Crumplebury 2015 was an international all-day online DJ festival organized by Pom Deter and broadcast live on mixlr.com. It showcased an accomplished team of DJs from Australia, Austria, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK, and the US, most of whom have known each other since the heydays of a previous version of GYBO. The sets were highly eclectic, dropping anything and everything from breakbeats, drum & bass, electro, and techno to blues, jazz, and dub/reggae to indie, pop, rock, and metal.
Unsurprisingly, one of the festival's connecting threads was quality mashups (or, as they used to be called, bootlegs); the other was the crumplebanger ethic or (better) attitude/mindset of bending expectations, genres, and "rules" of music-making by just not giving a damn about them.
Crumplebury started on Jan. 31, 2015 at noon, British time (UTC+0) and ended on Feb. 1 at 6 AM. Amazingly, only one tune got played twice during the entire 18-hour event. It was truly a blast and I'm glad to have been a part of it. I did two sets, one at midnight and the other as the closing festival chill-out. Here they are. They're downloadable via the players. Love, not-I.
P.S. 1: You can check out all the individual DJ sets HERE or, if you have the time and courage, listen to or download the entire festival in one giant go:
And here are some links to all the DJs if you'd like to check out their other work (in alphabetical order):
BudTheWeiser
Dan Untitled
DJ Cougar (extra Facebook hot-dog)
DJ Forge
DJ not-I
Eddie Pedalo
Grave Danger
KrazyBen
NeoPink (DeFunkto)
Oki
Pilchard
PomDeter
Scott Cairo
P.S. 2: And here are the Mixcloud links to my sets for streaming (no download option, but with tracklists):
2008 was a watershed in many respects: The mashups of this collection mirror both the anxious global mood before the U.S. elections and the sense of measured optimism that arose afterward, even in the midst of an economic crisis of vast proportions. The long, dark (inter-)national nightmare of the Cheney-Bush regime's reign of terror was finally over. (Unfortunately, though perhaps predictably, the Obama administration has continued, and even expanded, many of the same policies.)
Several of these mashups are overtly and unabashedly political. They range from Eminem's and The Beatles' unintentional (and Reverend Wright's explicit) advocacy of Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton during the primaries ("(W)right America") to the conspiracy theories of Immortal Technique ("Infra-stition"), Jedi Mind Tricks ("Heavy Metal Amour"), and M.I.A. ("Under Paper Planes"), to the full-on partisan endorsement of Obama against McCain/Palin and the unprecedented dirtiness of their campaign ("Change The Hate"). Even one of the 'dance' tracks is infused with politics ("Vino Hip Vino Hop"). I had made political mashes before, but perhaps never with such passion and intensity.
Yet this album also features several non-political tracks expressing, among other things: love (the Bo Diddley Tribute Mixes), optimism ("Just Might Be Big Love," produced after the elections), awareness of death ("6 Feet Under The Bitter End"), rock 'n' roll ("Freaky Undone Hombre"), and just good, clean fun ("Smells Like Futurama" and "Rihanna's Troubled Bees").
Many of these mashups also gave me the opportunity to utilize and juxtapose more diverse sources than previously, including blues, drum & bass, indie, and nu metal. In this collection, I've included a few first versions and alternate mixes. I believe this collection is representative of my work's diversity and is quite a decent album too (hence the cheeky cover). I hope you agree. Enjoy! Love, not-I
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.zip file, 163 MB, 19 tracks, high-quality mp3s
package includes artwork and notes
Tracklist:
1. Smells Like Futurama (Nirvana vs. Futurama)
2. Who Do You Love (In The Night) (Bo Diddley vs. Eagles Of Death Metal)
3. Freaky Undone Hombre (M.I.A. vs. KoRn)
4. Heavy Metal Amour (Jedi Mind Tricks & Ill Bill vs. Rachid Taha)
5. (W)right America (Eminem vs. The Beatles vs. Optical)
6. Vino Hip Vino Hop (Dead Prez vs. Eastenders)
7. Rihanna's Troubled Bees (Rihanna vs. Chris T-T vs. Shampoo)
8. 6 Feet Under The Bitter End (Placebo vs. Thomas Newman/Photek)
9. You Can't Judge A Boom Sumting (Bo Diddley vs. DJ Vadim)
10. Under Paper Planes (M.I.A. vs. Cléan)
11. Infra-stition (Immortal Technique & Busta Rhymes vs. Stevie Wonder vs.
Placebo)
12. Change The Hate (Jill Scott vs. Rage Against The Machine vs. Talib Kweli)
13. Just Might Be Big Love! (Lupe Fiasco & Gemini vs. Fleetwood Mac)
14. No One's Lockdown (Original Mix)
15. (W)right America (Original Version)
16. 6 Feet Under The Bitter End (Original Version)
17. Infra-stition (Demo Version)
18. Just Might Be Big Love (Demo Version)
19. Change The Hate (Single Edit)
Full list of sources in mp3 tags.
Mashed, mixed and produced by DJ not-I @ Mexikotrax, 2008
For promotional use only.
DOWNLOAD
(alternate link in "comments" section)
.zip file, 163 MB, 19 tracks, high-quality mp3s, artwork and notes
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