Shenanigans 03 Parts 5 and 6

October 31, 2008

A bumper post of downloadable music and videos for you this Halloween! I decided to post the final two parts of the Shenanigans 03 mixtape together and start a brand new mix for the new month.

Part 5

Part 5 brings together artists as diverse as Terrorvision, The Three Amigos, Cornershop, Bodyrox and Girls Aloud. The Three Amigos track is their cover version of “Louie Louie“, mixed by The Wiseguys and sounds a lot like The Wiseguys own track “Ooh La La”. The Girls Aloud track is “Swinging London Town“, an album track taken from “Chemistry”, and one that showcases the band’s willingness to try something different and far less commercial within the confines of an album. There’s a track like it on every album and they often turn out to be my favourite. “Graffiti My Soul” from the album “What Will The Neighbours Say?” is another example:

When you download Shenanigans 03, please note that it comes in iPod friendly m4a format, not mp3 as the other mixtapes have been.

Shenanigans 03 – Part 5:

Format: m4a

Size: 12.9Mb

Bodyrox – Yeah
Cornershop – Brimful Of Asha
Terrorvision – Tequila
The Three Amigos – Louie Louie
Girls Aloud – Swinging London Town

Tracklisting:

Click here to download “Shenanigans 03 Part 5″

Part 6

Part 6 contains one of my favourite parts from any of the Shenanigans series. The ending starts to get quite fast, as far the BPM is concerned. The first of the final trio of records is the brilliant “Superstylin’” by Groove Armada, which always used to get an amazing reception in the old days of The Inspiration in Chesterfield of a Saturday night. This video is of the band’s performance at Glastonbury:

Halfway through that, the mentalness that is Leftfield’s “Phat Planet” comes in. Rich Turner and I once went to see Leftfield live at Sheffield Octagon, and it was fantastic! “Paht Planet” was the last track that they played, as an encore. It was so dark that you couldn’t see the band come back on, and at first you couldn’t hear anything either. Then this really weird thing started happening – my adam’s apple started to vibrate, it was the most bizarre feeling ever. As far as I can tell, the band had already started playing “Phat Planet” but the frequency of the bassline was so low that at first you could only feel it, not hear it. Then I guess they must have raised the frequency and eventually you could hear it, and then the drums kick in and MC Top Cat starts toasting, everyone takes their tops off and it all gets a bit sweaty and dirty. This video, of Leftfield performing live at a festival in Brazil, will hopefully give you some idea:

So, back to the mix. Halfway through the track, I decided it needed something to give it a bit of an edge, so I looped the intro guitar riff from The Kinks‘ “You Really Got Me” over and over with “Phat Planet” still in the background, and they go amazingly well together! Eventually I bring the vocals in too and let The Kinks’ play out to the end of the CD. That’s all the excuse I needed for some live footage of the band doing “You Really Got Me” and “Tired Of Waiting For You” at the NME Award Winners’ Poll in 19656 – introduced by the terribly mad and clearly whizzing-off-his-tits Jimmy Saville: