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Why I hate Mashups #7 Katy Perry

Ginger Loves Katy Perry mashup's

I cannot get Katy Perry out of my head, so now I want mashup artists banned! To show my contempt I'm compiling these dreadful mashup's in one place - even the 8 minute video for Last Friday Night. This is my version of an audio prison where I can visit her when I want. 

Because, apart from kissing everyone on audioporncentral, she's been mashed with KISS, with heavy metal and now she's mashed with Ben E King. I have to reluctantly salute a classic pop tune but I curse the mashups who have forced this on me...again! 

I like my musical fascism, it gives me the moral high ground so I can banish Simon Cowelbeast and Justin Bieber him from Mother Earth. I will lose all credibility if anyone catches me humming along to this - I only just got away with the Kiss version ;)

G3RST must be banned ;)

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Why I Hate Mash-Ups #1 Nelly

I really listened with extreme prejudice as Nelly is a purveyor of bland soulless piffle that I normally associate with suckers of Satan's Scaly Pecker. But this is so damn good it melted away my negativity and by the chorus I was jiving and singing along.Yet again thanks to the power of Mash Ups I am singing along with the devils music and I can't even blame beer goggles. Nooooooooooooooooo

Heads up to APC for this [MP3]

Licensed to Mash

According to the BBC, killjoys at EMI Publishing have removed from YouTube the spoof Newport State Of Mind, which parodies Jay-Z , “due to a "copyright claim".

I never understand the urge to ban as it often has the opposite effect, for example, the Sex Pistols’ God Save the Queen is “the most heavily censored record in British history” – but it has achieved near immortality for it. Banning ‘Relax’ didn’t do Frankie Goes to Hollywood any harm either. Maybe this is what EMI want – notoriety and more exposure for an okay song bludgeoned to death by Jay-Z (the solo Alica Keys version is far superior). More frightening would be the possibility that EMI, like most major record companies, are re-enacting the mass panic of peak oil (in their case peak sales) and are going to grab everything they can on the plummet downwards as they deluge us with an ever increasing array of shite music allowing creativity to go down the pan.

I don’t agree with bans but as I have said before this only relates to banning Tweenies from buying records without supervision…but that was merely to sate my aesthetic tastes. Newport State of Mind, a clear parody and tribute, only enhances the original giving it continued exposure, which tends to mean more records sold. If you aren’t being parodied, then let’s face it you or your song really have made it, as a thousand Lady Gaga spoofs and mixes can testify to. Some would contend that banning it draws attention away from the desperate plight of the people of Wales, which my mate Smiffy once described as a third world country (and on that day I found it difficult to argue). 

However on the flip-side EMI’s statement (of repression?) said "when a song is created based wholly on any of our writers' works, those writers need to grant their permission.”

Now this may just be me, but mash-ups are not “based wholly” on a writers work, being made up of two or more parts (especially if you are Earworm or Norwegian Recycling). Earworm has even done official mash-ups which get a fair amount of airplay on BBC Radio One (and cheer up my mornings no end).

I had hoped to release one of my own mashes but, as ever, they are in progress, so I leave you with DJ lobsterdust’s very silly but fun ‘I Will Survivor’ from AudioPornCentral's 2nd Birthday album. Enjoy.

End of Intermission

It’s been almost a year since my last post....

I would apologise but since I have been busy fighting the forces of Evil in all it's forms (including my  dropped hard drive!!!) I won’t. Some things needed to go on the back burner for the greater good, including this blog. But after the untimely intermission....The GingerZilla is back.

My hiatus was not unproductive and there are loads of of other projects I have enmeshed myself in to keep my sanity whilst the forces of evil nibbled away at me. 

These may, or may not, see the light of day. ‘Epics’ (ahem) such as:

Mash-Ups pairing the Black Eyed Peas with Enter Shikari, Mary J Blige with Alif Tree, Notorious B.I.G. with the Dandy Warhols, Snoop Dogg with Team9 and GingerZilla, Herbie Hancock with Busta Rhymes & Obie Trice….to name but a few.

Remixes of Röyksopp, Celldweller, N.A.S.A (an early mix is now on soundcloud), Robert Miles and John Legend (if I can ever replace the ******* stems).

As well as a host of originals and maybe even a couple of mixtapes at some point. There could even be an album, but considering I haven’t released sweet fa in a year it may be worth setting my sights lower...at least musically, cos’ the world is still ripe for takeover, on a Tuesday.

But, normal service has been resumed.

You have been warned.

You need more AudioPorn in your life!

You may have noticed a lack of posts on here of late this is for two reasons.

The first is I am now a member of the AudioPornCentral family and have been featuring my posts there. I wish to express my gratitude to Simon Iddol for the opportunity. APC recently came #26 in the BT Digital Music Awards 08 as well as being a TypePad featured blog. This is what they had to say:

"WIth a troublemaking title and bursting with talent, music blog AudioPorn Central takes DJ's, designers, and mashup geniuses and throws them all in a blender.  Featuring all sorts of mashups, remixes, and delightful tunes and images, it's incredibly popular among those-in-the-know."

Even before I joined the APC family I checked the site daily because there was always something to listen to/look at. The only problem with the site is the word 'porn' may prevent you from looking at work (unless you know someone in the IT department) otherwise you have NO excuse!

The other reason is I am busy in the studio making mashups (6 at the last count) which will appear here. I have a pile of old instrumentals and sounds I'm working my way through, but in the meantime, I've uploaded some older material at Sound Cloud which can listen to/comment on.   

Another feature due is an exclusive interview with Dlay who Laurent Garnier said of a recent soapsudcity compilation "I like Dlay tracks 1 and 2, I will present this on my radio show."

In the meantime AC/DC have released a new album which I shall part cash for as soon as I let myself out of the studio. Until then here's a preview:

Guilty Pleasures

I've been waiting all day for this to be available on Audio Porn Central after hearing a few of the tracks beforehand. The essence of the idea is to mash-up different songs to Katy Perry's smash hit I Kissed a Girl

It did not disappoint, even though I was worried that some of the artists featured (Flo Rida, Aqua [yes that f***king Aqua], Spice Girls, Fergie)  would cause a great ball of bile to collect in my throat, (since they are purveyors of bland soulless piffle). But it didn't happen. The tracks I feared most, I loved (even if it was with a wry smile)! This is soooo good!

What mash-up artists do is make you look at tracks in a new way. After everything I recently posted about the Plague of Euro-Pop, I should be forced to eat my sweat ridden hat because I was even bloody singing along to Barbie Girl (this version deserves to be a kitsch class of its own). But since it was a mash-up I'm excused.

Guilty Pleasures indeed.

Guilty Pleasures - Volume One, We All Kissed A Girl, The Ultimate Katy Perry Mashup Compilation