Hey it's me again... this time with something a bit different - I was recently asked to play a surprise 30th party for a close friend.

So far so good.

Except that he LOVES old rock, especially Queen and his girlfriend loves pop and trashy 80's. Oh and all the families will be there so keep the wacky cutting to a minimum and kill the swearing. Oh yeah but the rest of the crowd would like hip hoppy stuff... you know like you usually do... can you just mix all that in?

So basically I asked some of the people involved to send me a list of the tracks they would like to hear, then I sat down with all my stuff, all their stuff and some mash-ups I'd hunted out on the internet and some tracks I'd made or mashed... and here's what came out the other end on the night...

Admittedly I tightened up the mix a bit and added an intro but essentially this was what I played on the night (thanks to seratos lovely highliter I was able to re-record the same playlist).

It went down a treat and you can't beat the sight of two 50+ Mums doing a kind of dosey do to a mix of INTERGALACTIC and RADIO GAGA...

First come first served on this temp yousendit link:

s35.yousendit.com

Let me know what you think

DL'ing

playing in the Serato office...

Hey nice one Sam - let me know how it goes down.. :)

downloading...

tracklist??

Might take a while... there's about 60+ tracks

Here you go... sort of a rough tracklist but really you need to hear most of them to "get it" couldn't be bothered to list what songs are contained within each mash-up (sorry)...

Bear in mind I'm not playing the full track of most of these, it's elements... and in the case of the Justin tracks I was making a point to someone that the best part of a Timberlake track is always the end...

Anyway hope this errrrrr "helps" feniks... but I still think you need to hear it rather than read it

Poppickers Intro - DJ HELLO!
Woo Hah Strut - DJ HELLO!
Cure ODB - DJ HELLO!
Kill Beyonce - DJ HELLO!
Can I Kick It? - Tribe called Quest
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
French Kissin' in the USA - Debbie Harry
Sweet Country Grammer - Mei Lwun
Senorita - Justin Timberlake
Number Song (cut chemist mix) - DJ Shadow
I Want You Back (Z-Trip Remix) - Jackson 5
Shamrocks and Shenanigans - House of Pain
Hip Hop Hooray - Naughty by Nature
Iko Iko - Cyndi Lauper
Worldwide Connected - Herbaliser
Body Movin' - Beastie Boys
Frontier Psychiatrist - Avalanches
Switchin Alive - Cheekyboys
Blackfoot Roll - Mr. Scruff
Insane in the Membrane - Cypress Hill
Changed my Mind (DJ Spinna Remix) - Lyrics Born
Fix up, Look Sharp - Dizzee Rascal
Tallulah's Fix - DJ HELLO!
Mother Nature's Rump - DJ BC
Crazy in Love - Beyonce
I Want to Break Free - Queen
Break - The Kleptones
Listen - The Kleptones
Walk This Way - Run DMC & Aerosmith
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Bite - The Kleptones
Rapper's Delight - Ellen Dow
Rebel without a Pause/Tarzan Boy - POPCHOP
Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani
Hollaback Girl (instrumental)
Soggyback Girl - DJ Erb
I need Bananas - ?
Theme from Minder - Dennis Waterman
Don't Bring me Down - E.L.O.
The Good the Bad and the Icey - DJ HELLO!
Sniff - The Kleptones
Under Pressure - Queen
Like I Love You - Justin Timberlake
Hella Good - No Doubt
Bring the Noise - POPCHOP

Phew!

wow, nice job Hello, this will definately get a relisten. :)

cheeeeeers I enjoyed doing the intro... that was a bit of a smokey afternoons work.

I'm gonna play this over my whole house stereo system at a party this weekend. Simply awesome... Loved it.

Can I sign up for 'Intro making 101' taught by DJ HELLO! ??

Ha ha ha ha

Cheers Kagen - rock the party, glad you enjoyed it - in all honesty it was a real ballache to put together but I'm very pleased with the result.

Most of all though, as always MASSIVE RESPECT must go out to all SERATO crew without whom none of this would have been possible

keep on rockin'

word.

hey feniks, d'you hear it yet - what's the verdict?

oh yeah.....sweet! very clean...nice variety. this mix is on my ipod for constant rotation. thanks!

forgot to add....sounds like you have at least 3 sources or more at times. did you multi track this? either way....it's dope. very nice!

Hm, dl'ed it. Sounds like a lot of work and time you invested. Not my music style. But besides that there is some criticism I have to give out...

* Some scratches in the intro are very off, technically they sound okay, but somehow not on beat. Did you record them separatley and then placed them in some multitracker programm?

* Most of the tracks were not beatmatched tight enough, accapellas and background are not on point. While I know its hard to blend with live music there are some tracks where I assume they were made with synthis and beatmachines and even those are off compared to the accapella.

* Interesting styles of music, didnt know one could mix them ;)

i disagree...i thought that given the wide variety of music that was used (ie. high degree of difficulty) this was a well-put-together mix. you can't really fault him for a few very subtle mismatches when he is mixing such diverse tracks. honestly, after looking at the tracklisting (and before hearing the mix) i thought that the mixing was going to be much more sloppy. as far as the scratching, i don't know how you can criticize that. sounded pretty good to me....but then again i'm not a turntablist. i like the mix....and it's not even my type of music

feniks-->house/progressive/breaks DJ

Feniks, you're right. I must revise my first criticism. After listening to the whole thing, I must admit it was more the first 20 minutes which werent mixed tightly, after that the mixes are okay. Also the scratches are fine. And also music is much better, personal taste.

But the criticism still applies to the first 20 minutes. I was not clear enough, most of the criticism was aimed at the acapellas laid on the beats, they were not on point, for example at 08:30. But as said it might be due some real live music which might not bw tight. This stuff is a b**** to mix.

Dont want to argue here as this is also to some extent personal preference, but for my taste if you want to hear some really good (tight!) mixes with different styles of music try the DJ Spinbad tape, there are two out there titled something like "80's mix" or so. I didnt like the music there but the mixes were tight.

On the other hand... it wouldnt be fair to compare this mix against on from Spinbad, he and DJ Revolution are the masters of tapes :-) (Oh someone remember the track from DJ Revolution and Spinbad on Revolutions LP? .. Yummi and funny.)

This is not meant to be a diss against the mix presented here. :-)

Ah well - better luck next time... like I say, I was kind of working to a brief as far as some of the music choices were concerned but there we go.

I was fairly pleased with it but I'm not Spinbad... and it's really just a signpost on the way to being better next time.

Soz to those who didn't feel it. Ah well back to the drawing board...

nik...agreed.

nice mix still....prob better than most could have done given the wide variety. i mean come on...how often do you hear "heaven is a place on earth" mixed in at -8 over top of "under pressure" with some rap vocals to boot.


hahaha


have a great night everyone....

For anyone who missed it or was/is interested it will be at the link below for the forseeable future...


homepage.mac.com

cool, I'll dl it when I get home...don't wanna bog down the slow super secret back door proxy here at work... ;-)

i like it hello, good work, hard to mix alot of those songs, some of the mashups i really liked, me and my friends got a good kick with them on while we played some games, thanks for sharing :)

wow, 158mb... dl right now...9% done....gonna do some chores..hopefully no one calls my house (wi fi on same wavelenght as home phone! 2.x ghz)

Haha, man thats whacky.

Sure some bits and pieces are off point but who cares! Loved it.

Programming always wins over mixing... You put togather badazz jams back to back - you'll get everyone to forget how the actual mixing was done, unless you posted the mix in a forum of DJ's (a.k.a. major critics)

hello dj hello,

i tried to burn a CD so i can listen on my way home (but couldnt' fit)...so i just brought my lappy home and plugged in the earphone jack to a cassette adapter....man, i need to get my self an ipod or something.

:) i cant' get mr. Dirty ol b-strd out of my head//// now ever song i hear on the radio, i can imagine him rapping over it (even in the elevator) ....super hilarious !

Glad it's getting a bit of revival on this new link and cheers for all the comments, crits - good and bad.

It's all good stuff and goes to making the next one even better.

Probably won't be as schizophrenic next time, like I said this was a one off special occaision. Back to the purer hip-hoppy-ness next time.

Actually thinking of doing a "creepy mix" something more downbeat, atmospheric... maybe a bit of Anticon.

Anyway thanks again for all the comments.

Byeeeeeeeeeeeee.

DJ HELLO!

im listening to your mix right now and that shit is pretty hot. thats some clever ass remixing and hard to find beats.