Shannon'Minuit Music'This one takes the datA remix of Tepr's 'Minuit Jacuzzi,' a track that already seemed to reference '80s freestyle, and makes that a little more obvious. I actually had to completely reconstruct the Tepr track to make this happen, it sounds pretty easy but it wasn't, I promise.The Chemical Brothers - 'Star Guitar' (Party Ben's a Big Bright Shining Star Remix)Chemical Brothers vs. Ludacris 'Star Guitar Stand Up'The first version was created for fellow mashup DJ Electrosound's Chemical Brothers bootleg tribute album, and when he asked me I'd already had an idea rolling around my head for a remix that elucidated the Baltimore beat that kind of bubbles under in 'Star Guitar' so I was happy to have a deadline to whip me into shape. So, first I made the (mostly) instrumental version which I handed off to the project, which does a lot of repurposing individual sounds from 'Star Guitar,' and then I thought 'hey this could use some Ludacris in order to qualify as a mashup to play at Bootie' so I threw 'Stand Up' over it. Whee!Modern Talking vs.
Gnarls Barkley'Crazy (If You Want)'Part of the Party Ben Gettin' Euros Tour 2007 Experience!So in an attempt to ingratiate myself with the many nations of the EU, I tried to put together something appropriate for each location on the tour: 'Polska Boys' for Poland (see below), a 'Boulevard' mix with MC Solaar for France, and this ridiculous thing for Germany. Not familiar with Modern Talking? They're only the, and it turns out 'You Can Win If You Want' is basically the same exact chord pattern as 'Crazy.'
I played it at Bootie Munich expecting a rousing ovation, but amusingly enough it was a total disaster and almost killed the floor entirely, and I've never played it since, but it makes me laugh. Gary Glitter'Polska Boyz'Part of the Party Ben Gettin' Euros Tour 2007 Experience!Kult are a legendary Polish rock combo, and their song 'Polska' is from 1992, so it's understandable that its refrain of 'Poland, we live in Poland' is probably not without a bitter edge. Come to think of it, it may be nothing but bitter edge, with a kind of stoic pride deep inside the bitterness in that way Eastern Europeans do so well.
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Sure, this mashup is a slapdash affair, thrown together in desperation to have something Polish to play for crowds in Warsaw and Krakow. But I find the contrast with M.I.A.' S vocals rather amusing - like she's asking, how many boys are in Poland - and it also came in handy during a set in Warsaw the night the Polish soccer team made it into the finals for the first time like ever. Poland!Amy Winehouse vs. Four Tops'Rehab (Can't Help Myself)'Bootie Traxx Volume 21. Faithless vs.
Steve Miller Band - 'Don't Go (Insomnia Airlines)'An early version of this (using Ce Ce Peniston's 'Finally' instead of Yaz) made its first appearance during a headlining set at the club in January, 2007, but this one is a little better.2. E-40 'Need U to Go'Also made for that set but I still actually play this sometimes.3.
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Junior Boys vs. Rod Stewart - '(Do Ya) Think I'm Sexy (In the Morning)'Was never that happy with the production on this, but a few intrepid Bootie fans have inquired about it.4.
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D4L - 'Deceptataffy'A bit of an inside joke between me and my Bootie co-DJs A+D, who claimed to be a bit baffled by my 2005 mashup 'Wipeout Taffy,' so I took an instrumental backing they'd made their own, Le Tigre's 'Deceptacon' (which they'd used in a well-known mashup with Missy Elliott), and taffied that shit up a bit. Anyway, guess you had to be there, when in jokes I thought were worthy of a single spin just so my co-DJs would laugh for a few seconds became things people asked me to download.M.I.A. Kate Bush 'Dreaming of Boyz'H ey, Boyz is in 6/8 time, and so is that good old Kate Bush song 'The Dreaming,' so why not play them at the same time?Jose Gonzalez vs.
Cirez D'Killing For Love (Remix)'This was m y attempt at a 'remix' of the Jose Gonzalez track, 'Killing For Love.' This uses beats from a Cirez D electro track called 'Horizons.' There's actually some original Party Ben bleeps and bloops in it as well.The Police vs. Snow Patrol'Every Car You Chase (The Snow Police)' (2007)Back in 2007, I couldn't decide which was a better name, 'Snow Police' or 'Every Car You Chase,' so I used both. The original version of this mashup uses only the publicly available single versions of both songs (no acapellas, just careful editing). I say this because I've probably been asked, in varying degrees of politeness, for the instrumental or acapella of either song 1000 times over the years. Didn't have 'em!
Just worked hard, you lazy kids!Ironically enough, in 2011, when Sony Pictures came calling to recreate the mashup in cimena quality for the Sandler film 'Just Go With It,' they did indeed track me down full original stems of 'Breath' and instrumental + acapella of 'Cars,' but that super clean mix can only be heard in the movie and I can't make it available for download.Rihanna vs. General Public'Tender Umbrella'I was dismissive of this when I first made it in 2007, mostly because the DIY acapella I used of 'Umbrella' has sound quality issues, but nobody seemed to mind. It sort of took off and eventually made it to Dave Wakeling's ears, who and later, to the ears of Adam Sandler, who as the second of my mashups to be used in the 2011 film 'Just Go With It.' Like 'Every Car,' I recreated the mashup in cinema-quality (?!) sound using some officially-sanctioned stems, but also like 'Every Car,' this cleaned up version can only be heard in the movie-I can't make it availble for download without violating scary Sony contracts (although I doubt they care any more). It was actually used in many of the 'Just Go With It' TV commercials starting in November of 2010; buy me a drink sometime and I'll tell you all about meeting that deadline and where I actually found a copy of the 'Tenderness' extended remix when the record label themselves couldn't track it down in time.Chemical Brothers vs. John Williams'Galvanize the Empire' (2007)Original Version:Slightly Shorter Edit:I'd been playing Z-Trip's 'Empire Strikes Back' mix out and about, so that sort of inspired this.
It of course took me like 10 months after the release of 'Galvanize' to realize the 'Empire' theme was in the same key, which is sad because 'Galvanize' came out right around the same time as Episode III and I could totally have syngergized this mix into cross-promotional proto-viral pop-cultural social media dominance. Was there a Facebook in 2007?Mylo (Etienne de Crecy remix) vs. Tegan & Sara'Walking With a Ghost in Paris (2007 Remix)'I produced the original mashup of Tegan & Sara with Mylo back in 2005., it got played on the a whole bunch. Two years later I heard this amazing remix of 'Paris' done by Etienne de Crecy, and when I finally tracked that down, I redid the whole mashup using that. For better or for worse, his remix is actually pitched up from the original, which was itself already a few steps higher than Tegan & Sara, so now their voices are way up in chipmunk land, but, I couldn't stop myselfLyrics Born vs. Average White Band'Callin' Up the Pieces'How much can I milk 'Callin' Out'?
Well, since I was kind of responsible for getting the brilliant Lyrics Born's 'Callin' Out' added to LIVE 105 rotation (where it eventually went to #1), I guess I felt a certain attachment to the song, and like so much of my work, the continual retread felt humorous to me, I guess a lot of that comedy is lost nowadays.Bonde do Role vs. New Order vs. Spank Rock'Confused Tobaco Bump'Felt like playing 'Melo do Tobaco' at Bootie and that required putting something else over the top of it right? Although of course 'Melo do Tobaco' is basically a mashup of 'Man in the Box' over a beat from Peaches, so it's already kind of a mashup, so who knows what's going on here.Michael Jackson vs. Nelly Furtado'Promiscuous With You'After a few tries at marrying something to the Promiscuous a capella I finally found something that worked.The Wiseguys vs. Olivia Newton John & John Travolta'Ooh La La Summer Nights'Funny how things work out. I considered this a total joke back in 2006 when I made it, but it turned into one of the tracks I ended up playing out the most for many years, and probably has gotten the crowd going more often, in more diverse locales, than just about anything else I've ever made.
People love 'Grease,' I guess.Gnarls Barkley vs. Donna Summer'I Feel Crazy'This uses as a jumping-off point and basically just layers the synth loop from Ms. Summer's legendary little number over the whole thing. I know there's like 500 'Crazy' boots out there but my excuse is this was part of a mix I did for XFM so it's not like a real mashup or anything. Deep Purple'Hella Dare You to Smoke'Something silly I made for Bootie that people ended up asking about enough for me to overcome my shame and post it here. More importantly, the PC paint cover was funny to me at the time.Yeah Yeah Yeahs vs.
