Michael Jackson “Billie Jean (The Ad Fundum 3AM Bootleg)”

December 1, 2008

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.

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