went on a bootleg hunt on sunday night. been a while since i’d had some new ‘bastard pop’ and i was keen to see how the scene had moved on in the last few months. so here’s what i found, mostly all of which is from the uk :::
JOOLS the j-lo end theory [site]
it’s no secret, i hate j-lo with a passion, but this is probably the only piece of music i’ve heard where i can actually bear to listen to her. porbably because this is a mix of j-lo, dj shadow and chris isaak – done to great effect. jools, i salute you – actually making j-lo palatable!
ZIMEN pump up the rapture [site]
apparently this is only zimen‘s 2nd bootleg, which makes the results even more amazing – a tight beat-for-beat splicing of ‘house of jealous lovers’ with MARRS‘ ‘pump up the volume’. probably my favourite boot for a while and destined to find its way into one of my dj sets before long.
LIONEL l.s.f. (lionel’s galang re-edit) [site]
this is a mix which (i believe) mainly features an artist called kasabian – never heard of them, living down under it’s maybe not suprising. lionel however drops in MIA‘s ‘galang’ plus some of franz ferdinand‘s ‘take me out’ and comes out the other end with a downtempo killer that is truly top notch. for the ipod, not the dancefloor.
MCSLEAZY she wants to move (mcsleazy remix) [site]
great little electronic workout of the NERD modern-day classic. there are so many boots and even official remixes of this track (see also anything by kelis…) that it’s hard to differentiate between the good and the bad. mcsleazy however drops a mix that’s worthy of featuring on an official release and even trumps some of those put out by the band themselves (witness the DFA mix, not the duo’s best mix…)
POJ greatest trickster [site]
poj has been on my ‘must visit’ list for a while, i’ve loved his fucked up glitch versions of top ten commercial tunes (see his great mix of ‘crazy in love’ by way of example). this track marries kelis(surprise, surprise…) with sister sledge. yes, so kelis is overused in bootlegs, but by turning ‘trick me’ into a disco track, poj has carried it off with class and panache! who’d have thought it 🙂
XEROX tipsy kids [site]
finally, something a little less serious (if possible) – xerox take j-kwon‘s ‘tipsy’ and do the obvious thing, so obvious in fact that no-one else thought to do it – which is why this a little piece of genius. yup, add queen‘s ‘we will rock you’ to j-kwon’s handclaps and throw in ‘kids will rock you’ too … kindergarten kids singing queen, backed by j-kwon … welcome to the new century of music 🙂