Green Day vs. Love & Rockets vs. Samantha Fox'Golden Boulevard'This operates first of all as sort of a dub mix of Boulevard of Broken Songs, and was really just a goofy part of a Sixx Mixx, but then I sort of liked how it all came together, so here it is.John Denver'Thank God I'm a Country Boy (Party Ben's City Boy Remix)'Made specially for a local nightclub's totally silly Country vs. Electro theme night, but turned into one of my most requested tracks. Video version features added Snoop!Death Cab for Maddy'Hung Up on Soul'Hung Up on Soul' Minus Maddy remix:Wanted to make a Death Cab remix; got distracted by Madonna. Then made the originally intended version without any Madonna vocals. First track of mine where a fan-made video turned up.The Surfaris vs.
D4L'Wipeout Taffy'Possibly the most hated mashup in Party Ben mashing-up history. It was one of the first things I released after the D-level fame of Dean Gray. Can you say, 'self-sabotage'?The White Stripes vs. Eric B & Rakim'Pump Up the Doorbell'There were quite a few quality 'Doorbell' mashups out by the time I did mine, but I feel like since I looped the Pump Up the Volume rhythm over the whole thing, mine was maybe a bit more dancefloor friendly. (Plus, another made-at-work PC Paint cover!)Dean GrayAmerican Edit (2005)Produced with the artist formerly known as and now known as.Read more about it.
Or, um,Coldplay vs. Kraftwerk'Computer Talk'If this pointless combo got one person to buy Kraftwerk's Computer World, it was worth it.Nine Inch Nails / Queens of the Stone Age'Insane, Medicated Hand'Two QOTSA album tracks ('Medication,' 'Everybody Knows That You Are Insane') in unholy union with Trent's ubiquitous vocal from 'The Hand that Feeds,' this made in tribute to a tour the two bands did together. As far as I know they never cuddled tenderly as pictured on the cover, but my photoshop fantasies are almost as satisfying.Gorillazvs. Cake'Never Feel Good'Back in the LIVE 105 days I received piles of suggestions for mashups, and despite appreciating every single e-mail, these suggestions are generally very annoying. First, people typically have just thought of a funny title, and have no regard for any potential musical mixing, and moreover the whole thing feels kind of disrespectful, I mean, I know mashups are silly but do you yell at your favorite bands to play 'Freebird'?
Oh, I guess you do. Anyway, this idea did indeed come from a LIVE 105 listener and intrigued me enough to try it. The sound quality is terrible to my ears, since there was no Cake acapella and I was forced to just, like, turn down the bass, but here it is, and people still ask about it.Tegan & Sara vs. Mylo'Walking with a Ghost in Paris'One day I noticed the Tegan & Sara track we were playing at LIVE 105 had the same chord pattern as Mylo's 'Paris Four Hundred,' so I put them together. Surprisingly, it turned into one of my biggest hits ever, getting airplay around the world and ending up in the.
Tegan & Sara themselves came into the station a few times and were aware of the remix; they were incredibly nice, but apparently they had divergent opinions about the mashup, so despite its success, the possibility of an official release never got off the ground. Their label did, however, from what I understand, offer promo copies to dance and Top 40 stations, encouraged by the success at C89.5.
Of course, T&S have gone on to work with tons of dance producers since then.THESOMEBODY KILL ME EPClashvs. Killers'Somebody Rock Me'Adamski vs. Killers'Somebody Kill Me'Led Zeppellin vs. Snoop Dogg'Drop It Like It's a Whole Lotta Love'This is the first version from 2004. Honestly, this was a pretty cynical move, making this, since I hadn't done any rock-vs-rap things and that whole mashup style was getting a lot of attention at the time. I think my disinterest shows in the sloppy production, but after it got lots of attention, I forced myself to revisit it in 2008 and that newer version (above) is tolerable.
Franz Ferdinand vs. Beastie Boys'ChicFranzie Boys'Onceupon a Sixx Mixx, in June, 2004, I threw together Franz Ferdinand's 'TakeMe Out' and the Beasties' 'Triple Trouble.' 'Funny,'I thought, 'they're like in the same key and stuff.' About a month later, genius bootlegger and Friendof Bootie (TM) announcedhis latest mashup item:! Now, of course Mr. Sleazy came up with the idea on his own, but it was kind of funny, so later when I did my own Beastie mix with Chic, I snuck Franz Ferdinand in there and gave it a name that was a nod to his original version (and stole his cover).
Love ya Sleazy!U2vs. Way Out West'Vertigo' (Breaks Mix)Another one of those 'Don't Own a Drum Machine Or Have the Individual Tracks from This Song But Would Really Like To Do A Remix So I'll Just Steal This Instrumental Dance Track from Way Out West and Put A Lot of Echo On the Original and Call It Good Or At Least Mediocre' things I do.Got two airings on BBC Radio 1's Essential Selection!!Blur vs.
