Deadmau5
Periodically posting music news. *Now featuring Progressive House Music.*

In 2004, Steve reached a new generation of music fans when DJ Eric Prydz sampled his 1982 classic Valerie for dance hit, Call On Me.
"I re-recorded the vocal specially and sent it to him by email. I've still never met him," said Steve. "I couldn't believe it when it got to No. 1."
Swedish DJ and producer Eric Prydz releases singles and EPs under a variety of project names, including Pryda, Cirez D, Sheridan, Dirty Funker, Moo, A and P Project, Axer, Hardform, Dukes of Sluca, and Groove System. Most of these singles are released on his own labels, which include Mouseville, Pryda, and Pryda Friends. Under his own name, however, Prydz favors straightforward, club-oriented house with a line in remakes of mildly cheesy pop songs from the 1980s. Prydz's first release in this style was 2004's "Call on Me," a sensation in Europe upon its release. Built on the hook from Steve Winwood's 1987 hit "Valerie" (with new vocals by Winwood), "Call on Me" hit the top of the singles chart in both England and Germany, spurred in large part by a somewhat controversial video consisting of an overtly sexual aerobic routine that had no less a personage than U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair publicly commenting on its salaciousness. Prydz followed this in 2005 with "Woz Not Woz," a beat-heavy instrumental revamp of the 1980 Was (Not Was) single "Wheel Me Out" that was less commercially successful but more musically inventive. This was followed in 2006 by "Proper Education," a remake of Pink Floyd's smash "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2" that sets Roger Waters and the schoolchildren chorus to a considerably funkier backbeat; this single was also released in a Daft Punk remix.
This is now a house music blog.
I downloaded Girl Talk's Feed the Animals from illegal-art after following a link from one of the music sites, but it wasn't until today, after reading yesterday's NY Times article, that I started listening to it. It reminds me of the excitement of finding out about mashups back in 2004, but a more wrapped up, commercial version-- a more accessible, updated, and less clowny version of DJ Yoda's Amazing Adventures. Like most mashups, GT's songs capture the best moments of popular contemporary songs to stir up your emotions in a post-post-modern we-play-everything radio play for the short-attention span, multitasking, always-online, text-messaging twitter generation.
It's like 1995 is back again.
Checking to see if old links still work &
I don't know how I missed it!
Jimmi James moved last year to MySpace. He's the artist who gave us I am your father, a Darth Vader mashup, and Sgt. Pepper's Paradise, combining Gun's & Roses' Paradise City with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Check out his stuff. My current favorite is Just a Umbrella.
DJ Yoda came out with the Amazing Adventures of DJ Yoda in October, and Mark Ronson came out with a CD single, Just, which came out in March. You can buy them on iTunes for $9.99 each.
Revolved has been back up too, since March.
Boomselection has closed up shop, but GYBO is going strong. Check them out for the latest and greatest. I've moved on from mashes and mixes for the moment and revisited old '90s music, Tricky, Martina Topley-Bird, Thievery Corporation, Mazzy Star, etc.
Ended up buying the Essential Mix 2003 summer mix from eBay. Get it if you can. Great mix.
Alex C - Remixes and bootlegs by Alex C. Been a fan since his Mind Your Bitz mixes. Just checked out Count It Out on GYBO and downloaded a ton more from his site.
bunch of m.i.a. remixes encouraged by the label. if you don't want to bother with m3u files and want to download them, I made some links of the 1st 20 (more later). I recommend the Galang (tone396 Mix) by tone396, which I didn't link to below because I already had it, and the uraqt trash dance mix by i am a sandwich is pretty cool.
Heard an amazing version of bohemian rhapsody remixed by the kleptones. They took a lifetime of recordings and condensed it into one song. Tried to find it on their site, but could only find Night At The Hip-Hopera, which has a bunch of Queen mashups (tracks from Waxy). It came up almost 30 minutes into illegal songs 20.
Listening to Mark Ronson's kylie_ronson and OOH WEED mashups.
That's right, you can download some mp3s from Boomselection on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
Well, if I can't find it, I might be able to stream it from BBC 1's BBC Radio Player.
FATLACE MAGAZINE, which DJ Yoda searches always end up leading to (because he's a contributor and editor). Currently under construction.
Still looking for DJ Yoda & Dan Greenpeace's Beach Tape (Essential Mix from 06-22-03).
boomselection got hacked and lost its data awhile back, but google still has cached pages. Here are the sidelinks I found:
I'm addicted to DJ Yoda's latest boomselection release, annie max mini mix (MP3).
Found this site from the last one:
Searched for blo_up-10dl on Google, found thiselbo.ws > your mp3 blog dashboard
tape-beatles site, but you can get it free on U B U W E B :: The Tape-beatles / Public Works / Collaborations
Searching for more mashups. Found Indie 103.1 after reading about Mark Vidler in Twenty Questions.
...i don't care if I'm 3 years behind the curve...
Did a Google Search for "raiding the 20th century" and found the official djfood site as well as a review of Raiding the 20th Century on scissorkick.
Here are the two links referred to in the review: