl Lynn – To Be Real
8. Stereo MCs – Step It Up
9. Pussy Cat Dolls – Don’t Cha
10. Michael Jackson – Bad
11. Dynamix II – Give The DJ A Break
12. Girls Aloud – Graffiti My Soul
This is the very last of the short mixes in The Calico Sessions series, unless others happen to turn up on some old CDs that I’ve forgotten about! Also, these aren’t technically mixed like the others are – this is more of a Radio 1, Chris Moyles-style mix, in that we raise the volume of one record whilst the other goes down! It’s because this is full of much slower records. I can’t remember doing the mix and for some reason I haven’t created a proper tracklisting, but there are tracks from (amongst others) Liberty X,Ciara, Kanye West, Wyclef Jean, Pharrel Williams and Gwen Stefani, and Mariah Carey. This video sees Mariah performing “It’s Like That“, “We Belong Together” and the track that’s featured on this mix, “Shake It Off” live on New Year’s Eve in Times Square:
So, we return at last to the R&B mixes in The Calico Sessions series. The R&B mixes generally feature faster mixing and less full tracks, which is how we manage to pack 12 tracks into just nineteen minutes. In contrast to almost every other mix that I’ve ever done, the tempo of this mix actually ends slower then the opening tempo. The final track on the mix is this track by Christina Aguilera from the album ‘Stripped’ – this is called “Get Mine Get Yours“:
And, just because I can and I think it’s another fantastic live performance of a terrific track, this is the live video (from the Mobo Awards) of “Sumthin’ Scandalous” by Mis-teeq, which is a remix of “Scandalous” and features extra vocals from Redman:
The Calico Sessions R&B 1924:
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Tracklisting:
1. Digital Underground – Doowutchyalike
2. Usher – Yeah
3. Amerie – 1 Thing
4. Notorious BIG – Hypnotize
5. Mis-teeq – Scandalous
6. Lumidee – Never Leave You
7. Beyonce – Naughty Girl
8. Beyonce – Baby Boy
9. Rihanna – Pon De Replay
10. Mariah Carey – We Belong Together
11. TLC – Waterfalls
12. Christina Aguilera – Get Mine Get Yours
I think it’s fair to say that everyone who messes around with their own bootlegs has a crack at Michael Jackson‘s classic “Billie Jean” at some point or another. There are some really good mixes of it out there, but for my purposes all I wanted was a version at a house tempo, an intro and outro long enough to mix with, and something that didn’t use The World’s Most Recognizable Bassline (TM).
I thought to myself, "this will look dull without some random image". So I typed 'random' into Google's image search and this was on the front page. Isn't it pretty? I have no idea what it is.
I had the Bushwacka’s version of “Billie Jean” on vinyl (which is up for sale is anyone wants it – buy it for £2500 and I’ll through in another 2499 records free!) but it’s far too long to use, the intro goes on for about quarter of an hour and then you get two minutes of the song tacked on as an afterthought.
So I created this mix for my own use, which is essentially the acapella with a chopped up version of Bobby Blanco & Miki Moto‘s “3AM” – itself practically a bootleg, as that makes liberal use of an old Todd Terry ‘House Sermon’ acapella. This is an early track, not created using Ableton so again the time-stretching and sync-ing can leave a little to be desired.
You can listen to the track using this audio player:
Ah, the pop mixes. Sometimes – especialy on a Friday night – the bar had a slightly older clientele and they preferred more records that they already knew, i.e. the contents of the Radio 1 and 2 playlists. Therefore I produced a couple of pop mixes for just such occasions.
Regular readers to the blog know that I have a bit of a pop music fetish. Currently it manifests itself in acts like Girls Aloud and The Saturdays; in days gone by the torch was held by bands such as Steps. Yes, I know it’s too terrible to comprehend, but there it is. Remember thought what I always say: a good pop record is like a good kebab – it should take about three minutes to get through, make your fingers sticky and leave you feeling both guilty and happy at the end. Steps did the pop thing extremeley well, and very, very briefly, so did some of the former Steps members in their solo careers:
The Calico Sessions R&B 1833:
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Tracklisting:
1. Gorillaz – Dare
2. Lisa Scott-Lee – Electric
3. Jem – They
4. Amerie – Touch
5. Les Rythmes Digitales – Jacques Your Body
Welcome to the new series of downloadable mix tapes, House Rules.
The Shenanigans mixtape series are starting to evolve a very “cut & paste” approach where only snippets of a particular record may be used, and there are lots of records crammed into one mix. House Rules takes the opposite approach, for people who like to hear the full record (me, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and I’m always bored by the end of the first chorus!).
