Whether you like this stuff or not isn't the point. The point, my friends, is can you afford not have these tracks cramming up your hard drives? Plunderphonics, mash ups, bootlegs, whatever... the sound of music eating itself. Download them now. And don't feel bad, they're bootlegs!!!!





Like I Llove You (DSICO DSP remix) - Justin Timberlake vs. Dsico

Something very special from DSICO (the fastest rising star in bootlegs) and Justin Timberlake (the fastest rising star in white-boy R'n'B). Put the two together: classic!

First we had John Oswald. Then we had Kid 606. Now, time to make room on your C: drives for DSICO, 'cos there's loads more ridiculously fun stuff for the taking on his site. Everyone else may be saying bootleggin' has had its day - but they're no-fun idiots; DSICO is big fun. [ DSICO homepage ] ...and, yes, I know I mispelt DSICO on Justin's license.

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Turn Off The Light - Nelly Furtado and Tuff Riddims

Jamaican producers have long pilfered hiphop, pop and anything else for hooks to add to their magic, and why not? Jamaica practically gave us half of all that is good about modern music. Here Ms. Furtado's jolly lil' tune gets turned into a sunshining skank, courtesy of Fiwi Music, Sonic Studios in Kingston, and a producer called Yogie. I still like the original pop version a lot. But I love this.

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Can't Get This Glue Outta My Head (Cathy Dennis is Kewl) - Kylie and Rnsmsc

Made by the man they call, er, me, this was created as a purely functional tool. "Can't Get This Glue.." is a stripped down take on Kylie's best ever hit, and was intended for those deep, low-slung housenoid moments when only surprise pop-techno will keep people dancing. I have yet to use it, though.

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'Cos We're Livin On Adam Clayton

My Dad's Brother Knows Russell Crow

Anyway, Right, So I Said To Her

Phil Collins' Cock

"Cassette Boy are Mark and Simon... that's it, Mark and Simon. And yet we have no proof that these are their real names. Having listened to this record it is easy to understand the anonymity surrounding its producers. Not only is this album rich in highly slanderous spurts, there is also enough copyright violation here to send any record company lawyer in to a flat spin. Compiled between 1995 and 2002, The Parker Tapes is perhaps the most anarchic example of plunderphonics so far." [ BBC Music read more ] [ spymania ]


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Kylietron (Playgirl) by Unknown
Superior composition marrying Ladytron's "Playgirl" and the hypnotic electro-pop of Kylie's "Can't Get You Out Of My Head". Its a little old, but I recently heard this at a Kitty-Yo thing in London, so it must still be cool. Vladislav Delay and AGF came on later and deejayed, but we didn't like them, so we left. This though, is quality.




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Last Night An Eple Saved My Life (Indeep & Royksopp) by Unknown
Indeep's huge 1983 disco hit gets modernised for the new media generation. Not that it needed to be; the original still rocks the slow-burning sweatboxes, and besides, anyone who dissed Mariah Carey's version (off the "Glitter" soundtrack [no, I didn't see the film], just isn't down - or something)....um, yeah, so the delicate big-beat-lite of Royksopp's "Eple" gets tacked onto classic lines about a suicide saved by a bassline and wah-wah breaks. Well, the bootleg leaves that bassline out, and Bastard Pop ruins another good song, but its fun while it lasts.




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Try Again by Electric Company feat. Aaliyah
More from the Tigerbeat massif. Part of their "$$$" series: hiphop and R'n'B meets glitch tactics. All that's left to say is: Aaliyah R.I.P.




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Forbidden Donut by Rinsemusic
Not technically a bootleg or plunderphonics or a mash-up, but it does sample Homer Simpson. And I made this.




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Straight Outta Compton by Kid606/N.W.A.
Laptop hearthrob numero uno, Kid606's groundbreaking destruction of LA's finest, N.W.A.; brash, bold and beautiful. The essence of plunderphonics.




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Madonna is a filthy slut by Skkatter
From the V/Vm camp, a winning twist on Madge's "Music" [Hey Mr. DJ, put a record on...] with a touch of her earlier "deeper and deeper". The bitch never sounded better. Top40 plunderphonics, from V/Vm's "Hate You" longplayer. Pure genius.




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Baby One More Rinse by Britney vs. R.Msc
Ms. Spears gets taken to the depths of mechanization and never sounded so cold and metallic. Neuro funk for teeny-boppers. My friends swear they have never heard anything so scary. It took me all of 15 minutes to create this monster, back in the One Nine Nine Eight.




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Tour De Bad by Two Eyed Paul
This fun mash up throws Michael Jackson's "Bad" and the chain sounds and heavy breathing electro funk from Kraftwerk's beautiful "Tour De France" track together. Jacko in a blender.




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Warm Bitch by Girls on Top
Richard X, the man that took bootlegging overground, here throws Missy Elliot's "She's A Bitch" on top of The Normal's electrocrash rhythms from "Warm Leatherette". Missy as Grace Jones. Kinda.




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Fake Diamonds R 4Ever by Rinsemusic
To prove that I'm not just another saddo jumpin' in on a bandwagon way late in the game, here's a little something from me. Made way back in 1998, when people still thought bootlegging was only about illegal alcohol and ciggies, I somehow jumped onto the "remix Shirley" wagon. This percussive ditty takes Shirley Bassey's empowering Bond theme and gives it a housey slap. The sound quality is a tad wanting, 'cos I ain't no engineer. I also messed up when I was converting my minidisced copy to mp3 - you guys are missing the first 5 seconds....sorry. Don't let the album cover fool ya, this track doesn't feature on it...or anything else.




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