"It's all about evolving..."

August 23rd saw the release of the long-awaited Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned album from The Prodigy. It also saw a team of bootleggers release their cheeky re-working Always Outsiders, Never Outdone. Following Liam Howlett's comments in an interview with DJ Magazine, the group have helped the new album evolve that little bit further, with remixes, mash-ups and bootlegs of the tracks available from the Prodigy Remixed site. They are available for download as individual tracks, or as a Bittorrent file, and are also doing the rounds on all good p2p networks. Once again, you are asked that if you download and enjoy the album to make a donation to one of the project's chosen charities.

Whilst this remix album is not the first of its kind - it follows the lead of the controversial Grey Album, and other GYBO projects London Booted and Parkspliced - the fact that it shares its release date with the original album highlights how advance copies of the album have been available online for months. If record companies want to reduce piracy, surely reducing the amount of promotional copies sent to all and sundry would be a sensible step!

All the tracks are superbly produced; my personal highlights include Pop Razor's Phoneus (it's just so cheeky!) and Dunproofin's Jungle Bells. It is, however, superb in its entirety.

The popularity of Always Outsiders, Never Outdone has been overwhelming, listen to it now before it implodes under its own might!

www.ProdigyRemixed.com

I know you got soul

Soul Sides

thanks to Dj Scenius for passing on that great link. You can find him at Search and Delete

This is a cracking mp3 blog of soul tunes. This to me typifies one of the great things about music on the internet. I am being given the opportunity to hear new music, to broaden my musical horizons and explore different styles, genres and artists than those I would buy or hear on mainstream radio.

Surely fostering such an interest in musical consumers is a good thing for the record industry, but it would seem once again that it is not seen that way. People who download music from the internet are now seen to be responsible for pirating car parts, which can obviously lead to road accidents and death. This strikes me as propaganda of an Orwellian proportion. If I could afford on my student loan to purchase all the music I love, I would. No question. But when CDs are anything from £11 to £18, I cannot justify such an expense. That money would put petrol in my car or food in my belly. Would it be purile here to accuse the record companies and distributers of being the real criminals? Probably. The artists get screwed, the listeners get screwed, and talents get smothered or ignored in favour of the blandness that sells. And the prices are jacked up on music that appeals to niche markets in order to generate a sizeable return.

This would be the point in a manifesto where I would suggest a solution. "Boycott the Music Industry!" I think we would all just be cutting our noses off to spite our faces.

...and I can do it, in the mix...

Undomesticated Urban Princess' bootleg Tainted Soul has recently been used as the opening track in a 54 minute mix on the Pitch Shift show on Australia's 2MBSfm. The Pitch Shift show is part of the Contemporary Music Collective project, which specialises in "non-mainstream contemporary musics". So I'm pretty chuffed about getting airplay!

Here is the tracklisting for the mix:

1. Lsd23 + House of 1000 Corpses + Winx + Kung Fu Fighting
2. Undomesticated Urban Princess and DJC Boast - Tainted Soul (yes, cranked for effekt)
3. Eric 'Noel Coward' Idle + Queen vs Gadget - Mikenzo Mashup
4. Busta Rhymes vs Harold Faltermeyer - Mikenzo mashup
5. Pass the Devil - INXS vs Musical Youth - bangers N mash
6. The F-Word - (um... HDD, who's da man?)
7. beyonce rockin' beats - boot106 (welcome back friendz!)
8. GHP - Notorious Trick
9. Lumpy - Walk That Sponge + Bring the Humanoid
10. Mixamatosis - Ch-ch-chime it out!
11. Twiztid n palz + Without Eskimos N Egypt - Spiny Norman (Last MnM boot ever, thankq)
12. Bottle of Gin - The Pubert Brown Fridge Occurence + MYLO
13. Meet the G that Killed Me - Public Enemy
14. Seriously Slow (incl Kylie) - Pojmasta
15. deelite - mindmelt
16. RUN DMC - P upon a Tree (fave skit) + Steinski's Airwaves
17. Bitch - Slim Shady - plus Personallity (from Lumpy?)
18. GHP - Who Fooled Kylie?
19. and for fin (but not least) TBL's old gold mod! Wunderfull Wurld


Also, why not visit the DJ's site Marty Batfreak or join Boots n Remixes for discussions on all things related to bootlegs.

Funky, Funky Beat

Ingredients:

K Jee - MFSB (Instrumental)
Breathe and Stop - Q Tip (pella)
Next Episode - Snoop Dogg and Dre (pella)
Don't Stop Movin (vocoder parts) - S Club 7 (pella)

256k bitrate, 3m33s, 6.5Mb download

Undomesticated Urban Princess - K Jee's Club (Funky Beat)

This track was made for the Rap Battles Challenge over at BootyPop, a bootleg and mash up forum run by BushNo10. It's a bit of summery disco-style fun, and I hope you enjoy it!

Stick it up your yeah yeah yeah!!!

All hail before Richard Cheese, purveyor of chart hits in a lounge style. Don't look at me like that, it's really funny! His delivery is spot on to give a fun packed piss take of songs like Rage Against the Machine's Guerilla Radio, Coldplay's Yellow and Madonna's Material Girl. His albums can't but bring a smile to your face.. so get yourself a copy of Tuxicity, I'd Like a Virgin or Lounge Against the Machine today, put on your dinner jacket, pour yourself a cocktail, sit back and get ready to lounge. Yeah!

www.iloverichardcheese.com


Cheers to Timbearcub of Instamatic for the pointer towards Dick.. whilst waiting for your download to complete your musical retailer of choice to ship your goods, why not have a look at Tim's very tasty website, and find out about the Boot in 60 Seconds project.