I will be varying the styles and themes of these mixes. The only thing that they will have in common is that they will all be house music. The mix is split into four parts which will be published each Wednesday in November, so keep coming back for the full mix! FYI, the full mix tracklisting looks like this:
Part 1 (published Wednesday 5th November)
1. Solu Music ft. Kimberlee – Fade (Grant Nelson Big Room Vocal – Wez Clarke Re-edit)
2. The Saturdays – If This Is Love (Moto Blanco Club Mix)
3. The Ting Tings – Great DJ (7th Heaven Remix)
Part 2 (published Wednesday 12th November)
4. Jonestown – Sweet Thang
5. Freemasons ft. Katherine Ellis – When Yout Touch Me (Original Mix)
8. Martin Solveig – Rocking Music (Joey Negro Mix)
9. Booty Luv – Some Kinda Rush (26th Heaven Pure Joy Remix)
Part 4 (published Wednesday 26th November)
10. Masters At Work ft. India – Backfired (Joey Negro Mix)
11. Blaze ft. Barbara Tucker -Most Precious Love (Ian Carey Mix)
12. Asha – J. J. Tribute
As you know I like to accompany my posts with a music video, and House Rules will be exactly the same. Accompanying today’s final installment is the animated video for Blaze‘s “Most Precious Love“:
House Rules 01 – Part 3:
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10. Masters At Work ft. India – Backfired (Joey Negro Mix)
11. Blaze ft. Barbara Tucker -Most Precious Love (Ian Carey Mix)
This is the last dance mix in The Calico Sessions series, and I hope you’ve enjoyed them. This is also the longest mix at three quarters of an hour and has some terreific tracks in it, most notably “Say Hello” by Deep Dish which features the haunting vocals of Anousheh Khalili. She also did the vocals for the duo’s hit single “Flashdance“.
Anousheh Khalili
The Calico Sessions R&B 1833:
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Tracklisting:
1. Jamiroquai – Space Cowboy
2. Peyton – A Higher Place
3. Sandy B – Make The World Go Round
4. Tweet – Boogie Tonight
5. Danny Howells – Dusk Til Dawn
6. Gwen Stefani – What You Waiting For
7. Deep Dish – Say Hello
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Far bigger companies, organisations and governments have tried to take on Wikileaks and lost, so the chances of this tinpot little excuse for a racist rant succeeding are not very high.
Each entry on the list is quite detailed and contains details like profession, email address and other comments where necessary.
Welcome to the new series of downloadable mix tapes, House Rules.
The Shenanigans mixtape series are starting to evolve a very “cut & paste” approach where only snippets of a particular record may be used, and there are lots of records crammed into one mix. House Rules takes the opposite approach, for people who like to hear the full record (me, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and I’m always bored by the end of the first chorus!).
I will be varying the styles and themes of these mixes. The only thing that they will have in common is that they will all be house music. The mix is split into four parts which will be published each Wednesday in November, so keep coming back for the full mix! FYI, the full mix tracklisting looks like this:
Part 1 (published Wednesday 5th November)
1. Solu Music ft. Kimberlee – Fade (Grant Nelson Big Room Vocal – Wez Clarke Re-edit)
2. The Saturdays – If This Is Love (Moto Blanco Club Mix)
3. The Ting Tings – Great DJ (7th Heaven Remix)
Part 2 (published Wednesday 12th November)
4. Jonestown – Sweet Thang
5. Freemasons ft. Katherine Ellis – When Yout Touch Me (Original Mix)
8. Martin Solveig – Rocking Music (Joey Negro Mix)
9. Booty Luv – Some Kinda Rush (26th Heaven Pure Joy Remix)
Part 4 (published Wednesday 26th November)
10. Masters At Work ft. India – Backfired (Joey Negro Mix)
11. Blaze ft. Barbara Tucker -Most Precious Love (Ian Carey Mix)
12. Asha – J. J. Tribute
So, on with the first part! As you know I like to accompany my posts with a music video, and House Rules will be exactly the same. Accompanying today’s installment is Booty Luv‘s “Some Kinda Rush“. This is the first original composition released by the female duo, who are signed to Hed Kandi records:
House Rules 01 – Part 3:
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7. Deepgroove – Fascinated (Original Club Mix)
8. Martin Solveig – Rocking Music (Joey Negro Mix)
9. Booty Luv – Some Kinda Rush (7th Heaven Pure Joy Remix)
This track, “Curious“, was scheduled to be the second single from the album “State of Mind” by Holly Rachel Vukadinovi, better known to you and I as Holly Valance.
Holly Valance "State of Mind"
The first single from the album, the title track “State of Mind”, did moderately well in the the UK but the album went down like a porn star on overtime, spending only one week in the UK charts. As a result this single was cancelled, despite early promotional work such as this appearance on the Des and Mel Show:
I always thought it was a shame that the single was cancelled because this is a decent slice of electro-pop and probably better than the previous single. It was a little slow for general club use, so I increased the tempo and borrowed some effects from a single on Hed Kendi to extend both the intro and outro. It’s another early one so therefore not done using Ableton LIve, and I think at times you can tell where the cheaper software has trouble with the time-stretching effects.
You can listen to the track using this audio player:
The third dance mix in The Calico Sessions series is one of the longer ones, coming in at 32 minutes 57 seconds. It contains one of the most popular dance tracks of the last decade, Michael Gray‘s “The Weekend“:
The Calico Sessions Dance 3257:
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Tracklisting:
1. Jupiter Ace – 1000 Years
2. Robbie Rivera vs. Jesus Jones – Right Here Right Now
3. DONS ft. Technotronic – Pump Up The Jam
4. CSSK vs. Howard Jones – Things Can Only Get Better
5. Mirabeau – Back From Outta Space
6. Mylo – In My Arms
7. Michael Gray – The Weekend
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