Do I even need to tell you that The Morning Benders are from Berkeley? They’re doing a tour of the America with a few stops in Canada including Montreal on April 15th at Sala Rossa. Tickets are 12$ + tax. The video below if for a song from their new album Big Echo called Excuses.

The Morning Benders – Excuses

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There have been a ton of White Panda remixes seeing a lot of play on hype machine the last few months and while they almost certainly won’t stand the test of time, if they keep coming out at this rate it won’t matter much. Here a few to get you started.

Yung Joc vs. Owl City – Fireflies Goin Down [White Panda Mashup]

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T.I. vs. Passion Pit – What You Know About Little Secrets [White Panda Mashup]

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Dangermouse and the Grey Album now has a British counterpart. Tom Caruana, a music teacher, has produced an entire album of Beatles songs mashed up with Wutang instrumentals. Even Raekwan approves. You can download the entire album at Tea Sea Records.

Wutang Vs The Beatles – Uh Huh

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Wutang Vs The Beatles – City High

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Our last mashup of Nina Simone and Kanye West was very well received, climbing as high as #2 on the hypemachine. So here’s another for your consideration. It’s a mashup using the instrumental track Let’s Ride from Gonzales’ Soft Power album and the vocals from Jay Z’s allure. I think the feel of both songs go well together, let me know what y’all think (be kind).

Jay Z vs. Gonzales – Let’s Ride Allure (zshare)

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If you can’t wait until Diplo and Switch to drop Major Lazer for your summer dubstep fun and games, check this out. Houston based Squincy Jones has releaed a dubstep mix using 8 bit Nintendo loops and hip hop samples. And it’s called Nintendub.

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Tacklist:

* Mario Ds Screwed Intro
* Rogue State – Lions Paw (Metroid – Kraid’s Hide Edit)
* Babylon System – Dancing Shoes (Draped Out Edit)
* Walsh & Kromestarr – Panik Room (3 Kings Edit)
* Marlow – Road Kill (Goonies Edit)
* Benga – Zombie Jig (Wizards & Warriors Kryptonite Edit)
* Rusko – Hornz Cru (Diet Kryptonite Edit)
* Loefah – Disko Rekah (Goonies Pop Trunk Edit)
* Unsolved Mysteries Theme
* Chimpo – Lockoff (Freaky Girl Edit)
* Nastee Boi – Bangorz (Knuck if you Buck Edit)
* Mike Lennon – When Science Fails (Hektagon Remix) (Shorty Swing Edit)
* Babylon System – Loaded
* DJ Unk – Beatn Down Yo Block
* Woogie – End Dub
* Rustie – Response
* DZ – Just Rolling
* Rustie – Jagz The Smack (Zelda Edit)
* Gerard McMann – Cry Little Sister
* Kode 9 – 9 Samurai
* Kode 9 – 9 Samurai (Quarta 330 Remix)

Squincy Jones – Nintendub (zshare)

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Team Teamwork is from Massachusetts. The Ocarina of Rhyme is a 10 song album of hip hop mashups using samples from the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time game. If you spent anytime with an Nintendo 64 you probably know this game and will recognize the iconic game music. Here’s the full tracklist and my two favourite picks.

1. Clipse – Virginia (Lost Woods)
2. Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg – Still D.R.E. (Getting treasure)
3. Jay-Z – No Hook (Meeting the Owl)
4. Pimp C, Li’l Keke & P.O.P. – Knockin’ Doorz Down (Hyrule Field)
5. Common – I Used To Love H.E.R. (Hyrule Market)
6. Aesop Rock – No Jumpercables (Goron Village)
7. Edan – Fumbling Over Words (Battle)
8. MF Doom – Vomit (Horse Race at Lon Lon Ranch)
9. Spank Rock – IMC (Zora’s Domain)
10. Slim Thug & Mike Jones – Still Tippin’ (Great Fairy’s Fountain)

Team Teamwork – Slim Thug & Mike Jones – Still Tippin’ (Great Fairy’s Fountain) (zshare)

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Team Teamwork – Clipse – Virginia (Lost Woods) (zshare)

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Isn’t she lovely here in the aqua green American Apparel precursor with jet black tights and a casual chic blazer? Dov Charney eat your heart out. We sometimes forget that you suck and luckily we’re not short of opportunities to be reminded that you do. Patty Benatar’s classic song Love is a battlefield is given new life and energy in DJ Bling’s remix album King of Rock. We posted about this a few months ago and ya’ll seemed to love it so here is some more goddamn songs for your asshole computer to play.


Yung Berg/Pat Benatar/DJ Bling – Sexy Battlefield (zshare)

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What can I say about AIR that you don’t already know? Depends who you are of course. They’re a french band consisting of two people that’s made a name for themselves making whimsical pop rock and working with Sofia Coppola on film soundtracks like The Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette.

They’re latest album is called Pocket Symphony and this is a remix of their song Alpha Beta GaGa from the 2004 album Talkie Walkie featuring none other than Rhymefest. Who apparently has a twitter, who knew?

Air Vs. Rhymefest – Alpha Beta Gaga (zshare)

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I present to you, a glass of ice tea and sangria from the patio of Frites Alors on St Lo circa summer 2008. Let this photo and this song remind you that the winter months will be over soon and the streets of Montreal will once again belong to whoever claims them. songs via bonafied

Oh and don’t forget, Lykke Li is today at Club Soda. See you there.

Louis Armstrong Vs. Radiohead – What a Wonderful Surprise (zshare)

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It’s not that strange these days to look back only four or five years and still feel a creeping sense of nostalgia previously reserved for things decades in the past. Dangermouse does this for me like nothing Johnny Carson does for your Dad.

Remember 2004? When mashups didn’t saturate every nook and cranny of the internet and the ideas behind the songs actually created new meaning? Dangermouse’s landmark mashup album The Grey Album – mixing The Beatles white album and Jay Z’s Black album – was really the beginning of the end for mashups in a way. These days everyone with a pirated copy of ableton live will throw together any indie hits they please and get away with it.

By contributing to the massive popularization of the mashup genre, Dangermouse pulled a fast one on us all by staying away from the monster he helped create. Interestingly enough, the grey album is up for donwload on Illegal Art’s website which shows ties with probably the most popular mashup dj ever, GirlTalk. Now he’s one half of Gnarls Barkley and producing albums by MF DOOM, Gorrillaz and Beck.

Think of this post and these songs as a Dangermouse retrospective so far. Minus Beck just because I’m not on that boat.

Gnarls Barkley – Surprise (zshare)

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Zero 7 feat. MF DOOM – Somersault [Danger Mouse Remix] (zshare)

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Jay Z vs. The Beatles – Public Service Announcement [Dangermouse Remix] (zshare)

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