TOO LATE TO FLUXOGISE...

It was almost worth doing this just for the dumb picture I ended up creating!
Well, this one is long overdue. It must have been a year ago that NME gave away a free Bloc Party CD complete with a U-MYX version of 'Flux' where you can mute or solo each element of a song (they call it 'remixing' but it ain't REALLY, not what you and I would call remixing. Great for this kinda thing though).
So I'm listening to this track over and over, trying to find something that might go with the BP acapella and I got nuttin - brain is dry. Meanwhile, Xmas 07 is looming and 'Apologize' is getting heavy radio play. I must be hearing it four or five times a day at work. Now I can't even say I LIKE the song but eventually it becomes like wallpaper and the two songs start merging in my head (coz that's how my brain works now) and it becomes clear, like it or not, this HAS to be done! But I can only find a crappy karaoke instrumental and it's the Onerepublic version anyway, not Timbaland's which kinda defeats the object.
Give up.
Another one on the scrapheap.

Fast forward to this weekend: I'm digging around the hard drive, going through all my half-finished shit and there it is... "Fluxogise". In one Sunday afternoon, I managed to grab the proper instrumental from the promo CD AND a DIY acapella - I'm as happy as a dog with two dicks!
So I ended up with two versions...

'FLUXOGISE (Bloc Party over Timbaland's beats)
To be honest, I prefer this one coz that's what I could hear in my head.

'APOLOFLUX' (Onerepublic whining all over Bloc Party)
I mean, this one's alright but the DIY pella leaves it lacking something.
What do you think, kids?
Answers on a postcard please...

HAPPY NEW YEAR??!!??

I can't BELIEVE it's been nearly four months since I posted anything on here. That is DISGUSTING behaviour!! Well, I'm sorry but I HAVE been busy and I now have around a dozen half-finished mash-ups and ideas for things (honest!) that will be posted here very soon.
In the mean time, a very clever guy calling himself VJ Brewski has made a video for my Paul Young / Nelly Furtado thing!
The two visuals do work well together in a strange sort-of way, although you can't ignore the fact that the Furtado vid must have cost a thousand times the budget of the Paul Young promo. But at least Paul's tells a little story and he gets to do some acting, not just fanny about in front of a helicopter...

COME BACK AND SAY IT RIGHT

I'd been looking for a 12" version of Paul Young's "Come Back And Stay" since I first heard "Say It Right" and eventually found a copy in one of Notting Hill's second-hand establishments, for the gargantuan sum of 10p!

That's right, TEN WHOLE PENCE!!


I can't think of a single thing that costs 10p, not even nasty little cheapo sweets! There's not a scratch on it either!
The downside, however, is it's awful.

I was hoping there would be some nice instrumental sections or maybe a few Pino Palladino licks but this is one of those 1983 extended-remix-for-the-sake-of-it type things: horrible out-of-time delay on the snares, some nasty farty bass sound and any empty parts are filled with s-s-s-sampled vocal snippets by the backing singers (who were called 'The Fabulous Wealthy Tarts' - what's THAT all about?).

Now, I could probably use some of these sections but they're technically so badly done, you might think it was ME and I can't have that! The addition of a little breakbeat helps move things along a little and here's the finished result:
Download here