Entertainment For Lively Minds
Mark Vidler Goes Into Overdrive
Posted by kinkywolfgang on 10 May 2008 - 3:20pm.
Fans of the mash-up may wish to direct their browsers to the Go Home Productions website: -
http://www.markvidler-gohomeproductions.co.uk/
DJ supreme Mark Vidler has excelled himself with his new batch of mixes, all of which are available to download for free. Videos have been created for each of the tracks.
Sceptics and purists (that's me, prior to discovering GHP) should check it out before giving it the thumbs-down. Most of these are just too good to believe: -
Beach Boys meets Cadburys
Luther & REM
Stones vs Temptations
Memo to Heppo & Ellen: - pleeeeease do a piece on this guy if you've not done so already. Pretty please?
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I don't normally like this kind of thing...
but the Stones / Temptations one works a treat. Really good.
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The following are both absolute and complete masterpieces. Warning: - The originals might not sound so good once you've heard these...
Robbie Williams vs Queen vs Michael Jackson
Velvet Underground vs Christina Aguilera
The Queen mash was withdrawn shortly after Vidler posted it on the GHP site - presumably due to legal threats. It has since been reissued in a severely truncated form. The above version is the proper thing.
Not just a feature
Get him in front of a microphone in the office as well - I've heard him nattering with the Who Boys and he gives great pod.
Well..
Loved the Stones v Temptations, wasn't too fussed on the REM/Vandross jobbie and was utterly baffled (though charmed) by the Beach Boys chocolate ad...
I think thee will be a little checking out in my future...
sorry
about the typo; that'll be 'there', then.
these sort of
things are lost on me, the fudge one has one idea and that's that. I think they are more shocking to people who think beach boys et al are sacred as in oohh look what he's done to this classic track but its all just pop music. None of these are as good as Mark Ronson's stuff most of these mash ups are sort of sub jive bunny stuff. Maybe shouldn't have said owt just left everyone too it but I'll pass thanks. Don't reckon much to that impressionist either.
I love a mash up
as much as the next man, well more than Chris G above, but the Finger of Fudge is way beyond irritating. It's extra irritating. It's King Irritating of Irritatingland.
Please
give Mr Drayton a thesaurus - either that or remove his Blackadder collection... ;-P
GHP is soopoib, in my humble o...
the ones from GHP to seek out, like the lager of Lamot, are "Essex Doves", "Shannon Stone" as they, and the Aguilera Underground one are much more indicative of the general quality.
GHP released 16 (count 'em) cd's worth of mashups and that a while ago, and I nabbed the lot.
Yes, there's some chaff, but it's vastly outweighed by the wheatiest of mashed up wheat.
Did you get the one . . .
where the backing track from "Watching the Detectives" gets the vocals from Peggy Lee's "Fever"? That's cool enough, but then he brings in Bob Marley and The Police - via Lionel Richie and The Hollies. I spent the whole five minutes spurting coffee at regular intervals like a Yosemite geyser.
"Ray of Gob" (Madge vs. The Sex Pistols) is still his most inspired moment, though.
Oddly enough, the Blondie/Doors one, which left me completely cold, was the one that made him famous, or at least was what started getting him properly paid remix work.
Tell you what Arch...
totally agree on the Doors/Blondie one. Technically excellent, but neither song does much for me anyway, so the combination was never going to be a winner for me.
Maybe that one you got was a work in progress or a halfway house. I can sort of see it working though.
The ones similar to that on the load I got was "Fever" over the top of Iggy's "Passenger", and The Police's "Wrapped Around Your Finger" over "Watching the Detectives", again with some Hollies, Richie etc filigree. But going through the "disc"-ography, there are loads of testers and try-outs where you see the same songs tried out against others.