Kasabian'There's No Other LSF'Green Day vs. Aerosmith'Boulevard of Broken Songs' (Version 2 Remaster) (2005?)This is the second version, but I prefer it, since it's what I wanted to make in the first place.
Its first appearance was on but I can't remember exactly when I made it, I'm pretty sure it must have been 2005. Bit of trivia, this actually uses two versions of 'Dream On,' the original album version and a live performance with the supremely hokey extend-o ending followed by stadium cheers.Green Day vs. Eminem'Boulevard of Broken Songs' (Version 1 Remaster) (2004)I made the first version of 'Boulevard' as the finale of my LIVE 105 Sixx Mixx show on October 1st, 2004.
The idea of using Aerosmith's 'Dream On' for the end came to me within the last few minutes before the show's 6:00pm air time, but we had no Aerosmith CD in the studio, and it wasn't on iTunes at the time (this was back before you could just download anything whenever, kids). But I suddenly remembered Eminem's 'Sing (For the Moment)' had sampled 'Dream On,' and that was in the studio, so I used that instead. My original intention was to use Aerosmith, though, so I eventually made a different version using that. (See above).Eminemvs. Stereo MCs vs Eagles'Just Lose My Mind (One of These Nights)'Incudoubt(Plus Devo!!!)'Hellamaniac'Faithless vs.
Bush'Mass Destruction' I made quite a few versions of this for the LIVE 105 Sixx Mixx leading up to the 2004 elections (those seemed like the darkest of dark days, but hey, little did we know), using various speeches by President Bush and even a little Cheney sometimes. They're all pretty dated now but at the time, it felt like we were doing something pretty cool and edgy or whatever.U2vs. Lyrics Born'Callin' on Sunday' 2005 BFD RemixThe phenomenalEast Bay hip-hop genius and all-around nice guy got the Party Ben (mis)treatment with 'Sunday Bloody Sunday.' I had actually brought 'Callin Out' to LIVE 105 (editing together my own radio edit before I tracked one down) and its unexpected popularity was possibly assisted by varying the original with this mashup on the radio.LaidBack vs.
Get Laid with Khia,' or maybe 'Ride 'em, Giuliani!' Or, um, 'Me and Khia on a Horse.' An odd bit of nonsense that didn't really go anywhere but reappeared in multiple different versions throughout the years as I continued mixing Khia and Laid Back with various other tracks.Fugazivs. Destiny's Child'Independent Room'Idon't understand why there aren't more 'Waiting Room' boots- the damn thing's got like 2 full minutes of instrumental sections, it'sexactly at hip-hop speed, and it's a freakin' classic.
Apparently got the approval of Fugazi's Ian MacKaye, according to a Washington Post reporter.Daft Punk vs. QueenAnother One Bites Da FunkEverybody says Freddie Mercury sounds all chipmunky in this, but what was I supposed to do, slow down the Daft Punk?
THE KEEP STUFF ALIVE EP'KeepDean Alive' (featuring Howard Dean)'KeepHung Alive' (featuring William Hung)'Keep Janet Alive' (featuring Janet Jackson)'Keep Stern Alive' (featuring Howard Stern and more) A running joke back in 2004, and very much a part of the current-events-referencing work I was doing for the Sixx Mixx.At the moment Howard Dean's infamous 'scream' speech went viral, it occured to me how hilarious it would be to replace the inspiring Jesse Jackson speech overlaying the Crystal Method's 'Keep Hope Alive' with Dean's raspy hollering. It was a bit of trickery editing the original to 'remove' Jackson (I never had an instrumental and just stiched together instrumental sections).While there were perhaps hundreds of 'remixes' of the Dean speech, mine became a bit of a viral hit, and even inspired a news piece on Bay Area Fox affiliate KTVU. The station's political reporter Brian Banmiller came to interview me, and I remember at one point being so nervous that the stopped rolling and advised me to 'stop moving my head back and forth so much.' I'm a radio guy!Anyway, it turned out that once you've made an instrumental of 'Keep Hope Alive,' you can just sort of put any speech over the top of it, add some echo, and you've got a pseudo-dramatic comedy gem. So I kept doing it, for the funny, whenever an amusing new bit of spoken word audio would hit the news. This included a terrible version using brief viral American Idol sensation William Hung as well as post-Nipplegate Janet Jackson.
The version I made using Howard Stern's voice (during his controversial final year on terrestrial radio) got a spin on the actual Howard Stern Show after WXRK electronic show host Liquid Todd gave it to them, but Howard sort of misunderstood the situation, demanding to know how much money the Crystal Method was making from selling a song that used his voice. I of course have continued to be a huge Stern fan and was just giddy to have my song played (briefly), although they never said my name or anything. Punx'God Put A Smile Upon My Face' (Ben X Parties On Your Face Mix)Produced this especially for an episode of LIVE 105's electronic show Subsonic, but couldn't think of a name for it. So we opened the phone lines to take suggestions, and this was the best one.Outkastvs.
Party Ben'Ben Ya'Inspiredby Adam Freeland's brilliant dub-style reworking of Nirvana, 'SmellsLike Freeland,' this is a complete complete de- and re-construction of 'Hey Ya' (complete with title that incorporates my name as a tribute). Similarly to Freeland's mix, this uses nothing but sounds from the original song, although often altered significantly.
My biggest innovation here is probably turning the chorus into straight 4/4 time at the end (i.e. Removing the quick 2/4 measure that gives the original some quirky charm). It all turns out tohave a kind of retro-jump-up-jungle kind of feel. In general one of my favorite things I've ever made, it was a very time-consuming piece of work, and yet seemed to maintain a sort of integrity throughout the process. Got zero attention.Eminemvs. Party Ben'Without Me' (Nobody Listens To Techno Mix)Featuring beats from songs byOne Up Front, Plump DJs and Moby, made in 2001.
This turned into a crazy phenomenon when it was put into regular rotation on LIVE 105, and was my first taste of local 'viral' fame. Of course, this was before I even had a web site, and I spent hours burning CDs of the track and mailing them to fans who e-mailed me at the station, and later, spent lots of money on pressing promo 12' singles so I could actually play it out - this was before CDJs were standard for DJ booths.
I made an attempt to post it to the famous bootleg forum GYBO where it was savaged without mercy, but I promise it was a thing for a few months.Jurassic5 vs. Party Ben'What's Tricky'FeaturingHigh Contrast & Run DMCTheRoots'The Seed 3.0' (Party Ben remix)Featuringthe beats from Lee Coombs' remix of New Order's 'Crystal,' and some other stuffI can't remember.FatboySlim vs. Rolling Stones & stuff'Satisfaction Skank' (Party Ben's version of Fatboy Slim's)So here's the story. The year is 1999. I read in NME about Fatboy Slim playing a special version of 'Rockafella Skank' in his DJ sets that was mixed with the Rolling Stones; he was calling it 'Satisfaction Skank.'
'Cool,' I thought, 'but I'll probably never track down a copy of that.' (This was before the internet, folks!) We had prototype digital audio editing software at LIVE 105, the radio station I was doing part-time production at, so I decided to use it to try and make my own 'Satisfaction Skank,' to play out, having never even heard Fatboy Slim's. To my surprise, the station ended up putting my version into rotation, and popscene emprisario Aaron Axelsen played the hell out of it.Of course, when I finally got a web site, I posted it, but I suppose I wasn't clear about its genesis, and some overzealous mashup types accused me of 'stealing' it. Which I suppose I did.
It's a senstive point for the bootleggers, I mean, I have seen people taking credit for my stuff all over the place, and in the absence of any financial renumeration, actual credit becomes more valuable to the amateur producer. I guess I had felt like my 'Satisfaction Skank' took on a life of its own in the Bay Area, so here it is, with the caveat that I promise I never intended to take credit for the idea. What's amusing is that when I finally heard Fatboy's own mix, years later, it was very different, slowed down to fit 'Satisfaction,' rather than sped up like mine to stay at 'Skank' tempo.Incidentally, the editing software I used for this was called 'Session 8'and it lived on on an old PC at LIVE 105 - it was called 'Session 8' because it featured a grand total of 8 audio tracks to play with. It turned out to be the only computerI know of in the world that was an actual casualty of the 'Y2K' issue,for real. The LIVE 105 engineers took a look at it, said it was a piece of junk and couldn't be salvaged, and with no compatible software available to which I could transfer thetracks and session, all the original files were lost on Dec. 31st,1999.TheHives vs.
The Prodigy'Hate To Smack My Bitch Up' (Party Ben poorly executed mashup)From a suggestion by Aaron Axelsen, Popscene DJ and LIVE 105 guy. Went through a couple revisions and never quite came together althoughthe kids at Popscene were known to shout 'Smack my bitch up' during The Hives since Aaron played it all the time.